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| FDLR ex-combatants in a camp in Kisangani, DRC, during UN high official DRSRG David Gressly visit, July 2015 |
Kivu, DRC
Seventy-one Rwandan rebels from an offshoot of Democratic
Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR) and 1500 members of their families
have been repatriated to Rwanda from the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo
border, escorted by Congolese army officials, according to local media.
The combatants are those who were either captured
or surrendered while fighting the Congolese Armed Forces (FARDC) in the South
Kivu Kalehe area in November, according to Radio Okapi.
The Rwandan army reportedly took the rebels to the
Rwandan side, where they were welcomed by Rwandan Colonel Patrick Musho,
according to news agency Agence France Presse.
Musho said that the rebels were from the armed
group National Council for Renaissance and Democracy (CNRD), a dissenting Hutu
faction from the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR).
This is the second repatriation of combatants — 291
others were brought back to Rwanda last week.
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