‘I killed hundreds of people’: Meet the children forced to wage endless war in the DRC

Kito* has a quiet voice; the husky tone of a late adolescent.

“I killed at least 100 people,” the 17-year-old boy says, speaking from a small village in the northeastern Ituri province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). “It’s really difficult to know how many, because we were shooting people en masse. But obviously it’s a lot.”