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Army rejects Amnesty report

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    Meanwhile, the Rwandan army rejected accusations by the human rights group Amnesty International of massacring civilians in eastern DRC. Its spokesman Major Emmanuel Ndahiro told RNA that Amnesty’s findings were based on “grudge rather than reason”. Amnesty “wants to impose its bible law...everything it states - without any proof - must be accepted and the one who is incriminated, such as Rwanda, must then explain,” Ndahiro said. On Tuesday, Bizima Karaha, a senior official of the DRC rebel group Rassemblement congolais pour la democratie (RCD) which is also accused in the Amnesty report, rejected the findings, saying it was “unbelievable” for the organisation to make such allegations.

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