Hundreds of women raped and burnt in a Conco prison

According to a senior UN official, hundreds of women were raped and burned alive during the chaos after a Rwandan-backed rebel group entered the Congolese city of Goma last week.

The female inmates were attacked in their wing inside Goma’s Munzenze prison during a mass jailbreak.

It has been reported that while several thousand men managed to escape from the prison, the area reserved for women was set on fire.

Images taken shortly after M23 rebels reached the centre of Goma showed massive plumes of black smoke rising from the prison on the morning of 27 January.

About 2,000 bodies were still awaiting burial in Goma after M23 fighters seized Goma, capital of DRC’s North Kivu province, on 27 January.

It is believed that there was a major prison breakout of 4,000 escaped prisoners. A few hundred women were also in that prison.

The women were all raped and then they set fire to the women’s wing. They all died afterwards it is alleged.