DR CONGO STILL ARMING FDLR, SAYS UN REPORT There is new body of evidence of continued collaboration between the Congolese army, FARDC, and FDLR, the militia blamed for the slaughter of more than a million people during the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi, including giving ammunition to the combatants, according to a leaked UN report. The damning revelations, contained in the mid-term report of the UN Group of Experts on the Congo, casts further uncertainty about the success of envisaged joint military operations by a UN peacekeeping force and Congolese army against a militia Kigali says is essentially driven by an insatiable thirst for blood. “Three former FDLR combatants, including a former FDLR radio operator based at the FDLR headquarters who was receiving messages from FDLR units, told the Group that FDLR often obtained ammunition from FARDC elements,” reads part of the report. The report, whose details emerge at a time the UN mission in the Congo is coming under growing pressure to launch offensives against FDLR combatants after the latter failed to disarm as required, was last month shared with the members of the UN Security Council but is yet to be made public. It’s not the first time the Congolese army has been accused of collaborating with the FDLR, at least at the local level, with some of the previous reports suggesting that Kinshasa had actually integrated some FDLR elements into the national army. newtimes.co.rw/section/article/2015-01-08/184752/
Posted on: Thu, 08 Jan 2015 07:55:06 +0000
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