Army rocket ripped off Janviere’s arm

WIDE-EYED and bewildered, Janviere looks up from his hospital bed.

Army rocket ripped off Janviere’s arm

Thin and wearing a ragged pair of jeans, the 16-year-old’s appearance is like most Congo male teenagers. Except he is missing an arm, torn off by an army rocket.

It was four weeks ago when government troops and rebels began exchanging fire in his home village in the region of Rutshuru, in the east of the country.

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