[This is a Press Release (a French version follows the English) from the Forces for the Democratic Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR) condemning the recent crimes against Rwandan refugees in eastern Congo committed by the combined militaries of the Democratic Republic of Congo (FADRC) and the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF), known as the Rwandan Patriotic Army or Rwandan Defense Forces (RPA/RDF)--the latter being the powerful armed forces built-up in the 1980s and 90s in Rwanda/Burundi/Uganda at great expense by the US (AFRICOM), the UK and Israel, to further the militarized wastage of the African continent while facilitating the theft of its vast natural resources by private Western multinational corporations. Much of the social and political chaos one sees in sub-Saharan Africa is instigated by off-the-books military units with roots in the several major US bases in Rwanda/Burundi. And, of course, when it occurs in eastern Congo, this deadly chaos (which has taken upward of 6 million lives since 1990) is blamed on its victims, the FDLR. --mc]   more »