From: "Michel Collon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2001 10:19:08 +0100 To: undisclosed-recipients:; Subject: Congo Declaration of CPP Article published in the Congolese newspaper "L'Avenir" of 13th February 2001 For a good understanding : the CPP [Comités du Pouvoir populaire, Committees of Popular Power] were founded by Kabila at the beginning of 1998. We have translated before the two speeches in which Kabila explains the orientation and the purpose of these Committees. The speeches are available at http://lai-aib.org/congo. They are important for progressive people to read, because they clarify the current political conflict between the left wing and right wing forces in Kinshasa. After Kabila's death, Mr. Sakombi who was in charge of the leadership that was supposed to build up the CPP declared that the CPP should be dissolved or transformed into a political party. Sakombi is Minister of Information. At the same time the Congolese people know him as a former great ideologue of the Mobutu-regime. Therefore he is not loved at all. This declaration drawn up by grass-roots responsible people of the CPP is in fact a declaration of war to Sakombi and refers to the revolutionary orientation of the CPP that was given by Kabila. We appreciate your reactions Tony Busselen, Int'l Dept. WPB, specialist on the Congo A Congress of the CPP to stop Sakombi's tricks As revolutionaries and followers of Kabila, as cadres of the CPP [Committee of Popular Power] responsible on the district, institute and General Secretariat level, we take the initiative of this declaration that we submit to all accounting persons of the CPP. We call for all those who agree to this declaration to sign it and to propagate it. Let us carry on the work of national liberation undertaken by our national Hero Comrade M'zee Laurent-Désiré Kabila. We have been deeply affected by the cowardly assassination of President Kabila. This crime has been committed exactly forty years, day for day, after the murder of his illustrious predecessor Patrice Lumumba. Kabila in fight The whole Congolese People and in particular the CPP will remember forever the persistence of Comrade Kabila during the fight he led from 1960 to 1996 against the establishment of neo-colonialism in the Congo and against Mobutu's neo-colonial dictatorship. They will remember forever his clever leadership during the war of liberation, which managed eventually to throw away Mobutu's dictatorship, and at one blow of Mobutu himself who was still sitting in place seven years after the beginning of the transition period. The Congolese People and the CPP shall never forget the efforts, that late President Kabila made during the first year of nationalist power in order to restore security, to rebuild the State, to stabilise the currency, to revive economy and guarantee the public goods. The United States tried to impede this irresistible upturn for the liberation of our People by waging a war of aggression actually led by Rwanda and Uganda. President Kabila devoted himself entirely to the cause of defence of the Motherland, to build up a patriotic army and support the popular war in order to expel the invaders and bring back independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity. The CPP, loyal to the feelings of the whole population have been shocked and outraged by which easiness the dear President could have been killed. We ask for that the team composed of Congolese and allied inquisitors works thoroughly and quickly to clear out all implications in the plot and all promoters. The whole population agrees that this hot question is extremely urgent. Actually if they failed to be exposed the plotters and the promoters will carry on their criminal activities as long as the national uproar, presently led by President Joseph Kabila, has not succumbed. The People demands that the inquiry ends up rapidly in order to help the new President to carry on steadily on the path showed by M'zee Laurent-Désiré Kabila towards full national independence. The signatories of this Declaration think that it is necessary to enlarge the whole inquiry to all institutions of the Republic, which failed in their mission to sustain and protect the President in his struggle against the aggression and for sovereignty and economical and political independence of the Congo. Moment of Analysis The disorganisation, incompetence and negligence, which are widespread in many services of the government, in the security organs, in the army and police contributed in making the crime possible. The time has come to make a critical analysis of the performance of all services playing a role in the defence of the country and in the protection of all Congolese people and especially of their President. The revolutionary cadres of the CPP feel concerned and ask to be involved in this thorough analysis of the weaknesses of the State. Confidence in Joseph Kabila We are pleased of the investiture of Major-General Joseph Kabila to the Presidency of the Republic and insure him of the vigorous support of all popular masses in the Capital. We are confident that the President Joseph Kabila will carry on loyally the revolutionary struggle set off by his father 40 years