2006年08月02日
ENS剛果民主共和國,盧本巴希報導;蘇家億編譯;莫聞審校
在舉行首次選舉的過去46年間,剛果民主主共和國國內到處皆處於戰亂紛擾的情況,其中東北部較為偏遠且礦產豐富的伊圖里(Ituri)區,則是全國情況最為慘重的地區。在這個地區所發生的種族間屠殺,若不計規模,其劇烈情形與鄰近國家盧安達在1994年間所發生的不相上下。
Ituri: Congo's Savage Conflict Defeats Free Elections
As conflict continues throughout much of the Democratic Republic of the Congo in advance of the first elections in 46 years, the Ituri region in the northeast remains this vast country's bloodiest corner. The scale of the inter-ethnic slaughter in the remote, mineral rich region of the Democratic Republic of Congo, DRC, has been compared in intensity, if not in scale, with that in nearby Rwanda in 1994.