Bwiza, September 25 2007  
              
To his Excellency the General Secretary of the United Nations  
In New York, USA

REF:  Denouncing President Kabila's militarism and belligerence    
    
Excellency,
The National Congress of the People's defense is honored to address this message to your Excellency,
through me, to denounce before your Excellency and the General Assembly of the United Nations the
belligerence and militarist behavior adopted currently by the President of the Republic, Joseph KABILA
KABANGE in dealing with the ongoing political and military crisis in the East of the Democratic Republic of
Congo, particularly in the Province of North Kivu. As you already know, the crisis is a result of the refusal of
some elements of the Armed Forces of the DRC (FARDC) formerly part of the Congolese Rally for Democracy
(RCD) to join the integration of the army carried out in the “brassage” centers due to the fact that they felt
cheated by the way the RCD which had recruited them negotiated and applied at the end of the dialogue in
Sun City, certain points of the Sun City and Pretoria agreements.
Being soldiers and proud of serving our country, the DRC, we felt particularly betrayed, even scandalized by at
least three things: First the irresponsible behavior on the part of RCD leaders who rushed to Kinshasa to
share their part of the cake agreed upon in South Africa, without sorting out the fate of the army that had
taken them to power, leaving it behind as sheep without shepherd. Secondly, the fate of our parents and
families who are refugees in neighboring countries since 1996 was forgotten, moreover as months went by,
powerful leaders and members of the closest circle of the President collaborators started denying the
existence of those refugees. As majority of them are Tutsi, the leadership in Kinshasa started claiming they
were Rwandan citizens who willingly went back to their country.                     
Those politicians xenophobic speech was relayed in the whole country by the press obviously obeying the
presidency's orders. Their extremism showed how much intolerance, discrimination and ethnicism had
gained the whole Congolese ruling class, especially the ruling party, which is the People's Party of
Reconstruction and Development and its allies.  The most known example is that of the speech pronounced
in Goma by one of the 4 former Vice presidents of the DRC, Mr. YERODIA Abdoulaye Ndombasi, a true «
guardian of the Kabila Temple ».  Shaking the spear he was given as a welcoming gift, he declared before the
crowd the following statement : « see with which tool we are going to clear up the ass of these people,
(referring to the Tutsi community), we had welcomed them in our house and now they want to claim the same
rights as us, the true owners". This kind of speech is very common since then and they have greatly
contributed to oppose different communities in the Kivu, they are contributing to extend the rift created with
no objective reason, if it is not for political manipulations
We would like to stress the fact that no leaders from the transition period and from the elected institutions
have anything for our families living in refugee camps in Rwanda, Uganda and Burundi, nor visited them when
those countries are just at our borders. After the Gatumba massacre where many of our parents and
relatives, who had escaped selective assassinations perpetrated the previous month of April, died in August
2004, President Joseph KABILA KABANGE has shown no compassion for the victims families stating then as
other signs showed it, that he was the one who had commanded such a horrible act of genocide. Since then,
the government has sent no strong signal in the direction of national reconciliation, and we do not see any
sign of hope from anywhere.                   
Thirdly, Rwandan genocide forces form FAR/Interahamwe, now Democratic Forces for Rwandan Liberation
(FDLR) are operating freely undisturbed by the government in Kinshasa. Instead, President Joseph Kabila,
since he seized power in 2001, has consistently maintained them, armed them and provided them with
equipment with the scope of using them within the national army, while in the East of the country, they are
killing, pillaging and raping his countrymen in all impunity. The same FDLR are, at the same time, impeding the
return of our families and the rehabilitation of all internally displaced people.                  
This state of things which is keeping our families outside the country and there is no credible sign of the
possible return, is compelling us to ask the reason why we are serving under the flag of this country if we
cannot offer security to our own people who have been forgotten by the government which employs us. We
find ourselves in the strange predicament, being like mercenaries in our own country, a very frustrating
situation. We cannot bear it anymore. That is why we have decided, for three years now, it means long before
the end of the Transition period and the general election process in the country, to start off a military and
political organization which was presented publicly in 2006. But we had, from December 2OO4, our
organization allowed us to dismantle the so called « OPERATION BIMA » which was meant to flush out of the
DRC the Congolese populations speaking kinyarwanda (Rwandophones).  In its first stage, the organization
was called, for a short while, the CMDP, the Military Council for the people's Defense. Today it has become the
National Congress for the People's Defense, (CNDP).
