Several thousand march in the streets to protest against Rwanda, a day after DRC reiterated claims that Kigali is 'finding and arming' the M23 rebel group
If Rwanda wants war,"it will have war," a top military official of Democratic Republic of Congo tells protesters in Goma city. Meanwhile, Kenya urges deployment of regional troops in eastern DRC, where M23 rebel group seized a trading town.
Tension in the border city was high on Wednesday as riot police dispersed some demonstrators, many of them angry young men stripped to the waist, who tried to push through the frontier post with Rwanda, an AFP news agency reporter saw.The crowd chanted slogans against Rwanda and its President Paul Kagame."We are demonstrating against the M23's incursion in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
"Rwanda does not like us. We are not afraid of it and we will fight it," Ekenge said. "If it wants war, it will have war," he said, adding: "No one will occupy a single centimetre of our territory."Banks, petrol stations, schools, shops and other outlets were closed across Goma, and only a few pharmacies appeared to be open.
Clashes intensified in March, causing thousands of people to flee, and on Monday the rebels took the trading town of Bunagana.The DRC has accused Rwanda of backing the rebels –– an assertion that it repeated on Tuesday after several hundred people rallied in Kinshasa to demand President Felix Tshisekedi break off diplomatic ties with Kigali.
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