Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Monday, April 13, 2009
ONU (Communiqué de presse)
UN, AU envoys urge DR Congo to implement peace agreements
Xinhua - Apr 12, 2009
LAGOS, April 12 (Xinhua) -- The UN special envoy and the African Union (AU) mediator urge the Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo) to fully implement the ...
Obasanjo, Mkapa Seek Implemention of DR Congo Agreements THISDAY
DR Congo: UN envoy to push for children’s rights in peace process UN News Centre
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AFP
Police break up DR Congo political gathering
AFP - 8 hours ago
KINSHASA (AFP) — Police in the Democratic Republic of Congo broke up a meeting of some 40 pro-presidential and opposition lawmakers in a Kinshasa cafe ...
DR Congo-Parliament-Trend Outgoing speaker forms trend at the DR ... African Press Agency (subscription)
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UNICEF (press release)
In eastern DR Congo, up to 250000 flee attacks by Rwandan rebel group
UNICEF (press release) - 5 hours ago
NEW YORK, USA, 13 April, 2009 – Since January, more than 250000 people have fled fighting in North Kivu province in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo ...
Voice of America
Illegal mining in DR Congo
BBC News - Apr 10, 2009
Nearly three months ago, Rwandan troops entered eastern DR Congo for a joint military operation with the Congolese against Rwandan Hutu FDLR rebels. ...
Kenya optimistic about ceasefire deal in E DR Congo Xinhua
RE-IGNITED FIGHTING IN DR CONGO THREATENS FRAGILE PROGRESS, BY ... MaximsNews Network
DR Congo: Brutal Rapes by Rebels and Army منظمة هيومان رايتس ووتش - حقوق الانسان
UN News Centre - Spero News
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Stars to face DR Congo May 9
ThisDay - Apr 11, 2009
’’We’ve, therefore, invited the CHAN champions DR Congo. I am optimistic the match will help our team acquire the tactics they need to confront New Zealand. ...
Catholic Church’s hierarchy in DR Congo
African Press Agency (subscription) - Apr 12, 2009
APA - Kinshasa (DR Congo) The National Episcopal Conference of Congo (CENCO) is the national institution which administers and presides over the fate of the ...
Oil in Uganda casts a shadow
Radio Netherlands - 13 hours ago
Oil has also been found in neighbouring DR Congo, but the government there is a long way behind in exploration". Two years ago, there were still skirmishes ...
AFP
DR Congo army fights off rebel attack in east
AFP - Apr 9, 2009
BUKAVU, DR Congo (AFP) — Ten people were killed when troops in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Thursday fought off an attack by a joint force of Mai-Mai ...
DR Congo Jailbreak Leaves 12 Death, 15 Injured CRIENGLISH.com
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FM: Russia to strengthen ties with DR Congo
Xinhua - Apr 7, 2009
MOSCOW, April 7 (Xinhua) -- Russia favors strengthened relations with the Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo), said Russian Foreign Minister Sergei ...
Voice of America
DR-CONGO: Electronics Firms Urged to Boycott "Blood Minerals"
IPS - Apr 1, 2009
"There is widespread looting, burning of villages and an unacceptable peak of sexual violence," Marcel Stoessel, Oxfam's country director in DR Congo, ...
