{"id":17396,"date":"2026-05-20T14:56:45","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T14:56:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/?p=17396"},"modified":"2026-05-20T14:56:45","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T14:56:45","slug":"human-rights-watch-raises-alarm-over-killings-and-abuse-in-eastern-congo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/?p=17396","title":{"rendered":"Human Rights Watch Raises Alarm Over Killings and Abuse in Eastern Congo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-section-id=\"p3eiic\" data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"49\">Kinshasa,Congo (HRNW)-\u00a0<span class=\"\" data-state=\"closed\"><a class=\"decorated-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hrw.org?utm_source=chatgpt.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Human Rights Watch<\/a><\/span> has accused M23 rebels and Rwandan forces of committing killings, sexual violence, abductions, and other serious human rights abuses against civilians in eastern Congo. According to recent findings, the incidents reportedly took place during military operations in and around Uvira, worsening the already severe humanitarian crisis in the region.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"513\" data-end=\"681\"><strong data-start=\"513\" data-end=\"532\">Support Appeal:<\/strong><br data-start=\"532\" data-end=\"535\" \/>Support independent human rights journalism, investigative reporting, and global justice initiatives through <span class=\"\" data-state=\"closed\"><a class=\"decorated-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/?page_id=1083&amp;utm_source=chatgpt.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HRNW \u2013 World\u2019s No.1 Human Rights News Portal<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kinshasa,Congo (HRNW)-\u00a0Human Rights Watch has accused M23 rebels and Rwandan forces of committing killings, sexual violence, abductions, and other serious human rights abuses against civilians in eastern Congo. According to recent findings, the incidents reportedly took place during military operations in and around Uvira, worsening the already severe humanitarian crisis in the region. Support Appeal:Support&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17397,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[14,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-global-human-rights","category-ngos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17396"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17398,"href":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17396\/revisions\/17398"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}