Word: vitshumbi
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...quell what they are calling a rebel uprising by indigenous militia. Long feared for their corrupt and brutal ways, the unpaid combat troops have scored a few successes against the rebels but in the process have spread terror throughout North Kivu. At the Lake Edward fishing village of Vitshumbi, 62 miles north of Goma, paracommandos stormed in behind a barrage of mortar fire last month, killing 15 Bangalima combatants and, according to local human-rights workers, herding 34 suspected collaborators into local churches and gunning them down. A mother of five reported being raped by soldiers for 10 hours after...
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