Rwandan President Paul Kagame has shrugged off a soaring death toll in the DCR's East distancing his nation from mounting bloodshed on Rwanda's doorstep.
Speaking to an audience off-site from the US-Africa Summit in Washington, he said the problem was not created by Rwanda and it is not Rwanda's problem.
"What I want to say clearly, is this problem was not created by Rwanda and is not Rwanda's problem, it is Congo's problem, they are the ones to deal with," he said.
A preliminary investigation by the UN mission in DRC found that 131 men, women and children were shot dead or hacked to death last month as part of reprisals against the civilian population by M23 rebels.
The insurgency is widely believed to be armed and supported by Rwanda but Kagame renounced any links to the group's actions.
"Fighting in the Eastern North Kivu region has aggravated already tense relations between DRC Congo and Rwanda. Kinshasa expelled the Rwandan ambassador on October 29."
Kagame said the country can try to be helpful and the East African region is dealing with the matter to which DRC has become a member and that is okay instead of blaming them.
"It seems the entire responsibility has been put on the folders of Rwanda be it the Congolese leaders and government, be it the International Community everybody is running away from that problem and they say this is Rwanda's problem.
"And we say no it is not our problem, for what has produced these armed groups including the fact that these groups like refugees in Rwanda and the M23, are Congolese of Rwandan ethnicity, if you want to hold anybody responsible then you would go back to history," he said.
DR Congo President Felix Tshisekedi said that his country was a victim of an "aggression which is hidden, but it's from Rwanda, and this has been destabilising".
Kagame had weeks ago accused Tshisekedi of exploiting a violent crisis in his country's east to delay elections.
In a state address, Kagame said, "the whole world" was putting the blame for the crisis on Rwanda but it was Tshisekedi seeking to gain from the unrest with elections on the horizon.
"This problem can be resolved if one country headed for elections next year does not try to create grounds for an emergency so that elections do not take place," Kagame said at a swearing-in ceremony for new cabinet members.
