A soldier, some of whom are responsible for cannibalism, lies in hospital in a makeshift hospital in Dro Dro. Captured and beaten by the local population, he now waits in his room for news of his future. 2003

UPC (Union Patriotic de Congo) militias demonstrate against ‘the French assassins’ in Bunia, eastern Congo. 2003

A Hema child soldier waits in a camp for news of his next deployment. Battles are raging 20km to the north of his position. 2003

Residents of Fataki a village in Eastern Congo flee south from Lendu militias. 2003

Fataki after an attack in 2003

Immaculate (32) in Dro Dro hospital north of Bunia, Ituri province Eastern Congo. She was attacked by Lendu forces and now waits for treatment from locals who have no medical supplies. Bandages were recovered from the ground after looting and are being rewashed to be reused. No aid agency or UN organisation had been to the area in the three weeks since the attack where 22 people were killed, some showed evidence of being consumed by their attackers. 2003

Bodies of Hema men, executed by Lendu militia just hours before lie on the road north out of Fataki. They were bound and impaled before being shot. Their ears had been bitten off in the ritual killing. 2003

Soldiers of the UPC (Union Patriotic de Congo) wait for their orders in Bule, Eastern Congo. 2003

Maria a mother of three lost her arm defending her children in Nizi, Eastern Congo. She recounts the story of soldiers eating flesh from the arm after they had amputated it. 2003

Access to gold mining in Congo is one of the reasons for the ongoing conflict in the eastern regions of Democratic Republic of Congo. 2003

Child soldiers on the road to Fataki, Eastern Congo. 2003

A child soldier rides back to his base in Ituri Province, Eastern Congo. 2003

Child soldiers in Bule wait for their orders, Eastern Congo. 2003

Catherine (9) too afraid to stay in hospital for fear of being attacked is taken back to the bush after being treated in Dro Dro. She was attacked by Lendu Militias who tried to machete off her leg. She survived but three members of her family were killed. Fourteen people were killed in their beds in the hospital two weeks previously. 2003

Refugees flee south after a rebel attack on Bule and Fataki, Eastern Congo. 2003