2/05/97
Great Lakes 地域はまたやばい状況になってきたようです。先ずに日曜日にルワンダでカナダ人の牧師が殺されました。これは彼がフツ人のツチ人へのジェノサイドの裁判の証人だったことからフツ人過激派の反抗ではないかと、ルワンダ政府は考えているようです。火曜日には国連職員が4人殺され、その前にもスペイン人の援助関係者が2人殺されたようです。ということでルワンダ国内の緊張感は高まっているようです。
一方ザイールが反対派のthe Alliance of Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Congo-Zaire (ADFL)をウガンダ、ブルンディ、ルワンダが支援しているとし、特にウガンダを非難しました。ウガンダは黒子に回ることが多いですが、この地域の紛争に常に係わってきた国です。これに関してはベルギーがルワンダ、ブルンディ政府を同じ理由で非難し、親ザイール=モブツ派の姿勢を明らかにしました。これに対して在米のザイール人の団体からベルギーに対して抗議のアピールが出されました。
一方ウガンダはザイールこそウガンダの反対派 the Ugandan Allied Democratic Forces (ADF)を支援していると反論しています。当のADFはウガンダ政府の現在のザイールの干渉の仕方はツチ人ルワンダ愛国軍をルワンダへ侵攻させたときと、同じであり、ウガンダ内のツチ人のせん滅の準備があると述べています。
ウガンダはスーダンに対しても軍事的挑発を続けているようで、これはスーダンがイスラム国なので、英・米・エチオピアの支援があると、スーダン政府では抗議しているようです。
ザイール国内の難民は公式的には全て本国に送還されたことになっていますが、20万人ほどが残留し、援助を受けることなく、生活を続けているらしいです。
ザイール国内の難民が本国に送還された後、ルワンダではツチ人フツ人双方の恐怖感が高揚しているのではないかと思います。また、ザイール国内は各国が(西側も含めて)色々な大義のもと戦場にさせようとしているようです。ザイール=モブツは経済力をバックに傭兵を雇い反抗に転じようとしており、そうなればあの地域全部が戦場になってしまいます。なぜそんなことになってしまうのか、悲しい限りです。結局あの地域の人々が自分で解決するしかないのですが、国連だのなんだのもついには、彼らの自決権よりも、それを阻害する要因になっていくのは目に見えています。しかし、こんなに離れている国にいて何をしていいのか分からず、とりあえずコンピュータの前に座っています。
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> Subject: ANACOZA PRESS RELEASE: CRISIS IN EASTERN ZAIRE
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> ALL NORTH AMERICA CONFERENCE ON ZAIRE
> (ANACOZA)
> NORMAL, ILLINOIS 61761
>
> February 2, 1997
>
> PRESS RELEASE-- PRESS RELEASE --PRESS RELEASE
>
>
> Crisis in Central Africa: Belgium Should Refrain from Inflaming the=
> Situation=20
>
>
> The All North America Conference on Zaire (ANACOZA), an organization of
> Zairean intellectuals and Friends of Zaire in North America, hereby
> expresses its displeasure with the strategy adopted by the Belgian
> government to come to the rescue of the Zairean dictatorship. It is clear
> from the latest statement made by the Belgian foreign ministry that the
> Belgian Government has been engaging in a campaign of which the main
> purpose is to mislead the rest of the world into thinking that Belgium
> deeply cares about the well-being of the Zairean people and the integrity
> of the Zairian territory.
>
> In a statement issued by the Belgium's foreign ministry on January 29,
> 1997, Belgium accused, without any tangible proofs, the governements of
> Rwanda and Burundi of sending thousands of soldiers to help the AFDL in its
> fight against the Zairian dictatorship. ANACOZA would like to speak against
> this attempt by the Belgian governement to inflamme the situation in the
> Great Lakes.
