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Crates filled with cut up guns that MAG (Mines Advisory Group) trained army technicians have destroyed with a heavy duty cutting machine. Guns are brought here from all over the country and so far the project, funded by the US State Department's office of Weapons Removal and Abatement and Fonderie 47, a company that founds the destruction of weapons by turning the steel they are made from into luxury brand jewellery. To date they have destroyed more than 130,000 weapons in the DRC..
Sean Sutton/MAG/Panos Pictures /Felix Features 26 Sep 2012