About 180 fighters of the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR) have been captured in an operation launched by the DR Congo Armed Forces (FARDC) in North Kivu province.
Leon Kasongo, spokesman for FARDC, made this disclosure in Kinshasa on Tuesday, saying that the military was achieving their objectives in the operation.
”We managed to arrest 180 FDLR members. We arrested about 66 of their dependants and a number of them have been repatriated to Rwanda,” he said.
“All objectives we set out to achieve have been accomplished.”
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Kasongo said some weapons were also recovered during the operation.
“There were also two generators, a huge cache of munitions and machetes that demonstrated the terrorist nature of the group’s actions against the population,” he said.
“To date, we have been carrying out the operations exclusively as FARDC, and in the operations we are using our own manpower and weapons provided by the Democratic Republic of Congo.”
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