At least 20 people were massacred by ISCAP jihadists in the village of Bwanasura in Otomabere in the territory of Irumu in Ituri Province. The victims are reported to have either been stabbed, shot with firearms, or burned in their homes.
The allied troops continue to receive criticism as residents have accused them of failing to respond swiftly either to attacks or on intelligence offered by the public. This is aggravated further by the fact that the state of siege that has been in place in North Kivu and Ituri Provinces has not reduced the number of attacks or deaths of civilians.
Intelligence indicates that the attacks in Ituri are being launched and coordinated from new bases that have since been erected in Monge hill and other strongholds in several villages in Walese Vonkutu chiefdom. ISCAP has set up new positions in the western part in Mutueyi, Kasoko, Akwekwe, Ntume, and Monge on the hill of Butani called Madina 2″.
COIN actors especially UPDF and the Congolese military ought to deploy troops to the herein mentioned locales to root out the militancy which has been steadily extending its territory despite the presence in the provinces. ISCAP attacks military bases for weapons and other military supplies while simultaneously attacking innocent civilians. The recent attacks have been seeing larger numbers of casualties and which ought to automatically trigger a change in strategy and tactics by the security apparatus in DRC.
