
	Where results make sense

Topic: Ituri province

	Ituri Province - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ituri is a province located in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
		The creation of a new province under the governorship of a Hema contributed to the start of the current Ituri conflict, that has caused thousands of deaths.
		Provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ituri (269 words)

	Democratic Republic of Congo: On the precipice: The deepening human rights and humanitarian crisis in Ituri. - Amnesty ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Ituri is one of the major epicentres of the conflict waged in the DRC since August 1998, in which the government forces of Rwanda, Uganda and Burundi and client armed political groups have fought against the DRC government (supported by Zimbabwe, Angola and Namibia), against other assorted armed political groups and sometimes between themselves.
		Ituri is an area of considerable natural wealth, with potentially rich farming lands, deposits of gold, diamonds and other precious minerals (for example, petroleum in the Lake Albert Basin), and an important cross-border trade (and consequently lucrative customs revenues) with Uganda.
		Ituri has been under the effective control of the Ugandan military since the arrival of the UPDF in the region at the outset of the current conflict in DRC in August 1998.
	web.amnesty.org /library/index/engafr620062003 (11081 words)

	Ituri Conflict - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Ituri conflict is a conflict between the agriculturalist Lendu and pastoralist Hema ethnic groups in the Ituri region of northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
		However, it has been vastly complicated by the presence of various armed groups who participated in the Second Congo War, the large amount of small arms in the region, a scramble for the area's abundant natural resources, and the ethnic tensions of the surrounding region.
		Much of the northern DRC, including Orientale province, was occupied and under the nominal control of the invading Uganda People's Defense Force (UPDF) and the Ugandan-backed Kisangani faction of the rebel Rally for Congolese Democracy (RCD-K) under the leadership of Ernest Wamba dia Wamba.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ituri_conflict (1270 words)

	Mixed Visions of Congo's Future : IMC-SA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Ituri province has been a hotbed of ethnic violence for several years but it erupted in full bloom in 1999 and since that time, as many as 50,000 people have died in the fighting.
		At times, this was seemingly independent from the nation-wide civil war that raged around Ituri from 1998 until early this year although the two conflicts are, in fact, inextricably linked.
		When the civil war ended, Ituri's problems did not and repeated turmoil raged in and around its main town, Bunia, with an uncertain number of inter-ethnic killings ranging from several hundred to several thousand.
	southafrica.indymedia.org /print.php?id=4484 (482 words)

	DR Congo: A neglected human rights tragedy in Ituri province
		The Front pour l'intégration et la paix en Ituri (FIPI), an offshoot of the UPC and the latest armed political group to have emerged in February 2003 with Ugandan support.
		Ituri has been under the direct or proxy control of the UPDF since the outset of the current conflict in DRC in August 1998.
		The five armed political groups operating in Ituri are all, in one respect or another, protégés of the Ugandan government.
	www.genocidewatch.org /CongoAIMarch20.htm (999 words)

	United Nations - OCHA IRIN \| Web Special \| Ituri in Eastern DRC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Col Mohammed Buli Bangolo, from Equateur, appointed governor of Ituri by FLC.
		A new governor of Ituri appointed by Nyamwisi: Jean-Pierre Mulondo Lonpondo from Kasai.
		Progress on the Ituri Pacification Committee has been stalled due to the insistence of Lubanga that Ituri be recognised as a province, not a district.
	www.irinnews.org /webspecials/Ituri/chronology.asp (2246 words)

	Open Letters for Peace > Resources > Democratic Republic of the Congo > Events > May 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		A UN base in Ituri is fired on by local militiamen as fighting continues in Bunia.
		A plane carrying a Congolese government delegation for peace negotiations in Ituri is damaged by gunfire while attempting to land in Bunia, and is rerouted to Uganda.
		The commander of MONUC states that the existing UN mission in Ituri is not equipped to act as a protection force.
	www.olfp.org /DRCMay03.htm (1338 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > World -- Congolese slide deeper into despair as war ticks on
		BUNIA, Congo – For the residents of Ituri province, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the war which is killing thousands and displacing many more, is far from over.
		Caught in the middle of the fighting over Ituri province are civilians killed, displaced, dying from starvation or the most basic of diseases.
		Ituri province has gold reserves and Bunia was a major gold market.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/world/20030327-0500-uganda-congo.html (564 words)

	ReliefWeb » Document Preview » DR Congo's volatile Ituri province
		Ituri is also notable for its natural resources such as gold, timber, uranium and now oil.
		A report by a UN "panel of experts" on the illegal exploitation of resources in the DRC, alleged that senior Ugandan officers had been heavily involved in the timber trade in Ituri.
		But at the heart of the violence in Ituri is a long-running conflict between the Lendu and Hema tribes.
	www.reliefweb.int /rw/rwb.nsf/AllDocsByUNID/1d937f301a033bd785256d2500679d34 (472 words)

