{The details have emerged that many families in Kanyabayonga Territory in North Kivu Province of the DRC are fleeing their homes fearing attacks of the Rwandan FDLR rebels.
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Meanwhile these families have not gone far from Kanyabayonga.
Eight hundred families fled villages of Lusowa , Buheri , Bulindi and Burumbule in the Buito community.
Sources on the ground said these families are fleeing the threat of Rwandan FDLR rebels against their localities about 150 km from north of Goma.
According to local sources, the combatants of the Armed Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR) began to threaten the population after leaflets inviting people to dissociate themselves from armed groups were released.
However, during his visit in the territory of Butembo, the Head of State, Joseph Kabila, asked young people to disengage from the armed groups that spread insecurity in this part of North Kivu.
In response to this call, FDLR combatants threatened population of reprisal if FARDC attacks their positions.
Frightened, the population of Buito began last Saturday to empty villages to flee to the Kanyabayonga.
The leader of this group says that some displaced are heading towards the city of Kanyabayonga and others to the city Kibirizi.
For civil society in Lubero territory, the government must accelerate the release of all areas occupied by armed groups.
The company commander of the FARDC in Kanyabayonga says time of wandering with arms on Congolese territory has ended. He invites the Rwandan Hutu rebels to disband and follow the current move of peace.
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