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Waafrica wamelaaniwa sana aise. Unajenga chuki na kusema jamii fulani ifutwe kwenye uso wa dunia kama vile wao wanastahili kuishi.hiz chuki za kuambia na mzungu ni za kipumbavu na hazina msingi wowote.
Sisi ni waafrica na tumetoka kwenye makabila tofauti,laknk utofauti wetu usiwe uadui.
Kama FDLR bado wanafikiri kuua watusi ndio solution ya matatio yao basi nao wanastahili kuuawa.
Sisi ni waafrica na tumetoka kwenye makabila tofauti,laknk utofauti wetu usiwe uadui.
Kama FDLR bado wanafikiri kuua watusi ndio solution ya matatio yao basi nao wanastahili kuuawa.
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Ningekuwa na uwezo wa kuingia madarakani nikawa Rais wa Tanzania, nadhani ningewalipa Rwanda na Kenya kiasi kikubwa sana kwa fadhila walizolifanyia Taifa la Tanzania kupitia kwa Kikwete.
Ningekuwa na na muda ningeandika kumbukumbu hizi ziingine katika historia ya nchi yetu kusudi siku nyingine kiongozi wa nchi jirani akija Tanzania akapokelewa na diwani wa Pugu asilalamike.
Ninajua kuwa huenda Kenyatta na Kagame hawana mpango wa kuja Tanzania ila nitapenda hiyo ndiyo iwe ni documented Tanzanian protocol.
Ningekuwa na na muda ningeandika kumbukumbu hizi ziingine katika historia ya nchi yetu kusudi siku nyingine kiongozi wa nchi jirani akija Tanzania akapokelewa na diwani wa Pugu asilalamike.
Ninajua kuwa huenda Kenyatta na Kagame hawana mpango wa kuja Tanzania ila nitapenda hiyo ndiyo iwe ni documented Tanzanian protocol.
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Now you are giving me a home work. Mr Murage wa Msherwampamba.:canada:
JWTZ YAPELEKA KILIO RWANDA
*Yakamata maofisa wake wanne wa Kijeshi
*M-23 wakiri majeshi ya UN ni hatari yatawamaliza
ASKARI wa Umoja wa Mataifa wanaolinda amani nchini Kongo (Monusco), wakiongozwa na vikosi vya Jeshi la Wananchi Tanzania (JWTZ), wamedai kuwakamata maofisa wanne wa jeshi la Rwanda, katika mapigano ya wiki iliyopita nchini Kongo.
Akizungumza na MTANZANIA Jumatano kwa sharti la kutotajwa jina, mmoja wa askari aliyepo ndani ya kikosi cha JWTZ huko nchini Kongo, alisema maofisa hao wanashikiliwa kwa mahojiano zaidi.
Taarifa hizi za sasa zinakuja wakati ambapo kumekuwa na madai ya muda mrefu, ambayo yamekuwa yakitolewa na Umoja wa Mataifa pamoja na Marekani kwamba, Rwanda imekuwa ikiwasaidia waasi wa kundi la M-23.
Pamoja na kwamba Rwanda imekuwa ikipinga madai hayo, kitendo chake cha wiki iliyopita cha kuamua kupeleka bataliani mbili zenye wanajeshi 1,700 ili kukabiliana na kile kinachodaiwa kuwa ni kishindo cha vikosi vya Umoja wa Mataifa vyenye jukumu la kulinda amani katika taifa hilo lenye utajiri mkubwa kirasilimali, kinatokana na waasi wa M23 kupata kipigo kikali.
Chanzo chetu hicho kutoka uwanja wa mapambano nchini Kongo, kililidokeza gazeti hili kuwa maofisa hao wa Jeshi la Rwanda waliwakamata katika mapigano hayo yaliyodumu kwa zaidi ya wiki moja, ambayo tayari yamewakimbiza waasi wa M23.
"Askari wa Rwanda tuliowakamata, ni maofisa wa ngazi za juu kabisa jeshini, tena walikuwa na sare za jeshi hilo… walikuwa wakiwasaidia hao M23, lakini kwa kuwa sisi tulikuwa makini tulifanikiwa kuwatandika hadi tukawakamata," kilisema chanzo chetu hicho.
Habari za uhakika kutoka vyanzo vya habari vya kuaminika zinaeleza kwamba, hatua hiyo ya kuwakamata maofisa hao pamoja na kuondoka kwa waasi wa kikundi cha M23, imefanikisha kushinda vita hiyo kwa zaidi ya asilimia 95.
Mtoa taarifa wetu huyo kutoka Kongo, ameliambia gazeti hili kuwa, tayari Monusco wanaoongozwa na JWTZ wameanza kufurahia ushindi huo na kwamba sasa hivi wanasubiri tamko kutoka kwa wakuu wao, ili kufahamu kinachofuata baada ya kufanikisha hatua hiyo.
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*Yakamata maofisa wake wanne wa Kijeshi
*M-23 wakiri majeshi ya UN ni hatari yatawamaliza
ASKARI wa Umoja wa Mataifa wanaolinda amani nchini Kongo (Monusco), wakiongozwa na vikosi vya Jeshi la Wananchi Tanzania (JWTZ), wamedai kuwakamata maofisa wanne wa jeshi la Rwanda, katika mapigano ya wiki iliyopita nchini Kongo.
Akizungumza na MTANZANIA Jumatano kwa sharti la kutotajwa jina, mmoja wa askari aliyepo ndani ya kikosi cha JWTZ huko nchini Kongo, alisema maofisa hao wanashikiliwa kwa mahojiano zaidi.
