DRC accuses ex-president Kabila of planning 'general attack' on the country

Officials in DR Congo are accusing former President Joseph Kabila of planning a general attack on the country. Kabila on Monday joined forces with the rebel M23 to head a new outfit, taking a more direct role in the insurgency ravaging eastern DRC. This is a widespread attack against the Republic, a widespread attack against the Congolese people, against the people's power to choose its leaders, the people's power to live in peace, the people's power to refuse to live in a camp for displaced persons. The choice to take up arms means killing Congolese people in the hope of conquering territories, and the Congolese people have already overwhelmingly rejected this kind of adventure, and it's the Congolese people who will ensure their own defense." new group the Front for the Refoundation of the Nation was presented as a politico-military outfit it's headed by Kabila who returned from exile last year with M23 leaders serving as deputies they said the group will pool their strengths and resources in order to put an end to tyranny by any means including force we have commitments to peace that we've reiterated several times in In accordance with Security Council Resolution 2773, the Washington Accords and the Doha Framework, we remain firm in our commitment to resolve the security aspect of the crisis, in particular with the father Rwanda in Washington, with the son M23, the new look M23, Kabila in Doha, but also now with the political dialogue that's being discussed here in Kinshasa. Kabila was condemned to death in absentia last year for complicity with the M23, allegations he denies. On Friday, he accused President Tshisekedi's government of being motivated solely by its own perpetuation in power.