A girl carries water at the Kibati camp for internally displace people outside the city of Goma in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo December 7, 2008. REUTERS/Peter AndrewsFrom Reuters:
DUNGU, Congo (Reuters) - Congolese villagers are forming self-defense groups to protect homes and families from Ugandan LRA rebels.
The rebels have killed 567 people and displaced 115,000 in northeast Democratic Republic of Congo's Oriental province since September, U.N. refugee agency UNHCR says.
Attacks surged after Ugandan forces spearheaded an anti-rebel offensive in December.
In silence broken only by the buzz of insects and the crunch of earth under their plastic sandals, eight men file through the cool night, hunting rifles in hand, scanning the darkness for those who killed their neighbors and burned their homes.
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