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| DR Congo pledges to disarm Rwandan rebels on its soil |
| 2008-03-22 |
| (Xinhua) -- Government forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) are prepared to disarm Rwandan rebels on its soil in a few weeks, a top DRC military official said Sunday. Dieudonne Kayembe, the DRC Armed Forces Chief-of-Staff, said the Congolese army is poised to take action in the provinces of South Kivu and North Kivu, to force members of the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR) to give up their arms. Kayembe said in the eastern city of Goma that the DRC will unwaveringly implement November's Joint Nairobi Communique, under which DRC and Rwanda agreed to work together against threats to peace and stability in the region. The FDLR includes former Rwandan military groups responsible for carrying out the 100-day genocide in 1994, which killed an estimated 800,000 Rwandan Tutsis and Hutus. |
| Posted by:Fred |