A woman was tied between two trees and gang-raped by six men amid a horrific new outbreak of violence between warring Congo and Rwanda rebels, a human rights group has revealed.
A devastating Amnesty International report reveals harrowing testimonies of sexual violence, torture and extrajudicial killings carried out between March and May of this year.
One survivor told of a women being tied between two trees and gang-raped by six Wazalendo fighters: 'Let them be punished so they don't do such acts to someone else,' she said.
During another rape by Wazalendo fighters, Kinyarwanda-speaking men, believed to be fighters belonging to the armed Nyatura group, accused the woman of supporting the M23. They chillingly told her that 'any women who come to the field, we will always rape them,' according to the Amnesty report.
The shocking report comes just weeks after Human Rights Watch (HRW) revealed that M23 fighters had killed at least 140 people in July in one of the worst atrocities since the group's resurgence in 2021.
