Life in Goma after a rebel seizure

After a weekly battle, the rebels, supported by Rwanda, seized almost complete control over Goma, two million cities in the Old Democratic Republic.

Hospitals are full of the city morgue with the wounded and the dead. Goma’s residents begin to start from secret places, water and food. The Congolese military forces needed to protect them.

On Thursday, in a yard outside the Goma’s largest stadium, the rebels with the M23 militia supporting Rwanda, more than 1,000 soldiers were loaded on the beds of men. Most of them are wearing their clothing. Most of them were angry.

But the curses they spit were not directed to their owners; On the contrary, Congolese President Feliks, who accused them of selling them and left them, followed the Felix. Their commanders saw the vehicles and photos taken in vehicles and photographs in the early hours of government officials and entered the city alone and fled to the city and fled to the city.

Many soldiers in the trucks fought along with armed groups known as Wazalendo. But no reinforcement was sent.

“Tsiskedi will pay for it,” he shouted a soldier.

“We will hold it with our own hands.”

“God will return him.”

The commander of the Congolese army, known for the French Army, Fardc – Fardc – the size of one of the cargo cars, which was a comfortable place. Captured Commander, Luting Col. John Asegi explained that there was no choice but to surrender. M23 took them somewhere to train a little, he said that now they will do anything that his new masters commanded.

“If we were sent to fight Fardc,” he said, “We will fight fardc”

M23 rebels, while walking around the courtyard preparing for trucks, they were like a rocket-covered grenade, fatigue and helmets, fatigue and helmets, fatigue and a Ragtag rebel group.

Rebels, who are already rich in mineral, said that the rebels planned to march and take a thousand miles away from the West and planned to seize the whole country.

The rebels have already handed over to Romanian mercenaries who are captured by hundreds of captives to the Congolese forces.

Hundreds of civilians stopped around trucks full of soldiers, watched this reverse and now look at men. Many women and children, who saw their husbands and fathers among the men on the trucks, cried.

“I don’t know where they do it,” said Marie Sifa, who had a baby daughter and three other children. He said he lost everything in the attack in a school last week. they could not stay.

“We were expelled from school,” he said. Sifa, as if in mourning. “How will I survive? How will I return these children to Fiz?”

After that evening, a rebel leader, Corneille Nangaa, Goma’s citizens gave the taste of new reality under strong militia – it Some experts say The eastern Congo counts 6,000 soldiers, up to 4000 Rwandan troops.

“Return to normal activities”, Mr. Nangaa, in a two-hour news conference in a local hotel, informed the residents of Goma. Was wrapped in the helmet and men in the combat facilities.

However, a city built around the black lava flows from a nearby live volcano, the situation in Goma is far from normal.

Dead bodies lie on the streets. The stores, supermarkets and humanitarian agencies were looted. Cholera is split. People with bullet wounds – survivors – finally they are able to reach clinics for treatment, just reach clinics to find a shortage of medicine and surgical staff.

Many families who are breaking as they fled should still find each other.

Elysée lost two children in Mopanda chaos. The rebels held her husband, soldier, prisoner. The events of last week’s evidence had ruined his family.

“I don’t know where to go.”

The injured, wrapped, hungry, thirsty or lost, many Goma’s inhabitants are in extremely dangerous condition.

The most vulnerable and hundreds of thousands of goures are an IDP population.

For more than a year, people have moved to the villages of eastern Kongo, especially for small cities, women and girls, Goma, shelter in camps in the corner and moved from rebel through small cities around the corner.

As they were closed in these camps last week, holding the small ones in thousands of people in these camps, and ran away from the clashes that they would soon happen.

Three families who fleeing one of the camps were just hidden on the edge of Goma Training CenterSome beans and rice were given survivors.

“How will I survive” without this kindness, said the 34-year-old mother Furaha Kabasele, where the youngest child was only 5 months.

They ran away from this dangerous week. But they don’t know what to do now.

The most relevant need for many water. The water supply of the city, as well as its strength and the Internet, was cut during the battle for Goma and followed Dwindle during a week in which they could save some. Those who do not have water tried to beg the doers or to pay $ 5.20 for Jerrycan, which is usually 20 kopecks.

As the war decreases, hundreds of people added a little chlorine to try to keep water warehouses in the bay in the bay, to collect water.

One of the water recipients on Thursday morning was 13, 13-year-old Mukendi, who took two spotted yellow Jerrykan to Lakeshore and entered the lake of the glitter. Like fighting, his family was running out of water to drink.

“We couldn’t leave the house because the weapons and bombs fell.”

Filled the booths and fought them to remove them from the lake.