>
> Therefore, we are asking the Belgian government to take a responsible
> approach and advocate a negotiated settlement to the crisis in Eastern
> Zaire between the AFDL and the Mobutu-Kengo government. In other words,
> Belgium should advocate calling a conference between the various political
> factions in Zaire (AFDL, UDPS, MNC, PALU, PDSC, MPR) to sit at the same
> table and try to find a negotiated solution to the crisis. It is our belief
> that by engaging in finger pointing, Belgium is going to inflame the
> present crisis and thus lead to a wider conflict between Zaire and its
> neighbors to the east. If this conflict were to be magnified, it would
> result in a wider displacement of refugees throughout Central and East
> Africa which would call for greater intervention by either the US or the
> UN. We call on the Belgian authorities to refrain from making statements
> that are inflammatory in nature.
>
> If Belgium were seriously concerned about the Zairian people, it would have
> condemned the Zairian government's recent arrest of former Katangese
> rebels (in Sandoa, Kapanga, Dilolo, Mutshatsha), some of whom are in their
> mid sixties, and their forcible transfer to the front (Bunia, Amisi, Watsa,
> Nia Nia and Wamba) to fight against the AFDL forces.
>
> If Belgium really wanted to avoid the internationalization of the conflict,
> it should have condemned the hiring of mercenaries by the Mobutu-Kengo
> government and it should also have spoken strongly against the
> participation of its citizens in the mercenary forces as stated by the
> United Nations Resolution No A/RES/44/34 of 72nd plenary meeting of 4
> December 1989 (International Convention against the Recruitment, Use,
> Financing and Training of Mercenaries).=20
>
> If Belgium were interested in peace in the Great Lakes, it would have asked
> the Mobutu-Kengo government to refrain from declaring war against the AFDL
> and to seek a negotiated settlement of the crisis and to seek to convene a
> conference between the Zairian opposition (the AFDL included) and the
> Mobutu-Kengo government.
>
> If Belgium cared about the Zairian people and the integrity of Zaire, it
> would have vigorously spoken against the ethnic cleansing perpetrated by
> Zairian soldiers against Zairians of Tutsi origin in North Kivu and the
> Banyamulenge in South Kivu.=20
>
> If Belgium were interested in the plight of the Zairian people, it would
> have intervened in favor of the Zairian people in eastern Zaire (the
> Nglilima, Hunde, Nyanga, etc.) when these people were being persecuted by
> Zairian soldiers, the former soldiers from Rwanda (FAR), and the Hutu
> militias a.k.a. Interhamwe from 1994 to 1996.
>
> If Belgium cared about the stability of the region, it would have asked the
> Mobutu-Kengo government to refrain from allowing the FAR to make regular
> incursions in Rwanda during which they attacked many military targets and
> killed many innocent civilians.
>
> If Belgium really cared about the stability of the region, it would have
> asked the Zairian government to refrain from allowing the Ugandan rebels to
> use Zairian territory to stage constant attacks in Western Uganda.
>
> We, the members of ANACOZA, believe that the strategy adopted by Belgium
> is aimed at influencing the international community to allow Zaire to
> purchase weapons that will once again be used against the Zairean people by
> the ill-disciplined soldiers of Mr. Mobutu and Mr. Kengo. The purchase of
> such weapons would undoubtedly result in a prolonged war in the entire
> region, and the result of such a war would be disastrous for both Central
> and East Africa.
>
> Therefore, we call on the Belgian authorities, in their meeting with the
> Secretary General of the United Nations, Mr. Kofi Annan, and the Secretary
> of State of the United States, Ms. Madeleine Albright, to advocate a
> negotiated settlement of the crisis and avoid making inflammatory remarks
> that can lead to a crisis of greater magnitude in the region.
>
> For ANACOZA
>
> Nyanguila Kakolesha Andr=E9 M. Kapanga, Ph.D.
> Executive Director Chair, Board of Directors
> Tel. 502-769-2371-ext. 414 Tel. 309-438-7703=20
> Fax 309-663-5377
>
>
>
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Four U.N. staff killed in Rwandan ambush
KIGALI, Feb 4 (Reuter) - Four United Nations employees, including a Briton and a
Cambodian,
were killed in an ambush in southwestern Rwanda on Tuesday, a U.N. official
said.
