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As The Democratic Republic of Congo prepares for its first multi-party presidential elections in four decades, the world's largest peacekeeping force is stepping up its efforts to rein in the militia groups, which continue to rampage in parts of the east. Leaflets are aimed at members of the FDLR militia group, which has some 10,000 armed soldiers, mostly concentrated in a swathe of forest about 100km to the west of Goma, on the border between DR Congo and Rwanda.
Its hardline core is made up of ethnic Hutus from the Interahamwe militia that was involved in the Rwandan genocide in 1994.
Past a chicken coop and some snorting pigs, sit two men in a wooden shack in front of a black radio transmitter the size of a small suitcase.
They talk earnestly into the microphone. Their voices are transmitted in a 50km radius to the rebel held areas all around.
"At the moment the messages are about how we are here to make their lives better, how there is no future for them in the forest," Mr Miranda tells me.
"If that fails then we'll start more personal attacks of their leaders, we have to undermine their support."
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