Esperance Zawadi, 18, lies by her 11-month-old son Steve Kwizera in a tent set outside the Kibati hospital in Kibati, north of Goma, eastern Congo, Monday Aug. 6, 2012. Steve is under observation for symptoms of cholera. Doctors Without Borders' Christian Masudi said the lack of hygiene and the overpopulation of the area created by the influx of internally displaced people were key factors in the potential explosion of diseases such as cholera. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)
Esperance Zawadi, 18, lies by her 11-month-old son Steve Kwizera in a tent set outside the Kibati hospital in Kibati, north of Goma, eastern Congo, Monday Aug. 6, 2012. Steve is under observation for symptoms of cholera. Doctors Without Borders' Christian Masudi said the lack of hygiene and the overpopulation of the area created by the influx of internally displaced people were key factors in the potential explosion of diseases such as cholera. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)
Charlotte Ntibatekereza, whose son, daughter-in-law and grandson were shot in the fighting in Kiwanja, on July 25 2012, stands in her house Sunday, Aug. 5, 2012, in Kiwanja, Congo. Her relatives were sleeping on the floor when a heavy-caliber bullet smashed through three walls of their home. Her son and grandson died instantly. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)
Internally displaced people find refuge in an empty building in an impromptu refugee camp in Kibati, north of Goma, eastern Congo, Monday Aug. 6, 2012. Doctors Without Borders (MSF)'s Christian Masudi said the lack of hygiene, the overpopulation of the area created by the influx of internally displace people were key factors in the potential explosion of diseases such as Cholera. Many fled the 3-month-old rebellion of the M23 Movement in eastern Congo that has killed an unknown number of people, wounded more than 500 and forced some 280,000 people from their homes, including tens of thousands across borders into Rwanda and Uganda. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)
GOMA, Congo (AP) ? The British charity Oxfam says hundreds of people are being killed and raped and homes are being torched in eastern Congo as militias take advantage of a security vacuum while the army fights a new rebellion.
Country director Elodie Martel calls it a humanitarian catastrophe. He says, "We have reached a new depth of misery in Congo's conflict when massacres go virtually unnoticed."
Some quarter million people have fled their homes.
Mutinying soldiers launched the M23 rebellion in April and now control huge swathes of mineral-rich east Congo. As Congo's army redeployed, new militias have sprung up and old ones are reasserting themselves in battles often aimed at gaining control of mines.
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