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Viewing cable 06KINSHASA1470, FIRE AT VP BEMBA'S TELEVISION STATIONS ONE DAY,

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06KINSHASA1470 2006-09-19 17:11 2011-08-25 00:00 UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY Embassy Kinshasa
VZCZCXRO7769
OO RUEHDU RUEHGI RUEHJO RUEHMR RUEHRN
DE RUEHKI #1470/01 2621711
ZNR UUUUU ZZH
O 191711Z SEP 06
FM AMEMBASSY KINSHASA
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC IMMEDIATE 4818
INFO RUEHXR/RWANDA COLLECTIVE
RUCNSAD/SOUTHERN AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT COMMUNITY
RUEAIIA/CIA WASHDC
RHEFDIA/DIA WASHDC
RHMFISS/HQ USEUCOM VAIHINGEN GE
RUFOADA/JAC MOLESWORTH RAF MOLESWORTH UK
RUCNDT/USMISSION USUN NEW YORK 0455
UNCLAS SECTION 01 OF 02 KINSHASA 001470 
 
SIPDIS 
 
SENSITIVE 
SIPDIS 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: PGOV PREL ASEC KDEM CG
SUBJECT: FIRE AT VP BEMBA'S TELEVISION STATIONS ONE DAY, 
ROCK-THROWING THE NEXT 
 
REF: A. KINSHASA 1466 
 
     B. KINSHASA 1314 AND SUBSEQUENT 
 
1. (SBU)   Summary:  A fire broke out September 18 at a 
building housing offices of Vice President Jean-Pierre 
Bemba,s MLC party and his television stations.  The fire was 
quickly extinguished, although two serious associated 
injuries have been reported; there were no Amcits involved. 
The cause of the fire is unknown, giving rise to intense 
speculation among MLC partisans. Small crowds of angry MLC 
supporters and homeless youths have thrown rocks at vehicles 
and generally disrupted activity in the vicinity of the 
building September 18 and 19.  Bemba told the Ambassador he 
was acting to calm the situation.  The Embassy EAC is 
following developments closely (reftel A).  End summary. 
 
2. (U)  A fire broke out during the late afternoon of 
September 18 at a building housing offices of Vice President 
Jean-Pierre Bemba,s MLC party and his television stations, 
CCTV and Canal Kin.  The building is located a few minutes 
from both the Chancery and the Embassy's Joint Administrative 
Office (JAO).  We began receiving reports of the fire at 
approximately 1630.  The fire was brought under control by 
1700 or so and did not appear to have spread to adjacent 
buildings.  No American citizens or Embassy personnel were 
reported injured in the blaze or its aftermath.  Emboffs have 
been informed that both stations, equipment was destroyed in 
the fire. 
 
3. (U)  Bemba was informed of the fire during a meeting with 
the Ambassador (septel), and immediately called MONUC head 
Bill Swing to request assistance from MONUC,s fire brigade. 
The French ambassador called Bemba several minutes later 
promising additional firefighting assistance.  Eyewitnesses 
reported that rocks were thrown at firetrucks from a crowd of 
200-300.  According to MONUC sources, eight MONUC armored 
personnel carriers were also stoned upon arrival, but 
succeeded in somewhat dispersing the crowd, and firefighters 
were able to control the blaze. 
 
4. (U)  The managing director of CCTV, Stephan Kitutu 
Oleantua, was apparently the only direct casualty of the 
fire.  Bemba told the Ambassador September 19 that he was 
hospitalized with second-degree burns and will be medevaced 
to South Africa.  Kasongo Numbi, a friend of the director and 
a former minister of higher education who is a newly-elected 
member of the National Assembly, was recognized by some of 
the crowd as a member of the Kabila-affiliated AMP and 
attacked as he left CCTV, where he had been invited to 
present a program.  Another station showed footage that 
evening of Kasango being grabbed by the crowd and beaten.  He 
is currently hospitalized. No other injuries were reported. 
 
5. (SBU)  The cause of the fire remains a mystery and subject 
of much speculation.  A preliminary report from MONUC targets 
faulty electrical wiring.  The building was the site of the 
initial dispute which led to the August 20-22 shootout 
between Kabila and Bemba troops (reftel B).  MLC guards 
appear to have been in control of the building at the time of 
the fire.  They were to have been replaced September 16 by 
the Congolese National Police under an agreement negotiated 
through the Mixed Commission set up to resolve questions 
raised by the events of August 20-22, but had remained in 
place. 
 
6. (SBU) Marcellin Cishambo, one of President Kabila,s 
political advisors, complained to the Ambassador in a late 
evening telcom September 18 that Kasango was being held by 
MLC officials.  He said he had contacted Minister of Plan and 
former Bemba chief of staff Sesango to ask that Kasango be 
transferred to hospital care.  Sesango subsequently confirmed 
to the Ambassador that Kasango had been admitted to 
Kinshasa,s Ngaliema hospital.  Sesango denied that Kasango 
had been badly beaten.  Encouragingly, Cishambo, Sesango and 
in a later telcon VP Bemba all agreed with the Ambassador 
that it was important for all officials to do everything 
possible to calm tension in the aftermath of the fire, and 
avoid provocative language or actions. 
 
7.  (SBU) The Kabila government had issued no official 
comment on the fire by midday September 19.  MONUC officials 
told us today Kabila called Swing from New York, where he is 
participating in the UNGA, for news on the situation, and 
described him as "upset" with the events.  Bemba has not 
 
KINSHASA 00001470  002 OF 002 
 
 
commented publicly, but told the Ambassador he would look 
forward to the results of an investigation.  Thomas Luhaka, 
the MLC,s secretary general and speaker of the parliament, 
emphasized this same theme, telling a reporter September 19, 
"We do not know the causes of the fire at this time.  We are 
awaiting the results of the investigation." 
 
8.  (SBU)  However, many in the MLC see the fire as a 
deliberate act of sabotage.  Several dozen groups of MLC 
supporters and homeless youths ("shegues" in local 
terminology) gathered around the building on the morning of 
September 19.  Others threw stones at passing vehicles at a 
traffic circle close by the Embassy JAO and shouted slogans 
against the international community.  Still others set tires 
afire at the nearby Avenue du 30 Juin, the city's main 
boulevard.  The Ambassador spoke in the morning with Bemba, 
who told him he was taking steps to calm the situation.  The 
press is now reporting MLC members, both armed and civilian, 
on the streets calling for the crowds to disperse. 
 
9. (SBU) By the afternoon of September 19, it appeared that 
remaining disturbances were principally due to the unemployed 
"shegues" who were engaged in a cat-and-mouse action with the 
police seeking to disperse them.  MONUC and EUFOR units were 
on stations, but apparently leaving operations to the police. 
 We have received no/no reports of FARDC soldiers from either 
Kabila,s or Bemba,s camp involved, and no reports of 
further injuries. 
 
10. (SBU)  The Embassy EAC is following the situation closely 
and we will report any new developments. 
MEECE