Atrocity follows escape of thousands of male inmates amid chaos as Rwandan-backed M23 rebels seize eastern DRC city

Hundreds of women were raped and burned alive during the chaos after a Rwandan-backed rebel group entered the Congolese city of Goma last week.

The female inmates were attacked in their wing inside Goma’s Munzenze prison during a mass jailbreak, according to a senior UN official.

The deputy head of the UN peacekeeping force based in Goma, Vivian van de Perre, said that while several thousand men managed to escape from the prison, the area reserved for women was set on fire.

Images taken shortly after Rwandan-backed M23 rebels reached the centre of Goma reveal vast plumes of black smoke rising from the prison on the morning of 27 January.

  • eldaviEnglish
    47·
    6 hours ago

    the damage he’s done doesn’t magically go away once he leaves office and it’s also the most recent example of an administration clearly lying to the public; try paying attention and giving a shit about your fellow human beings.

      • BrainInABoxEnglish
        24·
        6 hours ago

        So far Trump has been better for Palestinians than Biden/Harris, you just didn’t realize because you spent the previous fifteen months as a genocide denier, and you only care now because of who’s doing it, not because you actually care about Palestinians.

          • BrainInABoxEnglish
            21·
            5 hours ago

            Sorry that facts turn you into a homophobic child. You realize you just admitted that you care more about blue team vs red team than you do about Palestinian lives right?

      • eldaviEnglish
        33·
        6 hours ago

        why is it so hard to understand that this was always the end goal for both trump and harris; the only difference is that trump says it out loud where as harris hopes that you don’t notice.

        history has proven that capitalist empires will always displace natives of any region it has dominance as evidenced by the native american; canada’s first nations; australia’s aboriginals; south africa’s apartheid; the sikes-picot agreement; etc.

        the only way you can truly give a shit for all marginalized communites everywhere; especially the palestinians; is to stop supporting the people who are genociding and displacing them. until then, you’re merely helping perpetuate this cycle of misery while patting yourself in the back because harris didn’t outright say it.