(26 Oct 2008) SHOTLIST
1. Travelling shot of displaced people walking from direction of Rumangabo and Rugari, heading toward Goma, 50 kilometres (31 miles) away
2. Various of displaced people walking road carrying their belongings
3. Woman carrying baby on her back
4. SOUNDBITE (Swahili) Nzabakurukiza, Displaced person from Rugari:
"There is no peace. We are just running while bullets fly from every part of the village."
5. Mid of government soldiers walking down street, in opposite direction to where displaced people are heading
6. Men standing over dead bodies of three teenagers, allegedly run over and killed by a government tank on its way to scene of fighting nearby
7. Mid of dead bodies
8. SOUNDBITE (Swahili) Munyonti Kasigwa, Father of one of boys killed:
"This tank with the soldiers came at high speed and ran over these children. They tried to run into the bush but the tank hit them."
9. Wide people digging grave as dead body is brought to the side
10. Body being prepared for burial
11. Body being lowered into grave
12. Man covering body with earth
13. Wide of government jeep driving down road, displaced people on either side of road
14. Soldiers walking down street, towards scene of fighting
15. Wide of mountains where fighting is taking place
STORYLINE
Rebels loyal to a renegade warlord seized an army base in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and the headquarters of a park housing some of the world's last mountain gorillas, in heavy fighting on Sunday that sent thousands of civilians fleeing, United Nations officials and rebels said.
An unknown number of soldiers, rebels and civilians were killed in the renewed fighting in North Kivu province, according to civilians who said the onslaught began around 2 a.m. (0100 GMT).
Government troops raced down the road north from the provincial capital of Goma to reinforce a counterattack on Sunday morning.
One tank careered into a group of fleeing civilians and killed three teenage boys, eyewitnesses including the father of one if the dead boys said.
Associated Press reporters who watched the fathers burying their sons in a cabbage patch outside Kibumba could hear the bombing from army tanks about 12 miles (20 kilometres) from Rumangabo army camp.
UN peacekeepers drove from their camp to investigate the deaths, but angry civilians threw rocks at their vehicle, forcing them to turn back.
The troopers, from India, used riot shields to block the rocks.
Such attacks have become common, with civilians accusing the UN peacekeeping mission - the biggest in the world with 18-thousand troops - of not fulfilling its mandate to protect the population.
"There is no peace. We are just running while bullets fly from every part of the village," said one man as he made his way from his village to Goma, 50 kilometres (31 miles) away.
The UN force has failed to halt the fighting in the vast region of rural hills and forests, and both sides in the combat also accuse the United Nations of siding with the other.
Sunday's attack marked the second time rebels have seized Rumangabo army base since fighting resumed August 28 when rebel leader General Laurent Nkunda went on the offensive, charging government troops had attacked and broken a cease-fire agreed in January.
Nkunda's fighters, who claim to be protecting the region's Tutsi minority, have occupied parts of Virunga National Park for nearly a year, but they attacked the headquarters for the first time before dawn on Sunday.
The park is home to 200 of the world's 700 remaining mountain gorillas, which are considered critically endangered.
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