Rights group wants Congo 'conflict mineral' tracing www.worldbulletin.net
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Saturday, April 11, 2009
UPDATE 4 OCTOBER 2007: Since the above was written, I have read most of the original source material relating to alleged Belgian atrocities in the Congo, and my ideas have changed. I now believe that there is some considerable truth to these allegations, but that it is important to understand just what it being alleged here:Just as no white man ever went to Africa and captured a single slave, there is no proof that any white white man ever amputed the hand of a single African. a) first, as I correctly suspected, these atrocities were committed by Africans; b) secondly, the hands were cut off corpses, except in two cases (Epondo and Ikotobe), which are disputed; if true, the hands were amputated by an African named Kelenga; c) thirdly, we are not necessarily talking about millions of people. The stories would be "true" if perhaps half a dozen white officers (who are mentioned by name in the texts) permitted or allegedly encouraged their cannibal African auxiliary troops to ampute the hands of several thousand dead Africans, much as American troops used to ampute the ears of dead Japanese or Vietnamese. One of the missionaries who personally saw a "basket of hands" counted exactly seventeen of them. Roger Casement found a SINGLE CASE in which an African was forced by another African to drink from a chamber-pot which he was carrying to a river. There is no question of any white involvement or responsbility for this act (THE EYES OF ANOTHER RACE, p. 137). This single incident was magnified by a writer named Michela Wrong (IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF MR KURTZ, pp. 45-46) into a generalized campaign of atrocities committed by whites. It is simply untrue to allege that white Belgians went around cutting the hands off Africans and forcing them to drink urine. Finally, Joseph Conrad, who, according to Casement, knew the Congo very well, said he never head of hand-chopping anywhere in the country (EYES, p. 38). This means it cannot possibly have been performed on the scale often imagined by propagandists. Conrad seems to have distrusted Casement and wanted nothing to do with him (ibid, p. 314, footnote 70). It should be noted that HEART OF DARKNESS is a work of fiction. It is interesting to note that Michela Wrong has not even read the original Casement reports, which are not listed in the bibliography. She also describes many atrocities which I cannot even find in the Casement reports (ibid, p. 46). She plays down the African atrocities of the 1960s and even the present day, preferring to describe the Congolese as humourous, good-natured, rather chaotic children blaming all their faults on King Leopold and the Belgians. Propaganda aside, however, the book is very good in some ways and no doubt contains much truth. There are so many problems involved in the whole situation, and with Casement and the report, that it is impossible to form any kind of opinion without reading the source material for oneself.Incidentally, it is untrue that the "Black Diaries" are obsessed with passive (or even active) anal sex. I find no mention of this anywhere, although he was undoubtedly homosexual. It is amazing what people imagine when they have not read something personally. There are two "Black Diaries", in addition to other material.In short, conditions under Leopold appear to have been very bad, but no worse than today, in the 1960s, or even under the Arab slave traders before the Belgians ever even got there. That's Africa. This is not to say that Leopold's Congo was not very badly mismanaged, or that the regime was not guilty of creating a system of mass injustice. The Congo of Leopold II was the world's first large-scale exercise in "privatization". Leopold spent his entire personal fortune in the Congo, doing some very valuable work in what Casement calls "one of the most savage regions of Africa" (ibid, p. 50), but was going bankrupt and needed to turn a profit in a hurry. So he did what capitalists and socialist bureaucrats always do: turn the entire population into debt and tax slaves.Thus, the statement commonly made that "the Belgians used to cut off the hands of Africans who didn't work fast enough, reducing the population of the Congo from twenty million to twelve", is simply not true. The statement that white Belgians "forced Africans to drink urine" is a lie. It is true that there was a large dropoff in population over a period of 20 years, which one Belgian anthropologist, Daniel Vangroenweghe, estimates at one and half million, due to a variety of causes, including sleeping sickness (ibid, pp. 34, 316, footnote 110).Apart from that, it is in the nature of a wrong to be exaggerated, and I am not interested in arguing about the numbers of victims in what was a situation of obvious injustice.When the Congo was taken over by the Belgian state, Belgian colonialism evolved into something very humane and beneficial, which is the way it started out. The allegation of "one hand for one bullet" appears to be simply a legend based on a "disused diary" abandoned by an official who disappeared (ibid, pp. 88-89, 325). Elsewhere, it is stated that there were absolutely "no legal limits" on the amounts of ammunition which could be expended (ibid, p. 112-113). There were also serious native uprisings with heavy fighting ("a large-scale rebellion went on in the northern part of the