Rwanda

"Congolese President Joseph Kabila and Rwandan President Paul Kagame held a one-on-one meeting last Sunday to discuss the recent deterioration of security along the border between their two countries.

Along with other leaders from the Great Lakes region, the DRC's Joseph Kabila and Rwanda's Paul Kagame put their signatures to an accord on Sunday that will facilitate the creation of an international military force to take on multiple insurgencies in the eastern Congolese provinces of North and South Kivu.

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"From June 20 through July 31, the Enough Project’s Darfur Dream Team Sister Schools Program is featuring I’m Not Leaving, by Carl Wilkens, as a suggested reading in our Summer Service Challenge. The Summer Service Challenge is an opportunity for students, teachers, and community members in the United States to learn about, raise awareness of, and take action in honor of refugees worldwide."

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Rwandan Foreign Minister Louise Mushikiwabo said there is a need to rebuild trust "amidst swirling allegations," a reference to a U.N. report that said Rwanda was aiding rebels in Congo known as M23. Rwanda has denied that accusation.

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"Rwanda’s government may have overestimated [Ntaganda's] clout—and may come to regret backing him. And the Americans may have to start thinking about making their loyalty to Mr Kagame more conditional. If Congo and Rwanda are to co-exist and prosper, they need economic integration and stability in the Kivus."

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"The statement from the United States was the first time the long-standing ally of Rwandan President Paul Kagame has directly addressed the issue of the country's alleged involvement in the Congo mutiny...Rwanda has denied the contents of an addendum to a report by U.N. experts, released last week, which provided the strongest evidence yet that officials of Kagame's government were providing military and logistical support to armed groups in Congo."

"But a shadow hangs over Mr. Kagame’s Rwanda, in the form of persistent concern about intimidation of the political opposition. Outspoken journalists and politicians have disappeared or died in mysterious circumstances, while the government insists that some thoughts are too dangerous to permit, in the aftermath of genocide."

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"Thousands of refugees from conflict areas in DRC have fled over the border to Rwanda, crowding a transit centre 25 kilometres from the border. In response the government has built a new camp in the south of the country but it's only big enough to house just over half of those who have already arrived, while the flow of people over the border has shown no sign of stopping."

Annette LaRocco with the Enough Project calls for the United States to re-evaluate foreign policy with Rwanda:

"In light of mounting evidence of the Rwandan government’s support of Bosco Ntaganda and the rebellious M23 movement, the U.S. government must critically re-evaluate its military and development aid and foreign policy strategy vis-à-vis Kigali and urge further high-level investigations into the alleged incidents of Rwandan interference."

"The gacacas were originally formed to resolve minor disputes among villagers but were reinvented to hand out justice to the perpetrators of the genocide and help fast-track reconciliation efforts in the broken nation.

The nation's justice system and the International Criminal Tribunal set up to try genocide suspects were overwhelmed, and handling all the cases in those courts would have taken hundreds of years, according to the president."

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