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To: Gofer who wrote (190)	8/4/1998 6:06:00 PM
From: Imran	Respond to of 486

gofer, here is something i posted on the AMZ thread earlier on about the situation. hope it helps. _________________________ i have read all of your replies and the articles you have posted. there is nothing there that we here in kinshasa don't already know. i had mentioned that the govt was looking for those rwandan soldiers not wanting to leave, so it is obvious that you will find dead bodies on the street the next morning, as they might resist arrest. the new "rebels" are almost all made up of the banyamulenge and rwandan soldiers, not the whole army. for if the whole army were supporting the revolt, i would not be typing this right now. i don't want to say anything that will spur rumours so i will just say that things are calm in kinshasa since this morning. there is still some firing/fighting going on, but we will see the results in the morning. we are well into the curfew hours since it is about 7:45 pm right now. we receive foreign news services here like cnn, bbc, and other european channels, and i must say that i don't like the cnn reports on congo. i have found BBC world to be more accurate, along with the european services. also, AMZ management tried to meet with the govt officials today but were unsuccessful- they were turned back. it seems they are pretty upset, but the govt had no choice, seeing that national security is more important. lets see what happens next. remember, the media always exaggerates the situation, so it is better to keep things in perspective and not believe everything that anyone says blindly. by the way, i wonder when howard french is coming to kinshasa (to report from here)? I don't think that a coup was possible: Kabila has sound control in Kinshasa and most of the country. keep in mind that the areas under the control of the mutinous soldiers are in the east, and most of those soldiers are from that area. these soldiers are mainly made up of banyamulenge, who are ethnic tutsis (a tribe with roots in rwanda) that have been living in the mountains bordering rwanda. when the colonial rulers- belgium- created the borders of the countries that became congo, rwanda, and burundi, they split the mountain region in half, making some tutsis to be inhabitants of congo. (this explains their ties and roots to rwandan tutsis). these tutsis, now called banyamulenge, had been persecuted by the mobutu dictatorship and hence played a crucial role in toppling that regime. they were also helped by their rwandan tutsi kinsmen. however, of late, these banyamulenge have been upset- presumably- that they are not being given as many important govt positions that they expected. also, their rwandan kinsmen who were part of the AFDL forces have been ordered to leave the country, although they didn't want to. this includes top army commanders (some whose names are given in news reports). thus, it is mainly these banyamulenge elements of the army and the rwandan tutsis (who were on a sort of quasi contract basis in the army) that are causing this uprising, not the whole army and population (of which they are a very small minority). this is a delicate matter indeed, and whether they have the support of the whole army and country needs to be seen. so far, the rwandan govt denies taking part in any of this, saying that this is purely an internal congolese problem. imran