A/HRC/4/7 page 6 17. The election of the definitive steering committee of the National Assembly, on 18 December marked the end of the mandate of all the institutions in support of democracy - in particular the CEI, which under the Constitution of 18 February 2006 became the National Independent Electoral Commission (CENI). 18. On 30 December, Antoine Gizenga became Prime Minister responsible for forming the new government, by order of President Joseph Kabila. II. THE ELECTORAL PROCESS - INCIDENTS AND IRREGULARITIES IN THE VOTE 19. The National Human Rights Observatory (ONDH), in a report dated 12 August 2006, denounced “a day of great commotion culminating in bloody demonstrations and systematic looting” (ransacking of the headquarters of the High Media Authority (HAM) and of ONDH), on the occasion of the return to Kinshasa of Vice-President Jean-Pierre Bemba, and the election rally that followed in the Tata Raphaël stadium of Kalamu Commune on 27 July 2006. The report also tells of the death in Matadi (Bas-Congo), on the same day, of 12 followers of Bundu-Dia-Kongo (a political and religious movement) and of a soldier. 20. Following these clashes of 20 and 22 August, the Minister of the Interior, Théophile Mbemba, stated that, of the 66 reported casualties, 43 had been wounded and 23 killed, including 12 police officers, 7 civilians and 4 soldiers. 21. On 29 October 2006, the day of the elections, soldiers of the sixth integrated FARDC brigade committed human rights violations in Aveba, a village situated about 90 km south-east of Bunia. According to local sources, at least 44 people were admitted to hospital after having been subjected to cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment. 22. Saturday, 11 November 2006 was marked by both small arms and artillery fire in downtown Kinshasa, namely in the district of La Gombe. According to official figures, these disturbances caused the death of three individuals, including a woman and a soldier, and left several injured. 23. On 21 November, during consideration by the Supreme Court of the application filed by Jean-Pierre Bemba’s Union for the Nation, the Congolese National Police had to intervene to disperse a crowd of about 200 people. In the afternoon, clashes marked by occasional small-arms fire took place between the police and followers of Vice-President Jean-Pierre Bemba in the vicinity of the Supreme Court, where demonstrators broke into the premises and looted computers, office supplies and personal belongings. III. HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS A. Summary and extrajudicial executions, enforced disappearances, torture and arbitrary arrests 24. On 22 August 2006, 84 fishermen, mostly from the Équateur province and accused of being “rebels”, were arbitrarily arrested, tortured and subjected to ill-treatment by members of the Republican Guard in Kinshasa.