Goma — When M23 rebels tried twice to arrange a protest march against a United Nations resolution to deploy an intervention brigade with an offensive mandate to eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, they had to postpone it because the local population would not participate.
In Kibumba, 25 kilometres north of the provincial capital Goma, not only had the population refused to demonstrate - they had also fled town.
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