Hutu Rebels In Congo Strike Back Against Joint Offensive

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From The Christian Science Monitor:

FDLR militia targets civilians, aid workers, and officials who supported the Congo-Rwanda effort.

Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo - A new rebel push in Congo's wild, wild east is threatening to mar recent progress toward peace and plunge one of the world's most war-ravaged regions into a fresh humanitarian crisis.

From Jan. 21 until late February, the Congolese Army joined neighboring Rwanda in a surprise offensive against the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR), a Hutu militia suspected of committing the 1994 genocide in Rwanda and wreaking havoc in the mineral-rich mountains of eastern Congo ever since.

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My Comment: This war has been going on for decades. If they thought that an offensive with the help of Rwanda would have put an end to this conflict within two months .... sigh .... they are dreaming.

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