Clashes resume in DR Congo as government backed troops advance into territories held by rebels loyal to General Laurent Nkunda. The recent outbreak of clashes follow the army's capture of a rebel headquarters in the east DR Congo town of North Kivu. Nkunda has rejected government demands to disarm his rebels and claims that he will continue to defend his own Tutsi community against Rwandan Hutu extremists that he holds responsible for the 1994 Rwandan genocide and are currently situated in east DR Congo. The United Nations has issued a warning to the thousands of Congolese civilians in the vicinity of the clashes to leave their homes.