223:. He repeated that Aimée Mulengela Kabila was in fact Aimée Mulengela, daughter of a sergeant of the former Zairean National Gendarmerie based in Kipushi. She had been awarded a diplomatic passport based on her claim to be the daughter of the former president. Using this identity she started a household with Alain Barracuda, a patron of Congolese music who was trying to get closer to the presidential family. He said that Barracuda, having found that he had been tricked into investing large sums of money based on her assumed identity, had arranged to eliminate her physically on the night of 15 January 2008. When asked about the possibility of using DNA tests to put the matter to rest Lambert Mende strongly rejected the option, saying it would be a waste of time and money.
191:, president of VSV, which was investigating the death, said he feared that the police were trying to put pressure on him by summoning him for a road accident that had happened almost a year earlier. Floribert Chebeya was killed on 3 June 2010. He had been ordered to meet the national police chief, and had texted his wife to say he was at the police headquarters for the meeting, but it was not known what happened next. His partially undressed body was later found on the back seat of his own car. Chebeya was still investigating Aimee's death, and was involved in other activities that were unwelcome to the government.
181:, Kinshasa, in the early morning of 16 January 2008. The morning before the killing the armed men in Congolese National Police uniforms who were posted to guard the home were removed. She appears to have been tortured before being shot by two armed men who broke into her home. According to her children and neighbors several jeeps were parked outside the house at the time, and the body at the morgue showed stab wounds and marks of torture. She was survived by six children: Astrida Kabila (aged 15), Branly Kabila (13), Petit-Aimé Kabila (10), Mechak Kabila (8), Victor Kabila (6) and Victorine Aline Bamba (3).
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Before her murder Aimée Kabila had been asking questions about the future of the property of
Laurent-Désiré Kabila and the identity of his heirs. She said she felt threatened and asked for United Nations protection in the DRC. Aimée's brother, Etienne Taratibu Kabila, denounced the assassination the
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Aimée's brother, Etienne
Taratibu Kabila, left Kinshasa secretly in January 2002 for South Africa. He wanted to take Aimée with him but that was not possible since she was the mother of four children. On 25 February 2005 she married Alain Mayemba Bamba, alias "Barracuda". A diplomatic passport was
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The official story was that the two killers were simply thieves who had bought a gun from an army deserter or the police, and Aimée Kabila
Mulengela had been shot accidentally. Two suspects were arrested on 25 January 2008 and the assault was reenacted two days later. General Oleko, Provincial
169:, mother of President Joseph Kabila. The day after her detention her six month old baby was taken from her in her cell, and disappeared. She was released on 24 February 2006. Property taken at the time of her arrest, including money, jewelry, passports and other documents, were not returned.
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137:(DRC). She was killed in her home by armed intruders on 16 January 2008. Although she had been issued a diplomatic passport as the daughter of Kabila, after her death the government claimed that she was unrelated to the former president.
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Mulengela was taken from her home in Kinshasa/Ngaliema by Special Services police and soldiers of the Military Detection of Anti-Homeland Activities (DEMIIAP) and detained for 52 days. A report by the
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next day from his place of exile in South Africa, accusing the presidential guard of the killing. Her family were subsequently subject to threats and intimidation that made them fear claiming the body and arranging a funeral.
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