Ralliement pour l'Unité et la Démocratie

The Ralliement pour l'Unité et la Démocratie (on Kinyarwanda Urunana Rw'abaharanira Ubumwe na Demokarasi , English Rally for Unity and Democracy , German Collection for Unity and Democracy ; RUD for short ) is a Hutu rebel group that lives in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo operated on.

history

It split off from the Forces Démocratiques de la Liberation du Rwanda (FDLR) in 2005 and has since acted as a moderate antipole, demanding the extradition of the alleged war criminals of the FDLR to Rwanda . When the split-off, the RUD had around 300 to 400 people under arms. In May 2008, the RUC troops were voluntarily disarmed as part of the MONUC disarmament program ; the organization's leaders agreed to return to Rwanda.

In a 2009 report, United Nations officials accused the RUC and the other FDLR splinter groups of using child soldiers .

The group is currently (October 2010) led by Félicien Kanyamibwa as Executive Secretary and has its headquarters in the USA .

Web links

www.rud-urunana.org: Official website (English / French / Kinyarwanda)

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c Simone Schlingwein: The war of the rebels is not over. In: the daily newspaper . October 13, 2010, accessed October 14, 2010 .
↑ Reuters : Small Rwandan Hutu rebel group in Congo to disarm (May 2008) and ZIF Berlin : Conflict overview - Democratic Republic of the Congo (PDF file; 1.18 MB)

↑ UN.org: Children affected by conflict

[Rebellen-1] Simone Schlingwein: The war of the rebels is not over. In: the daily newspaper . October 13, 2010, accessed October 14, 2010 .

[2] Reuters : Small Rwandan Hutu rebel group in Congo to disarm (May 2008) and ZIF Berlin : Conflict overview - Democratic Republic of the Congo (PDF file; 1.18 MB)

[3] UN.org: Children affected by conflict