Thursday, November 29, 2012

PRESIDENT KABILA, APPELLE PAR L'OPPOSITION A DEMISSIONNER

RDC : l’Udemo de Nzanga Mobutu appelle le gouvernement à démissionner
 
L’Union des démocrates Mobutistes (Udemo) appelle le gouvernement congolais à démissionner suite à son « incapacité » de diriger la RDC en situation de crise, faisant allusion à la guerre de l’Est menée par les rebelles du Mouvement du 23 mars depuis le mois de mai dernier. Le parti de Nzanga Mobutu [le fils du feu maréchal Mobutu et ancien ministre de Kabila de 2006 à 2010], a, au cours d’un point de presse tenu jeudi 29 novembre à Kinshsas, décrié la dégradation de la situation sécuritaire dans cette partie du pays.
« Ce pouvoir caractérisé par l’absence de leadership au sommet de l’Etat n’est plus digne de gouverner la RDC en situation de crise sociale, politique et sécuritaire », a déclaré le porte-parole de l’Udemo, Emile Sadiki.
Selon lui, le gouvernement avec son leadership doivent démissionner car, dit-il, leurs actions sont inefficaces pour la protection de peuple congolais et la défense de l’intégrité territoriale.
« Le constat est clair : la situation actuelle de la RDC dénote un déficit sécuritaire criant et une balkanisation de fait de la République au profit des agresseurs. Ce qui logiquement aboutit à affirmer que le président de la Rép a failli à son devoir sacré et a donc logiquement violé son serment constitutionnel », a affirmé Emile Sadiki.
L’Udemo regrette que jusqu’à présent, la RDC ne parvient pas à décréter l’Etat d’urgence face à l’occupation de Goma, évoquant l’article 85 de la Constitution de la République.
L’article 85 de la Constitution dispose : « Lorsque des circonstances graves menacent, d’une manière immédiate, l’indépendance ou l’intégrité du territoire national ou qu’elles provoquent l’interruption du fonctionnement régulier des institutions, le Président de la République proclame l’état d’urgence ou l’état de siège, après concertation avec les présidents des deux chambres (…). Il en informe la nation par un message.
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Publié par Radiookapi.net  le 29 novembre, 2012 à 9:58

Wednesday, November 28, 2012

RAPORO YA LONI ISHINJA MASUNZU GUTWARA FDLR MURI SUD KIVU


Kuba somyi ba Journal Minembwe, iyi nkuru ihamya ko Gen Masunzu arimo gupanga interahamwe za FDLR ngo zije kurwana nabana babanyamulenge muri Sud Kivu iravugwa muri raporo ya LONI itangazwa iti:

Raporo ya Loni irashinja ingabo za Congo ubufatanye na FDLR


RwandaNews

http://www.rwandaises.com/2012/11/raporo-ya-loni-irashinja-ingabo-za-congo-ubufatanye-na-fdlr/

Raporo y’Umuryango w’Abibumbye yatangajwe ku itariki ya 21 Ugushyingo uyu mwaka, iragaragaza amakuru arambuye ku nama za vuba abarwanyi ba FDLR bagiye bagirana n’abayobozi bakuru muri Leta ya Repubulika Iharanira Demokarasi ya Congo.

Aya makuru ni ikimenyetso cy’uburyo imikoranire y’impande zombi iremereye, bitandukanye cyane n’ibyo Guverinoma ya Kinshasa yagiye itangaza.

Iyi raporo yerekana ko abantu bo ku rwego rwo hejuru muri FDLR no muri leta ya Congo bagiye bagirana ibiganiro n’imikoranire bitandukanye cyane cyane mu minsi yo kuva muri Nyakanga uyu mwaka wa 2012.

Raporo ya Loni igaragaza ko izi nama zose zagiye ziba rwihishwa zabaga zahamagajwe na Guverinoma ya Kinshasa. Ibi nyamara Leta ya Congo yabikoze yirengagiza abarwanyi ba FDLR bakaguma ku butaka bwayo, mu gihe nyamara bavugwaho kugira uruhare muri Jenoside yakorewe Abatutsi mu Rwanda mu 1994.

Dore amwe mu makuru ashingiye kuri raporo ya Loni akubiye mu biganiro byabaye hagati ya FDLR na bamwe mu bayobozi bakuru bb’ingabo za Leta ya Congo Kinshasa nk’uko Ibiro Ntaramakuru by’u Rwanda (RNA) dukesha iyi nkuru bibitangaza :

Ku wa 16 Gicurasi, ingabo za Leta zohereje i Kirumba abayobozi b’ingabo bo mu duce twa Kanyabayonga na Kirumba, kugira ngo baganire na FDLR ku bufatanye mu kurwanya M23. Kuri iyi tariki Capt Bruce uyobora abarwanyi ba FDLR bakorera i Lusamambo yakiriye ibaruwa iturutse mu ngabo za Congo (FARDC) zisaba ko FDLR yazifasha mu bikorwa byo kurwanya M23.

