UN General Assembly
1998

distance of more than 2000 kilometres. After one of the civilian pilots was killed for refusing to carry out orders, these aircraft were diverted from Goma airport to transport troops and matériel the west, under the direction of Mr. James Kabarehe, the ex-Chief of Staff of the Congo. At the same time, columns of armoured vehicles and other military equipment crossed the border from Uganda under the pretext of defending Ugandan interests in the Congo. Despite the protests of the Congolese Government, which demanded their immediate withdrawal, Ugandan troops surrounded the town of Bunia in the eastern part of the country on 13 August 1998. On the same day, the Inga hydroelectric dam was occupied by the Rwandan-Ugandan coalition forces. They sabotaged the installations in order to deprive the capital, Kinshasa, of electricity and drinking water. On 23 August 1998, Ugandan troops attacked Kisangani, in the north-eastern part of the country, and later occupied it. These facts, and these acts of violence — confirmed by independent sources — provide ample proof of the