HUNDREDS of women were raped and then burnt alive by Rwandan-backed rebels who stormed who stormed a city in Congo.
The sickening atrocity happened in the city of Goma during a mass break-out from the Munzenze jail last week.
Relatives gathered for a funeral after the violence[/caption]
Mourners gather round mass graves[/caption]
M23 fighters clashed with the Congolese army during deadly gun battles.
The UN said women inmates were butchered in their wing after rampaging male prisoners forced their way in at the notoriously overcrowded jail.
As thousands of male criminals fled, the jail was torched and the women were burned alive, Vivian van de Perre, the deputy head of the UN peacekeeping force in Goma, said.
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