Why are the jihadis more powerful than the Congolese and Ugandan armed forces? Who is financing the jihadis? Why does Reuters not care about these questions?
“Suspected Islamist militants kill 20 civilians in eastern Congo,” by Erikas Mwisi, Reuters, February 28, 2022 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
BENI, Democratic Republic of Congo, Feb 28 (Reuters) – Suspected Islamist militants killed at least 20 civilians in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo overnight, according to a local resident and an activist who criticised the failure of Congolese and Ugandan forces to stop the repeated massacres.
The attack late on Sunday evening in the village of Kikura was blamed by the resident and the activist on the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), a Ugandan militia that has killed thousands of civilians in eastern Congo since 2013.
Congolese and Ugandan troops launched joint operations against the ADF in late November but attacks by the group, which has pledged allegiance to Islamic State, have continued to kill dozens of civilians each month.
The assailants struck at around 9 p.m. with machetes and also burned down houses, said Odette Zawadi, the president of a local activist organisation. She said 20 bodies had been recovered and that the death toll could rise further.
“We already didn’t seem to have confidence in these so-called joint operations. How can you explain that 20 people are killed in the presence of these two forces?,” she told Reuters….
The ADF started as an uprising in Uganda but has been based in Congo since the late 1990s. It pledged allegiance to Islamic State in 2019, but United Nations researchers have found no evidence of Islamic State control over its operations.
Michael Copeland says
“The ADF ….pledged allegiance to Islamic State in 2019, but United Nations researchers have found no evidence of Islamic State control over its operations.”
There is plenty of evidence of Islamic control over ADF’s operations. When the ADF members kill Christians and other non-muslims they are doing “exactly what this book says” (per Lt.-Col. Allen West)..
gravenimage says
Democratic Republic of Congo: Muslims murder 20 civilians despite joint Congo-Uganda op against jihad group
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Terrible–more of the Jihad in Africa.