Joint plan to root out FDLR forces most welcome

Parliament was yesterday, briefed on the start of a joint DR Congo and Rwandan government initiative, to root out FDLR forces from the Eastern DR Congo. Democratic Liberation Forces of Rwanda (FDLR), a rebel outfit based in eastern DR Congo comprised mainly of perpetrators of the 1994 Genocide against Tutsis  who are causing much mayhem and human suffering – a terrible humanitarian catastrophe. The joint initiative dubbed the “four plus four” is a high-level bilateral framework made up of senior intelligence and foreign affairs officials, from both countries. Its mandate is to work on a conceptual plan to root out the FDLR.