Who are the suspected actors behind the lumumbashi's bakata katanga movie of the ended weekend.

Branding portraits of their ′′ guru ′′ Gédéon Kyungu Muntanga called ′′ Nkambo ′′ and the ′′ flag of the Republic of Katanga ", the Mayi ′′ Bakata Katanga ′′ made them speak again in Lubumbashi. And this is a gunshot. On Friday 25th and Saturday 26th September they broke into the city. Their objective was clearly to seize RTNC (national radio) and provincial government headquarters. Provisional update: 16 militiamen and 3 police elements killed.

Who pulls the strings? Asking the question is answering it. The spectacular escape of ′′ Gideon ′′ from the so-called ′′ high security ′′ prison in La Kasapa on September 7, 2011 and his ′′ surrender ", equally outstanding, on October 11, 2016-en Presence of former Governor of H-Katanga Jean-Claude Musonda Kazembe and Kalev Mutond, then number one of the National Intelligence Agency - are indicative. According to Lush sources, John Numbi's farm was said to have served as a ' stash ' before the foray under review.

On March 28, after another foray by his militiamen into the capital of Haut Katanga, ′′ Gideon ′′ had flown away from the villa that ′′ someone ′′ rented for him in the very chic Golf District in Lubumbashi.

At a ministerial cabinet meeting he chaired in early April, Felix Tshisekedi Tshilombo ordered the ex-militian leader to be 'stalked' and escaped from Kasapa prison. His pursuers are delayed to report on their mission. ′′ The investigation is still underway ", according to the consecrated formula. Sabotage? Connivence?

Ministry of Interior, Fulbert Kunda

Six months later, the Bakata Kanta took a bloody ′′ new walk ′′ in the ex-copper capital. ′′ They wanted to raise the flag of the Republic of Katanga instead of Moïse Tshombe, occupying national television and the provincial government headquarters say consistent sources.

Lubumbashi is the second largest city in the country. It appears that the provincial management of the National Intelligence Agency (ANR) didn't see anything coming. General police intelligence and ex-Demiap (military intelligence), same. complicity seems certain with the ′′ string shooters ".

IS IT ′′ KABILA ′′ AND JOHN NUMBI ?

It's hard to imagine that two to three hundred individuals can accomplish, at night, several kilometres on foot without attracting any attention from the public safety services. This all happened on Friday 25. th.

Correspondent of Radio France International in Lubumbashi, journalist Denise Maheho did not fail to surprise the listeners who followed her ′′ ticket ′′ during the newspaper spoken on Saturday 26 at 12 TU. She claimed, with a point of bad faith, that the Bakata Katanga were 'visibly gun free'. Which was perfectly false. The journalist didn't come back to ′′ correct ′′ this counter truth. Definitely there's something rotten about ′′ Joseph Kabila province ", says Felix Kabange Numbi. Even journalists are not safe.

In a statement made on Saturday, provincial interior minister Fulbert Kunda set opinions on both the modus operandi, the number of victims and the motivations of the ′′ attackers ". There is no doubt that he are militiamen ′′ Mayi Mai Mira ′′ (Independent Movement of African Revolutionaries) from ′′ Gideon ". According to him, there were two groups. The first was composed of two hundred individuals carrying guns, machetes and arrows. The second one, a hundred individuals. There were women and children there. Provisional balance sheet: 19 killed. To know; 16 militiamen and 3 members of the police.

According to Minister Kunda, police officers had to use tear gas to disperse militiamen. These would have been shot back. It's the blast.

From left to right: ′′ Gideon ", ′′ Joseph Kabila ′′ and John Numbi

Question: Who manipulates ′′ Gideon ′′ Kyungu Mutanga and his militiamen? Observers had their eyes on the duo ′′ Joseph Kabila "- John Numbi Banza on Saturday night. According to them, the two men ′′ would be in charge ". ′′ Gideon ′′ is used as ′′ scratchy hair ′′ to ′′ distract ′′ President Felix Tshisekedi from the real expectations of the population. The same carousel takes place in both Kivu and Ituri with domestic and foreign armed stripes.

