Clementine de Montjoye

@demontcl.bsky.social

Senior researcher at Human Rights Watch

NEW: HRW geospatial analysis shows a large increase of graves in Kanombe Military Cemetery in Kigali, Rwanda since the M23 armed group and Rwanda Defence Force offensive on Goma and Bukavu in eastern DR Congo in Jan 2025. 1/12🧵⤵️

Wazalendo fighters have committed beatings, killings, and extortion, at times on an ethnic basis, in S Kivu. #Congo gov should end support of Wazalendo coalition + impartially investigate & prosecute all those responsible for abuses. New @hrw communique www.hrw.org/news/2025/05...

DR Congo: Army-Backed Militias Abuse Civilians in South Kivu

A coalition of Congolese army-backed militias known as the “Wazalendo” have recently committed widespread abuses against civilians in South Kivu province, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.

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#BurkinaFaso: Army Directs Ethnic Massacres The videos of atrocities by VDPs near Solenzo sent shock waves but only told part of the story. New research found the army was responsible for these killings of Fulani ppl, followed by reprisals by JNIM, @hrw.org www.hrw.org/news/2025/05...

Burkina Faso: Army Directs Ethnic Massacres

The Burkina Faso army led and participated in the massacre of more than 130, possibly many more, ethnic Fulani civilians by pro-government militias in the western Boucle du Mouhoun region in March 202...

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The Rwanda-backed #M23 and AFC have threatened, detained and attacked journalists, critics and civil society activists since taking Goma in eastern #DRC. Media have faced threats + pressure by all sides in their reporting on the conflict. New @hrw report: www.hrw.org/news/2025/03...

DR Congo: Rwanda-Backed M23 Target Journalists, Activists

The Rwanda-backed M23 armed group and the allied Alliance Fleuve Congo (AFC) have threatened, detained, and attacked journalists, critics, and civil society activists since capturing Goma in eastern D...

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New HRW geospatial analysis shows the dismantlement of camps west of Goma, in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, that housed hundreds of thousands of displaced people. 1/10 🧵⤵️