Intelligence services in the Democratic Republic of Congo are holding three people on charges of spying for a foreign rebel group fighting in the country.
The three were on spy mission for the Burundian Red Tabare militia operating in the Eastern DR Congo in plain of Ruzizi and Uvira and is supported and funded by the government of Rwanda.
They were arrested on November 7 by the Congolese army in Kamanyola, Walungu (South Kivu), according to the military spokesman in the region.
According to Captain Dieudonné Kasereka, there are two Congolese and one Rwandan.
” Three people were arrested by the specialized service of the army in Kamanyola. Two are Congolese and one Rwandan. They are presumed collaborators of the foreign armed group Red Tabara.
Capt Kasereka told this news site that before their arrest, the Rwandan had returned from Rwanda to buy the phones for the leaders of Red Tabara and was being waited in Kamanyola by the two Congolese all from the locality of Mulenge, in chiefdom of Bafuliru.
He said that these are not the only people who have been working with Red Tabara for spying mission or supplying them with necessities.
Kasereka says the military is hunting for their accomplices still at large adding that the three have been transferred to Bukavu for further interrogations.
Red Tabara is a Burundian militia who has been fighting alongside other rebels like Mai Mai Yakutumba and others in the Ruzizi plain, Bijombo and Minembwe, in the territory of Fizi with Rwanda’s backing.
They are accused of conducting several inhuman and degrading acts, attacks and kidnappings against the Banyamulenge people in the plain of the Ruzizi.
Source: ChimpReports