POPULAR SELF DEFENSE FORCES

It seems to be forgotten that ′′ Kabila ", Numbi and Gédéon are ′′ old knowledge ". They participated in the creation by LD Kabila of the ′′ FAP ′′ (Forces d ' auto-defense popular) ... It was a militia charged with preventing the taking of Lubumbashi by RCD's pro-Rwandan rebel movement (Rally Congolese Rally for Democracy). And this after the break of ′′ military cooperation ′′ with Rwanda at the end of July 1998.

In July 1999, Mzee Kabila signed Lusaka's ceasefire agreement with the various rebellions. Immediately afterwards, the FAPs are delivered to themselves. The weapons and ammunition once received have enabled them to work ′′ on their own account ". The next is known with the infernal axis Pweto-Mitwaba-Malemba Nkulu. From 2002 to 2006, ′′ Gideon ′′ and his militiamen will commit unspeakable atrocities.

In 2006, the man surrendered to UN forces in Congo in Katanga. Against all expectations, he is housed with wife and children at the officer s' mass in Lubumbashi. This beautiful world will be fed daily by then Katanga Governor Urbain Kisula Ngoy.

Following pressures from the international community and civil society activists, Gideon is being tried by the garrison military court in Likasi. On March 5, 2009, he was sentenced to death and embastiled in Kasapa. On September 7, 2011, the ex-militian leader escapes with 963 prisoners. Everything happens in broad daylight.

LIVELY PERMUTATIONS

The ′′ surrender ′′ of ′′ Gideon ′′ in the presence of then ANR deputy head Kalev Mutond.

A drama strike takes place in December 2013. In a report to the Security Council Presidency on the armed gangs operating in Congo-Kinshasa, UN experts report ′′ serious suspicions ′′ on former Governor of The Central Bank, Jean-Claude Masangu, and General John Numbi. The first one would be the Bakata Katanga ′′ financiers Second one, Supplier of Arms and Ammo. No investigations were carried out to break the truth. These ' revelation s' were obtained after interviewing militia apprehended in November 2013.

In early December 2014, General Jean-Claude Kifwa created a small event by inviting the fugitive Gédéon to surrender and lay down arms to benefit from the law of amnesty. Did he get the ′′ green light ′′ from ′′ Kabila "? Looks like yes. This was probably a test balloon to gauge the outrage capacity of the population.

To the general surprise, ex-militia leader surrenders on October 11, 2016. The man wore a matching sweater with the portrait of Joseph Kabila and a slogan: ′′ Kabila shikata ". In the committee welcome, there was the presence of Jean-Claude Musonda Kazembe and Kalev Mutond, governor of Haut-Katanga and then ANR boss respectively. There is no need to draw a drawing to see that ex-president ′′ Kabila ′′ was the real ′′ master of ceremony ". What happened on Friday night to Saturday in Lubumbashi is an attempt at ′′ insurrectional movement ".

According to sources, the Mayi-Mayi had ′′ stashed ′′ on General John Numbi's farm before they led their incursion. This information will be confirmed or reversed during the hearing of militiamen apprehended. How long will the former head of state be allowed to act impunityly as a ′′ string gunman ′′ of Bakata Katanga and other armed gangs destabilizing the country?

′′ What happens in Beni is a well-orchestrated mafia with economic activities as a focus ′′...The ADF terrorist survive in Ituri and north Kivu because of selfishness of some business men and politicians; says MP Iracan Gratien.

As part of the strong delegation of the National Defence Minister in Beni, National MP Iracan Gratien,qualifies the repetitive killings perpetrated by Ugandan ADF rebels in this well-organized mafia area aimed at blocking all activities of the local population, especially economic activities considered a foundation of development.

