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O 291522Z JUN 09
FM AMEMBASSY KINSHASA
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC IMMEDIATE 9808
INFO RUEHXR/RWANDA COLLECTIVE
RUCNSAD/SOUTHERN AF DEVELOPMENT COMMUNITY COLLECTIVE
RUEAIIA/CIA WASHDC
RHEFDIA/DIA WASHDC
RHMFISS/HQ USEUCOM VAIHINGEN GE
RUZEJAA/JAC MOLESWORTH RAF MOLESWORTH UK

UNCLAS KINSHASA 000616 
 
SENSITIVE 
SIPDIS 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: PGOV PREL MOPS CG
SUBJECT: PARECO-HUNDE RELUCTANT TO INTEGRATE 
 
¶1.  (SBU) Summary: The APCLS ("Alliance des Patriotes pour un Congo 
Libre" in French -- aka PARECO-Hunde) is reluctant to join the North 
Kivu integration process, ostensibly due to fears that newly 
FARDC-integrated members will be deployed outside of Hunde areas in 
North Kivu and leave their communities vulnerable to exploitation. 
APCLS and wider Hunde community suspicions of a deliberate, 
coordinated imposition of a Rwandophone political and economic 
dominance in North Kivu's "Petit Nord" will be an early test of the 
durability of the March peace agreements between the GDRC and armed 
groups.  End summary. 
 
¶2.  (SBU) The GDRC had issued a June 10 deadline for the APCLS 
("Alliance des Patriotes pour un Congo Libre" in French -- aka 
PARECO-Hunde) to integrate into the FARDC.  After the ACPLS refused 
to integrate, FARDC senior officers were able to mediate the 
participation of 300 APCLS members.  However, the FARDC allegedly 
plans to deploy integrated APCLS outside of North Kivu, which an 
ACPLS interlocutor told us was "unacceptable."  A large number of 
the ACPLS remain outside of the integration process, including 
"General" Janvier.  (Note:  Janvier claims to control 12,000 
members, whereas MONUC estimates the total force at 1,000.  End 
note.)  Janvier and his several hundred fighters may have 
participated in a June 16 attack on FARDC units - the FARDC response 
to the attack included PARECO-Hutu elements. 
 
¶3.  (SBU) The APCLS claims that the FARDC units deployed to Hunde 
areas in Masisi include former CNDP Tutsis.  (Note:  The FARDC 
commander in the area is a former CNDP lieutenant colonel.  End 
note.)  The group also suggested that Hunde property and physical 
security were at risk from Tutsi aspirations.  APCLS interlocutors 
also claimed that the joint FARDC-MONUC Operation Kimia II was a 
pretext to infiltrate Tutsis (recently integrated CNDP) into ethnic 
Hunde heartlands in North Kivu.  The ACPLS view themselves as the 
only obstacle between the newcomers and maintaining control of 
traditional Hunde lands. 
 
¶4.  (SBU) Comment:  APCLS reluctance may presage an increase in 
ethnic tensions caused by the ascendancy of Rwandophones in North 
Kivu, as Kinyarwanda speaking Hutus and Tutsis challenge ethnic 
Hunde, Nande and other groups for political, military, and economic 
dominance in the southern region of North Kivu.  The involvement of 
Hutu elements in the retaliatory attacks against APCLS may serve to 
reinforce the perception that Hunde interests are at risk to 
Rwandophone political and security aspirations.  The ability of the 
GDRC and FARDC to address the concerns of armed groups regarding the 
perceived benefits/costs of integration will determine if tensions 
rise or fall.  End comment.