country between 1897 and 1900", ibid, p. 321, footnote 43, see also Wrong, p. 45). As always in Belgium, officials guilty of gross negligence, incompetence or malfeasance were never punished; intelligent regulations issued on paper (for example, an 1898 decree stating that African troops were not to go on patrol without European officers, and were not to carry out reprisals; if reprisals were required, they were to be carried out by Europeans) were inadequately enforced. On the other hand, it is admitted that many Belgian officials were capable and conscientious. Much of what Casement describes reminds me of Belgium today (in fact, tax systems everywhere). I now believe that the Casement "black diaries" are authentic, but that they are not sufficient to discredit Casement's findings, either in the Congo or in South America, although the possibility of an ulterior motive for some of Casement's actions remains.Casement's 1910 Putamayo Diaries contain one very strange remark: Casement says that the Africans were never afraid of bloodshed; on the contrary, they liked it; and that whites in Africa could never have acted the way Peruvians did in the Putamayo Region between Colombia and Peru, because they would have been massacred after the first few murders (ROGER CASEMENT'S DIARIES 1910: THE BLACK AND THE WHITE, Sawyer, p. 180). One wonders how this is compatible with much of the rest of what he says. At any rate, this was over a century ago. The only people committing atrocities in Africa today are the Africans, and they have nobody to blame for it but themselves. But just watch them try.I lived in Belgium for 18 years and I know the Belgian people. They are not a nation of hand-choppers and sadists. -C.P., 4 October 2007 ---- Perhaps the Belgians are to blame for the following as well:
UN expert: Rape rampant in Congo
By BRADLEY S. KLAPPER, Associated Press Writer Mon Jul 30, 12:11 PM ET GENEVA - Sexual atrocities in Congo's volatile province of South Kivu extend "far beyond rape" and include sexual slavery, forced incest and cannibalism, a U.N. human rights expert said Monday.
Yakin Erturk called the situation in South Kivu the worst she has ever seen in four years as the global body's special investigator for violence against women. Sexual violence throughout Congo is "rampant," she said, blaming rebel groups, the armed forces and national police.
"These acts amount to war crimes and, in some cases, crimes against humanity," said Erturk, who just came back from an 11-day mission there.
Most of the worst abuses have been committed by rebel groups, many of whom fled to Congo after taking part in the Rwandan genocide of the 1990s, she said.
"The atrocities perpetrated by these armed groups are of an unimaginable brutality that goes far beyond rape," she said in a statement. "Women are brutally gang raped, often in front of their families and communities. In numerous cases, male relatives are forced at gun point to rape their own daughters, mothers or sisters."
The statement continued: "Frequently women are shot or stabbed in their genital organs, after they are raped. Women, who survived months of enslavement, told me that their tormentors had forced them to eat excrement or the human flesh of murdered relatives."
Saying the situation required immediate attention from Congo's government and the international community, Erturk reported that 4,500 cases of sexual violence had already been counted so far this year. The U.N. investigator said the actual number of incidents was probably much higher.
The Panzi hospital, a specialized institution in Bukavu near the Rwandan border, sees about 3,500 women a year suffering fistula and other severe genital injuries resulting from atrocities, Erturk said.
The mineral-rich eastern reaches of Congo, bordering Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi, are the most unstable in the country, and civilians are often killed as rival militias clash.
U.N. peacekeepers helped end a wider 1998-2002 war in Congo that engulfed six neighboring countries, and the nearly 18,000-strong force currently in Congo is the U.N.'s largest peacekeeping operation.
While rebels commit most of the worst abuses, Erturk said government forces and national police are responsible for nearly 20 percent of all cases of sexual violence reported.
Army units have deliberately targeted communities suspected of supporting militia groups "and pillage, gang rape and, in some instances, murder civilians," she said.
Erturk, who also visited the country's Equator province and Ituri district, said she was "shocked" to discover that police and armed forces respond to unrest with indiscriminate reprisals.
The tactics include "pillaging, torture and mass rape," she said, citing a December incident when 70 police officers took revenge for the torching of a police station in Karawa by burning the Equator town, torturing civilians and raping at least 40 women, including an 11-year-old girl.
No police officer has been charged or arrested in relation to the atrocities, she said, adding that similar operations have since been carried out in Bonyanga and Bongulu, also in Congo's northwest.
"The justice system is in a deplorable state," Erturk said. "It is overwhelmed even by the limited number of cases, in which women brave all obstacles and dare to report sexual violence. Reports of corruption and political interference in the judicial process are widespread."
Erturk will report her findings in September to the U.N. Human Rights Council.
