The ADF has been accused by Ugandan and U.N. officials of having links to foreign terrorist groups such as Al-Shabaab ; however , these links are widely considered dubious due to a lack of strong evidence . In 2016 , the ADF were suspected to have been behind the Beni massacre , infiltrating the city of Beni in North Kivu during the night of 14 August and killing 64 – 101 people , many of them by hacking . In October 2017 , the ADF was blamed for an attack on a U.N. base that killed two Tanzanian peacekeepers and wounded twelve others in Beni . The same month , ADF fighters killed 22 people , many of them state officials , in the Beni region , when they ambushed a convoy of motorcycles with machetes and guns
Beni massacre
Beni massacre
2017 Semuliki attack