The rebels in the Congo Democratic Republic on Sunday entered the vital shopping center in the eastern of the warriors and videos, which eroded local residents. If confirmed, the Bukavu will be the latest city that will fall in an attack that reveals the weakness of the collapsed Congolese army.
This M23 rebels – Rwanda, the director, supported by Rwanda, who is a smaller neighbor of the Congo, turned out that there was no resistance, residents, a large center for gold trade and smuggling, residents.
“We are there, there are bukavu,” said Willy Ngoma, M23 spokesman reached the phone.
On Sunday, a crowd of rebels in Bukavu's main square, after entering the city and silent columns, was approved for three witnesses and videos and for periods. Witnesses demanded anonymity for the fear of revenge from the armed group.
Days, according to other residents, Congolese soldiers, according to other residents, Bucavu left the bundle of openors and entering the warehouses and shops and fled in similar columns to the city. The Congolese government did not speak openly about the situation in the city Sunday, and the arrest of Bukavu was not independently.
The visible fall in Bukavu would stop in a sharp contrast Landing battle for the Key Goma City Last month, about 3,000 people died, according to the United Nations.
A city of Bukavu, a city of more than a million people sitting on the edge of Crystal, M23 rebels will now manage the two largest shopping mall in the mineral-rich east of the Congo.
The seizure of experts in Bukavun threatens the involvement of neighboring countries to the conflict. The city sits 20 miles away from the border with Burundi, where the troops fight with the Kongolese army.
“This will increase the risk of regional war with Burundi,” a research team specializing in the Congo, Fred Bauma, about the fall of Bukavun.
Now M23 is also connected directly with a strong back, Rwanda. Bucavu and Goma, in the southern and northern edges of Scrawling Lake, both in recent years are seated in the border with Rwanda, which exports minerals. UN specialists.
Rwandan President Paul Kagame, said that the soldiers were attended by Soldiers in the Eastern Congo, but denied M23.
M23 leaders now promised Kinshasa, the capital of the Congo and March with one of the largest cities in Africa. The Congolese government refused to sit with M23 leaders or Rwanda and the military response in the ground was limited.
M23 is the strongest of dozens of armed groups that stabilize the Eastern Congo for about three decades. Since the seizes the Goma, the rebels have promised to restore and security and establish security – one of the richest mining areas of Africa tried to provide great tricks as a fairly qualified administrative power.
“According to a video approved by Times, the high-ranking M23 official told Bernavu.” There is no unemployed development, but we will not forget that peace remains fundamental for a stable people. “
Mr. Byamungu then ordered residents to return home to the residents to return home.
The group's calls for peace are in contradictions with the bloody tactics of M23. M23 violated fires and fires in some time in one time. Mr. Byamungu, according to United NationsHe planned and directed the killing of citizens and the estimated execution of the soldiers.
Unlike Goma, it was difficult to seem to be seized in Bukavu: there was a surprise: this month this month was previously closed and in recent weeks of M23 offering.
M23 rebels said they entered Bukavu on Sunday grasp A nearby airport used as the main rear base to attempt the group's progress in the South Kivu province of the Congolese Army.
The latest M23 attacks in early January, land and gold, tin and gold, tin and cobalt, tin and gold, tin and cobalt, tin and cobalt, tin and gold, tin and cobalt, a rich region with a mineral further increased.
Last month, more than 500,000 people were displaced United Nations. The number of aggression against children carried out by armed groups is already widespread in the region increased in recent weeksAccording to Unicef.
Ruth Maclean Senegal, Dakar was informed.