Title: Report of the United Nations Joint Human Rights Office on international humanitarian law violations committed by Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) combatants in the territory of Beni, North Kivu province, between 1 October and 31 December 2014.
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The present report, published in May 2015, details grave violations of international humanitarian law committed by combatants of the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) against civilians in the territory of Beni, in the province of North Kivu, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) between 1 October and 31 December 2014.

Following 13 investigation missions carried out on the territory of Beni between October 2014 and January 2015 and increased monitoring activities in the period of the attacks by alleged ADF combatants against civilians between 1 October and 31 December 2014, the UNJHRO is able to confirm the summary executions of at least 237 civilians, including at least 65 women and 35 children (13 boys and 22 girls), the injury of 47 civilians, the rape of two others, the kidnapping of at least 20 civilians, the recruitment of children and the looting and systematic destruction of dozens of houses.

The report also documents violations of international humanitarian and human rights law committed in Beni territory during the same period by FARDC members deployed in Operation Sukola I against the ADF, including the extrajudicial execution of 15 civilians and violations of the right to physical integrity of 12 others during two incidents. At least 300 people, including at least 33 FARDC members, have been arrested in the course of the investigations conducted by the Congolese authorities into the Beni massacres. The report makes recommendations to the Congolese government as well as to the international community aimed at bringing an end to these violations and to support the Congolese authorities in their efforts to prosecute the perpetrators of these offences.

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