A joint UN mission has confirmed the rape of at least 154 civilian girls and women around the village of Luvungi in North Kivu, although according to local aid workers the number of victims may be as high as 220. Women were raped during four days, from July 30 up to August 3rd, allegedly by the Mai-Mai militia and the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR), a group of ethnic Hutu fighters linked to the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. The UN peace keeping mission present in the region uncovered the crimes only ten days later, on August 12.