Is this a new era in Great Lakes' cooperation? Rwandan government troops crossed into Congo to hunt Rwandan Hutu rebels. This event is on the heels of the Tutsi rebels rejecting their leader, Nkunda, and vowing to join the Congolese army.
Nkunda had long said he was operating in Congo to protect his Tutsi people from the Hutus.
Rwandan troops enter Congo to hunt Hutu rebels | Reuters.
KIBATI, Congo, Jan 20 (Reuters) - Up to 2,000 Rwandan troops crossed into eastern Congo on Tuesday under a December agreement between the two countries to hunt down Rwandan Hutu rebels, Congo's government and United Nations peacekeepers said.
After an offensive last year by Congolese Tutsi rebels, who say they need to defend themselves against the Rwandan Hutu fighters, the Rwandan and Congolese governments agreed on Dec. 5 to launch joint operations against the Rwandan Hutu FDLR rebels.
"The operations are beginning. We have invited Rwandan officers with their security contingents for their safety. They are observers ... The operations to disarm the FDLR are planned for length of 10 to 15 days," Lambert Mende, Congo's information minister and government spokesman, told Reuters.
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