Rwanda-backed M23 rebels carried out killings in Rutshuru territory, eastern DRC, with at least 140 people killed in July and total deaths possibly exceeding 300. Witnesses, medical staff, and UN sources described massacres across at least 14 villages near Virunga National Park, including accounts of families killed, machete attacks, and civilians forced to march to riverbanks before being shot. The violence occurred after a June 27 US-brokered preliminary truce and amid negotiations in Qatar between Kinshasa and M23, which denies involvement. Amnesty International documented widespread sexual violence by M23 fighters and the Wazalendo coalition allied with the Congolese army, with multiple survivors interviewed. Both rebel and rival militia abuses have worsened human rights conditions and insecurity in the region.
They told us to sit on the edge of the riverbank, and then they started shooting at us,
They were discussing between themselves. One said
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