General Laurent Nkunda

Once a pillar of the pro-Rwanda Rassemblement Congolais pour la Démocratie-Goma (RCD-Goma) rebellion Amisi – who hails from Maniema province as does Shadary was involved in the brutal 2002 repression of a mutiny and uprising against RCD-Goma troops in Kisangani alongside his then RCD-Goma comrades Laurent Nkunda who went on to lead the Rwanda-sponsored Congrès national pour la défense du peuple...

Meanwhile General Innocent Gahizi a Congolese Tutsi commander who reported to Laurent Nkunda when he led the Congrès national pour la défense du peuple...

The split has its roots in the 2009 arrest in Rwanda of CNDP rebel commander General Laurent Nkunda when Rwanda came under international pressure to stop its support for that rebellion...

Many of the ex-CNDP remain in prominent positions including Colonel Innocent Gahizi once an acolyte of General Laurent Nkunda and now the FARDC commander for Kinshasa...

His loyalists always had a frosty relationship with Makenga whose mentor General Laurent Nkunda was replaced by Ntaganda as the head of the CNDP in 2008 when Nkunda was arrested by Rwanda as part of a deal to integrate the CNDP into the FARDC...

Yet Makenga and Ntaganda have been rivals since Ntaganda deposed Laurent Nkunda as head of the CND in 2009...

Laurent Nkunda a Congolese Tutsi who was ‘deposed’ by Bosco Ntaganda and is supposedly under house arrest in Kigali...

Laurent Nkunda and saw it absorbed into the FARDC...

Laurent Nkunda’s regarding Ntaganda as a traitor since he lined up behind Kabila in 2009...

Laurent Nkunda’s Conseil national pour la défense des peuples (CNDP) will keep up its fight against the rulers in Kinshasa...

In 2008 the group accused a Rwandan businessman Tribert Rujugiro of supporting the Tutsi rebel General Laurent Nkunda which Rujugiro strongly denied...