{The United Nations on Wednesday accused FDLR rebels in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to play a double standard game and have no intention to evacuate the areas they hold in the east of the country. }
The self-declared Democratic Liberation Forces of Rwanda (FDLR) “did not want to leave, that’s it, that’s the truth,” said the deputy head of the UN Mission in the DRC (MONUSCO), the Egyptian general Abdallah Wafy, accusing the rebels to show “bad faith” and practicing a “double standard.”
In the DRC since 1994 some of the FDLR embers are wanted by international justice for their involvement in the genocide against Tutsis.
However there are some hundreds of FDLR members who began in late May a process of voluntary surrender.
Representatives of the rebel group have requested the International Community to facilitate talks with the Government of Rwanda, a request that Rwanda has affirmed to be impossible to engage talks with a rebel group whose members committed the 1994 Genocide against Tutsis.
It is reportedly said about 1,500 to 2,000 men would still have movement in the DRC, and the process of voluntary surrender has been stalled for three months.
“The Congolese government has taken all measures, with the support of MONUSCO” to accommodate the FDLR in Kisangani, capital of Orientale Province (north-eastern DRC), said the General Wafy at a press conference. “If they want to leave, Kisangani is available.”
He was referring to the proposed camp to accommodate those who surrender, until they can return to Rwanda for those who want it, or they find a home for other countries.
In early July, the African states involved in peace efforts in the Great Lakes region have given six months for the FDLR they complete their disarmament.
In late August, the Security Council of the UN reaffirmed its commitment to put an to FDLR insurgency as quickly as possible.
Meanwhile, the Angolan President Jose Eduardo dos Santos discussed with African Union (AU) Commissioner for Peace and Security, Smail Chergui, the implementation of measures aimed at bringing peace to the continent, where armed conflicts continue.
Speaking to the press at the end of the audience granted to him by the president, at the presidential palace, the AU commissioner said that he had come to Angola to discuss issues related to security in the Great Lakes region, and in other parts of Africa.
Chergui said that as Luanda has taken up the chair of the International Conference for the Great Lakes Region, (ICGLR), they chiefly discussed the situation in the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Libya, and South Sudan.
According to the Algerian diplomat, full peace in the Great Lakes region is crucial to guaranteeing peace and stability in other African nations in conflict.
As for the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the African Union commissioner said that a solution for the M-23 movement armed forces has already been found, but that there is also a need to deal with the situation caused by the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR), which, according to him, is causing difficulties in eastern Congo.
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