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KAZIBA, Congo (AP) - With Kalashnikovs slung over their shoulders, the four young killers paced the dusty chicken yard in their Wellington boots, growing more nervous by the minute.
The fidgety gunmen — Rwandan Hutu rebels who fled to Congo after killing in Rwanda's 1994 genocide — said they were ready to return home after living like fugitives for 11 years. But they were wary.
From afar in Europe, their leader, Ignace Murwanashyaka, has promised some 8,000 fighters of his Democratic Liberation Forces of Rwanda, known by its French acronym FDLR, would disarm and leave Congo for home. But in the dense forests of eastern Congo, the fighters say they fear going home means humiliation, imprisonment or death.
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