The massacre occurred days after the Mukondi massacre, where the ADF/ISCAP killed around forty civilians, The Allied Democratic Forces, an extremist Islamist militant group based near in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda, officially pledged bay'ah to the Islamic State in 2018, with IS claiming responsibility for ADF attacks in 2019.

The ADF eventually formed to become the Islamic State – Central Africa Province (ISCAP), and attacked civilians en masse in North Kivu.

[1] The Kirindera massacre came as part of a larger campaign by ISCAP in early 2023 to attack civilians in Beni Territory.

[5] Congolese officials stated that nineteen people were killed in the massacre, and an unknown number more were kidnapped by ISCAP.

[2] The mayor of Kirindera, Joachim Vyaghulua, stated that he coordinated a FARDC intervention during the massacre.