Rwanda: Bush Orders Freeze of Murwanashyaka's Assets
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The New Times (Kigali)
November 2, 2006
Posted to the web November 2, 2006
Posted to the web November 2, 2006
Edwin Musoni
Kigali
Kigali
According to media reports, President Bush ordered the freeze of Murwanashyaka's
assets and businesses, citing insecurity in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), caused by the militia leader's Forces Democratiques pour la Liberation du Rwanda (FDLR), and other rebel leaders in the Great Lakes Region
Others affected by the freeze include; Congolese rebel leader, General Laurent Nkunda, Khawa Panga Mandro, former president of the Party for Unity and Safeguarding of the Integrity of Congo (PUSIC); Viktor Anatolijevitch Bout, owner of the Great Lakes Business Company and Business Air Services; Sanjivan Singh Ruprah, a businessman; Dimitri Igorevich Popov, general manager of the Great Lakes Business Company and Douglas Mpano, a manager of the Great Lakes Business Company.
The order also includes the blocking of property and interests in property in the United States. "The conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has been the deadliest conflict since World War II, with an estimated four
million dead since 1996, many from hunger and disease resulting from the fighting," Bush was quoted as saying in a letter to US House Speaker, Dennis Hastert and Vice President Dick Cheney.
In the release from the White House, Bush also calls for the freezing of assets of military and political leaders who recruit or use children to fight in the DRC.
According to the release, the blocking is in relation with the delayed disarmament, repatriation or resettlement programme in the DRC.
When contacted for comment on the freezing of Murwanashyaka's assets, Brian George, the Public Affairs Officer at the American Embassy in Kigali, confirmed the development but didn't divulge further details.
Murwanashyaka was in November last year blacklisted by the UN for violating an arms embargo aimed at promoting peace in the DRC, and for his role in several rebellions that
claimed death of hundreds of thousands of people in the Great Lakes region.
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In April this year, the militia leader, who is also wanted for his role in perpetrating the 1994 Genocide in Rwanda, eluded the ban and travelled to Germany via Brussels through Uganda's Entebbe International Airport. He was arrested and later released by German authorities.
Meanwhile, the freeze comes in the wake of reports that the UN Mission in the Congo (MONUC), is reluctant to enforce sanctions against several rebel groups operating in the DRC forests including Murwanashyaka's FDLR.
Efforts to contact an official at the Kigali MONUC office were fruitless by press time yesterday.
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