Posted on 01/23/2009 2:27:38 AM PST by LjubivojeRadosavljevic
DR Congo's rebel leader arrested Gen Nkunda has said he protects Congo's Tutsis from Rwandan Hutus...
Gen Laurent Nkunda, leader of the strongest rebel group in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, has been arrested, the military says.
He was detained in Rwanda after resisting a joint Rwandan-Congolese operation to arrest him, officials say...
Rwanda was obliged to arrest Gen Nkunda. The next step is for the joint Congolese-Rwandan force to tackle the FDLR Hutu rebels, some of whose leaders are accused of involvement in the 1994 slaughter in Rwanda of some 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus. ...
The rebel leader was detained in Rwanda after troops converged on his stronghold in the Congolese town of Bunagana. ...
Some five million people are estimated to have died as a result of almost 15 years of conflict in DR Congo, following the Rwandan genocide.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.bbc.co.uk ...
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