Here is a suggestion for Marlene Rabaud: Why don’t you just ask yourself questions and answer them. It would be much easier than putting your words into this poor man’s mouth. Man: C’etait des militaires… Marlene: Des femmes et des enfants?
The tragic reality Marlene in that type of conflict is that “Femmes et enfants” se cachent souvent avec les militaires-génocidaires-armés-jusqu’aux dents. Not easy for fighting soldiers to sort them out. That is the key difference between the hundreds of thousands that chose or managed to move back to Rwanda after Mugunga camp attack and those who followed or were pushed by the exFAR/Interahamwe into Congo’s dark forests.
That’s why the first group (more than 850,000 Hutu civilians) walked safely to Rwanda. If it was about vengeance, dear Marlene, they would have been a much easier target. There was no MONUC to protect them…
Bu the way, do you remember that those people in the video committed Genocide? Can anybody explain why Nkunda remains “l’homme à abattre” while those “sympathetic génocidaires” should be talked to and offered transport to and from the US?
This absurdity is the basis of Nkunda’s legitimacy among his people and the source of his strength... Take care of that and you will have taken care of Nkunda.

Thanks to everyone who has contributed to this story so far, but there are some fundermental issues that most of you are not addressing and that's the issue of Power. Most of these Rebel groups that are now based in the Great lakes Region have their sponsors in the West,who expect something substancial in return of their dollars in this case it appears to have been the squandering of the Natural resources and fertile Volcanic land of the Kivu region.
Now to achieve this objectives over the years they have employed uneducated agents like Museveni,Kagame who in return have also contracted out their dirty work to Nkunda and his Militia.As usual the victims are the poor people because all rich people have fled to other countries to seek stability for their children's future.
Watching Nkunda in the last few days has been an insult to all African's intelligence, a man who can't see that the price that the people are paying is too steep and it will cost him more in the long run.
The UN says that it has done all it possibly can but it shows that the lives of African aren't as valuable as everyone else because it's a disgrace to see those children running to nowhere,women being raped everyday all in the name of saving a few Tutsis in the region as Nkunda Pretends; having been offered $ 2.5 million by the Congolese Government and Asylum in South Africa, his response was that even $50 million won't be enough! Anyone who knows the region well knows that this war started in Uganda in 1980's when these Tutsi Forces helped Museveni to power,he rewarded them by helping them to attack Rwanda in 1990 and they in return attacked Congo in 1996-97 where they overthrew Mobutu Sese Seko.
.As Obama has demonstrated in the last few weeks Africa is capable to produce better than what these bastards are offering.

It is amazing how the writers are poorly informed about the conflict in the Kivus. To hurly accusations at both Presidents Kagame and Museveni and blame them solely for problems of the Kivus 10 years after the invasion, which was invited into the then Zaire by ill-advise to Mobutu by his Western backers, borders closely with intellectaul lazziness or possibly by design to misinform readers (public). All countries have interests, specifically Rwanda and others within the region. Rwanda was defending her security against the killers that found shelter in the Kivus and threatened the Country after despicable acts of massive human destruction.

The Hutu thugs, showing in pictures, lead by a gang of mass killers (Mudacumura, Ntiwiragaba, etc) are still defended by the ill-informed as those of you who are blaming all the misery on Kagame and Museveni. The DRC is a country lead by a President with what seems as pilars of any other state. The DRC has to make a choice, so are the political leaders of the Kivus, the Nyamwisis, etc., whether to let their region and country to be taken over by maurading thugs, best known for killing their kin and kith. How can you defend the indefensible that habour an ideology of hate?

The world and the region is better than what you pupport to defend, and it will prevail. The people of Rwanda are much better off and have clear sence of direction, it up to you to follow or get lost.

I agree with the previous person who say that the HUTUS have all the faults in that region. Shortly after kagame killed 2 presidents and when Kabila 1st came to power, the Ruanda Army occupied most of Eastern Congo, but were more interested in in the riches of the country then Hutus. Once they were told to leave the country, they could not take it and create trouble ever since. I still think that KAGAME has used the genocide to feel that he can do whatever he likes, pity in a continent which respect and fear the dead to see someone use them like KAGAME. It is really sad at a time when we should be talking about the development of subsaharian Africa. we are still talking about war, tribes, it is really sad, very sad ........Hope this do not happen in my country ( I am British of Angolan origin)

Thank you for highlighting this terrible situation in the DRC. I don't understand why the international community doesn't do more in this country. It has so much socio-economic potential, but it is the poorest of the poor countries.

Congo could become the bread basket for the entire African continent, if only its wars would end.

Today, the crisis in Eastern Congo is still the worst humanitarian catastrophy on the planet (with more than 1400 people dieing each single day). But too few media organisations focus on it.

Thanks France24 for being an exception.