This Bunia City Official in Ituri, who salutes the bravery of FARDC elements involved in the stalking of the ADF Rebellion Nebula, has during an interview given to Benician press this Sunday, September 27, 2020, believed that ADFs still active in this part of North Kivu province, are making tremendous traffic on some agricultural products in collaboration with a few businessmen.

He believes, however, that a great mobilization and / or community participation supported by the regular army, can make it possible to eradicate the ADF phenomenon quickly and permanently. He also rejects the assumption that he has a balkanization plan for this part of the country.

′′ I did the analysis, I listened to the people and the army and did the self-criticism, I think we are not facing a Balkanization situation. What's happening in Beni is a mafia that is well orchestrated with economic activities as a focus. The focus is cocoa growing.

This attracts the complicity of people from outside the country and indigenous people working with them to exploit cocoa from poor people. We have analyzed that the ADFs are there, making huge traffic on cocoa products with the complicity of some businessmen and others. The army did what it needed to do, but much remains to be done to stabilize this corner of country, said the national deputy Ircan Gratien of Saint-Nicholas elected from Bunia.

On his side, Aimé Ngoy Mukena, National Defence Minister, has Saturday, September 26, 2020 during the official surrender of the Mbau-Kamango road to civil authority, reassured that the Congolese armed forces will be very much attentive to any possible ADFs on this axis.

"... The ADFs you saw, you will never see them here again. They may try to come, but we will still push them back to their last entrenchment he told the local press.

It should be noted that despite the so-called big military operations in the Beni region, the security situation remains a matter of concern. It is characterized by bloody killings in almost every corner of Beni city and territory. Situation that has for several years negatively impacted the development of this part of the part and the socio-economic life of the local population.

Sylvestre Ilunga calls on justice to take up the incident of Bakata Katanga militia in Lubumbashi and to prosecute the perpetrators and co-authors.

Sylivestre Illunga

The katanga flag

Tshisekede in Brussels

Hours after the incursion of Bakata Katanga elements into the city of Lubumbashi, Prime Minister Sylvestre Ilunga Ilunkamba brought together all security officials and government officials involved in this security sector. The prime minister condemned these acts by calling on justice to set the responsibilities of the perpetrators and co-authors of this incursion into downtown Lubumbashi.

... This foray is a work of insurgents who attacked the post office square and the locals of RTNC Haut-Katanga, using women and children as shields. The Prime Minister insists that all responsibilities should be unfailing for the perpetrators, co-authors and accomplices of these acts said Gilbert Kankonde Malamba, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Interior and Security.

According to the VPM from the inside, security services must strengthen the security of persons and their property so that such situations do not happen again in Haut-Katanga.

According to the provincial government, this is an attack by militiamen loyal to the warlord Gideon Kyungu who disappeared at the end of March last in Lubumbashi City in an attack that his men simultaneously carried out at the capital of the Haut-Katanga and other cities in the Katanga region including Kasumbalesa, Likasi and part of Lualaba. 32 people were killed including a policeman killed in Lubumbashi.

In this Saturday's attack, authorities say they have recovered ′′ 7 weapons, several arrows and machetes, and Gédéon Kyungu's bad boys.

In the morning, militiamen were prevented from raising the 'Katanga' flag at Poste Square in downtown Lubumbashi. The situation has returned to normal early afternoon in Lubumbashi. The mayor of the city called the population calm and freely go to his occupations.

4 people died after an alleged attack by ADF rebels in the beni-Mbau

 4 civilians died and several other missing missing after an attack by alleged ADF rebels in the Beni-Mbau sector in North Kivu this Saturday, September 26, 2020.

According to Manoko Jacques, head of the Matembo district, 3 people were killed in Mbutaba, an agglomeration in the locality of Sikwaila.

“There are three bodies of civilians who were found in Mbutaba 2, executed by the attackers who were passing through the area at midday. Their bodies were deposited at the Sanru health post in Mbutaba 1. There are also serious injuries, ”Manoko Jacques said.

