Rwanda Hutu rebels condemn 'terror plot' arrests
Africa
20 April 2014
This picture taken on April 15, 2014 shows Rwandan musician Kizito
Mihigo speaking to the media in Kigali. Picture: AFP
KINSHASA - Rwandan Hutu rebels exiled in the eastern Democratic
Republic of Congo have condemned the arrest of a group accused of
plotting a grenade attack against the government in Kigali.
Police in Rwanda arrested three men last Monday -- well-known musician
Kizito Mihigo, radio journalist Cassien Ntamuhanga and former soldier
Jean Paul Dukuzumuremyi -- accusing them of planning to attack the
country's leaders in revenge for the assassination of Patrick
Karegeya, a former spy chief and fierce critic of President Paul
Kagame.
The three men were said to have ties to the Democratic Forces for the
Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR), a rebel group that includes remnants of
the militia that carried out the 1994 genocide of Tutsis and is now
based over the border in DR Congo.
In a statement on Sunday, the FDLR described the government's decision
to arrest the men as an "effort to silence those who refuse to adhere
to its sectarian and undemocratic agenda".
"Many more were arrested with false accusations of collaborating with
FDLR. FDLR condemns these acts of inhuman treatment of Rwandans by
their own government," said the statement, signed by Colonel Willy
Irategeka, interim head of the FDLR's armed wing.
Police also accused the arrested men of having ties to the South
Africa-based Rwanda National Congress, an exiled opposition group.
The RNC denied any links to the men in a statement last Monday, but
accused the government of concocting the terrorist plot to silence its
critics.
Karegeya, who lived in exile in South Africa, was found strangled to
death in a Johannesburg luxury hotel on New Year's Day.
The FDLR has around 1,500 men, according to UN estimates, or 4,000,
according to Kigali. They are scattered across Kivu province in the
east of DR Congo, where they have been accused of widespread violence
and rights abuses.
The group's armed wing again promised to lay down arms in late 2013
but the Rwandan government has refused to hold talks.
"FDLR is committed to political negotiations and peaceful resolution
for Rwanda problems, therefore we have no intention of starting
conflicts or creating insecurity in Rwanda," the group's statement
said.
-AFP
http://www.enca.com/africa/rwanda-hutu-rebels-condemn-terror-plot-arrests
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