Rwanda - 4 Military Officers Arrested - NYTimes.com The government has placed four senior military officers under house arrest on counts of indiscipline and illegal business dealings in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the military said Thursday. The arrests, which were made Wednesday, include Rwanda's chief of military intelligence and chief of external intelligence. "They were arrested for their dealing with civilians doing business in the Congo," a military spokesman, Col. Joseph Nzabamwita, said, adding that the charges related to illegal trade in minerals. The arrests come amid growing tensions between the government and a league of exiled soldiers in South Africa that the government accuses of trying to destabilize Rwanda. Colonel Nzabamwita denied the arrests were in connection to security threats, calling the suggestion a "wild rumor."