Former Dr. Kongo Joseph Kabila comes out after lifting immunity on charges of treason

Joseph Capella, former President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, has criticized a government behind him – describing it as a “dictatorial”.

The 53 -year -old delivered a 45 -minute speech on YouTube on Friday evening from an unlimited site after the Senate raised his immunity from the claim.

Dr. Congo authorities intend to accuse the former president With treachery and war crimesRwandan -backed M23 rebels, who took control of several cities in the east.

Capella, in power between 2001 and 2019, said that he broke his silence because he felt that the country’s unity was in danger.

Analysts say any trial from Kabila could destabilize the country, which has been fighting the M23 rebellion since 2012.

The government of President Felix Chisikde did not respond to the speech in which Capella also put a 12 -point plan that he may help end decades of insecurity in the east rich in minerals from Dr. Kongo.

Capella was wearing a naval suit with the emblem of the Congolese flag attached to the fold of the chest of the jacket, and she stood in front of a lecturer in what he called “the title of the nation” – broadcast by the national anthem.

YouTube link His spokesman shared it After that it was deleted, But the registration was shared by many other accounts.

Capella was an ally of TSHISECEDI, who fell with his successor and the alliance of their parties officially ended in 2020.

The former president was living outside the country for two years – he initially left for a doctorate in South Africa.

During his speech, he struck the “arbitrary decisions” that the government took last month after “rumors” that he had traveled to the eastern city of Guma.

This prompted the authorities For the People’s Party for Reconstruction and Democracy (PPRD) He asked to seize his origins.

Kabila said that everything attests to the amazing decline in democracy in our country.

During his speech, he stated that he intends to go to Guma “in the coming days”, as he is not at risk of arrest because the city was under the control of the M23 rebels since January.

Kabila also struck the president to try to undermine the constitution in Parliament because the president did not take into account and the judicial system to allow himself to “publicly exploit the political end.”

He was criticizing the government’s handling of the economy, corruption and public debt, which he said had “rose” to more than 10 billion dollars (7.3 billion pounds).

Capella, a former general, was also underestimating the government’s handling of the country’s security situation, especially the pro -government militias as the “assistants” of the armed forces.

“The National Army has been replaced by … with mercenary gangs, armed groups, tribal militias, and foreign armed forces that not only showed their borders, but also covered the country in indescribable chaos.”

He stated that one of these armed groups was the democratic forces of the liberation of Rwanda (FDLR), a Hato ethnic militia involved in the Rwandan genocide in 1994 and is still active in the eastern Congo.

Rwanda sees the presence of the FDLR rebels as an existential threat. The Rwandan forces are currently located in Dr. Kongo to support the M23, which is led by the ethnic totsi who says they have taken weapons to protect the rights of the Minority Group.

Capella urged the withdrawal of “all foreign forces” from Dr. Congo and welcomed a recent decision from the Southern African Development Society (SADC) to withdraw the forces that were deployed to help the army fight M23.

After 18 years of power, Kabila confirmed that his achievements had been dissipated.

He said: “In record time – six years – we went back in the first box: a state of failure, division and disintegration, on the verge of separation, and a recipe in the list of the most corrupt, corrupt and civil poor countries.”

The reaction was mixed with its title, as some pointed to the paradox that many of his criticism of the TSHISECEDI administration reflects those that were subjected to his government.

He said at the end of the speech: “The dictatorship must end, and democracy, as well as the good economic and social rule, must be restored at the end of the speech.

Kabila noticed that the government “finally decided to sit around the same table” with the M23, but it felt other peace initiatives at the country supported by the Catholic Church.

Dr. Kongo and Rwanda, who denies the accusations supported by the M23, may go towards a peace deal to end the fighting, which has witnessed hundreds of thousands of civilians who have been forced from their homes in recent months.

The two countries signed an initial agreement in Washington last month and said they agreed on the peace path.