For his part, Lingasa Mantombela, chief of the town of Kelekele, another lifeless body was discovered the morning of this same Saturday by FARDC elements in full patrol. The event took place in Kingbayi, more or less 7 kilometers from central Mbau.

It should be noted that in the space of a week, around 20 people were killed in the Mbau sector by ADF combatants. They are said to be moving from east to west of this part of Beni territory.

After General Kahimbi's death, General Cirimwami takes command of Sokola1 and still the massacres in the far north east increase.President Tshisekede advised to shake up military administration of FARDC in North Kivu and ituri

 

It's now over a month since the massacres have recovered more frequently not only in what is known as the death triangle but also at the feet of Mount Rwenzori, despite the presence of 20 thousand military depending on the number given by the Congolese government.

General Kahimbi's death was a hard hit against the enemy but...

For memory, opinion will remember that just after the death of General Kahimbi, who with General Mundos was the central piece in the Beni massacres, especially, people saw a certain glimmer of hope on the horizon.Fardcs even took over the enemy in some villages and corners where the enemy had established themselves for long.

The reason is simple: the chain of command of the massacres had just been destabilized by the death of its leader General Kahimbi And the enemy no longer had access to the strategies that the Fardc were mounting. It is very possible that Felix Tshisekedi was well informed of General Kahimbi's double game. And with the death of the latter, he might have seen peace point over the horizon in the far north.

To arrive at the final win, Felix will find it necessary to make changes within the Fardcs, especially in Sokola 1. operations. Unfortunately, on behalf of the coalition, he could not lead these changes without the approval of the former leader of the state on behalf of whom the ′′ Genocidal ′′ Kayimbi acted and led the massacres in Beni territory.

By the trick of Joseph Kabila, Cirimwami is appointed Sokola 1 chief of operations.

On request, not to say by Kabila's trick, Felix got trapped and named Cirimwami as Sokola 1 chief of operations, without doubt that the latter is an active player in the massacres in the east of the country and in the country's balkanization plan.

Cirimwami a behind the scenes actor in the death of Mamadou and Bahuma

For your memory, Cirimwami was the head of Mundos D2 Intelligence Office when Colonel Mamadou and General Bahuma died. Needless to stress Mundos's devastating role in the massacres in the East. Since then, he has been counted among the trusted men of Joseph Kabila who does everything to involve him indirectly or directly in military operations in the East.

What was the desolation when the people of Beni learned that Cirimwami is now the boss of Sokola 1! Many people had reacted tears to their eyes shouting: Joseph Kabila is coming back forcefully, prepare to count the dead everyday until the day Cirimwami leaves here! It took only a week after his installation to make this a reality!

But who could believe it?

Cirimwami caught hand in the bag in Mwenda massacres on 17/08/2020

Until August 17, 2020, no one could believe that Cirimwami is actually the enemy's potion to resurrect.

It was about 19 o'clock from Mwenda, at the feet of Mount Ruwenzori. Detonation shots are waiting. The enemy just came in. Civilians are being killed. Populations are fleeing in all directions. Soldiers based not far from it don't react.

To hear these detonations, other Fardcs based around, say their mates are being attacked. And out of solidarity, they deploy immediately for reinforcement. Arrived there, they fight against the enemy who does not resist and is pushed back to Buhasa, a village that has been abandoned for several months by its inhabitants.

But what was the surprise in the morning when the Fardc collect bodies from the rebels killed. Of the 8 corpses, they recognize 4 military personnel: a commander of one of the units based in Mwenda, Captain Hilaire (Hitler for others) Pengema, an original Rwandan, and 3 of his bodyguards. There is no doubt: he was the leader of the alleged ′′ ADF ′′ who had just grieved the city of Mwenda.

Scandal! The Rwandan Captain's body was immediately brought to Beni. General Cirimwami instructed all Fardc's communication services to keep a radio silence on this Mwenda scandal! In all discretion, on October 19th, General Cirimwami moved to another area not yet identified by our sources, the entire battalion in charge of operations at the feet of Mount Rwenzori with its Commander, Colonel, whose headquarters are located in Mutwanga and deploys a new unit at the same time.

