This report is the result of a series of investigative missions carried out by Amnesty International in July 2003 in the Ituri region, particularly in Bunia, in regions of North Kivu (Beni, Oicha, Erengeti, Boikene, Mangangu and Nyaleke), which have been affected in different ways by the Ituri crisis, and finally in the border areas between Uganda and DRC, particularly in the villages of Bundibugyo, Rwebisengo, Karugutu, Ntoroko and Fort Portal around Lake Albert in Uganda.