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Eastern Congo: Looks Like Heaven, Feels Like Hell

The government official spun around in hisaround 40 km (25 miles) from Goma - from
chair, kicked an empty beer bottle with hisrebels loyal to Nkunda. At least 35 soldiers,
heel and stared out of the window. "Northfrom both sides, were killed. At least 30
Kivu  looks  like  heaven,"  he  said.were  injured.
I agreed. A sunbird sang and we sat for aMushake was quiet when I passed through two
moment in silence, lost in the sunset. In theweeks ago. Houses were empty, restaurants and
distance, cormorants and cuckoo hawks circleddrinking holes boarded up. Most of the
high  above  the  glassy waters of Lake Kivu.residents had fled and only the wives and
families of Nkunda's soldiers remained. They
As the sky blackened and a plume of red smokestood around chatting in the square. One
spurted from Nyiragongo volcano, the officialwoman led me through the muddy streets to her
took a long drag on his cigarette. "It feelshome. We walked through a cloud of tiny
like  hell,  my  girl,"  he  said.baby-blue butterflies, past cattle grazing on
the rolling plains, dotted with skinny
He could have been talking about any one of aeucalyptus trees and orange blossom. Now
number of conflict zones: the white sands ofthose streets are marked with blood, sweat
Baghdad Island, Herat in Afghanistan orand  tears.
Darfur's mountainous Jebel Marra region, with
its orchards, hot springs and long-dropWar zones aren't supposed to be beautiful.
waterfalls.And if they are, reporters probably aren't
supposed to admit it. But in Mushake, like
But this was Goma, once the "tourist capitalthe rest of North Kivu, it serves only to
of Congo" and North Kivu's main town, perchedheighten  the  desperate  situation.
on the northern shores of Lake Kivu, where
jungle meets volcanic rock and gentle greenThe United Nations says tens of thousands of
hills.women and girls - some as young as a few
months old - have been raped in the provinces
The tourists don't come anymore. Informationof North and South Kivu in the past year
centres are boarded up and the minister foralone. Deaths from hunger and preventable
tourism has turned his attention todiseases are peaking. Villages empty as camps
journalists.for  internally  displaced  people  swell.
"The future of our province is dark," saidAt Mugunga IDP camp, I knelt in the black
local resident Kennedy Ndayisenga, who onceearth to conduct interviews with people who
ran a successful tour company but now workshad lost everything. When I looked up, the
as a fixer. "We don't know where we'remountains were embroidered with the gold rays
going."of  early  morning  sunlight.
Goma used to be known for its sunrises,In Goma, policemen carry rocket launchers
mountain climbing and gorilla trekking. Nowalmost as tall as them. In the countryside,
the city that has endured endless loss,children transport arms for rebels. Families
destruction and volcanic eruptions against ashelter in schools and churches. Old men cry
perennial backdrop of conflict is in the gripout  for  biscuits.
of  a  forgotten  emergency.
Yes, North Kivu is bloody beautiful. The
Since August, more than 175,000 people havemountains are bruised and the volcano is
fled violence in North Kivu betweenbleeding. Streams of blood-red lava spill
government troops, insurgents loyal toover its lip. The smoky flames look like a
renegade Tutsi General Laurent Nkunda,flare,  a  cry  for  help.
Rwandan Hutu rebels and jungle Mai Mai
militia.This, as Joseph Conrad said, is one of the
dark  places  of  the  world.
Last week, the Congolese army used helicopter
gunships, artillery and rocket launchers toWith neither tourism nor adequate news
retake the dairy farming town of Mushake -coverage, it will probably remain that way.



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