It’s calling on the Kinshasa authorities to investigate the attacks and look to providing reparations, medical and psychological help for the victims.

The United Nations Joint Human Rights office says at least 701 people have died between December 2017 and September 2019 in clashes between Hema and Lendu tribes in the DRC.

The Hema have been the major victims of  beheadings, rape and torture.

Attacks are mostly mounted at harvest time in June and are designed to drive the Hema off their land.

More than half a million have been internally displaced and  57 000 have fled into neighboring Uganda.

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