The death sentence submitted to former President Joseph Kabila has created a serious concern about the democratic Republic of Congo’s overall stability.
On Tuesday, a military court at DRC convicted Kabila in the absence of treason and war crimes – including murder, sexual harassment, torture and rebellion allegations.
Kabila is accused of supporting M23, which has been controlled by large parts of Eastern North and South Kivu provinces, where the rebellious group has established its administration.
In addition to being sent for death, Kabila has been ordered to pay about $ 33 billion (€ 28 billion) to the National Government and the provinces of North and South Kivu.
President Felix Teskedi has gone publicly accusing Kabila of being masterminded behind the armed M23 group, which has been denied by Kabila.
Fear of peace process collapses
Many supporters of Kabila believe that the ruling is politically motivated and says that punishment can derail peace efforts.
“We are very worried about the punishment of [Joseph Kabila] By the military court, “Roger Mavinihaira, a DRC politician formed an alliance with Kabila, told DW.” This can end the process of peacefully resolving the political and safety crisis of the council. ,
MWiniHire said the ruling reduced diplomatic efforts to resolve the struggle in Eastern DRC, which has been in its present form, has been furious since 2022.
“We regret that our government is not extracting the results of the important decisions that are currently taken in Kinshasa,” said.
Ramazani Shadri, general secretary of Kabila’s People’s Party for Ricunction and Democracy, told DW that the ruling “is an adventure by the judiciary.”
“This is a sham test declared by the institutions of a dictatorial regime,” Heer said, he believes that the decision is part of a Loveder Clampdown on opposition to politics.
“For us, it is a clear dictatorship of the current dictatorship that it is the existing dictatorship to end and neutralize the actor of politics,” he said, “For the actor who is more indispensable than the Democratic Republic of Congo.”
Call for accountability
Some workers support the ruling. Souzy Kisuki told DW that Kabila is “playing an important role in the M23 rebellion – and hence deserves this conviction.”
“Our common desire in the form of congress will be to see the tribe because we are bound by it. Since 2014, they have been nominated as the mastermind of civilian massacres in Beni,” Kisuki referred to a region with Kivu province, saying that 2,000 people have been violently killed by various rebel forces.
Kisuki said that the punishment will be implemented at any time: “For me, this is a non-phenomenon, because the present President of the Republic has announced that there is no justice in the DRC,” he said.
Political analyst Bob Kabba echoed Kisuki’s suspicion, highlighted the fact that the DRC has a long history of the sentences of uncontrolled death and to connect the tribe where -bearouts are unknown.
“Therefore it can be assumed that this punishment of death, like others, cannot be excluded,” Kabba said.
A long -term rivalry
Kabila appeared in May in the rebel-accepted eastern Congo, where he tried the media in the ongoing peace process, for an attempt that the authorities in Kinshasa were allegedly angered.
Mvemba Phezo Dizole of the Center for Strategic and International Studies told DW that the military testing of the clan has identified the climax of the long -standing rivalry between clan and Teskedi, who had placed them in a role.
“This is a culmination of friction that began on time when President TsiskD became the head of the Congo,” said, “Warning of the widespread implications of the decision.”
“DRC is a country that has now been in infection for a long time,” D.L. said. “There are tremendous consequences of the ruling. It is clear that it is going to bring a lot of frustration among the supporters of Joseph Kabila.”
Despite the long tenure of Cabila as President and despite the fact that he still enjoys some popularity in some parts of the population, D.L. is not believed that the punishment will trigger large disturbance, as most of the congregations see the Cabila as a disappointed:
“Hey in power for 18 years, and he did not distribute to the country,” D.L. said. “So people are not going to rally in their defense.”
In any incident, punishment against Kabila is no longer likely to return to the country.
Edited by: Sartar Sanderson