What is the FDLR, and why does its anti-Tutsi ideology endure?
Four former FDLR officers reveal how its anti-Tutsi ideology took root and endured in Africa.
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Four former FDLR officers reveal how its anti-Tutsi ideology took root and endured in Africa.
![An FDLR rebel stands in a forest outside Pinga, eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, on February 6, 2009. AFP PHOTO/Lionel Healing [File: LIONEL HEALING/AFP]](https://aljazeeranews-mggx1uo47w.edgeone.app/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/200911251419615112_5.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
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![Health workers and officials stand outside a Ebola isolation facility at The Nairobi Hospital, Kenya, Wednesday, October 7, 2026 [Andrew Kasuku/AP]](https://aljazeeranews-mggx1uo47w.edgeone.app/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/AP26280382243949-1792367191.jpg?resize=770%2C513&quality=80)
![Former Democratic Republic of Congo President Joseph Kabila holds a news conference during the signing of the founding document of the Front for the Refoundation of the Nation (FRN), a political-military [AFP]](https://aljazeeranews-mggx1uo47w.edgeone.app/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/afp_6acdc261adbc-1791869537.jpg?resize=770%2C513&quality=80)

![Health workers and officials stand outside an Ebola isolation facility in Kenya, October 7, 2026 [Andrew Kasuku/AP Photo]](https://aljazeeranews-mggx1uo47w.edgeone.app/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/ap_6ace7bf3d65ae-1791917043.jpg?resize=770%2C513&quality=80)


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