Rwanda: Military Never Shot Back At DR Congo - RDF

5 November 2008

Kigali — Rwanda's Military Spokesman Maj. Jill Rutaremara, has strongly refuted, allegations made by the United Nations Peacekeeping Mission in DR Congo (MONUC), that the Rwanda Defense Forces, (RDF), fired heavy artillery shells at DR Congo territory last week.

MONUC claimed that Rwanda fired tank shells and other heavy artillery across the border into the DR Congo just before government forces (FARDC) were routed out of the provincial capital Goma by rebels of the National Congress for the Defence of the People (CNDP).

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