Taarifa hizi za sasa zinakuja wakati ambapo kumekuwa na madai ya muda mrefu, ambayo yamekuwa yakitolewa na Umoja wa Mataifa pamoja na Marekani kwamba, Rwanda imekuwa ikiwasaidia waasi wa kundi la M-23.
Pamoja na kwamba Rwanda imekuwa ikipinga madai hayo, kitendo chake cha wiki iliyopita cha kuamua kupeleka bataliani mbili zenye wanajeshi 1,700 ili kukabiliana na kile kinachodaiwa kuwa ni kishindo cha vikosi vya Umoja wa Mataifa vyenye jukumu la kulinda amani katika taifa hilo lenye utajiri mkubwa kirasilimali, kinatokana na waasi wa M23 kupata kipigo kikali.
Chanzo chetu hicho kutoka uwanja wa mapambano nchini Kongo, kililidokeza gazeti hili kuwa maofisa hao wa Jeshi la Rwanda waliwakamata katika mapigano hayo yaliyodumu kwa zaidi ya wiki moja, ambayo tayari yamewakimbiza waasi wa M23.
"Askari wa Rwanda tuliowakamata, ni maofisa wa ngazi za juu kabisa jeshini, tena walikuwa na sare za jeshi hilo… walikuwa wakiwasaidia hao M23, lakini kwa kuwa sisi tulikuwa makini tulifanikiwa kuwatandika hadi tukawakamata," kilisema chanzo chetu hicho.
Habari za uhakika kutoka vyanzo vya habari vya kuaminika zinaeleza kwamba, hatua hiyo ya kuwakamata maofisa hao pamoja na kuondoka kwa waasi wa kikundi cha M23, imefanikisha kushinda vita hiyo kwa zaidi ya asilimia 95.
Mtoa taarifa wetu huyo kutoka Kongo, ameliambia gazeti hili kuwa, tayari Monusco wanaoongozwa na JWTZ wameanza kufurahia ushindi huo na kwamba sasa hivi wanasubiri tamko kutoka kwa wakuu wao, ili kufahamu kinachofuata baada ya kufanikisha hatua hiyo.
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kibafute
Sasa madharau yake yanamfikisha wapi? pia huyo Kenyatta mwenyewe ni ubaguzi ndio umemjaa moyoni kumbuka yeye ni mkikuyu kikabila na wakikuyu kawaida wanawachukia sana waswahili na hapo hapo JK ni mswahili tena toka coastal region sawa sawa na wale toka sehemu za Mombasa, Lamu n.k ambao ndio Mr Kenyatta anawachukia sana na kuwadharau.
Pia kabila lake ni makaburu wale wakikuyu wanachukia watu hata bila sababu yeyote ile ,na PK naye namuona anatoka kwenye chuki kwa hiyo sintoshangaa sana kumuona anavyomchukia JK pasipo na sababu yeyote ile, pia mbona nayeye andharauliwa na baadhi ya wanywaranda wenzake ambao wanafikia kumsema eti hawako tayari kutawaliwa na mchunga ng'ombe na hili hata JK mwenyewe analifahamu vizuri anaambiwa yote kuhusu PK pia suala la kupokewa na seneta ni la kawaida sana na yote ni kujaribu kumfanyia dhihaka kwa sababu hivi sasa JK na rais wa Marekani wako karibu sana na hata ile ziara ya Mr Obama Bongo nayo iliwauma sana wote hao viongozi wenu,
Akina Kaguta,PK na Uhuru walichukizwa sana kwani yule mtu hakutaka kujihusisha na viongozi wa nchi maskini,hivi sasa western world yote jicho lao ni Bongo lakini sijui ni kwanini nyie na viongozi wenu hamlitaki hilo,waswahili wanasemi moja kama hivi "bahati ya mwenzio usiilalie mlango wazi". Mr Murage wa Msherwampamba.:canada:
Sasa madharau yake yanamfikisha wapi? pia huyo Kenyatta mwenyewe ni ubaguzi ndio umemjaa moyoni kumbuka yeye ni mkikuyu kikabila na wakikuyu kawaida wanawachukia sana waswahili na hapo hapo JK ni mswahili tena toka coastal region sawa sawa na wale toka sehemu za Mombasa, Lamu n.k ambao ndio Mr Kenyatta anawachukia sana na kuwadharau.
Pia kabila lake ni makaburu wale wakikuyu wanachukia watu hata bila sababu yeyote ile ,na PK naye namuona anatoka kwenye chuki kwa hiyo sintoshangaa sana kumuona anavyomchukia JK pasipo na sababu yeyote ile, pia mbona nayeye andharauliwa na baadhi ya wanywaranda wenzake ambao wanafikia kumsema eti hawako tayari kutawaliwa na mchunga ng'ombe na hili hata JK mwenyewe analifahamu vizuri anaambiwa yote kuhusu PK pia suala la kupokewa na seneta ni la kawaida sana na yote ni kujaribu kumfanyia dhihaka kwa sababu hivi sasa JK na rais wa Marekani wako karibu sana na hata ile ziara ya Mr Obama Bongo nayo iliwauma sana wote hao viongozi wenu,
Akina Kaguta,PK na Uhuru walichukizwa sana kwani yule mtu hakutaka kujihusisha na viongozi wa nchi maskini,hivi sasa western world yote jicho lao ni Bongo lakini sijui ni kwanini nyie na viongozi wenu hamlitaki hilo,waswahili wanasemi moja kama hivi "bahati ya mwenzio usiilalie mlango wazi". Mr Murage wa Msherwampamba.:canada:
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Ndugu nimesoma- Ila sikupata kumsikia mh Kikwete akitengua kauli,hivo kwa kupita Ikigali ni kama bado anasisitiza genocider akae mezani na FDLR
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Mtu mzima hawezi kuwa na majungu, majungu ni ya machangudoa au watu wenye fitna dhidi ya wengine mfano bora ni nyie Interahamwe dhidi ya Kagame na RPF, dawa ya mtu mwenye majungu nikumuangalia usoni na kumuuliza ayasemayo.