Ku wa 18 Gicurasi 2012, amatsinda abiri y’abasirikare ba FDL abitegetswe na Capt Malius yivanze n’ingabo za Leta zoherejwe i Mweso ziyobowe na Lt Col Niyibizi.

Ku itariki ya 22 Gicurasi abasirikare bakuru ba FDLR Capt Gogore na Capt Murengezi uzwi cyane nka Kintu, boherejwe n’ubuyobozi bukuru bwa FDLR bagirana inama i Goma n’abasirikare bakuru ba Congo bari bayobowe na Col Smith Gihanga.

Kuri 24 Gicurasi Lt Col Caleb Sabena wa FDLR yahawe imyenda ya gisirikare 100 y’ingabo za Congo na Col Yav Philimin, umusirikare wa Congo ufite icyicaro i Rutchuru. Kuri iyi tariki amatsinda abiri y’abasirikare ba FDLR avuye ahitwa Remeka na Numbi yinjijwe mu mutwe w’ingabo za Leta zikorera i Masisi na Karehe, nyuma yaho baza kujyanwa i Rutchuru gutera ingabo mu bitugu ingabo za Leta zarwanaga na M23.

Amakuru y’imikoranire hagati ya FDLR n’ingabo za Congo yaje kandi gushimangirwa na Col Mbarushimana Etienne uzwi ku izina rya Mbaraga Bantu wigeze no kuba umugenzuzi w’imari mu gisirikare, ubwo yatahukaga ku ya 24 Gicurasi avuye i Walikare. Yemeje ko yatahutse ubwo abayobozi b’ingabo muri FDLR mu gace ka Walikare bari mu myiteguro yo kubonana n’ingabo za Leta ngo baganire ku bijyanye n’intwaro no ku mikoranire iruseho.

Ku itariki ya gatanu Kamena 2012, amatsinda abiri yo muri FDLR ayobowe na Maj Oreste ingabo za Leta zabemereyee gutambuka mu duce twa Nyanzare na Mweso, baturutse ahitwa Montana kugira ngo bambukire Kilama bityo batangire ibikorwa byo kwambukiranya imipaka bajya mu Rwanda.

Ku itariki 16 Kamena 2012, Lt Col Niyibizi, umuyobozi w’ingabo za Leta ya Congo zikorera i Kibirizi muri Rutchuru, yahaye ibikoresho bya gisirikare abarwanyi ba FDLR birimo amasanduka 12 y’amasasu y’imbunda za AK 47, n’andi masasu y’imbunda z’ubwoko butandukanye.

Ku itariki ya kane Kamena 2012, Pierre Lumbi, umujyanama wa Perezida Joseph Kabila mu bya gisirikare yategetse umuyobozi w’Intara ya Kivu y’Amajyaruguru Julien Paluku Kahongya, kugaragaza abantu bo ku rwego rwo hejuru muri FDLR bashobora guhuza ubuyobozi bukuru bwa FDLR (Gen Sylvain Mudacumura) na Guverinoma ya Congo kugira ngo Congo imwumvishe (Mudacumura) ko agomba kugirana imikoranire mu kurwanya M23 hanyuma bagategura uko bazajya bagaba ibitero by’iterabwoba ku Rwanda.

Ku wa 25 Kamena 2012, abayobozi babiri mu bya politiki ari bo Murego Faustin wari ufite ipeti rya Lieutenant mu zari ingabo z’u Rwanda FAR na Nzabonimpa Joseph bombi baba mu Bubiligi, bafatiwe muri Rutchuru bafite ibyangombwa by’inzira by’u Bubiligi ; urugendo barimo rukaba rufitanye isano n’iyi mikoranire ya FDLR na FARDC.

Ku itariki ya cyenda 2012, Maj Blaise Asifiwe ukora mu butasi bwa FDLR yari i Goma ayoboye itsinda ry’abantu bo muri FDLR bahuye na Gen Maj Amisi Kumba wari ukuriye ingabo za Congo zirwanira ku butaka ubu akaba yarahagaritswe ku mirimo. Iyi nama yemeje ko Congo iha intwaro FDLR kugira ngo ijye igaba ibitero mu Rwanda.

Ku itariki ya kabiri Nyakanga 2012, Brig Gen Masunzu yahuye n’umuyobozi wa Division ya kabiri muri FDLR Lt Col Hamada, amusaba kohereza ingabo muri Kivu y’Amajyepfo mu duce twari twasizwe n’ingabo za Leta zoherejwe muri Kivu y’Amajyaruguru kurwanya M23. Gusa uyu mugambi ntiwashobotse kuko ku itariki ya 10 Nyakanga Hamada yagiye kubonana n’abayobozi ba FNL muri Kivu y’Epfo bigatuma umugambi wa Masunzu utagerwaho.

