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Interahamwe Kill 29 in Kivu

The New Times (Kigali)
NEWS
April 29, 2005
Posted to the web April 29, 2005

By Patrick Bigabo
Kigali
Twenty nine people were massacred by marauding Interahamwe in South Kivu
province of North western DR Congo, the United Nations Mission in Congo (MONUC)
has confirmed.
According to the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), the victims are said
to have been waylaid in an ambush staged by the Hutu militias. The victims were
on their way to a mining camp to supply food to gold miners and MONUC says its
staff is in the area to investigate the matter.
The MONUC owned radio, Okapi, that is based in the DRC quoting eye-witnesses
said they saw spouses and five other people being painfully beheaded by the
Interahamwe at Kakala mining site.
Residents in the locality of Kyoka said the slaughters were a result of
misunderstandings between the insurgents and a former Mayi Mayi warriors' Major
based in Shabunda.
According to media reports the Major allegedly failed to respect his
commitments, after receiving four kilograms of Gold to allow the fighters to
settle there, exploit the mines and collect taxes from the different locals in
the region.
The presence of the FDLR and other insurgents in the DRC has ensured that
relations between the two countries, the DRC and Rwanda, remain shaky.
The Interahamwe are largely responsible for the death of about one million
people in Rwanda during the 1994 Genocide.

   

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