On November 8th, UK Parliament's International Development Committee held the first of two hearings to reconsider the resumption of budget support to the Government of Rwanda UN Experts have reported that Rwanda is behind the M23 militia in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Human Rights Watch has reported that M23's atrocities include gang rape, forced recruitment, and summary execution of child soldiers who tried to flee.

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On November 8th, UK Parliament's International Development Committee held the first of two hearings to reconsider the resumption of budget support to the Government of Rwanda UN Experts have reported that Rwanda is behind the M23 militia in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Human Rights Watch has reported that M23's atrocities include gang rape, forced recruitment, and summary execution of child soldiers who tried to flee.

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Ann Garrison is an independent journalist based in the San Francisco Bay Area. In 2014, she received the Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza Democracy and Peace Prize for her reporting on conflict in the African Great Lakes region. She can be reached at (at)AnnGarrison or ann(at)kpfa.org . She grew up around a radioactive toxic mess called the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, in a gorgeous place, Washington's Olympic Peninsula, by way of Western Oklahoma, another gorgeous place. She is a compulsive writer and sometimes some times signs as AnnieGetYourGang.