Congolese Military Report Death Of Another HUTU Militia Leader

The Congolese military is reporting the death of the leader of a Hutu militia in the east of the country. The army made the announcement on Sunday, which is two months after killing the head of the main faction.

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Reuters 

Juvenal Musabimana who led a splinter group of the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR), is a group founded by Hutu officials who fled Rwanda after orchestrating the 1994 genocide.

His killing is the latest blow to an already dwindling FDLR.  The militia has been weakened in recent years due to arrests of several of its leaders and coupled with military pressure from Democratic Republic of Congo’s armed forces.

Congolese army spokesman, Guillaume Njike, says Musabimana, was killed alongside four of his bodyguards following an intense firefight in Binza, North Kivu, near the Ugandan border.

Congolese forces killed the leader of the main branch of the FDLR, Sylvestre Mudacumura, on September 18.