Kama vile nilivyo muuliza huyo JokaKuu majina ya hao wanajeshi na vyeo vyao ndani ya jeshi la Rwanda lakini mpaka leo hajanijibu ingawa alini ahidi kunitafutia hayo majina, siku zote hizo kubaki kwake kimya nilikuwa nafikiri labda nisha mkata mzizi wa fitna kumbe bado anarudi hapa na story zake fake hakika sumu zako zimewaingia mpaka kwenye nywere.
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How Rwandan DMI abducted FDLR Top CommanderGeneral Stanislas Nzeyimana in Tanzania.
InitiallyFDLR-FOCAhesitated about sending a top Commander, but with the assurances from theTanzanian military,General Nzeyimana, who had strong connections with Tanzanian military leaders whenhewas the FDLR liaison officer in Kigoma in early 2000s, volunteered.
The meeting between General Nzeyimanaand theTanzanian Militaryofficers in Dar-es-Salaam ended onFebruary 28, 2013.Western Europe Non-Government Organizations(NGO) in the mix When Western NGOs that have been working on Eastern DRC and are close to FDLR-FOC Alearned of the trip ofGeneral Nzeyimanato Tanzania, they also organized to meet with him while in Dar-Es-Salaam.
The meeting betweenGeneral Nzeyimana and the NGOs was held on March 1, 2013. Among the discussions were how dependents of FDLR-FOCA, especially children and elderly, could be removed from the combatzones to cities or other identified safe zones, whereNGOscould care for them.
An agreement between theNGOsand theFDLR-FOCAwas signed. After the meeting, theNGOsandGeneral Nzeyimanaseparated.NGOsstaff returned to the West and General Nzeyimana planned to return to Eastern DRC via Kigoma.
Before returning to Eastern DRC, General Nzeyimanapaid visits to friend among Rwandan refugees based in Dar-es-Salaam.
On March 3, 2013, while leaving Dar-es-Salaam to Kigoma,General Nzeyimana was arrested by Tanzania Security Services operatives. According to sources close to Tanzanian Security Services, the operatives were acting on a tip, independently from the Tanzanian Military.
They believed that General Nzeyimana, then using the war name of General Bigaruka Izabayo, was actually General Mudacumura, the FDLR-FOCA Commander who is sought by the International Criminal Court (ICC) and whose arrest would generate a $5 million dollars windfall promised by the United States Government.
The operatives held General Nzeyimana in a safe house and contacted the FDLR-FOCA High Command in DRC. They ordered FDLR-FOCA to pay $4 million dollars to have General Nzeyimana released.
Upon verification, the Tanzanian Security Services confirmed that it was General Nzeyimana who, instead, is on the list of theUnited Nations Security Council Sanctions Committee and on the United States Travel Ban list, and hence not allowed to travel across states. The Tanzania Security Services asked that theFDLR-FOCA pay a fine of US $1 million to the Tanzanian Security Services.
The FDLR-FOCA High Command once again refused to pay the money.
Rwandan Department of Military Intelligence buy General Nzeyimana.
When FDLR refused to pay $1 million dollars, the Tanzania Security Services contacted the Rwandan military attache at the Rwandan Embassy in Dar-es-Salaam, LtColonel Tinka, and asked whether the Rwandan Department of Military Intelligence was ready to pay $3 million dollars in exchange of General Nzeyimana.
Asked where General Nzeyimana may be, the FDLR-FOCA sources said that probably in a torture house in Rwanda and probably will be killed. Asked why he may be killed instead of imprisoned, the FDLR-FOCA sources said that because General Nzeyimana had travelled to Tanzania with the invitation from the Tanzanian Military, he could not be held in Rwandan official prisons, unless there is "a strange" explanation how he ended up there.
Asked about the impact of General Nzeyimana's capture on FDLR-FOCA, the sources said that it is a severe, but not fatal blow....How Rwandan DMI abducted FDLR Top Commander General Stanislas Nzeyimana Numerous sources are now reporting on ...rwandinfo.com[cached]
Numerous sources are now reporting on the arrest ofGeneral Stanislas Nzeyimana (aka Izabayo Bigaruka), the deputy commander of the FDLR--the German Tageszeitung wrote about it last Friday, and sources close to the Tanzanian security services are now confirming.
Bigaruka, asheis commonly known, was not directly involved in the 1994 genocide, as he was in undergoing military training abroad at the time.
However,he did play a significant role during the insurgency in northwest Rwanda between 1997-1998.He later became commander of the South Kivu division and eventually was promoted to become deputy overall commander in 2008.
It is not clear how and when Bigaruka was arrested, although according to one UN sourcehewas taken into custody by Tanzanian security officials at the Serena Hotel on April 5.
He was allegedly accompanied by two Congolese protestant ministers. The newspaper Umuvigizi, which has been banned in Rwanda, however reported that he had been arrested in Kigoma, on the shores of Lake Tanganyika, where he had been based for several years as an FDLR liaison officer.
How Rwandan DMI abducted FDLR Top Commander General Stanislas Nzeyimana
How Rwandan DMI abducted FDLR Top CommanderGeneral Stanislas Nzeyimana in Tanzania.
InitiallyFDLR-FOCAhesitated about sending a top Commander, but with the assurances from theTanzanian military,General Nzeyimana, who had strong connections with Tanzanian military leaders whenhewas the FDLR liaison officer in Kigoma in early 2000s, volunteered.
