'We’re Everybody’s Enemy – That’s How It Is To Be A Hutu' -- Times Online
Dressed in a pink cotton tracksuit, Corporal Innocent Rakundo looks an unlikely member of the FDLR, one of Africa’s most feared rebel armies. He fiddles with a pen as he describes the 15 years he spent living and fighting in the forests of eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.
In the shifting web of political allegiances, commercial interests and military power that stretches across the region, the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda, better known by their French acronym, are out of favour and under siege. The FDLR’s Europe-based president and vicepresident were arrested in Germany this month, charged with war crimes and crimes against humanity.
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My Comment: With tribal hatreds on full display ..... backed with billions of dollars in plundered mineral wealth that is used to buy weapons ..... we now have a deadly mix of war and conflict that will not end until one of the opposing sides has been eliminated. At the rate that this conflict is going .... it looks like this war will go on for decades.
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