Burundian Rebels Kill 19 Civilians
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UN Integrated Regional Information Networks
December 13, 2002
Posted to the web December 13, 2002
Kinshasa
Burundian rebels killed at least 19 rural folk on Wednesday in Kiliba, South
Kivu, eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
A survivor of the incident, told the UN Mission in the DRC (MONUC) that Hutu
rebels of the Forces mationales de liberation (FNL) had kidnapped 20 people
while they were harvesting rice in Rukoko - close to the Burundian border -
demanding a ransom of US $100 for each. He had witnessed a total of 19 of the
peasants being killed, he said, before he managed to escape.
The rebel group governing the area, the Rassemblement congolais pour la
democratie (RCD-Goma), told MONUC that 30 people had been killed in the
incident.
"We received the information on Thursday from officials of the Rassemblement
congolais pour la democratie, who gave us this figure. They accused the Hutu
rebels of the FNL, a Burundian rebel movement," Hamadoun Toure, the MONUC
spokesman, told IRIN.
