Mass Congo jailbreak as all female prisoners 'raped and burned alive' says UN

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Inside Goma prison days after inmates burned alive

Horrifying details of atrocities are continuing to emerge from the Democratic Republic of the Congo 12 days after the Rwandan-backed armed group, M23, seized the eastern city of Goma. Nearly three-thousand people have been killed in the fighting - around two-thousand bodies are still to be buried.

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Inferno in Goma: When 4,000 male inmates escape from a prison, they rape and burn the female prisoners.

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Chaos reigned in the city, corpses lay on the streets, projectiles flew over residential houses.

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The seizure of Goma, located in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, by the rebels of the March 23rd Movement (M-23), supported by Rwanda, continues to increase the number of dead. It is estimated that the figure would be between 2,000 and 5,000 dead. According to various sources on the ground and the United Nations, to this fact it should be added that more than 150 prisoners were raped and then burned alive during a massive escape…

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Over 150 women raped, burned to death in Congo by male inmates fleeing after jailbreak

Killings and mass rape are unfortunately frequent scenes of conflict-related sexual violence that have plagued the Democratic Republic of Congo for decades now

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Over 150 women raped during Congo prison break, U.N. says

At least 165 women were raped by male inmates during a mass breakout from a prison in the Democratic Republic of Congo, according to the United Nations.