By Matthew Russell Lee UNITED NATIONS, May 4, more background here — After US Secretary of State John Kerry met with Congolese president Joseph Kabila, he said he thought Kabila has a timeline to belatedly go after and neutralize the Hutu FDLR militia. But, he said, it would be inappropriate for him to talk about it.
Kabila’s government, and therefore UN Peacekeeping led by Herve Ladsous, has continued to say it would neutralize the FDLR after this was done to the M23. But then the ADF-NALU came first, and the commander of the Force Intervention Brigade went back to Tanzania.
Excuses have been made about the FDLR being differently configured than the M23, about the drones Ladsous pushed through for the UN in the Congo being less useful with the FDLR than the M23. Ladsous has repeatedly refused to answer Press questions about the FLDR, just as herefused to answer questions about the November 2012 mass rapes in Minova by Kabila’s army. So: when? FULL STORY
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