The rebels supporting Rwanda take the huge tracts of the Democratic Republic of Congo. The rebels, known as the M23, say that they protect the ethnic Tutsis, a minority group massacred in the 1994 genocide. But experts say that the real reason is rarely the Minerals of Congo, which are powered by our phones and devices. Ruth Maclean, head of the New York Times Office for Western Africa, explains that rebels and their patrons in Rwanda profit from the conflict.
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