Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
05KINSHASA1757
2005-10-20 11:40:00
CONFIDENTIAL
Embassy Kinshasa
Cable title:  

SOUTH KIVU NON-KIDNAPPING

Tags:  PGOV PREL KPKO CG 
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201140Z Oct 05
C O N F I D E N T I A L KINSHASA 001757 

SIPDIS

E.O. 12958: DECL: 10/20/2015
TAGS: PGOV PREL KPKO CG
SUBJECT: SOUTH KIVU NON-KIDNAPPING


Classified By: PolOff TJNaber, reasons 1.4 b/d.

C O N F I D E N T I A L KINSHASA 001757

SIPDIS

E.O. 12958: DECL: 10/20/2015
TAGS: PGOV PREL KPKO CG
SUBJECT: SOUTH KIVU NON-KIDNAPPING


Classified By: PolOff TJNaber, reasons 1.4 b/d.


1. (C) Reports of armed Mai Mai troops taking UNDP hostages
in South Kivu October 19 were discounted October 20 by MONUC
Poloff. Disgruntled due to lack of promised pay, eight
soldiers (out of more than 500 awaiting demobilization)
temporarily locked an undetermined number of demobilizing
soldiers and one international staff member from UNDP/CONADER
(demobilization commission) in a room on the orientation
center compound and threatened them. By this morning, the
situation had been resolved peacefully. The soldiers locked
in the building had complete freedom of movement within the
camp. CONADER arrived to deliver overdue payments, and the
orientation center is once again operational.


2. (C) Comment: Although this situation was not serious, it
illustrates the difficulties facing CONADER and the
international community in the DDR process. World Bank
delays in releasing funds to CONADER and internal DRC
logistical problems affecting funds transfers to provincial
CONADER offices, combined with ready access to arms for
demobilizing soldiers, create a potentially volatile
situation throughout the DRC. End comment.
MEECE