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Rwandan Troops Start Fighting Hutu Rebels
in DR Congo -- The Telegraph

Around 5,000 Rwandan troops are preparing a jungle assault on Hutu rebels in the Democratic Republic of Congo that might end a decade of brutal violence that has destabilised Central Africa.

As hundreds of soldiers marched towards the town of Rutshuru, international peacekeepers deployed to areas where heavy clashes were expected to protect thousands of terrified civilians.

The largest United Nations peacekeeping mission in the world is stationed in Goma, the capital of Nord Kivu province where a vicious civil war has led to millions of deaths over the past 10 years.

At least nine rebels have already been killed in skirmishes.

In December, Rwanda and DR Congo finally agreed to act together to pursue the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR), a Hutu rebel group whose leaders were involved in the 1994 Rwandan genocide.

Until recently, the DR Congo army was thought to support the FDLR, which exercised a reign of terror over Tutsi towns in eastern Congo, killing and raping civilians.

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