Rwandan Defense Forces Flown into Western Congo

Defeated; Kabila Regime Under Siege on Multiple Fronts
[This title is an updated version of the December 22 publication:
"Belgian Paratroopers to Crush Rising Congo Rebellion?"]


6 January 2010


With the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) engulfed in bloodshed and terrorism due to the secretive occupation and expansion by the Rwandan regime of Paul Kagame, Congo's President Joseph Kabila has reportedly requested an immediate emergency military intervention from Belgium to crush a growing rebellion sparked by resistance forces in the far Western Congo. But the United Nations Observers Mission in Congo (MONUC) has downplayed the new rebellion and hidden civilian casualties.


A rising alliance calling themselves "The Resistance Patriots of Dongo" (Patriotes-Réistants de Dongo) has gained currency and recruits after Congolese people learned that the Dongo resistance forces were fighting against Rwandan Tutsi troops in the little frontier town of Dongo.

Sources in Congo's capital Kinshasa report that an emergency "crisis" meeting was convened in Brussels on Friday, Nov. 28, 2009, after a distress call was sent by Congo-Kinshasa President Hypolitte Kanambe, known to the Western world by his alias, Joseph Kabila Kabange. According to intelligence sources, the Belgian military attaché in Kinshasa has been instructed to lay the groundwork for the arrival of a detachment of elite Belgian Armed Forces (BAF) paratroopers as soon as possible, before mid-December.



Sources in Kinshasa report that in mid-November President Joseph Kabila secretly airlifted a battalion of Rwandan Defense Forces (RDF) across Congo to put down the small rebellion. The operation involved multiple flights in November and was supported by the United Nations Observer Mission in Congo (MONUC) and the U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM). The RDF forces, moved to Congo from Rwanda exclusively for the operation, were uniformed as Armed Forces of the DRC (FARDC) troops.



Equateur Province achieved a relative peace by 2004 and the majority of United Nations Observer Mission to Congo (MONUC) troops pulled out by 2005. Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders), the humanitarian organization that had worked in Equateur Province from 1992, disregarded their own reports about the state of the health emergency and mortality in Equateur and abandoned the population in 2006.

On Dec. 2, 2009, the remote strategic airport town of Libenge, near the Central African Republic, fell to the new rebellion, which is expanding and spreading with foreign backing. Towns in Equateur Province have been falling one by one to the rebellion, sending Kinshasa's elites into a scramble on Dec. 3 and President Kabila into a security panic.

Now the entire Congo has been launched into a state of massive fear, warfare and insecurity, and the house of cards - propped up by Western corporations and military - comes tumbling down.

The international media has completely blacked out this story, reporting only an ethnic conflict over fishing rights. Faced with almost two months of suppressing information about the Dongo crisis in Equateur, MONUC is faced with the prospect of full disclosure - or launching another massive campaign of damage control and disinformation.

MONUC Hides Equateur Conflict 
 
The Tutsi forces in the FARDC include infiltrated RDF and "ex-"CNDP forces from the National Congress for the Defense of the People (CNDP), the extremist terrorist militia that sprouted out of the Kivu Provinces but is heavily backed by Rwanda and infiltrated with thousands of extremist Tutsis.

Rwandan Defense Forces are not exclusively Tutsis but are controlled and highly regulated by the secret extremist Tutsi network maintained by Paul Kagame, James Kabarebe and others of the 40 top war criminals indicted by the Spanish court on Feb. 6, 2008. Much ado is made in the international press, based on propaganda cranked out by the Kigame regime and its suppoters, that Rwanda's is a power-sharing government, that Hutu-Tutsi reconciliation has been a huge and lasting success, and that the RDF and intelligence services are comprised of non-Tutsi.

Anyone o remotely steps out ofe, in or out of Rwanda, will immediately be targeted, accused of genocide revisionism, negationism or participation in "the genocide" itself.

resident Kabila reportedly asked Central Africa Republic (C.A.R.) president Francois Bozizé to intervene and flank the resistance forces through the remote frontier town of Zongo, DRC, also in Equateur Province, across the border from Bangui, the C.A.R. capital. The two presidents share a common enemy, Jean-Pierre Bemba and ex-forces of the Movement for the Liberation of Congo (MLC). Jean-Pierre Bemba is under arrest at the International Criminal Court, thanks to Bozizé and Kabila, charged with war crimes in C.A.R.
Bozizé is occupied with his own insurrections and guerilla insurgencies in C.A.R., having come to power by force in a March 2003 coup d'etat against Ange-Félix Patassé, C.A.R. president from 1993-2003. Patassé, in exile in Togo, will clearly be an interested party in the Dongo rebellion, given Kabila's relations with Bozizé. Military and intelligence from France, U.S. and Chad all meddle in C.A.R.
 
Kabila is reportedly furious at Congo-Brazzaville and its President Sassou-Nguesso for allowing veteran rebel guerrillas to attack Congo-Kinshasa on its Western Oubangi River frontier (see map).

The very first military intervention by U.N. Blue Helmets anywhere occurred in the Democratic Republic of Congo during the secession of Katanga Province (1960-63). The U.N. occupied Congo again in the "Congo Crises" (1964-66). Both occupations involved Belgian paratroopers and other Western mercenaries. The Congolese people were shafted.
These illegal foreign occupations by the "international community" - under the guise of the United Nations - served to insure Western control of the diamond, copper, uranium and cobalt mines of Katanga and Kasai. Billed as "peacekeeping" operations, this misnomer set the stage for present day misunderstanding of the true MONUC role as an armed combatant protecting the corporate interests of predatory Western capitalism.

Now, 50 years later, following more than a century of Belgian-Anglo-American-Franco-Israeli big business profits and slavery in Congo - with 10 million deaths under King Leopold (1885-1908), with a brutal Apartheid dispossession and military occupation under Belgian colonial rule (1908-1960), with countless deaths under the U.N. occupations of 1960 to 1965, with tens of millions of deaths under the U.S. client state regime of Joseph Mobutu (1965-1996), with more than 10 million deaths since the Pentagon-backed invasion of 1996 - the Belgians are reportedly again planning to rescue their military client-partnership in Congo-Kinshasa.
The elite Belgian paratroopers would be deployed first to Bangaboka Airport in Kisangani, in Congo's eastern Orientale Province.
Kisangani is the site for the V.S. Naipal novel "A Bend in the River" and the proverbial "heart-of-darkness" outpost where Henry Morton Stanley organized the genocidal red-rubber and ivory pillage for Belgium's King Leopold. Today, Western-owned plantations and logging companies reap their high profits through mass slavery of Congolese people in the Kisangani region.
To conceal President Kabila's illegal Belgian intervention from international public opinion, Brussels, Kinshasa and MONUC plan to dress Belgian paratroopers as "peacekeepers" to be deployed out of Kisangani as MONUC "Blue Helmets" bound for Equateur and Dongo. 