	Portsmouth Herald Local News: According to reports, Ituri province has been site of large massacres
		The situation is especially dire in the Ituri region, where large-scale massacres have been reported and thousands of people are suffering from poor sanitation and serious shortages of food and water.
		After years of ethnic strife in the Ituri province of Congo, including Goma and Bunia, the United Nations is attempting to stop the bloodshed with a French-led multinational force of 1,100 troops, which began arriving in Bunia on June 6.
		Underneath the Ituri province, stretching for 50,000 miles, lies what may be the world’s richest gold reef.
	www.seacoastonline.com /2003news/07302003/news/42259.htm (447 words)

	Democratic Republic of the Congo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Shortly after independence, the provinces of Katanga (with Moise Tshombe) and South Kasai engaged in secessionist struggles against the new leadership.
		Much of the east of the country remains insecure, primarily due to the Ituri conflict and the continued activity of the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda in the Kivus.
		The Congo is divided into 25 provinces, and one independent city (Kinshasa).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Democratic_Republic_of_the_Congo (4461 words)

	Chaos in Eastern Congo: U.N. Action Needed Now (Human Rights Watch Background Briefing, October 2002)
		Orientale province, where the forces of the Movement for the Liberation of Congo (MLC) and those of another RCD faction, the RCD-National (RCD-N), wrested territory from a third RCD faction, the RCD-Liberation Movement (RCD-ML) and began moving east, scattering civilian populations before them.
		Ituri province, just east of (and formerly part of) Orientale, where political and ethnic rival groups have contested control for several months.
		Ituri province, created in 1999 out of part of Orientale province, is rich in gold, timber, and coltan (colombo-tantalite, a precious mineral).
	www.hrw.org /press/2002/10/easterncongo-bck.htm (3535 words)

	Epochtimes English Edition-
		The delegation, comprised of the new president of the assembly and 11 deputies, all representing Ituri province, arrived in Bunia only days after a recent massacre about 60 kilometers northeast of Bunia, where 65 civilians, mostly women and children, were butchered by machetes or shot to death.
		The delegation went by helicopter to the scene of the massacre in an effort to reassure the population.
		Meanwhile, U.N. troops have begun the first steps of permanent deployment into Ituri, a province roughly the size of Sierra Leone, to try to bring peace to the war-stricken corners of the forested region.
	english.epochtimes.com /news/3-10-13/10134.html (498 words)

	RADIO FREE EUROPE/ RADIO LIBERTY
		But the situation in Ituri remains unstable, mainly because of a continued rivalry between Uganda and Rwanda for control of the ore-rich province.
		Ituri residents are looking forward to the arrival of the European troops, and say they hope it will spell an end to the daily chaos and violence.
		One Ituri woman said she had come to Bunia to escape massacres in the countryside.
	www.rferl.org /features/2003/06/05062003162555.asp (1169 words)

	Democratic Republic of Congo: "Our brothers who help kill us": Economic exploitation and human rights abuses in the ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		In Ituri, particularly around the town of Bunia, Ugandan government forces have effectively offered their services to the highest bidder and withdrawn them from the weaker protagonist in the bitter political and ethnic rivalries that have emerged in the area.
		The Ituri region is very rich in gold.(30) In 1999 the then Ugandan army commander in the region Brigadier James Kazini, currently acting UPDF Chief of Staff, created a new province of Ituri out of the territories of Ituri and Haut-Uele.
		In the Irumu territories, in south Ituri, the Ugandan military are involved in artisanal gold mining and trade in the Gety and Songolo concessions.
	web.amnesty.org /library/index/engafr620102003?open&of=eng-cod (18527 words)

	Media Alert \| May 28, 2003
		The escalating crisis in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s (DRC’s) eastern province of Ituri requires an urgent international response to protect civilians, especially refugees and internally displaced people, and to assure accountability for atrocities.
		The violence in Ituri has escalated since the withdrawal of Ugandan troops in the first week of May. Neither the governments of Uganda nor Rwanda have effectively severed ties with the rival militias and both governments have allegedly left military equipment behind for use by their supporters.
		The Security Council should ensure adequate support for the United Nations mission in the DRC and the protection of Ituri’s civilians, in consultation with the peace and security organs of the African Union and the Southern Africa Development Community.
	www.humanrightsfirst.org /media/2003_alerts/0528.htm (966 words)

	Recent Cannibalism in the African Congo (2)
		Marauding rebels are massacring and eating pygmies in the dense forests of north-east Congo, according to UN officials who are investigating allegations of cannibalism in Ituri province, where fighting between several rebel groups has displaced about 150,000 people in the past month.
		'Ituri is completely out of control and cannibalism is just the latest atrocity taking place,' said one, who asked not to be named until the investigators deliver their report.
		Ituri's forest-dwelling pygmy tribes have been caught between opposing groups supporting the government and Ugandan-backed rebel groups in the last battles of Congo's four-year civil war.
	www.heretical.com /cannibal/congo3.html (1233 words)

