The goal is to empty the region of its population to allow the predatory powers to more easily continue their pillage of natural resources, so the different players (armies and militias, foreigners and nationals) are armed for free. They terrorize and humiliate the local populations, often children but above all women, the primary victims.
Lengo lao ni tupu ya kanda ya watu wake kuruhusu walao nyama mamlaka ya mashitaka kwa urahisi uporaji wa malighafi katika kanda. Hivyo, makundi mbalimbali, kijeshi au wanamgambo, ndani na nje ni silaha kwa bure. Wao kuwatishia na kumfedhehesha wakazi wa eneo na watoto hasa lengo na hasa wanawake, ambao ni waathirika wa kwanza.