Ku ya 27 Nyakanga 2012 abarwanyi ba FDLR bayobowe na Lt Col Hatungumuremyi bakunze kwita Caleb bari ku musozi wa Kilama bafasha ingabo za Congo i Kanyabayonga, mu myiteguro yo kugaba igitero ku barwanyi ba M23. Kuri uyu munsi izi ngabo za FDLR z’i Kalima zatangiye guhabwa amakarita y’ingabo z’igihugu, kugira ngo borohereze FARDC mu gikorwa zari zifatanyije.
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 DORE INDI SOURCE IVUGAKO GEN. MASUNZU ARIGUKORANA N'INTERAHAMWE

1.      EXCLUSIVE: Meetings between senior Congo officers with FDLR commanders

Kigali, Nov. 22 (RNA) - A UN report has published graphic details of recent secret meetings between DRC senior officials and Rwandan FDLR combatants – an indication of how extensive the collaboration remains strong. This is completely contrary to the public statements of the Kinshasa government.

The report published yesterday shows that DRC-FDLR high-level contacts have gone on as recent as July. All these clandestine meetings have taken place on the back of public pronouncements by the Kinshasa government to the contrary. DR Congo has even gone farther to let Rwandan troops into DRC to hunt down the FDLR rebels, blamed for executing the 1994 genocide against Tutsis.

But goes behind the back of Rwanda and supports FDLR rebels. RNA is going to serialize the relationship between the militia and Congo’s government, based on the UN report. In the first of the series, we are publishing the details of the meetings that have been held.

Below is an outline of the meetings and what they were meant for:

 

• “On 16 May 12, FARDC unit in Kanyabayonga and Kirumba sent local authorities in the area to go to Bushalingwa and negotiate with FDLR on cooperation mechanism to fight M23.

 

• On 16 May 12, one Capt Bruce an FDLR Coy Comdr deployed at Lusamambo received a letter from FARDC requesting FDLR to support FARDC Ops against M23.

• On 18 May 12, FDLR 2 x coys and CRAP elements under command of Capt Malius were integrated within FARDC troops deployed at Mweso under command of Lt Col Niyibizi.

 

• On 22 May 12 , 02 FDLR Officers, Capt DOGORE 1 Div G2 and Capt Murengezi alias Kintu from Gen Mudacumura HQs, held a meeting in Goma with FARDC officers that were led by Col Smith Gihanga.

• On 24 May 12, FDLR Lt Col Caleb SABENA Bn Comdr received 100 pairs of FARDC uniforms from Col Yav Philimin, a FARDC Comdr based in Rutchuru.

• On 24 May 12, FDLR 02x coy from Remeka and Numbi were integrated in FARDC unit operating in Masisi and Kalehe and later transported to Rutchuro to reinforce other FARDC units against M23.

• Justification of these allegations were further confirmed by FDLR Lt Col Mbarushimana Etienne alias Mbaraga Bantu (former FDLR Auditeur Militaire) who was repatriated on 24 May 2012 from Walikare.

• He confirmed that that he left when FDLR comdrs in Walikare were in preparation to meet FARDC and negotiate for arms/ammos and effective cooperation.

 

• On 5 Jun 12, 02 FDLR Coys under Maj Oreste from Montana Bn were accorded safe passage by FARDC in areas of Nyanzare and Mweso to cross to Kilama to launch cross border infiltrations into Rwanda.

 

• On 16 Jun 12, Lt Col Niyibizi a FARDC comdr deployed at Kibirizi/ Rutchuru zone supplied to FDLR CRAP Comdr (Capt Manudi) 12 boxes of AK 47 ammos, 08 shells of RPG, 12x shells of 60 mm Mortar and 10 x shells of 82 mm Mortar.

 

• On 4 Jun 12, Pierre LUMBI, President Kabila's Security Advisor tasked Hon. Julien PALUKU KAHONGYA, the Governor of North Kivu Province to identify high profile contacts within FDLR who could link the Government of the DRC with the overall Comdr of FDLR(Gen S Mudacumura) in order to convince him resume cooperation with FARDC against M23 and consequently plan future terror attacks in Rwanda.

• On 25 Jun 12, two FDLR Political cadres Murego Faustin (Ex-FAR Lt) and Nzabonimpa Joseph both living in Belgium, were arrested in Rutchuro with Belgian passports. Their travel is related to the above DRC/FDLR cooperation plan.