ago and which reached its climax in the nationalist, anti-imperialist and popular orientation conveyed to the country from May 17th 1997 until his death. President Kabila was the promoter of the social project of the CPP as well as their President, therefore we regard already President Joseph Kabila as our president until it is officially designated in a solemn ceremony. The revolutionary cadres of the CPP are deeply convinced that President Joseph Kabila heading the State, the People has the guaranty that the nationalist revolutionary line impulsed by our national Hero M'zee Laurent-Désiré Kabila will be carried on until achievement of political and economical independence of the Congo. Presently the first task of all security organs, of the CPP and of all Congolese patriots is to insure the security of the new President against all plots. The CPP are well aware of the suspicion of the population towards the satellite persons of M'zee Laurent-Désiré Kabila, whose incompetence made the crime possible. The CPP express the will of the whole population that President Joseph Kabila can have total freeness in seeking his own collaborators. The CPP express the wish of the population that President Joseph Kabila take due time to gather a team of high secretaries, who should be professionally very competent, rigorous in financial matters and take on decidedly the defence of the popular masses of the Country. The signatories engaged in the Committees of Popular Power swear to support the efforts of the Congolese Armed Forces and of the Forces of Popular Self-Defence to throw away the aggressors and the forces of occupation. It is an absolute priority and its realisation should unite all Congolese patriots. Dialogue among Congolese people As long as this criminal war of aggression, which is killing as much as 100,000 Congolese people each month, is lasting on we are in favour of a Dialogue among all Congolese Patriots who want to unite and fight so that the aggressors and the forces of occupation withdraw immediately and unconditionally. The UN Charter guarantees the sacred right of the aggressed Congo to defend itself until the last forces of occupation leave the Congolese territory. The two resolutions 1234 and 1332 of the UN council confirmed this sacred right and designated Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi as aggressing countries. President Joseph Kabila just called for all patriots "to resist and defend the national territory" in order to force "the regular armies of Rwanda, Uganda and Burundi to withdraw immediately and unconditionally from Congolese soil". President Joseph Kabila also declared: "To our brothers and sisters living in occupied territories, I express my solidarity in the struggle that you are leading for the liberation of the country". We insure the President that we pledge ourselves to strengthen and accelerate the establishment of the Forces of Popular Self-Defence. President Kabila had followed this strategic initiative with interest during his last months. The neo-colonialist politicians, who strive to impose a so-called inter-Congolese dialogue under the armed menace of aggressors and forces of occupation, in order to disorganise the national patriotic forces and to seize "lucrative" positions are direct accomplices of Kagame, Museveni and of their American masters. The revolutionary cadres of the CPP will fight with all strength the traitors to the Motherland who try to use the opportunity of the assassination of President Kabila to help the aggressors and rebels to subvert the nationalist government and the CPP. We have been deeply shocked by the provocation of some politicians of the Mobutu time, who urge to get back in office and reset the neo-colonial yoke as in Mobutu time. Even before the body of the late President was buried, these men obsessed by power had already initiated heinous campaigns against the authorities, which were just managing to lead the country over this critical period. They encouraged to carrying demonstrations and insurrections pretending that "liberty should be grasped". The revolutionary cadres of the CPP will do everything to stop these provocateurs of civil war and restaurateurs of the former neo-colonial order. The Popular Power is the strategic initiative of President Kabila; it is the carrier of his project for a nationalist, democratic and popular society. The main task delivered to the CPP by President Kabila is to solve once and for all the question of the colonial and neo-colonial State. In all revolutions the central question is the one of the nature of the State. President Kabila stressed that all along since the time of Leopold II until the present the Congolese People has been subjugated under the repression and terror of a dictatorial state committed to defend the interests of imperialist big-powers. After the formal independence in 1960 the former State continued its dictatorship directed against every popular masses that claimed a radical upturn. The change was purely formal; the former white colonialists at the head of the State were simply replaced by black collaborators committed to their cause. M'zee Laurent-Désiré Kabila indicated that the former neo-colonial state has been