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November 11, 2019
Congolese forces have killed the leader of an offshootof a Hutu militia in the agitated east of the country, two months after killingthe leader of the main faction.
Juvenal Musabimana led a splinter group of theDemocratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda, FDLR, a group founded by Hutuofficials who fled Rwanda after orchestrating the 1994 genocide.
His killing is the latest blow to the group, which hasbeen weakened in recent years by arrests of several of its leaders and militarypressure from Democratic Republic of Congo’s armed forces, the FARDC, and othermilitias.
Congolese Army Spokesman Guillaume Njike said the Armyneutralised another radical leader of the FDLR.
Njike added that Musabimana, who was also known by hisnom de guerre Jean-Michel Africa, was killed alongside four of his bodyguardsfollowing an intense firefight in Binza, North Kivu, near the Ugandan border.