 

• On 9 Jul 12, FDRL Bahama Bn Intelligence Offr Maj Blaise Asifiwe was in Goma leading an FDLR delegation that met FARDC Land forces Comdr Maj Gen Amisi KUMBA. The meeting decided that FARDC immediately provides arms and Ammos to FDLR to conduct terror attacks in Rwanda.

 

On 2 Jul 12, FARDC Brig Gen Masunzu met with FDLR 2 Div Comdr Lt Col Hamada and requested him to deploy FDLR in S/Kivu in the positions abandoned by FARDC troops who were redeployed in North Kivu.

 

• Subsequently on 10 Jul 12, FDLR 2 DIV Comdr Lt Col Hamada met FNL Comdrs in South Kivu and relayed FARDC MASUNZU’s intent.

 

• On 27 Jul 12, FDLR 1 Bn of 2Div in S/Kivu received 1XCOY of FNL combatants and occupied positions that were formerly occupied by FARDC.

 

• On 27 Jul 12, FDLR troops under Lt Col Hatungumuremyi alias Caleb at Kilama forest reinforced FARDC at Kanyabayonga in preparation for an attack against M23. On the same date they (FDLR in Kilama forest) started to receive FARDC ID cards to facilitate the FARDC/FDLR joint operation.”

In the next series, RNA will publish what these meetings have yielded. (End).

 

“The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
Elie Wiesel

SI LE M23 SE RETIRE DE GOMA, QUI AURA PLUS A PERDRE?


Si leM23 ne perd rien en se retirant de Goma, le Congo aurait lui tout à perdre, s’il ne respectait pas les résolutions de Kampala.

Le retrait des troupes du M23 de la ville de Goma conquise il ya deux semaines semble jeter de la confusion aussi bien à Kinshasa que dans le milieu des Rwandophones.

Encore hantés par le souvenir des mésaventures de Laurent Nkunda, les Rwandophones croient perdre par cette retraite imposée, tous les acquis d’une nette victoire qui mettait Kabila en position de faiblesse et allait l’obliger à négocier le dos au mur.

Les choses sont beaucoup plus complexes qu’elles ne paraissent, mais en définitive, personne ne devrait se sentir sacrifiée dans le plan dont l’architecture a été finement ciselée par les Maîtres Museveni et Kagame. Le doute découle de la fausse idée qui suggère que les deux artistes aient agi sous la pression de la Communauté Internationale, qui les obligeraient à taire des ambitions qui leurs sont généreusement prêtées. Rien n’est plus faux.

A Kinshasa, le silence méprisant du Président Kabila envers son peuple, les élucubrations de Mende et les déclarations bellicistes du Général François Olenga sont loin de refléter l’esprit des résolutions des Chef d’Etas de Grands Lacs réunis à Kampala le24 mars dernier. Tout est fait pour faire croire au Peuple Congolais que le retrait du M23 de Goma était une victoire diplomatique du Président Kabila, ou alors un « pré acompte » sur une victoire certaine attendu, après la réorganisation des Forces Armées congolaises par le General François Olenga.

A Kinshasa la confusion demeure totale :

Même si l’idée de négocier avec le M23 fait tout doucement place au rêve de mobiliser et de combattre le fantomatique agresseur Rwandais, force est de constater que les discours savamment entretenus par les chantres pro-français de la « Nonalabalkanisation » se sont enracinés profondément dans l’esprit de la naïve classe politique congolaise, Majorité au Pouvoir et Opposition confondue.

La palme de l’irrationalité revient sans doute brillamment à cet Honorable membre de la Majorité Présidentielle, honnêtement convaincu de défendre les idéaux de Mr. Kabila, qu’on appelle pompeusement « l’Autorité Morale » du PPRD.

Monsieur François Nzekuye croit ainsi rassurer ses compatriotes quelque peu désabusés par le trop brusque changement de ton dans les discours du gouvernement : « le gouvernement ne négocie pas avec le M23 comme certains le pensent, mais examine plutôt ses revendications … « Il y a une solution intermédiaire qui demande à ce que le M23 recule jusque vers leurs positions antérieures avant la prise de Goma. C’est une solution provisoire parce qu’il faudrait que le M23 quitte le territoire congolais » Pour le Rwanda sans doute ? La précision n’était pas nécessaire.

L’opposition, elle, estime que les problèmes liés aux dernières élections présidentielles devraient sans doute être privilégiés par rapport à la guerre dans le Nord Kivu : Selon Monsieur Jean Claude Vuemba du MPCR, « C’est depuis trop longtemps que l’opposition congolaise demande des négociations avec le pouvoir après les élections de novembre 2011. Or jusqu’à ce jour, on a toujours été saboté. Nous n’avons rien eu en échange. Et voilà que le M23 après avoir fait la guerre à l’Etat se retrouve sur une même table avec le gouvernement congolais pour trouver un accord. Nous ne pouvons pas l’accepter. Faut-il prendre des armes dans ce pays pour être écouté ? Le gouvernement ne doit pas négocier avec les rebelles qui ont tué des Congolais dans l’Est de la RDC ».

