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KINSHASA, Congo (AP) - The military vowed Wednesday to hunt down militiamen who killed 18 people and kidnapped scores of others in eastern Congo, while the United Nations said it would investigate the massacre.
Government troops are preparing an offensive against militia who carried out the attack, killing their victims with machetes and axes and kidnapping 50 others, said Lt. Kasanda Wa Kasanda, military spokesman for South Kivu province.
Kasanda, citing survivors' accounts, said the militiamen called themselves Rastas and were accompanied by Rwandan Hutu rebels from the group Democratic Liberation Forces of Rwanda, known by its French abbreviation FDLR.
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