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Viewing cable 07KINSHASA1305, Rutshuru incident exaggerated, but North Kivu tensions

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Reference ID Created Released Classification Origin
07KINSHASA1305 2007-11-26 13:33 2011-08-25 00:00 UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY Embassy Kinshasa
VZCZCXRO5426
PP RUEHBZ RUEHDU RUEHGI RUEHJO RUEHMR RUEHRN
DE RUEHKI #1305/01 3301333
ZNR UUUUU ZZH
P 261333Z NOV 07
FM AMEMBASSY KINSHASA
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 7154
INFO RUEHXR/RWANDA COLLECTIVE
RUCNSAD/SOUTHERN AF DEVELOPMENT COMMUNITY
RUEAIIA/CIA WASHDC
RHMFISS/HQ USEUCOM VAIHINGEN GE
RUFOADA/JAC MOLESWORTH RAF MOLESWORTH UK
UNCLAS SECTION 01 OF 02 KINSHASA 001305 
 
SIPDIS 
 
SIPDIS 
 
SENSITIVE 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: PGOV PREL KDEM KPKO CG
SUBJECT: Rutshuru incident exaggerated, but North Kivu tensions 
remain high 
 
 
SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED - PROTECT ACCORDINGLY 
 
Note:  Following report was submitted by Political Counselor David 
Brown, currently on TDY in Goma. 
End note. 
 
SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED - PROTECT ACCORDINGLY 
 
1.  (SBU) Summary.  Initial reports of FARDC-CNDP combat in the 
North Kivu town of Rutshuru November 21 exaggerated the scale and 
the impact of the fighting.  Claims by both sides that CNDP forces 
had occupied the town were false.  Eyewitness reports confirm 
pro-Nkunda fighters attacked a FARDC base there early in the 
afternoon.  Shooting ended soon afterward following successful 
appeals by MONUC's Kiwanja base commander.  Overheated reactions to 
the incident illustrate the tensions pervasive in the southern half 
of the province.  End summary. 
 
2.  (SBU) A visiting assessment team, including representatives from 
the U.S. and UK missions, was present at the MONUC base in Kiwanja 
north of Rutshuru town north of Goma during a clash by FARDC and 
CNDP forces in the town November 21.  The team heard a loud 
explosion at around 12:30 pm during a briefing by the base's 
commanding officer, Lt. Col. R. Parmar.  Parmar was informed by 
telephone that an RPG round had fallen in the town and called an end 
to the briefing.  As MONUC troops deployed in defensive positions 
around the camp, the team observed a stream of schoolchildren 
rushing down the road from the high ground to the west.  During the 
next 60 minutes or so it heard individual bursts of automatic 
weapons fire, but observed no signs of fighting or generalized 
panic. 
 
3.  (SBU) Congolese officials were less restrained.  MONUC-Goma head 
of office Ulli Mwambulutuku told Goma OIC November 23 he had 
received frantic calls from the North Kivu governor and provincial 
assembly president appealing for MONUC to "do something."  He noted 
that neither had placed similar calls to North Kivu Regional 
Military Commander General Vainqueur Mayala.  The French political 
counselor in Kinshasa and the Belgian consul in Bukavu reported 
hysterical calls from the Rutshuru territorial administrator 
claiming that CNDP forces had taken the town.  Nkunda boasted to 
both Mwambulutukulu and a gubernatorial counselor that his forces 
had indeed taken the town, but were withdrawing to save the 
population.  The FARDC command in Goma triumphantly claimed it had 
beaten back a CNDP assault on the town and killed 20 insurgents. 
 
4.  (SBU) In fact, residents had begun walking back to the town 
along the same road they had fled by the time the assessment team 
left under MONUC escort some 90 minutes after the initial explosion. 
 The situation in the center of town was much as it had been when 
the team was interviewing IDPs there two hours earlier.  The team 
observed no signs of combat or CNDP troops. 
 
5.  (SBU) MONUC-Goma's chief intelligence officer, Lt. Col. Sandeep 
Jaswal, told Goma OIC November 23 that CNDP fighters had attacked 
the FARDC battalion headquarters in Rutshuru, and that FARDC troops 
had returned fire.  He said Parmar had succeeded in bringing the 
shooting to an end and withdrawal by CNDP forces from the town 
through telephone appeals to the respective commanders to cease 
fighting in a populated area. 
 
6.  (SBU) Jane Coyne of Medecins Sans Frontieres, which operates the 
town's only hospital, noted November 22 that the battalion 
headquarters had formerly served the same function for the Bravo 
mixed brigade and is located 200 yards from the hospital.  She said 
doctors there treated 32 gunshot victims there following the clash. 
All but three were civilians, most of them lightly wounded but 
including one fatality.  An AP reporter who visited the town 
November 25 told Goma OIC of seeing several bullet holes in the 
headquarters building but little other obvious damage. 
 
7.  (SBU) The fighting in Rutshuru had been preceded by an early 
morning clash to the south of the town.  IDP's in Rutshuru, as well 
as Parmar, had told the assessment team that a clash of limited 
duration had taken place.  Jaswal said this had been a FARDC attack 
at Rumangabo in the CNDP-controlled enclave to the west of the 
Goma-Rutshuru road near the border with Uganda.  There were no 
apparent signs of this clash when the traveled on the same road in 
the late morning. 
 
8.  (SBU) Comment:  FARDC and CNDP forces are currently probing and 
testing the other side in limited engagements in the strategic 
Goma-Rutshuru corridor.  The atmosphere in the southern half of the 
province continues to be tense, but the frantic reaction of 
Congolese officials to the Rutshuru incident and attempts by both 
sides to use it as propaganda are, unfortunately, barriers to a 
 
KINSHASA 00001305  002 OF 002 
 
 
better understanding of events here.  End comment.