A/HRC/10/58 page 6 Congolese-Rwandan military operation. For example, since 26 January 2009 at least 29 civilians were allegedly killed and 30 wounded by FDLR elements in three villages located near Kibua. The FDLR also killed a prominent traditional chief in Pinga, Walikale territory, on 14 February, and committed 28 rapes in the same area since the beginning of February 2009. 10. The UNJHRO has also confirmed reports of an FDLR attack on Kanyatsi village, 140 kilometres south-west of Butembo, on 19 February 2009. During the attack, the FDLR gang-raped eight women and looted village homes. As a result of the above-mentioned attacks, many families have fled towards the towns of Kirumba, Kayna and Kanyabayonga. On 20 February 2009 in Mukeberwa village, also in southern Lubero territory, the FDLR allegedly killed three men who were working in their fields. 11. On 21 February 2009, the UNJHRO participated in a MONUC multidisciplinary humanitarian assessment mission to Remeka, in South Masisi which confirmed the presence there of more than 3,000 internally displaced persons. Reportedly, more than 20 villages in Walikale and Masisi territories have been vacated due to recent FDLR attacks. 12. Previously, on 4 June 2008, some 20 FDLR militiamen led by an individual known as Colonel Soki attacked the Kinyandoni II camp for internally displaced persons, firing indiscriminately. The attackers then moved towards the Kinyandoni I camp for internally displaced persons. Encountering opposition from the FARDC, they fled the area, once again firing indiscriminately and looting as they did so. Four civilians were killed and 15 civilians were injured. 13. The UNJHRO also documented seven arbitrary executions and four rapes in Kahunga, near Kiwanja, reportedly carried out by members of the FDLR. On 26 November, a group of four men, including 12 and 15 year-old boys, and eight women, including a 16 year-old girl, were on their way to cultivate their fields in Kahunga, near Kiwanja, when they were intercepted by six unidentified armed men. The armed men led the 12 persons into a nearby forest where, according to eye witnesses, they killed the four men, raped four of the women, and beat the remaining four women, three of whom died as a result of the beatings. B. Unprecedented attacks against civilians by the Lord’s Resistance Army in Oriental Province 14. In the months of September and October 2008, the LRA considerably intensified its attacks against civilians in Oriental Province, first targeting villages north of Dungu and infiltrating the town itself between 1 and 2 November 2008. During those attacks, at least 76 civilians were killed and 177 children abducted, according to information gathered by the UNJHRO. 15. While the LRA seems to have been dispersed during the “Lightning Thunder” joint operation launched by the FARDC, the Uganda People’s Defence Force (UPDF) and the South Sudan army in December 2008, they have not refrained from committing subsequent, massive abuses, as evidenced by the massacres of several hundreds of civilians during a series of attacks between 25 to 27 December 2008 in the town of Faradje and the villages of Doruma and Gurba, in the Haut-Uele district of Oriental Province. The UNJHRO has also obtained information indicating that at least 30 civilians from the territories of Dungu and Faradje have been killed by the LRA in subsequent incidents since the beginning of February 2009.