Katogota is a village located in the Itara-Luvungi grouping within the Bafuliiru Chiefdom in Uvira Territory of the South Kivu Province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).

[8][9] On May 14, 2000, members of the ANC (the armed wing of the rebel group Rassemblement Congolais pour la Démocratie) reportedly killed more than 300 civilians in Katogota.

[10] According to the United Nations Mapping Report, the attackers were members of the Rwandan and Burundian armies, along with troops aligned with the Banyamulenge ethnic group—Congolese Tutsis based predominantly in the east of the country—who played a key role in the uprising against Laurent-Désiré Kabila.

The exact number of casualties remains difficult to estimate as the rebels deliberately obstructed access to the village for several days, disposing of numerous bodies by burning them or callously casting them into the depths of the Ruzizi River.

[14][15] Some survivors recount the harrowing tales of their loved ones, whose lives were tragically cut short, their throats brutally slit before being cast into the Ruzizi River to obliterate any traces of their existence.