Army sergeant and wife lynched in DRC after crowd mistakenly identified them as militia members

[schumi]

A crowd in eastern DR Congo on Saturday lynched two people they suspected of being members of a militia blamed for the killing of more than 100 civilians over the past month, an AFP journalist said.

The army however said the pair were a sergeant and his wife.

The killings came on the same day that the United Nations peacekeeping chief visited eastern DR Congo where anti-UN protests have erupted since the militia attacks.

Munitions were found in the bags of the two people, a man and a woman dressed in civilian clothes, in the town of Beni.

The crowd of several dozen people accused them of being members of the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), a shadowy armed group with links to Ugandan Islamists, the journalist said.

"They didn't have ID and when we checked their bags we found ammunition, military garb and cartridge clips," said Fabrice Muhindo, who works at the car park where the lynchings took place.

More at: https://www.timeslive.co.za/news/af...istakenly-identified-them-as-militia-members/

 

[Aghori]

Africa is not for pussies.

 

[Knyro]

The kangaroo court finds you... GUILTY! Of being in the wrong place at the wrong time.

 

[TheChamp]

Reminds me of Cinna the Poet and Cinna the conspirator scene, I am sure the lynching mob quickly found why the Sergeant and her wife were supposed to be lynched anyway.

 

[ForceFate]

Africa is not for pussies.

Terror groups have presence in eastern DRC, in the form of Al-Shabaab and rebels from Uganda. They're terrorising communities hence the knee-jerk reactions.

 

[ponder]

Where's the mybb crowd in support of jungle justice...

 

[noxibox]

I'm sure they'll be along shortly.

 

[grok]

Be glad that was the DRC, over here Mamma Matches taught them another, more permanent technique..

 

[TheChamp]

Be glad that was the DRC, over here Mamma Matches taught them another, more permanent technique..

I don't see anything to be glad about?

 

[medicnick83]

This is just really sad This is the type of behavior that the EFF would promote in ZA if they had their way.

 

[CommonSense]

Be glad that was the DRC, over here Mamma Matches taught them another, more permanent technique..

verb
past tense: lynched; past participle: lynched

1. (of a group of people) kill (someone) for an alleged offence without a legal trial, especially by hanging.
   "her father had been lynched for a crime he didn't commit"

 

[ForceFate]

/peeks
/Sees attempts at derailing thread left unchecked