Uganda People’s Defence Force
(UPDF)
Uganda
See: FDLR AFDL RPF/A) FAR/Interahamwe SPLA
Anyone who dismisses the organized and intentional RPF/A and UPDF military campaign against millions of Hutu people—massacred and chased from the Uganda border to Kigali, into eastern Congo, and finally attacked in refugee camps and butchered all the way across Zaire—is a genocide denier. (Of course, the UPDF-RPF/A alliance also summarily executed and massacred Rwandan Tutsis and indigenous Twa, and Congolese people.) Similarly, anyone who dismisses the organized persecution and atrocities against the Acholi people in northern Uganda—maintained by the Museveni government and the UPDF occupation—is a genocide denier. [2008 Dec] Merchants of Death: Exposing Corporate-financed Holocaust in Africa. White Collar War Crimes, Black African Fall Guys by Keith Harmon Snow
[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
CHAPTER II. JULY 1996 – JULY 1998: FIRST CONGO
WAR AND AFDL
REGIME
177. From July 1996, Tutsi/Banyamulenge152 armed units who had
left Zaire to pursue
military training in Rwandan army, the APR (Armée patriotique rwandaise), in
Rwanda,
along with APR soldiers, began their operations to infiltrate the province of
South Kivu
via Burundi and destabilise North Kivu via Uganda. The first serious clashes
between the
FAZ and the infiltrés took place on 31 August 1996 near Uvira in the province of
South
Kivu. On 18 October, the conflict took a new turn when an armed movement, the
AFDL
(Alliance des forces démocratiques pour la libération du Congo), was officially
formed
in Kigali, asserting its intention to topple President Mobutu.153
Under the cover of the
AFDL, whose own troops, weapons and logistics were supplied by Rwanda, soldiers
from the APR, the UPDF (Uganda People’s Defence Force) and the FAB (Forces
armées
burundaises) entered Zaire en masse and set about capturing the provinces of
North and
South Kivu and the Ituri district.154