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Viewing cable 06KINSHASA1231, DRC ELECTIONS: RUBERWA ALLEGES VOTE "MARRED BY

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06KINSHASA1231 2006-08-03 16:33 2011-08-25 00:00 UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY Embassy Kinshasa
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ZNR UUUUU ZZH
P 031633Z AUG 06
FM AMEMBASSY KINSHASA
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 4525
INFO RUEHXR/RWANDA COLLECTIVE
RUCNSAD/SOUTHERN AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT COMMUNITY
RUEAIIA/CIA WASHDC
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RHMFISS/HQ USEUCOM VAIHINGEN GE
RUFOADA/JAC MOLESWORTH RAF MOLESWORTH UK
UNCLAS SECTION 01 OF 03 KINSHASA 001231 
 
SIPDIS 
 
SENSITIVE 
SIPDIS 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: PGOV KDEM KPKO CG ELECTIONS
SUBJECT: DRC ELECTIONS: RUBERWA ALLEGES VOTE "MARRED BY 
IRREGULARITIES" 
 
 
1. (U) Vice President Azarias Ruberwa and his party, the 
Rally for Congolese Democracy (RCD), alleged the DRC's July 
30 presidential and legislative elections were "marred by 
irregularities." In a six-page statement released July 31 by 
the RCD's secretary general, the party lays out a series of 
allegations concerning misconduct, intimidation, bribery, and 
violence it says threaten the country's political and social 
stability. The RCD has promised that if efforts at 
undermining the DRC's election laws are not addressed and 
sanctioned, the party will be forced to initiate legal 
proceedings challenging election results. In a July 31 press 
conference, Ruberwa alleged that "massive fraud" was 
conducted by election workers and other political parties to 
prevent citizens from voting for RCD (and presumably other) 
candidates. Ruberwa pledged to keep his protests of the 
elections peaceful. 
 
2. (SBU) Many of the cases noted in the RCD statement are, 
however, vague, misleading or simply irrelevant. For example, 
the party mentions the fact that several voting sites and 
some election material were destroyed before the vote. While 
true, the Independent Electoral Commission (CEI) responded 
quickly to these incidents and immediately dispatched 
replacement equipment to the affected areas on election day. 
In Eastern and Western Kasai provinces where opposition 
supporters engaged in violence, voting operations were 
continued for another day so as to allow all voters the 
opportunity to cast ballots. As for the "disappearance" of 
voters' names from electoral rolls, this may simply be a case 
of voters arriving at the wrong polling station or of names 
missing due to prior technical errors (which would have 
resulted in names being printed on separate voter lists). 
Regarding allegations that more ballots may have been cast at 
a particular polling station than there were registered 
voters, it is altogether likely poll workers, Congolese 
election observers, journalists or traveling government 
officials may have voted legally at that location. On the 
whole, many of the charges put forth in the RCD's statement 
lacks proof. 
 
3. (SBU) Certainly some irregularities did occur during the 
July 30 vote which merit further investigation. CEI President 
Abbe Apollinaire Malu Malu has said the CEI will take 
seriously and look into any charges of misconduct or fraud 
that are brought to the Commission's attention through 
channels as stipulated by the electoral law. (Note: In an 
August 2 meeting with the Ambassador and Congressman Donald 
Payne, to be reported septel, Ruberwa said he intended to 
forward a dossier of alleged voting irregularities to the CEI 
for adjudication. End note.) 
 
4. (U) Post's unofficial translation of the original French 
declaration follows: 
 
PRESIDENTIAL AND LEGISLATIVE ELECTIONS IN THE DEMOCRATIC 
REPUBLIC OF CONGO 
 
SERIOUS IRREGULARITIES NOTED THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY MAR THE 
RESULTS 
 
According to the reports of witnesses from the majority of 
political parties, and confirmed by several independent 
sources (press, religious groups, voters, etc.), the 
presidential and legislative elections of Sunday, July 30, 
were marred by all forms of irregularities. 
 
