Just as the adage goes when two elephants fight the grass suffers. Such is the case of the conflict in the DRC where women and children have become helpless victims; young girls are being raped while 7 year olds string AK-47’s to fight in battles they know next to nothing about.
The main culprit in this more than 2-decades meaningless war is renegade General Laurent Nkunda whose rag-tag army is accused of recruiting several children across central Africa in its raids on several DRC towns. Engaging child soldiers isn’t a new phenomenon; wars in Liberia, Sierra-Leone and Rwanda were predecessors to this ugly trend, http://connectafrica./2008/10/23/african-child-soldiers-on-the-increase/