A Banyamulenge group, the Forces republicaines et federalistes (FRF), has hailed the release of some 360 mainly Congolese Tutsis in Katanga province. In a statement sent to IRIN, the FRF said it now awaited the release of “hundreds of others” in Kinshasa and other places. The FRF also accused the RCD of “having neither the means, nor clear political ideas”, and said this had reinforced tensions between different communities in the Kivu region.
Meanwhile, an ICRC spokesman told IRIN on Tuesday that another 100 civilian internees were scheduled to be flown from Kinshasa to Kigali on Sunday. He said the DRC government had agreed to the evacuation operation following an ICRC request that civilian internees be released in accordance with the Geneva Conventions.
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