Overview

• Human Rights Watch reports M23 fighters killed at least 140 people in Rutshuru in July, with total deaths possibly exceeding 300.
• Witness accounts place the July attacks across at least 14 villages near Virunga National Park, with most victims described as ethnic Hutu and some as Nande.
• Amnesty International details gang rapes by M23 and Wazalendo, one case by FARDC soldiers, and further abuses including summary killings, hospital attacks, abductions and enforced disappearances.
• Amnesty says Wazalendo groups have been supplied with large quantities of ammunition and weapons by the Congolese army.
• HRW urges expanded sanctions, arrests and forensic access in areas under M23 control, while M23 has denied involvement in the killings and Amnesty says FARDC and M23 did not respond to its queries.