{"id":36974,"date":"2018-02-16T08:54:10","date_gmt":"2018-02-16T08:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/rwanda-calls-for-investigation-on-drc-s-army\/"},"modified":"2018-02-20T09:30:14","modified_gmt":"2018-02-20T09:30:14","slug":"rwanda-calls-for-investigation-on-drc-s-army","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/rwanda-calls-for-investigation-on-drc-s-army\/","title":{"rendered":"Rwanda calls for investigation on DRC\u2019s army attack on RDF bases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The call was made yesterday in a meeting that brought together RDF and EJVM.  EJVM is a regional security organ operating under the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR).<\/p>\n<p>The Army Commandant in Northern Region, Brig. Gen. Eugene Nkubito said that FARDC defied RDF\u2019s basements in Terimbere village, Mugari Cell of Shingiro Sector on Tuesday at 7:00am.<\/p>\n<p>He said that both countries\u2019 borders are well controlled so as to avoid armed groups like Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR) among others that could destabilize the security of the region.<\/p>\n<p>Nkubito said that the attack attracted soldiers from both sides to exchange fire which led to death of three DRC soldiers and others left their weapons.<\/p>\n<p>Rwanda\u2019s intelligence was informed and alerted Congo\u2019s counterparts and then the fire ceased.<\/p>\n<p>RDF called on EJVM to reach the field and investigate the reason behind defying Rwanda\u2019s sovereign and provide the findings from investigations.<\/p>\n<p> RDF also denounced any allegation to have defied DRC\u2019s border as their basement have been there since five years ago.  <\/p>\n<p>Nkubito said that Rwanda prioritizes good relationship between both countries, but added that they will not tolerate anyone who will attempt to destabilize national security.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-24032 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/289a0609-93c0c.jpg\" alt=\"RDF delegation meet EJVM \" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-24031 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/289a0685-86ce9.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-24030 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/289a0677-50d62.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Rwanda Defence Forces (RDF) has requested the Expanded Joint Verification Mechanisms (EJVM) to conduct investigations on the attack by the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (FARDC) on the RDF bases in Mutara, Shingiro Sector of Musanze District.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[72],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-36974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-featured-news-home","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36974\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36974"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=36974"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=36974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}