Name
|
Date
|
Fatalities
|
Notes
|
Hema massacre of 1911
|
4 December 1911
|
200+
|
By
Lendu people against
Hema people
[1]
|
Elisabethville Massacre
|
December 1941
|
30-70
|
|
Léopoldville riots
|
January 1959
|
49+
|
|
Massacre at Luluabourg
|
October 1959
|
300+
|
By
Lulua people against
Baluba people in
Luluabourg
[2]
|
Luluabourg massacre (1961)
|
27-28 February, 1961
|
44
|
The New York Times reported that 44 civilians had been killed by government forces in revenge for the killing of three soldiers by rioters.
[3]
|
Port Francqui incident
|
April 28, 1961 (1961-April-28)
|
47
|
[4]
|
Kindu atrocity
|
11 or 12 November 1961
|
13
|
Murders of 13 Italian airmen by soldiers during the
Congo Crisis.
|
|
November 1964
|
8+
|
Four
Protestant
missionaries, four
Spanish
nuns, and an unknown number of
Catholic priests were brutally murdered by
Communist rebels during the
Simba rebellion.
[5]
|
Battle of Kolwezi
|
18–22 May 1978
|
Hundreds
|
The
Congolese National Liberation Front massacred hundreds of White European civilians during
Shaba II, mostly
Belgians.
[6]
[7]
|
Luamwela massacre
|
5 July 1979
|
50
|
Killing of 50 miners by the Congolese army and the
Societé Minière de Bakwanga.
[8]
|
Katelakayi massacre
|
July 19, 1979 (1979-07-19)
|
140-200
|
Killing of at least 140 miners by the Congolese army and the
Societé Minière de Bakwanga. Some reports said that over 200 miners had died.
[8]
|
|
20 March to July 1993
|
14,000
|
Initially starting in the town of
Mtutu, as an anti-
Banyarwanda massacre by
Hunde and
Nyanga people, Banyarwanda fought back, starting an ethnic conflict that killed 14,000 people.
[9]
|
Mokoto monastery massacre
|
May 12, 1996 (1996-05-12)
|
750
|
750
Tutsi refugees hiding in a
monastery were slaughtered by
Hutu forces.
[10]
[9]
[11]
|
Massacres of Hutus during the First Congo War
|
1996-1997
|
Thousands
|
|
Lemera massacre
|
October 6, 1996
|
37
|
37 individuals, including
FAZ (Forces Armées Zaïroises) soldiers, nurses, patients, and
Zairean civilians who were in the vicinity of the
Lemera hospital, were killed by the forces of the
Alliance of Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Congo (AFDL).
|
Musekera massacre
|
October 20, 1996 (1996-10-20)
|
300
|
Three hundred
Hutu civilians were bludgeoned to death by Rwandan soldiers.
[12]
|
Butembo massacre
|
From February 20 to April
|
300-600
|
Reprisals for Mayi Mayi attacks by Congolese Armed Forces
[13]
|
Kasika massacre
|
September 5, 1998 (1998-09-05)
|
1,000+
|
Massacre of
Nyindu during the
Second Congo War. The figure of 1,000 was estimated by the
United Nations Mapping Report. The massacre was actually a series of massacres that began with the killing of 36 Nyindu civilians inside a Catholic church by Rwanda, Ugandan, or Banyamulenge forces.
[14]
|
Makobola massacre
|
From December 30, 1998, to January 2, 1999
|
800+
|
The forces of the
Rally for Congolese Democracy (Rassemblement Congolais pour la Démocratie; RCD) perpetrated a massacre, resulting in the death of over 800 civilians, predominantly from the
Bembe community.
|
Kisangani massacre
|
13-15 May 2002
|
183
|
|
Kiwanja massacre
|
4-5 November 2008
|
150
|
Perpetrated by the
National Congress for the Defence of the People
[15]
[16]
|
2008 Christmas massacres
|
24-27 December 2008
|
620-860+
|
Attack by the
Christian terrorist
Lord's Resistance Army
|
Makombo massacre
|
14-17 December 2009
|
321-345
|
Attack by the
Christian terrorist
Lord's Resistance Army
|
Masisi massacre
|
2014
|
70+
|
[17]
|
2014 Mutarule attack
|
June 6, 2014 (2014-06-06)
|
35
|
|
Beni massacre
|
August 14, 2016 (2016-08-14)
|
101
|
|
Kipupu massacre
|
July 16, 2020 (2020-07-16)
|
18-220
|
[18]
|
Drodro massacre
|
November 21, 2021 (2021-11-21)
|
44
|
|
Plaine Savo massacre
|
February 2, 2022 (2022-02-02)
|
60
|
|
Otomabere massacre
|
June 5, 2022 (2022-06-05)
|
18-27
|
Suspected
Allied Democratic Forces attacked
Otomabere in
Irumu Territory,
Ituri Province.
|
Kishishe massacre
|
29 November - 1 December 2022
|
131-300+
|
|