Over 130 civilians in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo have been killed.
According to a UN assessment, the M23 rebel group was responsible for at least 131 deaths at the end of November this year.
Investigations, according to the report, have established that there were fatalities among civilians in two villages, Kishishe and Bambo, in the Rutsuhuru district of North Kivu province.
According to the UN, the victims were put to death in what seemed to be retaliation for the current government offensive.
In retaliation for the battles between the M23 and other groups, it claims that “this brutality was carried out as part of a campaign of killings, rapes, kidnappings, and looting against two villages in the Rutshuru region.”