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August 30, 2010

UN Report Accuses Rwandan Troops of Committing Genocide in the Congo
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In news from Africa, a forthcoming UN report on the Democratic Republic
of Congo says crimes committed by Rwanda’s army and Congolese rebels
during the 1990s in the Congo could be classified as genocide. The New
York Times reports the UN report bluntly challenges the conventional
history of events in the region after the 1994 Rwandan genocide. The UN
report charges that after the genocide ended in Rwanda, Tutsi-led Rwanda
troops and their rebel allies killed tens of thousands of members of the
Hutu ethnic group inside the Congo. A draft of the report states, “The
majority of the victims were children, women, elderly people and the
sick, who were often undernourished and posed no threat to the attacking
forces.” The US-supported Rwandan government has dismissed the findings
of the UN report, and the government is threatening to reconsider its
contributions to UN peacekeeping missions if the draft report is
published.



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