Pole-vault jumping, African style For video of black mob stoning and burning a black girl to death, see: http://southafricasucks.blogspot.com/(under "older posts" on page 2) Don't forget the popcorn! --See also: Niggerology
UN expert: Rape rampant in Congo
By BRADLEY S. KLAPPER, Associated Press Writer Mon Jul 30, 12:11 PM ET GENEVA - Sexual atrocities in Congo's volatile province of South Kivu extend "far beyond rape" and include sexual slavery, forced incest and cannibalism, a U.N. human rights expert said Monday.
Yakin Erturk called the situation in South Kivu the worst she has ever seen in four years as the global body's special investigator for violence against women. Sexual violence throughout Congo is "rampant," she said, blaming rebel groups, the armed forces and national police.
"These acts amount to war crimes and, in some cases, crimes against humanity," said Erturk, who just came back from an 11-day mission there.
Most of the worst abuses have been committed by rebel groups, many of whom fled to Congo after taking part in the Rwandan genocide of the 1990s, she said.
"The atrocities perpetrated by these armed groups are of an unimaginable brutality that goes far beyond rape," she said in a statement. "Women are brutally gang raped, often in front of their families and communities. In numerous cases, male relatives are forced at gun point to rape their own daughters, mothers or sisters."
The statement continued: "Frequently women are shot or stabbed in their genital organs, after they are raped. Women, who survived months of enslavement, told me that their tormentors had forced them to eat excrement or the human flesh of murdered relatives."
Saying the situation required immediate attention from Congo's government and the international community, Erturk reported that 4,500 cases of sexual violence had already been counted so far this year. The U.N. investigator said the actual number of incidents was probably much higher.
The Panzi hospital, a specialized institution in Bukavu near the Rwandan border, sees about 3,500 women a year suffering fistula and other severe genital injuries resulting from atrocities, Erturk said.
The mineral-rich eastern reaches of Congo, bordering Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi, are the most unstable in the country, and civilians are often killed as rival militias clash.
U.N. peacekeepers helped end a wider 1998-2002 war in Congo that engulfed six neighboring countries, and the nearly 18,000-strong force currently in Congo is the U.N.'s largest peacekeeping operation.
While rebels commit most of the worst abuses, Erturk said government forces and national police are responsible for nearly 20 percent of all cases of sexual violence reported.
Army units have deliberately targeted communities suspected of supporting militia groups "and pillage, gang rape and, in some instances, murder civilians," she said.
Erturk, who also visited the country's Equator province and Ituri district, said she was "shocked" to discover that police and armed forces respond to unrest with indiscriminate reprisals.
The tactics include "pillaging, torture and mass rape," she said, citing a December incident when 70 police officers took revenge for the torching of a police station in Karawa by burning the Equator town, torturing civilians and raping at least 40 women, including an 11-year-old girl.
No police officer has been charged or arrested in relation to the atrocities, she said, adding that similar operations have since been carried out in Bonyanga and Bongulu, also in Congo's northwest.
"The justice system is in a deplorable state," Erturk said. "It is overwhelmed even by the limited number of cases, in which women brave all obstacles and dare to report sexual violence. Reports of corruption and political interference in the judicial process are widespread."
Erturk will report her findings in September to the U.N. Human Rights Council.
Pole-vault jumping, African style For video of black mob stoning and burning a black girl to death, see: http://southafricasucks.blogspot.com/(under "older posts" on page 2) Don't forget the popcorn! --See also: Niggerology
Thursday, April 9, 2009
DR Congo army fights off rebel attack in east
AFP - 12 hours ago
BUKAVU, DR Congo (AFP) — Ten people were killed when troops in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Thursday fought off an attack by a joint force of Mai-Mai ...
Kenya optimistic about ceasefire deal in E DR Congo Xinhua
From rebel-held Congo to beer can BBC News
RE-IGNITED FIGHTING IN DR CONGO THREATENS FRAGILE PROGRESS, BY ... MaximsNews Network
UN News Centre - منظمة هيومان رايتس ووتش - حقوق الانسان
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FM: Russia to strengthen ties with DR Congo
Xinhua - Apr 7, 2009
MOSCOW, April 7 (Xinhua) -- Russia favors strengthened relations with the Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo), said Russian Foreign Minister Sergei ...
