Nujoma claims genocide

President Sam Nujoma on Saturday accused countries backing Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) rebels of killing 2.5 million people in ethnic genocide, ‘The Namibian’ said on Monday. Nujoma demanded the international community condemn the killings. “It is a failure of the international community for not pointing out the genocide of 2.5 million Congolese people,” he said in a statement read during a break in a meeting of the government’s regional allies in Kinshasa. “We call upon the international community, especially the United Nations, to condemn this genocide being committed by Rwanda, Uganda and Burundian forces in the Congo,” Nujoma said. Uganda and Burundi dismissed the accusations against them, the report said. “It’s false and those are wild allegations,” Ugandan army spokesman Lieutenant Colonel John Katirima said in Kampala.