Blood flows in the Beni territory : A genocide looms !

Object : Blood flows in the Beni territory : A genocide looms !

Mr.  President,

How are you this morning ! I do not know how to go about writing to Mr. President of the Congo.. Whatever! I imagine the daily life of every human being does not eclipse itself because of his high responsibilities. Yes, Mr. President of the Republic? Everyone is in agreement. I testify to this because I myself voted for you! But first of all, you are a man. You breathe, you eat, you drink. You have a wife and children. You are a man. You experience moments of joy and moments of suffering. The exaltation, the glory, the suffering, the fragility, the finite rhythm punctuate the life of women and men on earth.

Women and men! They are not eternal. They die. The strongest can live beyond 80 years. Anyway men must die. No one escapes this. This is the indispensable finiteness. Given this reality, as a human, I have several questions arising from an apparent cruel banality (massacres, rapes, kidnappings, slaughters) suffered by populations in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo . Why kill children who have not yet lived to the fullest? Mr. President, this is not fiction! The images are atrocious. They are in plain sight. Children crushed with hammer blows. It's not just children. Adults are also bound and their throats cut. Numerous are the men like you who are crushed by death. These women, like your wife, who are raped and assassinated. The bodies of their children lie in the blood that is flowing on the red soil of Beni. The most recent case happened yesterday (May 3, 2016) as reported by the radio motor of Oïcha:

"Sixteen persons killed with hatchets, axes and knives and other fire arms, this is the provisional toll of the raid of Ugandan rebels of the ADF alleged in the village of MINIBO, in the resort of BAUNGATSU-LUNA close to that of Eringeti. According to sources at the local level, the murders took place near the Nepalese peacekeepers MONUSCO position in Eringeti. The FARDC were well warned by the population. But they intervened after the enemy fled to an unknown destination. Note that the operation began at around 18 pm on Tuesday to Wednesday evening, May 4^th. Recall that since last Monday, 21 people, including 6 of the same family who were in a place of mourning LESE were removed. So far the people of this village are questioning themselves on the destination and the fate of the hostages. The local notability deplores the inaction of the army to protect the population. Published Wednesday, May 4, 2016 "

Dear President of the Republic, I know you are a politician. You hold to the project of your political party. The project ! This is the security, development, education, health, elections ... peace. A project for the whole Republic. Even a project for the territory of Beni, and Lubero. Also a project for the East of the Republic.

Moreover, I know that you are overwhelmed by your presidential responsibilities and the agenda of your partners and political sponsors. You are therefore an important president. You have power. However, these scribbled lines for you, are aimed first at a man. A man of flesh and, occasionally experiencing the vagaries of finiteness and suffering. It is to this man that I write. Yes, he wears the hat of the president, but he remains human. I guess that the Presidency of the Republic does not take away his humanity.

I ask him to take an interest in what happens in Beni and in Kivu.  Would he consider a serious investigation for a proper justice? If this man to whom I write is president of the Republic, he is there to govern peoples. Yet the dead number themselves in the millions. 8 million deaths. And every day that number keeps growing. At this rate, you, this man can become the president of the dead, the president of the cemeteries, the president of mass graves. Dear Mr. President, Beni survivors and Kivu wonder if they are still part of the territory which you are supposed to govern ...

These survivors and their friends are still numerous. Everyone will write to you. Please take time to read their anxieties ... Can they still count on you? Are you still able and competent to hear these cries of Beni humans. If you are always competent but when you do not act, the logic of complicity risk that you be accused. Thank you for the attention you already gave to this letter.

Signed

Father Gaston Mumbere,

–Member of the congregation of the Augustinians of the Assumption (Congregation of Jean-Pierre Ndulani Edmond Bamtupe Anselmo Wsukundi kidnapped October 19, 2012 and of Father Vincent Machozi murdered because he had quoted you in the massacres in eastern Congo ,)

– Member of the Peace Movement in the Congo of Quebec

P.S. Here is what I write on the envelope: To the President of the Democratic Republic of Congo in Kinshasa. I hope my letter will reach its destination. Anyway, I am not worried Everyone is familiar with this country and its president. The country is now known. It is the world capital of rape. The letter should reach you well ...