As the Red Cross shifts its support from Rutshuru with the return of peace, to a hospital closer to the front line, it has pledged to maintain its commitment to the victims it has been caring for, writes Peter Fabricius.
Daniel was aged just 2 when he was cut down by two bullets as he ran from his family’s home into its field to call his mother home to make dinner one evening in 2006.
That was near the village of Rugarama, in the Rutshuru territory of North Kivu in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)
No one seems to know who fired the bullets which disabled him. He was just caught in the interminable crossfire among DRC government troops and many rebel groups which have terrorised North Kivu over the last two decades.
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