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The oil-for-food, theth, kickbacks scandals to the Genocide against Hutus in the UN history.
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The number of these child soldiers (kadogo) is impressive.
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As of 9 December 1995, 1,711 children who are believed to be hutu children were under arrest then sent to the Congo, accounting for nearly 2 per cent of the entire prison population, which is considerable. It is estimated at approximately 4,820.
Many hutu children who survived the hostilities, and in particular the massacres by RPF in Kigali and in the north-western region of Rwanda, witnessed the cruelties and atrocities perpetrated against their parents, men, women and other children. Many of these children were too young, too sick, or too traumatized to fight against their parents exiled in the Congo during the exodus.
This dismal and terrible spectacle certainly affected and traumatized these children. They were powerless witnesses of the torture and massacre of their parents, relatives or friends. Unfortunately, the current regime has destroyed all figures relating to the number of those mayibobu street children who were victims of the massacres. Many of these hutu children were separated from their parents and given to the Tutsi families. Later, they were sent again to the Congo where they were recruited by RCD and CNDP rebellions, Rebellions financially supported by Rwanda to fight and loot mineral ressources in the Congo.
What is certain is that many of them died in appalling circumstances. Some babies had their throats cut and others were hurled against walls in the presence of their parents before the latter were themselves executed. Some children were even killed by their parents under threat from RPF rebellion and later 1995, 1996 and 1998 by APR/RDF. On 31 December 1995, there were 47,000 street children known as Mayibobu or unaccompanied hutu children.
On the other hand, the panel’s draft report contradicts repeated denials by Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame that his government has supported the Tutsi-led rebellion in neighbouring DR Congo in any way.
The report was drawn up by the panel of experts established to investigate breaches of an international arms embargo against Rwanda but this has never happen.
Among its findings were claims that 150 Rwandans, including 29 children, were repatriated to their home country between Jan 2007 and Oct 2008 by the UN’s mission in Congo.
Most had been recruited in Rwanda and most had fought or served in Mr Nkunda’s National Congress for the Liberation of the People (CNDP), the rebel army whose recent advances have forced 250,000 Congolese civilians to flee their homes.
“According to the debriefing of a dozen of these recruits, there have been incidents indicating complicity by the Rwandan authorities in their recruitment,” the draft report said.
It also stated that Rwanda had supplied military equipment to Mr Nkunda’s forces and allowed his movement to deposit money in Rwandan banks.
A source close to the panel of experts told The Daily Telegraph that the report presented some “inconvenient truths” to UN member states including Britain.
“It will be interesting to see how they act,” the source said.
The countries France, Belgian, Great Bretain and US representatives at the UN did nothing rather condemning and blaming 4 Hutus (FDLR members) for having used child-sodiers. Shame on them. What shames these contries is that the corrupt man Bernard Kouchner might asked this resolution. Their credibility is actually in serious doubt.
How could Hutus getting blaimed for having used Kadogo to kill their own relatives? Up to now, there is no arms embargo against Paul kagame and his RPF criminal organization on targeted sanctions lists. On this list, we onfortunatelly see the FDLR accused for having used Kadogo children!
Rwanda’s foreign minister, Rosemary Museminali, on Thursday again denied that her government, which has received more than £525 million of British aid over the last five years, the largest per capita amount in Africa, supported the Congolese rebel leader.
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