The territory was created after the failures of the Simba rebellion as a revolutionary redoubt by Laurent-Désiré Kabila with a contingent of a couple thousand men.

It dissolved in 1986 when its weapon supplies ran thin, informants and spies caused chaos in government and the territory began to run out of resources to extract.

Before elucidating this situation, the tension increased further following the assassination of a sector councilor - Samuel Mangapi arrested by the administrator Limoko, of Fizi territory, with 250 other people, as members of the MNC/L-Fizi.

Mangapi was assassinated by members of the Bembe elite association in Bukavu, on the orders of Mutambala Dieudonné, because he wanted the Fizi zone to join the Maniema province.

[1] As for the promulgation of the law creating the province of Central Kivu and submitting the territory of Fizi to the referendum, the Bembe leaders and advisors were divided into several tendencies.

[1] The popular and anti-bourgeois character of the rebellion emerges from certain declarations made in Fizi by local rebel leaders against the elite and the political-administrative class in place.

Thus, his group grew quickly and his maquis reached a fairly high level of efficiency and organization, thanks to his well-read experience with Marxist–Leninist theory with a view to the establishment of a democratic and socialist state.

[1] After the consolidation of the Republic itself, in the town of Makanga-Tubaone, Kabila's allies and government ministers - Yumbu Gabriel, Masengo Ildephonse, Umba Jeanson - created, on December 24, 1967, a political party for the new territory.

[1] Due to the chaotic nature of civil wars and rebellions, alongside the relative isolation of the maquis, it is impossible to denote exact specifics on government structure in the Republic, but the President, in this case Kabila, served for life, and would cycle through vice-presidents by democratic elections, alongside the appointment of a General Secretary of the PRP.

Clothes and other goods, intended for the poor, as provided for in social affairs, and for combatants, were distributed by Kabila to his friends via nepotism.

Kabila, thus had produced a drastic solution: All sorcerers, cursers and mages of the "Red Zone" (the existing controlled regions of the Republic) would be executed.

[1] This operation had singlehandedly caused immense distrust around Kabila by his cadres and had sown the seeds of collapse into Fizi.

Other mistakes included the movement of loyal troops to Lake Tanganyika's coast, resulting in even less security for the capital of Fizi.