The leadrs of the rebellion in western Equateur Province have reportedly forged an alliance with other disaffected Congo-Kinshasa forces in the eastern Kivu provinces. This alliance is united against the Kabila regime and its allies, including MONUC and AFRICOM.

Sources in Kinshasa report that the Patriotic Resistance Forces of Dongo are now aligned with Gen. Dunia, a Mai Mai leader operating against the joint operations of the RDF-FARDC-MONUC nexus in the Fizi and Barako areas of South Kivu.

By this very same communication," they wrote, "we don't wish to keep the international community unaware of the patriotic engagements we are determined to carry on as we aim at saving the lives of our populations and the integrity of our territorial boundaries... The world has misunderstood us (Maï-Maï and Congolese) because your ethnic Tutsi-men have misled the media houses and the international community by repeatedly twisting the truth about their identity; likewise have you lied to the world in your own life story..."

"We take upon our shoulders the responsibility of liberating our country from the general plight; as conscious patriots, to protect our people from their enemies; and a NEW GOVERNMENT, which respects the principles of GOOD GOVERNANCE, is now being aspired... Any foreign government reading us is equally advised not to interfere with our internal conflict. We longed after your intervention, but when you came, minerals and aquatic resources were more precious to you than the people of the Democratic Republic of Congo..." [Mai-Mai of South Kivu: Letter to President Joseph Kabila, November 16, 2009].
Joseph Kabila is a black pawn in the great game by white foreigners and multinational corporations to control and plunder Central Africa. Like Congo's historic leaders, Patrice Lumumba (1925-1961) and his paternal namesake, the former President Laurent Desiré Kabila (1939-2001), Joseph Kabila would quickly be assassinated if he diverged from the hidden agenda of Western capital.

"What is happening now in Dongo [Equateur] is the beginning of something that no one will stop," said one Congolese intelligence insider on Nov. 25. "For sure, Kabila and his friends are sending Rwandan troops to kill people, but the resistance movement says that Dongo will be the tomb of Rwandan troops and the beginning of the end of Kabila and his supporters. At this time, thousands of people - young Congolese men, ex-Mobutu fighters, Congolese FARDC - have joined the movement. I'm very sure that this Dongo movement was prepared for a long time."

Extremist Tutsis Bleeding Congo Dry

Many Congolese people have long since known that the president of their country has supported a secret extremist "Tutsi" alliance that seeks to dominate Central Africa. His real name is Hypolitte Kanambe, formerly a junior Rwanda Patriotic Front/Army (RPF/A) officer plucked from the Alliance of Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Congo-Zaire (AFDL) forces.
It is widely supported that Joseph Kabila reported directly to RPF/A commanders James Kabarebe and Paul Kagame in the Pentagon-backed AFDL "rebellion" that overthrew President Joseph Mobutu in Zaire (Congo); there are also claims that Kabila was a soldier in the RPF/A during the multiple genocides orchestrated by Kagame's extremist Tutsi RPF/A in Rwanda (1990-1994).

For us Congolese-Zairians, the boy is Rwandan Tutsi," explains Congolese intellectual Yaa-Lengi Ngemi. "Yes, [the assassinated president] Laurent Kabila lived in Dar es Salaam and had a business there. Hypollite Kanambe's Tutsi father was a close friend and business partner of Laurent Kabila."

The term "extremist Tutsi" applies only to the elite secretive organization, formerly the Rwandan Patriotic Front/Army (RPF/A), that exists in parallel with the parliamentary government of Rwanda. While some of the same people occupy both, the extremist Tutsis came to power through war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide in Rwanda from 1990 to 1994, operating a secret terrorist network.

The RPF/A killed everyone in its path, no matter their ethnicity: Hutu, Tutsi or minority indigenous Twa people. The so-called "Tutsi" RPF/A killed Tutsis in Rwanda during their four-year invasion, and afterwards, because Maj. Gen. Paul Kagame and Gen. James Kabarebe and their "exiled" Tutsi conspirators in Diaspora - dubbed the "Jews of Africa," a "people without a homeland" - did not trust any Tutsis who stayed behind in Rwanda after Hutu President Juvenal Habyarimana came to power in 1973.

The RPF/A also killed everyone in their path because their plan from the start was to eliminate as many people as possible, to depopulate Rwanda of the soon-to-be problematic landowners, businessmen, farmers and peasants - mostly the majority Hutu population, but also Tutsis - and repopulate Rwanda with Ugandans and Tutsis who had been living comfortably in Western countries. It was about big business, corruption and greed.
Now, after more than 15 years of massive Western propaganda proclaiming an organized, systematic elimination of the Tutsi people by the Hutu leaders of the former Rwandan government, the official Rwanda genocide story has finally collapsed. A genocide revisioning is imperative and, given the recent acquittals at the International Criminal Tribunal on Rwanda (ICTR), between December 2008 and December 2009, it is well under way.
In sharp contradistinction to the tired establishment refrain, the entrenched sacred narrative accusing the "Hutu leadership" of an "organized" and "planned" genocide in the so-called 100 days of slaughter between April 6 and July 1994 - a narrative defined by victor's justice - were the countless acts of genocide committed through a spontaneous uprising of the Hutu masses.
These were Hutu people who had been brutalized, disenfranchised, uprooted and forced from homes; people who had witnessed massacres and rapes of family members; people who were themselves the victims of brutal atrocities; people who knew of crematoriums and mass graves filled with their friends, families and neighbors who were both Hutu and Tutsi.
These were reportedly more than 1 million internally displaced Rwandan Hutus, people who had been terrorized by the RPF/A from October 1990 to April 1994, as it butchered its way into Rwanda, and possibly over 1 million Burundian refugees, Hutus who suffered massive reprisals in Burundi after the first civilian president, Melchior Ndadaye, a democratically elected Hutu, was assassinated by the Tutsi military in October 1993, and his successor, President Cyprien Ntaryamira, was assassinated on April 6, 1994.

On April 6, 1994, they responded to the extremist Tutsi onslaught with a vengeance. There was killing on all sides; that is not in dispute. This was a war, a bloody conflagration of horrors. But the numbers don't add up, the dead don't compute, the labels "Tutsi" and "Hutu" become circumspect. The propaganda story is quite different from the facts, and no one has yet to write a true and comprehensive account not biased by fear, interests, imperial arrogance or whiteness.
After seizing power in July of 1994, the extremist Tutsi network continued to perpetrate atrocities, including massacres, assassinations, tortures and disappearances, and the network moved into Congo-Zaire in 1996 and persists in Rwanda and Congo to this day. The modus operandi of this terrorist structure is to perpetrate crimes and blames them on the victim populations.
Election Slogans and Empty Promises (Sound Familiar?)


In the beginning, many Congolese supported President Kanambe, alias Kabila, ignoring his origins, hoping that he would share power, that he would develop the Congo, build roads and schools and, especially, that he would forestall and evict Ugandan and Rwandan agents, provocateurs, mining cartels and war criminals from the 1996-2001 war years.


