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Rebels warned of “retaliation”

    NAIROBI

    DRC Chief of Staff Colonel Eddy Kapend on Sunday warned of retaliation against rebels in Kasai Occidental and said he hoped the UN mission, MONUC, would not “intervene”, news reports said. An official of the DRC embassy in Nairobi on Monday justified the warning “We have been aggressed, and not even the UN has faced reality and told the aggressors to leave,” he told IRIN. “It is the rebels launching the attacks, what are we to do...we have to defend ourselves.” The rebel Rassemblement congolais pour la democratie (RCD) took the town of Idumbe - some 375 miles east of Kinshasa - in Kasai Occidental last week.

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