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Original Post Date: 2004-05-28 Time: 14:49:31 Posted By: Jan
[Mbeki said people like me would be eating my words. Ok… here we see the DRC (Zaire), where the SA government has wasted much time and money bringing about “peace”. The blacks can’t even make peace among their own kind… Jan]
Kinshasa – Hundreds of people fled into Rwanda on Friday to escape fighting between rival factions of the Democratic Republic of Congo army in the border town of Bukavu, United Nations and local officials said.
“There’s continuing sporadic fighting with some heavy weapons and small arms. It’s not as sustained as yesterday (Thursday) but has been going off and on since 6am (05h00 GMT),” said Sebastien Lapierre, spokesperson for the UN mission in Bukavu.
Just across the border in Rwanda, hundreds of residents sought shelter near Cyangugu, which faces Bukavu across the southern end of Lake Kivu.
‘So far we’ve taken 15 people to hospital with serious injuries’
Heavy fighting erupted in Bukavu late on Wednesday when government troops loyal to Kinshasa clashed with ex-rebel fighters who are now part of a new national army, created after a 2003 political settlement meant to end Congo’s sprawling conflict.
Lapierre said three civilians had been killed so far in Bukavu and four wounded.
The Congolese army had reported five of its soldiers were killed and another 19 wounded, he said. The army death toll had not been independently confirmed.
A peace deal to end the complex regional war in what was Zaire provides for a single national army incorporating former foes from various factions, but some rebel soldiers are reluctant to join the new force.
Analysts said the renewed violence showed the lack of central authority in the vast, resource-rich central African country and threatened to plunge the region back into war.
Rwandan officials said hundreds of people were on the move.
“At least 300 refugees have arrived but we believe that the number could shoot up as many more refugees are still moving to the designated camp near Cyangugu town,” Vincent Mulagwa, the local administrator of Cyangugu said.
“They are coming along with small luggage and a couple of them have sustained bullet injuries,” he said. “So far we’ve taken 15 people to hospital with serious injuries.”
A local official in Bukavu said the violence erupted when Congolese soldiers tried to disarm a former rebel commander’s bodyguards on Wednesday evening.
Colonel Jules Mutebutsi, a former commander in the Goma-based Rally for Congolese Democracy, the biggest rebel movement which was backed by Rwanda during the war, said on Thursday he was defending himself from the army.
Lapierre said Mutebutsi’s group of several hundred fighters still controlled the eastern part of Bukavu on Friday morning.
Source: Independent Online (IOL)
URL: http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?click_id=68&ar…/p>