Between Nov. 4 and Nov. 5, 2008, an estimated 150 people were massacred, the worst violence in North Kivu province of the DR Congo in the past two years. Although the United Nations' peacekeepers considered Kiwanja a priority protection zone, they did not have enough peacekeepers or the capacity to stop the killings. Survivors could only run to the UN base half a mile away and cluster outside the fence for protection.



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