Guest Blogger: Steve Hege on "Peace Today" in the DR Congo

Guest Blogger: Steve Hege on "Peace Today" in the DR Congo

While conducting a humanitarian assessment with Refugees International, I spoke with an eighty-year-old woman who had recently fled violent reprisal killings near the village of Lukweti in Masisi territory. In December of last year, when a local self-defense force, defeated a Congolese army unit primarily made up of former members of the Laurent Nkunda's CNDP rebel group, the soldiers turned on the local population.

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