DR Congo food route is supreme test for WFP truckers
ReliefWeb (press release) - 12 hours ago
MONUC – the UN integrated mission to the Democratic Republic of Congo – is working on the road to improve its worst sections. But for now, it remains a thin ...
Cell phones help filmmakers reveal unseen Africa
CNN International - Apr 8, 2009
Siku is one of a number of filmmakers in DR Congo who say using a mobile phone allows them to film in ways that were previously impossible. ...
DR Congo: Alan Doss to address the UN Security Council
ReliefWeb (press release) - Apr 8, 2009
... including 16 during March and five in April, which gives an average of 11 cases per month, and the first victims are always Congolese employees. ...
DR Congo: WHO - "We work hand in hand with MONUC"
ReliefWeb (press release) - Apr 8, 2009
On "World Health Day," we spoke to Dr. Matthieu Kamwa, the WHO representative in the DRC, who explained the current health situation in the DRC and the work ...
UNICEF Chief of HIV and AIDS sees treatment and prevention in DR Congo
ReliefWeb (press release) - 21 hours ago
KINSHASA, Democratic Republic of the Congo, 8 April 2009 – DR Congo is where the first known cases of AIDS were identified, and today up to half a million ...
Voice of America
DR-CONGO: Electronics Firms Urged to Boycott "Blood Minerals"
IPS - Apr 1, 2009
"There is widespread looting, burning of villages and an unacceptable peak of sexual violence," Marcel Stoessel, Oxfam's country director in DR Congo, ...
Rights group wants Congo 'conflict mineral' tracing www.worldbulletin.net
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Daily Nation
Angola stealing DR Congo oil, says minister
Daily Nation - Mar 25, 2009
African oil giant Angola is illegally pumping out hundreds of thousands of barrels of crude oil every day from neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo’s ...
France's Areva signs uranium deal with DR Congo AFP
Sarkozy begins DR Congo visit Le Mali en ligne
Sarkozy kicks off African tour in DR Congo France24
Trend News Agency
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EPA:CEI
AFP
DRCongo could redraw border with Angola
AFP - Mar 31, 2009
BRAZZAVILLE (AFP) — A minister in the government of the Democratic Republic of Congo Tuesday suggested his country's border with Angola might be redrawn in ...
Tullow wins back Congo oil rights Irish Independent
AFP - 12 hours ago
BUKAVU, DR Congo (AFP) — Ten people were killed when troops in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Thursday fought off an attack by a joint force of Mai-Mai ...
Kenya optimistic about ceasefire deal in E DR Congo Xinhua
From rebel-held Congo to beer can BBC News
RE-IGNITED FIGHTING IN DR CONGO THREATENS FRAGILE PROGRESS, BY ... MaximsNews Network
UN News Centre - منظمة هيومان رايتس ووتش - حقوق الانسان
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FM: Russia to strengthen ties with DR Congo
Xinhua - Apr 7, 2009
MOSCOW, April 7 (Xinhua) -- Russia favors strengthened relations with the Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo), said Russian Foreign Minister Sergei ...
DR Congo food route is supreme test for WFP truckers
ReliefWeb (press release) - 12 hours ago
MONUC – the UN integrated mission to the Democratic Republic of Congo – is working on the road to improve its worst sections. But for now, it remains a thin ...
Cell phones help filmmakers reveal unseen Africa
CNN International - Apr 8, 2009
Siku is one of a number of filmmakers in DR Congo who say using a mobile phone allows them to film in ways that were previously impossible. ...
DR Congo: Alan Doss to address the UN Security Council
ReliefWeb (press release) - Apr 8, 2009
... including 16 during March and five in April, which gives an average of 11 cases per month, and the first victims are always Congolese employees. ...
DR Congo: WHO - "We work hand in hand with MONUC"
ReliefWeb (press release) - Apr 8, 2009
On "World Health Day," we spoke to Dr. Matthieu Kamwa, the WHO representative in the DRC, who explained the current health situation in the DRC and the work ...
