DRC will not accept further 'aggression': Kabila

0 Comments | AFP, October, 2004

KISANGANI, DR Congo (AFP) — The Democratic Republic of Congo, which is emerging from five years of bloody warfare, "will allow no further aggression," warned President Joseph Kabila on his first visit to the restive east of this vast central African country.

"Even if we say there is peace today, there are still countries that think they can return to the Congo," Kabila told a crowd of a thousand people shortly after arriving to a rousing welcome on his first stop of the historic visit.

He named no states, but neighboring Rwanda and Uganda supported DRC rebels in the east and effectively occupied the area during much of the 1998-2003 war, which formally ended in April with a fragile peace pact.

"I will accept no further aggression" in the Democratic Republic...