Word: congoes
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...lengthy question and answer period followed Kagame's 15 minute speech. Many of the questions from the audience focused on Rwanda's current involvement in the Congo War, a subject Kagame did not address in his remarks...
Audience members last night seemed most concerned with the current war in Congo, despite Kagame's clear wish to emphasize domestic issues...
...laud you for trying to reconstruct your country," said Masuda Bundu, a Congolese man in the audience. "But there are over two million people dead [in Congo], most of them children. That is a genocide, and a greater one than that in Rwanda. Since the Congo did not attack you, why do you have the right to do this...
Rwanda entered the first Congo War in 1996 when the FAR and Interahamwe staged attacks over the Rwanda-Congo border. Rwanda continues to claim that the FAR and Interahamwe pose major threats to the nation's security...
...People are truly dying. It's a real problem. But to be fair, these deaths have been taking place for decades in the Congo," Kagame said...