FDLR promise to go on with the disarmament process starting this week

{The self proclaimed Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR) have promised that from this week they will go on with the disarmament process and agreed to join transit camps after process stalled for months.}

IGIHE has learned that the move follows the visit to Kisangani last week where officials seem to have convinced the Group’s fighters to lay down their weapons.

The UN forces as well as regional countries had regularly warned the military operations from 2 January if the voluntary disarmament was not finished.

RFI has quoted Laforge Fils Bazeye, spokesman of the rebellion saying that the next steps: “From 26 [November], the movement will start to join Kisangani transit camp. So the numbers that are already in Walungu and Kanyabayonga will all be sent to Kisangani. After as mentioned in the letter read by our president, after the move to Kisangani, the other fighters [remaining] we will move towards the two transit centers in Walungu and Kanyabayonga. ”

The question is how many fighters are now ready to join Walungu and Kanyabayonga.

Meanwhile the spokesman of the FDLR says the ultimatum of January 2, 2015, when the rebellion must have put down all their weapons is “the least of our worries.”
“What concerns us is the political dialogue in Kigali so we can go home. That’s all, and that is what is fundamental. ”

It should be remembered that the International community as well as Rwanda as the concerned country have rejected any call for political dialogue with the FDLR accused of Genocide crimes as well as many other atrocities committed in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo

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