Fresh Nightmares In Congo's Drive Against Rwandans

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From The Washington Post:

Villagers Describe Atrocities on Both Sides of Conflict.

MINOVA, Congo -- A Congolese military operation against Rwandan rebels who have caused years of conflict in eastern Congo is unleashing fresh horrors across this region's rolling green hills.

The mission, backed logistically by U.N. peacekeepers and politically by the United States, aims to disband the remaining 7,000 or so Rwandan Hutu rebels who fled into eastern Congo after the 1994 Rwandan genocide.

But since the operation began in January, villagers have recounted nightmarish stories that raise questions about whether the military action will ultimately cause more destruction than it prevents.

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My Comment: This war has been going on since the mid 1990s. It represents what is wrong with Africa .... Tribalism. Ethnic cleansing. Mass murder.

Will this conflict stop .... at the moment no. But with attrition and ethnic cleansing, I predict that in the next few years the last of the Rwandan Hutu rebels and their families will be dumped into the dustbin of African history.