MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
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Rwanda accuses Democratic Republic of Congo of shelling as regional conflict looms
By artappraiser on Thu, 08/29/2013 - 7:36pm |By Jenny Clover and Pete Jones, in Kigali and Goma, Reuters, August 29, 2013
Rwanda accused Congo on Thursday of shelling its territory and said it would not tolerate such “provocation,” raising fears that violence in eastern Congo could erupt into a regional conflict.
The Democratic Republic of Congo said Rwanda’s accusation was a sign the country wanted to intervene openly in its eastern war. Rwanda has denied accusations by U.N. experts that it covertly backs Congo’s M23 rebels.
The mounting cross-border tensions came as a newly-deployed U.N. Intervention Brigade, with an unprecedented mandate to crush rebel groups, entered combat alongside the Congolese army for the first time. U.N. officials accused the M23 of firing a shell into Rwanda on Thursday which killed a civilian [.....]
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