KIGALI, May 12 (Xinhuanet) -- The US government has blacklisted the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR) as one of the top terrorist groups in the world, a statement said here Thursday.

    The Congo-based FDLR has been designated by a US annual report as among 40 foreign terrorist organizations, and it is also on a list of terrorist organizations that are identified active in the past year, said the statement from the US embassy in Kigali.

    FDLR leader Ignace Murwanashyaka is said to have met the head of the UN mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), William Swing in the eastern town of Bukavu on Wednesday.

    The FDLR pronounced late March in Rome to end their military action against Kigali and return home, but less efforts have been made as they compel conditions to the Rwandan government ahead of their return.

    Other top terrorist groups in the region listed in the US report include the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) based in northern Uganda.

    The Rwandan government has accused the FDLR members of having participated in the 1994 genocide in which an estimated 800,000 Tutsi and Hutu moderates were massacred.

    The rebels fled to the DRC after the genocide and have all along been involved in the ongoing conflicts there. Enditem