Due to an armed rebellion in eastern DRC, Opposition parties in DRC have called for the impeachment of President Joseph Kabange Kabila accusing him and members of his government of complicity in the rebellion.
The opposition is pressuring parliament to trigger a mechanism of impeachment of the president for ‘Treason’.
The impeachment demand points to the M23 rebellion that started in North Kivu since last May, the parties consider that “the complicity of those in power with the perpetrators is totally established.”
“The war is going on in the East as a trigger for the famous agreement between the Government of the Republic and the CNDP [the former rebel National Congress for People’s Defence]. And we believe that the misapplication of this agreement will create problems.”
“There were in [under] this agreement, a deliberate and concealed by the institutions, the deployment on the national territory of Rwandan troops officially responsible to track the FDLR and other negative forces, “said honourable member of parliament Lisanga Bonganga and spokesman for opposition group seeking the indictment.
The Congolese government signed in March 2009 a peace agreement with the CNDP. The text provided including the integration of rebels into the army, the allocation to senior civilian CNDP positions within political institutions.
The same year, DRC and Rwanda conducted joint military operations against the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR), a Rwandan rebels based in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.
The group also says, the rebellion of M23 launched last May is conducted by officers of the army removed from the CNDP. They also say M23 is the rebellion backed by Rwanda, according to the Congolese government, NGOs and the UN.
Last Friday, the Rwandan special forces deployed to Rutshuru in North Kivu since more than two years, began to withdraw from the territory largely occupied by rebels M23. Rwandan forces were officially deployed to hunt down the FDLR.
Opponents say they have carefully followed the Minister of Defence of Rwanda, James Kabarebe, who announced the withdrawal of Rwandan troops from the DRC. “We’re not naive,” said Lisanga Bonganga, before denouncing “complicity at the highest level” of the Congolese state.
In the political declaration they made Monday in Kinshasa, the leaders of the opposition parties have stated that “any approach military, diplomatic and political on the sole initiative of the regime is afraid of success” the cessation of hostilities in North Kivu.
They called for a national dialogue involving all political and social forces to “discuss the situation of instability in the East.”
The opposition also rejects the idea of deploying a neutral force along the border between Rwanda and the DRC to fight armed groups, saying it is likely to achieve the Balkanization of the DRC.
“If anyone should be accused of treason, it will certainly not President Joseph Kabila who is fighting for the country’s security, to drive out the enemies of our country.”
“I think it should participate in the work of demoralization of national opinion initiated by the Rwandan Minister of Defense, “said André Alain Atundu Liongo, part of the Presidential Majority and President of the Convention for the Democracy and the Republic (CDR).
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