Rwanda seeks extradition of rebel leaders

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The FDLR is a militia group made up of former Rwandan Hutus who fled to the neighboring DR Congo after the 1994 genocide. The BBC’s Peter Greste reports on the connection between some of the ongoing violence in eastern Congo and an FDLR leader based in Germany.

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