2020 Democratic Republic of the Congo attacks: what Wikipedia removed
A wave of attacks by the Allied Democratic Forces, a radical Islamist rebel group, and CODECO left at least 1,316 people dead in eastern Congo in 2020. The 2020 opening was a single line: a series of massacres took place in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo in late May 2020. Today’s opening calls the same events “a series of attacks”; the word massacre survives 13 times in the body but not in the opening’s description of what happened. A reader today learns that 1,316 people died in a series of attacks and not that those events were once called a series of massacres.
The word “massacre” appeared 1 times in this article’s opening at its peak, in 2020. Today the opening carries none; the body carries 13. Checked against the full current article on 2026-08-01.
The tracked words, snapshot by snapshot
Section titled “The tracked words, snapshot by snapshot”| word | 2020 | 6 October 2023 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| massacre | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| islamist | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Counts are of the opening paragraph only, the part most readers, search engines and AI training sets ever quote.
What was taken out
Section titled “What was taken out”- The opening sentence describing the events as a series of massacres was replaced with the current, milder description of them as a series of attacks.
- The description of the Allied Democratic Forces as a radical Islamist rebel group was reworded with minor punctuation changes but the substance was preserved.
How it opened then, and now
Section titled “How it opened then, and now”2020 (revision 961028142):
A series of massacres took place in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo in late May 2020. The attacks were carried out by the Allied Democratic Forces , a radical Islamist rebel group.
2025 (revision 1295233467):
Main article: Lists of Democratic Republic of the Congo attacks The 2020 Democratic Republic of the Congo attacks were a series of attacks which took place in 2020. The attacks were mostly carried out by the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), a radical Islamist rebel group and the Cooperative for the Development of Congo (CODECO), an agricultural and religious group made up of ethnic Lendu people. The attacks left at least 1,316 people dead and 132 injured.
Related
Section titled “Related”- The drift report: what changed across all 61,944 watched articles
- The case file for this article, with every snapshot and every marked removal
- Who made the cuts: removals grouped by the account that made them
- The live article on Wikipedia
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