MSF nurse forced to treat Interahamwe

Interahamwe militia in South Kivu last month attacked an MSF vehicle and forced an MSF nurse into the forest to provide medical aid to a group of Interahamwe in hiding, a spokesperson for the NGO told IRIN on Friday. The incident took place around 23 October when the nurse and a driver were on their way to Walungu to deliver vaccines for the national polio immunisation campaign. The two were “robbed, beaten and threatened with death by Interahamwe militia”, who accused MSF of “working for the Tutsi authorities,” the spokesperson said. The nurse, who told the attackers that MSF was a neutral humanitarian organisation, was released about an hour later, she said.