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Nkunda 'ousted' in Congo
The commander of the Tutsi Congolese rebels General Laurent Nkunda has been removed by his inferiors for causing trouble for the group. Nkunda, the head of the National Congress for the Defense of the People (CNDP), has been stripped from power following a decision by the ranking officers in the group's chain of command, BBC reported. The commanders reportedly appointed a 'transitional council' afterwards to provisionally take the helm. The group has been in constant hostilities with the Rwandan Hutu rebels. The opposition reached its crescendo in 1994 when over 100 days of ethnic clashes from April into July some 800,000 people mostly Tutsi were slaughtered making it the bloodiest war since the World War II. Also in fierce opposition to the Congolese authorities, the Tutsi leader fought a month-long campaign against government forces in the eastern province of North Kivu in August displacing 250,000 people. Posted by: Fred 2009-01-06 |
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