The Congolese Revolutionary Movement (MRC) is a rebel group in Ituri Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Laurent Nkunda, leader of the National Congress for the Defence of the People, allied with the MRC in July 2006. Mathieu Ngudjolo Chui, the interim president of the MRC and a previous member of the Nationalist and Integrationist Front (FNI), agreed to join the Congolese army as a General, on July 27, 2006. The government pardoned all previous crimes he may have committed. The MRC, the FNI, and the Front for Patriotic Resistance of Ituri (FRPI) agreed to disarm on August 22, 2007.