Karine Buisset's Death: Will We Know the Truth? On 11 March 2026, Karine Buisset, a French national and experienced UNICEF humanitarian worker, was killed in Goma, in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). A drone strike struck a residential building in the Himbi district — an area under the control of M23 rebel forces backed by the Rwanda Defence Force (RDF). She was one of three people killed in the attack. The others were also aid workers. The circumstances of her death were not ambiguous. Goma had been seized by M23 in January 2026. The Himbi neighbourhood, where the strike occurred, was not a frontline military zone but a residential area accommodating humanitarian personnel. The building's civilian and aid-worker character would have been identifiable. The targeting of aid workers in an occupied city under the effective military control of a force supported by a UN-designated State is not merely a tragedy. It is, on the available evidence, a war cri...