Democratic Forces for the Libera

Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR)
Congo

See: UPDF AFDL RPF/A) FAR/Interahamwe SPLA

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Most reporting from the Kivus zooms in on sexual violence and the Western media always blames the victims—Congolese soldiers caught in the maelstrom of international proxy warfare and organized crime—but we hear nothing about U.S. or Canadian or Australian mining companies—and for those rare times that we do the reportage de-links the mining from the mass murder. [2008 Dec] Merchants of Death: Exposing Corporate-financed Holocaust in Africa. White Collar War Crimes, Black African Fall Guys by Keith Harmon Snow

605. As in the previous period, the Mayi-Mayi militias and the FDLR also continued to rape and abduct women. At Kitchanga in Masisi, women were reportedly abducted, used to carry looted goods to market, then repeatedly raped by elements of the FDLR.¹¹³⁸ In some cases, the rapes were apparently aimed at causing forced pregnancies in order to increase the proportion of Kinyarwandan speakers in the region.¹¹³⁹ [2010 June] Report of the Mapping Exercise documenting the most serious violations of human rights and international humanitarian law committed within the territory of the Democratic Republic of the Congo between March 1993 and June 2003 by Navanethem Pillay, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights

In North Kivu province we find the Forces for the Democratic Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR) and the National Congress for the Defense of the People, the CNDP, created by self-appointed Rwandan "General" Laurent Nkunda. Here the media has historically cast General Nkunda as good, the FDLR as evil. Only recently has Nkunda come under any kind of "harsh" criticism. [2008 Dec] Merchants of Death: Exposing Corporate-financed Holocaust in Africa. White Collar War Crimes, Black African Fall Guys by Keith Harmon Snow