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<h2 id="timeline">Timeline</h2> <ul><li>In Aug 2010, at least 179 women were raped by armed rebels around the small town of Ruvungi in <a href="/facts/Walikale_Territory/oCmNf6LR">Walikale Territory</a> between July 30 and August 2.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:1" href="#fn:1"><sup>1</sup></a></li> <li>On 17 July 2012, Walikale town was taken over by rebel forces from local militia Mai Mai Raia Motumboki.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:2" href="#fn:2"><sup>2</sup></a></li> <li>On 10 June 2014, The administrator of <a href="/facts/Lubero_Territory/AKK7cJXS">Lubero Territory</a>, Joy Bokele, requested assistance for six hundred displaced households who sought refuge two months ago in the south of the territory. These people came from Walikale where they had fled clashes between <a href="/facts/Democratic_Forces_for_the_Liberation_of_Rwanda/2F15Lhw9">FDLR</a> militia and Nduma défense of Congo (NDC) (NDC) Cheka. These <a href="/facts/Internally_displaced_persons/tHMBlw2Y">internally displaced persons</a> (IDPs) were grouped in several sites, including Kasuho, Bunyantenge and Njiapanda.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a></li> <li>On 30 July 2016, the United Nations Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict, Zainab Hawa Bangura, called for the arrest of Ntabo Ntaberi Sheka [es] for crimes against humanity, whose militia is allegedly responsible for the August 2010 rapes.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4"><sup>4</sup></a> The Congo issued an arrest warrant in 2011, but Sheka ran for office in November 2011 and remained at large for another six years before he surrendered to UN peacekeeping forces in 2017.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:5" href="#fn:5"><sup>5</sup></a></li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>Josh Kron (August 23, 2010). "Rwandan Rebels Raped at Least 179 Women in Congo, Humanitarian Officials Say". New York Times. <a href="https://mobile.nytimes.com/2010/08/24/world/africa/24congo.html" target="_blank">https://mobile.nytimes.com/2010/08/24/world/africa/24congo.html</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>Democratic Republic of Congo • North Kivu Situation Report No. 2 20 July 2012 <a href="https://reliefweb.int/sites/reliefweb.int/files/resources/OCHA%20Situation%20Report%20No%202%20-%20North%20Kivu%20DRC%20-%2022%20July%202012_0.pdf" target="_blank">https://reliefweb.int/sites/reliefweb.int/files/resources/OCHA%20Situation%20Report%20No%202%20-%20North%20Kivu%20DRC%20-%2022%20July%202012_0.pdf</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>Radio Okapi (2014-06-10). "Nord-Kivu: plaidoyer pour une assistance aux déplacés de Lubero - Democratic Republic of the Congo". ReliefWeb. Retrieved 2014-06-11. <a href="http://reliefweb.int/report/democratic-republic-congo/nord-kivu-plaidoyer-pour-une-assistance-aux-d-plac-s-de-lubero" target="_blank">http://reliefweb.int/report/democratic-republic-congo/nord-kivu-plaidoyer-pour-une-assistance-aux-d-plac-s-de-lubero</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>Section, United Nations News Service (2016-07-29). "UN News - DR Congo: six years on, UN envoy calls for action in Walikale mass rape". UN News Service Section. Retrieved 2016-07-31. <a href="https://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=54597#.V55aG5OAOko" target="_blank">https://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=54597#.V55aG5OAOko</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:5"><p>Ida Sawyer (July 26, 2017). "Congolese Warlord Wanted for Mass Rape Surrenders". <a href="https://www.hrw.org/news/2017/07/26/congolese-warlord-wanted-mass-rape-surrenders" target="_blank">https://www.hrw.org/news/2017/07/26/congolese-warlord-wanted-mass-rape-surrenders</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>