Democratic forces of release of Rwanda

The Democratic forces of release of Rwanda ( FDLR ; Urugaga Ruharanira Demokarasi No Kubohoza U Rwanda in Kinyarwanda) gathers primarily Hutu and soldiers of old the Rwandan Armed forces of Juvénal Habyarimana and former militia Interahamwe. They are based in the East of the Democratic republic of Congo. This group took this denomination in 2000, after being called Armée with release of Rwanda (ALiR).

These forces took form in the refugee camps of the Zaire in 1994, organized by the Turquoise Opération of the France to the Rwanda of the 22 June with the 21 August 1994. Doctors without borders had left these camps in November 1994 by denouncing these reconstitutions of the forces in the camps. (See disarmament symbolic system and not-arrest of genocidary the)

The government of Kigali request the dismantling of these forces since 1994. In 1996 at the time of the First war of Congo, the army of the current mode of the Rwanda continued these forces through the forests of Congo and massacred several thousands of its members and of the taken refuge populations taken as hostages by these genocidary forces.

These rebels contributed to the destabilization of the East of the Democratic republic of Congo. The Board of inquiry French citizen and the journalist Colette Braekmann, of the Belgian newspaper the Evening, had information according to which France had contributed to their armament.

According to the MONUC, which is in charge of their disarmament, there would be 8000 more members of FDLR in DRC, at the end of 2004. FDLR announced officially at the beginning of April 2005 that they agreed to give up the weapons and to return to the Rwanda. Other members of FDLR have already returned to Rwanda for several years.

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Site of the FDLR
Research in French of ''''' FDLR ''''' on the search engine of UNO
Mission of the United Nations in DRC
local Point of view on the implication of the FDLR in Kivu in September 2007

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