Même vision du côté de la vaillante Armée Congolaise. De sa retraite « stratégique » de Minova, le Colonel Amuli déclare sans rire : « Nous sommes en train de nous reconditionner pour reconquérir les villes occupes par le M23 et bouter ainsi l’ennemi dehors ».

Dehors, dehors, dehors…

Voici là un refrain qui amène fatalement à l’esprit de bien des Rwandophones l’idée libérateur d’un coup de ciseaux dans le dessin d’une carte géographique héritée de la Conférence de Berlin. Ils se retiennent bien sûr, mais pour combien de temps encore ?

Les Rwandophones ne perdent rien dans le retrait du M23 de Goma

Apres moult hésitations, le M23 a fini par se plier devant les réalités de la situation et accepte de se retirer de Goma ce vendredi 30 novembre 12. Elle conditionnait tout retrait de Goma par autant des décisions que Kabila ne pouvait se permettre de prendre sans couper les planches sous ses pieds, et sans pour autant rien résoudre des questions à la base de la révolte des Rwandophones. L’arrestation de John Numbi ne constitue pas une priorité pour la cause, et rien ne pourrait assurer au M23 que la présence de la bruyante diaspora et celle de l’irresponsable opposition congolaise faciliterait les choses. Il n’y aurait absolument rien à gagner de la cacophonie des différentes ambitions qui prendraient fatalement le dessus sur le problème de l’heure.

Le M23 ne perd rien de sa victoire car elle n’est plus « la Fiction » du Ministre Mende, un Mende condamné, au jour le jour, à changer de position et de langage comme une girouette.

Le M23 s’est imposé comme Partie Prenante de la crise et de la solution et Kinshasa, sait aujourd’hui qu’il ne pourrait continuer de l’ignorer, pendant que les boucs émissaires Ougandais et Rwandais viennent de démontrer à la Communauté Internationale, noir sur blancs, qu’ils étaient non les « agresseurs désignés » mais plutôt les « médiateurs incontournables ».

De deux, Le M23 se retire de Goma comme une « Rébellion » mais y demeure comme une « Force de Paix » car il est appelé officiellement à œuvrer aux côtés d’une Force Interafricaine Neutre, de leurs collègues des Forces Armées Congolaises et de la Monusco pour assurer la sécurité de l’aéroport de Goma. Une réintégration qui ne veut peut être pas encore dire son nom…

De trois, la décision des Chefs d’Etats de la Région n’oblige pas le m23 à déposer les armes en attendant des négociations que le Gouvernement Congolais ne pourrait se permettre d’officialiser sans désorienter le public congolais. Après la débâcle diplomatique et militaire de Kinshasa, l’état d’esprit national s’y prête mal. Les discours aussi contradictoires qu’irresponsables du Ministre Mende ont fini par complétement désorienter le Congolais. Les perceptions et avis désordonnés de la classe politique sur la question du Kivu gênent, considérablement à l’avance, toute action que devra entreprendre le Président Kabila.

Le M23 se retire a environ 20 km de Goma sur les collines surplombant une ville quasi démilitarisée. Il n’a rien perdu de sa force de frappe et son arsenal s’est depuis considérablement enrichi de sa prise de guerre sur la vaillante Armée Congolaise, une armée actuellement en « vacance stratégique » sur les plages de Minova.

Kabila, mieux que quiconque connait les limites de ses hommes, et il sait que ni le Rwanda, ni l’Uganda ne pourraient permettre l’intrusion d’une force étrangère dans la Région. Ensuite, affirmer que « le M23 doit se retirer car il n’a pas les capacités de rester à Goma », cela est du Mende pur, donc sans conséquence sur la réalité.

Le M23, se trouve au point de non-retour.

Les compatriotes Congolais devraient comprendre une fois pour toutes que la balkanisation du Congo ne pourra ou ne pourrait être que le fruit de leurs propres contradictions. Non ceux de l’étranger.

Ils devraient comprendre que les Rwandophones n’aspirent qu’à faire partie de la Nation Congolaise plutôt que d’y figurer comme des citoyens conjoncturels de seconde zone.

S’ils sont poussés continuellement au dehors, ils finiront bien par s’en aller définitivement, non pas sans leurs terres, et aucune résolution de l’ONU, aucune sanction ne les feront fléchir.