"We can confirm we have four dead," U.N. human rights spokeswoman Marie Vander
Elst told
Reuters.
She said the four belonged to a human rights monitoring team carrying out normal
duties in the
commune of Karengera approximately 350 km (200 miles) southwest of Kigali on the
Zairean
border.
A driver in the team was hurt and was undergoing surgery for gunshot wounds,
Elst said.
The Rwandan interior minister and chairman of the Rwandan army, Alexis
Kanyarengwe, told
Reuters om Monday that increased violence and instability was feared in the
country after the killing
on Sunday of a Canadian Roman Catholic priest by an unidentified gunman in
northwestern Rwanda.
There have been eight violent attacks on expatriates in Rwanda in the last three
weeks. Six
foreigners -- three Spanish aid workers, the Canadian priest and the two U.N.
staffers -- have died.
After the Canadian priest's murder, the interior minister pointed the finger at
hardline Hutus who fled
Rwanda after committing genocide against minority Tutsis in 1994.
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Source: DHA, Integrated Regional Information Network
Date: 03 Feb 1997
IRIN Emergency Update No. 92 on the
Great Lakes
UNITED NATIONS
Department of Humanitarian Affairs
Integrated Regional Information Network
Tel: +254 2 622147
Fax: +254 2 622129
e-mail: irin@dha.unon.org
- A Canadian priest, of the order of White Fathers, was killed
while conducting a mass in Ruhengeri on Sunday, the same area
where the three MDM workers were recently killed. Humanitarian
sources in Rwanda speculated that the priest was killed by Hutu
extremist because he had assisting the International Criminal
Tribunal with its investigations of genocide suspects.
- The Human Rights Field Operation in Rwanda (HRFOR) has
produced a report detailing killings and other attacks against
genocide survivors and persons associated with them between
January and December 1996. HRFOR received reports of more
than 64 separate incidents in which an estimated 227 genocide
survivors were killed and 56 were injured. In the majority of
these cases, members of the ex-FAR, interahamwe militia or
insurgents were held responsible. The largest number of killings
occured in the western regions of Rwanda; of the 227 reported
killings during the year, 195 were committed in Gisenyi,
Cyangugu, Kibuye, Gitarama and Kigali Rural prefectures.
In a number of cases in November and December recent
returnees have been involved in the killing of genocide
survivors. HRFOR also received reports of death threats and
other acts of intimidation against genocide survivors and
persons associated with them. The report reveals that in a
number of cases throughout the country `genocide survivors
moved from isolated, outlying areas to more central locations,
particularly those close to communal offices and/or RPA
positions, out of a heightened sense of insecurity.'
The report states that in the wake of heightened insurgency
activities, in a number of cases involving the killing of genocide
survivors, the RPA carried out large-scale cordon-and-search
operations, some of which resulted in `high numbers of civilian
casualties.' The report ends with recommendations to the
Government of Rwanda and the international community,
including a recommendation for specific measures to protect
witnesses to the genocide and judicial personnel, as trials are
now underway in Rwanda and Tanzania.
- The Zairean government put two alleged prisoners of war on
display for the international media as proof of their complaint to
the UN Security Council that Zaire is the victim of international
aggression, reported Reuters. They claimed one was a Rwandan
lieutenant and the other a Ugandan corporal. The Rwandan said he
was one of 3,000 Rwandan soldiers sent to Zaire to aid the Allied
Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Congo-Zaire (ADFL).
- In a Foreign Ministry statement dated 30 January, the Ugandan
government dismissed as false and "baseless" the allegations
from the Zairean government that Uganda is involved on the side
of ADFL rebels in eastern Zaire. The statement went on to list
examples of how Zaire failed to respect the resolutions passed
by the Cairo (1995) and Tunis (1996) summits on the Great Lakes
region, by refusing to disarm elements of the ex-FAR and
interahamwe militia and to relocate the refugee camps away
from the Rwandan border.
