Displaced Congolese Return To Prospect of More Violence - Washington Post

Date: 
Jan 25, 2009
Author: 
Stephanie McCrummen

With the menacing rebels gone and the equally menacing Congolese army again patrolling this muddy market village, people who fled months of fighting have begun to return, hoping for a life better than one lived in a banana-leaf hut in a cold displacement camp.

What they have found here is more uncertainty: homes wrecked and looted, and this week, the unwelcome surprise of thousands of Rwandan soldiers traipsing across the hilly green border, loaded down with machine guns and grenade launchers.

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