Kinshasa – {The Democratic Republic of Congo on Thursday rejected a United Nations ultimatum for two tainted generals leading an offensive against Rwandan rebels in the country’s east to be replaced.}<\/p>\n
“For us, we would only replace someone in the [army high] command if that person had been convicted by our military courts. Yet, no such thing has happened,” government spokesperson Lambert Mende told a press conference in Kinshasa.<\/p>\n
The UN’s 20 000-strong Monusco force had been working with Congo’s army on a plan of attack against the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR), an ethnic Hutu militia based in eastern Congo for more than two decades. <\/p>\n
But in a surprise move, the army unilaterally announced last week the launch of operations, without the UN troops.<\/p>\n
The army also announced that Generals Bruno Mandevu and Sikabwe Fall would be leading the offensive, despite being on a UN “red” list of known human rights violators.
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