3/01/a/97
ザイール周辺の情報です。
先日行われた南アでの個別会議にはザイール反乱軍のリーダーKabilaも出席した 。マンデラ、国連、USAの関係者とも会見している。一方ザイール政府の方はモブツ大統領がフランス療養中のため、二人の代表が南アに着いていたがモブツから直接指示を受けている方の代表は引き揚げてしまった。このことからザイール政府上層部で、停戦を引き受けるか、あくまでも反乱軍を侵略軍と国際社会に訴える強硬派との分裂が始まっているようである。
反乱軍は東ザイールの重要戦略拠点Kinduを占拠した。この地の占拠によりザイール政府は反乱軍との関係を現実的に考えざるを得なくなったといえる。
政府軍の傭兵の一人は政府軍不利を認め、反乱軍にはウガンダ軍の優秀な戦士が含まれていると発言している。反乱軍側はこのコメントに対して、否定せず傭兵自体の不当性を強調した。
上記の Kindu周辺のTingi-Tingi (I and II)難民キャンプでは片方に健康な男性を配置して、片方にそうでないものを置くことよって、ザイール軍とともに反乱軍と戦おうとしているが、このことを援助団体や西側マスコミは批判的に取り上げているようだ。国連等の国際機関は難民キャンプの中の武装勢力を分離し、女・子供といった人道的に保証された？人々のみを本国ルワンダに送り返そうとしている。
***反乱軍が政府と内戦を行うのは勝手だが、難民キャンプを襲うのは人道的ではないと思う。そこが反ツチの軍事キャンプだからと言う反乱軍の主張は本当に正しいのか是非突っ込んで報道してもらいたい。このニュースの中でもザイール人は武器を持ち、フツ人は気力？で戦うという所があり、フツ人の難民キャンプでの軍事力は自衛的なものくらいしかないのではないかと思う。どうもそれすらも西側は許せないようだ。どうしてツチ系の反乱軍を人権を踏みにじる軍隊と批判できないのか？ 難民キャンプのひどい状態は彼らが一番知っていように。それを反乱軍側に売り飛ばしているように見えてならない。*******
ウガンダ軍はザイール国境に軍隊を派遣している。
ブルンディでは多くの難民が本国に帰ってきて、政府が帰還者によると発表した役人へのテロがあった。
ナイロビでの学生リーダーの不審な死に対して、 USAやイギリスはケニヤ政府に対して十分な調査を行うことを要請した。
今回もReliefWeb Bulletin（http://www.reliefweb.int/emergenc/greatlak/latest.html）からの転載です。
今回は英文の量が多くかつ整理されておらず、読みにくいでしょうが、時間がないのですみません。上記の要約にも翻訳ミスがあるかもしれません、是非ReliefWeb Bulletinに直接アクセス下さい。
出来ればIRIN （Integrated Regional Information Network）Emergency Update No.xxx on the Great LakesだけでもUpdate（ほとんど毎日出されます）で紹介していきたいと思っています。
UNITED NATIONS
Department of Humanitarian Affairs
The following items has been posted as a ReliefWeb Bulletin:
Sources confirm rebel capture of Kindu: UN
(ADDS detail)
NAIROBI, Feb 28 (AFP) - Zairean rebels occupied the strategic town
of Kindu
on Thursday morning, the UN Department of Humanitarian Affairs quoted
well
placed regional sources as stating Friday.
"The airstrip has also reportedly been taken by the rebels," the
UNDHA said
in a round-up of news of the region supplied to AFP.
"Two thousand (government) troops stationed in Kindu garrison town
reportedly fled after extensive looting. Fleeing FAZ (Forces Armees
Zairoises
-- government troops) are reported to be moving westwards towards Katako
Kombe,
and are expected to arrive sometime this weekend.
"Local Zairean press described Kindu today (Friday) as a 'ville
morte'
(dead town."
Paul Stromberg, the spokesman in Rwanda for the UN High Commissioner
for
Refugees (UNHCR) told AFP by telephone from Kigali: "Every report I have
gotten
indicates that it fell yesterday (Thursday)."
But he said UNHCR staff had been refused permission to overfly the
area --
Kindu is on the west Bank of the Zaire River, about 450 kilometres (270
miles)
upriver from Kisangani -- and that he was not able to confirm the
reports.
Other sources indicated that missionaries had reported Kindu fallen,
but
rebel headquarters in Goma, on the border with Rwanda, had made no
announcement
of its capture by late Friday.
hn/bm
AFP
KEYWORDS: Zaire-Kindu
Copyright (c) 1997 Agence France-Presse
28/02/97
Zaire rebels say near camp, took part of town
KIGALI, Feb 28 (Reuter) - Rebels said on Friday they were
six km (four miles) from the largest refugee camp in eastern
Zaire but were delaying an advance for the sake of innocent
refugees there.
