WRAP Kabila supporters celebrate, Bemba won't concede, violence on street

(17 Nov 2006)
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1. Police cars speeds past supporters of defeated presidential candidate Jean-Pierre Bemba
2. Bemba supporters running down street as police car pursues them
3. Speeding traffic and Bemba supporters on road
4. Injured UN soldiers walking down road
5. Police officer kicking makeshift burning barricade in the road
6. Bemba supporter holding rock next to burning tyre in the road
7. Police climbing into pick up truck
8. Police wearing gas masks standing in the road
9. Police putting arrested man into back of pick up truck
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10. Jean-Pierre Bemba supporters throwing stones at car carrying President Joseph Kabila's staff
11. Bemba supporters stopping vehicle in street
12. European Union military vehicles driving down street
13. Bemba supporter runs down street with rock
14. Bemba supporters smash window of Kabila staff vehicle with rock as it speeds down road
15. Bemba supporters run from one minibus stopped on road to another
16. Passengers flee minibus
17. Supporters of defeated presidential candidate Jean-Pierre Bemba pulling metal strips off barrier
18. Young Bemba supporters throwing rocks at passing police truck
19. Man running away with riot shield and dropping it
20. Various of Bemba supporters
21. Various of armed police on road, rock throwing youths facing them
22. UN armed soldiers on road (khaki uniforms, blue helmets)
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23. Wide of man carrying Kabila poster and jumping up and down
24. Mid of Kabila supporters
25. Cutaway of Kabila man carrying Kabila's poster
26. Close up of woman with face painted with white chalk
27. Wide of men jumping up and down with Kabila poster
28. SOUNDBITE: (Lingala) Carlos Calamata, Kabila supporter
"I don't sleep at home because we all are coming out to celebrate our love for Joseph Kabila Kabange."
29. Wide of supporters waving branches, and carrying poster of Kabila
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30. Cut away of Bemba supporters
31. SOUNDBITE: (French) Jean-Pierre Bemba, opposition presidential candidate:
"I regret to have to say to our people and to the international community that I cannot accept these results which are far from reflecting the truth of the ballot box."
32. Various of Bemba's supporters sitting down
STORYLINE:
Supporters of Jean-Pierre Bemba, who was beaten to the presidency in historic elections in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) by the incumbent president Joseph Kabila, clashed with riot police on Thursday.
Bemba said he would use all legal means to fight the results - a signal that the former rebel leader does not intend to use the force of hundreds of armed troops at his disposal.
"I regret to have to say to our people and to the international community that I cannot accept these results which are far from reflecting the truth of the ballot box," he said.
Jean-Pierre Bemba's declaration came a tense day after Kabila was declared winner of DRC's first free elections in nearly 50 years.
Kabila won 58 per cent of votes to Bemba's 42 per cent, it was announced late on Wednesday.
On Thursday, the European Union congratulated both men and urged them to put their bitter rivalry behind them and "get together without delay" to help bring prosperity to their impoverished nation.
EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana, who spoke by telephone with both men, said in a statement that the high score obtained by Bemba made him "undoubtedly one of the political players in the period ahead."
Laurent Kabila was assassinated in 2001 and his son assumed power.

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