Amazing thing, no judgement, no sanction was taken, however, against commander who in his morning meeting after the massacres said: ′′ Nilisikia masasi mingi nika waza watu wamekufa more than 100 mushukuru wako tu 8 ′′ (I heard a lot of gunshots. Thought he had over 100 dead. But say thank you, because there was only 8).

There is no doubt, Cirimwami took the command stick of the massacres after General Kayimbi's death. He managed to restructure the chain of command of the massacres. We understand why the massacres have resumed more sophisticated both in the death triangle where for over two weeks average 8 dead but also in the east at the foot of Mount Ruwenzori, as is the case in Halungupa and in Mwenda the last few days.

Amazing thing, in recent weeks civil society has reported the arrival or suspected presence of armed men accompanied by children and women in all these areas but also around the city of Beni. However, no action is taken by Sokola 1 operations officials.

Felix Tshisekedi was notified

Felix Tshisekedi must act without delay. There is only one solution for the liberation of our country, especially Kivu and Ituri: clean up the army of all these mercenaries and put out of state to harm all their accomplices, whether they are in the FARDC or the Institutions of the country.

Panic in Rwanda, its Ituri massacre funding network has been arrested in Uganda

A group of individuals coming from Ituri were arrested in Uganda on the night of 21 August 2020 after fraudulently crossing the border through the Semuliki River. This arrest revealed evidence confirming that Paul Kagame's Rwanda deployed all the necessary means in eastern DR Congo in general, but in Ituri in particular, to materialize crimes of massacres and terrorist acts on which it relies the strategy of balkanizing this country. The fact falls as a great risk of treason of outrageous secrets against Kigali.

Those who fall into Ugandan security net under this circumstances are Ituri nationals who are part of the network of agents manipulated by Paul Kagame and Joseph Kabila to exterminate their own brothers, hiding this crime under CODECO militias, FPIC and ADF. The very paradoxical thing is that all of these defendants are essentially under the leadership of the Hema cultural association named ′′ ENTE ", except for the driver of the Bira community group. Below are their identities:

1. Mr. Ibrahim Bamaraki, President-in-Office of the Hema community ′′ ENTE ";

2. Honorable Kisembo Bitamara, former South Bahema community leader, and principal adviser to Mr. Bamaraki;

3. Mr. Kaswara Pele, still from the leadership circle of the same community;

4. Mr. Ndukukwa aka Brown, the driver.

How did they get arrested?

Mr. Bamaraki and his team allowed themselves to force the border crossing after corrupting Ugandan services working at the Karugutu post. This is happening as the Uganda-DR Congo border is still officially closed to prevent the expansion of the COVID-19. pandemic.

They then progressed through their vehicle on the axis leading to the town of Fort Portal, the capital of Ugandan Kabarole district. That's when they will collide against the patrol to observe the curfew imposed by the Ugandan government because of the same pandemic. The discovery of the Congolese identity of those arrested immediately led to the suspicion which had to lead to a systematic search which will let find an outrageous package of Rwandan Francs in huge amounts aboard their vehicle.

What does Rwandan Franc come to do in Ituri, then Uganda?

Rwandan Franc is a currency that is not known nor used in eastern DR Congo; unlike Ugandan shilling used as a common currency throughout the Congolese border region in Ugandan territory. Also, intercepting two big bags full of Rwandan currency should only give rise to many questions. Indeed how did that money get to Ituri? Who sent it there? To do what?...

Samely, in Uganda, neither is the Rwandan Franc in use except for acceptance of the transactions of the exchange offices. Here again comes the questions of who and for what use this lot of Rwandan Francs entered Uganda, all elements that can only awaken great suspicions about the people involved in this case.

What is known to Ibrahim Bamaraki in relation to Rwandan crimes in Ituri...

