Bertrand Bisimwa Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/bertrand-bisimwa/ The low down on African affairs Tue, 16 Dec 2014 22:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i0.wp.com/jjcornish.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-Fountain_Pen_favicon-812.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Bertrand Bisimwa Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/bertrand-bisimwa/ 32 32 Congolese rebels flee to avoid repatriation https://jjcornish.com/2014/12/congolese-rebels-flee-avoid-repatriation/ Tue, 16 Dec 2014 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2014/12/congolese-rebels-flee-avoid-repatriation/ Scores of Congolese rebels about to be repatriated have fled the camp where they’ve been sheltering this past year. Some of those fleeing into the surrounding mountainous bush were shot and wounded. M23 rebel leader Bertrand Bisimwa says the men fear being killed if they go home because the DRC government hasn’t honoured the terms […]

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]]> Scores of Congolese rebels about to be repatriated have fled the camp where they’ve been sheltering this past year.

Some of those fleeing into the surrounding mountainous bush were shot and wounded.

M23 rebel leader Bertrand Bisimwa says the men fear being killed if they go home because the DRC government hasn’t honoured the terms of the ceasefire signed last year.

Ugandan military officials planned to airlift hundreds of the former fighters who fled when trucks arrived to take them to an airbase.

M23 used to be the most prominent rebel group operating in eastern Congo before it was repulsed by U.N. forces fighting with the Congolese national army. More than 1 000 rebels fled to Rwanda and Uganda last year before their leaders signed a peace agreement with Congo’s government last December.

 

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