Via Actualite.cd, more details of a bad weekend: DRC: Angry Rutshuru protest after the murder of a taxi driver. This report is confusing: it seems to describe a violent day very much like the riots in Butembo, but in a town well south of Butembo. The Google translation:
Dozens of residents of Burayi, in the territory of Rutshuru (North Kivu), demonstrated on Saturday, May 4, in the streets of this region, denouncing the assassination of the driver of a motorcycle taxi by a military, the eve (Friday).
The protesters blocked the Goma-Butembo road at Burayi, near Rutshuru-center, for several hours. The victim was shot at around 1400 hours by a soldier while drinking a local drink.
The assailant in military uniform lodged two shots in the head of the taxi driver, who died on the spot. This assassination provoked an uproar in this locality.
The motorcycle taxi drivers and the population of Rutshuru demonstrated by transporting the body of the victim to the office of the territorial administration.
The furious crowd has been dispersed by the police. The calm returned after consultation between the local authorities, the civil society and the biological family of the deceased. Faced with renewed insecurity, civil society is planning two days of protest march (9-10 May) to denounce the persistence of insecurity in the region.
Border with Uganda, Rutshuru is one of the territories beset by the insecurity and activism of armed groups in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
Most of this territory is made up of the Virunga Park, home to many armed groups including the rebels of the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR).
These groups are targeted by the Congolese army in the context of Sukola 2 operations, launched since 2015, in the midst of a crisis between Kinshasa and the UN.
