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Human Rights Watch: Covered in Blood Website

Human Rights Watch: Covered in Blood Website

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Human Rights Watch

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Human Rights Watch: Covered in Blood

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This Human Rights Watch Report provides a detailed summary of the war in the Congo, the war's causes and consequences, and the responses of the international community to the war's escalating violence. The report can be read online or downloaded. (July 7, 2003)

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9th - 10th

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Social Studies & History

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English, French

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