(18 Apr 1997) English/Nat
Zairian rebel leader Laurent Kabila's finance minister said Thursday that President Mobutu Sese Seko had ordered secret police to kill all expatriates in the capital Kinshasa in a plot to gain foreign intervention.
Mawapanga Mwana Nanga said the massacre was a plot to prevent rebel forces from overthrowing Mobutu.
Mawapanga also indicated that rebels were only two weeks away from entering Kinshasa.
Kabila's finance minister, Mawapanga Mwana Nanga, issued a stark warning Thursday that President Mobutu could begin massacring foreigners living in the capital Kinshasa at any time.
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"Mobutu and his team have charged his son and DSP (secret police) the famous division to kill all the expatriates who live in Kinshasa. This way they can put those killings on our forces which have not reached Kinshasa yet and the reason for that is that they want to attract intervention of foreign forces which are in Brazzaville and I mean French, Belgium and US forces which are in Brazzaville to intervene on our territory and by doing so prevent a victory of the A-F-C-Z (rebel army). Therefore we want to call the attention of the world community that if such a thing happened - it happened in 1978 when Mobutu's forces killed all the French to attract French intervention - the world community should understand that it is a plot which has been prepared by Mobutu's forces and they are ready to act. They could start at any minute so we want to tell the world community that it is not our forces which have not reached Kinshasa yet."
SUPER CAPTION: Mawapanga Mwana Nanga, Rebel Finance Minister
Mawapanga told reporters that the rebels were only two weeks away from capturing Kinshasa and wanted as little violence as possible.
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