The meeting between General Nzeyimanaand theTanzanian Militaryofficers in Dar-es-Salaam ended onFebruary 28, 2013.Western Europe Non-Government Organizations(NGO) in the mix When Western NGOs that have been working on Eastern DRC and are close to FDLR-FOC Alearned of the trip ofGeneral Nzeyimanato Tanzania, they also organized to meet with him while in Dar-Es-Salaam.
The meeting betweenGeneral Nzeyimana and the NGOs was held on March 1, 2013. Among the discussions were how dependents of FDLR-FOCA, especially children and elderly, could be removed from the combatzones to cities or other identified safe zones, whereNGOscould care for them.
An agreement between theNGOsand theFDLR-FOCAwas signed. After the meeting, theNGOsandGeneral Nzeyimanaseparated.NGOsstaff returned to the West and General Nzeyimana planned to return to Eastern DRC via Kigoma.
Before returning to Eastern DRC, General Nzeyimanapaid visits to friend among Rwandan refugees based in Dar-es-Salaam.
On March 3, 2013, while leaving Dar-es-Salaam to Kigoma,General Nzeyimana was arrested by Tanzania Security Services operatives. According to sources close to Tanzanian Security Services, the operatives were acting on a tip, independently from the Tanzanian Military.
They believed that General Nzeyimana, then using the war name of General Bigaruka Izabayo, was actually General Mudacumura, the FDLR-FOCA Commander who is sought by the International Criminal Court (ICC) and whose arrest would generate a $5 million dollars windfall promised by the United States Government.
The operatives held General Nzeyimana in a safe house and contacted the FDLR-FOCA High Command in DRC. They ordered FDLR-FOCA to pay $4 million dollars to have General Nzeyimana released.
Upon verification, the Tanzanian Security Services confirmed that it was General Nzeyimana who, instead, is on the list of theUnited Nations Security Council Sanctions Committee and on the United States Travel Ban list, and hence not allowed to travel across states. The Tanzania Security Services asked that theFDLR-FOCA pay a fine of US $1 million to the Tanzanian Security Services.
The FDLR-FOCA High Command once again refused to pay the money.
Rwandan Department of Military Intelligence buy General Nzeyimana.
When FDLR refused to pay $1 million dollars, the Tanzania Security Services contacted the Rwandan military attache at the Rwandan Embassy in Dar-es-Salaam, LtColonel Tinka, and asked whether the Rwandan Department of Military Intelligence was ready to pay $3 million dollars in exchange of General Nzeyimana.
Asked where General Nzeyimana may be, the FDLR-FOCA sources said that probably in a torture house in Rwanda and probably will be killed. Asked why he may be killed instead of imprisoned, the FDLR-FOCA sources said that because General Nzeyimana had travelled to Tanzania with the invitation from the Tanzanian Military, he could not be held in Rwandan official prisons, unless there is "a strange" explanation how he ended up there.
Asked about the impact of General Nzeyimana's capture on FDLR-FOCA, the sources said that it is a severe, but not fatal blow....How Rwandan DMI abducted FDLR Top Commander General Stanislas Nzeyimana Numerous sources are now reporting on ...rwandinfo.com[cached]
Numerous sources are now reporting on the arrest ofGeneral Stanislas Nzeyimana (aka Izabayo Bigaruka), the deputy commander of the FDLR--the German Tageszeitung wrote about it last Friday, and sources close to the Tanzanian security services are now confirming.
Bigaruka, asheis commonly known, was not directly involved in the 1994 genocide, as he was in undergoing military training abroad at the time.
However,he did play a significant role during the insurgency in northwest Rwanda between 1997-1998.He later became commander of the South Kivu division and eventually was promoted to become deputy overall commander in 2008.
It is not clear how and when Bigaruka was arrested, although according to one UN sourcehewas taken into custody by Tanzanian security officials at the Serena Hotel on April 5.
He was allegedly accompanied by two Congolese protestant ministers. The newspaper Umuvigizi, which has been banned in Rwanda, however reported that he had been arrested in Kigoma, on the shores of Lake Tanganyika, where he had been based for several years as an FDLR liaison officer.
How Rwandan DMI abducted FDLR Top Commander General Stanislas Nzeyimana
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Vp ndugu unafikiri kagame anaweza akakaa nao mezani akaongea nao nini? au umeona tangu kikwete ametoa hiyo kauli kuna dalili zozote za rwanda kuzungumza na fdlr?
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pugu mbona pa kijanja sana hapo fanya wapokelewe na diwani wa kata ya bomba mbili kutoka songea mkuu.
U.S. tells Rwanda to stop support for M23 rebels in Congo
(Reuters) - The United States on Tuesday called on Rwanda to end support for M23 rebels in neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo, saying there was evidence Rwandan military officials were involved.
It is the first response by Washington to recent M23 clashes with Congolese government forces near Goma, the largest city in the DRC's mineral-rich eastern region, but stayed clear of directly implicating Rwandan President Paul Kagame, a U.S. ally whose poverty-fighting programs are often heralded by donors.
"We call upon Rwanda to immediately end any support for the M23 (and) withdraw military personnel from eastern DRC," State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said.
The call comes two days before U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry chairs a special session of the U.N. Security Council on Africa's Great Lakes region.
M23 began taking parts of eastern Congoearly last year, accusing the government of failing to honor a 2009 peace deal.
A U.N. report in June this year said the M23 recruited fighters in Rwanda with the aid of sympathetic Rwandan army officers, while elements of the Congolese army have cooperated with the Rwandan Hutu rebel group FDLR.
