A woman who went to pay the ransom was kidnapped twice, raped, and forced to cook and eat human flesh by rebel groups in volatile eastern DRC, a Congolese rights body tells UNSC.
The president of women’s rights group Female Solidarity for Integrated Peace and Development (SOFEPADI) Julienne Lusenge, told the woman’s cannibalistic story on Wednesday while conveying to the 15-member council about the conflict-torn east of DRC.
She said the woman was kidnapped by CODECO militants when she went to pay a ransom for another kidnapped family member. The woman told the rights group that she was repeatedly raped and physically abused. Then she said the militants slit a man’s throat.
“They pulled out his entrails and they asked me to cook them. They brought me two water containers to prepare the rest of the meal. They then fed all of the prisoners human flesh,” Lusenge told the Security Council, recounting the woman’s story.
Lusenge explained that the woman was kidnapped for the second time by another militant group and had been rapped by that militant members repeatedly and forced the woman to cook and eat human flesh yet again, right after she has been free from the previous kidnapped. She does not name the second militant group that kidnapped the women.
