Andrew Philip, Amnesty International researcher, blogging from the field.
Back in Mbarara, after a strange sort of day.
We went back to Ishasha this morning. Yesterday many more people had arrived and the camp and the town were jam-packed with people.
Humanitarian agencies there are now overwhelmed, doing their best, trying to organize the evacuation of refugees to other places and refugee camps further inside Uganda where they can receive them.
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Andrew Philip, Amnesty International researcher, blogging from the field.
Today we were at Ishasha, on the bridge over the river that divides the DRC and Uganda, and we saw hundreds of people crossing, probably over 5000. Today’s flux was unusual, according to an UNHCR official who told us they had never seen so many arrivals in one day since the end of October.
Fighting between the Mayi Mayi and the CNDP armed groups happened today in Nyamilima and Kinyandoni. People flee to get out of the DRC as soon as they can. Some are lucky and get accommodated in large tents, but today, thousands of people will sleep outside, many of them with no food and very little water remaining after the twenty kilometres they had to walk to make it to the border.
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Dani Valls, Amnesty International campaigner, blogging about international action on DRC
I read that a journalist from UN-sponsored Radio Okapi was killed by unknown assailants in the Democratic Republic of Congo last Friday. He was my age, 34. He left a wife and three children.
And I hear the stories of children, forced to leave their homes to join some of the rebel armed groups, the silence from women and girls raped during the looting. More killings. Many which will never make it to the news.
I’m glad to see all the mobilizations happening in support of the people of the Democratic Republic of Congo in different cities of the world this week.
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