The report builds on an earlier investigation of Rwandan support for the rebels (AC Vol 53 No 13 Kigali's hand in the Kivus & US 'protecting' Rwada) but comes to firmer conclusions: it states that M23’s Congolese leaders Bosco Ntaganda and Sultani Makenga are under the direct command of Rwanda’s General Charles Kayonga answering to the Minister of Defence General James Kabarebe...
Kinshasa’s only response has been to issue arrest warrants for M23 leader Sultani Makenga Kazarama and Bosco Ntaganda...
The report by a UN Panel of Experts details constant communications between two rebel leaders Jean-Bosco Ntaganda former Commander of the Congrès national pour la défense du peuple (CNDP) and M23 leader Sultani Makenga and all Rwanda’s most senior military officers apart from President Paul Kagame: Defence Minister General James Kabarebe; the Permanent Secretary of the Defence Ministry Gen...
’ His office said that M23’s leadership includes Colonel Sultani Makenga a former rebel leader accused of killing civilians and recruiting child soldiers and Jean-Bosco Ntaganda an army general wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) on charges of war crimes of using children in combat...
Sultani Makenga a CNDP officer said to lead a separate mutineer force known as the Mouvement du 23 mars (M23)...
Vol 53 No 11 |
- CONGO-KINSHASA
M23 is led by Colonel Sultani Makenga who defected from the FARDC on 4 May (AC Vol 51 No 2 Problems on the home front)...
It passed the order on to the field commander Colonel Sultani Makenga but the fierce Nkunda-loyalist would deliver his troops only with Nkunda's permission...