its northern borders to south sudan uganda and rwanda neither the government nor tens of thousands of un peacekeepers have been able to stop them and the people suffering inevitably leads to more suffering as victims join one rebel group or the other soon about what they killed my father. they killed everyone in my family. that's the only reason i became a fighter. a woman grieves for her murdered child an all too common side in the north eastern congo the militias killed around 2000 people here in 2020 alone the worst of them called themselves the allied democratic forces or a.d.f. their islam ist rebels who have been terrorizing the local population for some 30

years. of us oh no they kill people with bullets. they kill people with machetes. they killed my brother with machetes. the islamists attack every few days often under cover of darkness they leave devastation behind burned down houses and beheaded corpses the local people feel like the congolese army and the un peacekeepers have abandoned them. we joined up with a un patrol in beni one of the trouble spots. attacks by the a.d.f. on the civilian population here have been on the increase in recent months. before. the un patrol checks up on a clinic in maine. it's been

a frequent target of a.t.f. attacks in. is the clinic's director. wife of the militia comes here and massacres people if you saw the sheer hatred that drives the killing they chop heads off and you find the brains all around and chopped off feet that leaves you terrified and traumatized. but once the islamists tried to abduct 4 of his nurses. they took them hostage in the waiting area when the people there realized it was the a.t.f. they were scared but then the militia said nobody would die it wasn't a day for killing. many in the area live in fear un soldier was he said was x knows the clinic and the people who work there very well. you can see other nothing cannot prevent war. question and they are identified they are the

ones that are targeted to be here with cancer in the country where they have to reflect if it was. the constant threat level keeps the clinic closed all but a few hours a day many patients are left without treatment. and they struggle with who they cannot go in particular going from they have to stay at home they cannot move to really cannot go to school. so far the u.n. force has failed to establish and maintain security often enough the more than 18000 troops from nearly 50 nations can hardly even get themselves coordinated many of them are inadequately trained or at least not trained with the relevant skills the local villagers aggravate the problems with often unjust accusations that the un troops are a pack of thieves only concerned with their own safety and many of the congolese no longer put any hopes in the un troops at all. and the local people too often find themselves caught between france when their daughters and sons actually join the

a.d.f. so the parents end up cooperating with the rebels supplying them food for example in return they're left in peace but if they refuse they may be killed. sometimes or content sometimes we're afraid. the militias can show up any time they've become part of our daily lives that's. most of the local people are afraid to appear before the camera one man who didn't want to say his name gives vent to his frustration. the government should help or the international community should help our government with the situation but there are so many people have suffered the a.t.f. got to be finished. in the meantime the a.t.f. keeps on murdering as soon as the cameras off many people here say the soldiers come too late only once the attacks over and people are already dead we meet jonny boom only one of you a local representative who's been studying the a.d.f.

for years in his view the u.n. mission has not achieved its goal very much in. the quantities here really ought to be secured according to my research as many as 4500 people have been killed right under the un forces knows it and what's their job again to protect the civilian population but more are getting killed every day. the a.d.f. was founded as an islamist group in uganda in the early 1990 s. experts have estimated their current strength and a few 100 fighters they're seen as accepting only cruel and intent on establishing islamic sharia law in the territory they control. they want to create a space a grey area where the state has no authority. they intend to control this area and exploit it. it's what they call the. islamic state of central africa the caliphate of central africa they've already set it up. to them the state is already

up and running. in march 2021 the united states designated the a.d.f. a terrorist organization with ties to the islamic state but some observers doubt the 2 groups maintain any direct contact besides the a.d.f. over 120 other militias are active in the eastern congo after the 1994 genocide in neighboring rwanda some hutu militias fled to the congo and kept on killing that prompted the formation of armed groups originally for purposes of self-defense they do not make it easy to contact them to do so we had to leave the area under central government control halfway their militia fighters meet up to lead us to one of their bases among them is mummify she joined the militia about 20 years ago after an armed group massacred her family she was forced to watch as the men killed her

parents with machetes then 6 of the men raped her she was only 15 years old at the time. i felt defeated my life had defeated me. i saw what they had done to me and how they had murdered my family. i couldn't keep living my life the way i had. so i decided to become a fighter and drive them out goes up to her cause it when a former teacher came to her village to recruit young people for a new militia she joined him many of its members have experienced similar horrors it is in essence a militia of traumatized and emotionally scarred people. they killed my father. they killed everyone in my family. that's the only reason i became a fighter. her own community cast her because she'd been raped too great was the

stigma the militia offered her a chance to take revenge and to survive they control around 20 villages in the region protecting the inhabitants who in return keep them supplied with food it's a simple trade security for food but we got the impression it wasn't always a voluntary arrangement. didn't speak openly until we moved some distance from the others. then you must have heard that others are fleeing the group but how could i run away i have nobody to help me i don't own any land i don't have anyone who could help me build a new life. now she places all her hopes on her children her hope that one day they'll have a choice. with the blessings of god i might at least arrange for them to get an education. if they are blessed at least that. i myself will never be able to do any other job. i can't help them by myself.

hardly any other region has suffered atrocities by the militias as badly as the congo z. turi province we go on the road with the norwegian aid organization over a distance of just 60 kilometers we pass through about 20 checkpoints various rebel groups as well as the congolese military. by the side of the road a few are carrying guns though concealing them often they ask for money as they are doing here but a few words convince them to wait for another day. to draw draw it is a camp for internally displaced people it's one of many in the congo about 5 and

a half 1000000 of the country's $105000000.00 people are displaced more than anywhere else in africa mogul joel row barely escaped her village when a militia attacked she was on the run with her children when she realized her daughter was missing. oh i decided to go back to find and save her but i was convinced she was still alive but unfortunately she was already dead. i was so sad just devastated when i walked past them they shot at me i had no idea if i'd survive i gradually lost all my strength i heaved and was breathing harder and harder than i slipped into some bush i didn't really have any hope anymore i was sure i was going to die. she survived but her 4 year old daughter was murdered.

as soon as the hospital released her she gathered her other 5 children and fled to this camp. even if food water and medical care are in short supply at least they are safe here. for. many people here have stories like to tell they live in desperation and resignation the trauma runs deep. and like. although they don't have the money to send them to school they still put their hope in their children and so another generation is growing up without education as easy potential recruits for the malicious.

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