It accused Zaire of threatening international peace and security
in the region by harbouring Hutu armed elements, which
"regularly made cross-border attacks against Rwanda." The
statement accused the interahamwe of "exporting the policy of
genocide" into eastern Zaire, and "initiating the massacres in
Masisi and Rutshuru". The statement further alleged that the
disenfranchisement of Zaire's citizens, the Banyamulenge
(Zairean Tutsis), "who had been living in Zaire for 200 years", and
their subsequent expulsion from Zaire encouraged long standing
secessionists -- Lumumbists, Tshombe and Mulele groups -- and
others to take up arms against the government.
It said, "shortly after the rebellion in Zaire, Uganda dissidents
who have been living in Zaire with the full knowledge of Zairean
authorities, also took advantage of the prevailing situation and
violated Ugandan territory from within Zaire," forcing Uganda to
protect itself.
One of the rebel groups that Uganda alleges to be supported by
Zairean authorities, the Ugandan Allied Democratic Forces (ADF)
issued a statement today warning Ugandan president Yoweri
Museveni "against his expansionism and destabilization of the
neighbouring countries." It further stated that, "There is
overwhelming evidence to prove that the majority of the
Banyamulenge rebels are UPDF (Ugandan People's Defence
Force). This is similar to the case of the Rwandan Patriotic Front
(RPF) where seven battalions of UPDF fought side by side with
the RPF." They appealed to the Ugandan government "to lay down
their arms and join us to avoid unnecessary deaths of our
citizens. To those who might not heed this appeal tighten your
boots, because we are prepared to fight to the last drop of our
blood if that is what it takes to get rid of Tutsism from Uganda."
- The Kenyan Sunday Nation on 2 February quoted Laurent Kabila,
leader of the ADFL rebels, defending Rwanda's and Uganda's
involvement in eastern Zaire, "They (Rwanda and Uganda) have
had a bitter experience with the Zairean regime, which gives
shelter to their opponents. The east of Zaire was a base for their
opponents."
Kabila told Radio France International that "I have thrown into
battle some 8,000 new and much more determined soldiers
emerging from training centres," reported AFP. Humanitarian
workers in the area claim that the ADFL training camp is located
in Rwanda. In reference of allegations of assistance from
Ugandan and Rwandan troops Kabila said, "I don't need any
outside help, I assure you."
- According to the rebel-controlled Radio of the People,
monitored by the BBC, members of a delegation representing
various communities in the Fizi zone recently held discussions
with delegates from various ethnic groups, notably the Babembe
and Banyamulenge. The parties discussed the causes of the
conflict between the Banyamulenge and the Babembe, concluding
that the root cause of the conflict was Mobutu's regime.
Consequently, it called on Babembe people to coexist with their
Banyamulenge neighbours, and to "only fight for the common
cause, that of liberating the Congolese people through support
of the ADFL."
- Quoting humanitarian sources, AFP reported that Zairean
president, Mobutu Sese Seko, who is still recuperating in France,
was described by his entourage as being too ill to receive the
UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Ms. Sadako Ogata, at his
residence in France last week. Ms. Ogata had asked to meet the
Zairean leader at his villa near Nice, before undertaking her
up-coming visit to countries in the Great Lakes region. However,
President Mobutu, is expected to be well enough to pay a visit to
King Hassan II in Morocco today. Observers speculate that they
will discuss the possible assistance of Moroccan forces in Zaire.
The Kinshasa newspaper `La Cite Africaine' reported that Mobutu
is expected to return to Zaire on 8th February.
