Watching the January 3, 2009 interview with Congo's fighter-for-freedom, General Laurent Nkunda, is more riveting than any made-for-tv or big-screen movie Hollywood could script. See NKUNDA LAST CONGO INTERVIEW

In the following partial transcript of Parts II, III and IV, Nkunda describes how the Congo government, in alliance with Rwandan Hutu troops and Congolese Mai-Mai, commit massacres of Hutu civilians and blame it on Nkunda's CNDP soldiers. ~ Jackie Jura

...Women in Congo are raped and mass-raped. Can you tell the world how you feel about how women are treated in Congo and how this is happening to women of Congo?

"...It is difficult to explain but you are now in Congo and you are in the area under CNDP control. Ask in the hospitals where we are, and ask the women raped in our areas. I cannot think that they are raped in Jomba, then going to be treated in Goma, or Bukavu. But if you go in Goma, and if you go in Bukavu, you are going to see hospitals full of women raped.

But ask here, or go in Bunagana or Rutshuru and ask. They are going to tell you that the most secured area in Congo is the area under our control.

Even when they are telling about Rutshuru massacres, no it's not true, it's not true. They say that we massacred Hutu tribe. The Executive Secretary of CNDP, the second in charge, is a Hutu. So you tell me about killing Hutu? In my army 60% are Hutu, 60% or 70% are Hutu tribe. Then you tell me that I used these soldiers to kill Hutu?

It's misunderstandable, it's not true.

But you are now here, go and ask. You can go in Kiwanja, you can in Kitchanga, you can go in Rutshuru, you go to Bunagana, ask them. You are going to see women, ask them.

Kiwanja was liberated by CNDP at 28 October. We did in Kiwanja one week without any killing, any rape, any loot. One week after the government with Mai-Mais, FDLR, re-attacked Kiwanja and they occupied Kiwanja for 24 hours.

My forces were back from Kiwanja and in only 24 hours 74 people were killed. And before we came back to Kiwanja, the Governor of Goma, in the morning, announced that in Kiwanja there is massacres.

And I was asking myself "Who is doing" because when I heard on the radio that there is massacres in Kiwanja I called my guys on the ground, "Where are you" and they said "We are in Rutshuru".

"Ah, we are in Rutshuru, there is no our foces in Kiwanja?"

He said, "No".

"Now the Governor is telling there is massacres, who is doing now?"

And he said, "No, we are not in Kiwanja".

And we were back to Kiwanja in the afternoon of 29th...we were back 24 hours after. And some people were killed in the crossfire. That we can testify because Mai Mai they don't know how to shoot. They shoot wherever they want. And they were killing. When they were going, they were shooting. When they were retreating, they were shooting.

And we saw that even the Hutu community in Rutshuru wrote a letter about that, and they give it to Chief [Bushanzo?] saying "We were not killed by CNDP".

Do you have a copy of that letter?

Yeah, I have the copy.

Can I have a copy of it?

....Yeah, we have a copy. We have a copy of the president of the Hutu community in Rutshuru saying, "We were not killed by CNDP and if it were not for CNDP we would not be in Rutshuru today".

And this letter is there, and the number of phone is there, and if you want we can bring you to Rutshuru and ask the leaders, the local leader.

That's the truth, and if you want you can go Kiwanja, to Rutshuru, and we are going to meet the president of the Hutu community. They said we killed them but he will state about what I am telling you and that's the truth.

Why can I be managing Masisi, Rutshuru, where there is Hutu, 80% of the population is Hutu, then I come to kill only in Kiwanja and I am here since four years. How can you imagine that? It's not true, madame.

...Even in Goma, the same scenario was prepared in Goma.

When we were around Goma my intelligence services told me that there is a plan to kill people in Goma that night so they can appear on air saying that CNDP had killed.

That is why I told my guys to "Don't enter Goma".

That is why you pulled back from Goma? That's the question everybody wants to know.

Yes, I was informed, I was informed that there is a plan.

And in the same night, they put their guys on the terrain to kill in the night. They were uncontrolled forces. They who were in charge of killing never knew that we withdrew.

But I told MONUC, but I told Monouc, because I was at the airport. I told MONUC, "Now I am going 12 kilometers behind, back. Now you have to control Goma because I know that there is a plan of killing".

In the same night 64 people were killed, in Goma.

That was the effort of the FARDC?

Yes, yes, the plan. They did it without knowing that CNDP had withdrawn.

In the morning, now they were saying it is CNDP in Goma.

Now, in the meeting where they were doing it, one of ours was there. Because they did it like Hutu community, with their leaders. One of them is a CNDP member, but he remain a Hutu, he remains a Hutu. And he can go; he is trusted in their community. He was there. Then he called me and he say "We were in a meeting; now there is a plan of killing Hutu this night".

That's why I said, "OK, pull back".

But they did it, without knowing that we are not going to come. They did.

That's what they did in Rutshuru, because when they came they said "We are going to kill and we know that we are not going to stay there. CNDP will pursue us. But let us kill. Then there are going to be these massacres and we will tell Hutu that CNDP 'is coming to kill you'."

But the president of the community, a Hutu in Rutshuru, was there. And he knows very well who killed them. That's why he wrote a letter. He said "If CNDP would not have came it will have been a disaster".

And this letter is there. We are going to give you a copy and the phone of this president. And if you want to meet him, I can call him and he will come to meet you in Bunagana.

...We have a military code of conduct and if you want I will give you a copy.

Because for us, when we were beginning this fightings, I said to my guys, "Either we are fighting for right, or I will not go".

Rape will be punished by firing squad, definitley. And it's known. And two weeks ago two officers were killed for that.

Two of your soldiers were killed?

Yes, officers, not soldiers, officers.

You executed them?

Yes, they went somewhere and they drank this local beer and they didn't control their selves when they went in a house where there were no married women. They slept there, in their village. And they are drunk, and they did a rape.

I'm sorry?

They did a rape when they are drunk.

Then we called the military court, the martial court, yes. We said "Now in our code of conduct if you rape.... And we killed them there, before soldiers.

Who has to execute them then, the captain?

Other soldiers, yes.

Other soldiers?

Yes, of the same rank soldiers.

The same rank?

Yes. They were second lieutenants and they were killed by second lieutenants.

Yeah, that's the way. It was a punishment. And it is accepted. And it is stated in our Code of Conduct. Looting by arms, it's a crime. We will use also a weapon against you. Looting without arms, now you can be in reprisal for such time. But if you used weapon to rob or to loot, now we will use weapon against you.

They are strong measures, I know. But also they help me in the four years of fightings.

All these guys knows very well that it exists. But they can't tell because they want to see a rebellion where there is no cause, where all women are raped, where we are looting. That is what they expect to see. And when they come they don't see such kind of behaviour. I think for them it is not good.

But what I know is that we are doing a war for liberation. Not for minerals, resources, no. There is a cause.

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