Over 70 women and children killed in DR Congo in last fortnight

Reports indicate that over 70 persons have been killed in the east DR Congo border area over the past fortnight – the attacks, mostly on women and children were accompanied by rape, torture and mutilations bbc.com. This has been informed by an official of the UN.

The latest was the killing of at least 20 people near the DR Congo town of Beni. Earlier, another 26 people were killed, also near Beni.
A local pastor has reportedly indicated that the victims were killed with guns, machetes and axes in the village of Eringeti – it is believed that the killers had come from neighboring Uganda. The mayor of the town has accused a Ugandan Islamist group, the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), of that attack.

Both the DR Congolese army and the UN have bases in Eringeti, 55-Km from Beni and the UN mission in the DR Congo has earned criticism for failing to protect civilians.

Pair of Yazadi teenage girls escape from ISIS and narrate horrors of their captivity

It appears to be the height of sadism that the ISIS is following and this has been brought out through information furnished by a couple of teenage girls who managed to give them the slip and escape dailymail.co.uk.
These are a pair of Yazidi teenage girls who succeeded in escaping from the clutches of ISIS militants and have narrated the gory details about their capture and captivity. They have revealed the full horror of how they were raped and tortured and forced to watch videos of men from their community being beheaded.
The girls have revealed that some of the girls were traumatized to such an extent by their experiences that they tried to commit suicide but, these girls faced punishment when caught – the ISIS fighters beat them mercilessly when caught.
As narrated by one of the girls – her ordeal began in the Sinjar village of Tal Azir on August 3 when ISIS fighters advanced towards them. She fled along with her mother, her brother and his pregnant wife towards the mountains, but ISIS caught up with them at a remote farmhouse. They then separated the women from the men, mowed down the men by machine gun fire and then bundled the girl onto a pick-up truck and taken to Mosul.
There she was held with hundreds of others prior to being sold off.
The other girl is 19-years-old and the ISIS shot dead her husband and took her captive.