Diplomatic efforts to muster support for the flagging
counter-offensive in the wake of reports that ADFL forces have
been reinforced by Ugandan and Rwanda troops continue. Zairean
Foreign Minister Gerard Kamanda wa Kamanda, having completed
a visit to the US, is off to France today. Kamanda wa Kamanda
told an Africa No 1 correspondent that Zaire is expecting
greater involvement from the US towards finding a lasting
solution to the crisis. As a follow-up to the appointment of
Ambassador Sahnoun, the UN/OAU special envoy to the Great
Lakes region, and the steps initiated by heads of state of the
Nairobi follow-up committee, Kamanda wa Kamanda said, "we
think that a strong intervention by the United States
government, which is also a permanent member of the UN
Security Council, is absolutely indispensable. Since this
government has recognized the aggression against Zaire and has
reaffirmed its support for the territorial integrity and the
inviolability of the borders of Zaire, it is necessary for it to
take the necessary steps within the UN Security Council and
elsewhere to ensure that the aggression ceases and that in a
global perspective, measures are taken to improve the situation
in the Great Lakes region."
- Reuters reported that the Zairean counter-offensive was again
faltering. Rebels claimed last Friday to have captured the town
of Watsa, except for the airport held by "South African"
mercenaries, 500 km from Goma in northwest Zaire. The town
was to be a bridge-head for the Zairean counter-offensive and a
mercenary base. Kabila's ADFL rebels also claim to have
recaptured areas of land between Bukavu and Kisangani, and to
have advanced towards Kalemie. Humanitarin workers in
Kisangani told IRIN today that the situation around Amisi is calm
with no recent reports of fighting in that area. In Kisangani local
officials are reported to be "more confident" than they were a
week ago. This confidence may be due to the evidence of
increased FAZ military activity out of Kisangani.
In the latest in a series of contradictory signals, Kabila told
Radio France International that he now has no intention of
advancing to Kisangani, but is willing to negotiate with Kinshasa.
The Zairean government reconfirmed its commitment to a
military solution, refusing offers to negotiate.
According to UNHCR, humanitarian operations were suspended
by the Zairean government in Lubutu at 10:00 on Friday, and
following talks with the UNHCR and other UN and NGO agencies,
the regional governor at Kindu agreed to allow the resumption of
activities at 16:00 on Saturday. The original suspension of
activities resulted from the entry of unauthorized personnel,
mainly journalists, and flights into the area. Most UN and NGO
agencies are still encountering difficulties in obtaining new "sauf
conduits", government travel permits, from Kinshasa. Moreover,
the stipulation that air deliveries must all pass through Kinshasa
is still in effect, which will create further delays in the delivery
of humanitarian aid.
Following a visit to Lobutu and Tingi-Tingi, Emma Bonino, the EU
commissioner for humanitarian affairs, said the international
community should be ashamed, "we are seeing here 200,000
people who were declared non-existent by the international
community... It is frankly unacceptable that the best
professionals in the military from the most important countries
could not detect these people's existence." Bonino promised the
refugees that food aid and repairs to the roads now limiting
access to them would become priorities for the EU. The UN
Humanitarian Coordinator for the Great Lakes, Martin Griffiths,
met with Bonino in Kinshasa last night.
- The UN Human Rights Office in Kinshasa has produced its first
report, covering the period from 10 December to 28 January.
The report draws attention to human rights abuses in eastern
Zaire, the difficulties experienced by aid agencies attempting to
assist refugee and displaced populations and cases of arbitrary
arrest by the authorities.
The report notes that the Government's response to the conflict
in the east dominated political activity in December and January
and `diverted attention away from preparations for elections' as
well as putting an economic strain on the Government and the
National Electoral Commission (NEC). It reveals that while the
electoral calender calls for pre-electoral pilot projects for the
census, identification of eligible voters, and voter registration
from 15 October to 30 November 1996, as of 25 January `none of
these activities had been completed'.
The office was opened in December by the UN High
Commissioner/Centre for Human Rights and will seek to monitor
the human rights situation across the country, develop a
programme for technical assistance with national institutions
established by the Government of Zaire, and produce a plan for
supporting human rights organizations from Zairean civil
society.
