{"id":2062,"date":"2010-03-28T03:43:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-28T03:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.yolandagranados.com\/crg\/dongo-crisis-timeline\/"},"modified":"2020-07-15T19:14:15","modified_gmt":"2020-07-15T19:14:15","slug":"dongo-crisis-timeline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.congoresearchgroup.org\/en\/2010\/03\/28\/dongo-crisis-timeline\/","title":{"rendered":"Dongo Crisis Timeline"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator is-style-wide is-core-separator-block\" style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:0px\">\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:47px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n  <div id=\"anchor-nav-position-block_5f0f557f8b2f4\" class=\"c-block-anchor-nav-position o-wrapper__inner\" style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:0px;\">\n    <div class=\"js-anchor-nav-position\"><\/div>\n\n    <div class=\"c-anchor-nav__mobile\">\n      <nav class=\"c-anchor-nav \"><span class=\"c-anchor-nav__heading\"> <\/span><ul class=\"c-anchor-nav__links o-list-bare\"><li class=\"c-anchor-nav__item\"><a href=\"#%20\" class=\"c-anchor-nav__link \"> <\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav>    <\/div>\n  <\/div>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:30px;padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:0px\" class=\"is-core-paragraph-block has-space-small-mb\">Below is also a picture of Odjani, the leader of the militia, sitting in the middle in robes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:30px;padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:0px\" class=\"is-core-paragraph-block has-space-small-mb\">1946 &ndash; The colonial administration intervenes following an outbreak of violence between Inyelle and Manzaya over fishing ponds.<br>1972 &ndash; A number of Manzaya are arrested for illegally fishing in Inyelle ponds and the two ethnic groups are ordered to fish jointly.<br>2001 &ndash; A Boba Territorial Administrator organizes elections in Dongo and unsuccessfully attempts to ensure a victory for his tribe at the expense of the native Lobala.<br>2007 &ndash; A Monzaya man and his Boba wife are caught fishing illegally and beaten up. The lack of justice leads the Manzaya to unilaterally seize the ponds from the Inyelle.<br>February 2009 &ndash; After the Inyelle&rsquo;s final attempt to negotiate with the Manzaya fails, they solicit the support of the witchdoctor Ibrahim Mangbama who sends his son Odjani.<br>March 31, 2009 &ndash; The Inyelle forcefully gain access to the ponds and drive the Manzaya away through Odajni&rsquo;s leadership.<br>June 18, 2009 &ndash; The Manzaya counter-attack against the Inyelle killing two and kidnapping one girl.<br>July 4, 2009 &ndash; Odjani leads a massive operation to burn down the entire village of Manzaya and driving its population away.<br>July 25, 2009 &ndash; Another provincial governmental delegation, including the Minister of the Interior, seeks to mediate the conflict and deploys 60 FARDC soldiers to the zone.<br>August 20, 2009 &ndash; The Chief of Army Staff, the Commander of the 3rd Military region, and the District Commissioner are unsuccessful in attempts to meet with Odjani.<br>October 21, 2009 &ndash; Ojdani troops come at night to pillage the cigarette factory in Dongo centre leaving a message that that all non-Lobala were to leave immediately.<br>October 28, 2009 &ndash; Odjani&rsquo;s militia attacks Dongo centre killing between 250 and 500 civilians. November 13, 2009 &ndash; A rapid reaction force of the police moves to Dongo centre along with Ghanaian peacekeepers.<br>November 26, 2009 &ndash; Odjani&rsquo;s militia attack Dongo centre again, driving out the Congolese police, shooting at a MONUC helicopter, and stealing a Ghanaian armored personnel vehicle.<br>December 8, 2009 &ndash; The Belgian-trained commandos of the FARDC defeat the insurgents at Bobito, only 60 kms from Gemena.<br><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_WCbif0e62eM\/S67RsimJNcI\/AAAAAAAAALU\/JwLmBNzGJXo\/s1600\/pic19032.jpg\"><\/a>January 1, 2010 &ndash; The commandos and the 81st Bde formed by the South Africans attack the insurgents killing a reported 157 insurgents at the village of Inyelle.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Below is also a picture of Odjani, the leader of the militia, sitting in the middle in robes. 1946 &ndash; The colonial administration intervenes following an outbreak of violence between&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3719,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.congoresearchgroup.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2062"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.congoresearchgroup.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.congoresearchgroup.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.congoresearchgroup.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.congoresearchgroup.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.congoresearchgroup.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2062\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.congoresearchgroup.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.congoresearchgroup.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.congoresearchgroup.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.congoresearchgroup.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}