"Tentacles of Destabilization": FARDC abandon 50 tons of materiel & Rwanda's hostile role

Belgian journo and reporter Colette Braeckman writes today on her blog

that "50 tons of weapons and ordnance (including tanks...) might have

been abandoned by Congolese troops...





"This defeat is all the more worrisome for the Congolese armed forces

as it revives suspicions of treason: why, indeed, keep such large

quantity of military materiel at such vulnerable location?





"Other observers point out that mutineers could have taken advantage

of the truce observed by government forces, officially to allow

[high-school] state exams to take place, to regroup and to reinforce

themselves.





"It also appears that, to ease the military pressure on Bunagana and

Rutshuru, where the best Congolese forces were massed, the mutineers

and their allies had reignited other hotbeds of tension throughout the

whole eastern part of the country, from the South Kivu and North

Katanga up to the 'Grand Nord'--the Lubero region and the Ituri

district which the rebel general Bosco Ntaganda had visited for a few

days prior to the massacre of okapis at Epulu.





"According to the UN Report of Experts, whose annexes have just been

published despite Rwanda's protests, it is now confirmed that not only

is Kigali backing the mutineers but also that the Rwandan military

hierarchy has contacts with various Congolese armed groups.





"The latter, like the Mai Mai Sheka or Lanfontaine, thus carry out

operations in the rear of government forces, so as to force them to

scatter their effort and to weaken them all the more.





The UN experts also point out that Hutu combatants of the FDLR (...)

repatriated and cared for by the demobilization commission were

subsequently sent back to the Congo with the backing of the Rwandan

military hierarchy.





"In other words, government forces are not facing a mere handful of

rebel troops, already driven out from Masisi, but all the tentacles of

a destabilization attempt of the eastern part of the country."





(Page Address: http://blog.lesoir.be/colette-braeckman/2012/07/06/cuisante-et-troublante-defaite-a-bunagana/)





Well, in this event, why don't the DRC declare war against Rwanda?