Tutsi community in DR. Congo at Risk, being targeted by anti-Rwanda hostility
Gathered in the hollow of a remote valley in eastern DR Congo, women on
one side and men on the other, around 500 people attended the funeral of
Bonaventure Kinyegeria, a Congolese cattle raiser murdered by militiamen.
The armed attackers killed Kinyegeria near
the small territory of Minembwe in the highlands of South Kivu province on
October 6, making off with his cows.
The daylight raid may have been over cattle,
but it was also tied in with a local conflict spurred by a reawakening of
deep-seated distrust of Rwanda by many in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Kinyegeria, 56, was one of the DRC's
Banyamulenge community, which has distant origins among Rwanda's minority Tutsi
people.
But when it comes to their nationality, the
Banyamulenge are categorical: "Congolese, and...