PICTURES OF THE YEAR 2006 Children afflicted by polio rest at the International Polio Victim Response Committee (IPVRC) compound in Democratic Republic of Congo's capital Kinshasa October 26, 2006. Most of the 60 million population of Democratic Republic of Congo are desperate for peace and reconstruction after decades of chaos and a 1998-2003 war that led to the deaths of 4 million people, a number that dwarfs even the Iraq conflict.
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