DRC: “Is anyone moved by Congo’s pain?” 25 years without justice for the six-day war in Kisangani

On 5 June 2000, the city of Kisangani in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) became the scene of intense indiscriminate shelling and firing at the hands of the Rwandan and Ugandan armies. For six days, the civilian population was trapped. Electricity and water were cut. Some civilians risked moving within the city to get to a nearby hospital or a church where they thought they would be safer or to find water or food. Homes were damaged by the shelling or pillaged, women were raped, hundreds of people were killed, and thousands were injured.

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