In spite of the Goma peace accord signed on 23 January 2008 between the Congolese Government and 22 armed groups, there have since been "massacres, rapes of young girls, mothers and grandmothers, forced recruitments of civilians and child soldiers and a host of other acts of violence and serious human rights abuses in the eastern DRC".
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