In July of 2006, prior to the presidential elections, I traveled on the campaign trail with President Kabila's sister, Janet Kabila, around Kinshasa and into bush towns nearby. The Kabilas doled out cash and propaganda - t-shirts, caps, flyers, buttons, food, alcohol - and they rallied entire villages with a five-piece marching band. To the uneducated and impoverished masses of the interior, the Kabilas pledged roads and schools within next three years.
They were the usual empty promises made by the usual empty politicians. The Congolese people have seen nothing but misery and death delivered from within and without the vast Congo.

The Western media broadcasts the suffering in Congo, but the propaganda is simplistic disinformation, and the Western "news"-consuming public eats it up and dismisses the Congo, abandoning the people whose lives are determined in part by the raw materials stolen from them in a state of war and organized crime.
High visibility Western organizations, in particular the ENOUGH and Raise Hope for Congo projects and their wealthy backers, the International Crisis Group and Center for American Progress, have lobbied college students and Western governments to action, always pushing for legislation, and licensed by capitalism and the major mass media to speak as the only bona fide experts on the Congo, Rwanda, Sudan and Uganda. They also advance military solutions over diplomatic or other peaceful solutio 
William Jefferson Clinton's former national security insider John Prendergast is their leading cheerleader. There's a reason Prendergast is all over the news, appearing at colleges where ENOUGH and Raise Hope's advance publicity includes expensive color brochures and posters.
lready the Enough Project, an anti-genocide group based in Washington, and Eve Ensler, an American playwright who has been supporting Congolese women's projects for years through the organization V-Day, among others," wrote Jeffrey Gentleman in the recent New York Times article slamming the Congolese people for their own suffering, "have been urging Congress to pass legislation that would bar American companies from buying Congo's 'conflict minerals,' which include gold, tin and coltan, a metallic ore used in many cellphones and laptop computers. Several bills have been proposed'.

John Prendergast was the expert of choice for CBS 60 Minutes' "Blood Minerals" broadcast, nationally televised in the United States on Nov. 29, 2009, which was an advertisement for ENOUGH, the IRC and so-called "humanitarian" organizations. These lobby and flak entities are working to displace and neutralize all true international grassroots efforts to help the Congolese people take control of their own resources and future, and they cover for hidden Western interests.
Beholden to powerful Western corporate interests, the most powerful originating from Belgium, U.S.A., Israel, Canada, Britain and Germany, but also including Australian, Japanese, South African and Dutch interests, the Kabila regime, backed by the MONUC military occupation and the U.N. Security Council, has delivered the Congo's people one disappointment and outrage after another.

Eastern Congo About to Explode (Again) Too?

 major source of ongoing conflict in the Kivus, Gen. Bosco Ntaganda, was rewarded in January 2009 for playing along with the Kabila-Kagame-MONUC charade of "arresting" CNDP-RDF war criminal Gen. Laurent Nkunda. To their credit, the U.N. Panel of Experts, in their recently "leaked" report of November 2009, exposed the appointment of Gen. Bosco Ntaganda as CNDP-FARDC commander, which Kagame and Kabila officially denied.

Gen. Ntaganda commanded CNDP-FARDC units responsible for massive war crimes under the joint "Kimia" operations in the Kivus launched with MONUC backing in January 2009. Ntaganda is an insider and - if arrested and sent to the supposedly neutral ICC - he is purportedly a huge risk to Paul Kagame, James Kabarebe, Laurent Nkunda and Joseph Kabila.
The International Criminal Court indicted Gen. Bosco Ntaganda for war crimes committed in DRC in May 2008. The ICC is a political instrument used to selectively target certain individuals and militias, while ignoring more substantial state sanctioned actors like Paul Kagame, James Kabarebe, Yoweri Museveni or former U.S. National Security Council member Walter Kansteiner. 
Sources in Kinshasa report that Gen. Ntaganda may imminently trigger a new war between CNDP and FARDC forces in the Kivus, with the blessing of Joseph Kabila and Paul Kagame, who seek to protect Ntaganda from the ICC.
Given the recent secret infiltrations and sanctioned integrations of CNDP and RDF into FARDC units during 2008 and 2009, this would create havoc and trigger immense suffering, on top of the already unprecedented depopulation of the Great Lakes people.

Gen. Ntaganda will likely create a new military faction, sources report, yet another acronym to confuse obtuse Western foreign policy experts - yet another militia licensed to kill civilians in the soup of bloodshed, depopulation and impunity.

Regional Alliances and Hatreds

In the DRC's "historic" rigged national elections of 2006, formalizing Joseph Kabila's "presidency," millions of Congolese people supported MLC rebel leader Jean-Pierre Bemba, ignoring his murderous tryst with Ugandan strongman Yoweri Museveni, because they knew Kanambe - alias Joseph Kabila - was Rwandan.

"During the [presidential] election the majority of the Congolese voted for Bemba," says Congolese human rights activist Yaa-Lengi Ngemi, "even though Congolese people knew that Bemba also killed Congolese as a stooge of Uganda. The choice was between a Congolese criminal and a foreigner, a Rwandan criminal. So they voted for the Congolese criminal, or "mwana mboka" (native son).

The elections rigging in Congo was multi-faceted, with all kinds of irregularities and manipulations on all sides. The "international community" backed the Kabila win. 

Bemba and Kabila unleashed their troops in deadly battles, also targeting civilians, in Kinshasa in March 2007.

In Western Congo, home to Kinshasa, Kabila gave President Eduardo Dos Santos and Angola carte blanche over oil concessions in Bas Congo Province in exchange for providing presidential security forces and to counterbalance extremist Tutsi expansionism out of Rwanda. In March 2009, DRC's oil minister, Rene Isekemanga Nkeka, accused Angola of stealing Congo's oil. Many Congolese parliamentarians resent Kabila's foreign alliances and can no longer be bribed into submission.

The Angolans hate Kagame and the Rwandan Defense Forces (former RPF/A), and vise versa. The RPF/A teamed up with Angolan UNITA rebels fighting against President Dos Santos after the Angolans cornered and shamed RPF/A troops in Bas Congo during the war; the two armies also fought on opposing sides in Congo (1998-2001).

Angola's Eduardo Dos Santos and Gabon's Gen. Ali Bongo also cooperate with Congo-Brazzaville President Dennis Sassou-Nguesso. [10] (Gabon's recently deceased dictator, Omar Bongo, was Sassou-Nguesso's son-in-law.)
Next door to the vast Congo-Kinshasa, President Dennis Sassou-Nguesso in Congo-Brazzaville is one of Joseph Kabila's most enduring enemies.

The Congo River separates the two presidents in Brazzaville and Kinshasa, and one of the Congo's largest tributaries, the Oubangi River, separates DRC's Equateur province, running its course northeast along the border of Congo-Brazzaville and then the Central African Republic.

President Sassou-Nguesso was a close ally of Rwanda's former Hutu President Juvenal Habyarimana, apparently assassinated by the Tutsi extremist RPF/A "Zero Network" on April 6, 1994, and he was friend and ally of Joseph Mobutu.