Mr. Bamaraki betrayed his community, collaborating with the Rwandans killing his own Hema brothers. At the same time he betrayed all the people of Ituri because he continued the same game with other local communities, such as the Bira, by training them to collaborate with Rwandans always to exterminate his own Hema brothers and others communities that do not tolerate Ituri's balkanization plan.

As an illustration, it was through Ibrahim Bamaraki that the Bira community in Irumu Territory was stimulated to create the locally called CHINI YA KILIMA. The money that helped create this militia came from Kigali as well as Rwandan military instructors who had to train the young Bira recruited, still under the facilitation of Bamaraki, who is highly respected in Bunia as a notable community.

This hypocritical attitude in the leader of the known president of the community has caused a real division within the Hema Ente cultural association, according to whether some behind Bamaraki opted to collaborate with Rwanda against Ituri , others including Northern Hema (remembering all the damage and crimes committed by Rwandans in Ituri in the 1999-2003 wars) categorically reject any connection to Kigali. That's why the latter (Northern Hema) are among the main victims of the atrocities committed by the pro-Rwandan militias and are listed as ′′ victim community ".

Bamaraki takes back fire command stick Bubu Lenga

Ordinarily, it was Mr. Bubu Lenga, the federation Lifetime President of Congo Entrepreneurs (FEC) in Ituri, who served as a bridge between the Kagame-Kabila duo and the Ituri pro-Rwandan militias for their supplies and their Careful.

Bubu Lenga's shuttles on Kigali for this purpose had found good coverage by the pretenxes of medical appointments, until the day this maneuver will indeed carry his life. Such an allegation against him is no secret in the Hema environment itself; it is what even justifies the escape of the late Bubu Lenga for a moment to find asylum in Kinshasa. Because his own brothers are hardly exposing his complicity in the flood of innocent bloods being shed in Ituri.

However, following threats from such a leak of information about his malice, sponsors of Ituri crimes will arrange to find a succession. This is the start of old Ibrahim Bamaraki aka Biko, a well-known personality in Bunia City, Ituri. From the beginning of June 2020, Bamaraki will inaugurate his shuttle mission on Kigali continuously with what Bubu Lenga had already been doing for many years.

It's time for Bamaraki's connection to Kigali's regime to place Ituri in chaos, panic, disaster, distress. Therefore, Bamaraki's name continues to be quoted in campaigns to recruit militias both in Ituri and Uganda, sometimes by suspicion sometimes on the basis of confirmed facts.

Jean Bamanisa is in the game

In everything that beagues Ituri province, the provincial governor, Mr Jean Bamanisa, is not innocent at all in the dirty pro-Kigali game. The time comes when his hypocrisy and sadism will have to be exposed. He only works according to the instructions of his bosses who demand the annihilation of any local resistance against Ituri's balkanization plan.

That's why he fiercely fought for the FRPI militia specially trained members of the Ngiti community to be detrimental, while still keeping a total indifference to the atrocities committed by CODECO and FPIC that execute the will by Kigali and Joseph Kabila. Much more, all his efforts are now focused on suffocating the denunciation of said atrocities by the victim communities reunited as G5, which he declares undesirable to all members of the coordination structure, taking all possible intimidation actions behind them and a tireless manhunt.

In this context, money intercepted during his team's arrest on 21 August 2020 in Karugutu, Uganda can only say much about its transit through Ituri and its routing to Uganda when Knows that Rwanda ambitions to perpetrate the same crime in eastern DR Congo (Kivu and Ituri) in Ugandan territory, whose dreams are destabilizing the regime. That's why this event sowed a general panic in Kigali, among sponsors of the genocide underway in Ituri, while the victims of the atrocities arising from this plan receive angel remuneration.

Merkava Мк.3В Baz dor Dalet for War Thunder Merkava Мк.3В Baz dor

 

The President of the Democratized Republic of Congo, Félix Tshisekedi, cancels his visit to Goma on Tuesday September 22, 2020 due to an agenda issue, according to reliable sources

This news comes as the mobilizations were already intensifying in the capital of the province of North Kivu for its warm welcome.

