According to the authorities of Rwanda, the Democratic Republic of Congo is preparing a full -scale invasion of their state, “said Reuters. The Rwandan ambassador in the organization of the United Nations stated that his country has “evidence of an inevitable large -scale attack”.
Ambassador Rwanda At the UN, James Ngango during an extraordinary meeting of the Human Rights Council in Geneva rejected the accusations of the Democratic Republic of Congo, that Rwanda was responsible for instability in the eastern part of DRK.
– The current situation is a direct threat to Rwanda. After the fall of the Goma, evidence appeared for an inevitable attack. Kinszas and her allies gathered weapons at the airport in Gomie and near it – said Nagggo.
The British daily “The Guardian” announced on Friday that in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, hundreds of Rwandan soldiers were killed, which undermines Kigali's claims about the lack of commitment to the fight. According to intelligence, military and diplomatic sources cited by the journal, many Rwandan soldiers fought side by side with rebels from M23.
Democratic Republic of Congo. The situation in Gom forces the local people to escape. PAP/EPA/SRINGER
The United States threaten to sanctions
The Reuters agency said on Friday that United States They sent a warning about sanctions to the rule in Kigali and Kinshasa if the conflict in the east of DRK occurs.
In a diplomatic note sent on Friday by Washington to Kenyawhich chaired the East African community and mediated in crisis, it was found that stability in the region requires that the Rwandan army “withdraw its forces and advanced weapons” with DRK.
“We will consider imposing sanctions on entities that will not cooperate, including military and government officials of both countries” – indicated in the document.
Goma occupation by the M23 rebels
Kigali and Kinszas blame each other for intensification of fights in the eastern DRK, where the M23 rebels supported by Rwanda took the capital of the province of North Kiwu, Goma, and expand their influence, occupying new territories.
The conflict in the province of Northern Kiws broke out in 1994, just after the genocide in the neighboring Rwanda, where representatives of the Hutu ethnic group killed over 800,000 people, mainly from the Tutsi tribe. The Tutsi counteroffensive, headed by the current President of Rwanda Paul Kagame, put an end to the genocide and allowed them to take control of the country. Two million Hutu then escaped to DRK, exposing themselves to retaliation actions of Tutsi groups living this country.
The rebels attacked the city of Goma in the Democratic Republic of CongoStringer/PAP/EPA
One of these groups is the M23 in 2012. Rebels in the past, in 2012, mastered Goma briefly, and then five years later attacked the eastern territory of the country. In 2022 they began another siege of Goma, which they won in January this year.
The authorities in Kinshasa accuse the rebels and supporting their rwanda of the desire to control the mineral resources of eastern provinces, the rich, among others In gold, diamonds, tin and koltan. M23 leaders maintain that they only mean protecting ethnic minorities against the DRK government, which accuse of fueling hatred between two ethnic groups.
Source of the main photo: PAP/EPA/DANIEL IRUNGU