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UNCLAS SECTION 01 OF 02 KINSHASA 000589 
 
SENSITIVE 
SIPDIS 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: PGOV PREL PHUM MOPS KPKO CG
SUBJECT: EASTERN DRC NOTES -- JUNE 22 
 
¶1. (U) The information contained in this cable consists 
principally of spot reports from various sources.  This cable 
is not exhaustive, nor can all the information contained 
therein be confirmed at this time 
 
Security situation in Haut Uele 
------------------------------- 
 
¶2.  (SBU) An NGO source told us that on June 18 the LRA 
killed a man three kilometers from Awagon.  The LRA also 
brutally massacred a father and his two sons on June 17 at 
Mandara, 15 kilometers east of the Watsa-Faradje axis.  The 
night of June 17-18 the LRA exchanged fire with UPDF/FARDC 
forces near Tadu.  Since June 1, according to our contact, 
the LRA has killed nine people along the Watsa-Faradje axis. 
 
¶3.  (SBU) DDRRR will soon open an office in Dungu to 
facilitate repatriation of LRA to Uganda.  The office will 
utilize a transmitter to broadcast messages urging LRA cadres 
to defect and to provide instructions for seeking safe haven. 
 Other transmitters will broadcast from inside Uganda and 
southern Sudan in an effort to blanket the areas where the 
LRA operates.  (Comment: This represents a significant 
expansion of DDRRR operations that could help counter LRA 
propaganda that abductees cannot safely return to their 
communities.  End comment.) 
 
Security situation in the Kivus 
------------------------------- 
 
¶4.  (SBU) The FARDC clashed with the APCLS (PARECO-Hunde) 
north of Nyabiondo on June 17, resulting in five FARDC 
killed.  There were no estimates of APCLS casualties.  Many 
APCLS (estimated in mid-April at 614) were relocated to 
Mutera and joined the integration process.  Conflict in the 
area has reportedly unleashed a flood of new IDPs now heading 
for the Masisi area. 
 
¶5.  (SBU) MONUC announced it would no longer facilitate the 
integration of armed groups in North Kivu.  MONUC and the 
GDRC continued to accept militia members for almost two 
months past the formal closure of the North Kivu integration 
centers.  North Kivu armed groups who want to join the 
process will now have to travel to South Kivu integration 
centers. 
 
¶6.  (SBU) Seven men were reportedly abducted by the FDLR from 
the village of Kamitungu.  MONUC is attempting to verify a 
report that eight villages were burned by the FDLR in the 
vicinity of Luzira (west of Kalehe). 
 
Integration and release of imprisoned combatants 
--------------------------------------------- --- 
 
¶7.  (SBU) A FARDC source reports that 900 Mai Mai militia 
troops in Kindu want to integrate into the FARDC.  MONUC 
sources verified that two militia groups, Blanga and 
Kalole-Bikenga, have come forward for integration, but their 
numbers are not confirmed.  The integration option has not 
been extended to Maniema Province during the current phase of 
conflict in the eastern DRC. 
 
¶8.  (SBU) Radio Okapi reported June 22 that approximately 100 
imprisoned North and South Kivu armed group combatants, whose 
detention has been terminated by the Minister of Justice 
under the terms of the 2009 amnesty law, cannot leave DRC 
prisons in Kinshasa, Kamina, Goma and Bukavu until 
arrangements for integration into the FARDC or civil society 
have been completed.  Local Human rights NGO VSV hailed the 
release of those illegally detained, but cautioned that the 
amnesty does not cancel responsibility for criminal acts. 
 
DRC criticizes UN coordination 
------------------------------ 
 
¶9.  (SBU) Government Spokesman and Information and Media 
Minister Lambert Mende told Radio Okapi June 22 that the 
recent letter to the UN Security Council and Secretary 
General from DRC UN ambassador Ileka Itoka did not call into 
question the work of the UN agencies in the DRC, but noted a 
lack of coordination and the need to improve the clarity and 
visibility of UN efforts.  Mende noted that the UN funds are 
entrusted to the implementing agency rather than the GDRC, 
which retards the capacity building necessary for the 
democratically elected DRC institutions.  He said the letter 
represented a "positive and friendly criticism" of the UN 
 
KINSHASA 00000589  002 OF 002 
 
 
agencies work in the DRC. 
BROCK