Despite the optimism of a just-returned United Nations investigating team, worry over continuing armed conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is mounting. After promising a unilateral withdrawal from Congo, Rwanda reneged, Mitifu said.
Rebels are mainly in urban areas.
According to Ambassador Mitifu, Rwandan troops are now in Kassai, Katanga, and Orientale Provinces. But, unfortunately, when you see the map of the Congo, and especially when you see the kinds of human rights abuses they have perpetrated against the local population, it's very difficult to believe that those who really want peace and security will behave that way against people who never participated in the genocide in Rwanda. According to Ambassador Mitifu, Congo would also like to see the perpetrators of that genocide captured. Adolphe Onusumba, an RCD leader, charged that the DRC government of Joseph Kabila was backing militia groups fighting the RCD behind the front lines in the provinces of North and South Kivu. We are fed up with Kabila's hypocritical and malicious seduction of the international community pretending the cease-fire is holding, while he is setting the whole of the eastern Congo ablaze.