Mobutu Sese Seko's Ghosts

 Brazzaville has harbored Mobutu's ex-Forces Armées Zaïroises (ex-FAZ) since 1996-1997, and it harbors Rwandan elements that fled the AFDL genocide against Hutu refugees in Congo-Zaire (1996-1997). Sources suggest there are at least 300 ex-MLC (Movement for the Liberation of Congo) and more than 10,000 ex-FAZ troops available for the Dongo rebellion.
Rwandan refugees in Congo-Brazzaville include civilian survivors of the 1994 exodus from Rwanda and the subsequent international war crimes committed by the Paul Kagame and James Kabarebe and their troops in DRC from 1996 to 1998. Uganda People's Defense Forces also helped hunt and massacre Hutu refugees

Congo-Brazzaville also supports the ex-Rwandan Armed Forces (ex-FAR) and their allies, the Forces for the Democratic Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR), providing a distant rear base for Congo operations directed at liberating Rwanda from the extremist Tutsis and the Kagame dictatorship.
Thus many Rwandan refugees in Brazzaville are former liberation fighters hostile to the terrorist Kagame regime for its "blame-the-victims" inversion of the Rwanda "genocide" story and the mass murder of millions of Hutu people from 1990 to the present.

As of 2005, the U.N. High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) counted some 59,000 Congo-Kinshasa refugees in Congo-Brazzaville and more than 4,000 Congo-Kinshasa refugees in C.A.R.
Sassou-Nguesso, Dos Santos, Ali Bongo and his father, Omar, Mobutu, Habyarimana - all of these current and former Central African regimes align(ed) themselves with French and Israeli security and intelligence interests - and all seek to counterbalance and limit Tutsi extremist expansionism in Central Africa backed by the Anglo-American alliance.


Equateur Province is the site of major untapped petroleum reserves. Belgian, French, Portuguese, German and U.S. families and corporations control vast tracts of land being denuded by rapacious industrial logging. There are also Western-owned plantations with modern day plantation slavery involving tens of thousands of Congolese people subject to terrorism by state paramilitary services

The outside world hears little or nothing about the Western-owned logging and plantation concessions producing timber, coffee, cocoa, palm oil and rubber through modern day slavery. Similarly, the immense untapped petroleum reserves beneath the Congo River basin and its rainforests in Equateur province remain undisclosed by Western institutions - including World Wildlife Fund (WWF), USAID and Care International - involved in possessing and depopulating these rainforest lands for Western corporate interests that benefit through the Kabila regime.
According to Congo researcher David Barouski, cassiterite (tin) mined from the bloody Kivu provinces in Eastern Congo also passes through the networks of the plantations and logging interests in Equateur and Orientale.
"Outside of Asia, Belgium is the primary importer of Congolese cassiterite. Sodexmines sells to SDE, located in Brussels and directed by Mr. Edwin Raes. SDE is a subsidiary of the U.S.-based Elwyn Blattner Group. Mr. Elwyn Blattner, who hails from Bayonne, N.J, owns several businesses in the Congo through his firm, African Holding Company of America. They include logging concessions, transportation and palm oil plantations. The products [from] these businesses are also imported by SDE."

The Elwyn Blattner Group has supported all sides in Congo's wars, bankrolling combatants, police, governors and officials who control the geographical areas where his interests are. The Blattner family - James, Elwyn, Daniel, David - began and expanded under Mobutu and are entrenched with the Kabila regime.

Assassins Target Joseph Kabila Kanambe

Recognizing the growing disaffection amongst his own military and intelligence services, President Kabila is surrounded by trusted elite Angolan Special Forces.

Since Joseph Kabila came to power in 2001, the elite Guard Républicaine (GR), controlled directly by the president outside the military chain of command or any civilian or judicial oversight, has been expanded to some 15,000 elite, heavily armed forces deployed at all strategic locations around the country. Sources in the intelligence sector in Congo-Kinshasa claim that the GR is predominantly comprised of elite Angolan Special Forces, with a token number of Congolese to put a proper face on things.


In 2005, it was reported that Kabila's closest security detail in the Presidential Guards was a detachment of 50 elite Zimbabwe Defense Forces under the command of Lt. Colonel Richard Sauta, a fifth dan (rank) Tae Kwan Do expert trained in North Korea.

Kabila has also reportedly moved all ammunitions depots off Congolese FARDC military bases in Kinshasa, though Rwandan FARDC ("ex"-CNDP) and Angolan troops remain heavily armed and supplied.
Angolan troops backed Kabila during the deadly battle for Kinshasa against Jean-Pierre Bemba and MLC loyalists in March 2007. Enraged by MLC attacks that claimed some 23 Angolans, including a senior officer, the Angolan forces ruthlessly retaliated, causing massive civilian casualties.

Thousands of bodies were collected and dumped in mass graves and in the Congo River. At the time, President Dos Santos convinced Congo-Brazzaville President Dennis Sassou-Nguesso to block ex-FAZ troops in Brazzaville from crossing the Congo River to join the MLC fight.
 This time, Sassou-Nguesso has allowed ex-FAZ and ex-MLC to cross the border and join the Dongo rebellion.
Since March 2007, MLC forces that were captured or surrendered to MONUC after the deadly battle were detained by MONUC in Kinshasa "for their own safety." In past weeks, Kabila's loyalist forces in Kinshasa seized some of the MLC captives in military operations described by Kinshasa intelligence insiders as "staged assaults."
Sources claim that MONUC has collaborated with the Kabila security apparatus in their efforts to seize and eliminate MLC captives. These captives included some 150 former combatants, along with their wives and children. Reports from Kinshasa suggest that these MLC are being systematically eliminated in what amount to extrajudicial executions.
"MONUC tried to get these MLC soldiers 'integrated' into the FARDC because they [MONUC] knew that Kabila would have them [MLC] killed," says an insider in Kinshasa. "In June, officers from MONUC wanted to transfer the Bemba MLC men in secret to Kabila. Bemba's men refused and took MONUC soldiers hostage and MONUC had to negotiate for their release. Now, Kabila's presidential militia have forced the door and arrested Bemba soldiers. MONUC seemed to pretend not to know what was happening. We know that between 80 and 103 people from MLC have been arrested by the Presidential Guard."
There have been massive arrests and illegal detentions of young men in Kinshasa and outlying areas in the past month. In the past week, Congolese newspapers reported that escaped prisoners had been shot. However, sources indicate that these "escapees" were killed in prison.
Such actions are routine for the Kinshasa security apparatus. Any time that Kabila suspects or discovers a coup, street children and young men are rounded up and detained - often involving intimidation and beatings - by the Presidential Guard.
Sources in Kinshasa also say that Kabila's forces rounded up scores and possibly hundreds of young civilian men in Maluku, a former Jean-Pierre Bemba MLC stronghold some 70 kilometers from Kinshasa. Kabila is worried that an insurgency against him will come from Maluku
Kabila has good reason to be alarmed. There have been at least four serious coup attempts against Kabila over the past two years; two of these occurred in 2009.

