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Congo Rebels Seize Gorilla Park

by Jordan Yerman | October 26, 2008 at 09:03 am

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Laurent Nkunda's Congolese Rebels seized a military installation and adjacent gorilla park as the week-old ceasefire collapses.

The rebels' use of parks as bases has gone on for some time, even though the civil war "officially" ended in 2003. The gorillas get used as almost-human shields.

The fighting comes after a tenuous week-old U.N. brokered cease-fire between rebels and government forces fell apart Sunday.

Fighting between the rebels under renegade Gen. Laurent Nkunda and Congolese army regulars in the eastern province of North Kivu of the Democratic Republic of the Congo displaced thousands of civilians, according to U.N. spokesman Michele Bonnardeaux.