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Rwandan Hutu rebels denounce leaders' arrest

PRESS RELEASE/ FDLR /

The arrest of President Murwanashyaka and Vice-President Musoni in Germany is unfair and unjustified.
By Callixte Mbarushimana
Executive Secretary of the FDLR

Paris, November 18, 2009

The Democratic Liberation Forces of Rwanda (FDLR) would like to inform the media and the public that their President Dr. Ignace Murwanashyaka and Vice-President Straton Musoni were arrested by the German judicial authorities on Tuesday, November 17, 2009 on the accusation of leading an organization suspected by the Kigali regime of committing crimes against humanity and war crimes in DR Congo.

The FDLR declare that Mr. Murwanashyaka and Mr. Musoni are innocent of the charges against them because the FDLR are in no way involved in the atrocities committed against civilians in eastern DRC.

The FDLR have always condemned and unequivocally condemn all atrocities committed against civilian populations in the Great Lakes Region of Africa and reiterate their demand for setting up a committee of independent international inquiry to shed light on these abuses, determine the real sponsors and perpetrators and bring them to justice.

The FDLR strong reject the energetic, unfair and sad desire aimed at neutralizing their leadership. Such a desire is advocated by some pressure groups and lobbies that serve the Kigali regime and is now being executed by the German authorities upon request from the RPF-Inkotanyi fascist and dictatorial regime in Kigali.

The FDLR were surprised that from all the annals of history it is the first time that a democratic country puts into effect the wishes of a fascist and dictatorial regime whose leaders are sought by international justice for crimes of terrorism, crimes against peace, crimes against humanity, war crimes, genocide, rape and looting, crimes committed both in Rwanda and the DR Congo. Rather, it is the terrorists such as Kagame and his lieutenants, who have been indicted by the anti-terrorist judge Jean-Louis Bruguière and J. MERELES, who should be arrested and prosecuted.

The FDLR which owe their origin from the popular will of autonomy and complete cessation of the adventure of a "democracy of cemetery" proposed by the RPF-Inkotanyi of Kagame and his sponsors, reaffirm, while condemning the arrest and imprisonment of their representatives, their determination to pursue till the end their objective, which is and still remains, the total liberation of the Rwandan people from the yoke of the RPF-Inkotanyi fascist regime.

The FDLR demand the immediate release of its leadership and slam the cynical and abhorrent behavior of an international community that is willing to sacrifice the values it claims to be spearheading while being slave of the spirit of lucre which left important stigma in Europe not too far ago.

The FDLR remain convinced that only through peaceful means such as a direct and frank dialogue between the RPF-Inkotanyi fascist regime in Kigali and the FDLR can solve the political problem in Rwanda and not the constant threat of war which is unnecessary and endless, unjust sanctions or any other terrorist or judicial action against their leadership and their members.

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