UN urges FDLR to surrender

The UN representative in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has urged combatants fighting with the FDLR militia group in the Eastern DRC to put down their arms and use the available opportunity to return home. The UN official who has just concluded a 2-day visit in the eastern DRC called upon the militia group known as the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR), to join the voluntary Disarmament, Demobilization, Repatriation, Reintegration and Rehabilitation (DDRRR) programme run by the UN mission in the DRC and benefit from the amnesty before the joint operation comes to an end. The joint operation by Rwanda and DRC forces was launched last month with an aim of flushing the FDLR out of the eastern Congo and it is set to end this week.