Mechanical miniats have been spending days to dig out the dark volcanic earth of sesame City and prepare long Trench to fill the most fatal battle victims in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Hazmat suits and teenager humanitarian workers tended to be dead in the overwhelming stench, with flip flops and dirty masks.
“There is a large burial day in front of us,” said Miriam Fabiel, head of the Sesame Red Cross International Committee.
According to the early estimation provided by the United Nations Peace Maintenance activities in the eastern Congo, about 3,000 sesame died last week. The combat between the UN's described anti -government group M23 and the Congo Army brought sesame sesame last week.
Millions have died in the Congo in the past 30 years. There, we fought about ethnic tension, access to land and access to mineral resources. However, experts say that many people are rarely killed within a few days.
Recently, most battles have stopped in sesame, but the capture of cities by the M23 rebels has caused fears of a widespread war between Congo, Rwanda, and their allies.
According to Vivien Van de Pele, Vivien Van de Pele, the deputy director of the UN Peace Maintenance Army, which is based in sesame, the number of deaths is likely to be underestimated.
In the GOMA region where humanitarian organizations cannot be reached, many organizations need to be collected. According to the Red Cross International Committee, more than 2,800 Konge people were injured, and nearly two -thirds of civilians were injured.
The ongoing conflict has already been drawn into Mercc soldiers from East Europe and allies such as Burg and Uganda. The United Nations Peace Maintenance Army, which has been deployed in the eastern part of the Congo, has been accused on both sides that he is not doing enough to end the battle.
M23 Launchedits invaded the GOMA on January 26, attacked for several months on January 30, and caught the city completely. More than 700,000 people have evacuated.
In front of the airport in the city on Tuesday, dozens of volunteers and red cross workers buried a large -scale grave victims already dug in an overcrowded cemetery.
Fabier said that the land where sesame can fill the body is limited. Cities are being cornered by the eastern Rwanda, Lake Kib on the southern coast, the evacuees, and the territory dominated by the M23 in the eastern and north.
Rwanda refused to support the M23, despite the fact that the United Nations officials and the IntellignC report services emphasize how to train, armed, and command the rebels. Experts say that Rwanda is trying to exploit the Mineral resources of the eastern part of the Congo using the M23 as a substitute group.
Since catching GOMA, the M23 fighter has been patroled on a vehicle seized from the Congo army. They wear tactical gears, carry modern automatic rifles and sophisticated electronic devices, and provide the appearance of the conventional army.
This week, the rebels threatened to attack the UN base that took the evacuation shelter if the Peace Maintenance Army did not hand over them. According to UN officials, the base is protected by the mayor of the city, the high -ranking Congo army, a civil servant, and the Intelligence representative.
On Wednesday, the M23 defeated a one -sided ceasefire, which was declared a few days ago, and captured a village in the Sesame Soma Kibu.
The scars of sesame battle are everywhere -the car windshield is a school that hosts a family who has escaped the house, and is carrying a leaflet with respect to the dead.
Among the many victims buried this week, there was Jean de De Bargi, known as a famous local boxer, Kibomango. Balezi established the Friendship Boxing Club, trained a young boxer, Child Soldier, and was adopted by an armed group like M23 in the eastern part of Congo.
The M23 ordered the locals to clean the sesame street, but they remain scattered in military uniforms abandoned by the Congo soldiers.
“Wherever you go, you'll find them,” Anna Mapend said he was showing dozens of bullets gathered in the courtyard. MAPENDO and her husband said last week that about 20 Congo soldiers had invaded their homes and fled from the M23 fighter attacking the airport behind the house.
The two of their sons were injured by bullets when they were in the courtyard. She just returned from the hospital to bring rice and Cassaba.
Mapendo's husband, Désirémirimba, accused the Congo soldier that he looted his house when he escaped from the rebels. “I feel new and safe for now,” said M23. “But we know it's very unstable.”
On Wednesday sesame, it remained unable to reach humanitarian institutions who lost many months in last week's looting. Drugs, rice bags from food programs in the world, and edible oil cans were sold throughout the city.
Last week, the freezing of foreign aid announced by the Trump administration has warned the deterioration of the eastern part of the Eastern Congo, one of the world's largest humanitarian crisis.
Caleb bag Contributed from sesame reports Justin Makangala From the Democratic Republic of Congo.
