Each morning, the Mai Mai prisoners and their armed guards go for a run through town.
The Mai Mai were originally armed by the Kinshasa government as autonomous local defense forces.
But the government says the Mai Mai are terrorizing people in remote parts of mineral-rich Katanga Province.
The Mai Mai killed him because he wouldn't allow them to bring their magic into our village.
Similar scenes have unfolded throughout Katanga province as people flee the military offensive against the Mai Mai.
The Congolese Army is holding several hundred Mai Mai fighters captive in the dilapidated brick school in Dubie.
Her parents had fled their village to get away from fighting between the Congolese army and Mai Mai militias.
Mai Mai is an umbrella term used to refer to numerous militias who fight for a variety of reasons.
Fifteen-year-old Justin Nocombway Nujinga(ph) says he was captured by the Mai Mai last year, and forced to join them.
People who've fled the Mai Mai say they're ruthless rebels with magical powers.
There's also a wide-spread belief that the amulets and intimidating wooden masks the Mai Mai wear give them magic powers.
Almost everyone in this part of the Congo, from young boys to village elders, says the Mai Mai eat human flesh.
The Mai Mai were set up in the late 1990's by Laurent Kabila, shortly after he overthrew President Mobutu Sese Seko.
Mambo says after the Mai Mai killed her husband, she fled into the bush for almost a year with her children.
The Congolese authorities in Kinshasa have originally said their military offensive against the Mai Mai would run through the end of 2005.
The current military offensive against the Mai Mai comes as the country's attempting to hold its first democratic elections in forty years.
On Wednesday, Moise Nyarugabo of the RCD told the French news agency AFP that his group was ready for talks with Mai-Mai.
Farther south the area is even more insecure, since the local militias, known as Mai Mai, are notorious for changing their allegiance.
In recent months, some 20, 000 people have fled into makeshift camps around the town of Dubie to get away from the Mai Mai.
At least five people have died in clashes between security forces and suspected Mai Mai militia in Lubumbashi in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Last fall, the government in Kinshasa launched a voter registration drive in this vast country, but the Mai Mai have tried to disrupt that effort.
In November, a new wave of refugees arrived in Dubie after the Congolese army launched an offensive to try to wipe out Mai Mai militias.
Sometimes we'd steal food from gardens, but we didn't know which villages were controlled by the Mai Mai, so we never went on the main roads.
According to the Lusaka peace accords, signed in 1999, Rwanda must withdraw its troops from Congo and the Interahamwe and Mai Mai militias must be disarmed.
This was ostensibly manned by the pro-Congolese government militia known as the Mai Mai after the water they douse themselves with to create a magical, bullet-proof shield.
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One movement, the Mai Mai, is made up of local ethnic groups and links up with former Rwandan soldiers, former Zairean army soldiers and some Burundian Hutus.
The Congolese Army's in the midst of an offensive to try to wipe out these militias and capture the most powerful Mai Mai leader in the region, Jedieaun(ph).
There have already been serious clashes between forces of the Congolese Rally for Democracy (RCD) and the Mai-Mai militia, which at times has supported the government in Kinshasa.
West of Dubie, Sumgo Wenambe(ph) is one of about 2, 000 people who've moved to an island in the middle of a lake to get away from the Mai Mai.
The Mai Mai militias began as self-defence forces, but are now simply roving bands of thieves and thugs, often under the control of warlords of no particular politics or loyalty.
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