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Viewing cable 07KINSHASA280, MONUC AND NGO COLLABORATION WITH MILITARY LEADS TO

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Reference ID Created Released Classification Origin
07KINSHASA280 2007-03-08 14:54 2011-08-25 00:00 UNCLASSIFIED Embassy Kinshasa
VZCZCXRO9843
PP RUEHBZ RUEHDU RUEHGI RUEHJO RUEHMR RUEHRN
DE RUEHKI #0280 0671454
ZNR UUUUU ZZH
P 081454Z MAR 07
FM AMEMBASSY KINSHASA
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 5737
INFO RUEHXR/RWANDA COLLECTIVE
RUCNSAD/SOUTHERN AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT COMMUNITY
RUEAIIA/CIA WASHDC
RHEFDIA/DIA WASHDC
RUFOADA/JAC MOLESWORTH RAF MOLESWORTH UK
RHMFISS/HQ USEUCOM VAIHINGEN GE
UNCLAS KINSHASA 000280 
 
SIPDIS 
 
SIPDIS 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: PHUM PGOV MOPS KPKO KJUS CG
SUBJECT: MONUC AND NGO COLLABORATION WITH MILITARY LEADS TO 
TWO WAR CRIMES VERDICTS 
 
REF: A. 06 KINSHASA 1932 
 
     B. 03 KINSHASA 1266 
 
1.  (U) Summary.  MONUC-Bunia human rights officers and local 
NGO Justice Plus played major roles in the successful 
prosecution of two prominent Ituri District human rights 
cases.  A military court handed down judgments in both cases 
February 19, convicting 14 Congolese military (FARDC) 
soldiers of war crimes for an August 2006 mass murder, and 
six FNI-FRPI combattants of the 2003 murder of two MONUC 
military observers.  End summary. 
 
2.  (U) The Bunia military tribunal in the DRC's Ituri 
District handed down verdicts in two major cases February 19. 
 The first case involved the August 2006 mass murder of over 
30 civilians (ref A), the second the May 2003 killing of two 
MONUC military observers (ref B). 
 
3.  (U) The court convicted 14 soldiers of the FARDC First 
Integrated Brigade (1st IB) for war crimes in the August 2006 
mass murder, sentencing 13 to hard labor for life, one to a 
six-month prison term, and exonerating another.  The court 
tried and condemned four of the soldiers in absentia.  Judges 
also ordered the 14 to pay a total of 315,000 USD (10,000 to 
15,000 USD per victim), plus interest, to the families of the 
victims, all from the village of Bavi.  Congolese law 
stipulates the government must pay the damages if the 
defendants do not. 
 
4.  (U) Bunia-based NGO Justice Plus played a key role in 
securing the convictions.  The ten-year-old NGO gathered 
eyewitness testimony after the villagers disappeared, 
including crucial evidence that located the graves in the 1st 
IB's camp.  Director Mpiana Gode told us March 7 the group 
turned the information over to Military Prosecutor John Penza 
and pushed for investigation.  Justice Plus members also 
accompanied victims' families to court hearings from December 
to February and monitored the case on a daily basis. 
 
5.  (U) The MONUC-Bunia Human Rights section also supported 
prosecution of the case.  Its Victims, Witnesses and Human 
Rights Defenders Protection Unit placed two key prosecution 
witnesses under MONUC protection after they provided FARDC 
and MONUC investigators with evidence implicating the 1st IB 
in the killings.  MONUC human rights officers jointly 
investigated the mass graves with military investigators and 
conducted an independent follow-up mission in December 2006. 
 
6.  (U) The military tribunal announced its second conviction 
publicly on the main street of Bunia.  It convicted seven 
FNI-FRPI militia fighters for the murder of two MONUC 
military observers in May 2003 at Mongwalu, Ituri District. 
It sentenced four to life and two to 10 and 20 years at hard 
labor, respectively, and exonerated one.  A MONUC Bunia 
political officer told us March 7 that two other fighters 
accused of the murders remain at large.  Penza said he was 
satisfied with the judgment, and the MONUC Rule of Law 
section chief in Kinshasa called it a "step forward for 
military justice." 
 
7.  (U) Both MONUC and Justice Plus have raised concern that 
those convicted will not serve their full terms.  The 
dilapidated state of Bunia's prison facilities has led to 
previous break-outs, including one in which an FNI-FRPI 
combattant accused in the murders of the MONUC observers 
escaped.  Gode told us he had advocated for relocation of 
prisoners to Kisangani, the provincial capital.  He believes 
facilities there offer more security against escapes.  A 
MONUC-Bunia political officer said MONUC would continue to 
urge provincial and national officials to reform Bunia prison. 
 
8.  (U) Comment:  Military justice in Congo has a long way to 
go before it is able to fight impunity on its own, but 
Military Prosecutor Penza and the Bunia military tribunal 
deserve credit for their work in these cases.  The tribunal 
has handed down four verdicts for war crimes or crimes 
against humanity since the beginning of 2006.  The court 
could not have secured its recent verdicts, however, without 
the hand-holding of MONUC and a dedicated local NGO.  End 
comment. 
MEECE