- The foreign relations committee of the Sudanese National
Assembly, in a statement issued 1 February on Sudanese Radio,
denounced Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni's, "declaration of
war" against Sudan on 30 January as a provocation. The
committee stressed that this "irresponsible" declaration would
negatively affect the stability and security of Africa. The
statement said that Museveni's "hostility to Arabs" had been
well known and that he is a prime ally of the Sudan People's
Liberation Army (SPLA) rebels.
Brig Dr Tayyib Ibrahim Muhammad Khayr, the Sudanese minister
of culture and information and official government spokesman,
announced on Sudanese TV on 1 February the details of how his
goivernment alleges the SPLA rebels, supported by Ugandan
forces, are massing on the eastern front in preparation for the
launching of an intensive attack on Kapoeta, Torit and Juba in
southern Sudan. He claimed that the SPLA were well equipped
and are being supervised by British officers as well as American
and Israeli experts with the direct participation of Ethiopian
forces. He said that this was within the framework of the
common interests of "these aggressive countries", to oust the
country's current Muslim government. While the Khartoum
government claims it is not the aggressor, opposition leader and
former prime minister, Sadeq el-Mahdi, told AFP that the
Khartoum government was responsible for bringing Sudan to the
brink of war.
- The trial of genocide suspect Froduald Karamira closed on 31
January after four days of hearings. The Public Prosecutor's
Office had requested the death sentence. Sources close to the
trial told IRIN that Karamira's lawyer appeared to play on the
sentiment of the court, saying "the son of the country had
returned". In a near denunciation of his client, he said Karamira
should ask for the forgiveness of the Rwandan people. He said he
had just been doing his job as a lawyer and that he was now
committing Karamira to the justice of his country, but he urged
the court not to impose the death sentence. Karamira then said
that if his death would reconcile the Rwandan people and bring
about peace he would not oppose it. The court's verdict is
expected on 10 February.
- The human rights organization, African Rights, has strongly
criticized Amnesty International (AI) and Reporters sans
Frontieres (RSF) for championing the case of Joseph Ruyenzi, a
Rwandan whom African Rights argue, with detailed evidence,
raped a woman and played a leading role in the genocide in his
home commune of Kayenzi. In a report entitled, `Joseph Ruyenzi:
Prisoner Without A Conscience', African Rights claim that AI and
RSF leapt to his defence shortly after his arrest, presenting his
case as an example of a campaign of terror against journalists by
the Rwandan Government. In doing so they `relied on information
relayed by their contacts in Rwanda, not pausing to question
either the accuracy of the facts they published, or the integrity
of the political interpretations they had so readily ascribed to
his arrest.'
In a BBC interview today, the Africa Director of Amnesty
defended the decision to appeal on Ruzenyi's behalf, stating that
Amnesty had reason to believe that he would be ill-treated
while under arrest and that he was innocent until proven guilty.
Rakiya Omaar, co-director of African Rights, argued that by
portraying Ruyenzi as a victim of injustice and ignoring evidence
about his alleged crimes, Amnesty had threatened to damage
the chance of his victim bringing him to justice.
- In a statement read on Radio Rwanda 30 January, the foreign
affairs minister, Dr. Anastase Gasana reportedly summoned the
Belgian ambassador to express his concern and astonishment on
behalf of the Rwandan government over the recent statements
by the Belgian Foreign Ministry that Rwandan troops are aiding
ADFL forces. The statement implied that the Belgian government
had been mislead by partisan Belgium mercenaries employed in
Kisangani by the Zairean government.
- Rwandan radio reported that the Rwandan foreign affairs
minister, had met with Mr. Antoine Staedtler, an official of the
Swiss embassy in Kigali, on 30 January. Their talks focused on
bilateral relations and cooperation between the two countries.
On behalf of the Swiss government, Mr. Staedtler promised 12m
Swiss francs to assist the Rwandan government's reconstruction
and rehabilitation programmes for the integration process of
the returnees. Mr. Staedtler further said that the Swiss
government was to continue its assistance to Rwanda, especially
in the health sector and projects already financed by the Swiss
government.
Nairobi, 3 February 1997, 15:00 gmt
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