Le Sud Soudan s’est résolu à devenir indépendant non pas pour assouvir des aspirations séparatistes mais par nécessité de se libérer des discriminations nordistes. Face à un rejet continuel, Il n’avait pas d’autre alternative que le choix entre la passivité et le combat. Il a choisi le combat et renversé la sacro-sainte notion d’intangibilité des frontières héritées des colonialistes.

La brèche est restée grande ouverte, béante, et le Congo risque de s’y précipiter la tête basse. A cet instant de son histoire, le Congo se trouve à la Croisé des chemins. Après les Présidents Kagame et Museveni, les Chefs d’Etats de la Région viennent d’offrir aux Congolais leur dernière chance. Si celle-ci est saisie, ce serait tant mieux.

Dans le cas contraire, le Congolais n’aura d’autre alternative que celui de devoir se faire à l’idée d’un Nouvel Etat voisin dans la Région des Grands Lacs et le plus tôt serait peut-être le mieux.

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By Ange Michel Murangwa. Rwizanet Atlanta.-
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Saturday, November 24, 2012

CIRGL DEMANDE LA RDC D'ECOUTER LE M23

RD CONGO: Les résolutions de la CIRGL consacrent une reconnaissance à peine voilée du M23 par toutes les parties en présence.

Le sommet de la Conférence internationale de la région des Grands lacs (CIRGL) consacré à la sécuritaire dans l’Est de la RDC vient de se clôturer ce samedi 24 novembre à Kampala. V
Voici en résumé les résolutions prises par le sommet en l’absence SA le President Rwandais Paul Kagame qui était représenté par Mme Mushikiwange, la Ministre des affaires Etrangères.


Les chefs d’Etat des Grands lacs demandent au M23:

- De stopper son extension territoriale et de ne plus remettre en question le gouvernement légitimement élu de la RDC;
- De quitter les positions conquises après leur dernière offensive et de se positionner a environ 20 km de Goma dans un délai de dix jours;
- De remettre à la police les armes délaissées par les militaires congolais dans les localités conquises

Les chefs d’Etat des Grands Lacs demandent au Gouvernement Congolais :

- D’’écouter, d’évaluer et d’apporter une réponse aux doléances légitimes du M23.

De la Sécurité de la ville de Goma :

Les Chefs d’Etat des Grands Lacs ont décidé du déploiement d’une force composite comprenant une compagnie de la force internationale neutre, une compagnie des FARDC et une compagnie du M23 à l’aéroport de Goma, actuellement tenu par la Monusco.
L’Afrique du Sud, a offert son appui logistique à cette force Internationale., tandis que le Congo s’est engagé à contribuer au financement de la Force Neutre. Son financement est estime a 100 millions de dollars américains, l’an. Un bataillon Tanzanien serait prêt pour participer à cette force.


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By Ange Michel Murangwa, Atlanta Rwizanet -
rwiza on November 24, 2012.

Thursday, November 22, 2012

IS THE KAMPALA MEETING A BLESSING OR A CURSE FOR M23?

Finally Kabange has a big smile on his face after being given a second chance by the two giants neighbors with whom he was not supposed to mess up in the first place. Considering how president Kabila came sad, frightened, embarrassed and cold hearted, one wonders what did he hear that made him so relieved, and excited all of the sudden?
What? it is like he couldn't believe what he heard which likely that M23 was not going to go all the way to Kinshasa anymore? "really"? must has stated Kabila. But in diplomatic language the following was promised to Kabila after being a good boy for at least the last three days in Kampala, before he returns to his impolite foreigner minister Mende.
 
The joint brief statement issued Wednesday evening reads in full:
President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda, Chairman of the ICGLR, President Paul Kagame of Rwanda and President Joseph Kabila of the DRC have been in a closed meeting in Kampala since Tuesday evening. The three heads of State have discussed how to address the deteriorating security and humanitarian situation in Eastern DRC after the capture of the North Kivu Provincial capital Goma, by the M23.
In solidarity with the Congolese people and their counterparts,
President Yoweri Museveni and President Kagame made it clear that even if there were legitimate grievances by the mutinying group known as the M23, they cannot accept expansion of this war or entertain the idea of overthrowing the legitimate government of the DRC or undermining its authority. Therefore, the M23 rebel group must immediately stop its offensive and pull out of Goma. A plan to this end is being communicated to them.
The Government of the DRC on its part has made a commitment to look expeditiously into the causes of discontent and address them as best as it can.
Furthermore, a comprehensive and operational plan geared towards lasting peace and stability will be drawn up as a matter of urgency. The three heads of State welcomed the support of the Secretary General of the United Nations who dispatched a special envoy to Kampala to meet with them and discuss the matter…
 
IN RESPONSE TO THE ABOVE STATEMENT, M23 HAD THIS TO SAY (according to Reuters):
"Rebels in eastern Congo on Thursday rejected regional calls to withdraw from the city of Goma and threatened to press an advance until President Joseph Kabila agrees to peace talks."   Bishop Jean-Marie Runiga, head of the M23 rebel movement's political arm, told Reuters: "We'll stay in Goma waiting for negotiations," He added: "They're going to attack us and we're going to defend ourselves and keep on advancing."
Runiga said he did not think Kabila's offer to look into their grievances was serious.
"I'm not confident, because I've already waited for three months in Kampala for talks," he said.
Foreign ministers from the Great Lakes region on Wednesday ordered the rebels to leave Goma and halt their advance through a region mined for gold, tin, and coltan.
 
