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May 25th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda “Most of the victims are civilians, some of whom are very young children, elderly people or women. The fighting has forced the inhabitants of entire villages to flee, worsening an already precarious situation. It is essential that people not taking part in the hostilities be spared,” said Laetitia Courtois, the head of the ICRC sub-delegation in Bukavu, South Kivu, in a statement published on the ICRC website on Friday.
The violence has spread from North Kivu province to Walungu, Shabunda, Kalehe, and other districts in South Kivu province.
“The fighting often takes place in very remote areas, making it difficult for us to reach the victims. Our dialogue with all parties to the conflict is continuing so that we will be able to bring aid to the people who need it,” Courtois added.
According to the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), 80 people have been killed since early May in fierce fighting in the eastern Congo, where the rebels, who are mostly defectors from the Congolese Army, are led by General Jean Bosco Ntaganda.
More than 10,000 people have fled to Rwanda and Uganda since early May.
Led by Ntaganda, hundreds of former members of the National Congress for the Defense of the People (CNDP) rebelled against Kinshasa in April in protest over mistreatment in the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo (FARDC).
The CNDP was a rebel militia group that split from the FARDC. In 2009, a peace treaty was signed by the rebels and the Congolese government, which integrated the CNDP into the FARDC.
Congo has faced numerous problems over the past few decades, such as grinding poverty, crumbling infrastructure, and a war in the east of the country that has dragged on for over a decade and left over 5.5 million people dead.
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