M23 rebels supported by M23 violated the second capital in the East to the rich mineral of the Congo
The rebels supported in Rwanda “occupied” the second big city in the eastern Congo rich minerals, the Government of Congo said on Sunday, since the M23 rebels positioned themselves in the Governor’s office in Bukavu and committed to cleaned after the “old regime”.
Associated Press Journalists were witnessing those residents who cheered for the rebels after entering Bukav after a higher March from Gom, a city of 2 million people who seized last month.
The rebels saw a small resistance of the government forces against the unprecedented spread of their reach after years of fighting. The Congo Government vowed to return the order to Bukavu, a city of 1.3 million people, but there were no signs of soldiers. Many have been seen running away on Saturday with thousands of civilians.
The M23 is the most prominent of more than 100 armed groups dealing with the control of the trillion of the Eastern Congo in mineral wealth that is critical for most of the world technology. Rebels support about 4,000 soldiers from neighboring Rwanda, according to United Nations Experts.
The fighting was displaced by more than 6 million people in the region, creating the world’s largest humanitarian crisis.
Rebels are committed to ‘cleaning’ disorders
Bernard Maheshe Byamong, one of the M23 leaders who sanctioned the UN Security Council for the abuse of rights, stood in front of the Southern Kivu Governor’s Office in Bukavu and told the residents to live in “Jungle”.
“We will clean up a disorder left of the old regime,” Byamung said, while some in a small crowd of young men cheered the rebels to “go all the way to Kinshas”, the capital of Kong, almost 1000 miles away.
The M23 did not announce any buccess striker, unlike his announcement when taking Gom, who brought a quick international conviction. M23 spokesperson did not answer the questions on Sunday.
The Ministry of Communications in Congo in a statement about social media admitted for the first time that the noise was “occupied” and said that the national government “does everything that is possible to restore order and territorial integrity” in the region.
One resident of Bukavu, Blaise Byamong, said the rebels went to a city that “left all authorities and without any loyalistic forces.”
“Is the Government to take over other cities to take measures? That’s cowardice,” Byamong added.
M23 rebels enter the second largest city of Eastern Congo, Bukava, and take control of the South Kivo Province Office on Sunday. (AP Photo/Janvier Barhahiga)
Fears of regional escalation
Unlike 2012, when M23 briefly seized Goma and retired after international pressure, analysts said the rebels were watching political power this time.
Fights in Kong It has to do with decades of ethnic conflict. M23 says he defends ethnically Tutsis in Congo. Rwanda claimed that Tutsis persecuted Hutus and the former militia responsible for the 1994 genocide of 800,000 Tutsis and others in Rwanda. Many Hutus fled to Congo after the genocide and founded democratic forces to release the Rwanda militia group.
Rwanda says the militia group is “fully integrated” into the Congolent army, which denies it.
But the new face of the M23 in the region-Corneille Nanga-not Tutsi, giving the group “New, more diverse, Congolese face, because the M23 was always considered as an armed group supported in Rwanda who defends the Tutsija Minority,” according to Christian Molek, political scientist at the Dypol Congress Center Center .
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The President of the Congo Felix Tshiseekedi, whose government claimed on Saturday that he remained under his control, warned the risk of regional expansion of conflict.
The Congo forces in the crowd supported troops from South Africa, and in the burst of troops from Burundi. But Burundi’s president, Evariste NDayishimiye, appeared to suggest that his country would not take revenge in the fight on social media.
The conflict was high on the agenda of the African Union’s summit in Ethiopia over the weekend, with UN Secretary General António Guterres warned that he risked a spiral into a regional conflict.
However, African leaders and international community are reluctant to take decisive measures against M23 or Rwanda, which has one of the most powerful African military sites. Most are still calling for a break and dialogue between the Congo and the rebels.
The Congo River Union, a coalition of rebel groups that includes M23, said it was dedicated to the “defense” of the people of Bukavu.
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“We invite the population to remain under the control of his city and do not surrender to panic,” said the spokesman for the Alliance of Lawrence Kanyuk in a statement on Saturday.
