Wamba RCD faction denies "anti-Tutsi campaigns"

The Kisangani faction of the rebel Rassemblement congolais pour la democratie, led by Ernest Wamba dia Wamba, on Friday denied having any involvement in an anti-Tutsi campaign in DRC. "We have never engaged in an anti-Tutsi campaign. We have always denounced such a thing and our polices all denounce the same," RCD-Kisangani's Rapporteur Jacques Depelchin told IRIN. He said his party was against "ethnicity politics" and have always denounced and "will continue denouncing" such politics. He was reacting to press reports which claimed that Wamba had support in the area because of "his support for that anti-Tutsi campaign and the Lusaka peace process."

He said such were rumours that the rival RCD-Goma faction would easily peddle around.