Gen. Kabare who was giving a lecture to Rwandan youth last week under the theme: ‘Building from the foundations of our history” was responding to questions from the youth that had expressed a keen interest in understanding how one person could command armies of two countries concurrently.
In 1996, the General related, Alliance des Forces Démocratiques pour la Libération du Congo (AFDL) militants led by Laurent Désiré Kabila with the help of Rwanda Patriotic Army started a war to overthrow Mobutu Sese Seko who had ruled the then Zaire for 30 years.
RPA allied with Kabila’s AFDL to stop genocidaires that had committed atrocities in Rwanda during the1994 genocide against the Tutsi and were using Eastern DRC as a military base to create more incursions and instability against Rwanda government.
After defeating Mobutu and Kabila became president, his army lacked military expertise and that is how Rwanda offered Gen. James Kabarebe to command the DRC army.
Gen. Kaberebe took the youth through how and why Rwanda fell out with Laurent Desire Kabira and in-fights that ensued thereafter.
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