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United Nations: Rwanda and Uganda violate arms embargo in east Congo
Published in Saudi Press Agency on 14 - 01 - 2005

Officials in Uganda and Rwanda on Saturday denied claims by a United Nations report that their countries continue to funnel weapons and military support into eastern Congo despite a current arms embargo.
A U.N. Security Council panel of experts said in a report
made public this week that the vast, mineral-rich east
continues to be the pawn of Congo's two neighbors, as well
as renegade army troops, militia leaders and shadowy
businessmen who've all routinely violated a U.N. arms
embargo put in place in 2003 at the end of Congo's
devastating five-year war.
«The internal provisions of weapons, training and
military sustenance to local defense forces, proxy forces,
foreign armed groups and militias only further aids and
abets a vicious cycle,» the report said.
Rwandan and Ugandan officials dismissed the report as
baseless.
«It's not true. I don't know why they are making that
report,» said Ruth Nankabirwa, Uganda's minister of state
for defense. «We don't want to engage in anything in the
Congo, that's why we moved out.»
Uganda and Rwanda invaded Congo twice, in 1996 and 1998,
to oust rebel factions they believed were threatening their
countries. Uganda finally withdrew from Ituri in May 2003
after arming and training several militia groups, who
continue to fight one another.
The arms embargo applies to the districts of Ituri, North
Kivu and South Kivu, where battle lines were drawn in
Congo's 1998-2002 war, which drew in six nations and killed
nearly 4 million people, mainly from war-induced starvation
and disease.
Despite the war's official end, sporadic violence
continues to plague the east.
The U.N. report said Uganda was still shipping AK-47s,
rocket launchers, mortars and land mines across its rugged,
mountainous border to an Ituri militia group known for
pillaging, torturing and killing area residents.
The militia control key gold fields in northern Ituri,
which they use to barter with the Ugandan army, the report
states.
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