Categories: RWANDA

Photos: Aljazeera visited the FARDC headquarters

FDLR militia

Early this mornig the Al Jazeera reporter visited the FARDC military headquarters. The FDLR are composed of the people who perpatrated the genocide against the Tutsi and fled to DRC. MONUSCO and FARDC said they are committed to disarm the FDLR militias. If the militia do not disarm the army of the Democratic Republic of Congo says it is clearing all the armed groups out of the east of the country by force, Al Jazeera reported.

FDLR militia

The FDLR includes members of the militia that carried out the 1994 Rwanda genocide, who have been in neighboring Congo ever since.

The Congolese army says it will attack the FDLR, with UN support, within a matter of weeks if they don’t surrender. Some of their members are accused of genocide, mass-rape and trying to overthrow the Rwandan Government.

These are photos taken by Al Jazeera reporter:

They are numerous in the DRC

They hold their weapons

Patrolling in the headquarters neighborhoods

The current spokesperson of the militias

The FDLR combatants gathering to take a picture from the Al Jazeera reporter

They hide during rainfalls

Women in the village to fetch water

Children in the village drying maize

Store of weapons in the village

The Buleusa village where are located the Headquarters of the FDLR militia

Al Jazeera