A Congolese government soldier lies with his weapon at the frontline near Kibati, north of Goma in eastern Congo, November 12, 2008. (Finbarr O'Reilly/Reuters)From Yahoo News/Reuters:
KIBATI, Congo (Reuters) – The bodies of two Congolese soldiers, buzzing with flies, lay sprawled on a road of black volcanic grit in eastern Congo on Wednesday after new clashes in spite of world appeals to stop the simmering war.
This is the tense frontline in Democratic Republic of Congo's North Kivu province, where Tutsi rebels and government troops face each other just 200 meters (yards) apart in the verdant bush beneath the steaming Nyiragongo volcano.
The soldiers, both shot through the head, were killed in a sharp exchange of artillery, mortar, rocket and machine gun fire late on Tuesday a few kilometers (miles) from a refugee camp at Kibati sheltering 80,000 civilians displaced by violence.
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My Comment: This is only a short term truce .... the fighting will resume when resupplies and new soldiers are in place.