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Politicians must act now to stop a cycle of massacres in the DemocraticRepublic of Congo (DRC) – according to a bishop urgently seeking an endto the crisis.

In a message sent to Aid to the Church in Need following the killing of civiliansin north-eastern DRC, Bishop Melchisédech Sikuli Paluku of Butembo-Benislammed the indifference of media and politicians in the country.

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During the last fortnight at least 40 people have been brutally murdered inthe Beni region by the rebel Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) – withreports that several victims were beheaded with machetes.

Bishop Paluku said:

“In the past year alone, about 1,000 people were killed.

“This has been happening for the last 10 years. The situation hasdrastically deteriorated since 2014. One massacre follows the next.”

The ADF, which was formed by the merger of several rebel militia forces inUganda, has been ravaging the border areas between Uganda and theneighbouring DRC, which are particularly rich in resources, since the late1990s.

The region around Beni, North Kivu province is considered the epicentre ofviolence.

According to human rights organisations, eastern Congo is sufferingfrom the longest-lasting humanitarian crisis in Africa.

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