One recent unreported coup attempt occurred in Kinshasa on May 18, 2009, at 7:30 p.m. when Kabila was returning from Mbakana, reported to be the Kabila clan's privately fortified "farm" security compound, also some 70 kilometers from Kinshasa.

When the presidential procession set off down the Boulevard de 30 Juin, Kinshasa's central artery, on May 18, a sniper, lying in ambush, opened fire on the presidential Mercedes Jeep at the intersection of Wangata Avenue. Kabila had switched vehicles and was riding in a Nissan Patrol like those used by members of parliament. Following the attack, Kabila ordered the systematic destruction of all the public kiosks and pavilions along the Boulevard de 30 Juin and the indiscriminate round-up and arrest of young men in Kinshasa. The attack reportedly involved five commandos.

All media inside Congo were forbidden from reporting on the May coup attempt, reportedly on the personal orders of President Kabila. Several media outlets of the Congolese Diaspora reported the events. It is also true that "coups" and "attacks" in Kinshasa have been staged by the Kabila government and by opposition as devices to manipulate public opinion or justify retaliatory action.
 In Oct. 12, 2009, Col. Floribert Bofate Lihamba was arrested in Lubumbashi, Katanga Province, the heart of Congo's most lucrative Western mining operations, and transferred to a prison in Kinshasa. A top security agent in President Kabila's Presidential Guard Républicaine (GR), and a former member of the Special Presidential Security Group (GSSP) under President Laurent Kabila, Col. Lihamba is accused of planning a coup d'etat.

On Oct. 21, 2009, President Kabila survived the second most recent attempted coup d'etat, another recent pivotal event in Congo unreported by the Western press or Congolese media. Informed in advance of the impending attempt on his life, President Kabila had curtailed all public appearances and was reportedly again holed up with Angolan troops on his "farm" security compound outside Kinshasa.

According to Congolese intelligence sources, ex-Forces Armées Zaïroises (ex-FAZ) commandos crossed the Congo River seeking to assassinate Kabila. The commandos all reportedly originate from the Mobutu and Jean-Pierre Bemba strongholds around Gbadolite in northwestern Equateur.
The arrested officers include four majors (Yogo, Zwafunda, Mokwesa and Ngombo); five captains (Koli, Nzale, Gbaka, Kongawi and Salakoso); nine lieutenants (Libanza, Masisi, Gerembaya, Mbuyi, Ndongala, Ngani, Kpdobere, Nzanzu and Sido); and four sergeants (Kongo, Dondo, Lisala, and Lite).
"President Kabila is afraid of the ex-FAZ," says one Congolese source. "He is afraid of Ngbanda."

One of the former President Mobutu's closest advisers, Honoré Ngbanda - the "Terminator" - is also rumored to back the uprising in Dongo. Ngbanda held various positions under Mobutu, including minster of the interior, ambassador to Israel and head of the Mobutu's notorious SNIP, the National Intelligence and Protection Service (Service National d'Intelligence et de Protection).

Honoré Ngbanda's ties to other Mobutu era big men likely include the Bongo family (Gabon) and Jewish-American diamond kingpin Maurice Templesman (United States), whose De Beers-affiliated diamond interests were partially displaced when the Kabila regime partnered with Israeli businessmen Dan Gertler and Benny Steinmetz. Gertler and Steinmetz cemented their interests in Congo-Kinshasa through former U.S. President G.W. Bush and former U.S. State Department official Jendayi Frazer.

South Africa is home to several former high commanders from the former Mobutu regime of Zaire. Former Security Police Chief Gen. Kpama Baramoto, former Special Forces Commander Gen. Ngabale Nzimbi and former Zairean Defense Minister Admiral Mudima all now reside in South Africa and are clearly interested in overthrowing Joseph Kabila.
In past weeks, Kabila has attempted to replace Congolese intelligence agents with Rwandans drawn from the CNDP, the extremist Tutsi terrorist network out of Rwanda. This has stirred further anger amongst the Congolese members of the FARDC and the National Intelligence Agency (ANR), Congo-Kinshasa's secret service.
"The CNDP is a rebellion that Kagame used - and Kabila allowed - to infiltrate Rwandan soldiers into the Congolese [FARDC] army," reports an intelligence insider in Kinshasa. "These CNDP are described as Congolese Tutsis but they are Rwandans. The fact that Kabila tried to replace some members of secret services and [FARDC] army by people who came from CNDP [provoked] the anger of many in the Congolese army and intelligence services. Kabila will be captured or killed very soon. TRUST ME."

Resistance Patriots of Dongo

In March 2009 the Western press reported a "tribal dispute" and "ethnic clash over fishing rights" in the little Western Congo outback town of Dongo. The dispute reportedly began between two different ethnic groups. However, the newly announced "Resistance Patriots of Dongo" claim that President Kabila's agents manipulated the parties of the dispute and escalated armed hostilities.

In October 2009 President Kabila and John Numbi - one of his top military advisers - dispatched FARDC troops under the command of Gen. Benjamin Alongaboni to Dongo to negotiate peace with resistance forces. Gen. Alongaboni, a Congolese son hailing from Equateur Province and the first FARDC officer on the scene, secured a negotiated peace with Dongo area combatants.
Soon after, however, President Kabila sent RDF forces - in FARDC uniforms - who enraged Congolese in the region and provoked hostilities by killing some local people and destroying the possibilities of peace negotiations.
The Resistance Patriots of Dongo retaliated and FARDC under the command of Gen. Alongaboni began defecting.
Now President Kabila is uncertain who is with him and who is against him. All FARDC troops in the Democratic Republic of Congo are on full security alert, prevented from leaving the country or taking leaves of absence.
Gen. Benjamin Alongaboni and the few troops that did not defect to the resistance were moved to nearby Gemena military center where he is currently under surveillance by President Kabila's security and intelligence operatives. Gen. Alongaboni is an adjutant general to Kabila's trusted FARDC insider John Numbi, formerly the head of FARDC Air Forces and now inspector general of the Police National Congolaise (CNP).
Meanwhile, the "Dongo Crisis" has blossomed into a full-blown Congolese rebellion against international occupation forces and the powerful Kabila-Kagame clique. Over the past three weeks, civilians and former combatants have been flooding into the remote Dongo region to join a growing rebellion against the now hated military regime of President Joseph Kabila and his Western corporate business and military partners.

Hundreds of Congolese Armed Forces (FARDC) - of ethnic Congolese origin - have deserted and joined rebellion ranks with Congolese civilians and various military elements of past rebellions. The Resistance Patriots of Dongo is reportedly comprised of Congolese-FARDC deserters, former Forces Armées Zaïroises (ex-FAZ) and former MLC rebels.

