Mob kills man, roasts and eats his body

A mob in Congo has stoned a man to death in revenge for a series of attacks by Ugandan rebels. Witnesses said they did not only kill him, they burnt his body and ate his corpse.

Reuters reports that the incident took place in the town of Beni following a number of overnight raids in the area believed to be carried out by the Islamic militant group ADF-NAUL. The group is thought to have killed over 100 people this month.

The yet to be identified man, was said to have aroused suspicion on a bus when passengers discovered he could not speak the local Swahili language and that he was carrying a machete, one of the kinds of weapons the ADF-NAUL use.

Speaking from the town, the country’s president, Joseph Kabila said the ADF-NALU militants would face the same fate as the rebel movement M23, which was defeated by a U.N.-backed government offensive last year.


His words: “There is no question of negotiation with the terrorists. They will be defeated as was the case with the M23. And it will be very soon.”

ADF-NALU is an alliance of groups opposed to the Ugandan government that has operated from bases in neighbouring Congo since the mid-2000s, undermining Kinshasa’s grip on the area.