{"id":1271478,"date":"2022-12-30T02:36:09","date_gmt":"2022-12-30T02:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/30\/we-are-going-to-fight-back-m23-rebels-cry-out-after-military-used-fighter-jets-rpgs-to-hit-them\/"},"modified":"2022-12-30T02:36:09","modified_gmt":"2022-12-30T02:36:09","slug":"we-are-going-to-fight-back-m23-rebels-cry-out-after-military-used-fighter-jets-rpgs-to-hit-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/30\/we-are-going-to-fight-back-m23-rebels-cry-out-after-military-used-fighter-jets-rpgs-to-hit-them\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;We Are Going to Fight Back&#8221; M23 Rebels Cry Out After Military Used Fighter Jets &#038; RPGs to Hit Them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<article>\n<p>M23 Movement on Wednesday night released a statement after the military reportedly used heavy weapons and fighter jets to hit them from their strongholds.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LawrenceKanyuka\/status\/1608189539033513990\/photo\/1\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">In the statement released by the group\u2019s political spokesperson<\/a> Lawrence Kanyuka, DRC Forces reportedly used fighter jets and rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs) to hit the rebels.<\/p>\n<p>Kanyuka said in the attack, internally displaced people were also allegedly targeted by the military<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/9643959d28d34daf8709bc13332f9f85\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis Wednesday, December 28\u2033h, 2022, the DRC Government\u2019s coalition used heavy artillery and fighter jets SUKHOI to deliberately launch attacks aiming at the displaced populations (IDP) who have sought refuge in the areas under our control, fleeing exactions committed against them by the said coalition,\u201d read the statement in part.<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/c5566e56287e417dbecc81e578f2e20c\"\/><\/p>\n<p>M23 has since threatened to launch defensive attacks against the DRC Forces and armed groups that support the government forces.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cM23 will continue to defend itself and protect the civilian populations in the areas under its control,\u201d M23 added.<\/p>\n<p>They further urged regional leaders who have been facilitating peace talks to help them have a direct talk with the government of DRC so that a long-lasting solution is reached.<\/p>\n<p>Content created and supplied by: pmeja (via  Opera<br \/>News )<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p class=\"copyright hide\">\n<span class=\"content\">    ,  .   ,     .       () , , , , , , , , .      \/ ,  and\/or  .     ,  , and\/or  ,      and\/or     <\/span><br \/><span class=\"see-more\"\/>\n<\/p>\n<section class=\"tags\">\nDRC<br \/>DRC Forces<br \/>Kanyuka<br \/>Lawrence Kanyuka<br \/>M23 Movement<br \/><\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>M23 Movement on Wednesday night released a statement after the military reportedly used heavy weapons and fighter jets to hit them from their strongholds. In the statement released by the group\u2019s political spokesperson Lawrence Kanyuka, DRC Forces reportedly used fighter jets and rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs) to hit the rebels. Kanyuka said in the attack, internally [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1271479,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3887],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1271478","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-kenya-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1271478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1271478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1271478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1271478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1271478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1271478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}