CNDP end hostilities
Category: Uncategorized | Date: Jan 17 2009 | By: paula
Amazing developments over the last 24 hours. Reported here on bbc
Senior officers of the main Tutsi rebel group in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo have announced a ceasefire with government forces.
The breakaway faction of the National Congress for the Defence of the People (CNDP) said its fighters would join the Congolese army.
The move is expected to increase pressure on CNDP leader Laurent Nkunda to declare a full ceasefire.
Some 250,000 people have been displaced by fighting which erupted in August.
Gen Nkunda says he is fighting to protect his Tutsi community from attacks by Rwandan Hutu rebels based in DR Congo, some of whom are accused of taking part in the 1994 genocide.
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2 Responses to “CNDP end hostilities”
sheryl, washington, dc, on 17 Jan 2009
Hmm … So this isn’t Nkunda calling a cease-fire but the faction that attempted a coup recently? And my “joining the Congolese army” do they mean “recruit everyone in the army to our group so that we’re stronger than Nkunda and we can topple him and absorb the remaining troops thereby making us the de facto army in DRC”?
Sorry for the skepticism, but I don’t see these people just giving up their fight to join the FARDC and take orders from the government.
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Annie, on 17 Jan 2009
Yea, not sure what to believe..I am an optimist though and am hoping this will end soon for the better of all animals and people involved…..2009 has got to be a better year for the Congo and the world needs to wake up to what is going on there!
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