VirungaNews.com - DR Congo to renew FDLR operations.

Nouvelles en bref

RDC: Une initiative délibérée du gouvernement continue à faire des victimes inutiles.

VirungaNews

23/05/12

Les contres vérités sur la situation militaire dans le territoire de Rutshuru, en province du Nord-Kivu se trouvent loin de convaincre ceux qui observent méticuleusement l’évolution de la situation sur terrain. En effet Kinshasa qui prétend mener son offensive pour capturer le général Bosco Ntaganda semble le chercher en sens inverse pendant que le Wanted-Terminator se la coule douce dans sa ferme de Bunyole, située en territoire de Masisi (Nord-Kivu).

RDC: Gen. Ntaganda is only a pawn in a wider game.

Joseph Rwagatare

07/05/12

When strangers wail louder than the bereaved, you must be on your guard. Something is not quite right. They are hiding something, probably some involvement in the cause of the bereavement. Or they are plotting something sinister against the grieving people or their neighbours.

The wailing is very often unnaturally loud that it must surely be contrived. Other times it is so vicious you can’t distinguish between the loud cries and baying for blood.

This seems to have been the case in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in the last several weeks.

RDC: Kinshasa impose une nouvelle guerre face à la revendication des mutins du Kivu.

El Memeyi Murangwa

07/05/12

Contrairement aux déclarations rusées du général FARDC, Didier Etumba, de suspendre les opérations militaires contre la mutinerie, Joseph Kabila est décidé à en découdre avec les mutins qui en majorité sont des ex-militaires du Congrès national pour la défense du peuple, mouvement politico-militaire qui dans un récent passé n’a cessé de donner du fil à retordre à la garde prétorienne de Kabila présentée au front comme l’armée de la république.

RDC: 80 nouvelles défections de soldats ex-rebelles, dont un proche de Ntaganda.

AFP

04/5/12

GOMA (RDCongo) - Environ 80 soldats de l'armée congolaise ont fait défection jeudi dans l'est de la RDC, dont le colonel Sultani Makenga, qui fut adjoint du général Bosco Ntaganda dans l'ex-rébellion du Congrès national pour la défense du peuple (CNDP), a-t-on appris de source militaire.

Le colonel Makenga et le lieutenant-colonel Masozera ont fait défection dans la nuit de jeudi avec leurs hommes, dans la ville de Goma, capitale de la province instable du Nord-Kivu (est) frontalière avec le Rwanda, a déclaré à l'AFP un commandant des Forces armées (FARDC).

Nous avons récupéré 80 tenues avec bottines dans le cimetière du quartier Bujovu, a indiqué cette source, qui a requis l'anonymat.

Le général Ntaganda était numéro 2 du CNDP, et le colonel Makenga était son adjoint dans cette rébellion intégrée en 2009 dans l'armée.

RDC: L’irresponsabilité du gouvernement central à la base de l’insécurité grandissante au Kivu.

El Memeyi Murangwa

5/03/12

De par la volonté des dirigeants irresponsables, le Kivu est entrain de vivre une situation de plus confuse engendrée par le non-paiement de la solde aux militaires et le non-respect des engagements exprimés à travers le communiqué rendu public le 16 janvier 2009 et l’accord politique signé à Goma le 23 mars 2009. Le processus de paix semble revenir à la case départ, et cette fois ci l’agresseur n’est autre que l’Agent payeur (Gouvernement).

Une armée chosifiée

L’armée nationale de la RDC, connue sous le diminutif « FARDC » jadis fierté de l’Afrique Centrale se trouve être la plus misérable du continent africain. Réduite en une bande des pilleurs et violeurs attitrés, les militaires congolais vivent sur le dos d’une population paupérisée par une classe dirigeante préoccupée plus à mener une vie ostentatoire avec les revenus de l’Etat.

DR Congo to renew FDLR operations.

BY FELLY KIMENYI

29/08/07

KIGALI - Military chiefs from four regional countries have recommended that the government of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) renews military operations against Rwandan rebels on their territory. Meeting under the auspices of the Tripartite Plus Joint Commission (TPJC), the army commanders from Burundi, DRC, Rwanda and Uganda, yesterday drew a new time table for the resumption of military action against negative forces operating in the latter. They were closing a two-day meeting at Prime Holdings in Kigali.

The defence heads agreed that the offensives against the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda would begin before the end of September.

The military chiefs included DRC’s Chief of General Staff Lt. Gen. Dieudonne Kayimba, Rwanda’s Chief of General Staff, Gen. James Kabarebe; Uganda’s Chief of Defence Forces, Gen. Aronda Nyakayirima; and Burundi Deputy Chief of General Staff, Maj. Gen. Godfrey Niyombare.

The development comes after the Congolese military stopped military operations against the Rwandan militias, most of whom are accused of participating in the 1994 Rwanda Genocide which claimed an estimated one million lives.

“We had stopped those operations for humanitarian reasons….barely one month after military operation against the negative forces, we had 642,000 Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) we had to stop this to avoid this crisis,” Lt. Gen. Kayemba, said after the meeting.

He said that DRC and the UN Mission in Congo (Monuc) projected the number of IDPs in the country’s volatile eastern region to be one million in just one month of the operations.

Congo had initially agreed to hunt down the militias following the first TPJC military chiefs’ meeting held in Bujumbura, Burundi in April.

Following the Bujumbura meeting, Congo’s President Joseph Kabila immediately replaced the country’s then Chief of General Staff, Lt. Gen. Kisempia Songilanga Longe with Lt. Gen. Kayemba.

“We have left the other three scenarios open since (DR) Congo has assured us of a renewed commitment to rout the insurgents. We will consider other scenarios only when this one fails,” Maj. Jill Rutaremara, Rwanda’s military spokesman, said after the meeting.

The second scenario includes individual countries entering DRC in pursuit of negative forces destabilising their respective countries, while the third one is for the TPJC to carry out a joint military operation against the negative forces. The last scenario involves use of diplomatic channels through broader platforms such as the African Union.

The Congolese army chief said that Kinshasa would not entertain the continued existence of armed insurgents on its territory.

“These people are not Congolese; they should either go back to their respective countries or seek refugee status through normal channels, and we cannot grant them status when they are armed,” he said.

He however said that is was not easy to predict when the time when the insurgents would be cast out of the DRC because rebel groups are not structured, and they employ guerrilla warfare.

Most FDLR top leaders are already on a common list of most wanted persons agreed upon by all TPJC.

Maj. Ronald Miller, the Defence and Army attaché at the United States embassy in Kigali, who facilitated the military chiefs’ meeting, said that it was a success.

He said he was optimistic Congo would maintain their commitment. During the meeting, army chiefs established a joint planning cell that will help to develop operational plans.“The cell would be composed of heads of department in charge of operation, and those responsible for intelligence from TPJC member states in coordination with the Intelligence Fusion Cell,” a communiqué released after the meeting reads.

Sources that attended a closed-door session said the meeting agreed that the joint planning cell would meet September 20 to lay ground for another military chiefs meeting in DRC. “It is after that military chiefs’ meeting that the operations against FDLR will resume,” the source said.

The Tripartite Plus Fusion Cell has its headquarters in the Congolese town of Kisangani.TPJC is supported by both the US and the UN.

The New Times

Comments

Add New

RSS

Only registered users can write comments!