CITY BENI: STILL BLOWS BALE ARMS WERE HEARD IN THE EVENING TO 20h Sunday, December 27, 2015: The people of Tamende District, Ma Campagne, TONI ... have moved on each other after a few shots of 'weapons of war heard at 20h ds Q. My companion, they go to the south of the city of Beni Beni view of City Hall.This is are all men, women and children out to the stars.This created a total panic among the inhabitants of Beni city fearing their Security & and social life in danger people talk dela presence of Ugandan ADF rebels-Nalu terrorizing the Beni region in over 25 years until today, the population living in hiding.Large agglomeration, village civil Similarly, are the target of repeated attacks by armed men as idatifié like Adf-Nalu rebels and the group's March 23 movement M23 acronym.ALLIED DEMOCRATIC FORCES ARMY FOR NATIONAL LIBERATION OF UGANDA (ADF / NALU) Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) in the territory of Beni, North Kivu Province, between October 1 and December 31, 2014, in May 2015. Since its creation in 1995, the ADF-Nalu is the product of internal fighting Ugandan and regional geopolitics.He brings two armed movements opposed to the regime of Yoweri Museveni.Repulsed by the Ugandan army, these movements found refuge with the Congolese neighbor caring where they merge and form a hybrid rebellion that is born in the DRC and implements it, because they could settle in Uganda.Contained by the Ugandan army but installed in a mountainous border region and difficult to access, the ADF-Nalu are in that gray area that is east Congolese fertile ground for their survival.In a context of collapse of the central state, this movement then melts in the myriad of armed rebel groups that form the geopolitical, convulsive and violent in the region and in which he still operates today.B. GENESIS OF BETWEEN REBELLION AND DEFEAT INSIDE OUTSIDE SUPPORT In September 1995, in Beni in the Congolese province of North Kivu, Yusuf Kabanda, a leader of the Ugandan armed Muslim opposition, and Ali Ngaimoko, Army Commander National for the Liberation of Uganda (NALU), seal an alliance called the Allied Democratic Forces - National Army for the Liberation of Uganda (ADF-NALU).Concluded out of Uganda with the help of Sudanese and Congolese secret services, this alliance brings together two movements defeated by the regular army called the Popular Defense Force of Uganda (UPDF).Without prior operational or ideological links, these movements have in common is opposed to the Ugandan regime, to be at the same time on Congolese soil and be close, independently of each other, enemies Kampala: diets Sudanese al-Turabi and Congolese Mobutu.1. The independence movement Rwenzururu [ICG] The historical roots of the ADF-Nalu refer to the first independence movement Rwenzururu whose melting pot is the Bakonzo community, a minority tribe in western Uganda.Nande with their cousins who are on the other side of the border in the DRC, the Bakonzo form the Bayira ethnicity.Bakonzo and Nande constitute a cross-border ethnic group that has a very close relationship (recognition of the traditional authority, annual gathering of notables of the two groups, etc.) and has taken advantage of its border position by weaving a wide commercial network.The Bakonzo opposed the central government in Kampala from the colonial period.In 1950, following the rejection by the British administration of the creation of a district Bakonzo, the armed movement Rwenzururu appears.Opposed to power resulting from decolonization, Bakonzo create the Kingdom of Rwenzururu 30 June 1962. It calls itself independent 15 August 1962 and Isaya Mukiriana becomes the king.This first insurrectionary movement, faced by the Ugandan government, just independent violently repressed by the army.In 1964, Kampala regained control of this part of the country while the Rwenzururu fighters took refuge in the Rwenzori Mountains, the Congolese-Ugandan border, in a mountainous area difficult of access where the movement set up his independent kingdom.In September 1967, the army destroyed the camp where sat the king of Rwenzururu and dispersed population.The Rwenzururu movement turns into a low-intensity guerrilla from 1967 to 1982, with the objective recognition by the central government of the Kingdom of Rwenzururu Kampala.His struggle officially ends August 15, 1982, when Charles Wesley Irema- Ngoma Willingly, the Omusinga [3] Bakonzo, joined the government of Milton Obote, which grants autonomy to the Kingdom of Rwenzururu failing.
The ADF-Nalu against Uganda: History repeated failure [ICG] In 1996, the number of ADF-Nalu are estimated at between 4,000 and 5,000 fighters.Their operations are concentrated in the Ugandan districts of Kasese and Bundibugo, along the border with the DRC.At that period, Yusuf Kabanda who heads the movement from Lubero, DRC, Jamil Mukulu being only his second.Chris Munyangongo Tushabe says Benz commander, a deserter of the Ugandan army sergeant who received training in Sudan, directs operations against Uganda from the DRC. In June 1997, the first major operation of the ADF-Nalu is to seize the town of Bundibuyo, but they are repelled by Ugandan forces.In 1998 they engaged in forced recruitment in Ugandan schools.In 1999, they attack the Katojo prison. Accumulating military failures and unable to gain a foothold in Uganda, they then attack the civilian population, to force them to cooperate.The ADF-Nalu increasing attacks on villages not protected by the Ugandan army and the police.Th...