DRC: 15,000 Kitenge residents flee May-Mayi militia

At least 15,000 people have fled the village of Kitenge in the southern province of Katanga, where Mayi-Mayi militiamen have killed 100 people since 1 January, a local human rights official told IRIN. "Kitenge residents live in fear and in trauma. They can no longer go about their normal business, because the Mayi-Mayi are extorting, looting, raping, burning homes, cutting off fingers and the private parts and pubic hairs of their victims," Bin Masudi, the coordinator of the Katanga-based Committee for the Defence of Human Rights, said.