Ban Kim Moon in Rwanda over Peacekeepers War Crimes

The UN Chief will meet Rwandan president, Paul Kagame who enjoys immense support from the Rwandese and his neighbors including Kenya. Kagame was re-elected with a landslide and was inaugurated as new president early this week. Moon is hoping to address the dispute over the leaked report about human rights violation by the Rwandese troops.

Moon is in the company of UN top officials including his special envoy to Congo, Messr Roger Meece and peacekeeping Chief Alain Le Roy. The delegation hopes to discuss the matter with Kigali in depth and resolve it amicably.

Rwanda has termed the report as ridiculous. In the report, the UN alleges that Rwandan forces were behind the wiping of a rebel group and the massacre of ethnic Hutus in DR Congo between 1993 and 2003, a charge Kigali finds insulting. The report further explains that tens of thousands of Hutus were slit with army knives, burgeoned with hammers. The army also burnt alive thousands of these ethnic Hutus in the former Zaire.

Kigali has firmly denied the allegation terming it malicious.  In a statement, Kigali has termed the UN report as immoral and unacceptable. The statement has lambasted the UN as a failure since they watched as genocide was committed in Rwanda and the refugee crisis that ensued.