Your Excellency, Mr. General Secretary of the United Nations, last January, the National Congolese Army
(ANC), the military branch of our movement, entered into a partnership with the government forces FARDC in
the effort to initiate an exceptional process towards integrating the Army. The process was called « MIXAGE
». It was a result of the « gentleman agreement » negotiated and concluded in Kigali, under the Rwandan
mediation,  between the CNDP Chairman, Brigade General Laurent NKUNDA MIHIGO and the Special and
Lawful Envoy of President Joseph KABILA, the current General Inspector of the Congolese National Police,
Lieutenant General John Numbi. The setting of the process received on time President KABILA's personal
approval, in his capacity of Commandant in Chief of the FARDC. It was justified by the imperative necessity of
neutralizing the criminal and genocide forces FDLR former FAR/Interahamwe who are terrorizing and
destroying the Kivu Province
To this day our movement deplores indignantly the fact that the same Head of State is orchestrating the
Mediatic campaign and diabolizing the FARDC units from the CNDP whose only fault consists in fulfilling the
government pledges over the “Mixage” process. Surprising both his CNDP partners and the Rwandan
authorities from whom he had requested mediation, President Joseph KABILA is violating his own
commitment. Following the example of the former head of State in the neighboring country who used double
language and violated his own signature on an agreement he had just signed before his counterparts in the
region treating it as a mere piece of paper and provoking the now sadly famous 1994 genocide with its known
consequences, Joseph KABILA KABANGE is despising the non written but valid agreement he had contacted
with his countrymen of the CNDP before eminent and qualified foreign witnesses formerly requested by him,
and whose huge disappointment can only be imagined.
Indeed, the President of the Republic with his stand has just disqualified both the mixed troupes and their first
mission of eradicating and riding the DRC of FDLR/former FAR/Interahamwe. They have become his allies as
their known chief Ignace MURWANASHYAKA has confirmed to the whole world on air, through the BBC "INVO
N'INVANO" on Saturday 22 nd September as we quote:: « the weapons held by FDLR have been always
provided by KABILA-father, today, they are serving to defend the Kinshasa regime against KAGAME, NKUNDA
and others, all arms are numbered, but we will hand them in only under `precise conditions known perfectly
by KABILA". Such behavior on the part of the Supreme Justice in the country, the constitutional guardian of
national unity and territorial integrity constitutes an infamous capitulation before armed foreign militias
operating illegally on national territory. And more so, it is a case of high treason as much as Joseph KABILA
has committed himself to use those criminals as the best of his army, and all that in virtue of the mission he
has just given to those same criminals during his last visit in Goma: to force the mixed battalions into joining
the brassage centers or reduce their strength.
However the brassage centers are a shame for the whole country and a despising choice on the part of the
government towards the National armed forces.  How could it be possible to say they are meant to form true
soldiers capable of assuming the responsibilities of a republican army at the service of all Congolese without
discrimination, when they put together regular forces and troupes from rebellious movement in a kind of
public market with families and other dependants in an undescriptible promiscuity making of their children
street children, who spend their time looting local populations forced into providing everything for their needs,
where there no proper military instruction, no technical and civic training, salaries aren't paid, and from
where soldiers come out worse than when they joined?
                        The result is naturally a disaster: soldiers are not capable of fighting a resolute enemy as we
can see in what is happening now, , but also they can help but behave like bandits with regard to the civil
population they are supposed to protect, they steal their harvest, loot their food, steal clothes, money, mobile
phones, and food in the process of being cooked. In this way, if the brassage is not reformed radically, it is a
mere illusion to think that one day we are going to allow our troupes to integrate the army. Our country
deserves better than that caricatural integration which serves only as a pretext to the corrupt military
hierarchy to get more money for themselves and enrich themselves at the back of simple soldiers.
In the face of the new tactic of the president of recruiting FDLR to wage war, the CNPD is calling upon your
Excellency as qualified witness, but also we are calling upon the Congolese people declaring that: The
legitimacy of any elected leader, particularly a head of State can never be opposed against citizens when it is
a case of treason. In this specific case, Joseph KABILA is recruiting genocide and criminal foreign forces
incorporating them into the army only to silence soldiers from his own country who are asking only one thing:
the fulfillment of his duty according to his constitutional commitment, that is to say, to provide guaranty for
the unity and cohesion of the Congolese nation reconciling all its peoples in their diversity without leaving
anybody ob the roadside.
The only answer from him has been to prepare the opinion for is military option, the only one he is taking to
