{"id":113369,"date":"2017-12-21T02:55:20","date_gmt":"2017-12-21T00:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.arabtelegraph.com\/?p=113369"},"modified":"2017-12-21T02:55:20","modified_gmt":"2017-12-21T00:55:20","slug":"who-killed-u-n-experts-in-congo-confidential-prosecutors-file-offers-clues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.arabtelegraph.com\/?p=113369","title":{"rendered":"Who killed U.N. experts in Congo? Confidential prosecutor’s file offers clues"},"content":{"rendered":"

U.N. investigators Zaida Catalan and Michael Sharp were on familiar ground when they sat down with local leaders in central Congo in March to discuss a widening seven-month-old conflict in the area.The pair \u2013 experienced members of a panel monitoring the sanctions regime in Democratic Republic of Congo for the U.N. Security Council \u2013 were meeting members of the Kamuina Nsapu, a local clan, on the sidelines of peace talks with the government in the city of Kananga.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Among other things, they discussed plans to visit the village of Bunkonde, the site of violent clashes, the next day.<\/p>\n

The two U.N. workers left Kananga on the morning of\u00a0March 12.\u00a0On March 27, their bodies were found in a shallow grave. Catalan had been decapitated.<\/p>\n

Congolese government officials maintained for months\u00a0to reporters\u00a0that no state agents were involved in the killings and that they\u00a0did not know that the two experts were in the region, let alone heading to Bunkonde.<\/p>\n

But at least one person who helped organise the trip, Jose Tshibuabua, worked for Congo\u2019s intelligence service, the Agence Nationale de Renseignements (ANR), Reuters and Radio France Internationale (RFI) have learned.<\/p>\n

The trial of a dozen suspected Kamuina Nsapu militia members started in June but was suspended in October pending the arrival in Congo of four U.N. experts last month to assist with additional investigations.<\/p>\n

Phone logs in a confidential prosecutor\u2019s case file compiled for the trial and seen by Reuters and RFI, who jointly reported this story, show that Tshibuabua had frequent contact with a local ANR boss, Luc Albert Tanga Sakrine, before and after the two experts were killed.<\/p>\n

Two security sources said that case file was given to a U.N. board of inquiry that concluded militiamen were likely responsible for the killings of Sharp, 34, an American, and Catalan, 36, a Swede.\u00a0 Tshibuabua and his ties to the ANR were not mentioned in the board\u2019s confidential report to the U.N. Security Council or in the trial, however.<\/p>\n

The board\u00a0said it was\u00a0unable to establish a motive for state actors\u00a0to have been involved. But the two experts were\u00a0conducting\u00a0investigations\u00a0in an area where the United Nations has accused Congo\u2019s military of using excessive force against militia and civilians and of digging mass graves.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The top ANR official in Congo, Kalev Mutond, told Reuters and RFI that Tshibuabua was working as a \u201cvolunteer informant\u201d for the agency at the time of the meeting, but did not inform ANR officials about his contacts with the two experts.<\/p>\n

Since the trial of the militiamen was suspended, Tshibuabua was arrested and charged last week with the murder of Catalan and Sharp and participation in an insurrection, his lawyer, Tresor Kabangu, told Reuters. Kabangu said his client denies the charges and has not worked for the ANR in more than a year.<\/p>\n

Government spokesman Lambert Mende now says that authorities have not excluded the possibility that state agents were involved.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u201cIf there is a state agent who was involved, he will be pursued and judged,\u201d Mende said on Dec. 1 after Reuters and RFI laid out the contents of the case file and phone logs.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The U.N. board\u2019s chairman, Greg Starr, declined to say if he had seen the prosecutor\u2019s file or was aware of its contents.<\/p>\n

In an emailed answer to questions, Starr said only that the board\u2019s report had a tight deadline and did not include some sensitive information, which was turned over to authorities in the United States and Sweden, because of concerns about leaks.<\/p>\n

\u201cA thorough criminal investigation into a heinous act like this, under these circumstances, could not be accomplished in only three months,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Congo\u2019s top military prosecutor, Joseph Ponde, declined to respond to questions about why Tshibuabua\u2019s involvement was not raised in the trial, except to say the proceedings are public.<\/p>\n

Tanga Sakrine declined to comment.\u00a0President Joseph Kabila\u2019s deputy chief of staff, Jean-Pierre Kambila, also declined to comment, citing the ongoing trial.<\/p>\n

