Suspected CODECO militants blamed for killing at least 17 people and burning 300 homes during a raid in eastern DRC
CODECO is a political-religious militia that claims to represent the interests of the Lendu ethnic group.
"They opened fire, set houses ablaze and pillaged the property of villagers... I myself narrowly escaped," Uwechi said in the provincial capital Bunia.Eleven of the bodies had been buried in a mass grave. CODECO is a political-religious sect that claims to represent the interests of the Lendu ethnic group.
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