In a report published on Tuesday, the NGO said the abuses took place on 22 and 23 February in Goma, the capital of North Kivu province.

HRW said dozens of M23 fighters arrived ni Goma’s Kasika neighbourhood on 22 February. They shot seven people in the head near the Katindo military camp, a former Congolese army barracks.

The bodies of 11 more people, including a boy, were found at a construction site about 100 metres from the camp.