Demobilisation, disarmament and reintegration in the Democratic Republic of Congo: The numbers game

摘要

The question can be asked if these figures can be seen as real successes. As for the joint Rwanda-Congolese operation, an estimated 2 000 FDLR combatants and their families have been repatriated to Rwanda, leaving 4 000 more behind of which the most are in South Kivu. It is expected from the FARDC and MONUC to deal with them, but this approach seems to have been unsuccessful in the past. As for the integration of CNDP into the FARDC, the plan is integration, not demobilisation. That means the integrated CNDP soldiers will stay in Kivu fighting against the FDLR, which will not solve the problem considering what happened in 2007 with the mixage process.