More than 150 female prisoners were raped and burned to death during a jailbreak last week when fleeing male inmates set fire to a prison in Goma, in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, a United Nations spokesperson has said. <\/p>\n
Between nine and 13 female inmates, \u201call of whom had also been raped,\u201d survived the blaze, Magango added, citing a judicial source in the DRC. <\/p>\n
The <\/strong>male <\/strong>inmates, some of whom were killed by prison guards, plotted a mass escape on January 27 as the M23 rebel alliance battled with Congolese forces in Goma over control of the city, <\/strong>the UN-sponsored Radio Okapi reported Monday. <\/strong> <\/p>\n More than 4,000 detainees fled the Muzenze prison that day, it added, stating that the facility was now \u201ccompletely empty\u201d and left in ruins. <\/p>\n The killings and mass rape mirror recurring scenes of conflict-related sexual violence that have plagued the DRC for decades. <\/p>\n On Friday, the UN\u2019s Human Rights Office said it had received reports of other cases of sexual violence involving the DRC\u2019s army and its allied forces. <\/p>\n \u201cWe are verifying reports that 52 women were raped by Congolese troops in South Kivu, including alleged reports of gangrape,\u201d said Jeremy Laurence, a spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, in a statement Friday. <\/p>\n This week, the M23 rebel group, which has claimed to have captured the city of Goma, called for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire after clashes with government forces left nearly 3,000 people killed. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" More than 150 female prisoners were raped and burned to death during a jailbreak last week when fleeing male inmates set fire to a prison in Goma, in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, a United Nations spokesperson has said. Between nine and 13 female inmates, \u201call of whom had also been raped,\u201d survived the <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12828,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-12827","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitaltradecenter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitaltradecenter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitaltradecenter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitaltradecenter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitaltradecenter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/digitaltradecenter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12827\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitaltradecenter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitaltradecenter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitaltradecenter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitaltradecenter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}