Funerals held for victims of attack on DR Congo camp

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00:00 There are cries of distress denouncing the horror of what happened.

00:05 35 coffins draped with the Congolese colours are lined up at Goma's Unity Stadium.

00:10 Families, politicians and other mourners came to pay their last respects to the civilians

00:15 who on May 3rd were killed in shelling that Congo and the United States blamed on the Rwandan army.

00:21 This shocking and traumatic picture is proof of the level of cruelty and guilt of Rwanda

00:29 and its leader Paul Kagame.

00:31 It's revolting.

00:33 At the Mogunga camp, more than a week after the killings,

00:40 the remains of the shelters that were destroyed in the attack are still there.

00:44 The displaced are still scarred by the horror of the shelling.

00:48 Alphonsine saw her daughter killed and has been deeply traumatised.

00:52 The bomb exploded and tore bodies apart.

00:57 When I got up, I saw bits of human flesh scattered on the ground.

01:01 The cassava that I had spread out to dry was covered in blood, and I was covered in flesh.

01:06 This isn't the first time that explosions from shelling have been reported in displacement camps.

01:13 Humanitarian organisations have repeatedly called for international humanitarian law to be respected.

01:18 They have also called for the removal of artillery from the outskirts of the camps.

01:24 We are scared. If the government continues to fire bombs from its positions next to the camps,

01:29 it's certain that we will be hit again.

01:32 They should go and fight on the battlefield and leave us alone here.

01:35 We've already fled the war and they will bring it back here.

01:38 We'll suffer even more.

01:40 In North Kivu province, M23 rebels occupy large swathes of territory

01:47 and almost completely encircle Goma.

01:49 More than two million people have fled the violent clashes

01:53 and are living in inhumane conditions, according to the United Nations.

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