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DRC: Rebellion might become a Congolese characteristic

By on April 8, 2010
The rebel attack over Mbandaka, Equateur province, is probably the one of too many undesired insurgencies in a country still healing the wounds of his ravaging wars that had become one of its most conspicuous characteristics.

The DRC is turning in a country where anything is possible. How can you rationally explain that these fishermen who spend most of their time to handle the net and the trap be overnight “experimented rebels”, in possession of a heavy military weapons which they use to terrorise peaceful people? The answer lies behind the free movement of weapons in this part of Africa. Thus, it would be a pure illusion to pretend that the DRC could alone have any control on this phenomenon. The weapons are proliferating in this part of the continent where many neighboring countries to the DRC were or still are at war time, and where the various Congolese warlords find answers to their logistic requests and sources of supply. Even a more professional and well structured army would have great difficulties to crisscross effectively this vast country. Paradoxically, this new surge of rebellion comes at a time when President Kabila is calling for the 22 000 MONUC soldiers to withdrawal, while the regular Congolese Army is not able yet to reduce all the tensions that make the country a tinderbox.

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