FDLR PRESS RELEASE NR. 03/SE/CD/APRIL/2009

The FDLR are not involved in barbarous acts of which populations of Luofu and Kasiki in
North Kivu have been victims and condemn once again all ongoing serious crimes in eastern
DRC.
The Democratic Liberation Forces of Rwanda (FDLR) strongly condemn the killings, destruction
of homes by fire and other barbaric acts that have just hit the civilian population living in the
Congolese town of Luofu in the territory of Lubero in the province of North Kivu and call upon
the United Nations in collaboration with the African Union to establish without delay an
independent and international board of inquiry to identify the perpetrators of those crimes and
bring them to justice.
The FDLR compassionate with the Congolese people in these difficult times of their history and
inform the media and the International Community that none of their members has been
implicated in the attack the Luofu residents were victims of in the night of 17 to 18 April 2009.
The FDLR are ready to assist any established inquiry team or any person animated by good faith
in the identification of those who might have participated in the attack.
The FDLR judge ridiculous and unacceptable that some officials of the UN Mission in DRC
(MONUC) animated by bad faith have rushed on 18 April 2009 to criminalize the FDLR as the
perpetrators of the attack before they even reach the scene of crime or conduct any serious
investigation aimed at identifying the perpetrators of these heinous crimes against the population
of Luofu.
The FDLR also deny nefarious allegations of some agents of MONUC that the FDLR would be in
the process of illegally exploiting the wealth of the DRC. The FDLR urge those officials to cease
their slanderous campaign whose goal is nothing other than to discredit them. The FDLR remind
those officials that to make unsubstantiated accusations of this magnitude is in itself a crime that
must be repressed.
The FDLR repeat to anyone who wish to listen that they have never had and will never have any
hegemonic goal on the wealth of the DRC and their objective is not to remain forever in the DRC
or to get involved in illegal looting of that country’s wealth.
The FDLR condemn once again the war imposed by the warmongers on peace-loving peoples of
the African Great Lakes Region and find it unacceptable that it is those warmongers that are
directly or indirectly on the basis of serious crimes against civilian populations rather than
protecting them. The FDLR urge once again the International Community to condemn that war
and those warmongers to stop this unjust, senseless and unnecessary war.
The FDLR remain convinced that the Rwandan problem which is essentially political can not be
solved by war or other terrorist
acts that the coalition of the RPA (RDF) and the FARDC are
carrying out in the Kivu region, but rather by a direct dialogue between the Kigali regime and its
opposition.
Done in Paris on 20 April 2009
Callixte Mbarushimana
Executive Secretary of the FDLR
(Sé)