More than 50 were women raped in Jan. 1 attack. There were eight soldiers including an army colonel in the Democratic Republic of the Congo that  have been arrested in the rapes of dozens of women in volatile eastern Congo on New Years the UN reported Wednesday.
Lt.-Col. Kibibi Mutware has been identified by some of the women that were raped as the commander of the punitive mass rapes against residents of Fizi, a small town in Kivu. Seven other soldiers were also arrested.
The attack started after one of Mutaware’s soldiers was killed in a dispute over a woman, according to the United Nations.Mutware claims his soldiers disobeyed orders, according to the BBC.
The UN peacekeeping force in the country has established an operational base in Fizi since the attack. In which one woman was beaten with a rock and another shot in the chest.

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