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Radio Okapi reports that FARDC special operators also withdrew from
the Rutshuru area as did their Rwandan counterparts.
Rwandan special operators had withdrawn from the hamlets of Katwiguru,
Kiseguro and Kaunga--in the Rutshuru administrative territory.
Radio Okapi doesn't give the number of Congolese special operators or
their final destination.
What's clear however is that M23, the FDLR, and assorted Mai Mai
militias have moved in to fill the vacuum left by Rwandan and
Congolese special operators.
On Monday, September 3, M23 occupied Kiseguro, at about 20 km of
Rutshuru, vacated by Rwandan special forces.
The FDLR first occupied Kiseguro on Saturday, September 1, before
being pushed north by the M23 on Monday.
The FDLR now have firm control of the northern part of Kiseguro up to
Buramba, and from north of Nyamilima down to Ishasha.
Mai Mai militias occupy Maï Nyamilima.
By and large, the M23, the FDLR, and Mai Mai militias control the road
axis Kiwanja-Nyamilima-Ishasha.
(Source: radiookapi.net/actualite/2012/09/04/nord-kivu-le-m23-occupe-les-positions-abandonnees-par-les-forces-speciales-rwandaises-kiseguro/)
This active infestation of the area by the FDLR raises further on the
counterinsurgency objectives of both Rwanda and the DRC.
What have those special operators being doing in the area for two
years with such abysmal achievement?
These past few days, opposition MP José Makila (Equateur Province) is
making the round of Kinshasa TV talk shows to denounce the presence on
Congolese soil without parliamentary mandate.
And in the interim, the grapevine of Kinshasa Radio-Trottoir has gone
on overdrive.
There are those who see the stealthy presence of Rwandan special
operators as evidence of the connivance between Kabila and Kagame in
the unfolding conspiracy to balkanize Congo.
Rwandan special operators were in the Rutshuru are, these sidewalk
pundits charge, to supervise extraction and shipment of Kivu minerals
to Rwanda.
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PHOTO CREDITS: radiooakapi.net
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