COMMENTS BY CSE DIRECTOR NONO LUTULA ON THE STATUS OF THE INVESTIGATION OF THE ASSASSINATION OF DROC PRESIDENT LAURENT-DESIRE KABILA AND EXPECTATIONS OF CSE'S ROLE IN THE ADMINISTRATION OF JOSEPH KABILA

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 06692059
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• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2022
• Document Release Date: September 18, 2017
• Case Number: F-2016-00031
• Publication Date: February 23, 2001

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SUBJ: COMMENTS BY CSE DIRECTOR NONO LUTULA ON THE STATUS OF
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LAURENT-DESIRE KABILA AND EXPECTATIONS OF CSE'S ROLE IN
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THE NATIONAL SECURITY COMMITTEE (CSE) AND A MEMBER OF THE
COMMISSION INVESTIGATING THE ASSASSINATION OF FORMER DEMOCRATIC
REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO (DROC) PRESIDENT LAURENT-DESIRE KABILA, TOLD
CSE STAFF THAT THE ASSASSINATION WAS CARRIED OUT BY TWO MEMBERS OF
THE PRESIDENT'S CLOSE PROTECTION DETAIL, IN A CONSPIRACY THAT
LUTULA CLAIMED HAD BEEN ORGANIZED OUTSIDE OF THE DROC.
COMMENT: LUTULA DID NOT IDENTIFY WHERE THE CONSPIRACY HAD BEEN
ORGANIZED OR BY WHOM.) LUTULA IDENTIFIED THE ASSASSINS AS
"RACHIDI" AND GEORGES ((MIRINDI)), BOTH MEMBERS OF THE BASHI TRIBE
AND CLOSE TO FORMER CONGOLESE ARMED FORCES COMMANDANT ANSELME
((MASASU)) NINDANGA, WHO WAS EXECUTED ON KABILA'S ORDERS IN
NOVEMBER 2000. COMMENT: RACHIDI IS RACHID
KASAREKA, WHO WAS NAMED IN PRESS REPORTS AS THE PRESIDENTIAL
BODYGUARD WHO FIRED THE SHOTS THAT KILLED KABILA ON 16 JANUARY
2001.)
2. ACCORDING TO LUTULA, MIRINDI HAD BEEN INTERROGATED
NONO ((LUTULA)), DIRECTOR OF
PREVIOUSLY BY FORMER DIRECTOR OF THE NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
(ANR)1', EMILE ((KANENGELE)), WHO HAD PREPARED A REPORT ON MIRINDI
AND HIS RELATIONSHIP TO MASASU; THIS REPORT APPEARS NOT TO HAVE
BEEN ACTED UPON AT THE TIME. LUTULA ALSO SAID THAT COMMUNICATION
BETWEEN KABILA'S CLOSE PROTECTION DETAIL AND OTHER DROC SECURITY
ORGANIZATIONS HAD BROKEN DOWN BECAUSE OF MISTRUST AND
MISCOMMUNICATION, WHICH LUTULA BLAMED ON THE CLOSE PROTECTION
DETAIL'S "MISTRUST" OF ANR AND CSE AND A "RUPTURE" OF
COLLABORATION BETWEEN THEM.
3. LOOKING AHEAD, LUTULA SAID THAT PRESIDENT JOSEPH
((KABILA)) WOULD CONSULT WITH THE CSE IN THE FORMATION OF A NEW
GOVERNMENT AND THAT THE ORGANIZATION WOULD NEED TO PROVE ITSELF TO
THE NEW PRESIDENT AS A RELIABLE SOURCE OF INFORMATION. IDTULA
SAID THAT CSE WAS EXPECTED TO HELP JOSEPH KABILA TO BECOME A
STATESMAN AND TO TAKE POLITICAL POSITIONS THAT WOULD ENHANCE HIS
STATURE BOTH INSIDE AND OUTSIDE DROC.
4. LUTULA STATED THAT THE 1999 LUSAKA ACCORDS NEEDED TO BE
REVISED AND THAT THEY HAD BECOME A SIGNIFICANT HANDICAP ON DROC.
LUTULA CLAIMED THAT THE ACCORDS HAD BEEN FORMULATED BY THE U.S.
AND THAT THEY HAD GIVEN MEMBERS OF REBEL FACTIONS EQUAL STATUS AS
THE HEADS OF THE STATES INVOLVED. LUTULA SAID THAT 30 OF THE 50
REBELS WHO HAD SIGNED THE ACCORDS HAD LEFT THE REBELLION, AND HE
SAID THAT THE CONGOLESE GOVERNMENT NEEDED TO SUBORN THESE FORMER
REBELS IN ORDER TO OBTAIN A MAJORITY AND, THEREFORE, CONTROL ANY
EVENTUAL INTERCONGOLESE POLITICAL DIALOGUE.
5. COMMENT: DURING THE EARLIEST STAGES OF THE
INVESTIGATION, THE COMMISSION OF INQUIRY WAS MARKED BY A LACK OF
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EVEN BASIC INFORMATION ON THE ASSASSINATION, POSSIBLE
PERPETRATORS. THERE WERE NO DOCUMENTATION IDENTIFYING THE MEMBERS
OF KABILAS DETAIL, THEIR WEAPONS AND PROCEDURES, OR EVEN THE
LAYOUT OF THE "MARBLE PALACE" WHERE THE ASSASSINATION TOOK
PLACE.)
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