January 26, 2004

• Boat massacre in DR Congo

  
  

   

  
  

  By Arnaud Zajtman
  BBC, Kinshasa

  
  

  
  Some 100 passengers on board a boat are reported to have been massacred by a group of ethnic-militiamen last week in north-east Democratic Republic of Congo.
  
  
  
  
  

  A group of 20 Lendu armed combatants got on a boat which was carrying nearly 200 passengers, mainly traders and their families. Once the boat had docked, the militiamen had executed more than 100 men who were onboard. 

  
  

  Many of the women and children who were on the boat have been abducted and used by the militiamen to transport goods looted from the traders.

  
  

   

  
  

  They are still missing.  

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