SUMMARY

The Lendu militia FNI (Front Nationalist et Integrationist, Front for National Integration) have been massacring Hema civilians as part of the Hema - Lendu conflict in the Ituri District of the DR Congo (Zaire). Other attacks have targeted ethnic groups accused of helping the Hema. Most attacks have been of ethnic nature, but another motive has been economic.

FNI soldiers often attacked a location with guns and machetes after which women, children, and even elderly people looted the area. Lastly houses were burnt to the ground.

FNI first became active as a one-sided actor in UCDP data in 2002, when the one-sided violence resulted in over 25 civilian deaths. On 11 October 2002 FNI attacked the village of Nizi and the mining area of Kilomoto. During the attack Alur, Hema, Bira, and Nyali civilians were mutilated, according to a local non-governmental organization 320 bodies were buried in Nizi, 28 people were killed in Kilomoto.