Peace, they say, but the killing goes on

摘要

Beside the cooling ashes of his home, Ruhigwa Likoka spades earth on to the lacerated bodies of his four small children. The pale green hillside where Mr Likoka lives is deserted. His neighbours have fled the tempest of tribal killing that has raged through Ituri, a province in north-eastern Congo, in recent months. As he buries his family to the whistle of birdsong, Mr Likoka has no idea that Congo's civil war was supposed to have ended this month.