Rwanda: Monuc Confirms DRC Army-FDLR Alliance
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The New Times (Kigali)
10 October 2008
Posted to the web 11 October 2008
Kennedy Ndahiro
Kigali
The United Nations peacekeeping mission in DR Congo (Monuc) has confirmed reports that the government army (FARDC) is fighting alongside rebels of the FDLR in its war against an uprising in the east of the country.
In a BBC radio interview monitored in Kigali, Monuc's militaryspokesman Lt. Col Jean-Paul Dietrich, said that they had evidence of FARDC having joint operations with FDLR.
Rwanda was the first to denounce the military cooperation between both parties though the DRC government has always denied it.
"We have seen evidence of these collusions," he said.
Fighting erupted more than two weeks ago in South Kivu between Laurent Nkunda's National Congress for the Defence of the People (CNDP) and a coalition of government forces, Rwandan rebels of the FDLR and other smaller militias.
The spokesman also denied claims by the DRC that Rwandan troops were fighting alongside Nkunda.
"We have no evidence of those allegations," Dietrich told a BBC reporter.
In the meantime, CNDP has accused Monuc of handing over Rumangabo barracks back to the government forces, contrary to an agreement between the rebels and the UN body.
The strategic barracks fell into the hands of the rebels early this week but pulled back after a meeting between Nkunda and the EU special envoy in the region, Ambassador Van de Geer at Kilorirwe in Masisi territory.
CNDP spokesman, Bertrand Bisimwa told The New Times yesterday that the rebels had agreed to pull back on three conditions: To have direct talks with the Government of President Kabila in a neutral country; Rumangabo to remain a buffer zone; and FARDC to pull out of the areas that were originally a buffer zone.
"We were surprised to learn that Monuc handed over the barracks just hours after we had handed it over," said Bisimwa, adding that their voluntary returning of the captured barracks was a gesture of goodwill towards having a peaceful settlement to the conflict.
"But President Kabila does not want to talk to us. He is calling on the population of Kivu to help him destroy us. We do not think he really wants peace," alleged the spokesman.
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Monuc Spokesman Michel Bonnardeaux was unreachable for comment as all calls were diverted to voicemail.
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Why it is difficult? It is an open book and not a secret at all -- Wathch and listen to the interahamwe confirming it here : http://www.france24.com/fr/20080926-reporters-rdc-congo-rwanda-rebelles-hut us-massacre-genocide-1994-tutsis-monuc-foret-viols
As for the so called proofs about Rwanda invvolvement they are indeed no proos at all-- an expired insurance card, an old uniforms,...Read on related documents and rest your case: ...[Several U.N. officials speaking on condition of anonymity said the recovery of Rwandan military items alone would not represent incontrovertible proof that regular Rwandan troops had been on Congolese territory.]...Reuters--Oct 10/08 http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSTRE49A0FJ20081011?feedType=RSS &feedName=worldNews
The Interahamwe of FDLR have to be sent… [Read Full Text]
Us Africans have become apologists to our own doing that we are too blind to see what is right in front of us. When Rwanda needed to go to DRC, Rwanda went on its own accord and did a job (just ask Mobutu and his kins). When it was time to pull out Rwanda pulled out. Do you think Rwanda would not do the same again. It is high time that an incompetent government that is only self-serving put its act together and get on with the job. That is to secure its own country, look after its own citizens… [Read Full Text]
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It is difficult to confirm evidences of joint action FARDC and FDLR. However, after denying for so long the support that Rwanda gives to the CNDP of Nkundabatware, the Congo military has shown irrefutable evidence of Rwanda participation in the destabilisation of the Congo. Some of these evidences presented to local and international media in the presence of the MONUC include: dead bodies of rwandan soldiers with their ID and other personal items on them, uniforms, and a great quantity of arms and amunitions. It is interesting to see what the Kigali regime is going to refute… [Read Full Text]