DRC blames Uganda’s rebel group for Beni massacres
By AlJazeera
27 February 2017 |
4:27 am
Rights activists say more than 1,000 people have been killed in a series of massacres in Beni, a town in the Democratic Republic of Congo, in the past three years.
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