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Article: UN mission in DRC hails Rwandan Hutu rebel's disarmamentannouncement
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- April 1, 2005
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UN mission in DRC hails Rwandan Hutu rebel's disarmament
announcement
KINSHASA, March 31 (Xinhua) -- The UN mission in the Democratic
Republic of Congo (DRC), MONUC, on Thursday welcomed an announcement
by a Rwandan Hutu rebel group to disarm and abandon fighting against
the Rwandan government.
MONUC officials hailed the Hutu rebel group, the Democratic Forces
for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR) now hiding in eastern DRC, for
its decision to disarm, saying it's a breakthrough in unraveling a
decade-long impasse in the troubled Great Lakes region of central
Africa.
According to the MONUC officials, the disarmament decision opened
a gate for quickly solving the foreign militia problem in ...