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Viewing cable 06KINSHASA360, SECURITY SECTOR REFORM: GOING NOWHERE, SLOWLY

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06KINSHASA360 2006-03-03 13:03 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.

031303Z Mar 06
UNCLAS SECTION 01 OF 02 KINSHASA 000360 
 
SIPDIS 
 
SENSITIVE 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: PREL PGOV KDEM KPKO CG
SUBJECT: SECURITY SECTOR REFORM: GOING NOWHERE, SLOWLY 
 
REF: A. 05 KINSHASA 01776 
 
     B. 05 KIN 01447 
 
1. (SBU) Summary.  The Security Sector Reform Joint 
Commission met on March 1 to address a heavy agenda, 
including the police census and the military disarmament and 
integration process. Despite the repeated concerns from the 
international community and the usual excuses from the GDRC, 
business remains very much as usual, with little progress 
made and even less in sight.  End summary. 
 
Police Census Plagued by Phantoms 
--------------------------------- 
 
2. (SBU) SRSG Swing began the discussion by terming the 
police census as "pretty much a disaster."  In a process 
characterized by delays and inaccuracies, the Ministry of the 
Interior (MoI) has no idea of how many police officers it 
actually has, and reports 114,000 "declared" officers in a 
force which should probably number around 70,000.  The 
discrepancy includes around 5,000 ghost workers in the 
Kinshasa area, while about 33 percent of the total number 
declared in North Kivu are believed to be ghost employees. 
There is significant incentive to falsify the books at almost 
every level, given that the average officer in the Kinshasa 
area (one of the most expensive regions in the DRC) earned 
5,000 Congolese francs -- about US$11.36 -- for the month of 
February.  International Chiefs of Mission emphasized the 
need for an accurate census and credible identity documents 
as the basis for building a professional police force. 
 
Military Integration / Demobilization Centers -- 
Desperate to Get In, Dying to Get Out 
--------------------------------------------- --- 
 
3. (SBU) The situation regarding the military integration and 
integrated centers received  pointed criticism as well.  SRSG 
Swing commended the GDRC for moving forward with integration, 
but also stated flatly that more needed to be done as the 
current situation -- with delays, confusion, and lack of 
support -- is untenable. Although the second wave of brassage 
is well underway, the lack of coordination means that too 
many soldiers arrive at centers where there is little or no 
support.  Minister of Defense Onusumba noted that he gets no 
support from his colleagues at the Ministries of Budget and 
Finance, and stated that obtaining disbursements for 
supplies, salaries, and even food is extremely difficult. 
 
4.  (SBU) The discussion then segued into the actual 
conditions at the various centers, for instance at Kamina, 
where six participants recently died while waiting to be 
demobilized.  Although the Military Intelligence Service 
opined that the deaths at Kamina were due to the advanced age 
of the demobilized "soldiers" rather than to lack of food, 
this only highlighted the absurd fact that many elderly 
"soldiers" were being first routed to the integration centers 
before being sent to demobilization centers.  Of 5,000 
combattants recently sent to the joint 
integration/demobilization center in Kamina, 1,000 were 
reportedly over 60 years old, some over 70.  The numbers for 
the demobilization of ex-combattants through CONADER also 
remain unacceptably low.  For instance, for the entire month 
of February, CONADER processed only 3,500 through its COs 
(orientation centers). 
 
Arms Control Going Nowhere 
-------------------------- 
 
5.  (SBU) Despite general agreement that the GDRC and its 
partners are not effectively controlling weapons, limiting 
weapons or verifying a decrease in weapons in the region, no 
real progress seems imminent.  There seems to be a widespread 
belief -- echoed by reports from civilians throughout the 
most heavily affected regions -- that combattants turn in a 
few token weapons for the financial incentive, but continue 
to hold onto significant weapon stocks as a hedge against 
uneasy political alliances and an uncertain future. 
 
And Who Pays the Bill? 
---------------------- 
 
6.  (SBU) Several other items regarding CONADER payments were 
discussed, including inflated fees charged to CONADER by the 
airport authority for WFP planes flying in support of the 
disarmament program, in addition to CONADER's responsibility 
for payment of the FARDC per diems for officials engaged in 
arms control and verification programs.  As with other items 
raised, no particular consensus was reached, although VP 
Ruberwa promised to investigate and follow up.  Suggestions 
that "as the amounts were small, why didn't CONADER just pay 
them?" gained no support from the donor community as a whole. 
 
 
Comment 
------- 
 
7.  (SBU) This lengthy meeting raised many relevant issues 
but settled none.  Wheels are spinning, everybody agrees that 
something must be done -- and time moves on.  Almost every 
agenda item was closed with VP Ruberwa stating that he would 
raise the question with the Conseil Superieur de la Defense. 
Despite general consensus that the security sector remains in 
a morass and that more needs to be done to clean it up, 
nobody seems willing or able to take the responsibility to do 
so.  The GDRC complains, rightly, that it has limited means 
to finance the massive undertaking required to disarm the 
socially and militarily fragmented region.  The international 
community responds, also rightly, that the GDRC bears the 
responsibility for implementing these actions, and resists 
attempts to pad the donor's portion of the bill in the 
interim.  End comment. 
 
 
DOUGHERTY