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'Many of the soldiers were clearly traumatised, their eyes bloodshot and breath heavy with the reek of stale alcohol'

1. EYEWITNESS: By David Pratt in Goma as DR Congo tears itself apart

THEY lay strewn across the road, their dried blood soaked into the red clay dust of the African soil. All of them were soldiers, some government, some rebel. One of the dead men lay on his back, inexplicably clutching a plastic jerry can to his chest.