solve the complex security issues in the Kivu. He is spreading at national and international levels lies and
slander about the mixed units. He is inventing killings, mass graves, child-soldiers recruiting, chasing of
soldiers going for brassage, baby killings, etc. But those lies and slander cannot cheat the population that is
being protected by those same mixed troupes. He is ignoring that the CNDP is providing electricity, medical
care in all zones under its control, through the spontaneous contributions of its members, teachers in these
same zones are the only ones who are on duty while in the whole country teachers are on an indefinite strike
because of unpaid salaries, that the schooling of all orphans and indigent pupils is covered through those
contributions, in brief, the CNDP, in any case is showing more responsibility than the government  when the
latter has more resources.   
In spite of the obvious limits of the military option in facing the current crisis, all those allegations advanced
by Joseph KABILA are showing only one thing : he is seeking to legitimate his generalized war against the
CNDP, he has just submitted his plans to his brigade commandants before taking the plane leaving Goma. He
has ordered them to open hostilities in three weeks and finish the business once and for all with the CNDP.
The president did not acknowledge the ceasefire and has no intention of negotiating under no circumstances,
when the MONUC had expressly requested to stop the fighting, while the CNDP as well as the Security Council
of the UN had recommended dialogue and concertation in order to reach a peaceful resolution of the conflict.
The provincial government has been instructed by the head of State in his meeting in the installation of the
Monuc contingent in Mubambiro near Sake to track down all civil individuals sympathizing with the CNDP.
Such measure means simply exactions of all kinds on civil population, especially the tutsi community. That is
why companies such as SCAR are being closed because of the opposition put up by its shareholder against
the police exactions.  
In the meantime, schools are on an indefinite strike throughout the country, but the president prefers to use
the money in waging war against the CNDP in North Kivu. The presidential strategy consisting is
manufacturing counter-truths has three aims: demoralizing all partisans and sympathizers of the CNDP
whose number has alarmed him, they are individuals, groups, associations who have been summoned to
meet him in Goma ; seeking a legitimate cover for the murderous operations he is projecting and finally to
force the hand of the United Nations Mission so that they get fully involved in the war with their substantial
support of power, munitions and men for the government troupes, with obliviously the fallacious pretext of
protecting civil population when the CNDP is not a threat against the population. Such strategy has the
advantage giving an apparent legitimacy to all the irreparable consequences which will result from the
eventual coalition FARDC-FDLR-MONUC, which will be fairly considered as just collateral effects inevitable in
any war.
Taking into account all the above considerations, the CNDP is recalling the only objective it has assigned to
itself in any case: defend the interest of all or part of the Congolese people, particularly when attacked,
cheated or abandoned, as it is the case in this moment, by those who are supposed to protect them. The
CNDP is warning that it is prepared to oppose by all means at its disposal any military adventure on the part of
the governing power which wants to substitute the dialogue and concertation the arms language.   Only those
leaders will be held responsible for the unfortunate upcoming consequences.
Drawing lessons from the recent past, the CNDP reminds those belligerent leaders governing the country that
extremism, radicalism and political blindness instituted as forms of governance of public affairs will only
perpetuate the chaos reigning in the country, the insecurity and instability. The CNDP is firmly convinced that
the only solution carrying hope and enduring peace in our country is a way to peace is a negotiated political
solution.
Before it is too late, the CNDP is once again offering a hand to the president of the Republic and to the
Government inviting them to open its "Cahiers des Charges" and examine with the movement its claims
before an impartial facilitator. The legitimacy and validity of those claims are evident. If this is not done,
everything will then be possible, including a legitimate defense which would question the legitimacy of the
current leadership of the country.
Your Excellency Mr. General Secretary, may you receive the expression of my full consideration.

For Political Office, CHAIRMAN,

Brigade Gen. Laurent NKUNDA MIHIGO
Nouvelles du Parti.
La différence
entre le possible
et l'impossible
réside dans la
détermination
Nous sommes les
restaurateurs des
brèches, le CNDP
rendra ce pays
habitable par tous!
Une nation est une âme,

un principe spirituel.
Deux choses qui, à vrai
dire, n’en font qu’une,
constituent cette âme,
ce
principe spirituel.
L’une est dans le passé,
l’autre dans le présent.
L’une est la possession
en commun d’un riche
legs de souvenirs ;
l’autre est le
consentement actuel, le
désir de vivre
ensemble,
la volonté de continuer à

faire valoir l’héritage qu’
on a reçu indivis.
La nation, est donc l’
aboutissant d’un long
passé d’efforts, de
sacrifices et de
dévouements.
Le camarade
chairman, saluant la
population de Rubaya