DRC/Rwanda: Hutu militants holding 3,000 hostages

Hutu militants opposed to the voluntary repatriation of their countrymen are holding at least 3,000 Rwandan civilians and former combatants hostage in a forest in North Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo, the spokesman for the UN Mission in the DRC, Hamadoun Toure, said on Tuesday. "Some hardliners do not want to return to Rwanda and have obstructed former fighters intent on returning home from leaving the forest," he said.