Since the 2000s, many former rebel leaders and their fighters have been promoted into the army and police in the DRC. Some are even in command of large units and have reached the highest military positions. This Tuesday afternoon, while the government must continue negotiations with dozens of armed groups active in the east, the Assembly adopted a resolution imposing limits on the government in the negotiations.
With our correspondent in Kinshasa, Pascal Mulegwa
The subject was added to the agenda at the last minute. The majority of the deputies present, after debate, adopted the resolution.
The Assembly explains that it wants to protect the security forces from infiltration and other consequences resulting from the repeated processes of mixing and mixing of armed groups. The text first designates the March 23 Movement (M23), as a ” terrorist movement supported in the DRC by Rwanda.
Its fighters and those of other armed groups will not be able to join the armed forces, the police and any other security service. Deputies took the floor to castigate this moratorium which, according to them, hinders certain negotiations in progress between the authorities and the armed groups.
But for the President of the National Assembly, Christophe Mboso, this resolution does not close the door to political negotiations, it simply determines the limits. Several civil society actors have welcomed this position, but plead for it to be extended to the refusal to grant amnesty and the abandonment of proceedings.
Resolutions which can only hold if the army takes over the armed groups in the east of the country, indicated a deputy of the defense and security commission of the National Assembly.
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