Beyond the posters placed along the main roads and roundabouts, several structures were firmly awaiting the arrival in Goma of the Head of State.

This is the case of the customary chiefs of North Kivu gathered in the National Alliance of Traditional Authorities of Congo, who had already welcomed and encouraged the Head of State's decision to continue his visit to Goma.

For these customary chiefs, the arrival of Félix Tshisekedi was a sigh of relief for the people of Goma, in particular, and North Kivu, in general.

For their part, the elected national deputies of North Kivu expressed their determination to meet the President of the Republic in order to explain to him the situation facing the population of North Kivu, said Sengoma Mwanza, chairman of the Caucus of elected national deputies. of North Kivu.

In addition, Vital Kamerhe's Union for the Congolese Nation (UNC), contrary to the statements of certain executives, was preparing to welcome, alongside its ally of Cap pour le changer (CACH), the Union for Democracy and social progress (UDPS), the moral authority of their platform.

The arrival of the Head of State seemed to have already been confirmed by some executives. They are, among others, Jeacquemain Shabani, former secretary of the Udps and current chairman of the permanent electoral commission of the party who is staying in Goma.

KGB Spetsnaz seek to re-employ Soviet Spymaster’s Unique Methods Against Western Counterintelligence

 Last Saturday marked the 95th anniversary of the birth of Yuri Drozdov, the KGB major-general in charge of planting illegal Soviet agents in countries across the West.

The KGB’s illegals programme was often able to outplay its opponents in western counterintelligence thanks to the non-conventional tactics employed by the man running it - Directorate ‘C’ chief Yuri Drozdov, says Valery Popov, one of Drozdov’s protégés.

Speaking  on the anniversary of the superspy’s birth, Popov, a veteran of the KGB special forces unit Vympel, which Drozdov created in 1981, said that his mentor was a “brilliant” operative with a penchant for enigmatic, out of the box thinking.

According to Popov, this was amply demonstrated with the case of Alexei Kozlov, the Soviet spy arrested in Apartheid South Africa in 1981 while gathering intelligence about the country’s illegal nuclear weapons programme.

“Kozlov was arrested in the early 1980s, put on death row in a South African prison, and tortured. But he survived, was exchanged for several western intelligence officers, and returned to his homeland,” Popov recalled.

After some time passed, Kozlov asked his superiors to send him abroad again. “In the end, Drozdov agreed. This was a genius decision. He understood that operational work was Kozlov’s whole life. He calculated that no one would believe that an illegal agent who had been uncovered and who was known by sight could ever be sent abroad again. Seems illogical, right? And it worked!” Popov said.

Kozlov was sent abroad in 1986, where he remained until 1997. His activities and place of residence during this period remains unknown to this day. It was thanks to Kozlov’s work that the USSR discovered that Apartheid South Africa carried out a nuclear test in 1979 together with Israel, and learned that the country was producing enriched uranium in occupied Namibia. These findings made it possible for Moscow to persuade the United States and multiple Western European countries to strengthen international sanctions against South Africa, with the restrictions ultimately helping to topple the Apartheid regime in 1994.

According to Popov, intelligence work is often compared with chess, but is really more complex. “I think the chess comparison is an inaccurate one, because chess is limited by the board, and all of the pieces have strict rules when it comes to how they can be moved. In intelligence work, there is no board or rules for the 'pieces'…Drozdov played real life, operational chess, which was unpredictable for the opponent.”

Popov suggested that “Drozdov’s genius also lay in the fact that he knew how to put together different people – different nationalities, different temperaments, with different training, including physically and linguistically. And depending on the mission handed down by command, it was possible to assemble the group to carry it out quickly, to defeat the enemy in operational chess using unusual moves.”, who currently serves as president of the Association of Vympel Veterans, says the KGB special forces unit is comparable with “a scalpel in the hands of a skilled neurosurgeon,” with its missions not limited to combat operations, but also including the ability to work "in the dark", infiltrating the mission area, carrying out the mission, and leaving without a trace, without the use of weapons if possible.

