Rwandan rebel group spokesman faces terrorism-related chargesFDLR spokesperson, La Forge Fils Bazeye who was deported by the Democratic Republic of Congo to Rwanda is led away by Rwandan security members after appearing on charges of terror related accusations in Rwanda on April 8, 2019. [Reuters]A Rwandan court filed terrorism-related charges against the spokesman for the FDLR rebel group on Monday, two months after his deportation from neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo.The FDLR is composed of former Rwandan soldiers and ethnic Hutu militiamen who fled into lawless eastern Congo after the massacre of around 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus during Rwanda’s genocide in 1994. “I apologise for having been given negative information about Rwanda,” Ignace told the court. In December, two Rwandan soldiers and an unknown number of rebels were killed when a group of attackers crossed into Rwanda from Congo, Kagame told reporters at the time. Prosecutors said Ignace and Nsekanabo, identified as an intelligence officer in FDLR, had traveled to neighboring Uganda in January to meet representatives of another anti-Kigali rebel group, the Rwanda National Congress (RNC).

Source: Standard Digital April 08, 2019 16:07 UTC