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The international community is scrambling to organize a summit to prevent a resumption of the fighting in Congo that has displaced a quarter-million people in recent weeks. But the conflict will be tough to end without resolving an issue at its heart — the presence of Hutu militias who participated in Rwanda's genocide.
The Hutu fighters fled to Congo in 1994 after helping massacre more than a half-million Tutsis. They remain there untouched, heavily armed, and in control of lucrative mines in remote hills and forests.
Congo's ethnic Tutsi rebel leader, Laurent Nkunda, has used the threat they pose to justify carving out
The Hutu fighters fled to Congo in 1994 after helping massacre more than a half-million Tutsis. They remain there untouched, heavily armed, and in control of lucrative mines in remote hills and forests.
Congo's ethnic Tutsi rebel leader, Laurent Nkunda, has used the threat they pose to justify carving out
Congo's ethnic Tutsi rebel leader, Laurent Nkunda, has used the threat they pose to justify carving out his own fiefdom in the mineral-rich east.
That fiefdom grew dramatically in recent days as his fighters advanced dozens of kilometers (miles) south to the gates of the provincial capital, Goma, forcing a beleaguered army and humiliated U.N. peacekeepers to retreat.
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