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After Kikwete's speech, Rwandan Foreign Minister Louise Mushikiwabo was quoted by Radio France Internationale (RFI) suggesting Kikwete could be an FDLR sympathiser and was adamant that Rwanda would not negotiate with people it considers responsible for the 1994 genocide against Tutsis.
Ethnic Hutu militia and soldiers butchered 800,000 minority Tutsis and politically moderate Hutus in the tiny east African country in just 100 days between April and June 1994. Kikwete said he had been a target of insults and ridicule from Rwandan leaders, while also hearing a lot of "alleged plots" against Tanzania and himself. He did not elaborate.
"I would like to reiterate that neither I nor my government have any conflict nor any ill intentions towards Rwanda," he said.
A 17,000-strong U.N. force, known as MONUSCO, and Congo troops have struggled over the past decade to stem a conflict involving dozens of armed groups and complicated by national and ethnic rivalries. A new 3,000-member U.N. Intervention Brigade was recently deployed to fight and disarm rebels in the east.
(Writing by Drazen Jorgic; Editing by Alistair Lyon)
Pia, soma: Kagame tells Kikwete "I will hit you......"
Ethnic Hutu militia and soldiers butchered 800,000 minority Tutsis and politically moderate Hutus in the tiny east African country in just 100 days between April and June 1994. Kikwete said he had been a target of insults and ridicule from Rwandan leaders, while also hearing a lot of "alleged plots" against Tanzania and himself. He did not elaborate.
"I would like to reiterate that neither I nor my government have any conflict nor any ill intentions towards Rwanda," he said.
A 17,000-strong U.N. force, known as MONUSCO, and Congo troops have struggled over the past decade to stem a conflict involving dozens of armed groups and complicated by national and ethnic rivalries. A new 3,000-member U.N. Intervention Brigade was recently deployed to fight and disarm rebels in the east.
(Writing by Drazen Jorgic; Editing by Alistair Lyon)
Pia, soma: Kagame tells Kikwete "I will hit you......"