The report prompted the United States and European states to suspend military assistance to Kigali.
Psaki said the latest concerns over M23 follow credible evidence from Human Rights Watch that said the rebels were to blame for executions, rapes and forcible recruitment of men and boys while receiving support from Rwanda.
The rights group acknowledged on Tuesday erroneous testimony in the report but said it stands by its conclusions. A statement by the group said the report contained an error based on the testimony of one of the sources it interviewed.
"It said the Rwandan soldiers had served with the peacekeeping contingent in Somalia and Darfur. In fact, Rwandan peacekeepers served in Darfur but not in Somalia," the statement said.
It said, however, that more than 50 witnesses had confirmed the key findings of its report about continuing Rwandan support for the M23.
Rwanda rejected the group's allegations, saying that the inclusion of incorrect testimony undermined the report. Rwanda also accused Human Rights Watch of paying for witness testimony, a charge the group had denied.
It is not the first time that the United States has called on Rwanda to stop supporting the M23 rebels. A year ago, the United States made the same call after a U.N. investigation implicated senior Kigali officials in supporting M23.
The U.N. investigation provided the strongest evidence yet that officials from Kagame's government were providing military and logistical support to armed groups in Congo.
A 17,000-strong U.N. force, known as MONUSCO, and Congo troops have struggled in the past decade to stem a conflict involving dozens of armed groups and complicated by national and ethnic rivalries. A 3,000-member U.N. Intervention Brigade was recently deployed to fight and disarm rebels in the east.
(Additional reporting by Lou Charbonneau; Editing by Doina Chiacu and Bill Trott)
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(Reuters) - The United States on Tuesday called on Rwanda to end support for M23 rebels in neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo, saying there was evidence Rwandan military officials were involved.
It is the first response by Washington to recent M23 clashes with Congolese government forces near Goma, the largest city in the DRC's mineral-rich eastern region, but stayed clear of directly implicating Rwandan President Paul Kagame, a U.S. ally whose poverty-fighting programs are often heralded by donors.
"We call upon Rwanda to immediately end any support for the M23 (and) withdraw military personnel from eastern DRC," State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said.
The call comes two days before U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry chairs a special session of the U.N. Security Council on Africa's Great Lakes region.
M23 began taking parts of eastern Congoearly last year, accusing the government of failing to honor a 2009 peace deal.
A U.N. report in June this year said the M23 recruited fighters in Rwanda with the aid of sympathetic Rwandan army officers, while elements of the Congolese army have cooperated with the Rwandan Hutu rebel group FDLR.
The report prompted the United States and European states to suspend military assistance to Kigali.
Psaki said the latest concerns over M23 follow credible evidence from Human Rights Watch that said the rebels were to blame for executions, rapes and forcible recruitment of men and boys while receiving support from Rwanda.
The rights group acknowledged on Tuesday erroneous testimony in the report but said it stands by its conclusions. A statement by the group said the report contained an error based on the testimony of one of the sources it interviewed.
"It said the Rwandan soldiers had served with the peacekeeping contingent in Somalia and Darfur. In fact, Rwandan peacekeepers served in Darfur but not in Somalia," the statement said.
It said, however, that more than 50 witnesses had confirmed the key findings of its report about continuing Rwandan support for the M23.
Rwanda rejected the group's allegations, saying that the inclusion of incorrect testimony undermined the report. Rwanda also accused Human Rights Watch of paying for witness testimony, a charge the group had denied.
It is not the first time that the United States has called on Rwanda to stop supporting the M23 rebels. A year ago, the United States made the same call after a U.N. investigation implicated senior Kigali officials in supporting M23.
The U.N. investigation provided the strongest evidence yet that officials from Kagame's government were providing military and logistical support to armed groups in Congo.
A 17,000-strong U.N. force, known as MONUSCO, and Congo troops have struggled in the past decade to stem a conflict involving dozens of armed groups and complicated by national and ethnic rivalries. A 3,000-member U.N. Intervention Brigade was recently deployed to fight and disarm rebels in the east.
(Additional reporting by Lou Charbonneau; Editing by Doina Chiacu and Bill Trott)
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US Welcoming the Start of Military Operations Against the FDLR
Press StatementJen Saki department SpokespersonWashington, DCJanuary 29, 2015FacebookTweetThe United States welcomes the announcement by the Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) of the start of military operations against the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR), an armed group that has inflicted immeasurable suffering on thecivilian population of eastern DRC and Rwanda for over 20 years.
The UN Security Council has mandated the UN Organization Stabilization Mission in the DRC (MONUSCO) to protect civilians and, in support of the DRC authorities, to neutralize armed groups including the FDLR.
Last July, the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR) and the Southern African Development Community (SADC) gave the FDLR, including its leadership, a clear deadline of January 2, 2015 to surrender fully and unconditionally or face military consequences.
However, the FDLR failed to deliver on its promiseto surrender and instead used this period to continue to commit human rights abuses, recruit new combatants, and pursue its illegitimate political agenda.In October, the ICGLR and SADC heads of state reaffirmed that military action should take place in the absence of a full surrender of the FDLR, and on January 8, the UN Security Council reiterated the need to neutralize the FDLR through immediate military operations.
The United States fully supports DRC military operations with MONUSCO against those members of the FDLR who have failed to surrender. We encourage the DRC and MONUSCO to continue their coordination and joint planning and to take immediate steps to end the threat from the FDLR.
We stress the importance of these military operations being conducted in a way that protects and minimizes the impact on civilians, inaccordance with international law, including international humanitarian law, and in line with the UN's human rights due diligence policy.
The neutralization of the FDLR will contribute to long-term peace and stability for the people of the Great Lakes region.
