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State Department says escalating violence poses danger to hundreds of thousands of individuals going through displacement and deprivation.

The United States has condemned rising violence within the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), blaming an armed group it says is backed by neighbouring Rwanda.

Fighting has flared in latest days within the japanese a part of the DRC between the M23 insurgent group and authorities forces, leading to dozens of troopers and civilians being killed or wounded.

The combating has additionally pushed tens of hundreds of civilians to flee in the direction of the japanese metropolis of Goma, which is positioned between Lake Kivu and the border with Rwanda.

“This escalation has increased the risk to millions of people already exposed to human rights abuses including displacement, deprivation, and attacks,” US State Department spokesman Matthew Miller stated in a press release.

“The United States condemns Rwanda’s support for the M23 armed group and calls on Rwanda to immediately withdraw all Rwanda Defense Force personnel from the DRC and remove its surface-to-air missile systems, which threaten the lives of civilians, UN and other regional peacekeepers, humanitarian actors, and commercial flights in eastern DRC,” Miller added.

On Saturday, the DRC accused Rwanda of finishing up a drone assault which broken a civilian plane on the airport in Goma.

“It had obviously come from the Rwandan territory, violating the territorial integrity of the Democratic Republic of the Congo,” Lieutenant-Colonel Guillaume Ndjike Kaito stated in a video broadcast.

The DRC, the United Nations and Western international locations have accused Rwanda of backing the rebels in a bid to regulate huge mineral assets, which Kigali has denied.

South Africa stated on Wednesday it might ship 2,900 troops to assist the DRC’s forces in opposition to the armed group.

The DRC has for many years been at conflict with many insurgent teams that emerged in its resource-rich japanese area within the aftermath of the Rwandan genocide.

M23, which broke away from the DRC military in 2012, says it’s combating in defence of ethnic Congolese Tutsis who face tribal discrimination within the DRC.