Prior to March 2009 , the main combatant group against the FARDC was the National Congress for the Defence Defending of the People ( CNDP ) .

CNDP is sympathetic to the Banyamulenge in Eastern Congo , an ethnic Tutsi group , and to the Tutsi-dominated government of neighboring Rwanda .

In April 2012 , former National Congress for the Defence Defending of the People ( CNDP ) soldiers mutinied Change_of_leadership against the DRC government and the peacekeeping contingent of the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo ( MONUSCO ) .

It was composed Collaboration of former members of the rebel CNDP , and allegedly sponsored Supply by the government of the neighbouring states of Rwanda and Uganda .