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Latest Rwandan-back Rebel Attack on DR Congo Leaves 140 Dead

pgnewser August 28, 2025

Rwanda’s proxy invasion of DR Congo through “rebels” is accelerating after an attack in the eastern Congo leaves 141 mostly Hutus dead. The Rwandan-backed group M23 allegedly conducted the attack. These Hutus are the same Hutus that escaped to the Congo after the Rwandan Genocide that saw their tribe kill 800,000 Tutsis.

At least 140 killed by Rwanda-backed rebels in eastern DR Congo, rights group says– www.france24.com
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Human Rights Watch said 141 people, predominantly Hutus, were feared to have been killed in eastern Congo in July in attacks believed to have been carried out by the Rwanda-backed M23 group, the most prominent of the armed groups fighting for control of the region.

Former DR Congo president on trial for treason and murder in Kinshasa– www.bbc.com

pgnewser July 25, 2025

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The treason trial of the former president of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Joseph Kabila, has begun in a military court in the capital, Kinshasa.

He also faces other charges, such as murder, linked to his alleged support for M23 rebels – who control a large part of the mineral-rich east of the country. He denies the charges and has snubbed the hearing.

Kabila’s successor, President Félix Tshisekedi, has accused him of being the brains behind the rebels.

The former president has rejected the case as “arbitrary” and said the courts were being used as an “instrument of oppression”.

A ceasefire deal between the rebels and the government was agreed last week, but fighting has continued.

Kabila had been living outside the country for two years, but arrived in the rebel-held city of Goma, in eastern DR Congo, from self-imposed exile in South Africa in May.