During the Soviet crisis of August 1991, Vympel was mobilised to storm the Russian White House, where Boris Yeltsin and his aides were holed up in resistance to Communist hardliners’ efforts to unseat Mikhail Gorbachev. However, the order to carry out the operation never came through, and after the crisis was over, the Communist Party was banned and the KGB, military and other security agencies were reorganized and purged. Drozdov was retired two months earlier, in June 1991.

He died in 2017, would have turned 95 on Saturday. A veteran of the Second World War who took part in the storming of Berlin in the spring of 1945, the KGB officer headed the Soviet illegals program between 1979 and 1991, and is believed to have helped plant hundreds of "illegal" agents in western countries in that time. 

Before heading the illegals department, Drozdov repeatedly worked in the field as an illegal agent himself, using his excellent command of German to pretend to be the cousin of Soviet agent Rudolf Abel during the operation to bring him to the Soviet Union in 1962, and infiltrating a group of Nazi sympathizers in the West German government while posing as a former SS officer. In the 1960s, he also served as a KGB resident in China, and in the United States.

The fate of the Goma summit as Shaban Jacquemain Lukoo organises people to Receive president Tshisekede this Tuesday.

 

The mini-summit in Goma, North Kivu, has just been sent off sine die by Kinshasa, after the polite refusal of the Rwandan authorities, talking about health reasons. Indeed, in a press release dated September 18th, Congolese Foreign Minister Marie Tumba Nzeza decided to postpone this meeting to be held on September 20th to a later date. place in North Kivu province, mentioning ′′ reasons for the constraints of the Covid-19 pandemic ". The postponement of the mini-summit follows the wish of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of Rwanda ′′ to prefer a mini summit via videoconference on a date to be agreed by the parties concerned given the current situation of Covid-19 ". For Kigali, ′′ a physical encounter could be considered early in 2021 ", according to a note dated September 17th. Kigali's wish has all a polite refusal, as coronavirus disease mentioned as reason to postpone the meeting to another date didn't happen yesterday!

This diplomatic refusal by Kigali, had just annihilated all Kinshasa's hopes after Bujumbura's no less ′′ polite ′′ Cold shower, the capital for the capital of North Kivu who had already betrayed itself with its most beautiful attours to welcome its branded hosts. Five heads of state!

Goma could be content - comforting himself! - from President Tshisekedi's visit expected this Tuesday.Staying in the city of Goma, capital of North Kivu province, Jacquemin Shabani Lukoo, Chairman of the Permanent Electoral Commission (CEP) of the presidential party, Union for Democracy and Social Progress (UDPS), mobilizes the population for the reception of the head of state in this city, scheduled for arrival on Tuesday, September 22

In an interview given on Sunday, September 20, 2020, Jacquemin Shabani reported that Felix Tshisekedi is coming to Goma, including to communicate with the people of North Kivu and assess the instructions given to the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo as part of the of restoring peace in the region.

′′ It was important that we came here as a team ahead, because we campaigned with the head of state and promised this people in long-term deadly Kivu, peace and security. Since then, the president has been working hard on it. This is how he expressed the willingness to hold a mini summit which will finally be held via videoconference. So it was important to come talk with our brothers and sisters in North Kivu to raise awareness on this issue and remind them that we are working on it ", he said.

And add: ′′ The head of state will therefore be here this Tuesday to give a finger to all these realities and assess the progress of various instructions he gave in the framework of peacemaking It will also have meetings with civil society organizations, community leaders and other social strata ".

It should be pointed out that 5 heads of state were expected in Goma for a mini summit on development, security and cooperation. Headquarters will finally be held via video conferencing on a soon to be fixed date, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.