kept to serve foreign interests and also to a minor strata of the high bourgeoisie which was acting as proxy of western big-powers. The historical aim of the CPP is to create a state of a new type built up from the basis, from the street, the quarter, the district, the village up to the province and the national level. The new state should oppose to every kind of imperialist control as well as to all Congolese fractions committed to foreign interests. The new State of Popular Democracy shall be under steady control of the People to guarantee that it keeps acting in the interests of the People. Mechanisms should be implemented to prevent the bearers of the new state of reintroducing the methods of the neo-colonial state, its repression against the people and its subordination to foreign economical interests. The CPP have to ensure the permanency of the popular revolution in order for the Congolese people to actually govern and move steadily forward towards its complete liberation in political, economical and cultural matters. The Popular Power only is able to build up Only such a State led and controlled by the popular masses will be able to guarantee the reconstruction of the country in an independent way and for the single benefit of 55 millions of Congolese people. Only this State of Popular Power will be able to build up an independent and mighty national economy, an industry and agriculture planned for the benefit of the workers, peasants, employees and intellectuals that Comrade Kabila dreamt of. Only a state of Popular Power shall guarantee that all wished relations of co-operation with all countries of the World will be based on principles of strict equality, of non-intervention and mutual profit. The kabilian revolutionaries and cadres of the CPP express their worry that some governing people question the further role of the CPP and thus the achievement of President Kabila. The CPP have not been granted the right to talk at the mourning ceremony of the late Chief of the Congolese Revolution, of Comrade Kabila, who was also the initiator of the Popular Power and the President of the CPP. The CPP have not been associated as it should have been done in the Legislative and Constitutional Assembly to proclaim together, in the name of the People, the investiture of Major-General Joseph Kabila to the Presidency of the Republic. Several presidents of the CPP and FAP (Forces d'Auto-défense Populaire = People's forces for self-defence) have been denied the right to enter in the Palace of the Nation during the ceremony of investiture of the President. We noted also that some, which previously spoke eloquently to glorify the CPP when President Kabila was still alive, now seemingly, want to get rid of the CPP when their founding member died. Kabila, our Hero We solemnly declare, in the name of the nationalist People, who massively demonstrate at the burial ceremony of the late Comrade President: to rid the CPP means to liquidate the whole political heritage of Laurent-Désiré Kabila, our national Hero. We maintain in front of all Africa that President Kabila has not died, that his legacy is living on and will live on in the actions of the Committees of Popular Power. The two millions of inhabitants of Kinshasa who demonstrated on the streets to render homage to President Kabila thus expressed the determination of the whole Congolese People not to allow that its achievement be dismissed by those who want to subject again the Congo to neo-colonial domination. We affirm categorically that the Congolese People woke up thanks to the teachings of President Kabila. The People will not permit that imperialism put back its claws on the Congo through its local agents. We call the Congolese to vigilance against the enemy of the work and achievement of our national Hero M'zee Laurent-Désiré Kabila, whose project of society, the CPP, are a key stone. We pledge ourselves to re-give vigour to the action of the CPP in order to set on with force the historical achievement introduced by President Kabila who fell as a martyr under the bullets of neo-colonialist forces. In order to affirm clearly this pledge and this new dynamical movement, we propose to hold a Congress of the CPP in the very near future. Only the Congress can in the present situation reaffirm in all light the orientation set by President Kabila. The Congress is also the right place to make a balance of our activity, to take decisions in order to improve the formation and the lead of the basis and to elect the directing organs. 6th February 2001 List of signatories as of 13th Feb. 2001 1) Lusikwila, CPP/N'djili 2) Jean Beya, CPP/Nsele 3) Nsuka Aimé, CPP/Bandundu 4) Déogratias Mubalama, CPP/Kivu 5) Anumu, General Secretary 6) Athanga Désiré, General Secretary 7) Tshitembo, Cadre of the General Sector 8) Me Mushid Nduwa, General Secretary 9) Jacques Lukumani, CPP/Maniema 10) Célestin Zulumba, CPP/North-Kivu 11) Jean-Pierre Lutobu, CPP/Equator 12) Donat Mwanza Shikayi, CPP/Western Kasai 13) Mbala Ngambil, CPP/Kimbanseke *The End Article published in the Congolese newspaper "L'Avenir" of 13th February 2001 _________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. 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