Rwanda: Plan ready to withdraw peacekeeping troops if UN publishes report on Congo genocide
By APTuesday, August 31, 2010
Rwanda: Plan ready to withdraw peacekeeping troops
KIGALI, Rwanda — Rwanda says it is ready to withdraw its U.N. peacekeepers from Sudan if the U.N. publishes a report accusing Rwanda’s army of possible genocide in the 1990s.
Rwanda Defence Force spokesman Lt. Col. Jill Rutaremara said Tuesday that the country has finalized a contingency withdrawal plan from Darfur and Southern Sudan if the U.N. publishes its “outrageous and damaging report.”
A draft of the report leaked last week accuses Rwandan troops and allies tied to Congo’s current president of slaughtering tens of thousands of Hutus in Congo. The alleged attacks came two years after those troops stopped Rwanda’s 1994 genocide that killed more than 500,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus.
Rwanda has described the report as “fatally flawed.”
