Don't get me wrong, I do like animals. And I am more sadden by the death and suffering of women and children.
Wildlife, warriors share 'neutral' DRC park - Mail & Guardian Online: The smart news source.
Until recently this outpost was a centre for watching the herds of elephants that lumber through the Virunga National Park in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo. But those days are over.
Rebel National Congress for the Defence of the People (CNDP) forces led by renegade Tutsi general Laurent Nkunda have taken over the centre at Mabenga near Kiwanja, 80km north of Goma, as a forward post on the edge of the neutral zone that is supposed to separate them from the government-backed Mai-Mai militia.
Rebels and militia still trade fire in the area, as in an incident on Friday that left six dead.
The zone, rich in wildlife, covers about 40 square kilometres in the heart of the national park -- a Unesco World Heritage site -- where antelope and buffalo browse on immense tracts of grassland.
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