Runiga rightly stated that "Uganda and Rwanda had no authority to order the rebels to leave. M23 wanted to ensure the safety of civilians and the return of aid groups that fled Goma during its capture", he added as reported by Reuters. 
That is right Mr. Runiga, they have no authority to order your army to commit a political and military suicide. They can advise, and not all advises are always right. It is up to you to take it or leave it. 
The real question for most people is whether this unrealistic, biased and unfair demand from the three presidents for a complete withdraw from Goma by M23 can be taken seriously. What about all the deaths, injuries and other related sacrifices that M23 suffered, not to say millions of Kivu population etc?
Let's face it, after Goma and Sake, Bukavu is eagerly waiting with similar excitment the unchallenged arrival of ARC's troops. And now what? withdraw? what an insult? Everyone understands the pressure on these presidents wrongfully accused of supporting M23, but who cares what the most indifferent, morally corrupt the international community has to say on the fate of a people that have constantly ignored, abandonned, and sacrificed every time it needed the UN support since 1959?

The real concern is this: if the resolution is really serious, the question becomes: is this going to be a repeat of 2009 with Nkunda? are you kidding me?
Is Col. Makenga going to be unfairly sacrificed, held for a wanted criminal that he is not, for having stood for what he and million people believe to be a legitimate cause? Today he is held for a hero, and the Kampala summit is advising to make him a tomorrow fugitive?
Let's hope that he has learned a lesson from the past experience of withdrawing from Goma. After all, M23 is controling a territory almost as large as Uganda, only much richer in almost everything under the earth. So, why settle for less when you can have it all?

Oh, by the way, one more question hangs in everybody's mind: what the hell is M23 going to do all the way to Kinshasa? to overthraw Kabila? then what? put Mr. Tshisekedi on power? after all he is the one who was legally elected by the congolese electorate.
But why would M23 reward a hateful, ungrateful and irresponsible political coward such as Tshisekedi and his people who would never sacrifice for what they believe in? what support have they shown to M23 other than hateful and denigrating comments?
What will M23/ARC get in return should it succeed to reach Kinshasa and overthraw Kabila? well, everyone knows: it is the same old haineous, corrupt, irresponsible, incompetent, nepotism, and anti-semitism based system where Tutsis would always be viewed as vilains. After all, isn't insanity, doing the same thing over and over while expecting different result. So, why would M23/ARC repeat the experience of 1997 with AFDL, and with RCD only to get the same result?  The people of Kivu deserve more. Now it is a do or die matter!!!
However, if M23/ARC is not comfident enough to install its government in Kivu, and declare an independent state of Kivu, then it has not learned any lesson and may as well not just withdraw, but surround and allow themselves to be treated as criminals. But who in his right mind would do that? Certainly Not Makenga!

Let me conclude with an advise for M23 ( although not asked to), and it was well said by my correspondant collegue as he rightly  pointed out: "I think that Africa is heading toward a redrawing of the new boderlines and new creation of new states or nations beyond what the European Colonialists did at the 1884 Berlin Conference that demarcated Africa for their own colonial interests. The colonial masters left behind a very big mess and now its time for Africans to solve it and clean it the African way and the future will live to tell the outcome of these african conflicts and solutions."

Col. Sultan, take courage, the people of Kivu are behind you all the way to the new begining!

MHZ

Monday, November 19, 2012

A VICTORIOUS M23 CAPTURED THE CITY OF GOMA



What many people expected to be inevitable is happening exactly as foretold: Goma is under the hands of the movement known as M23, recently renamed itself as the Congolese Revolution Army (ARC). It is now confirmed by various media outlets that “Heavy fighting intensifies in Goma as rebels seize the strategic Goma airport. Massive shelling reported as army tank speed in town”.

Although the M23 spokesman said that they did not plan to take the city of Goma when its army reached the outskirts of the eastern city of Goma on Sunday after pushing the government troops backed by U.N. peacekeepers.

