Subject: Security Sit Rep March 08/31
Crime rate has alarmingly increased in Goma these days. Confirmed victims are numbered at 9 including a famous businessman, a CAA official, an immigration officer and a FOREX operator.
Quick Response Police Units deployed from Kinshasa are alleged to be prey on civilians and some of them are suspected of being street 'children' infiltrated by the hierarchy ; 58 suspects were arrested. A hundred weapons and lots of rounds of ammunition wwere seized.
After three residents were killed last Friday night, riots erupted on the main road to the West, a UN vehicle was stoned by angry mobs. An ASI vehicle driving back to residence was obliged to divert under armed escort. More riots are predictable these days targeting government/police facilities. The Civil Society has decided demonstrations in Goma town next Thursday.
Another attempt to murder a local resident has just been reported today in the West of Goma at around mid day. Primary investigations indicate there is a land conflict between the victim, a local land owner whose property is being confiscated by a local chief, suspected of organising the crime. Unfortunately this land owner was badly wounded and is admitted at Heal
Africa hospital.
UNDSS recommendations : stay watchful, travel in a team, reduce night travel and of course never walk. Stay away from street gatherings which might be hostile demonstrators.
A motorcyclist was stabbed to death by his client in Bunia yesterday afternoon bringing the number of victims to 4 in less than three months. This caused fierce demonstrations all over the town hampering all activities. Motorcyclists are systematically targeted in most of the DRC
towns.
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