Rwanda has denied claims by a rebel group that at least 20 government troops operating in the south-west of the country near the border with Burundi had been killed and their weapons stolen.
Army spokesman Lt Col Innocent Munyengango told the BBC Great Lakes Service that he would not comment on the “baseless social media posts”, adding that the region in question was safe.
The attack happened on Friday night near Nyungwe forest in Rusizi district, said Herman Nsengimana, spokesman for Front de Libération Nationale (FLN) rebel group, to the BBC.
“We killed 20 of them and we lost one of ours… the Rwandan army uniforms you saw us wearing, their identity cards we have shown [on several pro-opposition websites], where do you think we got them from? We have moved them from their position and collected all their belongings,” Mr Nsengimana said.
FLN opposes the government of Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame.
They staged their first attack last year and say they operate from the Nyungwe forest in Rwanda.
BBC
