United Nations peacekeepers prepared on Tuesday to evacuate around fifty foreign aid workers from a town in eastern Congo, which Tutsi rebels are advancing upon, officials said. The rebels fought their way along a road toward Rutshuru, about 100 kilometers north of North Kivu's provincial capital, Goma, drawing within 10 kilometers of the town.Rico says he thought that whole Tutsi thing had died down, but apparently not in the Congo...
The UN's peacekeeping mission, MONUC, sent attack helicopters against rebel positions north of Goma on Monday, prompting anti-aircraft fire from Nkunda loyalists.
Tuesday's advance comes a day after insurgents attacked the town of Kibumba, 20 kilometers north of Goma, sending around 20,000 refugees fleeing toward the provincial capital.
Nkunda's National Congress for the Defense of the People accuses the Congolese army of collaborating with the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda, which includes Hutu militias and ex-Rwandan soldiers responsible for orchestrating Rwanda's 1994 genocide of Tutsis and moderate Hutus.
28 October 2008
Tut, tut, Tutsi goodbye...
al-Reuters has a story by Hez Holland about Tutsi rebels advancing through the Congo:
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