location: Butembo
notes: After police arrested 13 Hutu traveling from Masisi to Bunia in Butembo for possessing machetes and axes in their luggage, young people in Butembo gathered and demanded access to the defendants. The police dispersed them with aerial firing, injuring a demonstrator. The youths then barricaded major roads in Butembo with burning tires and marched on the residence of the mayor of Butembo before again being dispersed by police and FARDC personnel.
target_text: location: Butembo, fatalities: 0