A TENSE RELATIONSHIP<\/h3>\n

Ties between the United Nations and Congo can be tense, with authorities often accusing the world body of meddling in their sovereign affairs. The U.N. peacekeeping mission, deployed in 1999 to monitor a cease-fire in a long-running war in the east, is the world\u2019s largest with about 18,000 uniformed personnel.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Catalan and Sharp were investigating a new conflict in the central Kasai region. In August 2016, Kamuina Nsapu militiamen in the area rose up to demand government forces withdraw after the local chief, Jean-Pierre Mpandi, was killed.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Up to 5,000 people died in the violence.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0On the weekend of\u00a0March 11, a delegation of about 40 Kamuina Nsapu representatives was in Kananga to talk peace. Members of this delegation met Sharp and Catalan at the Woodland Hotel.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0In audio recovered from Catalan\u2019s computer by the United Nations, Tshibuabua describes himself as a Mpandi family member and helps translate from the local Tshiluba language into French for the group\u2019s leader, Francois Muamba. He does not say he works for the ANR.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 According to a Reuters translation, Tshibuabua and another person assured Sharp and Catalan in French that their safety would be guaranteed in Bunkonde, even as Muamba warned not to make promises they couldn\u2019t keep.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cWe don\u2019t know the situation over there,\u201d Muamba said at one point. He said he did not have control of the local militia in Bunkonde. \u201cLet\u2019s talk about (the situation) near us.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Tshibuabua continued to assure the U.N. investigators that the militiamen \u201cwill not do anything\u201d, adding later: \u201cHere in Kasai, we really guarantee your passage.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Reuters was unable to reach Muamba for comment.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The prosecutor\u2019s case file includes logs from about 20 phone numbers over various periods from early March to mid-June.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 One is from the phone of Tshibuabua and another is from the phone of his cousin Betu Tshintela, who accompanied Catalan and Sharp to Bunkonde as an interpreter. Tshintela claimed in a 2012 job application\u00a0to the government of Kasai-Occidental province – seen by Reuters and RFI –\u00a0to have also worked for the ANR.<\/p>\n

The government says Tshintela is dead but the United Nations cannot confirm that.\u00a0Mutond, the top ANR official,\u00a0could not confirm if Tshintela had worked for the ANR but said he was looking into it.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The phone logs show Tshibuabua was repeatedly in contact with Tanga Sakrine, the provincial ANR chief, around this time. Between\u00a0March 10\u00a0and 12, the two exchanged at least 17 text messages, including five in the afternoon of\u00a0March 11, shortly after the meeting at the Woodland Hotel, and five\u00a0around 9 p.m. on March 12, hours after Sharp and Catalan were killed.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Mutond\u00a0said he asked Tshibuabua three times\u00a0in an interrogation in the capital Kinshasa whether\u00a0he\u00a0informed ANR officials about his contacts with the investigators, and Tshibuabua said no each time.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Reuters and RFI could not independently confirm this.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cI looked Jose Tshibuabua in the eyes and asked him because I myself wanted to have a clean conscience,\u201d\u00a0Mutond\u00a0said.<\/p>\n

FINAL CALL<\/h3>\n

Sharp spent three years working in eastern Congo for a Mennonite peace-building organisation, trying to persuade rebels to lay down their weapons, before joining the sanctions panel in 2015 as its armed groups expert.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Catalan, the panel\u2019s humanitarian expert, worked for the European Union\u2019s police mission in Congo in 2011-12 and also held posts with the EU in Palestine and Afghanistan.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The phone logs show the last call from Catalan\u2019s phone was to her sister, Elizabeth Morseby, in Sweden\u00a0at 4:49 p.m.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Morseby told Reuters and RFI she could hear only some male voices in the background and Catalan breathing deeply before the call disconnected. No-one answered when she called back.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Some relatives and rights activists told Reuters and RFI they raised concerns early about possible government involvement because state forces were heavily implicated in rights abuses in Kasai that attracted international attention in the past.<\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0The families and Washington want the United Nations to launch an independent investigation.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 A former colleague on the U.N. panel also\u00a0cast doubt on a video that the government said showed the two being executed by Kamuina Nsapu members. He said the video raised more questions than it answered, for example, why at least one of the alleged assassins gave orders in Lingala, the language of western Congo and the army, rather than the local Tshiluba.<\/p>\n

Mende, the government spokesman, countered that many Congolese speak at least some Lingala.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The U.N. board noted theories of \u201calternate causes of the incident\u201d but cited a lack of motive for government to be involved. It also said Sharp and Catalan failed to heed warnings from U.N. security officials that travel outside Kananga was dangerous.<\/p>\n

The FBI has opened an investigation,\u00a0according to Sharp\u2019s parents, who have met with bureau investigators.\u00a0The FBI declined to comment.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The Swedish prosecutor\u2019s office is investigating\u00a0Catalan\u2019s killing\u00a0but complained\u00a0in a statement\u00a0last month that Congolese officials are not cooperating.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Mende said it was up to Swedish authorities to provide information to the Congolese court hearing the case, not the other way around.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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