Child soldiers in DR Congo. (c) Amnesty

A new report shows there are still thousands of child soldiers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. In these film clips, we hear how young children are snatched from their families and forced to fight, rape and kill.

Click on the boxes on the right - to watch and hear first-hand accounts from Marie who was snatched on her way home from school at the age of 11, and from teenagers, Fiston and Patrick.

In Democratic Republic of Congo: Children at War, Amnesty International has documented horrific accounts of how children suffer physical and psychological abuse while forcibly in the service of armed groups in the Great Lakes region.