How many Hutu rebels are in the Congo and are all of them genocide perpetrators as Rwanda Claims?
There are approximately 6,000 Hutu rebels in the Congo. They have been there since 1994, hence some were born in Congo and had nothing to do with the 1994 events. They are not all genocide perpetrators as is commonly portrayed. In fact, UN representative to the Congo responds directly to this question in a presentation at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, DC. In essence, he stated that Rwanda has not been cooperative when asked to provide a list of those Hutus implicated in the 1994 atrocities in the Congo. Click here to view the interview. Also, consult Professor Filip Reyntgens and Alison Des Forges of Human Rights Watch for more in depth analysis on this matter. Rwanda claims that its troops have not been in Congo in recent years; is this true? Human Rights Watch in a recent press release responds to this question directly. They note “High-ranking Rwandan authorities deny that they are giving any assistance to Nkunda, but Human Rights Watch has evidence that Nkunda recruits h
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