Even the U.N. peacekeeping spokesman Kieran Dwyer said from New York that "the rebels bypassed Kibati and are in the general area of Munigi, which is about seven km from Goma and close to the Goma airport."  In fact, according to sources in place, it is confirmed that the Goma international Airport is now under the hands of M23”. There is a tremendous pressure from the U.N desperately demanding the M23 not to capture the city of Goma which is supposed to be under the protection of the so called “peace keeping” forces of MONUSCO.  

While many people had been claiming that the M23 movement was a dead born movement simply due to the fact that it had been silent for the last three months, now in only “four days of battles, M23/ARC has advanced closer than at any time in their eight-month uprising to Goma, the provincial capital of North Kivu and home to the headquarters of the U.N. peacekeeping mission in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo”. This is a loud and clear proof that a illequiped government force cannot and will not be able to protect any territory of the DRC when faced with a well determined force with a noble cause. FARDC, the government troops not only lacks any motivation to defend a corrupt, irresponsible and failed state, but is also incapable of holding its position when faced with rebel groups that are fighting for the restoration of a government for the people in the DRC. These troops go to war with only one goal in mind:  win and make a real change for the people that have been taken hostage of a long time tyranny regimes.

It was only yesterday Sunday 18th, that Colonel Vianney Kazarama, spokesman for the M23, said fighters had advanced to within two kilometres of Goma”.  He added that “ We’re not going to take the airport, we are responding to an attack by the army ... We’re just doing this to break the capacity of the FARDC (Congolese army),” Kazarama told Reuters. In order to give the DRC government the chance to resume the dialogue,  M23 had promised that they would hold their position around five km outside the city of Goma and that fighting would stop for only 24 hours to allow the Kinshasa government to change their position regarding the dialogue.

Unfortunately, the DRC government has once again missed the opportunity to prevent its own embarrassment by refusing to hold a dialogue with M23. Its baseless arrogance has always cost the Kabila regime dearly. The Kinshasa government finds no shame in always whining against Rwanda for all its misery, including protecting its own people.

Curiously, the FARDC troops have been reported to throwing heavy artillery into Rwanda as acts of provocation in order to get an excuse to abandon the city of Goma claiming that it is the Rwandan troops that have captured the city of Goma as a result. Acting cautiously as always, the Rwandan government has purposely ignored these acts of provocation to avoid been once again used as a scapegoat by the failed state of Congo. In light of all these, one wonders why a well respected body such as the UN would choose to support such a corrupt government that has lost total support of its people, and even its military who only relies on the force of UN troops to hold on.

According to a recent defamatory and baseless UN report, it was clearly demonstrated how there are so many grass root based groups in Eastern Congo that are opposed to the current regime due to its inefficiencies, abuses, corrupt policies and practices, and other myriad problems that have resulted in its qualification as a “failed state”. Nonetheless, it is the same UN that instead of listening  and supporting the Eastern Congolese people it has been working hand in hand with the oppressive regime.

According to one UN staff, Dwyer "The United Nations peacekeeping mission, MONUSCO, engaged throughout the day supporting the FARDC to protect civilians and in self-defence, including carrying out sorties and firing from attack helicopter missions that have fired rockets and cannon rounds". Truth be told, MONUSCO is not and has never protected Congolese people. Supporting the Congolese army, it has; but not the Congolese people.

There are some organized peace oriented social and political initiatives aimed at bringing all groups together in order to find a peaceful and lasting solution instead of fighting in the Eastern Congo, that has suffered false labelling by the so called UN reports.  One such initiative is the Alliance pour la Liberation de l’Est du Congo (ALEC), which is an effort to bring together all the various antagonistic groups in order to protect the civilian communities, foster unity and reconciliation by forming joint peaceful actions that are based on the needs and political wishes of Eastern Congolese people. Instead of supporting these initiatives or at least investigating them first, the so called UN experts rush to government officials evidently intimidated and unhappy with the people’s initiated efforts to get a list of people involved and project to them bad intentions and name them in its dishonourable report.

It is important to state that after many consultative meetings with various armed groups, ALEC found that the common wishes and desires of over 85% of people in the Eastern Congo is having their own state. In other words, self-determination through a referendum was expressed by a larger majority as the only best alternative for the people in the Eastern Congo that will bring a lasting peace and development in the Eastern Congo.

However, the UN agency supposedly with a mandate to “protect civilians” with over ten thousand “peacekeeping forces” has turned against the same people it came to protect, and is being used by the Congolese officials to blame and hinder the community leaders promoting such initiatives. When a UN body loses its objectivity and becomes an instrument of a dictatorship regime, it loses its credibility and moral authority.

It is about time that the UN start treating Africans as humans with equal rights with other people. Why is it acceptable for other people in other continents to hold referendum for their self-determination, but not acceptable in Africa? Why do Congolese people who have suffered immensely enough under the western supported tyranny regimes cannot be allowed to exercise their right for self-determination without having to be forced to use violence?