Daily Maverick
A year after its formation, the March 23 Movement,
M23, is bristling against international intervention in the DRC. Daily Maverick
spoke to M23 leader Bertrand Bisimwa about his view of M23’s conflict with the
Congolese state, the possibility of further conflict with the newly formed UN
brigade and South Africa’s approach to securing peace in the DRC. By KHADIJA
PATEL.
“We are not criminals,” an M23 representative
told Daily Maverick through a private message on Twitter on Monday. The group
had taken umbrage at a line in one of our stories that quoted the Red Cross
saying 90 bodies had been found in the wake of the rebel group’s occupation of
Goma, the capital of the eastern region of the DRC, late last year. “The
problem we have is that many NGOs are working for Kabila,” the representative
said.
