Rwanda responds to new DRC rebel support claims

By James Munyaneza

The Government of Rwanda this week accused the UN Group of Experts (GoE) on the Congo of “bad faith” following the publication of a new document linking Kigali to the M23 rebels, who have seized parts of DRC’s eastern North Kivu province.

A M23 rebel fighter prepares his machine gun at their defense position in Karambi, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in north Kivu province, near the border with Uganda, July 12, 2012. REUTERS/James Akena

The GoE is led by Steve Hege, widely viewed in Kigali as having an extremely benign view of the Congo-based FLDR genocidal outfit – mainly composed of the perpetrators of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi – with a profound resentment for the Rwandan leadership who he described as “Ugandan Tutsi elite” in one of his past publications.

Quoting anonymous sources, including those they described as M23 deserters, former Rwanda Defence Forces (RDF), as well as Congolese military officers and politicians, claim that Rwanda was actively involved in recent M23 successes on the battlefield, including the capture of Bunagana, a strategic town close to Uganda.

The Group also cites “fresh graves” at the Kanombe military cemetery which its members witnessed during a site visit on July 25, concluding that the graves were for RDF soldiers who had recently died while fighting in the M23 rebellion.

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