Chasing bullets in the DRC

An investigator with the NGO, Conflict Armaments Research, sifts through bullets left behind at an armed group's base, after the DRC national army over ran the position in the Virunga National Park. photo: guy oliver/IRIN©
 
(IRIN) VIRUNGA NATIONAL PARK, May 13, 2014 - Her job is to track and trace small arms and ammunition in Africa’s conflict zones.

The politics of preventing genocide

Human skulls at the Toul Sleng Genocide Museum in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, where approximately 14,000 people were tortured and later executed under the Khmer Rouge.
photo: david longstreath/IRIN

(IRIN) NAIROBI, December 3, 2013 - The crisis in the Central African Republic has been deteriorating for the best part of this year. In the words of UN Deputy Secretary General Jan Eliasson, the international community has “watched from a distance” as the country descended into “virtual melt-down.” He called the decision to act, “a profoundly important test of international solidarity and of our responsibility to prevent atrocities.”