UNICEF Chief of HIV and AIDS sees treatment and prevention in DR Congo
ReliefWeb (press release) - 21 hours ago
KINSHASA, Democratic Republic of the Congo, 8 April 2009 – DR Congo is where the first known cases of AIDS were identified, and today up to half a million ...
Voice of America
DR-CONGO: Electronics Firms Urged to Boycott "Blood Minerals"
IPS - Apr 1, 2009
"There is widespread looting, burning of villages and an unacceptable peak of sexual violence," Marcel Stoessel, Oxfam's country director in DR Congo, ...
Rights group wants Congo 'conflict mineral' tracing www.worldbulletin.net
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Daily Nation
Angola stealing DR Congo oil, says minister
Daily Nation - Mar 25, 2009
African oil giant Angola is illegally pumping out hundreds of thousands of barrels of crude oil every day from neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo’s ...
France's Areva signs uranium deal with DR Congo AFP
Sarkozy begins DR Congo visit Le Mali en ligne
Sarkozy kicks off African tour in DR Congo France24
Trend News Agency
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EPA:CEI
AFP
DRCongo could redraw border with Angola
AFP - Mar 31, 2009
BRAZZAVILLE (AFP) — A minister in the government of the Democratic Republic of Congo Tuesday suggested his country's border with Angola might be redrawn in ...
Tullow wins back Congo oil rights Irish Independent
Thursday, April 2, 2009
Party defends DR Congo's Bemba
AFP - 22 hours ago
KINSHASA (AFP) — The party of DR Congo opposition politician Jean-Pierre Bemba said Wednesday that an international court in The Hague could not prove him ...
Voice of America
DR-CONGO: Electronics Firms Urged to Boycott "Blood Minerals"
IPS - 16 hours ago
"There is widespread looting, burning of villages and an unacceptable peak of sexual violence," Marcel Stoessel, Oxfam's country director in DR Congo, ...
Rights group wants Congo 'conflict mineral' tracing www.worldbulletin.net
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AFP
DRCongo could redraw border with Angola
AFP - Mar 31, 2009
BRAZZAVILLE (AFP) — A minister in the government of the Democratic Republic of Congo Tuesday suggested his country's border with Angola might be redrawn in ...
Tullow wins back Congo oil rights Irish Independent
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LON:TLW – LON:HOIL – TSE:HOC
BBC Afrique
Congolese flee widespread unrest
BBC News - 22 hours ago
The joint operation against the rebels earlier this year was hailed as a great success by both Rwanda and DR Congo. But now that the better-trained and ...
DR Congo: Who is to blame for rampage, gov’t or rebels? Afrik.com
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RPT-UPDATE 2-IMF cuts DR Congo's 2009 growth forecast to 2.7 pct
Reuters UK - Mar 31, 2009
... March 31 (Reuters) - The International Monetary Fund on Tuesday slashed its 2009 growth forecast for the Democratic Republic of Congo to 2.7 percent, ...
UN News Centre
DR Congo: UN to push ahead with efforts to curb abuse allegations ...
UN News Centre - 20 hours ago
1 April 2009 – Although the number of misconduct allegations for blue helmets serving in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is on the decline, ...
DR Congo: Aid worker's blog - How fuel-efficient stoves can help ...
ReliefWeb (press release) - 11 hours ago
I'm constantly humbled by the workload of women in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Those I meet in a displacement camp not far from Goma are truly ...
Ivanhoe Nickel & Platinum announces a major copper discovery at ...
PR Newswire (press release) - Apr 1, 2009
Mr. Friedland said that Kamoa will advance the Democratic Republic of Congo's stature as one of the world's most important copper producers. ...
IVN
Uganda: Congo, Monuc Deploy Extra Troops in Garamba
AllAfrica.com - Mar 30, 2009
The Uganda and DR Congo army chiefs are set to meet in Kampala this week to review the operation since Uganda withdrew. Uganda, supported by the DR Congo ...