Thousands of ex-FAZ and elite troops of Mobutu's former Special Presidential Division (DSP) fled Congo-Kinshasa to Congo-Brazzaville between 1996 and 1998 when the Pentagon-backed insurgency led by Rwanda and Uganda swept across the Congo (Zaire) and drove out Zaire's long-time strongman Joseph Desire Mobutu.
Sources in Kinshasa say that President Kabila seeks to frame and accuse Mobutu's former intelligence chief Honoré Ngbanda and ex-MLC leader Jean-Pierre Bemba, who is already under arrest for war crimes at the International Criminal Court, in a propaganda ruse to justify the international intervention in Equateur and legitimize Kabila hopes for strategic gain by claiming that the Dongo uprising is purely an MLC uprising. By convincing his white international patrons that the MLC is the problem, Kabila hopes to further purge his government and the country of MLC supporters.

In September 2009, armed assailants shot up the residences of DRC Minister of Foreign Affairs Alexis Tambwe Mwamba and another minister, Olivier Kamitatu, both ex-MLC supporters who have joined Kabila, in a drive-by shooting; other assassination attempts have also been reported.
Sources in Kinshasa say Kabila's security apparatus staged these assassination attempts to create further international sympathy for Kabila, to discredit the MLC and manipulate the ICC proceedings against Jean-Pierre Bemba. Officials in Kinshasa have been threatened in response to fears that Jean-Pierre Bemba will wiggle and bribe his way out of the ICC war crimes charges and return to Congo. Given the highly political nature of the already corrupted ICC, the fear is not unfounded.

President Kagame and President Yoweri Museveni have a long history of "pseudo-operations" and "false-flag operations" that blame and punish the victims after secret operations and atrocities that are actually committed by disguised RDF and UPDF (Uganda Peoples Defense Force) soldiers.
Joseph Kabila's goal might be to follow the example of his allies, Paul Kagame and the extremist Tutsis in Rwanda, by blaming all exactions, tortures, assassinations, massacres and organized plunder of Congo on the Dongo forces, who are today fighting against Western imperialism and its agents in Central Africa - in the person of Joseph Kabila. President Paul Kagame's success in this conspiracy is evident in the many awards he has received for his absolute terrorism in service to Western interests, with the coup de grâce being Rwanda's acceptance into the Commonwealth of Nations last week.

Congolese people everywhere were outraged by the Eastern Congo FARDC military operations with RDF and UPDF forces early in 2009, but Kabila and partners heaped one insult on top of another by airlifting RDF across Congo to the far Western Equateur to attempt to crush the Dongo resistance.


MONUC and AFRICOM supported the RDF airlift operations.

The Kabila government has reportedly agreed to base AFRICOM out of the remote east-central Congo River city of Kisangani, also the site of a secret U.S. military-intelligence "fusion cell" linking Uganda, Rwanda and Congo-Kinshasa in a tripartite cooperation agreement focused on minerals and mining. The details of the "base" are unknown, but Kisangani will likely be one of AFRICOM's many "lily-pad" bases.

AFRICOM Lurking in the Wings

AFRICOM currently has cooperative security location agreements, commonly known as "lily pad" operating agreements, with a dozen African nations stretching from Algeria on the Mediterranean to Zambia and Botswana in southern Africa. The U.S. 17th Air Force's contingency and crisis planning and response team had already visited four African nations through April 2009 to carry out airfield surveys, with plans to visit seven more nations by Sept. 30.
In January 2009, AFRICOM delivered four 200 hp Yamaha outboard engines to RDF marines in Gisenyi, Rwanda. The RDF maritime regiment was formed in 1995 - "in response to Rwanda's genocide," according to AFRICOM, "to control [Rwanda's] water border with the Democratic Republic of Congo and prevent the infiltration of genocidal forces from the Congo."


In May 2009, Brig. Gen. Mike Callan, vice commander of the new AFRICOM Air Forces AFRICA (U.S. 17th Air Force), met with RDF Chief James Kabarebe - an internationally indicted war criminal - and Rwandan Air Force commanders in Kigali for talks focused on turning tiny Rwanda into central and east Africa's leading "air hub" for both military and civilian air traffic.
Bound for the Dongo rebellion in mid-November, RDF crossed from Gisenyi, Rwanda, to Goma, DRC, and were then flown from Goma to Kamina Air Base in Katanga, a military transport hub used for the Belgo-American-U.N. mercenary occupations during the Katanga secession (1960-63) and "Congo Crises" (1964-67). The RDF battalion was next flown to Bandundu Province and from there they joined President Kabila at his "farm" security compound outside Kinshasa.

The RDF troops were reportedly next moved to the 42-acre campus of the U.S. Embassy-affiliated American School in Kinshasa (TASOK), near the notorious Camp Tshatshi military base, and then flown to Gemena airport in Equateur.
The Col. Tshatshi Military Camp in Kinshasa hosts the defense department and the Chiefs of Staff central command headquarters of the FARDC. The TASOK campus was used for RDF troops because they would not be welcome amongst Congolese-FARDC at Camp Tshatshi.

There were at least three round trips in some legs of the RDF flight plan reportedly using both MONUC and Hewa Bora Airlines, an airline 70 percent owned by Belgian arms trafficker Philippe de Moerloose. In the "leaked" November 2009 U.N. Panel of Experts Report on Illegal Exploitation in the Congo, Philippe De Moerloose and Hewa Bora Airlines were named for weapons shipments from Sudan to Congo in violation of the International Arms Embargo on the DRC.

De Moerloose supplies Kabila with presidential jets and other war toys.

"Nobody in the Congo was aware of this operation except Kabila and John Numbi," says one insider in Kinshasa. "Everyone was surprised to see Rwandan troops enter Kivu [Goma] from Rwanda. When the speaker of the Congolese parliament, Vital Kamhere, criticized the operation, President Kabila pushed for his resignation."
Former DRC Air Force Cmdr. John Numbi is reported to be Kabila's main link to Rwandan military officials Paul Kagame and the indicted war criminal James Kabarebe. John Numbi, currently the inspector general of the Congolese National Police, is a regular visitor to Kigali and described as "one of Congo's most dangerous men."
John Numbi reportedly orchestrated the joint military operations between RDF and FARDC that began in January 2009. The main overt military campaigns were "Umoja Wetu," a joint operation between FARDC and RDF, and the "Kimia I" and "Kimia II" operations, which were FARDC operations supported by MONUC.
"Just before the joint operation 'Umoja Wetu' [RDF Gen.] James Kabarebe met Joseph Kabila in Kinshasa, and they have spoken in secret," says one Congolese insider. "Nobody knows what they talked about. The real story is that Rwanda took the opportunity to secretly inject at least 4,000 and maybe as many as 10,000 Rwandan soldiers into the FARDC army."
Congolese FARDC troops deployed by Kabila to the Dongo area refused to fight and instead defected to the rebel cause rather than kill their Congolese brothers and sisters for the private enrichment of foreigners and the pro-Rwanda alliance of Kabila and Kagame. Thus President Kabila has been forced to deploy to Dongo only those FARDC units comprised exclusively of "ex"-CNDP Tutsi units loyal to Rwanda.

