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On June 7, brief clashes occurred at noon between the FARDC and ADF near Boga. It was later reported that these clashes were caused by an ADF attack on the hospital in Boga, killing ten civilians and two of the ADF attackers. The hospital, which had previously served over 80,000 people in the area,
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The camp at Boga was the first attacked, around 1am on May 31. ADF fighters besieged the camp, and then indiscriminately shot civilians and burned down houses. A witness to the massacre in Boga said that he was alerted after hearing cries from his neighbor's house. When he arrived at the house, the
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pastor and wounded his daughter. Residents' houses were looted and torched, and vehicles located on the nearby road were burnt out. 26 people were killed at the
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ADF fighters then attacked the town of Tchabi, killing over 24 people and injuring dozens of others. Some civilians were abducted from the town as well. Between both villages, 57 civilians were killed and 47 were injured, along with at least 25 civilians kidnapped. Some estimates by local civil
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in 2019 and began carrying out it's first attacks under the ISCAP moniker months later. Beginning in 2021, the ADF carried out dozens of deadly massacres against villages in North Kivu, attacking villagers along ethnic and religious lines.
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or ISCAP) attacked the towns of Boga and Tchabi, killing a total of fifty-seven civilians and injuring forty-seven others. The attacks were one of the deadliest massacres ever perpetrated by the ADF since it's founding in the 1990s.
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990:"Etat de siège en Ituri : après les tueries de plus de 55 civils à Boga et Tchabi, le gouverneur militaire parle de tentative " d'humiliation ""
837:"Ituri : le député Gratien Iracan alerte sur la situation de plusieurs familles sans assistance humanitaire après les tueries de Boga et Tchabi"
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RDC: ce qu'il faut savoir du drame de Boga, l'actuel epicentre des attaques ADF en Ituri - June 11, 2021
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