Mwenze Kongoro, minister of justice in rebel leader Laurent
Kabila's administration in east Zaire, told Reuters rebel forces
had seized one side of Kindu town and were taking the other.
Speaking in the Rwandan capital Kigali, Kongoro said: "We
are six km from Tingi Tingi. We are holding our advance on Tingi
Tingi. We are trying to resolve the problem of the refugees."
He said the rebels were concerned aboutt the plight of
"innocent men, women and children" among the refugees. "We will
eventually take it (Tingi Tingi) but not right now," he added.
"We confirm the fall of one side of Kindu. There was no
resistance. We were welcomed by the local population. The bridge
connecting both sides was mined. We have cleaned those mines and
are in the process of taking the other side," Kongoro said.
A spokesman for the U.N. refugee agency said 22 foreign aid
workers were evacuated from Tingi Tingi on at least three planes
after the Zairean army and former Rwandan Hutu army told them to
leave. "We don't know if the refugees are leaving because all
our people have left but this order was also made to the
refugees and on the basis of it they may be moving," said Paul
Stromberg.
Copyright (c) 1997 Reuters
28/02/97
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IRIN Emergency Update No. 110 on the Great Lakes
UNITED NATIONS
Department of Humanitarian Affairs
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- Laurent-Desire Kabila, leader of the rebel Alliance of Democratic Forces
for the Liberation of Congo-Zaire (ADFL), held talks with South African
President Mandela today according to press reports. Rebel sources have said
Kabila will not meet with Zairean President Mobutu Sese Seko's officials in
South Africa, but insists on one-to-one talks with Mobutu. President Mobutu,
who is in France, says he will not talk to the rebels.
- Reports of fighting and looting in and around Kindu continue. The Zairean
Ministry of Defence has admitted there is fighting around the garrison town,
but claim today that government troops had pushed back rebels and reached
the strategically important Elila bridge about 50 kilometres east of Kindu.
The Ministry of Defence said there had been "violent exchanges" with the
rebels at Moyengo, about 40 kilometres south of Kindu, reports AFP.
According to one well-informed source in the region, the rebels intend to
take Kindu to give Mobutu "an incentive" to negotiate.
- In Kinshasa, the defence ministry reported that Ugandan troops were massed
in the northeast of the Upper Zaire region, around Mount-Bleu, Bunia and
Mahagi, close to the Ugandan border. It said the Ugandan forces were equiped
with tanks, heavy guns and rocket launchers.
- Kabila's forces "are moving in on Zaire's third largest city, Kisangani,
and the Tingi-Tingi refugee camps", Rwandan state radio reported yesterday.
Kabila, however, has previously given assurances that he will hold back his
troops for humanitarian reasons from Tingi-Tingi and Kisangani.
- Seventeen heads of state in the Organisation of African Unity will meet on
March 18-19 to discuss the war and refugee crisis in Zaire, OAU officials
and foreign ministers said today in Tripoli. OAU spokesman Ibrahim Dagash
said that the gathering would involve countries in the Central Organ (for
conflict resolution) of the OAU and would probably meet in Lome, Togo (Addis
Ababa, Ethiopia, and Abuja, Nigeria are also being considered). Libiyan
leader Colonel Kadhafi was expected to open the OAU meeting yesterday but
inexplicably failed to turn up. OAU spokesman Ibrahim Dagash said the OAU
had been told by the Libiyan government that Kadhafi would come for the
closing session on Friday.
- The French government expressed hope yesterday that peace efforts led by
Pretoria "will very soon achieve concrete results", reports AFP. Foreign
spokesman Jacques Rummelhardt said there was urgent need to reach a truce
and stop the fighting in eastern Zaire.
- Refugees International said in a statement yesterday that while peace
talks were a "welcome first step" towards a solution in eastern Zaire, they
were "not focused on the dire emergency at hand: the fate of hundreds of
thousands of sick and starving displaced Zaireans and Rwandan and Burundian
refugees". It said that reports of high mortality rates in Tingi-Tingi
camps, fears of appropriation of food by Rwandan militia, and possible
execution of refugees by Rwandan camp leaders, makes the outlook for
refugees and the displaced in eastern Zaire "bleak". The statement also
points out that the fate of some 25,000 refugees from Kalima (before,
Shabunda) remains unknown. The refugees were in "very bad condition" before
fleeing Kalima. Refugees Interational recommends that: donor governments
express their support and provide every means necessary to evacuate
vulnerable people from eastern Zaire by air; the government of Zaire permit
humanitarian agencies to search by air and on the ground for refugees who
fled into the forest; the international community support the UNHCR in every
way possible to facilitate the rescue and repatriation of refugees near
Kingulube.
- UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan accepted the resignations of the chief
administrator and deputy prosecutor of the Rwandan genocide court, UN
spokesman Juan-Carlos Brandt said yesterday. Chief administrator Andronico
Adede of Kenya and deputy prosecutor Honore Rakotomanana of Madagascar
submitted their resignations after meetings with Annan in New York.
According to the spokesman, the Secretary-General concluded that "the
continuation of the two officials of the Tribunal in their posts would not
be in the interests of the United Nations and the work of the Tribunal".
Annan has appointed Agwu Okali of Nigeria, who works in Nairobi for the UN
agency HABITAT, as the new chief administrator, or registrar. Chief
Prosecutor Louise Arbour of Canada was also summoned to New York last Friday
for consultations with the Secretary-General. In a report released this
month UN Inspector-General Karl Pashcke found unqualified staff, financial
waste and mismanagement at all levels of the court.
- Cameroon's Court of Appeal freed six Rwandan war crimes suspects Wednesday
stating that there was insufficient evidence to extradite them to the
International UN Tribunal in Arusha. Officials said that the Court of Appeal
had found that the accusations against the men were "not sufficiently grave"
and that the evidence presented was "insufficient". The UN Tribunal had
provided last minute evidence against two of the men, which had prolonged
their stay in custody. The six men are among 13 people the Cameroon
authorities arrested in 1996 in response to requests from the Rwandan
government which had named them as taking part in the 1994 genocide.
- Most of the exiled Rwandans arrested by Kenyan police in a "swoop" this
week have been freed, reports AFP. Among those picked up and held were
former Rwanda prime minister Jean Kambanda, who held office April-July 1994.
High profile Rwandan exiles campaigned this week on behalf of certain groups
of Rwandans, releasing a statement claiming the swoop was aimed at "Hutus" -
the swoop, however, targetted all Rwandans. Sources quoted in the press
suggested the swoop could be linked to the recent arrival several hundred
Hutu ex-FAR and other Rwandans from Tingi-Tingi camps in eastern Zaire.
Police swoops against refugees and immigrants are commonplace in Kenya.
- Burundi radio reported on Wednesday that security forces carried out a
search at Gisenyi displaced persons camp. The security sweep follows an
attack in Kamenge, northern Bujumbura, on Monday night, which targetted a
district secretary. Seven people, including his wife, were killed and an
infant stabbed. A military source said that the search was carried out on
the basis of intelligence provided by one of the assailants arrested on the
night of the attack, and 18 more people have been arrested.
- At the opening of a two-day conference in Kampala on "the challenge of
peace in northern Uganda", President Yoweri Museveni sent assurances that
the government is willing to facilitate any genuine initiative to bring
peace and an end to conflict. His remarks were relayed through a speech
reacd for him by the prime minister, Kintu Musoke. In the speech, the
president warned those "who seek assistance from Sudan to stop it for the
well-being of their people and economic growth in northern Uganda", reports
Ugandan state radio. On the same day, Ugandan radio broadcast an appeal from
the Resident District Commission (RDC) from Kabarole district, Western
Uganda, Dan Mugisha Mwesigye. Mwesigye appealed to rebels in southwestern
Uganda to voluntarily surrender and "join the rest of the Ugandans in
developing the country". The RDC said that no rebel would be punished if he
surrendered. He also said that not all the rebels who attacked Kasese were
Tabliqs - Ugandan Muslim Fundamentalists - and that the government was of
"all people, including Moslems".
- Uganda has halted civilian flights to the northern town of Gulu. Civilian
air operators said the ban had been in effect since Tuesday, reports AFP.
Major General Salim Saleh, special presidential advisor to the north, said
the government feared Sudan would bomb the north. Gulu is the heart of an
insurgency by Christian fundamentalist rebels. The Ugandan government
accused Sudan of bombing the nrothern town of Moyo on February 13; Sudan
denied it.
- The Pan-African Conference on Peace, Gender and Development begins on
Saturday in Kigali, Rwanda. The conference is organised under the auspices
of the OAU, ECA, various UN agencies and the Netherlands government. The
conference was conceived by the coalition of Rwandan women, the Government
and civil society represented by Pro-Femmes/Twese Hamwe, the National
Advisory Board on Women and the Ministry of Family and Promotion of Women.
Nairobi, 27 February 1997 14:10 GMT
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