Guy Tillim

Leopold and Mobutu series 29

Left: Mai Mai traditional defence militia in training near Beni, northeastern DRC, January 2003
Centre: Display case at the Military Museum in Brussels showing the Congo uniform of a Belgian soldier in the Leopold era, January 2004
Right: Mai Mai general Vita Katembola, surrounded by his bodyguards at their base near Beni, northeastern DRC. At the time this group was allied to a rebel army in the region known as the Rally for Congolese Democracy - Kisangani - Movement for Liberation, which was in turn allied to the Kinshasa government, January 2003





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