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Unir MN

The Union for the Republic National Movement (UNIR NM) is a political party of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) created in 2001 by his president Frédéric Boyenga-Bofala. The party has officially been registered in DRC by the "arrêté ministériel N°130" dated 7th April 2005 according to the law on the political parties.

DEVISE

"Refaire la République, mission sacrée d'une génération - nous devons nous réconcilier avec notre histoire et sans esprit de revanche. Nous devons nous réconcilier avec nos morts."

CHRONOLOGY

  • July 10, 1999 : Lusaka Peace Agreement - signature of a cease-fire between the six countries implied in the war,
  • August 1999 : despite the cease-fire, fights between the Rwandan an Ougandese troops in Kisangani area (diamond center),
  • January 16, 2001 : murder of Laurent-Desiré Kabila - a certain Joseph Kabange is backed by Louis Michel (Belgian minister of Foreign Affairs) as new president and is presented as an official son of Laurent-Desiré Kabila,
  • July 2001: Frederic Boyenga-Bofala publishes "Congo-Zaire - Remaking the Republic: crowned mission of a generation",
  • October 15, 2001 : official opening of the Inter Congolese Dialogue in Addis Ababa,
  • March 2002: UNIR NM publishes the "Diary for the re-establishment and the maintenance of peace in the Great Lake region, the restoration of the territorial integrity and the re-establishment of the Republic in Congo-Zaire",
  • December 17, 2002 : Inclusive agreement of Pretoria establishing a new Constitution, a government of transition (the war lords are becoming vice-presidents), the official withdrawn of foreign troops from Congo and putting an official end to the 2nd war om the 31th December 2002,
  • January 2003: Frederic Boyenga-Bofala publishes "Congo-Zaire - Our Cause: The message and ambitions of a right cause",

The two mean missions of the government 1+4 are one side the pacification of the country by integrating the militias in an unified army and on the other side the preparation of free elections within 2 years with 1 year of maximum prolongation (according to the Constitution of Sun city, the elections have to take place at the latest on June 30, 2006).

  • October 20, 2004 : UNIR NM denounces the governmental consensus on the electoral calendar as being a “political swindling”,
  • October 28, 2004: publication of the engagement of the ex-Zairean armed forces refugees in republic of Congo within the Union for the Republic National Movement (UNIR NM),
  • December 20, 2004: UNIR NM officially proposes to the government “1+4” to place at the disposal of the Republic its armed branch following the killings of Gatumba on August 13, 2004 and the Rwandese military aggression in December 2004 in the Eastern part of Congo in Kivus. The government 1+4 do not react to this proposition and leaves it without answer,
  • April 7, 2005: official recording of UNIR NM in DRC by ministerial decree N°130 in accordance with the law on the political parties,
  • July 13, 2005: UNIR NM expresses doubts about the respect of the date of 30th June for the elections,
  • November 26, 2005: UNIR NM confirms that “the unity, the territorial integrity and the intangibility of the borders of the DRC are the keystone of all the African building”,
  • December 7, 2005: UNIR NM denounces the project of Constitution of the DRC to be submited later in the month to a referendum as being “a legal and political imposture, an incoherent project in its step and contradictory in its principles”,
  • 2nd quarter 2006: UNIR NM, as well as the Union for Democracy and Social Progress (UDSP) of Etienne Tshisekedi, do not propose a candidate to the process of the presidential election (at the latest on June 30, 2006 by the constitution resulting from the agreements of Sun City of June 2003) while :
    • the International community - through the International Committee of Accompaniment of Transition (ICAT), of Louis Michel (European commissioner of the Development and the humanitarian Aid unit in the Barroso Commission) and of William Swing (political leader for MONUC) - support unconditionally the dying electoral process,
    • the repression and arrestations of opponents to the Kabila regime develop,
    • European military troops deploy in Kinshasa within the framework of the reinforcement of the troops of MONUC required by Kofi Annan (United Nations Secretary-General) to "securize" the elections.
  • April 2006: the cardinal Etsou launches a call to Congolese to do everything, at the time of the elections, not to continue to undergo foreign domination,
  • at the beginning of May 2006: the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) unilaterally announces the postposal of the elections at the end of July 2006 (in violation of the Constitution of Sun city),
  • mid-May 2006 : in reaction to the announcement of the IEC, the president of the National Episcopal Conference of Congo, Mgr Momsengwo Pasinya, calls for an inclusive electoral process as well as the organisation of a dialogue in order to obtain a political compromise related to the postposal of the date of the presidential election, or else “one makes the bed of the third war of Congo”.
  • May, 24 2006 : the Belgian cardinals issue a document stating that the International Community should participate to the transition to a Democratic regime and should not by any mean try to force the Congolese population to accept a foreign diktat,
  • beginning June 2006 : half of the 32 candidates to the presidential election withdraw themselves and join a political structure backing the president Joseph Kabange,
  • mid-June 2006 : Aldo Ajello, EU representative for the Great Lakes region, announces from Brussels (at the place of the Independent Electoral Commission in Kinshasa), that the second tour of the elections will take place on 22th October 2006.
  • late June 2006 : Kabila only accepts a limited dialogue in order to obtain a political compromise related to the postposal of the date of the presidential election - the dialogue can only concerns the security of the elections and the security of the candidates,
  • July 6, 2006 : 20 candidates to the presidential election request the freezing of the election process and denounce the production of 5 additional millions pooling bulletins - which implies that a minimum of 30 millions pooling bulletins have been produced and dispatched for a maximum of 25 millions voters. The Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) announces that :
    • there is no fraud,
    • those 5 millions pooling bulletins will not be destroyed ,
    • those 5 millions pooling bulletins have have already been dispatched to the pooling centers.
  • Mid-July 2006 : the Carter Center and the Monuc denounce irregularities in the preparation of the elections of 30th July,
  • 20th July 2006 : the Catholic Church - through the "Conference episcopale nationale du Congo" (Cenco) - denounce "observed irregularities" in the preparation of the elections of 30th July 2006 and announce it might not recognize the validity of those elections if those irregularities are not corrected. Cenco asks also to the security forces to be neutral and advice the authorities to neutralize the military troops belonging to the factions who participated to the Second Congo War and that are not yet integrated in the national army,

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