Lisasa massacre
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| Lisasa massacre | |
|---|---|
| Part of Allied Democratic Forces insurgency and Kivu conflict | |
| Location | Lisasa, Kitsimba, and Kamwiri, North Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo |
| Date | 31 October 2020 1am |
| Deaths | 21 |
| Victims | 20 kidnapped |
| Perpetrator |  ISCAP |
| Motive | Killing Christians |
On 31 October 2020, jihadists from the Islamic State's Central Africa Province (ISCAP) attacked the village of Lisasa, Beni Territory, North Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo, killing over twenty-one civilians after brief clashes with UPLC Mai-Mai militiamen. The massacre came just several days after ISCAP slaughtered nineteen civilians in the village of Baeti.
The Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) pledged allegiance to the Islamic State in 2019, and began a campaign against Congolese authorities and rebels in North Kivu as the newly-formed Central Africa Province of the Islamic State.[1] The campaign also heavily targeted Christian villages, and the ADF perpetrated numerous massacres.[1] In Beni in October 2020, ADF fighters broke hundreds of their compatriots out of a jail near the town.[2] The jailbreak encouraged ADF fighters to continue their rampage in areas of Beni Territory that hadn't seen massacres for four years.[2] In the town of Baeti on October 28, ADF fighters massacred nineteen people.[3] The Lisasa massacre occurred a year and one day after the start of a counter-insurgency campaign by the Congolese government against the ADF.[2]