Rwandan troops have invaded the Democratic Republic of Congo twice in the last decade. Press reports indicate that Rwanda troops have again crossed into Congo. Violence and instability in Congo have claimed the lives of three million people in the last five years and the dispatch of United Nations peacekeepers to eastern Congo has not brought stability to the region. Veteran Rwanda expert Alison Des Forges, a senior advisor to Human Rights Watch's Africa division and recipient of a 1999 MacArthur Foundation "genius" grant, discusses current events in Rwanda and the Congo in a Q-and-A available on the website of Human Rights Watch. For further background on the situation in the Great Lakes, read the article 'Great Lakes: Yet another powderkeg?' available at: http://www.afrika.no/Detailed/6822.html [5] and 'African Union may help disarm militias', available at http://www.irinnews.org/report.asp?ReportID=44573 [6]