New York, Sept. 22 -- A wave of extreme violence has hit Binza, in the eastern province of North Kivu in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), since July 2025. Multiple patients seen by Doctors Without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) have testified to massacres-including of women and children.

All survivors report that the perpetrators were armed men, and some cite the M23 [March 23 Movement] armed group. Although large-scale massacres appear to have subsided, civilians continue to suffer daily violence at the hands of armed groups.

Esperance* was working in the fields when armed men in uniform arrived. "Wherever they found men, they systematically killed and decapitated them [with machetes]," she said. "We saw eight men killed." ...