The irregularities occurred in such significant amounts that 
they skew the results of the voting throughout the country. 
As such, they strongly discredit the results. If these 
irregularities are not corrected in short order, they 
threaten the very political and social stability of the 
country. The RCD signals all involved, at national and 
international levels, of the seriousness of the situation 
which calls into question the legitimacy of the leaders and 
institutions of the Third Republic. 
 
In order to avoid yet another political and institutional 
crisis in our country, and in order to keep the process of 
democratization on track, the RCD invites all actors and 
institutions involved in the process to consider the more 
important interests of the nation by taking these problems 
into consideration. 
 
If, before the declaration of results by the CEI, these 
attacks on the electoral law are not punished, the RCD 
 
KINSHASA 00001231  002 OF 003 
 
 
reserves the right to bring forward any litigation before the 
courts. In these conditions, our party would then be forced 
to challenge election results. As will be made clear by the 
following examples, cases of electoral irregularities under 
examination are clear at every level. 
 
The list of irregularities in this report cannot pretend to 
be exhaustive as the amount of transgressions was too great. 
Our goal is only to highlight the most flagrant examples. 
 
1. STUFFED BALLOT BOXES BEFORE THE OPENING OF VOTING STATIONS 
Several stations had stuffed ballot boxes. At the opening of 
voting stations, several witnesses noted that ballot boxes 
already contained ballots for certain candidates. There is 
also the case in Limete, in the Kingabwa neighborhood, where 
a Mr. Gerard Mulumba (aka Gecoco of the PPRD) came to the 
Wayawaya voting center in possession of a hundred voter cards 
for which he claimed proxy voting rights. He was accompanied 
by three persons in a jeep of the National Police (license 
plate number 0021). Also in Kinshasa, in Lemba (at the 
Mokengeli voting center) another series of proxy votes was 
witnessed. In North Kivu, in the Muhambwe region, Mamade 
Safi, of the PPRD, was caught emptying ballot boxes in order 
to refill them with ones sympathetic to her party. 
 
2. SEVERAL CEI WORKERS CAUGHT AIDING CERTAIN CANDIDATES 
In the commune of Matete (Debonhomme neighborhood), in 
Kinshasa, a CEI worker voted for a female voter thereby 
violating the neutrality principle. Such cases were repeated 
on a massive scale, particularly in the case of illiterate 
voters who were directed to vote for Kabila even though that 
was not their choice. In Kamituga, more precisely at the 
Tangila and Kalimbi voting centers, CEI workers 
systematically pushed older voters to vote for Kabila. The 
same goes for the Kalehe region in South Kivu. Messrs. 
Kinyenzire, Kinyanya and Ndabagoyi, all of the CEI, excluded 
RCD and other political party witnesses in order to push the 
vote in the direction of Kabila. In Mbuji Mayi, after the 
closure of the centers, the technical adviser to Governor 
Kanku of the MLC was caught red-handed as he was being 
assisted by CEI agents in filling out ballots in favor of his 
candidate, JP Bemba. 
 
In Isiro, CEI workers, after the departure of the witnesses, 
selected all ballots marked No. 32 Ruberwa in order to mark 
them a second time for other candidates in order to justify 
their declaration of these ballots as invalid. 
 
3. INTERHAMWE USED TO ORCHESTRATE A VOTE FOR CANDIDATE NUMBER 
7 
In the regions of Miti, Kalonge, Kahungu, Mbayo, Cebati, 
Mazeba, Mabengu (South Kivu), under the complicit watch of 
CEI workers, Interhamwe threatened to cut the ears off each 
person not voting for PPRD candidates. The centers in 
Nyalubemba, Kigulube, Luyuyu, and Nzevu were also targeted. 
They particularly insisted that voters vote for Kabila. 
Elsewhere, it was reported that 23 centers were also 
assaulted by Interhamwe demanding all voters present to 
choose Kabila. 
 
4. DESTRUCTION OF VOTING CENTERS 
About 50 centers were burned in Mweka (Western Kasai) by a 
population disgusted with the behavior of Mr. Boshab of the 
PPRD (former chief of cabinet for President Kabila), which 
included the exclusion of other political party witnesses. In 
Mwene Ditu (Eastern Kasai), the voting center at the Primary 
School Maweja-Mushindame was burned. In Mbuji Mayi (Eastern 
Kasai), 184 electoral kits containing diverse voting 
materials (ballots, lists, etc.) were destroyed. 
 
