Donate Now Michael Kavanagh, for the Pulitzer Center
Michael traveled to the DRC on a grant from the Pulitzer Center
The news is slowly coming in from all corners of North Kivu: Over the weekend, the FDLR stopped two buses, killed the drivers, and according to one passenger, told the people on the bus, "The RDF [Rwandan Defense Force] has come, and we're going to die. But you're going to die, too."
This weekend, in Pinga - the same town I was in only days before - the FDLR killed a village mayor for collaborating with the Rwandan Troops; the doctor whose home I stayed in said he's had 26 cases of rape.
Late last week in Minova, South Kivu, I met with crowds of the displaced (see picture) who'd fled FDLR attacks on their villages. They said the soldiers are targeting anyone they think helped the RDF.