The trial of the killers of UN experts has been going on for almost four years in Kananga, Kasai Central. It is in this province that Michael Sharp and Zaida Catalan were killed on March 12, 2017 not far from the village of Bunkonde.
On Thursday, our colleague Sonia Rolley testified before the court about various details related to the various investigations that RFI carried out on the subject. But since March 2017, three Congolese have been missing, Betu Tshintela, a former intelligence agent who was presented as a translator by the experts, and two motorcycle taxis, Isaac Kabuyi and Pascal Nzala. RFI met the families of the two guides.
“Pictured here is my kidnapped son …”: Anaclet Muyaya has raised her nephew Isaac Kabuyi as his son since he was four years old; he does not come without a photo of him to present his appeal. Isaac Kabuyi was 21 when he disappeared and had just graduated.
“We are really sorry to see this photo. If I kept it, it’s to present it to those who do not know it when it comes to Isaac. But us personally, the whole family, it really hurts us. But the worst, what hurts us, what makes us sick, we only talk about the experts. Are our Congolese brothers not men, are they animals? ”
The same feeling of injustice in André Nzala, brother of Pascal, former driver of the UN mission in Congo. “Since our brothers went with the experts, we have not seen them, not even their bodies. Military justice always speaks for the two experts, but for our brothers there is nothing. ”
Officially, the Congolese military court launched an investigation for 2017 to disappear without ever linking this file to UN experts. In 2018, she had requested DNA samples from the parents of the two cyclists after the discovery of the body. But justice never returned to them to present the result. These families also say they have not heard from the UN since 2017.
Also read:
“Congo Files”
DRC Web Documentary – Violence in Kasai
