Rwanda: Congo planning attack along border

[FWBHurricane]

( Looks like war is about to break out in central Africa ) KIGALI, Rwanda (AP) -- Rwanda's foreign minister accused neighboring Congo Saturday of preparing to attack his country with the help of Rwandan insurgents who fled after leading the 1994 genocide.

Foreign Minister Charles Muligande said the Congolese government has positioned thousands of troops near the border with Rwanda -- and has rearmed Rwandan insurgents, including members of the former army and extremist Interahamwe militia who played a central role in the 100-day genocide in Rwanda.

"This heavy deployment of Congolese soldiers and Rwandan rebels is a big threat to the security of our country," Muligande warned. "Certainly we shall not sit back and watch these developments, we have a country and people to defend."

Congo's Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Henry Mova Sakanyi denied the charges, dismissing them as "fabrications."

Tensions rose between the two countries earlier this month after Congo accused Rwanda of backing renegade Congolese troops who seized control of the strategic eastern city of Bukavu for a week.

Rwanda denied the charges and closed its borders with Congo while awaiting independent investigations into the claims.

Sakanyi repeated claims that Rwandan troops were in Congo in violation of the peace deal signed between the two nations.

Rwanda sent troops into Congo in August 1998 to help Congolese rebels oust then-President Laurent Kabila, who they believed had supported Rwandan insurgents involved in the slaughter of at least 500,000 minority Tutsis and political moderates from the Hutu majority.

Rwanda withdrew troops from Congo in November 2002 after signing a peace deal under which Congo agreed to disarm Rwandan insurgents based in the country and hand them over to Rwandan authorities.

Rwanda has since complained that Congo has failed to keep its side of the bargain.

[abajan]

When the 1994 bloodbath was happening there, it was almost totally ignored until hundreds of mutilated bodies started floating downstream into neighboring countries.

What kind of world is this in which we live?

[Guest]

Not to mention what's happening in Sudan...
In 1994 I partecipated to a mission in Bujumbura, we gave 8 tons of food and medicinals to local warriors to have 30 orphan kids back, all mutilated by "machete" strikes (they killed the parents and plaied with the kids).
Once you see those shows, and you know how many dies every day over there, you loose a lot of confidence in human beings...

We're all guilty for that