DRC: Almost 300 assassinations and summary executions documented in occupied regions from May 9 to June 16 (Government)

The government of the Democratic Republic of Congo, via the Ministry of the Interior, Security, Decentralization, and Customary Affairs, has raised concerns regarding Rwanda’s evident intention to exit the “DRC-UNHCR-Rwanda” tripartite agreement. This move appears to be aimed at furthering its “expansionist” goals by repopulating regions currently occupied by the M23 rebellion.

In a press release issued on Wednesday evening, he urged both his national and international partners to “halt all forms of collaboration with the entities established by the Rwandan occupation and to wait for the outcomes of the tripartite meeting, as requested by the Congolese side.”

Additionally, he accused the Rwandan army and its M23 affiliates of continuing to engage in “serious acts” that threaten the territorial integrity of the DRC in the occupied regions of North and South Kivu provinces.

In this document, the government also condemned over “289 instances of murder and summary executions, 102 instances of rape, more than 270 instances of physical torture, hundreds of missing individuals, as well as thousands of cases of forced recruitment, arbitrary detentions in inhumane conditions, and looting reported between May 9 and June 16, 2025, in the occupied territories.”

Lastly, it condemned the targeting of Congolese citizens identified as members of the FDLR for the purpose of their deportation to Rwanda.

The government vowed to persist in the “painful” documentation of “these serious violations” committed by the Rwandan army and its M23/AFC proxies, so that “justice may be delivered to the victims.”