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Rwandan troops ‘dying in large numbers in DRC’, despite official denials of role (www.theguardian.com)

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Hundreds of Rwandan troops have been killed during covert operations in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), contradicting claims from Kigali that its soldiers are not involved in the conflict there.

Multiple intelligence, military and diplomatic sources say that “very significant” numbers of soldiers from the Rwanda Defence Force (RDF) have died supporting an offensive by M23 rebels in DRC.

Satellite imagery of one military cemetery in the Rwandan capital of Kigali indicates at least 600 graves have been dug since the M23 – backed by RDF troops – restarted operations within DRC three years ago.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

it's clear that the rwandan government wants m23 to succeed; but no new article will speculate on why they're doing this and i wish they would since i'm too uniformed to understand what the point is.

i know it's got something to do with profit; but who's and how so?