AA / Kinshasa / Pascal Mulegwa
The Rwandan government has denounced “false allegations” contained in an “unpublished and unvalidated” report by the United Nations group of experts which accused Rwanda of having, directly and indirectly, carried out offensives in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
“Rwanda cannot comment on an unpublished and unvalidated report. The UN Security Council received a report from the UN Panel of Experts in June 2022, which did not contain any of these false allegations, and a mid-term report is expected in December,” said Yolande Makolo, Door – speech of the Rwandan government.
The experts said in their report that they have detailed evidence that the Rwandan army (RDF) has “launched military interventions against Congolese armed groups and Congolese Armed Forces positions”, since November 2021 and until June 2022.
Experts say Kigali also “provided troop reinforcements to the M23 for specific operations, particularly when these aimed to seize cities and strategic areas”.
The spokeswoman for Kigali asserts that this report “can only be a tactic to divert attention from the real problems”.
“Until the problem of the FDLR, which operates in close collaboration with the DRC army, is taken seriously and resolved, security in the Great Lakes region cannot be achieved,” she said. added.
She said in a press release that “this is happening in the eyes of MONUSCO, which has been present in the DRC for more than 20 years”.
“The presence of the M23 and its origins are known as a problem of the DRC, which they seek to impose on other countries”, she adds, indicating that “the fact that the rebels who criss-cross the region are in conflict with their government, is not the responsibility of Rwanda”.
The international organization, Doctors Without Borders (MSF), said on Thursday that more than 190,000 people have had to flee their homes since the end of March 2022 in the territories of Rutshuru and Nyiragongo, in the province of North Kivu, after the resurgence of the M23 armed group and intermittent clashes with the Congolese army.
The rebellion, defeated militarily in 2013, has taken up arms again, accusing Kinshasa of not having respected the peace agreements.
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