ZAIRE: 1994 ANNUAL TERRORISM REPORT

UNCLAS KINSHASA 06821 DEPARTMENT FOR S/CT: REAP E.O. 12356: N/A TAGS: PTER CG SUBJECT: ZAIRE: 1994 ANNUAL TERRORISM REPORT REF: STATE 286744 ¶1. THIS IS A NEGATIVE REPORT SINCE THERE ARE ESSENTIALLY NO INCIDENTS TO REPORT. PREMEDITATED ACTS OF VIOLENCE PERPETRATED AGAINST NONCOMBATANTS WERE NOT OF THE POLITICALLY MOTIVATED VARIETY BUT WERE RATHER CRIMINALLY, ETHNICALLY, OR TRIBALLY MOTIVATED. EXAMPLES WERE THE CONTINUING VIOLENCE AGAINST ZAIRIANS OF KASAIAN ORIGIN RESIDING IN THE SHABA REGION OF ZAIRE DIRECTED AT DRIVING THE KASAIANS FROM SHABA. ALSO, THERE WERE REPORTS OF CONTINUING INTERETHNIC VIOLENCE BETWEEN LOCAL ETHNIC GROUPS AND IMMIGRANTS FROM RWANDA IN THE KIVU REGION OF ZAIRE. GOVERNMENT TROOPS WERE SENT TO THE AREA TO RESTORE ORDER, BUT THERE WERE NO ARRESTS OR PROSECUTIONS. ¶2. A) THERE WERE NO KNOWN PROSECUTIONS FOR TERRORISM, DOMESTIC OR INTERNATIONAL, IN ZAIRE IN 1994. NEITHER THE ZAIRIAN GOVERNMENT, ITS CITIZENS, NOR ITS TERRITORY WERE KNOWN TO HAVE BEEN FACTORS IN ANY INCIDENTS OF INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM IN 1994. ¶3. B) THE ZAIRIAN GOVERNMENT DID NOT EXTRADITE NOR REQUEST THE EXTRADITION OF SUSPECTED TERRORISTS IN 1994. ¶4. C) THERE WERE NO KNOWN IMPEDIMENTS TO ZAIRIAN GOVERNMENT PROSECUTION OR EXTRADITION OF SUSPECTED TERRORISTS IN 1994. ¶5. D) THE ZAIRIAN GOVERNMENT DID NOT MAKE PUBLIC STATEMENTS REGARDING TERRORISM. THERE WERE NO KNOWN TERRORISM INVESTIGATIONS CONDUCTED BY THE ZAIRIAN GOVERNMENT, NOR DID IT PARTICIPATE IN INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM INVESTIGATIONS. ¶6. E) THERE WERE NO COUNTERTERRORISM EFFORTS UNDERTAKEN IN 1994 BY THE ZAIRIAN GOVERNMENT EITHER IN ZAIRE OR IN INTERNATIONAL FORA. ¶7. F) THERE WAS NO KNOWN ZAIRIAN GOVERNMENT SUPPORT FOR INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM, EITHER POLITICAL OR FINANCIAL. THERE WAS NO KNOWN SANCTUARY EXTENDED TO TERRORISTS OR TERRORIST GROUPS, NOR WERE THEY TRAINED OR SUPPLIED BY THE ZAIRIAN GOVERNMENT. IRAN, LIBYA, NORTH KOREA, AND SUDAN MAINTAIN RESIDENT EMBASSIES IN KINSHASA, BUT THERE WERE NO OFFICES OF TERRORISTS OR TERRORIST GROUPS IN ZAIRE. ¶8. G) THE ZAIRIAN GOVERNMENT MADE NO PUBLIC STATEMENT IN SUPPORT OF A TERRORIST-SUPPORTING COUNTRY ON A TERRORISM ISSUE IN 1994. ¶9. H) THERE HAS BEEN NO SIGNIFICANT CHANGE IN THE ZAIRIAN GOVERNMENT'S ATTITUDE TOWARD INTERNATIONAL OR DOMESTIC TERRORISM IN 1994. YATES