CENCO is disgusted to see that many demonstrators marched with bladed weapons (machetes, sticks, stones, and so on.) in full view of the police with out being arrested. This declaration is contained in a press launch printed this Monday, Might 22 by Mgr Donatien Nshole, Secretary Normal of CENCO, following the repression of the march organized on Saturday, Might 20 by the opposition in Kinshasa.
“Worse nonetheless, some components of the Nationwide Police had been carrying the identical instruments of violence that they visibly exchanged with people in civilian garments, a few of whom had been carrying the BSU or UDPS Particular Brigade, Drive for Progress again. With such publicly displayed complicity, one wonders if this Particular Brigade shouldn’t be an formally maintained militia,” surprise the Catholic prelates.
“The peak of all is the despicable and savage repression that the police and their confederate militia inflicted on the demonstrators, together with the minors discovered on their manner. In finishing up their macabre work, they didn’t hesitate to fireside reside ammunition, even focusing on the car of a political chief,” recollects the press launch.
Want for regulation enforcement on the entrance to safe the nation
CENCO condemns all these monstrosities in addition to the violence that adopted, wherever it got here from:
“CENCO expects concrete actions from the competent authorities, past the media guarantees of investigations and justice (to which we’re accustomed and which regularly stay unfulfilled), to place out of hurt’s manner this complete collection of thugs simply identifiable. We significantly want regulation enforcement on the entrance to safe the nation and to not bully the inhabitants within the cities”.
CENCO deplores the truth that the Authorities of town of Kinshasa licensed these marches on the identical day and at virtually the identical occasions. She additionally denounces the very fact of getting verbally modified the route deliberate by the political opposition 24 hours earlier than. Which, in response to CENCO, borders on a provocation insofar as this transformation was prone to disrupt the planning of the organizers.
“CENCO urges the Congolese folks to not give in to concern within the face of organized barbarism to intimidate them. If nothing is completed to ensure his basic rights, he’ll quickly need to train his energy to punish all of the incompetents”the assertion concludes.
