{"id":2599036,"date":"2026-05-05T15:02:01","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T19:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/survivors-recount-islamist-massacres-of-congolese-christians-in-terrorism-report\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T15:04:47","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T19:04:47","slug":"survivors-recount-islamist-massacres-of-congolese-christians-in-terrorism-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/survivors-recount-islamist-massacres-of-congolese-christians-in-terrorism-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Survivors recount Islamist massacres of Congolese Christians in terrorism report"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsurvivors-recount-islamist-massacres-of-congolese-christians-in-terrorism-report%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2599036&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Islamist militant groups, notably the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), are accused of committing large-scale atrocities against Christians in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, according to a new Amnesty International report. Amnesty documents \u201cwar crimes and crimes against humanity\u201d carried out by the Ugandan rebel group, including extensive killings, abductions, and torture-based on 71 interviews with peopel affected by the violence, many of them direct witnesses.<\/p>\n<p>The report highlights the September 2025 massacre in the village of Ntoyo, where militants infiltrated a funeral while dressed in civilian clothing, coordinated killings, and used extreme violence such as hacking people with axes, while also burning property and kidnapping survivors. Amnesty also describes the ADF as a roaming force whose motives center heavily on terrorizing non-Muslim communities and self-enrichment.<\/p>\n<p>Originally formed in Uganda in the 1990s as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-considers-reinstating-burma-sanctions-axed-by-top-asia-adviser\/\" title=\"Biden Considers Reinstating Burma Sanctions Axed by Top Asia Adviser\">resistance group<\/a>, the ADF was pushed back and then moved into neighboring regions, including the DRC. Its links to the Islamic State are described as unclear, though the groups are widely believed to have established ties in the late 2010s. The violence has contributed to mass displacement, and the ADF has been sanctioned by both the U.S. government and the UN Security Council.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<article class=\"fn-body\">\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/islamic-terrorism\">Islamist militant groups<\/a> are waging a campaign of wanton slaughter against Christians in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, according to a new report.<\/p>\n<p>Amnesty International <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amnestyusa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Id-Never-Seen-So-Many-Bodies-War-Crimes-by-the-Allied-Democratic-Forces-in-the-Eastern-Democratic-Republic-of-Congo.pdf\">published a report <\/a>this week documenting \u201cwar crimes and crimes against humanity\u201d perpetrated by the Allied Democratic Forces, a Ugandan rebel group that has migrated into the DRC.<\/p>\n<section class=\"explore-more-section\" id=\"wex-recommended-widget\">\n<div class=\"magazine-container single\">\n<h1 class=\"magazine-title mt-2\">Recommended Stories<\/h1>\n<p>             <i class=\"fa-solid fa-play icon\"><\/i>         <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-grid\">\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/world\/4554889\/alberta-independence-referendum-makes-next-step-what-to-know\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>Alberta independence referendum makes it to next step: What to know<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/world\/4555081\/romanian-left-right-wing-unite-to-oust-liberal-prime-minister\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>Romanian left and right wings unite to oust Liberal prime minister<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/world\/4554860\/trump-us-will-arm-iranian-people-guns\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>Trump suggests US will arm Iranian people: \u2018I think they\u2019re getting some guns\u2019<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/msnbc-terrible-jobs-report-is-the-pressure-we-need-to-pass-15-minimum-wage\/\" title=\"MSNBC: Terrible Jobs ... Is The ...Pressure We Need\u2019 To Pass  Minimum Wage\">report makes<\/a> available 71 interviews with individuals affected by the violence unfolding in the Congo, 61 of which were conducted in-person and 45 of which are with direct witnesses of ADF violence.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>\u201cCivilians in the eastern\u00a0DRC\u00a0have suffered extensive brutality at the hands of ADF fighters,\u201d Amnesty International Secretary General Agn\u00e8s Callamard said. \u201cThey have been killed, abducted and tortured in a dehumanizing campaign of abuse.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Soldiers patrol as thousands of people fleeing fighting in Congo\u2019s South Kivu province arrive in Cibitoke, Kansega, Burundi, Thursday, Dec. 11, 2025. (AP Photo\/Berthier Mugiraneza)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Among the most graphic and harrowing massacres documented in the report is the September 2025 attack on the village of Ntoyo. <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/TERRORISM\/\">Militants with the ADF<\/a>, dressed in civilian clothes, infiltrated a funeral gathering taking place overnight.