Democratic Forces for the
Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR)
Congo
See: UPDF AFDL RPF/A) FAR/Interahamwe SPLA
Media
[2011] France: Rwanda Rebel’s
Arrest Sends Strong Message
[2009] Atrocities in
the
Democratic Republic
of Congo
[2010 June] Report
of the Mapping Exercise documenting the most serious violations of human rights
and international humanitarian law committed within the territory of the
Democratic Republic of the Congo between March 1993 and June 2003 by
Navanethem Pillay, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
Ignace Murwanashyaka (President)
Sylvestre Mudacumura (General)
Callixte Mbarushimana (Executive
secretary)
Quotes
Most reporting
from the Kivus zooms in on sexual violence and the Western media always
blames the victims—Congolese soldiers caught in the maelstrom of international
proxy warfare and organized crime—but we hear nothing about U.S. or Canadian or
Australian mining companies—and for those rare times that we do the reportage
de-links the mining from the mass murder.
[2008
Dec]
Merchants of Death: Exposing Corporate-financed Holocaust in Africa.
White Collar War Crimes, Black African Fall Guys by Keith Harmon Snow
605. As in the previous period, the Mayi-Mayi militias and the FDLR also continued to rape and abduct women. At Kitchanga in Masisi, women were reportedly abducted, used to carry looted goods to market, then repeatedly raped by elements of the FDLR.1138 In some cases, the rapes were apparently aimed at causing forced pregnancies in order to increase the proportion of Kinyarwandan speakers in the region.1139 [2010 June] Report of the Mapping Exercise documenting the most serious violations of human rights and international humanitarian law committed within the territory of the Democratic Republic of the Congo between March 1993 and June 2003 by Navanethem Pillay, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
In North Kivu province we find the Forces for the Democratic Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR) and the National Congress for the Defense of the People, the CNDP, created by self-appointed Rwandan "General" Laurent Nkunda. Here the media has historically cast General Nkunda as good, the FDLR as evil. Only recently has Nkunda come under any kind of "harsh" criticism. [2008 Dec] Merchants of Death: Exposing Corporate-financed Holocaust in Africa. White Collar War Crimes, Black African Fall Guys by Keith Harmon Snow