US Welcoming the Start of Military Operations Against the FDLR
Press StatementJen Saki department SpokespersonWashington, DCJanuary 29, 2015FacebookTweetThe United States welcomes the announcement by the Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) of the start of military operations against the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR), an armed group that has inflicted immeasurable suffering on thecivilian population of eastern DRC and Rwanda for over 20 years.
The UN Security Council has mandated the UN Organization Stabilization Mission in the DRC (MONUSCO) to protect civilians and, in support of the DRC authorities, to neutralize armed groups including the FDLR.
Last July, the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR) and the Southern African Development Community (SADC) gave the FDLR, including its leadership, a clear deadline of January 2, 2015 to surrender fully and unconditionally or face military consequences.
However, the FDLR failed to deliver on its promiseto surrender and instead used this period to continue to commit human rights abuses, recruit new combatants, and pursue its illegitimate political agenda.In October, the ICGLR and SADC heads of state reaffirmed that military action should take place in the absence of a full surrender of the FDLR, and on January 8, the UN Security Council reiterated the need to neutralize the FDLR through immediate military operations.
The United States fully supports DRC military operations with MONUSCO against those members of the FDLR who have failed to surrender. We encourage the DRC and MONUSCO to continue their coordination and joint planning and to take immediate steps to end the threat from the FDLR.
We stress the importance of these military operations being conducted in a way that protects and minimizes the impact on civilians, inaccordance with international law, including international humanitarian law, and in line with the UN's human rights due diligence policy.
The neutralization of the FDLR will contribute to long-term peace and stability for the people of the Great Lakes region.
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M23 Recruitment in Rwanda and Other Rwandan Support
Based on interviews with 31 former M23 fighters who deserted since late March and numerous civilians living on both sides of the border, Human Rights Watch has documented military support from Rwanda to the M23. The support includes the provision of weapons and ammunition. Armed men in military uniform have moved regularly from Rwanda into Congo to support the M23; these could be new recruits and demobilized soldiers who were given uniforms before crossing into Congo, or serving Rwandan soldiers.Rwandan army officers have been seen at M23 bases, leading training for new recruits, and recruiting for the M23 in Rwanda.
Those recruited in Rwanda and taken across the border to fight with the M23 include demobilized Rwandan soldiers and former FDLR fighters who are part of the Rwandan army's Reserve Force, as well as civilians, including boys. Between January and June, UN peacekeepers demobilized and repatriated 56 former M23 fighters who said they were Rwandan nationals. But M23 deserters interviewed by Human Rights Watch, as well as the UN Group of Experts on the Democratic Republic of Congo, said that Rwandan army officers forcibly brought back Rwandan nationals who escaped the M23 and tried to return to Rwanda.
Human Rights Watch has documented the cases of seven Rwandan children, ages 15, 16, and 17, who were forcibly recruited in Rwanda in March and April, forced to fight with the M23, and were later able to escape. Human Rights Watch has received reports of other children recruited in Rwanda in recent months who have not been able to escape.
A 15-year-old Rwandan boy told Human Rights Watch that he was forcibly recruited from his village in Nyabihu district in Rwanda with two other boys and a young man in late April. The four of them were making bricks when two men in civilian clothes offered them jobs as cow herders in Congo. The two men then took them by motorcycle to the Congolese border, and on to an M23 military camp. They were forced to become M23 fighters and were warned that they would be killed if they refused or tried to escape.
The 15-year-old said that Rwandan army officers gave them military training for 10 days and that many other Rwandans were in his group of 58 new recruits. He said some of the Rwandan recruits tried to escape, but they were caught and brought back to the camp.
A Congolese M23 officer who deserted in late May told Human Rights Watch that Rwandan recruits and soldiers arrived regularly throughout his time with the M23, from November through May. He said the soldiers would come and go, as they rotated in and out. The recruits were given military training and forced to stay in Congo. Many tried to flee back to Rwanda, he said, but some were caught once they crossed into Rwanda and were taken back to the M23.
One deserter told Human Rights Watch that a Rwandan soldier in his unit had told him in April that he was a demobilized soldier and had come to fight in Congo so he could have a higher rank in the Rwandan army when he went back. He said that two other Rwandans in his unit had escaped to Rwanda in March, but had been re-recruited and brought back to the M23. A former M23 officer said that two Rwandans in his unit escaped in mid-April. Soon after they arrived in Rwanda, the former officer said, neighborhood authorities informed military intelligence officials, who brought the young men back to the M23. They were detained by the M23 for a week, then redeployed.
M23 deserters and Rwandan villagers said that Rwandan soldiers and new recruits often crossed the border on foot at night, using remote trails through Virunga National Park.
Two former M23 officers told Human Rights Watch that some of the Rwandan fighters in their units told them they had served in Darfur as part of the Rwandan army's peacekeeping contingent. Several M23 deserters interviewed by Human Rights Watch, who had served in previous Rwanda-backed rebellions, said they recognized Rwandan army officers from their past experiences with the Rwandan military.
A Congolese man from Ntamugenga was forcibly recruited in May and forced to start military training. "In our group, there were 107 in the training," he said. "Most of the others were Rwandans. They told me they had been tricked and were promised money if they came to Congo. Many of them were children. The army officers from Rwanda gave us the training, and they told us themselves that they lived in Rwanda. [After the training], there were demobilized soldiers from Rwanda and some ex-FDLR in my group."
Several M23 deserters who escaped since late May described to Human Rights Watch the difference in the way the M23 treated Rwandans and Congolese within the rebel movement. One said:
Rwandans are favored. They're given uniforms immediately, they're given blankets, and they get boots. They're spoiled. When they talk, they talk like they are the owners of the movement. I felt this threat. [They] called me a loser. They said, "You are worth nothing in your country." They insulted me with things that you can't say out loud. They said, "You Congolese, you may have studied a lot, but you've never been to the front."
