FDLR PRESS RELEASE NR. 06/SE/CD/JULY/2009

The FDLR urge the International Community to impose sanctions against the dictatorial,
bloody and hegemonic Kigali regime that sows confusion, death and insecurity in the African
Great Lakes Region.
The Democratic Liberation Forces of Rwanda (FDLR) strongly condemn the recent statements of
Paul Kagame in which he rejected any prospect of negotiations with the FDLR in order to find a
peaceful negotiated solution to the political problem of Rwanda.
The FDLR urge the media, the people of the African Great Lakes Region and the International
Community, especially the African Union, the European Union and the United Nations to condemn
unequivocally the war that the Kigali regime is currently waging in North and South Kivu under the
disguised label of the "CNDP" and to impose immediate sanctions against senior officials of that
regime.
The FDLR recall that the CNDP is nothing but a creation of Kagame to lead a hegemonic war in
Eastern DRC where more than 10,000 soldiers of the hegemonic Kigali regime are currently
disguised under the label of CNDP, a number of which are officially mixed with the FARDC. The
recent statements of the dictator Kagame that he is considering a return of Rwandan troops in the
DRC are merely manoeuvres to mislead the international opinion because his troops are already
present in the DRC where they are committing atrocities against the Congolese civil population and
against Rwandan refugees, pretending that those atrocities are committed by Rwandan and
Congolese armed groups, the main one being actually the CNDP.
The FDLR consider that the Rwandan and Congolese people who have lost more than 7 million of
their relatives in less than 2 decades have paid a heavy price and do not need any other war which
would only increase their troubles and their suffering.

The FDLR remain convinced that the Rwandan problem is essentially political and can never be
resolved by war but through a direct and frank dialogue, without preconditions, between the Kigali
regime and the FDLR with the support of the International Community.
The FDLR recall that the warmongers like Kagame and his cronies who want to continue to put fire
on the African Great Lakes Region should be aware that the war they preach can not put an end to
the immense suffering of Rwandan and Congolese civilian populations, solve the political problem
of Rwanda, bring democracy and good governance in Rwanda and stop the plundering of resources
of the African Great Lakes region.
The FDLR remind warmongers like Kagame and the senior members of the Kigali regime that they
will sooner or later answer for crimes against peace, war crimes, crimes of genocide, crimes against
humanity and other heinous crimes they are committing against the peace-loving peoples of the
African Great Lakes Region since October 1990.
The FDLR reaffirm their commitments made in Rome as stated in their Declaration of 31 March
2005 and urge once again the Kigali regime to sit on the same table in the process of Rome, to find
a peaceful solution to the political problem of Rwanda.
Done in Paris on 30 July 2009
Callixte Mbarushimana
Executive Secretary of the FDLR
(Sé)