During the M23 Rebel Offensive, Families Look for Loved Ones

Red Cross personnel loaded up bodies into a big truck outside the mortuary at Goma’s North Kivu Hospital on Monday. After seizing a number of neighbouring towns in January, Rwanda-backed M23 rebels declared control of the strategically important eastern Congolese city a week ago.

In Goma’s hospitals and mortuaries, authorities verified 2,880 injuries and 773 deaths. Chiza Nyenyezi sobbed as she gazed at a picture of her dead son outside the mortuary. She can’t locate his body.

A soldier approached him from behind. He was shot in the back by a militiaman affiliated with the Congolese army, and the bullet exited his chest. The kid tumbled from the motorbike. The bullet went through and struck a second individual behind him. Through the chest, the bullet entered and left. “His whole chest was exposed,” Chiza remarked.

M23, backed by 4,000 Rwandan troops, is stronger than in 2012 when they were eventually pushed out of DRC. However, experts predict that it would be more challenging to push them back this time.

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