5. DUPLICATION OF VOTER CARD NUMBERS 
In many instances, double voting took place across the 
country. Thousands of people found out upon arriving at the 
centers that their ballots had already been marked. Among the 
more flagrant examples, the press revealed the case of Mr. 
Urumbu from the Saint Paul center. In Katanga, in certain 
centers, the number of voters was higher than those actually 
registered at the center. The same was the case in Kalemie, 
capital of the Tanganyika District. In fact, in the Bakita 
center at the location of polling station number 8322, the 
number of persons enrolled was 1,254, while the number that 
was registered reached 2,499, revealing an excess of 1,245. 
The surplus was made up of soldiers' wives en route to Uvira 
and coming from the Kamina brassage center. These women voted 
after the closure of the center at 3pm; they were accompanied 
 
KINSHASA 00001231  003 OF 003 
 
 
by the commissioner of Tanganyika District, Mr. Tshimanga 
Rigobert of the PPRD. 
 
6. VOTER BRIBING 
Several cases of clear corruption were exposed. The PPRD 
distributed banknotes in the areas of Siwabanza at N'djili in 
order to push the vote in favor of its candidate (Joseph 
Kabila). The administrator of the Liberty Market in Masina, 
also from the PPRD, voted in the place of a group of 
saleswomen. In Kalemie, Katanga province, in front of voting 
centers, voters received cash from PPRD members. Many cases 
were also cited against the MLC. For example, Mr. Adam 
Bombole handed out a lot of cash to voters in front of 
centers in order to influence their votes. 
 
7. UNJUSTIFIED DISAPPEARANCES OF VOTERS' NAMES 
Thousands of registered voters did not find their names on 
the electoral lists. In Kadutu, in the town of Bukavu (South 
Kivu), in Bunia (Orientale province), in Goma (North Kivu), 
thousands of voters could not vote for the simple fact that 
their names had disappeared from the list. In Bunia, for 
example, with a total of 4,000 voters, 2,000 voters were not 
found on the lists. In Kinshasa, this situation, which was 
common in the communes, was the very basis for the 
denouncements of fraud by the press. In the Kingabwa 
neighborhood, in Limete, the CEI was obliged to move certain 
centers to avoid popular discontent. 
 
8. WITNESSES BLOCKED FROM THEIR DUTIES 
In Kabinda (Eastern Kasai), RCD witnesses and several other 
parties were blocked from center 14. As such, they refused to 
sign the minutes of the proceedings, and a fiasco ensued. 
Witnesses from the RCD reported several hundred cases of 
being hindered from completing their duties. The worst case 
was without a doubt the incident where Madame Amina was the 
victim. As an RCD witness, while she was distributing 
flashlights to her fellow party members, she was arrested and 
beaten by the police on the orders of a major in the national 
forces. Badly wounded, she was immediately sent to the 
hospital. In the majority of cases, witnesses were forced to 
leave before the end of the operations or their work was 
hindered, while others were excluded for not having stayed 
throughout the entire process. 
 
9. MANIPULATION AND FALSIFICATION OF COUNTS TO THE DETRIMENT 
OF CERTAIN CANDIDATES 
Some of the tallies in favor of other candidates than those 
of the PPRD were altered or recalculated by the heads of 
centers after the departure of witnesses, causing a grand 
disparity in the results. This was the case in the center of 
Bikanga Institute near Nsola in station number 1263B 
(Kisenso) where candidate 32 (Ruberwa) had accrued a total of 
nine votes at the signing of the minutes, yet at the time of 
the publication of the results, this number had been reduced 
to two. This kind of cheating was made much easier by the 
simple fact that many initial results were noted in pencil at 
first. 
 
Signed in Kinshasa, July 31, 2006 
Hubert Kabasubababo Katulondi 
Secretary General of the RCD 
 
SIPDIS 
 
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