Rwandan President Paul Kagame denied on Monday that Rwanda has had a hand in the ongoing conflict in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) between renegade general Laurent Nkunda and the Congolese army, saying that at present the strife is a Congolese matter, according to DPA. Observers and analysts say Rwanda has allowed Nkunda to recruit fighters from Rwandan territory and supplied arms to his forces, but officials in Kigali say their only interest in eastern DRC is to see justice meted out to Hutu militias known as interahamwe, who are wanted for crimes during Rwanda's 1994 genocide. "The main link is the presence of interahamwe in eastern Congo and beyond in that county," Kagame told reporters at a news conference in Kigali on Monday, saying that Rwanda has been "accused falsely" of involvement in the DRC.