M23 deserters described deliveries of weapons, ammunition, food, phone credit, and other supplies from Rwanda. One former officer said that the wives of Rwandan officers often came to the M23's positions in Congo to visit their husbands, bringing with them letters from family members in Rwanda.
All of the M23 deserters Human Rights Watch interviewed said the presence of Rwandan soldiers, officers, and trainers continued throughout their time with the M23, and that new arrivals – often bringing with them military and other supplies – continued coming from Rwanda in recent months.
Three former M23 officers close to the movement's leadership told Human Rights Watch that the M23's senior commanders spoke on the phone and met regularly with senior Rwandan army officers until at least late May or June, when the three deserted. Sometimes Rwandan officers came to Tshanzu or Rumangabo to meet with the M23 leaders, and sometimes the M23 leaders went to Rwanda for meetings.
source:DR Congo: M23 Rebels Kill, Rape Civilians | Human Rights Watch
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Based on interviews with 31 former M23 fighters who deserted since late March and numerous civilians living on both sides of the border, Human Rights Watch has documented military support from Rwanda to the M23. The support includes the provision of weapons and ammunition. Armed men in military uniform have moved regularly from Rwanda into Congo to support the M23; these could be new recruits and demobilized soldiers who were given uniforms before crossing into Congo, or serving Rwandan soldiers.Rwandan army officers have been seen at M23 bases, leading training for new recruits, and recruiting for the M23 in Rwanda.
Those recruited in Rwanda and taken across the border to fight with the M23 include demobilized Rwandan soldiers and former FDLR fighters who are part of the Rwandan army's Reserve Force, as well as civilians, including boys. Between January and June, UN peacekeepers demobilized and repatriated 56 former M23 fighters who said they were Rwandan nationals. But M23 deserters interviewed by Human Rights Watch, as well as the UN Group of Experts on the Democratic Republic of Congo, said that Rwandan army officers forcibly brought back Rwandan nationals who escaped the M23 and tried to return to Rwanda.
Human Rights Watch has documented the cases of seven Rwandan children, ages 15, 16, and 17, who were forcibly recruited in Rwanda in March and April, forced to fight with the M23, and were later able to escape. Human Rights Watch has received reports of other children recruited in Rwanda in recent months who have not been able to escape.
A 15-year-old Rwandan boy told Human Rights Watch that he was forcibly recruited from his village in Nyabihu district in Rwanda with two other boys and a young man in late April. The four of them were making bricks when two men in civilian clothes offered them jobs as cow herders in Congo. The two men then took them by motorcycle to the Congolese border, and on to an M23 military camp. They were forced to become M23 fighters and were warned that they would be killed if they refused or tried to escape.
The 15-year-old said that Rwandan army officers gave them military training for 10 days and that many other Rwandans were in his group of 58 new recruits. He said some of the Rwandan recruits tried to escape, but they were caught and brought back to the camp.
A Congolese M23 officer who deserted in late May told Human Rights Watch that Rwandan recruits and soldiers arrived regularly throughout his time with the M23, from November through May. He said the soldiers would come and go, as they rotated in and out. The recruits were given military training and forced to stay in Congo. Many tried to flee back to Rwanda, he said, but some were caught once they crossed into Rwanda and were taken back to the M23.
One deserter told Human Rights Watch that a Rwandan soldier in his unit had told him in April that he was a demobilized soldier and had come to fight in Congo so he could have a higher rank in the Rwandan army when he went back. He said that two other Rwandans in his unit had escaped to Rwanda in March, but had been re-recruited and brought back to the M23. A former M23 officer said that two Rwandans in his unit escaped in mid-April. Soon after they arrived in Rwanda, the former officer said, neighborhood authorities informed military intelligence officials, who brought the young men back to the M23. They were detained by the M23 for a week, then redeployed.
M23 deserters and Rwandan villagers said that Rwandan soldiers and new recruits often crossed the border on foot at night, using remote trails through Virunga National Park.
Two former M23 officers told Human Rights Watch that some of the Rwandan fighters in their units told them they had served in Darfur as part of the Rwandan army's peacekeeping contingent. Several M23 deserters interviewed by Human Rights Watch, who had served in previous Rwanda-backed rebellions, said they recognized Rwandan army officers from their past experiences with the Rwandan military.
A Congolese man from Ntamugenga was forcibly recruited in May and forced to start military training. "In our group, there were 107 in the training," he said. "Most of the others were Rwandans. They told me they had been tricked and were promised money if they came to Congo. Many of them were children. The army officers from Rwanda gave us the training, and they told us themselves that they lived in Rwanda. [After the training], there were demobilized soldiers from Rwanda and some ex-FDLR in my group."
Several M23 deserters who escaped since late May described to Human Rights Watch the difference in the way the M23 treated Rwandans and Congolese within the rebel movement. One said:
Rwandans are favored. They're given uniforms immediately, they're given blankets, and they get boots. They're spoiled. When they talk, they talk like they are the owners of the movement. I felt this threat. [They] called me a loser. They said, "You are worth nothing in your country." They insulted me with things that you can't say out loud. They said, "You Congolese, you may have studied a lot, but you've never been to the front."
M23 deserters described deliveries of weapons, ammunition, food, phone credit, and other supplies from Rwanda. One former officer said that the wives of Rwandan officers often came to the M23's positions in Congo to visit their husbands, bringing with them letters from family members in Rwanda.
