Sources within the National Congress for People’s Defense- Comite National Pour la Defense de la Patrie (CNDP), a congolese rebel group mostly led by Tutsis,  tell AfroAmerica Network in Kigali that the party officials loyal to the controversial Congolese warlord, General Laurent Nkunda have been disappearing and are feared dead.

The source inform AfroAmerica Network that the Tutsi rebel group officials including  Robert Ndengeye, Sheik Idi, Bavakure Kamanzi, Mbabare and Munyamariba were in late March 2010 briefly arrested, along with the retired army officer John Museminali for having contacts with General Kayumba Nyamwasa, a former Rwandan Ambassador to India and former Rwandan Army Chief of Staff who fled to South Africa in March 2010. General Paul Kagame had abruptly and without explanation dropped Rosemary Museminali, the wife of John Museminali, from her post of Foreign Affairs Minister in December 2009.

Over 2007-2008, General Nkunda’ CNDP, then supported, funded, and armed by the Rwandan Defense Forces,  scored a series of victories over the weak and undisciplined congolese FARDC army  and reached the gates of Goma, the provincial capital on North-Kivu, DRC. He was subsequently betrayed by the Rwandan Government he had served since the early 1990s, arrested, and being thrown in jail in January 2009. The Rwandan government replaced him with General Bosco Ntaganda,  a fellow ethnic Tutsi from Masisi, North Kivu. General Nkunda is a Tutsi from Jomba,  North-Kivu.   General Ntaganda  has been indicted and is wanted by the International Criminal Court for war crimes committed in the DRC. He has been integrated in the FARDC, where he is the de facto commander of the FARDC troops in North-Kivu areas of Rutshuru, Masisi, Walikale, and Lubelo.

In November - December 2007, the USA government  offered General Nkunda a comfortable exile in an African country of his choosing, probably South Africa. General Nkunda, counting on the Rwandan support, had rejected the offer and launched his last camapaign. During the campaigns, General Nkunda massacred hundreds of Hutu civilians in the town of Kiwandja. The massacres were qualified “war crimes and crimes against humanity” by several NGOs and UN Human rights experts.

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