Evidence that shows Rwanda supports the M23 rebels

Protesters in Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, burned portraits of the President of Rwanda and tearing the flags of Rwanda, as the M23 rebels took control of the east city of Goma.

Their fury is focused on Rwanda President Paul Kagame, whom they accuse of the rebels – an accusation of the UN.

To put it, a group of UN experts supports the Rwanda army is in “factual control over M23 operations”, describing in detail how the M23 recruits are trained under Rwanda and supported by high -tech weapons in Rwanda.

Goma, which is located at the foot of a volcano near Kivu Lake, sits at the border with Rwanda. This is the capital of the Mineral -rich province of North Kivu – and is an important commercial and humanitarian center and the base for the largest peacekeeping mission of the UN.

The city also became a refuge for those who fled the conflict between M23 fighters and the army, which broke out again at the end of 2021 – with the population, which swells about two million.

All of them face more turmoil when the battle burst out there on Sunday night with strong explosions echoing on the streets that are now strewn with bodies. The exact circumstances of what is happening is unclear as the telephone lines are down and the electricity and water supply are cut off. But the M23 seems to have caught most, if not everyone, from the city.

“There was no doubt that there were Rwandan troops in Goma, who support the M23,” said UN Peace Peier Lacua peacekeeping, although it added that it was difficult to say the right numbers on Earth in Goma.

Indicatively, some soldiers from the Congo army in Goma, who surrendered on Monday, did so, crossing the border in Rwanda.

Since the conflict began, President Kagame has repeatedly denied any participation in support of the M23 rebels, who are well equipped, well -armed and well trained.

However, this answer remarkably shifted, as the allegations continue to grow with “prevailing evidence” showing Rwanda’s support for the rebel group, according to Richard Montciff, director of the project of the International Crisis Group for Great Lakes

“The tone has changed to justify the defense measures,” he told the BBC. “It became more difficult to deny Rwanda’s support for M23.”

On Sunday, the Foreign Ministry of Rwanda said in a statement: “This fight near the Rwanda border continues to pose a serious threat to Rwanda’s security and territorial integrity and imposes a sustainable protective posture of Rwanda.”

It says he is concerned with “delusional or manipulative” statements that have no context for the conflict.

To Kagame, the context is reduced to the Rwanda genocide, which took place over 100 days in 1994.

The Hutu Ethnic Militia, involved in the murder of up to 800,000 people – the vast majority of the Tutsi community – fled to what is now Congo, some of which form the democratic forces for the liberation of Rwanda (FDLR).

This rebel group is still active in the notoriously unstable Eastern Congo – and still includes some of the persons responsible for the genocide.

Kagame, who headed the power of Rebel Tutsi, which put an end to the murder more than three decades ago, sees this “genocidal militia” as an existential threat.

His government has twice invaded Dr. Congo, saying he wants to stop Hutu’s rebel groups to organize cross-border attacks.

Earlier this month, he called his Congoan counterpart Félix Tshisekedi that he failed to deal with FDLR and talk to the M23, saying that this exacerbated the conflict.

G -n Monconef believes that GOMA’s targeting is a more political point, as it says M23 does not need city strategically because it already “controls much more lower areas.”

“This is President Kaga’s way of exercising power over who is responsible for North Kivu,” said the Grand Lake expert.

Rwanda accused North Kivu’s military governor who was killed in battles last week for collaboration with FDLR.

The discovery of this type of high -level cooperation, the experts agree, would be like a red flag of a bull for Rwanda.

The origin of the M23 is bound by this tension -it is the most recent incarnation of a rebel group, which says it is fighting for the interests of the Tutsi Minority Community in East Congo.

His first uprising more than a decade ago ended with a peaceful deal – when his fighters disarmed and moved to camps in Uganda.

But three years ago, they began to leave the camps, saying that the deal was not revered and within a few months they took over the territory.

The UN Peace Maintenance Peace – for the first time in 1999 – is not authorized to continue offensive. Two regional forces – East African, followed by South African – specially deployed in the last few years at the request of Tshisekedi, failed to contain M23.

