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Kinshasa has been a "terrorist attack" instead of a coup

to 01/03/2011 17h: 33 By Jeune Afrique
According to the Congolese government, the perpetrators of the attacks Sunday in Kinshasa, had prepared to attack many other sites besides the presidential residence, including national television. According to Kinshasa, he is an offensive "terrorist", not a coup.

The attack on two strategic locations to Congo on Sunday, including the presidential residence of Joseph Kabila in Kinshasa, is only part of a larger terrorist plot. In any case, the government's version, which provided new details Tuesday about this attempted coup.

addition Kokolo camp, which has also been attacked (killing five security sources said) "a lot of other sites including the TRNC [Congolese National Radio and Television] ... were targeted, "said Lambert Mende, the spokesman for the Congolese government, at a press conference. "There is a list of these sites," said Minister of Communication and Media, but did not elaborate.

"We could get hold of most people who have been made to address these different sites," he said. One of the ringleaders, "a former a former armed group [...] would have fallen at the head of his troops," he said.

"scare people"

According to the government, the attackers have targeted the camp Kokolo for "possession of ammunition." They have all been between fifty and sixty men assured Lambert Mende. Noting that more than sixty conspirators were arrested and interrogated, including attackers others "complained" when the first interrogation.

According to the government, seven attackers were killed, cons ten according to UN sources citing security sources Congolese. The same source said "a hundred" the number of attackers.

Lambert Mende said he was not a coup but a "terrorist attack" designed "to scare people in Kinshasa."

The DRC is entering a very tense few months before the presidential election scheduled for November. A constitutional amendment led to the charge in January, reduced to a single round of voting procedures, which denounced the main opposition candidates.