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Feb 18 2009, AP

Early in the morning the warnings came: Rebels notorious for vicious attacks on civilians were advancing on this eastern Congolese town of thatched roof huts along the winding Kibali River.

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Josephine, 3, sits with her grandmother as she recovers after Lord’s Resistance Army rebels killed her parents and twisted her neck, leaving her paralyzed from the neck down, at a hospital in Dorouma, Congo, near the border with Sudan, on Monday, Feb....