Tusiime Columbus
2 December 2007
Kampala — THE United Nations peacekeeping forces in DR Congo have commended the Ugandan Government for repatriating Congolese rebels and soldiers.
The MONUC representative in-charge of demobilisation and resettlement, Maryam Wathanafa, challenged the Congolese to also handover the rebels in their country.
She was speaking at the handover of four Congolese captured in Bundibugyo district in April during the height of the clashes between the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) and the UPDF.
Wathanafa said the peacekeeping mission was waiting for a final agreement between Uganda, Rwanda and Congo to flush out the rebels hiding in eastern Congo. She said UN peacekeepers were demobilising and resettling ADF rebels in eastern Congo.
Ugandan authorities had criticised the MONUC in DR Congo for failing to end the insurgency in their areas of jurisdiction.
Handing over the Congolese on behalf of the Government, Lt. Col. James Nambale urged MONUC to cooperate with regional governments in flushing out the militia in Congo. The ceremony took place at Congo's intelligence offices in Kasindi.
Those handed over included Kakule Kanyambo from Goma, Balewa Wasingye Mbaale from Butterbur, Bahati Musa from Goma and Elizabeth Tibakanya from Mboga.
Tibakanya said she was abducted from her garden in Mboga by the ADF rebels with her 10-month-old baby, who later died in Bundibugyo.
On the same day, the Government handed the Congolese seven Rwandan dissidents who were fighting the Congolese government alongside Gen. Laurent Nkunda.
Handing over the group, Maj. Herbert Makanga of the 21 Battalion in Mpondwe challenged the Congolese to also arrest the Ugandan rebels in eastern Congo and stop the influx of Congolese dissidents crossing to Uganda. The seven were Zoezere Mukizimana, Frank Mwizerwa, Deogratius Muyobache, Esieni Mibakwe, Eriek Imaniriho, Bigimuremye Igonome and Muheta Igakurondi.
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