By mid-November 2009, international humanitarian agencies began reporting thousands of refugees flooding across the Congo River to Congo-Brazzaville, with 54,000 now in Congo-Brazzaville and 38,000 IDPs (internally displaced persons) in Congo by Dec. 1, according to the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR).
The Resistance Patriots of Dongo are claiming to have inflicted high casualties on the RDF-MONUC-FARDC forces dispatched to Dongo and surrounding areas. Several towns have been taken, lost and retaken in pitched battles against RDF-MONUC-FARDC force

While the conflict in Equateur slowly escalated from March to October and deteriorated quickly after that, MONUC's press and information corps have been mute about the rebellion.
All official channels deny the presence of RDF troops, or that RDF troops fought in Equateur. Several very small media outlets are also reporting the RDF presence, their sources appearing to be connected with the Resistance Patriots of Dongo movement.

MONUC issued one tiny press report on Nov. 26, after resistance forces shot up a MONUC helicopter that flew to Dongo to resupply the RDF-MONUC-FARDC ground troops. Five of the 25 to 30 personnel on board were injured, and the pilot took off and flew the chopper to Congo-Brazzaville. None of the personnel aboard the MONUC chopper - or their nationalities - was identified.

A short Western media propaganda blurb circulated by Agence France-Presse attempted to discredit the rebellion and cover for MONUC's involvement in open military aggression against Congolese people. Titled "Armed group claims firing at UN chopper in DRC," the AFP blurb also confirmed the Resistance Patriots of Dongos' strike against a MONUC helicopter.
"In their confused statement," AFP wrote, Nov. 26, 2009, "the Patriots-Resistance [of Dongo] alleged that Rwandan occupation forces were in the region and they denounced the 'complicity' of MONUC 'with the Mafia-like imperialists.'"
"Dongo was attacked on October 29 and 30 by a group from the Lobala community (also known as the Enyele), which targeted the Bamboma (or Boba) community," the AFP reported. "Both sides have frequently disputed the fishing resources of the region. The violence, which has since spread to other villages, left at least 100 dead, mainly in Dongo, who were either hacked with machetes or shot, while a number drowned trying to cross the Oubangi river, which marks the border with the Congo Republic [Brazzaville]."

The AFP not only decontextualized the conflict, describing it as purely tribal, they also framed it as ruthless savage Africans killing with machetes. The MONUC chopper apparently was attacked on Nov. 26. There was no mention of the major battles that occurred between foreign forces on Nov. 22-24 or Nov. 26-28.

On Dec. 3, 2009, the Dongo resistance forces intercepted a tugboat pulling two big barges carrying 2,500 tons of arms and ammunition destined for Dongo RDF-MONUC-FARDC forces. The commander of the FARDC operations involved in moving the weapons, Col. Nyav, was killed during the clashes; Nyav had previously been commanding RDF-MONUC-FARDC troops at Dongo. The ethnic Congolese FARDC under Col. Nyav's command jubilantly defected to the resistance after seizing the boat and weapons.

Also on Dec. 3, the strategic Congolese airport town of Libenge fell into the hands of the Resistance Patriots of Dongo. The resistance forces now control the towns of Dongo, Libenge, all the territory located along Oubangi River, the localities of Bomongo, Kutu, Kungu, Saba-Saba, Buburu and the Catholic mission of Bokonzi.
The Resistance Patriots of Dongo next plan to take Mbandaka, the major administrative city on the Congo River - and the end of the line for thousands of Hutu refugee women and children executed in cold blood by the RPF/A and the AFDL on the banks of the Congo River there in 1997.

"We take the engagement before God and before all the Congolese to topple the puppet regime currently in place in Kinshasa," the Nov. 26 resistance statement added, according to the AFP.

Dongo War Not Connected to Eastern Congo?

"The helicopter was delivering supplies to peacekeepers recently deployed to the town of Dongo," reported Reuters, basing their "news" report on MONUC Public Information Officer Madnodje Mounoubai. Reuters reported "around 20 Ghanaian peacekeepers" deployed by MONUC in Dongo.
"The fighting is not related to the simmering conflict in the mineral-rich eastern borderlands," Reuters wrote, "where the army - backed by thousands of peacekeepers - are attempting to stamp out local, Rwandan, and Ugandan rebels."
On Dec. 3, 2009, Belgian newspapers La Libre Belgique and RTLM reported that Belgium's Foreign Minister Steven Vanackere and Defense Minister Pieter De Crem had responded to the communiqué of the Resistance Patriots of Dongo, circulated on the Internet on Dec. 1, which warned Belgium and Kinshasa that the resistance knew of the secret plan to dispatch paratroopers to Kisangani. The two Belgian ministries issued a joint communiqué denying the operation "with the biggest firmness."

According to Kinshasa sources, the MONUC-uniformed Belgians would be flown from Kisangani, Orientale Province, to Equateur Province's northwestern frontier city of Gbadolite, the stronghold of former President Mobutu and the Bemba family, Jean-Pierre and father Saolona (1942-2009), and then to Gemena airport near Dongo.
Soon after the Resistance Patriots of Dongo forces occupied the frontier city of Libenge, President Kabila dispatched 600 elite FARDC commandos trained by 60 Belgian Armed Forces instructors in Kindu Province. As of Dec. 5, Libenge remained under siege, with civilians fleeing to escape the massive battle.

Sources in Kinshasa on Dec. 5 reported "massive violent fighting in Libenge and Gemena areas," involving 1,000 Congolese National Police (PNC) and 100 Ghanaian MONUC troops and two MONUC helicopter gunships. MONUC sources in Kisangani indicate that two additional MONUC helicopter gunships are "standing by" for possible immediate deployment to Equateur.
The MONUC "peacekeeping" in Congo is a $1 billion a year operation involving Lockheed Martin Corporation subsidiary Pacific Architects and Engineers and other big military connected companies.

The recently "leaked" United Nations Group of Experts Report provides evidence of direct PNC involvement in contraband activities involving Rwandan Defense Forces in Eastern Congo. The U.N. experts investigated the frequent and suspicious undocumented flights of a white Mi-8 helicopter leased on Jan. 27, 2009, to the Congolese National Police through John Numbi, the head of the PNC. Numbi managed the joint RDF-MONUC-FARDC military operations ("Umoja Wetu") in Eastern DRC begun in January 2009, along with Maj. Gen. James Kaberebe, the army chief of Rwanda.

On December 14, 2009, the Spanish Press Agency SAPA and Agence France-Presse reported that DRC government troops fighting against 'tribal forces' had taken back the town of Dongo. Now the conflict was not only tribal however, it was anti-Christian, with the tribal forces being "led by the animist priest Udjani."

