More than 20 civilians, mostly women and children, have been massacred in a horrific manner in the northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), French military officials in the troubled region said on Monday. An AFP reporter saw a dozen bodies, many of which were horribly mutilated with a boy decapitated and a woman who had her ovaries ripped out and her throat cut open, in the village of Nizi, about 40km northeast of Bunia. French militiary officials who refused to give their names said 22 bodies had been counted on the marketplace and at the entrance to the village. It was difficult to determine which ethnic group the victims were from, but Nizi is in the middle of Hema terroritory, the minority group in the Ituri region. Full Story
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