{"id":104129,"date":"2025-06-26T16:32:28","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T16:32:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/all-news\/rwanda-discharges-106-ex-combatants-and-launches-reintegration"},"modified":"2025-06-26T17:37:14","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T17:37:14","slug":"rwanda-discharges-106-ex-combatants-and-launches-reintegration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/policy\/rwanda-discharges-106-ex-combatants-and-launches-reintegration","title":{"rendered":"Rwanda Discharges 106 Ex-Combatants and Launches Reintegration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Rwanda. <\/strong><\/span>The Rwanda Demobilization and Reintegration Commission (RDRC) on Thursday, June 26, discharged 106 former armed groups\u2019 members and started a new pre-discharge orientation programme for 114 new returnees from neighbouring DR Congo.<\/p>\n<p>This was during the official ceremony at the Mutobo Demobilization Centre, in Musanze District. Following the just concluded civic education programme, officials said that vocational training workshops for the newly discharged ex-combatants will begin in September.<\/p>\n<p>The discharged group comprises elements repatriated from eastern DR Congo in March, along with genocide suspect \u2018Brig Gen\u2019 Ezechiel Gakwerere.<\/p>\n<p>Believed to have taken part in the murder of Rwanda\u2019s last queen, Rosalie Gicanda, during the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi, Gakwerere, 61, is one of the senior members of the genocidal FDLR militia repatriated from eastern DR Congo alongside 13 others captured by AFC\/M23 rebels in the war with the Congolese government coalition, early this year.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Rwanda<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Rwanda. The Rwanda Demobilization and Reintegration Commission (RDRC) on Thursday, June 26, discharged 106 former armed groups\u2019 members and started a new pre-discharge orientation programme for 114 new returnees from neighbouring DR Congo. This was during the official ceremony at the Mutobo Demobilization Centre, in Musanze District. 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