The refugee count by December 14 had risen to more than 115,000 Congolese villagers left homeless and forced to flee. Reports from Kinshasa indicated that 'white' mercenary forces were fighting alongside of FARDC and MONUC troops with helicopter gun-ships; the mercenaries were reportedly Algerian. While reports filtering out of the bush indicated very high civilian casualties, the United Nations was reporting nothing .
The Sapa-AFP article continued to maintain the ongoing silence about high casualties, falsely reporting "the violence has claimed about 100 lives, mostly around Dongo where the clashes began." However, western press reports of 100 dead have not changed for over a month.
The AFP and United Nations continued to hide the involvement of foreign RDC troops from Rwanda, and mercenaries from North Africa, and they did not discriminate between loyalist Congolese troops (Congolese FARDC) who defected and fought for the resistance and Rwandan CNDP-FARDC loyal to Congo President Kabila and Rwanda dictator Paul Kagame.
The international news media was completely silent after government forces that had reentered Dongo by December 14 suffered a crushing defeat when resistance forces that had 'withdrawn' from Dongo sprang a trap. According to regional sources in Congo, troops aligned with the Kabila government in Kinshasa--MONUC, RDF, CNDP, Rwandan-FARDC and/or North African mercenaries--were massacred by the scores.
On December 16, 2009, the MONUC spokesman in Kinshasa DRC announced that "the first MONUC military troops were deployed in Dongo in Equateur province" along with a temporary operational base. There was no mention of MONUC forces previously involved in combat operations in Dongo. MONUC claimed they took the decision "to sustain the joint PNC/FARDC operations aimed at re-establishing order [sic] and state authority [sic] in Dongo, Imesse and their surroundings."

MONUC transferred some 500 regular MONUC Ghanaian, Tunisian and Egyptian "peacekeepers" to Equateur province from the eastern Congo's conflict areas in Orientale and the Kivus, along with Armored Personnel Carriers, weapons, and transport and combat helicopters. MONUC also deployed Guatemalan Special Forces to the Equateur region.

Continuing to downplay the violence and hide the context of the rebellion, the MONUC Public Information Office briefing mentioned only in passing that 15 wounded MONUC soldiers were also being transferred from the front. However, MONUC was silent about high casualties (massacres) of government FARDC-MONUC-RDF aligned troops over the previous days.
MONUC's deployment of 'peacekeeping' forces in open combat operations are in direct violation of its 'peacekeeping' charter and in violation of the spirit and intent of the United Nations.
"MONUC is sending more troops because they know the truth about the real situation in Dongo," reports one Congolese intelligence source. "The resistance is gainging more space. At this time, they are fighting near Mbandaka. And they know if Mbandaka falls it will be the beginning of the end of Kabila.

"Rwandan Defense Forces are killing civilians," he adds, "and MONUC doesn't say anything. It's just unbelievable."
On December 22, New York's Bloomberg News reported with a news brief deepening the racist mythology portraying this as African savagery and superstition.
"The Enyele leader is a mystic named Udjani," wrote Michael J. Kavanagh, reporting for Bloomberg from Kinshasa (DRC) and Impfondo (Republic of Congo), referring to the Enyele tribe, "who claims to have a magical sword that can poison people and pass its powers to the curved machetes wielded by many of his followers, witnesses said."
"His magic is at the highest level..." Kavanagh continued, quoting a rapid intervention policeman he interviewed. "He jammed our guns so we couldn't shoot."

Bloomberg also portrayed the resistance forces as cold-blooded murderers. "Udjani's supporters patrol the Ubangi river shooting at barges filled with people trying to escape, refugees said."
Again underscoring that the new western Congo rebellion is "unconnected" with eastern DRC warfare, Bloomberg also reported as many as 168,000 civilians displaced by the conflict.
Information from Kinshasa on December 23 indicated that the Kabila government has issued orders that no news agencies be allowed to report what is happening in Dongo, and all Congolese newspapers have been silenced.
Morale amongst government forces is very low. Hospitals in Gemena are full of wounded soldiers and civilians. It is reported that possibly one full battalion of Police Nationale Congolaise has been wiped out by resistance forces.
Reports from Kinshasa on December 31 indicate that Rwanda's Paul Kagame is unhappy with President Joseph Kabila because (at least) hundreds of Rwandan RDF troops were killed in the Equateur region. Spotty reports indicate that more than 300 noncombattant civilians have been killed.
 Eastern Europeans or South Africans have reportedly joined the North African mercenaries fighting for the Kabila-MONUC-Kagame-AFRICOM alliance. As violent fighting has spread south, closer to the regional capital city of Mbandaka, many of the "white" mercenary forces have also been killed.
On December 31, sources from Kinshasa and Belgium began reporting that Belgian Minister of Defense Pieter De Crem has confirmed that a Belgian Air Force A330 airbus was dispatched to Kinshasa purportedly to transport some Congolese FARDC officers to Belgium.
While unconfirmed, it is believed that this cover story masked secret operations transporting the Belgian paratroopers to Congo as agreed during strategic talks between Congolese and Belgian defense officials in November. Sources are saying that Belgian paratroopers have definitely arrived in the heartland city of Kisangani, capital of Orientale province and site of an AFRICOM base now being installed.

Now the Resistance Patriots of Dongo have renamed their movement the Resistance Patriots of Congo (Patriotes-Résistants de Congo).
Belgium and Congo signed a new "economic cooperation" agreement in December 2009, worth some 280 million euros ($US 404.26 million).
MONUC operations in Equateur are briefly shown in a December 23, 2009 Maxxim News Network video (posted on YouTube) titled "DR Congo Military Arrives in Dongo." The MONUC officer leading an operations briefing at the MONUC base in Gemena described the situation as "a very worrying development. As I speak..."
 Deputy Force Commander Major General Adrian Foster, a British general and MONUC's second-in-command, toured Dongo in late December. In MONUC public relations information dated December 23, MONUC was claiming that the town of Dongo was "secured" by MONUC troops.
Also in December 2009, a group of Congolese chiefs sent an open letter to U.S. President Barrack Obama proclaiming a "categorical refusal of your AFRICOM Project in the Congo."

"We, traditional Chiefs and the rightful landowners of the Democratic Republic of the Congo," the letter opens, "are sending you, through this letter, our stirring message to denounce and condemn at a global level , with all our energy, the machinations and relentless multitude of hardly veiled crimes by the previous American administrations, at least since 1994, in the process of exterminating the population of the Congo."
"We prohibit," the letter finishes, "with firmness, and we repeat it three times, to install your project of mass destruction abominably called AFRICOM on the territory of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and anywhere in Africa. This decision is nonnegotiable and eternally irreversible."

Reports from Kinshasa on January 4, 2010, indicate that the superior force of the RDF-MONUC-CNDP-FARDC-AFRICOM-mercenary alliance has taken its toll on the rebellion forces, which are dispersed and besieged.
Sources working for MONUC in Kisangani confirm that there are "not more than" 25 Belgian troops in Kisangani at present, with "one or two" Herculese C-130 Belgian military aircraft. An AFRICOM base is rapidly being created in Kisangani.

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© Keith Harmon Snow