{"id":396472,"date":"2017-06-21T08:09:06","date_gmt":"2017-06-21T08:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/06\/21\/congo-backed-militia-mutilates-toddlers-burns-villages-un\/"},"modified":"2017-06-21T08:09:06","modified_gmt":"2017-06-21T08:09:06","slug":"congo-backed-militia-mutilates-toddlers-burns-villages-un","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/06\/21\/congo-backed-militia-mutilates-toddlers-burns-villages-un\/","title":{"rendered":"Congo-backed militia mutilates toddlers, burns villages: UN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"429\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/1655369681875_2640471261874.jpg.pagespeed.ce.7TJDyxyFf6.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Manchester attack\" data-pagespeed-url-hash=\"634166672\" onload=\"pagespeed.CriticalImages.checkImageForCriticality(this);\"\/><\/div>\n<p>The government-backed Bana Mura militia in Congo has committed horrific crimes in ethnically-motivated attacks in the past few months, including cutting off toddlers\u2019 limbs and slicing open pregnant women, the U.N. human rights chief said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRefugees from multiple villages in the Kamonya territory indicated that the Bana Mura have in the past two months shot dead, hacked or burned to death, and mutilated, hundreds of villagers, as well as destroying entire villages,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy team saw children as young as two whose limbs had been chopped off; many babies had machete wounds and severe burns,\u201d Zeid Ra\u2019ad al-Hussein told the U.N. 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