<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><br><div>Début du message réexpédié :</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>De : </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">Bishop Venuste Mutiganda <<a href="mailto:audivia2002@yahoo.fr">audivia2002@yahoo.fr</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>Date : </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">8 septembre 2010 13:21:29 HAEC<br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>À : </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">Roger Massie <<a href="mailto:roger.massie@coe.int">roger.massie@coe.int</a>>, "Revd. Christine Bloomfield-Hilaire" <<a href="mailto:bloomfieldhilaire@wanadoo.fr">bloomfieldhilaire@wanadoo.fr</a>>, "Revd. Udo Nilius" <<a href="mailto:udonilius@web.de">udonilius@web.de</a>>, Bishop Kenneth <<a href="mailto:bishopken@btinternet.com">bishopken@btinternet.com</a>>, Bishop Pierre Whalon <<a href="mailto:bishop@tec-europe.org">bishop@tec-europe.org</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>Objet : </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><b>News again</b><br></span></div><br><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><div align="right"><strong>Wednesday 8th of September, 2010</strong></div>
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<h1>FDLR defectors speak out </h1>
<span>By Bonny Mukombozi</span>
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combatants, who defected from the Democratic Forces for the Liberation
of Rwanda (FDLR), have accused their top leaders of spreading false
information aimed at tarnishing Rwanda’s image in their quest to gain
support.</p><p>They made the accusations yesterday while at Mutobo
Demobilisation and Reintegration Centre in Musanze , as they spoke
about their experience in the Congolese jungles.</p><p>Lt. Alphonse
Senyoni, a former clerk at FOCA-FDLR secretariat in Walikale, revealed
that top rebel leaders had convinced the combatants that a new chapter
of Gacaca courts had been opened to try cases for the returning
ex-combatants.</p><p>“Many fighters are brainwashed into believing
that there is no law and order in Rwanda. We were told that a specific
Gacaca court will try us for the crimes we committed in the
Congo,’’ Senyoni revealed.</p><p>“Since the Operation Umoja Wetu, we
lost our bases, and income generating activities were destroyed which
has led to the increase in defections...but when word gets out that you
want to defect, they kill you”.</p><p>Umoja Wetu was a joint operation
mounted early last year by DRC and Rwandan armed forces with an aim of
flushing out FDLR militias. </p><p>Giving an example of some of the
fighters who were killed as they tried to defect, Senyoni cited one
Major Mpirano who was killed at Ntoto, Walikale after it was suspected
that he wanted to cross into Rwanda.</p><p>He added that the rebels have mounted road blocks and intensified patrols to detect those that want to return home.<br> Cpl
Felicien Munyampundu, a former chief escort to Theoneste Nzeyimana, who
is reportedly the FDLR political commissioner in South Kivu, said the
rebels had been asked to prepare for war which ‘would break out in
Rwanda after the presidential elections.’ <br>He noted that whereas
MONUSCO (UN mission in Congo) repatriates combatants, there is no
direct organisation to help civilian refugees in the remote jungles.<br> Sergeant
Leaonadis Kanani, from Okapi Battalion, Kilembwe, Fizi zone in South
Kivu, said that having joined the army in 1989, he regretted the time
wasted in rebel activities in Congo.<br> He appealed to those still holed up in Congo to send their children back to Rwanda to attend school. <br> “FDRL
leaders levy taxes on goods in markets in Mwenga (Bukavu), they own
Coltan and diamond mines in Walikale, they erect road blocks along
roads leading to their strongholds and escaping is a nightmare,’’
Kanani said.<br> The ex-combatants pledged to join other Rwandans in
working to promote national unity and participating in the development
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