Le gouvernement sommé de fournir une autre liste de membres génocidaires des FDLR

Pendant les négociations pour le rapatriement des FDLR en 2007, le Gouvernement congolais avait demandé au Gouvernement rwandais de fournir une liste de présumés "génocidaires" du FDLR à écarter des négociations et à neutraliser. Le Gouvernement rwandais avait alors fourni une liste de 6974 noms. Stupéfait, le Ministre des Affaires étrangères d'alors, Antipas Mbusa Nyamwisi, avait déclaré que ce nombre correspondait à celui de tous les réfugiés rwandais résidant sur le territoire congolais y compris les femmes et les enfants. Aujourd'hui les experts de l'ICG (International Crisis Group) pensent que le Rwanda devrait fournir une autre liste pour pouvoir séparer les présumés "génocidaires" des autres officiers du FDLR pour engager les négociations.

Some of the FDLR rebels captured and handed to MONUC forces, experts now believe the Genocide suspects need to be seperated from other political combatants

(ARI/RNA)

Brussels: The government of Rwanda has been urged to submit a “revised list” of suspected Genocide fugitives in the ranks of the FDLR, as part of a new comprehensive strategy, also involving enticing other rebels with "third country relocation", to end the ravaging war in eastern DRC.

The International Crisis Group demanded in a new report that Rwanda come up with a new list of suspects, and then start talks with “FDLR officers not included in the list”. The talks, under the auspices of UN Special Envoy Olusegun Obasanjo should deal with conditions of repatriation or relocation under international supervision of those FDLR officers not on the new list.

In 2007, Rwanda gave Kinshasa a list of 6974 names of people it says have blood on their hands but are walking free - instead rampaging in eastern DRC. At some point, the list cause a diplomatic hitch when then DRC Foreign Minister Mbusa Nyamwisi said the number was equivalent to the total of Rwandan refugees in his country. This, he argued was not possible because it means even the children born there were included.

Proposing a new plan to end the rebel problem, the ICG said in Brussels that Rwanda should also ‘actively pursue normal relations with the DRC, notably by establishing cross-border development projects within the framework of the Economic Community of the Great Lakes Countries (CEPGL)”.

The two countries are also encouraged to “jointly” work out a way of making their people live together within the framework of the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR), “so as to foster reconciliation between Congolese and Rwandans”.

However, the latest ICG proposal adds onto another put forward in May suggesting that the current Congolese-UN offensive be halted and Rwanda forces are allowed back to forcefully disarm the FDLR. In the latest report, the security experts make the same demand.

The expert group also calls for intensive counter-propaganda and other sophisticated psychological operations targeting the FDLR rank and file for voluntary disarmament – to be undertaken by the UN.

The FDLR need to be given “offers of third country relocation to those who do not wish to return to Rwanda or settle in Congo”, the experts said.

There should also be action within the scope of national laws to limit the ability of the FDLR political leadership living in countries such as France, Belgium, Germany, the U.S., Canada, Cameroon, Zambia and Kenya to operate freely, including, where such a possibility exists under their domestic law, investigation and prosecution of leadership members for complicity in war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in eastern Congo.