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Hundreds Gather as DR Congo Buries Massacre Victims

Agence France-Presse

   BENI, DR CONGO - The DR Congo town of Oicha on Friday buried 27 victims
   of the latest massacre in the sprawling country's volatile east, with
   hundreds paying homage to the dead.

   Mourners gathered in silence around the morgue of Oicha, located near
   the Ugandan border and east of the DRC town of Beni, the scene of
   repeated deadly attacks, an AFP correspondent said.

   Workers wore face masks as they wrapped the corpses in shrouds. Wooden
   crosses marked the graves and many wept as the bodies were lowered.

   During the mass funerals, gunfire broke out from the nearby bush but it
   was unclear who was firing.

   The victims were hacked to death with machetes on Wednesday, taking to
   107 the number of people killed in and around Beni since November 5.

   The vast majority of the killings have been carried out by the Allied
   Democratic Forces (ADF), a militia that has plagued the Democratic
   Republic of Congo's east since the 1990s.
   

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