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.

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    6 hours ago

    biden’s administration’s feigned ignorance of the genocide.

    Would that be feigned ignorance of the conversion of Gaza to a shiny new Riviera?

    It wasn’t ‘feigned’…

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      that’s trump and; to his credit and unlike biden; he’s not feigning anything about his intentions when it comes to gaza.

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          5 hours ago

          A genocide denier and a homophobe. You people are supposed to be better than Trump how exactly?

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          lol… i haven’t heard that one since the election; thanks for the laugh, i needed that today.