W. Equatoria forces kill four LRA in Nzara County Sudan Tribune
Counting gains and losses of Garamba The Independent
From Garamba jungle to the world’s boardrooms: Why Kony defies fate Daily Monitor
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Telegraph.co.uk
DR Congo speaker quits for Rwanda comments
AFP - Mar 25, 2009
KINSHASA (AFP) — The speaker of the Democratic Republic of Congo's parliament, Vital Kamerhe, resigned under pressure Wednesday for criticising Rwandan ...
DR Congo's curious peace deal with ex-Nkunda rebels Daily Nation
UN envoy hails new pact with rebels in DR Congo Xinhua
Rwanda: President Paul Kagame's Interview With Jeune Afrique AllAfrica.com
UN News Centre - AngolaPress
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AFP - 22 hours ago
KINSHASA (AFP) — The party of DR Congo opposition politician Jean-Pierre Bemba said Wednesday that an international court in The Hague could not prove him ...
Voice of America
DR-CONGO: Electronics Firms Urged to Boycott "Blood Minerals"
IPS - 16 hours ago
"There is widespread looting, burning of villages and an unacceptable peak of sexual violence," Marcel Stoessel, Oxfam's country director in DR Congo, ...
Rights group wants Congo 'conflict mineral' tracing www.worldbulletin.net
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AFP
DRCongo could redraw border with Angola
AFP - Mar 31, 2009
BRAZZAVILLE (AFP) — A minister in the government of the Democratic Republic of Congo Tuesday suggested his country's border with Angola might be redrawn in ...
Tullow wins back Congo oil rights Irish Independent
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LON:TLW – LON:HOIL – TSE:HOC
BBC Afrique
Congolese flee widespread unrest
BBC News - 22 hours ago
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DR Congo: Who is to blame for rampage, gov’t or rebels? Afrik.com
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RPT-UPDATE 2-IMF cuts DR Congo's 2009 growth forecast to 2.7 pct
Reuters UK - Mar 31, 2009
... March 31 (Reuters) - The International Monetary Fund on Tuesday slashed its 2009 growth forecast for the Democratic Republic of Congo to 2.7 percent, ...
UN News Centre
DR Congo: UN to push ahead with efforts to curb abuse allegations ...
UN News Centre - 20 hours ago
1 April 2009 – Although the number of misconduct allegations for blue helmets serving in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is on the decline, ...
DR Congo: Aid worker's blog - How fuel-efficient stoves can help ...
ReliefWeb (press release) - 11 hours ago
I'm constantly humbled by the workload of women in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Those I meet in a displacement camp not far from Goma are truly ...
Ivanhoe Nickel & Platinum announces a major copper discovery at ...
PR Newswire (press release) - Apr 1, 2009
Mr. Friedland said that Kamoa will advance the Democratic Republic of Congo's stature as one of the world's most important copper producers. ...
IVN
Uganda: Congo, Monuc Deploy Extra Troops in Garamba
AllAfrica.com - Mar 30, 2009
The Uganda and DR Congo army chiefs are set to meet in Kampala this week to review the operation since Uganda withdrew. Uganda, supported by the DR Congo ...
W. Equatoria forces kill four LRA in Nzara County Sudan Tribune
Counting gains and losses of Garamba The Independent
From Garamba jungle to the world’s boardrooms: Why Kony defies fate Daily Monitor
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Telegraph.co.uk
DR Congo speaker quits for Rwanda comments
AFP - Mar 25, 2009
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DR Congo's curious peace deal with ex-Nkunda rebels Daily Nation
UN envoy hails new pact with rebels in DR Congo Xinhua
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Thursday, March 26, 2009
France's Areva signs uranium deal with DR Congo
AFP - 15 hours ago
PARIS (AFP) — French nuclear giant Areva signed a deal Thursday to develop uranium mining in the Democratic Republic of Congo, during a visit by President ...
Sarkozy outlines Congo peace plan BBC News
Angola stealing DR Congo oil, says minister Daily Nation
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Voice of America
DR Congo's curious peace deal with ex-Nkunda rebels
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Sarkozy calls for new DR Congo peace drive
Deutsche Welle - 13 hours ago
French President Nicolas Sarkozy has called for redoubled peace efforts in the Democratic Republic of Congo during a speech to lawmakers in the central ...
