"We have to get rid of the FDLR, not so much because of their military capacity, but because of what they represent and the destabilising effect that they have with regard to relations with Rwanda. That is our top priority," he said. "I've been involved with efforts to communicate to them that it's time for them to surrender. That they will be attacked militarily if they don't. That there will be no political dialogue.", Russell Feingold.
This strange statement contrasts sharply with the need for opening of political space in Rwanda, an issue that Russell Feingold vehemently advocated for when he was in US Senate. Please see: http://hungryoftruth.blogspot.com/search?q=Russ+Feingold
From: "Theobald Gakwaya tgakwaya@yahoo.com [Democracy_Human_Rights]" <Democracy_Human_Rights@yahoogroupes.fr>
To: "Democracy_Human_Rights@yahoogroupes.fr" <Democracy_Human_Rights@yahoogroupes.fr>; Sibomana Jean Bosco <Sibomanaxyz999@gmail.com>
Sent: Tuesday, August 5, 2014 7:54 PM
Subject: Re: *DHR* The Guardian - 1 hour ago: US tells armed group in DRC to surrender or face 'military option'
Ainsi donc US lance une veritable declaration de guerre contre les refugies Hutu se trouvant sur le territoire Congolais mais aussi contre tous les hutu consideres dans leur ensemble comme des ennemis des Tutsi. Les rwandais tous Hutu et Tutsi raisonnables doivent se preparer a cette guerre et nous allons ensemble la gagner contre Kagame et ses parrains genocidaires des HUTU.RwakaOn Tuesday, August 5, 2014 3:13 PM, "Jean Bosco Sibomana sibomanaxyz999@gmail.com [Democracy_Human_Rights]" <Democracy_Human_Rights@yahoogroupes.fr> wrote:
US tells armed group in DRC to surrender or face 'military option'
The Guardian - 1 hour ago
Chris McGreal in Washington
theguardian.com, Tuesday 5 August 2014 12.23 EDT

A man suspected of being an FDLR fighter is detained near Goma in
eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. Photograph: Jerome Delay/AP
Barack Obama's special envoy to central Africa has warned an armed
group in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) that it has months to
surrender or face "the military option".
Speaking at the US president's summit with African leaders in
Washington, Russell Feingold said there was a "tremendous need to
finish off" the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR),
a group formed by the leaders of the genocide in Rwanda 20 years ago
and which controls parts of eastern DRC.
"We have to get rid of the FDLR, not so much because of their military
capacity, but because of what they represent and the destabilising
effect that they have with regard to relations with Rwanda. That is
our top priority," he said. "I've been involved with efforts to
communicate to them that it's time for them to surrender. That they
will be attacked militarily if they don't. That there will be no
political dialogue."
Feingold noted that another rebel group, M23, which was backed by
Rwanda and carried out massacres, rapes and other war crimes in DRC,
was forced to surrender last year by a combination of diplomatic
pressure and military action by the UN and African forces. It is
likely that the FDLR would face a similar military operation if
attempts to pressure it into surrendering fail.
The FDLR was formed by leaders of the genocide of about 800,000 Tutsis
in Rwanda. Former soldiers and militias that carried out the killings
fled in to what was then Zaire in 1994 after the defeat of the
extremist Hutu government in Kigali.
For several years, its forces led cross-border raids into Rwanda,
usually killing civilians. The assaults, however, fell away and the
FDLR settled in to control an area of eastern DRC close to the Rwandan
border, where it fought government forces and attacked the local
population, killing hundreds and possibly thousands of people. Human
rights groups have also accused its members of mass rape.
The FDLR is no longer regarded as a serious military threat to Rwanda,
but it has kept "genocide ideology" alive as it raised a new
generation to hate Tutsis.
Much of the leadership lives abroad, some of them in Europe. The FDLR
chairman, Ignace Murwanashyaka, and his deputy, Straton Musoni, were
arrested in Germany and tried for war crimes and crimes against
humanity. A verdict is expect later this year. The group's executive
secretary, Callixte Mbarushimana, was detained in France and
extradited in 2011 under an international criminal court warrant. He
was released later that year on the grounds that there was
insufficient evidence to prosecute him.
Feingold's warning to the FDLR follows a regional agreement to end the
activities of all armed groups in eastern DRC, some of which have been
backed by Rwanda and Uganda, and to return control of the region to
the government in Kinshasa after two decades of foreign invasions,
civil war and plunder of its mineral resources. Many of the armed
groups have been responsible for mass rape and indiscriminate
killings.
The FDLR leadership initially indicated that it would surrender but
then demanded political dialogue with the Rwandan government of
President Paul Kagame, who led the then rebel army, which defeated the
extremist Hutu regime. Kagame has refused to negotiate.
Feingold said that mediators were prepared to facilitate the return of
FDLR members to Rwanda or to settle elsewhere, presumably in DRC, but
that there would be no talks about it taking a political role in
Rwanda – principally because of its ties to the genocide.
Several previous attempts to disarm the FDLR have failed, including a
cross-border assault by the Rwandan army. The surrender of M23,
however, indicates a determination by the UN and regional powers to
finally put an end to violence in eastern DRC.
Feingold said that once the FDLR was dealt with, the key to long-term
stability in DRC would be to strengthen the political system. That
includes the country's president, Joseph Kabila, stepping down at
elections in 2016 as required by the constitution. He said the US
secretary of state, John Kerry, told Kabila at a meeting on Monday
that Washington expects him to abide by the two-term limit and not to
attempt to hold on to power.
"We regard the elections as one of the top priorities not only for the
domestic DRC, but for the stability of the entire region because
without a credible political system it is unlikely that the eastern
DRC will achieve the stability and the kind of sovereignty over the
area that is needed," he said.
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