Terror turns to talks in Congo
The Australian Financial Review - 3 hours ago
After two decades of terrorising villages in the Democratic Republic
of Congo the leaders of the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of
Rwanda - composed of ethnic Hutus from Rwanda and known by its French
initials, FDLR - have shed their camouflage for ill-fitting black
suits to negotiate with the government.
Few see this as realistic. UN officials are cautiously backing the
effort, although one said the prospect of political talks was as
likely as former Nazis joining Israel's legislature. The United States
is opposed to negotiating with a group that has a history of
committing atrocities.
Rwanda has since accused the United Nations of trying "to sanitise
FDLR genocidaires." In a letter sent last week to the Security
Council, Rwanda's UN envoy, Eugène-Richard Gasana, chided the Council
for trying to secure a travel-ban exemption for an FDLR leader, so
that he could discuss the disarmament efforts with a senior envoy.
"Any further delay in eliminating this group and its ideology would
only serve to cause further harm and suffering to the region," Gasana
said.
Having recently quashed a Rwandan-backed guerilla group called M23 and
then taken on a radical Islamist group near the Ugandan border called
the Allied Democratic Forces, UN peacekeepers are under immense
international pressure, not least from Rwanda and its supporters, to
stamp out the original combatants of this war, the FDLR.
The UN estimates that there are fewer than 2000 active FDLR fighters
left in Congo. Thousands have surrendered to peacekeepers, who have
sent them back to Rwanda. The ones coming out of the bush now are
being housed, fed and guarded by the UN in temporary camps.
Discussions are also underway to find a third country in which to
resettle former combatants.
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