Kongo's thin, wiry body is an emblem of his rebel cause. His left eye, hidden behind fake Ray-Bans, is a dark, puffy recess - the entry point of a bullet during a battle against Sudanese troops. The bullet came out his now-disfigured jaw. His neck is weighed down by strings of amulets in leather boxes that hold pieces of the Quran, Islam's holy book. They divert bullets, he said confidently - despite the evidence to the contrary. His black boots and camouflage fatigues were stolen from a dead government soldier. "The only language they understand is the gun," he said of his Arab enemy.
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