US EditionDrc: "of Course or by Force, the Fdlr Must Return the Weapons", Demands the Congolese Army
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Congo army launches disarmament push against Rwanda genocide-linked militia
DAKAR, March 30 - Congo’s army has announced the start of a disarmament push against a militia linked to Rwanda’s 1994 genocide, in what would be a key step towards implementing a U.S.-brokered peace deal with neighbouring Rwanda. Read more at straitstimes.com.
On Sunday, 29 March, in Kisangani (northeastern DRC), the Deputy Commander of the General Staff of the Congolese Army ordered the Forces démocratiques de libération du Rwanda (FDLR) – a Hutu rebel group formed at the origin of former Rwandan genocidaires – to "go." This neutralization of the FDLR is part of the Washington agreement between Kinshasa and Kigali.
Over 200 ex-FDLR combatants reintegrated back in society
At least 214 former members of armed groups, including fighters from FDLR and its splinter factions, were discharged on Tuesday, March 31, after completing a three-month reintegration programme at the Mutobo Demobilization and Reintegration Centre in Musanze District. They are being discharged under 76th cohort of the reintegration and demobilisation programme. 178 of them are former combatants, while 36 are civilians who had been associated wit…
Congo launches disarmament push against Rwanda genocide-linked militia
Congo’s army has announced the start of a disarmament push against a militia linked to Rwanda’s 1994 genocide, in what would be a key step towards implementing a U.S.-brokered peace deal with neighbouring Rwanda. The move to disarm the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR) comes two weeks after Congolese and Rwandan officials met in Washington to agree steps to revive the agreement signed last June, and just weeks after the U.S. …
The FARDC deputy commander said that on Sunday they launched operations to hunt down FDLR fighters on DR Congo soil. One of the provisions of the Washington peace agreement between Rwanda and the DRC was that the FDLR, which includes survivors of the genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, must be dismantled. The US government this month called on representatives from both countries to discuss the agreement they signed but have not yet implemented…
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