Web of Alliances in Ituri

The war in the Democratic Republic of Congo has been described as a local ethnic rivalry when in fact it represents an ongoing struggle for power at the national and international levels.

This diagram for the July 2003 Human Rights Watch report Ituri: “Covered in Blood,” Ethnically Targeted Violence in Northeastern DR Congo maps the relationships among national governments and armed political groups in Ituri.

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