{UAH} FW: [fondationbanyarwanda] France24: Goma residents protest after deadly attack on civilians

From: fondationbanyarwanda@yahoogroupes.fr [mailto:fondationbanyarwanda@yahoogroupes.fr] On Behalf Of Jean Bosco Sibomana
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Subject: [fondationbanyarwanda] France24: Goma residents protest after deadly attack on civilians

 

 

25 August 2013
Goma residents protest after deadly attack on civilians

Mobs burned tyres and stoned United Nations vehicles in eastern
Democratic Republic of Congo Saturday after a shell struck the city of
Goma and killed three people. Government forces and M23 rebels have
blamed each other for the attack.

Scores of demonstrators took to the streets of Goma in eastern
Democratic Republic of Congo on Saturday after three people were
killed when a shell struck the city.

Officials told FRANCE 24 that the artillery round struck a densely
populated area of the city at 8am, killing three residents and
wounding several others.

“The population has been very agitated since M23 [rebels] fired a bomb
into Ndosho,” army spokesman Col Olivier Hamuli said from Goma. The UN
peacekeeping mission Monusco also blamed the bombing on the militia
holed up in the hills overlooking the city.

Police firing into the air

Eyewitnesses told FRANCE 24 that angry protesters seized the bodies of
civilians killed in the shelling and took them to the city centre,
where large demonstrations continued throughout the morning. “The
police have been firing into the air and using teargas, but there are
too many people for them to control,” a Goma resident said.

Mobs set fire to tyres and set up barricades on several streets across
the city, which borders Rwanda.

Map of the Democratic Republic of Congo
© FRANCE 24

“They stoned UN vehicles and asked that Monusco either intervene or
leave,” Sekombi Katondolo, head of the local radio station Mutaani,
told FRANCE 24.

Monusco’s military spokesman Lt Col Félix Basse said that successive
rotations of UN attack helicopters had been pounding M23 positions for
a second day since early morning.

He added that the aim of the air bombardment was to push the M23
rebels beyond the Kibati hills north of Goma, and put their artillery
out of range of the city.

UN representative Martin Kobler condemned the indiscriminate and
unacceptable attacks against the civilian population, saying he had
"ordered the MONUSCO force to react in the strongest terms possible to
these horrifiying and unqualifiable crimes.”

Rwanda accusations

M23 spokesman Col Vianney Kazarama denied responsibility for
Saturday’s attack on Goma, accusing government forces and UN
peacekeepers instead.

In an open letter to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon, M23 president
Bertrand Bisimwa also blamed government forces for earlier shelling in
which four Goma residents died on Thursday.

On Friday, the Rwandan government accused the Congolese army of firing
artillery rounds into its territory, without causing casualties.

“The nature and pattern of these shellings suggests that they are not
occurring accidentally,” Rwanda’s defence spokesman Brig Gen Joseph
Nzabamwita said in a statement.

DRC armed forces spokesman Col Olivier Hamuli rejected the accusation:
“If it is proven  that rounds were fired into Rwanda, they must have
come from M23,” he told FRANCE 24.

“M23 received reinforcements from Rwanda all night long,” he added.

United Nations inspectors and advocacy groups have documented extended
Rwandan support for M23 since the rebellion started more than one year
ago, but Kigali has always denied the charges.

On Thursday, Reuters reported that Rwandan diplomats had tried to
water down a draft UN Security Council resolution condeming M23’s
attacks on civilians by blaming the recent violence on both government
and rebel forces. The planned resolution was then dropped.

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