Interahamwe Kill 29 in Kivu
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The New Times (Kigali)
April 29, 2005
Posted to the web April 29, 2005
Patrick Bigabo
Kigali
Twenty nine people were massacred by marauding Interahamwe in South Kivu province of North western DR Congo, the United Nations Mission in Congo (MONUC) has confirmed.
According to the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), the victims are said to have been waylaid in an ambush staged by the Hutu militias. The victims were on their way to a mining camp to supply food to gold miners and MONUC says its staff is in the area to investigate the matter.
The MONUC owned radio, Okapi, that is based in the DRC quoting eye-witnesses said they saw spouses and five other people being painfully beheaded by the Interahamwe at Kakala mining site.
Residents in the locality of Kyoka said the slaughters were a result of misunderstandings between the insurgents and a former Mayi Mayi warriors' Major based in Shabunda.
According to media reports the Major allegedly failed to respect his commitments, after receiving four kilograms of Gold to allow the fighters to settle there, exploit the mines and collect taxes from the different locals in the region.
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The presence of the FDLR and other insurgents in the DRC has ensured that relations between the two countries, the DRC and Rwanda, remain shaky.
The Interahamwe are largely responsible for the death of about one million people in Rwanda during the 1994 Genocide.
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