Congolese people have been brutalised since 1996. Why isn’t the west helping?

Despite accusations of war crimes in the central African country, the international community seems unmoved

On New Year's Eve, a gang of militia left its jungle base and swept across Beni, a forested north-eastern corner of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, looking for Nande people to kill.

Locals alerted the Congolese army but they were ignored. In small farms in Tingwe, a few kilometres from a DRC army base, the gang found 25 people - men, women and children - out harvesting food. One by one they hacked them to death with machetes and axes.