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Militia men arrive en masse to the Morrocan run UN Camp to hand in their weapons and register in the Demobilization program. Bunia DRC, March 29, 2005. Story Header, De-mobilization of Militias in Eastern Congo MONUC (the United Nations Peace…

Fataki, DR Congo August 2003. The body of a villager lies in the main road on the outskirts of Fataki, a Hema village that had been overrun and completely destroyed by Lendu militiamen in August 2003. The man had been bound and appeared to have been…

Bunia, August 2003 3 youths ranging from a boy to adolescent to young man all bear arms in the same Lendu militia unit on the road between Bunia and Marabou where killings occurred regularly.

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Near Bunia, Congo Aug 2003 A child soldier of the Lendu tribe guards the road between Bunia and Marabou.

20 year old Jeanne Buve, holding her baby in her lap,recovers in the MSF run hospital in Bunia, 15.3.05 Her hand was cut of by militia men in an attack on her village of Tchee, about 1 month earlier. she fled to a camp near Monuc troops and was moved…

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Displaced women and girls wash clothes and collect water on the shore of Lake Albert in what has become Kafe Camp (taken frm the name of a nearby village) on the 12th of March 2005. The camp numbers upwards of 10,000 people, but is still growing and…

18.03.05 DR Congo Women of the Hema tribe wash their clothes on the shores of Lake Albert, where they have fled from inter-ethnic violence at the hands of marauding militias.

Democratic Republic of Congo, October 2004 A boy pauses during his work shovelling eath out of an open pit gold mine in the town of Durba. Due to the conflicts in the region, most mining companies have pulled out, leaving gold mining to locals who…