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey took part in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/state-dept-says-multiple-u-s-citizens-killed-in-stampede-in-israel\/\" title=\"State Dept. says multiple U.S. citizens ... in stampede in Israel\">funeral ceremony<\/a>,\u201d a 30-year-old man who survived the attack recalled. \u201c[At some point] they shot two shots. It was the signal to all other members in the quarter to start <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/10-famous-liberals-whove-made-the-nazi-comparison-but-werent-canceled\/\" title=\"10 Famous Liberals Who\u2019ve Made The ...Nazi\u2019 Comparison But Weren\u2019t Canceled\">killing people<\/a>. They were killing people with hammers. \u2026 They started telling us, \u2018Don\u2019t run! Get inside your house!\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said the rebels were trying to get them into their homes so that they could burn the structures down with them inside. From a hiding place, he was forced to watch as <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >militants killed multiple members<\/a> of his family \u2014 including his sister, who was hacked to death with an axe.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had a shop [with merchandise worth] U.S. $9,000 inside. They burned it,\u201d he said. \u201cI lost eight of my family members [and] they kidnapped two [more] relatives.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A woman who had been asleep when the same massacre began recounted how she managed to escape the rebels by ducking into bushes but emerged afterward to find both her parents dead.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI ran into the bush, but my father took the direction of the main road. He ran into the rebels and they killed him,\u201d she recalled. \u201cIn the morning, when I came out of hiding, I saw many people were killed. At the place where the wake was taking place, there were so many bodies. I\u2019d never seen so many bodies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That massacre in September resulted in the deaths of at least 60 people, countless injured, and an inestimable loss of resources.<\/p>\n<p>ADF was founded in Uganda in the 1990s as a resistance group ostensibly fighting against the persecution of Muslim citizens. They were defeated by national forces and forced to flee across borders into surrounding regions.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Internally displaced people fleeing fighting in Congo\u2019s South Kivu province arrive in Cibitoke, Kansega, Burundi, Dec. 11, 2025. (AP Photo\/Berthier Mugiraneza)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Congolese Christians are considered the primary targets of the ADF\u2019s marauding gangs, but the terrorist group has been known to attack other sects of Islam.<\/p>\n<p>The total number of <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/world\/3316403\/why-war-breaking-out-congo\/\">ADF militants in the DRC<\/a> is unclear due to the organization\u2019s loose and often disorganized nature. Members of the terrorist group typically operate in a roaming militia with few obvious goals outside self-enrichment and the terrorizing of non-Muslim populations.<\/p>\n<p>It maintains an unclear relationship with the Islamic State group. The two groups are believed to have established ties around 2017 and the Islamic State group acknowledged the \u201cIslamic State in the Congo\u201d in 2018.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/world\/4511123\/gunmen-massacre-nigerian-christians-palm-sunday\/\">GUNMEN MASSACRE AT LEAST 12 IN NIGERIA ON PALM SUNDAY IN LATEST BOUT OF ATTACKS ON CHRISTIANS<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe debate should no longer concern whether the ADF has a formal relationship with the Islamic State [ISIS] but rather focus on the nature of that relationship,\u201d according to a <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs5746\/files\/The%20Islamic%20State%20in%20Congo%20English.pdf\">report<\/a> from George Washington University.<\/p>\n<p>ADF violence has not only resulted in the widespread murder of Congolese citizens, but also the displacement of those seeking to flee persecution. <\/p>\n<p>It has been sanctioned by both the U.S. government and the United Nations Security Council.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amnesty reports ADF committed war crimes and crimes against humanity in eastern DRC, targeting Christians<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3468,"featured_media":2599037,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/AP25346503202288.jpg?w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[65254,40903,47748,79150],"class_list":["post-2599036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-christian-persecution","tag-congo","tag-islamist-terrorism","tag-massacre-survivors"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/AP25346503202288.jpg?w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2599036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3468"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2599036"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2599036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2599045,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2599036\/revisions\/2599045"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2599037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2599036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2599036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2599036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}