 Following the end of the Second Congo War in 2003, he was offered a position in the army of the transitional government but refused to join out of fear that he would be arrested due to the International Criminal Court investigation against him.In 2004 his troops attacked Bukavu before retreating, but he rebelled again in November 2006 and attacked Goma.After sustaining heavy casualties in battle with the Pakistani battalion of the United Nations Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUC), he entered negotiations with the government and agreed to put his men into "mixage", which involved mixing rebel and non-rebel units together but is not "brassage".