Indian Military

GENEVA: Rwandan troops and Congolese rebels may have committed acts of genocide, the UN said on Friday, in a hotly contested report on massacres by foreign armies and rebels in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

The report, covering massacres carried out between 1993 and 2003, also implicated the armies of Angola, Burundi, and Uganda, provoking angry reactions from their governments.

Rwanda said it categorically rejected the report after failing to have it suppressed. Burundi said the report was designed to destabilise the region. Uganda and Angola also denied allegations against their armies.

At the UN, the Democratic Republic of Congo's government said it was appalled by the details in the report and demanded justice for the victims.

But the report also accused the Alliance of Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Congo, the rebel force led by Laurent Kabila. His son Joseph, now president of DR Congo, was fighting alongside.

[Stratpost] Three Indian peacekeepers were killed in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) after their camp at Kirumba was attacked by what the Indian Army considers to be probably members of a Mayi Mayi armed group at 0150 hours local time on Wednesday. Seven other soldiers, also belonging to the 19 Kumaon Regiment, deployed under the MONUSCO (United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo) mandate, were injured.

According to an statement issued by the Indian Army in New Delhi, ‘the Unit's Company Operating Base at Kirumba was approached by five innocent-looking civilians. They asked the post for assistance. While, they were engaging the guard on duty with conversation, a group of approximately 50-60 rebels – probably Mayi Mayi rebel group – attacked the periphery of the post, from the surrounding jungle. This lasted for approximately five minutes. The rebels merged into the forest, taking advantage of darkness.’

Agence France-Presse reported the three Kumaonis to have been hacked to death with knives and machetes.