All of the M23 deserters Human Rights Watch interviewed said the presence of Rwandan soldiers, officers, and trainers continued throughout their time with the M23, and that new arrivals – often bringing with them military and other supplies – continued coming from Rwanda in recent months.
Three former M23 officers close to the movement's leadership told Human Rights Watch that the M23's senior commanders spoke on the phone and met regularly with senior Rwandan army officers until at least late May or June, when the three deserted. Sometimes Rwandan officers came to Tshanzu or Rumangabo to meet with the M23 leaders, and sometimes the M23 leaders went to Rwanda for meetings.
source:DR Congo: M23 Rebels Kill, Rape Civilians | Human Rights Watch
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New UN report pins Tanzania on FDLR militia
The leaders of the genocidal FDLR militia and its political supporters in Europe have held several meetings in Tanzania since at least 2013, a new UN report has said.The final report of the UN Group of Experts on the DR Congo, dated January 12, a copy of which The New Times has seen, indicates that a staffer of the UN Mission in DR Congo (Monusco) reported how a senior FDLR commander and a Rwandan opposition politician, "Colonel" Hamada Habimana, FDLR's sectorcommander for South Kivu, travelled to Tanzania at the end of December 2013.
"Paulin Murayi arrived in Dar es Salaam on December 31, 2013, and returned again on March 23, 2014. Twagiramungu told the Group he visited the United Republic of Tanzania in January 2014 and met with two FDLR commanders," the report reads inpart in apparent reference to the self-exiled former Rwandan premier Faustin Twagiramungu.
Murayi is a son-in-law of FelicienKabuga, the most wanted African fugitive, who infamously bankrolled the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi which claimed more than a million lives.The authors of the new report saythat they "met with a senior FDLR commander that same day" in Tanzania and they are concerned that the Government of that country is "not investigating activities by and in support of FDLR on its territory."
"Ahead of the issuance of the report, the Group shared with theGovernment some of the evidence it had obtained and asked for further details, but didnot receive an answer as of late November.
"FDLR is a blacklisted terrorist organisation whose leaders are wanted for genocide and crimes against humanity, with some of them already on trial in a German court for leading an outlawed and criminal group.According to the report, when, in a meeting with Tanzanian authorities on October 31, the UN Group of Experts asked about these visits and meetings in the neighbouring country, Tanzanian authorities said, "there is no hosting of any rebels and our military has no communication with any rebels.
"The UN experts documented money transfers from Tanzania to a woman who the investigators believe to be the wife of FDLR "Colonel" Hamada.In January and February 2014, the woman, "Marie Furaha" received $1,594 in Kampala (Ugandan capital) from "Hamisi Hasani Kajembe", who sent the money from Dar es Salaam while Hamada was in Tanzania.
"The Government of Rwanda told the Group that Hamada's wife is named Marie and that she lives in Kampala. The phone number provided to the Group by Rwandan authorities for Marie also matches the phone number listed in data on the money transfers provided to the Group by Western Union.
The Group further notes that Paulin Murayi sent money in February to Kajembe, who received it in Dar es Salaam," the report explains.The UN Group of Experts says it continues to investigate money transfers to and from known andsuspected FDLR agents and supporters in Tanzania.
New UN report pins Tanzania on FDLR militia
The leaders of the genocidal FDLR militia and its political supporters in Europe have held several meetings in Tanzania since at least 2013, a new UN report has said.The final report of the UN Group of Experts on the DR Congo, dated January 12, a copy of which The New Times has seen, indicates that a staffer of the UN Mission in DR Congo (Monusco) reported how a senior FDLR commander and a Rwandan opposition politician, "Colonel" Hamada Habimana, FDLR's sectorcommander for South Kivu, travelled to Tanzania at the end of December 2013.
"Paulin Murayi arrived in Dar es Salaam on December 31, 2013, and returned again on March 23, 2014. Twagiramungu told the Group he visited the United Republic of Tanzania in January 2014 and met with two FDLR commanders," the report reads inpart in apparent reference to the self-exiled former Rwandan premier Faustin Twagiramungu.
Murayi is a son-in-law of FelicienKabuga, the most wanted African fugitive, who infamously bankrolled the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi which claimed more than a million lives.The authors of the new report saythat they "met with a senior FDLR commander that same day" in Tanzania and they are concerned that the Government of that country is "not investigating activities by and in support of FDLR on its territory."
"Ahead of the issuance of the report, the Group shared with theGovernment some of the evidence it had obtained and asked for further details, but didnot receive an answer as of late November.
"FDLR is a blacklisted terrorist organisation whose leaders are wanted for genocide and crimes against humanity, with some of them already on trial in a German court for leading an outlawed and criminal group.According to the report, when, in a meeting with Tanzanian authorities on October 31, the UN Group of Experts asked about these visits and meetings in the neighbouring country, Tanzanian authorities said, "there is no hosting of any rebels and our military has no communication with any rebels.
"The UN experts documented money transfers from Tanzania to a woman who the investigators believe to be the wife of FDLR "Colonel" Hamada.In January and February 2014, the woman, "Marie Furaha" received $1,594 in Kampala (Ugandan capital) from "Hamisi Hasani Kajembe", who sent the money from Dar es Salaam while Hamada was in Tanzania.
"The Government of Rwanda told the Group that Hamada's wife is named Marie and that she lives in Kampala. The phone number provided to the Group by Rwandan authorities for Marie also matches the phone number listed in data on the money transfers provided to the Group by Western Union.
The Group further notes that Paulin Murayi sent money in February to Kajembe, who received it in Dar es Salaam," the report explains.The UN Group of Experts says it continues to investigate money transfers to and from known andsuspected FDLR agents and supporters in Tanzania.
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