Rwanda Backed Rebels, United Nations Is Told
Rwanda recruited, trained and sheltered renegade soldiers who staged a mutiny in neighboring Congo last month, offering them mobile phones and cash, according to a draft U.N.-commissioned report.
Officials rounded up men in the border town of Cyangugu and promised them phones or $100 to fight with forces loyal to Col. Jules Mutebusi and Gen. Laurent Nkunda, the draft says.
The report was prepared by security and customs experts for a United Nations committee monitoring an arms embargo on eastern Congo. The Rwandan army rejected charges it had assisted Mutebusi and Nkunda, who briefly seized the eastern town of Bukavu last month.
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