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Rwandan rebels rejects mass rape in DRC as UN meets.

  1. Posted on Thursday 26 August 2010 - 21:07
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    By Ryekolal Raphie Africanews reporter in Kampala.
    Kinshasa-Hutu rebels of the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda said on Thursday that they were “in no way involved” in mass rapes reported in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo.

    The United Nations on Monday reported that at least 179 women and children had been raped in recent weeks in villages of the Nord-Kivu province of the DR Congo, where the Rwandan rebels are active.

    The FDLR are “in no way involved in these odious actions and takes umbrage at the baseless accusations launched against them by the secretary general of the United Nations,” Ban Ki-moon, the rebel movement’s executive secretary Callixte Mbarushimana said in a statement from Paris.

    Nesirky said on Tuesday,“This is another grave example of both the level of sexual violence and the insecurity that continue to plague the DRC".Just because of the seriousness of the incident, Nesirky said, Ban has decided to send Atul Khare, his assistant secretary general for peacekeeping operations, to the DR Congo.

    Members of the FDLR are accused by Rwanda of taking part in the genocide 16 years ago, in which 800,000 people were killed, mainly members of the Tutsi minority, before the extremists fled into DR Congo when Tutsi-led forces took power in Kigali.

    Rape is a weapon of war used against civilians in eastern DR Congo, where assaults on villagers are frequently reported and blamed on a range of armed movements, including the DR Congo’s regular army, the FARDC.

    According to Mr Mende noted that the French news weekly L’Express reported “in its edition of November 10, 2006, 4,412 cases of attested rape (in France), or 12 cases per day (...) though that country has a higher population than the DRC.”
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