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WHO KILLED KABILA?!
In the
wake of the requisition in the trial of the late President Laurent
Désiré Kabila's assassins, the question "Who
Killed Kabila?" still remains relevant. At least, the requisition
has established that the veritable assassins of the late Head of
State were among his own direct entourage; that former Mobutuists
who were waiting for the right opportunity to take revenge on Kibila
who chased Mobutu away from power, were involved; or even that it
confirmed indirectly the hypothesis that Kabila was killed by the
partisans of Ngandu Kisasse and Masasu Ningana (who launched the
rebellion together with Kabila to overthrow Mobutu. Ngandu Kisasse
was killed by the Rwandans, and Masasu was killed in Pweto at the
front line). Their partisans who were still part of the presidential
guards elite suspected Kabila to have known about their deaths.
The requisition also confirmed indirectly that Kabila might have
been killed as a result of a "family feud" between the
Lunda and the Balubakat family relatives of Kabila who surrounded
him, the two tribes from which Kabila stemmed from.
As a reminder, the attorney general Alamba heading
the Military Court Order pronounced deaths sentences against 115
convicts out of the 135 personnes accused of having organised
the assassination of President Laurent Désiré Kabila
on 16 January 2001, who it was said, was slain by Rachidi Kasereka,
one of his body guards. The President's chief of staff, Eddy Kapend,
who, over-ruling his military hierarchy, went to the television
to appeal for calm, and thereafter exterminated the 11 Lebanese
who were accomplices in the assassination is one of those against
whom capital punishment was pronounced. In fact, according to
the Belgian daily Le Soir, Kapend had earlier on made a trip to
France for "medical reasons", and when he came back,
he presented a $34,000 bill to Kabila to be paid from State coffers.
He did not know that Kabila had already been tipped by another
source that "a benefactor" to Kapend had already paid
the bill. Kabila told Kapend he could not be fooled and put him
in jail. He was later released and restored to his duties. May
be Kapend never forgave Kabila for this incident. Nono Lutula,
Kabila's special adviser on matters of security, Georges Leta
Mangasa, a former administrator of the National Intelligence Agency,
General Yav Nawej, superintendent of the Kinshasa garrison, as
well as another 30 officers and their subordinates, all close
guards of the late president, were all convicted for plotting
against the President and assassinating him. In addition, other
defendants were accused of various charges, such as, plot, betrayal
and abandoning their duty.
But this internal trial (that is on national level)
of the assassins of Congo's Second National Hero is just a tip
of an iceberg as it represents only a fraction of the truth. It
is well known that Congolese have always had the habit of acting
against the own national interest to the advantage of foreign
interests for which they have served as mere stooges. Mobutu's
neo-colonial regime as well as the true nature of a so-called
Congolese rebel movements of RCD and MLC today are perfect examples.
Having said that, the true conspirators and silent
partners of the heinous assassination of the late President Laurent
Désiré Kabila are found in the West, in Washingtion
to be precise, and we can afford to wait for another 40 years
before we get to know the truth about who killed Kabila, or until
those conspirators and silent partners open their archives 40
years later as in the case of the assassination of Emery Patrice
Lumumba. Let shout it from roof top right now! Kabila's assassinationwas
the outcome of an external conspiracy orchestrated from Washington
with the complicity of Kampala, Kigali, Pretoria (President Thabo
Mbeki said of Kabila: "The more time goes, the more we will
loose control of Kabila".), and Brazzaville; or even with
the complicity of Democratic Republic of Congo's own allies who
wanted to get rid of an intransigent ally (Kabila) who more and
more was getting the situation under control, and whom they consequently
found cumbersome. It is not a simple coincidence that the Angolan
President Eduardo do Santos sacked his chief of staff General
De Matos who was the chief of the contigent of Angolan troops
deployed in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
In his edition of 9 May 2001, the Belgian weekly,
Le Solidaire, made strong revelations that sum up all this theses.
According to the paper, Kabila's head cost $30 million. This money
which was discharged by "American secret agencies",
transited via Johannesburg and Brazzaville through a network of
banks until it reached Kinshasa and filled the pockets of Kabila's
inner presidential guards. The wife of a former General under
Mobutu distributed a lot of it. That is it. A dog does not wear
clothes, it is easy to tell which sex it is!
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