Photo Credit: Refugees International/ Andrea Lari
05/04/2005

RI Advocate Sarah Martin stands with Congolese children in a camp for internally displaced people located outside the airport in Bunia. She is part of a team surveying humanitarian and security conditions in the eastern Congo, a vast area where brutal fighting has led to the death of an estimated 3.8 million people from starvation, exposure, disease and other war related causes since 1998. Despite the presence of a large UN peacekeeping force, called MONUC, violence in the area continues. Sometimes the UN peacekeepers themselves are targets; some have been killed.