WARNING: This is Version 1 of my old archive, so Photos will NOT work and many links will NOT work. But you can find articles by searching on the Titles. There is a lot of information in this archive. Use the SEARCH BAR at the top right. Prior to December 2012; I was a pro-Christian type of Conservative. I was unaware of the mass of Jewish lies in history, especially the lies regarding WW2 and Hitler. So in here you will find pro-Jewish and pro-Israel material. I was definitely WRONG about the Boeremag and Janusz Walus. They were for real.
Original Post Date: 2004-05-20 Time: 11:02:39 Posted By: Jan
[Black on black violence – and nobody says a word about it in our hypocritical world, where only whites are ever criticised. Jan]
Kingi, Congo – Flies buzz around a stinking pile of army fatigues soaked with blood.
The rotting heap of uniforms stripped from dead and injured soldiers lies untouched after an ambush in Kingi, a remote, hilltop village surrounded by jungle in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, where Rwandan rebels struck on May 6.
Nearly 400 Rwandan Hutus surrounded the town and attacked by moonlight from three directions, storming in under machine-gun and mortar fire, according to witnesses who said that fighting raged for two hours.
‘Whenever we do the farming, the rebels come and harvest’
“We lost three soldiers and five more were seriously injured,” said Major David Rugayi, a commander of the Congolese army defending the town, who himself was hit in the forehead by a sliver of shrapnel.
Despite a year of shaky progress towards peace in Congo, attacks by Rwandan Hutu militias have increased in recent weeks, raising fears of a return to more widespread violence in central Africa’s Great Lakes region.
Rwanda’s Tutsi-led government has threatened to send its army back into the former Zaire to hunt down thousands of Hutu rebels who fled into eastern Congo after killing 800 000 Tutsis and Hutu moderates during Rwanda’s 1994 genocide.
Rwanda withdrew its 23 000 troops from its vast neighbour in 2002 under a peace deal aimed at ending a five-year regional war triggered by Rwanda’s 1998 invasion, also in search of the Hutu rebels.
Under the 2002 accord, the Kinshasa government promised to disarm and repatriate the Rwandan Hutus with help from the United Nations mission in Congo, but little progress has been made.
Raids and looting remain common in eastern Congo, with the Kingi attack highlighting the difficulties of securing a chaotic country struggling to recover from half a decade of war that killed more than three million people, mostly from hunger and disease.
The Hutu rebels who attacked Kingi, about 25km northwest of Goma, were better organised than usual, witnesses said.
One group concentrated on looting locals, another mounted an ambush to secure arms from patrolling Congolese soldiers, while a third waited to reinforce.
The level of planning has raised fears that the Hutus may be plotting a bigger offensive.
The Congolese army says thousands of Hutus are regrouping in Congo’s volatile border provinces of North and South Kivu, preparing to slip into Rwanda to stage attacks.
Rwanda says at least one such cross-border raid by Hutu rebels took place on April 8.
In North Kivu, clashes have been reported in at least 10 areas between the Rwandan Hutus and former Rwandan-backed rebels now being integrated into Congo’s national army under a peace deal.
Lack of access has made it difficult for aid workers to say how many civilians have been affected by fighting, but some UN officials estimate that up to 77 people have been killed and more than 20 000 displaced by recent clashes in the Kivus.
The Hutu rebels ransacked Kingi’s dispensary, stealing the meagre supplies of medicine before embarking on a house-to-house looting spree, locals said.
“They found me in the house while I was sleeping with my wife,” said Pastor Musafiri Byuma.
“They demanded money and when I hesitated, they hit me across my shoulders with a log and said if I had no money, then I should give them the church offertory.”
The same rebels have attacked this small village seven times since 2000, residents say. The last attack was five months ago.
Locals are so fearful that they often abandon their flimsy thatched huts to sleep in the bush, hoping for safety in numbers.
Eating once every other day is considered a luxury and little is grown that is not pillaged by roaming militiamen.
“Whenever we do the farming, the rebels come and harvest,” said Kihengu Kyahi, a local administrator. “We are living a miserable life.”
Farmer Bahati Mulomba complained that he is unable to feed his five children.
“We are living in abject poverty not because we are lazy but because whatever we try to do ends up in the hands of these rebels,” he said, peering out of his empty home where the rebels stole food, money, shoes and a radio, beating his wife as they ran.
Source: Independent Online (IOL)
URL: http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?click_id=68&ar…/p>