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Rwanda’s foreign ministry in a terse statement said that the US statement distorted the reality and that Rwanda reserved the right to self-defense against the DRC’s actions in the area, which threatened the Rwandan security.
In a recent development, the United States has accused Rwanda of backing the M23 rebel group in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Kigali has denied this accusation as the U.S. State Department condemned the worsening violence and called on M23 to cease hostilities immediately. The US also called on M23, the militant group, which is allegedly supported by Rwanda, to withdraw from its current positions around the Sake and Goma region and insisted that Rwanda should immediately withdraw all of its military personnel from the DRC and disband its surface-to-air missile systems.
Meanwhile, Rwanda’s foreign ministry in a terse statement said that the US statement distorted the reality and that Rwanda reserved the right to self-defense against the DRC’s actions in the area, which threatened the Rwandan security. It also expressed concerns about the derailment of the regional peace processes and further added that the international community was indifferent to DRC’s dramatic military build-up.
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Recent weeks have witnessed a dramatic upturn in clashes between the M23 rebels, army forces, and self-defense groups that support them. Hundreds of thousands have been forced to flee, many of them now in Goma, as M23 advances on the city. South Africa announced last week that it would deploy a force of 2900 troops to help DRC as per the agreement with the Southern African Regional Bloc (SADC) to help Congo fight rebel groups.
