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Viewing cable 07KINSHASA1362, Goma Situation Report for December 12, 2007

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Reference ID Created Released Classification Origin
07KINSHASA1362 2007-12-13 16:53 2011-08-25 00:00 UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY Embassy Kinshasa
VZCZCXRO1196
OO RUEHBZ RUEHDU RUEHGI RUEHJO RUEHMR RUEHRN
DE RUEHKI #1362 3471653
ZNR UUUUU ZZH
O 131653Z DEC 07
FM AMEMBASSY KINSHASA
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC IMMEDIATE 7234
INFO RUEHXR/RWANDA COLLECTIVE
RUCNSAD/SOUTHERN AF DEVELOPMENT COMMUNITY
RHMFISS/HQ USEUCOM VAIHINGEN GE
RUFOADA/JAC MOLESWORTH RAF MOLESWORTH UK
RUEAIIA/CIA WASHDC
UNCLAS KINSHASA 001362 
 
SIPDIS 
 
SIPDIS 
 
SENSITIVE 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: PGOV KDEM PHUM MOPS PREL PREF KPKO CG
SUBJECT:  Goma Situation Report for December 12, 2007 
 
SENSTIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED - PROTECT ACCORDINGLY 
 
Note:  The following report was provided by Embassy Kinshasa's 
political officer in Goma.  End note. 
 
1.  (SBU) Summary:   In the course of December 11, FARDC abandoned 
its remaining positions west of Sake, leaving MONUC to defend the 
town.  Nkunda's commanders communicated to MONUC Brigade Commander 
General Narayan that they would not enter Sake, but not before the 
nearby fighting had caused a movement of the populace eastward and 
considerable concern in the city of Goma.  Journalists were caught 
overnight in Minova (just within South Kivu, on the lake), where 
they interviewed persons who had fled Nkunda's capture of Karuba and 
bore witness to pillage and terror.  End Summary. 
 
2.  (SBU) According to MONUC military and political officers, 
speaking to Goma poloff December 12, renegade General Laurent 
Nkunda's forces attacked the strategic Celtel ridge northwest of 
Sake beginning at 14:45 December 11 and completed its capture by 
17:30.  By 20:00 they had also captured the Celtel tower itself, on 
a prominence nearer to and dominating Sake, by which time FARDC had 
abandoned all of its positions in Sake, leaving its defense to 
MONUC.  The FARDC three brigades involved in the campaign at Mushaki 
had "dispersed in every direction."  MONUC North Kivu Brigade 
Commander General Indrajeet Narayan was in Sake during the evening 
of December 11 and again in the morning December 12.  He spoke to 
Nkunda's commanders, informing them that Sake was an absolute red 
line, and they assured him that they would not attempt to take Sake. 
 MONUC made a show of force with its combat helicopters but did not 
fire any shots.  MONUC concluded that there had been a complete lack 
of leadership at the highest levels of FARDC, including 8th Region 
commander General Vainqueur Mayala, during recent days. 
 
3.  (SBU) There was a movement of the Sake populace eastward (a "sea 
of humanity," according to military briefer).   MONUC political 
briefer suggested that as many as 20,000 persons had been displaced 
eastward from Sake, with a possible 70-80,000 persons displaced in 
recent days over the entire area of fighting.  However, OCHA reports 
that the nearby IDP camps at Mugunga have not seen an infusion of 
new IDP's, suggesting that the Sake populace did not move far toward 
Goma. 
 
4.  (SBU) The extent of Nkunda's capture of arms and ammunition over 
the past two days remains unclear.  FARDC denies significant losses, 
while MONUC thinks it highly probable that Nkunda captured important 
caches of arms both in Mushaki and Kingi, and possibly in Karuba. 
(Belgian Consul General claims good information on capture of arms 
at Karuba.)  MONUC could not confirm reports that Nkunda's forces 
had now reached as far as Ngungu (15 miles southwest of Sake). 
 
5.  (SBU) Military and political briefers indicated that an exchange 
of fire was ongoing during the morning of December 12 at Rubari (a 
strategic point near the watershed divide on the Goma-Rutshuru 
axis).  It did not yet appear to more than a skirmish.  Meanwhile, 
the picture to the north of Kitchanga was unclear.  Poloff related 
that provincial deputy Simon Kazungu had told him December 12 that 
FARDC had taken Mweso, 10 miles north of Nkunda's "capital" at 
Kitchanga.  Military briefer acknowledged that FARDC's 15th 
Integrated Brigade (which had disintegrated the previous week when 
Nkunda attacked Nyanzale) had now been reconstituted and was active 
in the area; however, there was incessant fighting betwee 
FDLR/Pareco forces and Nkunda troops in the area, which might 
account for what might be mere rumor. 
 
6.  (SBU) AFP informed poloff on the evening of December 11 that 
several journalists were holed up in Minova (on Lake Kivu just 
inside the South Kivu border), where many persons had fled from 
Nkunda's capture of Karuba.  They gave the journalists first-hand 
accounts of brutality, to include shooting civilians as they were 
fleeing and random shooting into houses.  MONUC Public Information 
officer Sylvie van den Wildenberg told Goma poloff December 12 that 
she had advised the journalists to stay in Minova, as the land route 
back through Sake was unsafe.  However, Minova had also then 
suffered a shoot-up, apparently at the hands of FARDC soldiers (14th 
Integrated Brigade) fleeing from the fighting and bent on their own 
pillage.  The journalists were safe, and MONUC planned to evacuate 
them by boat in the course of the day. 
 
7.  (SBU) Van den Wildenberg said that she had been working round 
the clock to cope with popular alarm in Goma.  Governor Julien 
Paluku of North Kivu had been in a state of "panic" but she had got 
him to participate in a radio broadcast at opening of day December 
12 to reassure the populace ("setback not defeat, MONUC has 
situation in hand"). 
 
Garvelink