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Article: Hutu Rebels Threaten Peace in Eastern Congo with Raids, Rapes.
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- November 18, 2003
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By Sudarsan Raghavan, Knight Ridder Washington Bureau Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Nov. 18--KANIYOLA, Democratic Republic of Congo--As night falls in the eastern Congo, a wave of fear settles across this village. "I don't sleep in my house anymore," said Deodone Kwale, 47, a farmer.
Five months after a peace accord brought a power-sharing government to office in the capital if Kinshasa, Hutu rebels from Rwanda still inhabit the emerald hillsides. They rustle cows. They loot houses. They kidnap girls and press them into sexual slavery. And they're considered the biggest threat to the tenuous peace effort to bring peace to this nation of 56 ...
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