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00:00 Police in the Democratic Republic of Congo fired tear gas to disperse protesters in Kinshasa
00:06 on Monday.
00:09 Demonstrators were burning tyres and US and Belgian flags near Western embassies and United
00:13 Nations offices.
00:15 They accused the West of supporting neighbouring Rwanda, which is alleged to back the Tutsi-led
00:20 M23 rebellion.
00:21 "We are claiming our rights.
00:22 France and the United States are fostering the war in the eastern DRC by supporting the
00:32 rebellion.
00:33 A country like Rwanda cannot fight against the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
00:38 We are marching.
00:39 We are not breaking or destroying people's property.
00:42 But the head of the police is sending his officers to chase us away."
00:47 The M23 group's recent advances threaten the strategic eastern city of Goma in the
00:52 conflict-hit eastern Congo region.
00:55 Rwanda has denied accusations that it backs M23.
00:58 However, Congo, Western governments including the United States and Belgium, as well as
01:03 reports from a United Nations expert group, indicate that the rebel group benefits from
01:08 Rwandan support.
01:12 Decades of conflicts in eastern Congo between myriad rival armed groups over land and resources
01:18 and brutal attacks on civilians have killed hundreds of thousands of people and displaced
01:23 more than seven million.
01:24 (water trickling)