BOP 2004 Still Photo Winners > Magazine News Picture Story
- 1st Place
- marcus bleasdale, IPG-Harpers
- Kurtz's Legacy - Tribal Conflict in the Ituri Region of Congo
Kurtz's Legacy - Tribal Conflict in the Ituri Region of Congo (DRC) - Shell Shock A Lendu soldier, some of whom are responsible for cannibalism, lies in a makeshift hospital in Bambou. Captured and beaten by the local population, he now waits in his room for news of his future. Death is almost certain. The Conflict in the Ituri province of Congo flared this year in Bunia. After peacekeepers moved in rebel groups observed the ceasefire in the centre of town. But outside the UN mandate were the outlying towns where battles between Lendu and Hema tribes were going on unabated, even though UN peacekeepers were just a matter of miles away, their plight was ignored. Hema and Lendu tribes were fighting over land and access to mineral wealth, the UN recently outlined that Uganda and Rwanda even though they have pulled out of the country are still financing different tribal groups for their own financial gain.
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