Congo says that 773 killed in the last week of fighting between troops, gum rebels

At least 773 people were killed in the largest rubber city in the east of the Congo and its neighborhood this week in the middle of the fight with rebels backed by Rwanda who captured the city in a great climb of a decadelization conflict, the Congolese authorities. The advance of the rebels to other areas was slowed by a weakened army that recovered some villages from them.

The authorities confirmed that 773 bodies and 2,880 people injured in the morgas and rubber hospitals, the spokesman of the Congolese government, Patrick Muja, said in an informative session in the capital, Kinshasa, and added that the death toll could be higher.

“These figures are still provisional because the rebels asked the population to clean the rubber streets. There should be common graves and the Ruandses were responsible for evacuating their own,” said Mujaya.

Hundreds of rubber residents returned to the city on Saturday after the rebels promised to restore basic services, including water and energy supply. The neighborhoods full of weapons and full of blood stench cleaned.

“I am tired and I don’t know what path to take. In every corner (there) there is a mourning,” said Jean Marcus, 25, one of whose relatives were among those killed in the fight.

M23 is the most powerful of more than 100 armed groups that compete for control in the east rich in Congo minerals, which has large critical deposits for much of world technology. They are backed by around 4,000 troops from neighboring Rwanda, according to UN experts, much more than in 2012, when they first captured rubber and kept it for days in a conflict promoted by ethnic complaints.

As the fight extended with the M23 rebels on Saturday, the Congolese army recovered the villages of Sanzi, Muganzo and Mukwidja in the Kalehe territory of southern Kivu, which had fallen to the rebels earlier this week, according to two civil society officials who spoke to the associated association press the condition of anonymity about fear for their safety.

The Army of the Central African Nation has weakened after it lost hundreds of foreign troops and mercenaries delivered to the rebels after the rubber fall.

The rubber seizure resulted in a terrible humanitarian crisis, according to the UN and the help group. Rubber serves as a critical humanitarian center for many of the six million people displaced by the conflict in the east of the Congo. The rebels said they will march to the capital Kinshasa de Congo, 1,600 kilometers to the west.

The UN spokesman, Stéphane Dujarric, also said in an informative session on Friday that the World Health Organization and its partners conducted an evaluation with the Congo government between January 26 and 30, and reported that 700 people have been killed and 2,800 rubber wounds and vicinity. Dujarric confirmed to AP that the deaths occurred during those days.

The rebel advance has left the extrajudicial murders and the forced recruitment of civilians, the UN Human Rights Office spokesman Jeremy Laurence said on Friday. “We have also documented summary executions of at least 12 people for M23” from January 26 to 28, said Laurence, and added that the group has also occupied schools and hospitals in the province and is subjecting civilians to recruit forced and labor recruit Forced

The Congoleña forces have also been accused of sexual violence as the fight against fury in the region, said Laurence, added that the UN is verifying reports that Congolese troops violated 52 women in southern Kivu.

The rubber capture has taken the humanitarian operations to “a dead point, cutting a vital life line for the delivery of aid in the East (Congo),” said Rose Tchwenko, country director of the Mercy Corps help group in the Congo