The UN on Friday detailed more
than 250 "extrajudicial or targeted killings" in the
Democratic Republic of Congo's Kasai region from mid-
March to mid-June, counting dozens of children among
the dead.
The findings, based on interviews with refugees from
Kasai who had fled to Angola, blamed state agents for
the
murders of seven children.
The refugees gave harrowing accounts of the violence in
the region, which the UN warned had taken on "an
increasing and disturbing ethnic dimension."
Victims recounted mutilations, including of a seven-year-
old boy whose fingers were cut off, and an attack on a
hospital in the village of Cinq where 90 people were
killed, some because they were too injured to escape a
raging fire.
Aside from government troops , the UN blamed a state-
backed militia called the Bana Mura as well as the anti-
government Kamuina Nsapu militia for a range of
atrocities.
"Survivors have spoken of hearing the screams of people
being burned alive, of seeing loved ones chased and cut
down, of themselves fleeing in terror", the United Nations
human rights chief Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein said in a
statement.
A team of UN investigators "was able to confirm that
between 12 March and 19 June some 251 people were
the victims of extrajudicial and targeted killings", the
report said.
"These included 62 children, of which 30 were aged under
eight," it added.
Regarding the children murdered, the UN said seven were
killed by members of the army (FARDC) or the national
intelligence service, while six died at the hands of the
rebel Kamuina Nsapu.
The Bana Mura militia members blamed for the deaths of
49 minors.
"Some of the violations and abuses committed in the
Kasais may amount to crimes under international law,"
the
UN said in a statement.
The violence in Kasai erupted last September after the
death in clashes of a tribal chieftain, known as the
Kamwina Nsapu, who rebelled against the authority of
President Joseph Kabila's regime in Kinshasa and its
local representatives.
The killing sparked violence that has escalated, including
gross alleged violations of human rights such as
extrajudicial killings, rapes, torture and the use of child
soldiers.
In less than a year, the violence has claimed more than
3,300 lives, according to a tally by the influential Roman
Catholic Church, and displaced 1.4 million people.
Around 80 mass graves have been uncovered in the
region.
Kabila's reluctance to organise elections has heightened
tensions across the country, while the UN rights office
has
blasted his government for not mounting serious
investigations into the Kasai crisis.

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They should investigate the nigeria Army the ones they killed in the south east is more than 1000.

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