Civil society in southern Kivu demands an apology from Rwandan President Paul Kagame, following comments to RFI and France 24 during his visit to Paris two weeks ago. Paul Kagame considered the UN survey report to be controversial, and that other reports had concluded that there was no crime in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Words that shocked civil society in southern Kivu, which organized a seat in front of the French Institute in Bukavu on Tuesday morning.
as reported from Bukavu, William basimike
Dressed in black, with scarves or bags of the same color on their heads as a sign of lamentation, there are hundreds of those who camp to make their message heard. Banner in hand, Nabintu Fortune is a survivor of a massacre committed in Kaziba more than 20 years ago.
“I lost my brother with his wife, I lost my little sister with her husband and their children, I lost my uncle with two cousins, and they were all buried in a mass grave in Namushwaga exactly, in Kaziba. May the international community get involved in this issue to punish the perpetrators of the crimes. ”
On the banners, messages such as: “The crimes committed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo may not go unpunished” or “Debout Mapping”.
After two hours of angry sitting, the president of civil society in South Kivu, Adrien Zawadi, reads this message:
“Civil society in southern Kivu asks the UN to set up a special court for the DRC; the Rwandan president, the supreme commander of the Rwandan armed forces, some of whom are believed to be perpetrators of serious crimes in the Congo, to apologize to the Congolese people and prepare to report to “It is up to France to know that the crimes committed in the Democratic Republic of Congo are not a diplomatic affair to remedy the damage it has caused in Rwanda.”
Protesters also reject the humiliation of the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize, Dr. Denis Mukwege, by Paul Kagame, and call on the neighboring countries of the Democratic Republic of Congo to support their approach.
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