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Viewing cable 07KINSHASA1405, Goma situation report for December 22, 2007

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07KINSHASA1405 2007-12-26 08:16 2011-08-25 00:00 UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY Embassy Kinshasa
VZCZCXRO9323
RR RUEHBZ RUEHDU RUEHGI RUEHJO RUEHMR RUEHRN
DE RUEHKI #1405/01 3600816
ZNR UUUUU ZZH
R 260816Z DEC 07
FM AMEMBASSY KINSHASA
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC 7290
INFO RUEHXR/RWANDA COLLECTIVE
RUCNSAD/SOUTHERN AF DEVELOPMENT COMMUNITY
RHMFISS/HQ USEUCOM VAIHINGEN GE
RUFOADA/JAC MOLESWORTH RAF MOLESWORTH UK
RUEAIIA/CIA WASHDC
RHEFDIA/DIA WASHDC
UNCLAS SECTION 01 OF 02 KINSHASA 001405 
 
SIPDIS 
 
SENSITIVE 
SIPDIS 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: PGOV MOPS MARR PHUM PREF KPKO CG
SUBJECT: Goma situation report for December 22, 2007 
 
REF:  Kinshasa 1391 
 
SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED - PLEASE PROTECT ACCORDINGLY 
 
Note:  The following report was provided by Embassy Kinshasa's 
political officer in Goma.  End note. 
 
1. (SBU) Summary:  The North Kivu military situation remained stable 
during the previous week.  However, FARDC continues to move 
reinforcements into and around the province.  Pro-Nkunda and Pareco 
militia forces clashed again in a remote area of Masisi territory. 
Inhabitants of Rutshuru town protested against perceived MONUC 
brakes on FARDC military action and against continued IDP occupation 
of its principal school.  FARDC has taken no action against 
commanders in the aftermath of the failed Masisi offensive, perhaps 
in fear of defection.  Despite unprecedented military buildup during 
the last months, it has been unable to provide weapons to soldiers 
of the new 16th Integrated Brigade.  FARDC chief of staff Kayembe 
has submitted his report on the offensive, but Kabila told North 
Kivu officials he was strongly opposed to punishing any of those 
involved.  Belgian military sources (pls protect) allege FARDC 
soldiers were intentionally mutilated by pro-Nkunda troops after 
being taken prisoner during the fighting.  Neither the press nor the 
GDRC has mentioned these allegations, which we are investigating. 
End summary. 
 
Military situation stable 
------------------------- 
 
2. (SBU) The military situation in North Kivu remained stable 
through the end of last week.  "No major clashes, nothing to worry 
about," MONUC North Kivu Brigade Commander General Indrajeet Narayan 
told us December 22 during his briefing on recent developments. 
FARDC continues to shift reinforcements into and around the 
province.  Narayan said that the 8th Integrated Brigade (IB) was 
reported moving north from South Kivu, along with equipment and 
supplies.  Both the 9th IB and two battalions of the 7th IB were on 
the move to Nyanzale, formerly held by the discredited 15th IB, from 
positions further south in Rutshuru territory. 
 
3. (SBU) In Masisi territory, pro-Nkunda forces and fighters of the 
Hutu Pareco Mai-Mai militia again clashed, this time at Kuobo, north 
of the site of the MONUC helicopter crash earlier in the week 
(reftel).  Narayan also cited reports of Nkunda troops on the move 
toward Kibati on the road to Kitchange.  He said MONUC had 
transported 81st Brigade commander Colonel Philemon Yav and 15 
others back to Masisi via helicopter. 
 
4. (SBU) In Rutshuru territory, Nararayan said MONUC had also 
provided transport for visits to Nyanzale and Rutshuru towns by a 
group of senior FARDC officers, including 8th Military Region 
Commander General Vainqueur Mayala and FARDC operations chief 
General Amuli Bahigwa.  (Note:  Amuli, a former MLC commander, 
served as naval forces chief of staff during the transition.  End 
note.)  He noted some infiltration of Nkunda loyalists at Lalingara 
on the road to Tongo off the Goma-Rutshuru road. 
 
5. (SBU) Narayn reported two protests in Rutshuru town.  In the 
first, about a thousand civilians demonstrated against MONUC for 
supposedly preventing FARDC action in the eastern border enclave 
controlled by pro-Nkunda forces under Colonel Sultani Makenga.  In 
fact, said Narayan, the North Kivu Brigade had attempted to 
safeguard 6th IB commander Colonel Antonio by convincing him to 
return to Rutshuru after he personally led -- without orders -- a 
small patrol of 30 soldiers into the enclave and ended up in a 
firefight at Tanuganya near Bunagana.   In the second incident, 
students temporarily blocked the main road outside the offices of 
Territorial Administrator Dominique Bofondo as protested against the 
takeover by IDPs of the town's principal school as living quarters. 
 
State of the FARDC 
------------------ 
 
6. (SBU) Narayan again expressed concern about the state of the 
FARDC, which he characterized as "increasingly weak."  Narayan said 
no commanders had been sacked.  Yav and deputy regional military 
commander Colonel Delphin Kahimbi, both under suspicion for their 
actions in the Masisi offensive, were active once again.  He said 
FARDC leadership is afraid sacked officers could defect to Nkunda. 
He cited conflicting reports that 14th IB commander David Ruguyi was 
either under arrest or had defected with 700 troops. 
 
7. (SBU) Narayan said MONUC was providing training to two battalions 
of the new 16th IB.  However, FARDC had sent all 1,500 men from 
brassage centers without giving them weapons; 750 fighters from the 
Jackson Mai-Mai militia also had no uniforms.  He said MONUC 
 
KINSHASA 00001405  002 OF 002 
 
 
trainers had only 30 borrowed weapons to train all 1500. 
 
8. (SBU) Clovis Muni, an adviser to Governor Julien Paluku who is in 
regular contact with the Nkunda camp, told us later in the day that 
100 14th IB troops had in fact defected.  However, he said President 
Kabila told him and other North Kivu officials during meetings last 
week in Kinshasa that he was adamantly opposed to the group's calls 
to punish Defense Minister Chikez Diemu or senior military officers 
for the failure of the Masisi offensive.  Muni said Kabila told them 
he would always regret having ordered the execution for treason of a 
group of officers during the civil war who turned out to be 
blameless, and would not repeat that mistake now. 
 
9. (SBU) A North Kivu official of the national intelligence service 
ANR ("Agence Nationale de Renseignements") told us December 22 that 
FARDC chief of staff General Dieudonne Kayembe had forwarded his 
report on the offensive to Kabila, and singled out, among others, 
land forces chief General Gabriel Amisi, Yav and Kahimbi.  He said 
that officers cited in the report would be called to Kinshasa to 
provide their own declarations in response to the accusations. 
 
10. (SBU) Belgian Consul General Hugues Chantry (pls protect), 
visiting Goma from his post in Bukavu, cited first-hand reports by 
Belgian military officers that a number of FARDC soldiers had been 
seriously wounded and were being treated out of public view at a 
military camp in Kinshasa.  The officers claimed that some had been 
intentionally mutilated by pro-Nkunda troops after being taken 
prisoner, to spread terror in FARDC ranks -- a war crime.  Chantry 
said Kabila and Chikez are aware of the situation and extremely 
concerned about public reaction if information were to leak.  The 
press has apparently not picked up on these reports.  We will 
continue to monitor. 
 
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