Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 20, 2004, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press sunday june 20, 2004 perspective b5 Congo coup bid merely a con War hardened citizens Call maj. Lenges play a political ploy elections loom As Early As next june and come from rebel movements that were by Marc Lacey the recent outbreaks of violence Are seen trying until recently to take Power by As opening salvos. Dictatorship has Force. There Are 60 ministers and 620 k Kinshasa Congo ? what Hap trumped democracy for much of Congo a parliament members representing a opened Here in the wee hours of history despite an Active civil society dozen factions. The unwieldy arrange june 11 had All the earmarks of that has cockeyed hard Over the years ment was intended to help the country a coup soldiers stormed into the gov for a say in the country a affairs. Get its footing after the Long War. Ern ment radio station took Over and we have to expect the worst said Lenges 2 . Radio broadcast was but announced Over the air that they were Jean Pierre Rosala 42, a teacher turned one sign that peace remained an elusive Congo running the country. Street Hawker who doubts the election goal. He had been assigned to the presi we Are ready to turn this City into a will be held. Dental guard an elite Force whose Pri president Battlefield threatened maj. Eric Lenge there Are some Mary Mission is to keep Kabilka alive. Joseph the ringleader urging people to stay politicians who Are since the failed coup he has become a Kabilka took you wanted indoors remain Calm and wait for fur afraid that the fugitive although the governments Pur Over in 2001 ther instructions. Elections might not me to take a suit seems half hearted. After his but congolese know their coups and go their Way. Noth jeep with a after his group took control of the father was few believe this was a real Effort to top ing would Surprise radio station they moved on through the gun and Start assassinated. Ple president Joseph Kabilka. Rather me streets to the Power station and plunged he has had they say it was subterfuge a political the civil War chasing him the capital into darkness. Then he and to contend game an elaborate ploy to throw a Chat that engulfed his renegades went to a military base ? pop pop with much in country into even More confusion. Congo in 1998 was near the Airport near the Congo River. The government swiftly announced finally quelled five pop pop the government then announced that it turmoil and that it had put Down the coup and that years later. At its had the base and Lenge surrounded. Violence in Lenge had fled. But some opposition worst the fighting ? Gen. Liwanag but he and his few dozen followers the country newspapers suggest that an ally of Kabi Drew in Angola Mata Nyamu Nobo still escaped in a Convoy of jeeps. The Over the past la May have orchestrated the whole Zimbabwe and defends handling of government then announced that it had three thing to allow the president to solidify Namibia on the Lenge coup attempt a helicopter tracking him. But Lenge months. His Power. Side of the govern was spotted driving through the City Congo has endured plenty of turmoil in ment and Uganda always Well out of reach of the pursuing the last three months. It continues to try and Rwanda As backers of rebel forces. Soldiers. In an interview. You wanted me to take to put Down an armed rebellion in the in All an estimated three million people eventually he got away. The govern a jeep with a gun and Start chasing him East led by military commanders who died. Ment announced at one Point that he was ? pop pop pop pop is that How a Gen have refused to join a National army. The Congo a government was shaken but near the Border with Angola. A week eral acts damage from a recent outbreak of riot never ousted. The signing of a peace Deal later government officials said he and the Ham handed Pursuit is just one ing is still visible around Kinshasa the in South Africa last year has ended most his followers were still in the capital and Factor that has raised questions in the capital and an armed uprising at the end of the fighting but has not erased the were responsible for some Early morn minds of Many congolese about Lenges of March attributed to former loyalists enmity. Congo a relationship with Rwan ing gunfire heard outside the . Escapade. Why would a Man who was so of the longtime dictator Mobutu sese a remains particularly tense. Ambassadors residence. Close to Kabilka who stood by his Side seko left residents huddled in their for now a transitional government is the country Stop military Man Gen. Protecting him not just shoot him if he Homes. Ruling Congo. Kabilka who took Over in Liwanag Mata Nyamu Nobo bristles at wanted to topple the government Why but what worries the Battle hardened 2001 after his father was assassinated criticism of the Way the coup was Han would a Mere major try to pull off such congolese most Are the crises to come. Has four vice presidents two of whom led. You think i did to react he asked a stunt with a few dozen men in a City full of soldiers the theories Are Many. Lenge was known for his aggressive ways and maybe he grew angry at his Patron the president and acted impulsively. 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