Aid Agency Warns of Rwanda-Style Crisis in Congo
An international aid agency warned Saturday that another Rwanda-style crisis is looming in northeastern Congo, where about 5,000 people have been killed in months of tribal fighting.
Christian Blind Mission, or CBM, which has released a grisly video of victims, said international intervention is needed to end the conflict.
“We estimate around 5,000 people have died since June, and many thousands more have been displaced,” said David McAllister, a CBM regional representative.
“If intervention is not made immediately, we have another Rwanda situation looming, and I personally don’t want to say after it has happened, ‘Yes, we saw the signs, we should have done something,’ ” he said.
The tribal conflict mirrors that of Hutus and Tutsis in Rwanda that left more than 800,000 people dead in 1994.
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