This Thursday afternoon, the Rwandan government reacted in a press release to accusations of the country’s support for the M23 armed group in eastern DRC. Support, always denied by Kigali, for the first time condemned by France on Monday. In their publication, the Rwandan authorities also return to the Kishishe massacre at the end of November, attributed to the M23 by the UN, which counts 131 civilians killed in a preliminary investigation.
With our correspondent in Kigali, Lucy Mouillaud
According to Kigali, the massacre of Kishishe ” is “ a fabrication of the government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo “, who “ spread without any investigation by a credible organization “.
Two days after the first convictions against Rwanda, worn France, and the declarations of several Western chancelleries, calling on the country to cease all support for the M23 in the east of the DRC, the government denies, once again, any association with the rebels. “ Accusing Rwanda of supporting the Congolese armed group M23 is false, and distracts from the real causes of the conflict and its consequences on the security of neighboring countries “says Kigali.
For the authorities, the international community should rather worry about the “ persecution from Rwandan-speaking and Congolese Tutsi communities, who they believe face hate speech authorized by the DRC government.
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