Rwanda-supported Eastern Congo’s second largest city arrived at the center of Buwavu on Sunday morning and after a little resistance from government forces, South Kivu Provinch controlled the administrative office, many of which fled the rebels in advance.
Associated Press Journalists saw the scores of residents who cheered on the M33 rebels in Central Bukevu on Sunday morning, as they used to walk and went around a dislong march from Goma, the major city of the city center, which they late Had captured late. Many parts of the city, however, remained uninhabited with indoor.
According to the United Nations, the M23 rebel is the most prominent of the over 100 armed groups designed to control the Rebel Mineral-rich Mineral-rich.
It was not clear that the rebels took a decisive control of the city of about 1.3 million people. Their presence in the Central Bukevu is an unprecedented expansion of the rebels, which is in their year -long fight to fight with the Congress forces. Unlike 2012, when he seized Goma in a battle related to ethnic tension, analysts have this time with the rebels.
Many Kangoli soldiers were seen widely looted and nervous with thousands of citizens, running in advance of rebels in Bakavu on Saturday.
Congo President Felix Teskedi held a security meeting in the distant capital of Kinshhasa, where the officials mentioned that “Latli” was attacked by Bukavu M3, but under the control of colleagues from Kangoli army and local militia, X. But there is no signal. Fighting in most parts of Bukevu on Sunday or fighting congregation forces.
Teskedi has warned of the risk of regional expansion of conflict. The forces of the Congo are supported by soldiers from Burundi in Bukavu and by South African soldiers in Goma.
The President of Burundi, Avestay Nadishimi, appeared to suggest that his country does not want to retaliate in the fight. In a post on X, he said that “those who were willing to see Burundi to get the benefit of the armed attack of Rwanda.”
The Congo River Alliance, an alliance of rebel groups including M3, said that it was “defending the people of Bukevu” in a Saturday statement “who did not accept his presence in the city. Alliance spokesman Lawrence Kanuka said in a statement, “We ask the population to remain under the control of our city and not to panic.”
The fight in the Congo has a relationship with a decades of ethnic conflict. The M23 says it is defending ethnic pony in the Congo. Rwanda has claimed that Tutis has been persecuted by Hutas and former militia, which is responsible for the massacre of other people in 800,000 Tutis and Rwanda of 1994. Many Hutas fled to the Congo after the massacre and established democratic forces for the liberation of the Rwanda Military Group. Rwanda says that the group is “fully integrated” in the Kangoli army, which denies the allegations.
