“The people living in the region should be benefiting from the growth in mining. Instead, many are being forced out of their homes and farmland,” an extract from the report reads.
Amnesty International and the Congolese rights organization IBGDH relayed in a 98-page study that populations in and around Kolwezi, a mining town in the southeast of the DRC, had been forcefully relocated or forced into leaving their homes to make room for mine expansions.
In the vicinity of Kolwezi, on a mining concession owned by the DRC-registered company Chemical of Africa SA, was the town of Mukumbi. According to former inhabitants questioned by researchers, Congolese troops reportedly set fire to the village in November 2016.
