The United Nations Refugee Agency says for a time there was a lull in fighting between the government soldiers and rebels. And, the agency had hoped that the worst was over.
People report when they cross the river that they fear much more the governmental troops.
That they are harassed, looted, that the soldiers are taking their crops, etc. Apparently this is also a kind of retaliation of the governmental soldiers against the population who appears to be, and I say appears to be, much more pro-rebels. The refugees are fleeing fighting between government troops and the Ugandan-backed Congolese Liberation Movement. He says they have settled in remote, difficult to reach villages. This is one of the most difficult places to reach in the world.