This gives an indication of complex M23 operations.

According to a group of UN experts, this includes five months of training in the main base of M23 in Chandu, the hilly terrain not far from the border of Rwanda, which includes courses in theory and ideology and then practical elements, including “war tactics”, “Rules” to engage in engagement ” and “Bush tactics”.

It states that Rwanda officers were often in the camp where recruits, including children, were brought – some join voluntarily, others were forced to do so in a systematic operation in which local superiors had to provide sets.

Experts said Sultans Mackenga, who once fought for Kagame in the early 1990s in Rwanda and is now a military chief of M23, attended some of the ceremonies for the transition between September 25 and October 31, in which 3000 recruits participate.

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However, the UN expert reports in detail how the power of M23 has increased since May when the numbers are placed at about 3000.

Experts believe that between 3000 and 4,000 Rwanda army troops are on the spot in Congo, saying that this is based on certified photos, drone footage, videos, certificates and intelligence.

The captured M23 fighters said Ruadi are known as “friendly power”, with the December report of experts saying that the English term is “used” even when interviewers speak other languages.

They said that these special forces of Rwanda were there to train and support the rebels and they did not interact with regular M23 employees.

Rwanda Uganda’s ally, dissatisfied with another rebel group in Congo, which threatens his security, is also accused of helping the M23 – with his employees, also noticed in Chandu. UN experts say Uganda has also supplied a weapon, hosted rebel leaders and has authorized cross -border movements of M23 fighters – Campal’s accusation denies.

Recently, Kagame expressed his dissatisfaction that after Tshisekedi came to power in 2019, his suggestion that Rwanda was working with the Congoan army to deal with FDLR was rejected – unlike the joint offensive of the Congo and Uganda against Islamist Allied Democrats (ADF) Rebels Rebels Rebels Rebels Rebels Rebels Rebels Rebel.

This may explain the re -appearance of M23 in 2021 – with evidence showing Rwanda’s support from the group continues to grow.

Clémentine de Montjoye, a senior researcher at the Africa department in Human Rights Watch, told the BBC that geoloked images are placed in the sake troops of Rwanda, just outside the Goma last week.

UN experts claim that the M23 decision to capture the mining city of Rubaya, which came to its power in May, is “motivated by a strategic need for monopolizing” of the lucrative trade in Kolton, which is used to make batteries for electric vehicles and Mobile devices phones.

His report in December says the group is now collecting at least $ 800,000 (643,000 British pounds) per month of Coltan’s taxation in Rubaya – and guarantees that about 120 tonnes of the desired mineral are sent directly to Rwand four weeks.

It includes satellite images to show how the road has been expanded to September from the Congoy side of the Kibamba border crossing to provide access to heavy trucks that have not previously been able to use the route in Rwanda.

D -de Montjoye explained how advanced weapons used by M23 are not available to any of the numerous armed groups operating in the Eastern Congo.

“Earlier last year, we documented how the Rwanda and M23 forces fired 122mm rockets, hitting bearings to move,” she told the BBC.

“Certainly at the sight of military support, the M23 has gained that they have managed to make such an advance (on Goma).”

UN experts have documented many similar examples, including the use of Israeli -led missiles.

Monconef said the M23 also uses technology to interfere with the Global Positioning System (GPS), which has stopped the Congoan army of flying drones it has acquired from China.

UN experts said “fraud and congestion” near areas controlled by M23 and Rwanda’s army also violated other aircraft.

President Kagame rejected these UN reports, pouring contempt on his “expertise” and stated that they were ignoring many outrage made in the Congo to focus on the “imaginary problems” created by the M23.

The East African Community – currently led by the President of Kenya – is now trying to mediate, although Tshisekedi said he would not attend a hasty organized emergency summit.

Observers say that the President of Rwanda will tell every mediator that FDLR is the only subject to discuss, as he is adamant that their presence is making D -Congo a dangerous neighbor -something that he repeated at a press conference earlier this month S

“Honestly, for the last 30 years, if anyone has wanted to understand what the problems are (in Congo) and what solutions should be, you don’t even have to be an expert,” Kagame said.