Rebels who supported in Rwanda who seized the eastern key city of the Goma Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, announced a one-sided ceasefire in the Monday for Humanitarian reasons, following calls for the safe corridor for help and hundreds of thousands of displaced persons.
The M23 rebels said the truce would begin on Tuesday. The announcement arrived shortly after the UN Health Agency stated that at least 900 people were killed last week fighting in the Goma between the rebels and the Congoline forces.
The city of 2 million people are in the heart of the region to the house to the trillion dollars in mineral wealth and remains in the control of the rebels. The M23 was reported to receive the country in other areas of East Kong and advancing on the second provincial capital, Bukava.
But the rebels said on Monday that they did not intend to seize Bukava, although they previously expressed the ambition in the march at the Congo City, Kinshas, a thousand miles away.
“It must be made clear that we have no intention of capturing beech or other areas. However, we repeat our commitment to protecting and defending civilians and our positions,” said M23 rebel rebel Lawrence Kanyuka in the statement.
There were no immediate comments from the Government Congress.
The announcement of the rebel was the joint summit of this week by regional blocks for Southern and East Africa, who called on the room truce. The President of Kenya William Ruto said the presidents of Kong and Rwanda would attend.
Foreign Ministers from the Group of Seven Advanced Economics or G7, called foreign to the conflict to return to negotiations. In the statement on Monday, they invited to “a fast, safe and unobstructed passage of humanitarian care for civilians.”
The Congolian authorities said they were open for conversations with conflict resolution, but that such a dialogue must be done in the context of previous peace agreements. Rwanda and rebels accused the government of congregation of non-payment on previous agreements.
M23 rebels support about 4,000 soldiers from neighboring Rwanda, according to UN experts, far more than in 2012. years when they first captured Goma, they withdrew after international pressure. They are most famous of more than 100 armed groups seen for control in Kongoj East, which has huge deposits critical for most world technology.
The latest struggles against this forced hundreds of thousands of people who were displaced by years of conflict to carry what they were left of their things and run again. Thousands poured into nearby Rwanda.
The struggles in Conga has to do with the decades with a long ethnic conflict.
M23 says that the ethnic tutsa is defended in Congo. Rwanda claimed that Tutsis persecute Hutus and the former militia responsible for the 1994 Tutsis Genocide. Years in Rwanda.
Many Hutus escaped in Congo after the genocide and founded democratic forces to release the Grand Militia Group. Rwanda said that the group was “fully integrated” in the Congregate Army that denies the charges.
On Monday, the families of desperate identify their loved murmur of the morgue as if the body’s bags were loaded on freight vehicles for funeral in Goma.
The cry that Chiza Nyenyezi recalled that her son died of injury to the shooting after the bullet passed through his chest. “The whole chest was open,” Nyenyez said.
Louise Shalukoma said that her son’s body could not recover immediately from the streets because the bomb was detonated as people tried to take over.
“My God, my fourth child, when I saw he was dead, I said,” Lord, what am I going to do? “” Lamendula is. “This war M23 came for me in Goma.”
2025-02-04 10:27:00
