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By Joe Bavier
Abidjan
29 August 2006
Joseph Kabila
Senior representatives for Congo's President Joseph Kabila and Vice-President Jean-Pierre Bemba have met in Kinshasa to set up a commission to investigate post-election violence earlier this month. The two men will face off in an October presidential runoff election, raising fears the polls could lead to more deaths. Joe Bavier has this report for VOA with additional reporting by Eddy1 Isango in Kinshasa.
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Fighting in Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, began just as results from the country's first-round presidential election were due to be announced earlier this month. Street battles raged for three days between President Joseph Kabila's guard and Vice-President Jean-Pierre Bemba's personal security detail, claiming at least 20 lives.
Deputy spokesman for Congo's U.N. peacekeeping mission, Jean-Tobie Okala, says the panel, which was set up with the participation2 of both Kabila and Bemba supporters, is expected to shed some light on the events. "Both parties agreed to create, to set up, two sub commissions. The first one will be in charge of establishing the facts, what happened exactly, why did this happen, how can we prevent that such events occur again."
Main challenger former Uganda-backed rebel leader Jean-Pierre Bemba casts his vote
Both camps accuse each other of starting the violence and had avoided meeting. They agreed earlier to confine their soldiers to barracks, but the truce3 has not been fully4 respected. Bemba and Mr. Kabila themselves have not met face to face.
Okala says the head of the U.N. mission in Congo, William Swing, and others have urged the two to resolve their differences before the October 29 run-off election. "Not only Ambassador Swing, Secretary-General Kofi Annan, the whole international community urge the two candidates to meet. Even the Congolese people. It is something that they have to do, and we are confident that they will meet."
Congo's July 30 presidential elections were meant to draw a definitive5 close to a volatile6 period that led to the deaths of an estimated four million people during two successive civil wars.
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