The wave of violence that struck Bukavu (administrative capital of Kivu - East Democratic Republic of Congo) in the last few days still continues. MISNA sources inform that last night groups of armed men dressed in military uniform spread panic in two areas of the city, killing three people. The first area is Nyantende (first rural neighbourhood of the city) where a man was killed and a woman was injured, and in the low-class neighbourhood of Cahi where two people, wife and husband, were killed and at least 15 houses were looted. But the situation continues to remain tense even in the whole rural area of South Kivu. The fighting also involved Kitutu (230km Southeast of Bukavu, South Kivu), under the control of the Rwandan military forces (APR) and the RCD forces (Congolese Rally for Democracy), has been theatre to violent clashes already last week. According to reports given to MISNA yesterday morning, the Mayi-Mayi (Congolese nationalist partisans) together with the 'Interahamwe' (militia of the ex regime of the deceased Rwandan president Juvenal Habyarimana) assaulted the area of Kazuzwa, were the small airport of Kitutu is situated. The battle between the APR forces and the Mayio-Mayi caused numerous victims amongst the civilians that were caught in the middle of the gun fighting. The consequences of the attack carried out two days ago in Lulingu (400km West of Bukavu in the Urega area) are terrible. Even here the Mayi-Mayi were protagonists, managing to capture village and airport in the same attack. The inhabitants of the village fled as soon as they heard the shots, many of them jumping into river Lugulu escaping from the advancement. According to the first reports, many civilians drowned in the event. The armed troops of the Mayi-Mayi continued moving towards the surrounding villages slaughtering and spreading terror amongst the population. Whilst important members of the civil society continue to doubt that the episodes of violence in the whole region, are deliberately orchestrated to justify the presence of foreign forces in ex Zaire. (CO)