BBC visits Dr. Congo City under the control of the rebels

When I first went to the eastern city of Guma, Dr. Kongo, it was difficult for me to tell me that I entered into a conflict area.

The residents of Juma fill the streets a few miles from the border with Rwanda – passengers went to work, sold sellers, goods on the side of the road and bypassing taxi drivers to earn customers.

But it took just a few minutes to notice a new “government” in the city.

When I arrived at a checkpoint near the police job that was previously run by the Congolese authorities, the fighters who were called weapons from the M23 Rebel group arrested my car.

Last week, M23 seized Goma, an eastern city of nearly two million people, after lighting in the eastern region of the doctor.

At least 700 people were killed in the city and were injured by nearly 3,000 people, as the rebels clashed with the army of Dr. Kongo and its allies, according to the United Nations government and the Congolese.

M23, which consists of ethnic tuts The rebels supported from Rwanda They seek to control the wide metal wealth in the eastern region.

At the checkpoint, the M23 rebels established my car, and they asked the drivers of some brief questions, then we waved in the destroyed city.

The rebels did not face any opposition – it was as if they were always there.

I made my way to one of the few hospitals that treat the wounded victims and while I entered, I shouting the pain through the corridors.

Nathaniel Sirho, the medical doctor who sat in a strange role, met a hospital bed with ropes around his left arm.

A bomb fell to the house next to him, Mr. Sirho, and his neighbors were shocked by the resulting shrapnel.

“I was injured on my arms. A 65 -year -old man was injured. After the surgery, he did not survive,” he said.

Several wings, an elderly woman in her bed in another hospital, was a drug addict on the oxygen tank.

She had a bullet from her arm after the fierce exchange of fire broke out in her neighborhood.

“I suddenly felt a cold, and I realized that I had shot,” she said, struggling to find her speech.

For several days, she had sponsored a gunfire without help. She eventually told me that her facilities to a general hospital by M23 fighters.

The woman asked her to be transferred to a private hospital, where she is now receiving treatment, because she did not get enough attention from excessive doctors.

But even in this second hospital, the paramedics were immersed, as the increasing number of patients came across the doors.

“We have dealt with most of them because we have emergency plans,” said the doctor who did not want to be named for security reasons.

He added: “On Sunday, when the fighting started, we received 315 patients and taught them.”

But now, the hospital matters to more than 700 patients with different degrees of injury, the doctor told me.

He talked about receiving patients with “fireworks in the head, others on the chest, stomach, hands and legs.”

Since the Eastern Congo doctor is in a state of political anxiety, the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights warned that sexual violence is used as a weapon of war by competing parties.

In this private hospital, the doctor confirmed the United Nations statement, saying that his facility has so far received about 10 of the sexes of rape and sex -based violence.

Outside the hospital and to the city center, there was a mixture of serenity and identification.

People walked after four trucks reserved with bullets, and they witnessed what was played when they were carrying safety.

Although the shooting and explosions in Goma have faded, all institutions do not return to work as usual. A few stores have been opened in certain streets, but not in others. The main banks remain closed.

Some may remain cautious that anything can happen in the volatile security situation in the wider northern province of Kivu.

“People are afraid … I am still afraid because those who have caused tension are still with us and do not know what is going on,” said store owner Sami Matabishi.

“But the bad thing is that there are no people who buy from us. Many have gone to Rwanda, (the city of Congolese) Bocafo, Kenya and Uganda.”

He adds that merchants who import goods from neighboring countries were unable to transport products to the city.

Many residents who spoke to them said they had died with the M23 running the place.

As a strange person, I could see the rebels who were determined to confirm their control.

They took over the office of the military ruler in North Kivu, who They were killed while they were advancing on Goma.

The fighters were also present in strategic areas throughout the city, while others patrol the streets on small trucks and weapons on hand.

All the time when I was in Goma, I haven't seen an active active soldier.

However, I saw the false deserted trucks as “FARDC”, the French shortcut to the Armed Forces in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Close to the UN -Monuce Mission (Monusco) – who was assigned to protect civilians from the rebel forces – the military exhaustion, magazines and bullets were scattered across the road.

“When the M23 arrived here, they surrounded our army,” Richard Ali, who lives nearby, told me.

“Many removed the military uniform, threw their weapons and wore civilian clothes. Others fled.”

While M23 rejoiced due to a great invasion, the Congolese government continues to refute the rebels' claim that they have completely seized Goma.

The authorities accuse the M23 of illegally occupying its lands – with Rwanda's support – and promised to recover any lost lands.

Although Rwanda used to constantly deprive the rebels, its response has turned into a more defensive, as government spokesperson stipulates that the fighting near its borders is a security threat.

It has now been reported that the rebels were moving south towards Boukavo, the capital of southern Kivu, and pledged to reach the capital Kinshasa.

Currently, Goma is still the largest coup. The circumstances there predict what life can come to many Congolese people, if the M23 gains more land.

Additional reports from Robert Kipro from BBC and Hassan Lali in Guma