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'''Kongulu Mobutu''' also known as '''Kongolo Mobutu''' (April 21, 1970 Bruxelles &ndash; September 24, 1998) was a son of [[Mobutu Sese Seko]], President of [[Zaire]] (now the [[Democratic Republic of the Congo]]), and an officer in the [[Special Presidential Division]] (DSP).

==Biography==

=== Early life ===
Kongulu (also known as Kongolo) was one of the twenty-one children of President Mobutu Sese Seko. His mother was the President's first wife [[Marie-Antoinette Mobutu|Marie-Antoinette Gbiatibwa Gogbe Yetene]], who died in 1977. He was described as "a stocky, bearded man with a taste for fast cars, gambling and women."<ref name="MW">((cite book|title=In the footsteps of Mr Kurtz|last=Wrong|first=Michela|publisher=Fourth Estate|year=2001|isbn=1-84115-422-9|author-link=Michela Wrong))</ref>

===Despotic activity===
Kongulu Mobutu was a Captain in the DSP. When he left The School for Officers Training (EFO) in Kananga, he started his career as Second Lieutenant in The Military Service for Action and Intelligence (SARM). As Captain, he was Personal Secretary of General Bolozi in SARM. He was General Bolozi's protegee. Bolozi is married to Kongulu's aunt. Kongulu was a key enforcer in the final years of his father's [[despotism|despotic]] regime; his brutal treatment of political opponents earned him the nickname "[[Saddam Hussein]]".<ref name="TI">((cite magazine|url=http://www.time.com/time/asia/asia/magazine/1998/981005/milestones.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010214034438/http://www.time.com/time/asia/asia/magazine/1998/981005/milestones.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=February 14, 2001|title=Milestones|last=Roxe|first=Hilary|date=Oct 5, 1998|magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]]|access-date=31 March 2011))</ref>

In his childhood at [[Colonel Tshatshi Military Camp|Camp Tshatshi]], Kongulu was nicknamed "Gange". When he was about to finish his matric, his entourage nicknamed him "Vatican" as a state within a state. He did not like it. After an incident which put in him in trouble with his father about [[money laundering]], he fled to [[Libya]] and the [[Middle East]]. President Mobutu sent a team of his guards to take Kongulu back home. They successfully returned home. From that short exile, Kongulu took the nickname of Saddam Hussein.

===Business activity===
Kongulu Mobutu was in charge of various businesses in Zaire, including shipping and import firms, entertainment Yoshad Productions. He exercised a strong influence onto the popular musical band Wenge Musica BCBG of Werrason, Jb Mpiana, Didier Masela. He reconciled Koffi Olomide and Jossart Nyoka Nlongo after a feud. According to a former employee, quoted in a [[United Nations]] report, one of his companies, Hyochade, acted as a front for [[extortion]], state [[propaganda]] and surveillance of political opponents.<ref>[https://www.un.org/documents/ga/docs/55/a5544.pdf#search=%22kongolo%20mobutu%20Hyochade%22 Report of the Committee against Torture]</ref> The German [[ZDF]] network's investigative program ''Kennzeichen D'' has claimed that Kongulu participated in the siphoning off of the national wealth by helping to organize the secret movement of gold to [[Gambia]] during the 1990s.<ref>[http://www.congoned.dds.nl/chroni12.html Congo Chronicle XII]</ref>

===Flight from revolution===
In April 1997, as forces led by [[Laurent-Désiré Kabila]] advanced towards Zaire's capital, [[Kinshasa]], it is alleged that Kongulu Mobutu compiled a list of 500 of his father's opponents who were to be assassinated.<ref>[http://reliefweb.int/sites/reliefweb.int/files/reliefweb_pdf/briefingkit-a2b28dcb0f1dbee6009c5e2f3423b424.pdf ReliefWeb: Briefing Kit for Democratic Republic of the Congo (the): Info-Zaire - No 125 Analysis Compiled on 13 Feb 2012]((dead link|date=September 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes ))</ref> When troops entered the city on May 17, Defense Minister, General [[Donatien Mahele Lieko Bokungu]] tried to negotiate and was shot dead; it has been claimed that Kongulu had a role in his killing at Camp Tshashi.<ref name='Son'>((cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1997/05/18/world/mobutu-s-son-lingers-reportedly-settling-scores.html|title=Mobutu's Son Lingers, Reportedly Settling Scores|last=French|first=Howard W.|date=May 18, 1997|work=The New York Times|access-date=31 March 2011|location=KINSHASA, Zaire))</ref> Kongulu will be later clear of these accusations. 

It is revealed that Kongulu was the one who came to cover General Mahele's body. He came after the action and senior Commanders of the DSP were present during assassination. Kongulu had no influence on DSP soldiers.<ref>((cite book|language=fr|chapter= Les derniers jours|first= Jean-Pierre |last=Langellier|title=Mobutu |year=2017| pages =387–396|publisher=Éditions Perrin|url=https://www.cairn.info/mobutu--9782262049539-page-387.htm#np390))</ref> He was the last most famous person of Mobutu's regime to leave [[Kinshasa]] on May 17, 1997, after he tried unsuccessfully to defend his father's rule (he commanded his father's bodyguards to the frontline).<ref name="Son" /> Kongulu fled across the border to [[Brazzaville]] later that day while rebels were almost 10&nbsp;km away from the beach. His house was ransacked by soldiers and civilians.

==Family==
Kongulu was married to Dany Kanyeba Nyembwe and had children together. They lived in [[Kinshasa]]. 

==Death==
Kongulu Mobutu died in exile in [[Monaco]] on September 24, 1998, aged 28 (a year after he attended his father's funeral at Rabat, Morocco).<ref>((cite web|url=http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4196/is_19980926/ai_n10454366|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070311212656/http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4196/is_19980926/ai_n10454366|url-status=dead|archive-date=March 11, 2007|title=Kongulu Mobutu, Late dictator's son|date=Sep 26, 1998|work=Milwaukee Journal Sentinel|publisher=[[FindArticles]]|access-date=31 March 2011))</ref> Former [[Reuters]] journalist [[Michela Wrong]] has written that he and his brother Nyiwa died of [[AIDS]].<ref name=MW/>

==References==
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