	Aljazeera.Net - UN troops target of Congo rebels
		United Nations peacekeepers are set to be deployed in a further three villages in the strife-torn Ituri province of the Democratic Republic of Congo, after the blue-helmets set up a permanent presence near the site of a massacre of 65 people.
		Ituri has seen a number of violent clashed between Lendu and Hema ethnic militias.
		Troops of the Ituri Brigade, as the new UN force is called, are mandated to deploy across Ituri, a region about twice the size of Belgium.
	english.aljazeera.net /NR/exeres/E2EB58D8-523A-427B-8741-6C12F3671A57.htm (319 words)

	Al-Ahram Weekly \| International \| A genocide foretold (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		When Rwandan and Ugandan peace-keeping forces came to the Ituri province in 1998, settling in and around Bunia, they threw the whole of their military weight behind the Hema and the Lendu respectively.
		Commenting on the political affiliations in Bunia and the Ituri province and the deadly overflow from the fighting in Rwanda in 1994, Human Rights Watch said: "The two groups are now identifying with the Hutu-Tutsi categories that figured in the Rwandan genocide.
		UN officials have warned of possible genocide in Bunia and elsewhere in the Ituri province.
	weekly.ahram.org.eg /2003/642/in7.htm (974 words)

	MSF-USA: 2005 Activity Report - Democratic Republic of Congo
		Violence continues to flare in parts of Ituri province, in North and South Kivu provinces, and in parts of Katanga province, while the rest of the country languishes in extreme deprivation, lacking food, shelter and the most basic health care.
		Insecurity is also widespread in the province of North Kivu, in the far eastern part of the country, which borders Rwanda and Uganda.
		Like the violence in Ituri, lack of health care is the sad reality of life in the DRC, a land where people continue to die of mass neglect.
	www.doctorswithoutborders.org /publications/ar/i2005/drc.cfm (1591 words)

	Congo, Democratic Republic of the
		Several transit sites were set up in Ituri for the disarmament and reintegration of militiamen; however, only a small number of those who had disarmed were able to make use of reintegration programs and jobs promised to them.
		In January, fighting between the Lendu and the Hema militias resumed in Ituri District, often targeting territory and civilians of the Lendu and Hema ethnic groups.
		UN officials and local NGOs said they believed the militias' objectives were to change the ethnic composition of Djugu, a territory of the northern Ituri town of Bunia; and a UN official said the conflict stemmed from a struggle to control smuggling operations and tax collection regimes along Lake Albert.
	www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61563.htm (15673 words)

	Democratic Republic of Congo Provinces
		Provinces of the Democratic Republic of Congo (Congo Kinshasa)
		The new provinces are intended to be more homogeneous ethnically and culturally than the former ones were.
		It is doubtful whether this province will be accepted as legitimate by the central government." Recent news reports speak of events in Ituri province, and of Bunia as its capital.
	www.statoids.com /ucd.html (1178 words)

	Ammunitions bound for DR Congo's Ituri militia seized at airport (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		A large amount of ammunition destined for the Democratic Republic of Congo's war-torn northeastern Ituri province has been seized at an airport in a neighbouring province, a former rebel leader told AFP on Thursday.
		The RCD-ML, which controls the Nord-Kivu province where the airport is situated, reported that the detained men had said the ammunition was destined for the Lendu militia.
		Inter-ethnic massacres between the Hema and the Lendu in Ituri have claimed the lives of 50,000 people since 1999 and displaced half a million others.
	www.spacewar.com /2003/030724173853.byd0wsao.html (276 words)

	Open Letters for Peace > Resources > Democratic Republic of the Congo > Background (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The efforts of splinter groups to control the Ituri province were marked in March and April by a series of village raids and massacres.
		On May 15 UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan issued a letter to the council asking members to "urgently consider" sending troops to Ituri, and on May 30 the council authorized an interim protection force of approximately 1,500 troops, with a mandate limited to securing and protecting the people of Bunia.
		Fighting in Ituri slackened, but Ugandan officials reported a massacre in the Lake Albert area of Ituri with up to several hundreds of civilians killed.
	www.olfp.org /DRCbackground.htm (815 words)

	ICC Enters Uncharted Territory
		Lubanga was leader of one of the main militias in the province of Ituri in northeastern Congo where inter-ethnic violence erupted in 1999 in the aftermath of the invasion of DRC by Ugandan and Rwanda forces in support of rebels fighting to overthrow the government of President Mobutu Sese Seko.
		The prosecution alleges that when the FPLC seized control of Bunia – the main town in Ituri province, northeastern Congo – in 2002, “Young children – boys and girls alike – were taken from their families and forced to join the FPLC” and trained as soldiers.
		The struggle for control of Ituri, the cycle of attacks and counter-attacks between the different ethnicities came against the background of a full scale war in DRC which involved nine African states, 20 different armed factions, and is estimated to have killed four million people.
	www.iwpr.net /?p=tri&s=f&o=260514&apc_state=henptri (3474 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)