‘Look, They Are Dying’: Video Appears to Show Massacre by Congolese Soldiers<br />Human Rights Watch, Western diplomats and United Nations officials said they were investigating the video, which was consistent with<br />United Nations reports this week of Congolese government soldiers ruthlessly crushing a local militia in the Kasaï-Central Province.<br />" Human rights activists said that the video was filmed by a Congolese government soldier who was part of the execution squad and<br />that the soldier may have felt bad about what happened and leaked it to assuage his conscience. that Watch how they get killed like animals.<br />This week, a spokesman for the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Liz Throssell, said<br />as many as 101 people, including 39 women, may have been killed in clashes in the Kasaï area.<br />Lambert Mende, Congo’s information minister, said the video was not filmed in Congo, but possibly another African country, and<br />that it was an attempt by nongovernmental organizations "to destroy the image of the D.R.C." Steve Wembi contributed reporting from Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo.<br />These images are part of a battlefield video that was shared with The New York Times on Friday<br />and that, thanks to Congolese human rights activists, has begun to make the rounds on Facebook and other social media.<br />17, 2017<br />Footage shared by human rights activists appeared to show soldiers killing unarmed civilians in the Democratic Republic of Congo.<br />United Nations said that The video shows shocking footage of killings and executions of civilians by uniformed personnel,
