Forces démocratiques de libération du Rwanda
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Identifies RWO
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Congo (Democratic Republic)
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Sources
found: Johnson, Dominic. Tatort Kongo - Prozess in Deutschland, 2016:title page (FDLR) page 475 (Forces démocratiques de libération du Rwanda)
found: Wikipedia, April 21, 2023(Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda; French: Forces démocratiques de libération du Rwanda, FDLR); an armed rebel group active in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo; an ethnic Hutu group opposed to the ethnic Tutsi influence, and one of the last factions of Rwandan rebels active in the Congo; ideology: Hutu Power; founded in September 2000 through an amalgamation of other groups of Rwandan refugees, including the former Army for the Liberation of Rwanda (ALiR); the FDLR made a partial separation between its military and civilian wings in September 2003 when a formal armed branch, the Forces Combattantes Abacunguzi (FOCA), was created; according to the U.S. National Counterterrorism Center, the FDLR is believed to be responsible for about a dozen terrorist attacks committed in 2009, killing hundreds of civilians in Eastern Congo; the FDLR counts among its number the original members of the Interahamwe that led the 1994 Rwandan genocide)
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Change Notes
2016-09-02: new
2023-04-22: revised
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