The evil Hutu militia known as the Interahamwe left Rwanda some years past to inflict their particular brand of terror on villages in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The BBC's Radio 4 broadcast an inteview from one of the victims this morning, which had me crying in frustration and anger.

It may be interesting to Backroomers, as an illustration (if we needed one) of how depraved human beings can be. I warn you, it is deeply horrifying.

We may not be able to do much about this, but we should never become immune to these stories.

The preamble of the Today programme slot is about 3 minutes - the interview starts around that mark for some ten minutes.

Mike Thomson report.

(In case the direct link doesn't work, the web page is here, and you want to go to the 0730-0800 slot).