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Viewing cable 06KINSHASA240, CIAT COMMUNIQUE SUPPORTS MEDIA AUTHORITY

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06KINSHASA240 2006-02-13 16:58 2011-08-25 00:00 UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY Embassy Kinshasa
This record is a partial extract of the original cable. The full text of the original cable is not available.
UNCLAS SECTION 01 OF 02 KINSHASA 000240 
 
SIPDIS 
 
SENSITIVE 
 
E.O.12958: N/A 
TAGS: PHUM CG KDEM KPAO CIAT
SUBJECT: CIAT COMMUNIQUE SUPPORTS MEDIA AUTHORITY 
 
REF: Kinshasa 0222 
 
Sensitive But Unclassified.  Not for Internet 
distribution. 
 
1. (U) Summary: State-owned television and radio (RTNC) 
devoted more than four hours to the PPRD party on 
February 6, when the PPRD nominated Joseph Kabila to be 
its presidential candidate.  The following day, the 
High Media Authority (HAM) suspended for 48 hours 
political reporting on RTNC for violating fair access 
guidelines.  The CIAT supported the HAM decision in a 
communique on February 9.  The fact that the RTNC 
unblinkingly broadcast provocative language used by 
Vice President Yerodia at the PPRD convention 
heightened concern about its violation. End Summary 
 
The CIAT Communique 
------------------- 
 
2. (U) The International Committee to Accompany the 
Transition (CIAT) invited the President of the High 
Media Authority (HAM), Modeste Mutinga, and members of 
the HAM Bureau on February 9 to discuss the HAM's 
decision of February 7 to suspend all political 
reporting by the national television and radio station, 
RTNC, for 48 hours. The RTNC -- which had provided 
unedited, wall-to-wall coverage of President Joseph 
Kabila's nomination convention on February 6 -- was 
accused by the HAM of violating the principle of fair 
access to the airwaves by political parties. 
 
3. (U) In a communique dated February 9, the CIAT 
supported the HAM's decision and, following the 
discussion with the HAM, said it would favor a 
reinforcement of the HAM's capabilities to regulate and 
sanction the media.  In addition to calling upon the 
HAM and state-owned media to respect established 
guidelines governing access to the media for election 
purposes, the CIAT also shared the HAM's stated concern 
about the use of the media to propagate provocative 
language.  Finally, the CIAT called upon the Ministry 
of Press and Information to support the HAM. 
 
The RTNC's Violation 
-------------------- 
 
4. (U) The HAM was obliged to take action against the 
state-owned television and radio station when the RTNC 
broadcast live, and for more than four hours, the 
nominating convention on Feburary 6 of the PPRD, which 
picked incumbent president Joseph Kabila to be its 
candidate in the coming presidential election (reftel). 
This broadcast far exceeded the limits of 90 seconds 
during news broadcasts and five minutes for in-depth 
reporting, which can be devoted to political parties at 
any one time. 
 
5. (U) Perhaps worse than the time lavished on the PPRD 
was the fact that the RTNC did not edit out provocative 
language used by Vice President Abdoulaye Yerodia 
Ndombasi during his speech at the convention.  Using 
local Lingala slang, Yerodia called Kabila's strongest 
opponent, Etienne Tshisekedi, a sorcerer and an 
ayatollah, and punned disparagingly on political 
opponent Pierre Pay Pay's name, which means pawpaw. 
 
The RTNC's Defense 
------------------ 
 
6. (U) In its defense, the RTNC's managing director 
Kipolongo Mukambilwa said that the RTNC was paid a 
total of USD 4500 by the PPRD.  While it is a state- 
owned and operated media outlet, he acknowledged, the 
RTNC also has an obligation to try to be commercially 
profitable.  When asked about the controversy, the 
Minister of Press and Information, Henri Mova Sakanyi, 
favorably likened the RTNC coverage of the PPRD 
convention to its non-stop coverage of the recent 
Africa soccer championship. 
 
7. (U) To charges that the HAM sanction of a 48-hour 
suspension of political reporting by the RTNC (which 
was reportedly followed in spirit, if not to the 
letter) was insufficient, HAM vice president Primo 
Mukambilowa said the public should not be deprived 
longer of the public service that state-owned RTNC 
ordinarily provides.  With its uniquely broad national 
coverage, the RTNC serves as the primary source of 
Congo news for many Congolese. 
 
Involving the Supreme Court 
--------------------------- 
 
8. (U) The spokesman of Tshisekedi's USPS party, Jean- 
Baptiste Bomanza, immediately and publicly replied to 
Yerodia's insulting remarks by saying Yerodia should be 
committed to an insane asylum.  As a result of this 
exchange, the HAM, in its February 7 decision against 
the RTNC, referred both Yerodia and Bomanza to the 
Supreme Court for a decision about whether they should 
both be banned from access to the airwaves, and said it 
would ban them anyway, if they crossed the line again. 
9.  (SBU) Comment: The HAM is a legally-mandated 
referee of balanced and peaceful political access to 
the airwaves before elections. Its job is a delicate, 
if not impossible, one, and the vote of support by the 
CIAT is welcome and timely.  Hate-mongering broadcasts 
have a tragic history in the Great Lakes region.  It is 
particularly disturbing that Vice President Yerodia 
finds himself in the middle of this RTNC controversy, 
since in 1998 he used the media to call Rwandans and 
Tutsis "cockroaches," a very ill-advised word in this 
context.  It is unlikely, however, that the Supreme 
Court will find his somewhat less provocative choice of 
language this time sufficient grounds for banning his 
access to radio and television.  Despite expressions of 
support, the HAM will have its hands full to avoid a 
campaign free-for-all, given the very poor example set 
by the DRC's own national television and radio station. 
 
MEECE