Re-intergrating DR Congo's Child Soldiers in Society
Vatican Radio - 21 hours ago
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PR-Inside.com (Pressemitteilung)
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PR-Inside.com (Pressemitteilung) - 14 hours ago
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China provides humanitarian aid to DR Congo
Xinhua - Mar 24, 2009
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ReliefWeb (press release) - 10 hours ago
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Ugandan Troops Begin Leaving DR Congo
Voice of America - Mar 16, 2009
By VOA News Uganda has begun withdrawing its soldiers from the Democratic Republic of Congo, after a three-month hunt for members of the rebel Lord's ...
DR Congo confirms pullout of Ugandan troops after joint anti-LRA ... Xinhua
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AFP
Uganda military completes DR Congo withdrawal
Xinhua - Mar 23, 2009
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Congolese politics forced end of cooperation on LRA AFP
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Xinhua - Mar 19, 2009
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DR Congo majority boycotts opening of parliament AFP
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AFP - 15 hours ago
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Ugandan Troops Begin Leaving DR Congo
Voice of America - Mar 16, 2009
By VOA News Uganda has begun withdrawing its soldiers from the Democratic Republic of Congo, after a three-month hunt for members of the rebel Lord's ...
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AFP
Uganda military completes DR Congo withdrawal
Xinhua - Mar 23, 2009
KAMPALA, March 23 (Xinhua) -- Ugandan military has completed its withdrawal from northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) where it has been hunting ...
Congolese politics forced end of cooperation on LRA AFP
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Xinhua - Mar 19, 2009
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Wednesday, March 25, 2009
AFP
DR Congo speaker quits for Rwanda comments
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China provides humanitarian aid to DR Congo
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AFP
Uganda military completes DR Congo withdrawal
Xinhua - Mar 23, 2009
KAMPALA, March 23 (Xinhua) -- Ugandan military has completed its withdrawal from northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) where it has been hunting ...
Congolese politics forced end of cooperation on LRA AFP
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DR Congo expects end to Obasanjo-Mpaka mediation after rebel ...
Xinhua - Mar 18, 2009
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BBC Afrique
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BBC News - Mar 20, 2009
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Tuesday, March 24, 2009
DR Congo government, CNDP rebels 'sign peace deal'
AFP - 11 hours ago
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AFP - Mar 20, 2009
GENEVA (AFP) — Renewed attacks by Rwandan Hutu rebels in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo's Nord-Kivu province have left nearly 30000 people displaced ...
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Sunday, March 22, 2009
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Xinhua - Mar 19, 2009
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Wednesday, March 18, 2009
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Voice of America - Mar 16, 2009
By VOA News Uganda has begun withdrawing its soldiers from the Democratic Republic of Congo, after a three-month hunt for members of the rebel Lord's ...
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Change.org - Mar 15, 2009
Last week I was in Kayna, a village here in northeastern DR Congo, where most humanitarian aid organizations cannot reach because of the conflict. .
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Security in eastern DR Congo province 'rapidly deteriorating'
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Change.org
Search Results for "responding to rape"
Change.org - Mar 15, 2009
Last week I was in Kayna, a village here in northeastern DR Congo, where most humanitarian aid organizations cannot reach because of the conflict. .
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
EU, rights groups call for Congo warlord's arrest
By: Reuters
Published: 30 Jan 09
A Congolese rebel leader who is wanted for war crimes but is helping lead a United Nations-backed military campaign should be arrested, a top European diplomat and rights campaigners said on Friday.General Bosco Ntaganda is accused by prosecutors at the International Criminal Court of crimes including recruiting children to fight an ethnic conflict in Democratic Republic of Congo's eastern district of Ituri.Ntaganda, known as "The Terminator", is now deputy commander of a joint military offensive by Congo and Rwanda aimed at rooting out Rwandan Hutu rebels, who are blamed for more than a decade of conflict in Africa's Great Lakes region."Given that he is indicted by the ICC, the European Union's position is that he should be brought to The Hague as soon as possible," Roland Van Der Geer, EU special envoy for the Great Lakes region, told journalists in the eastern city of Goma."That would hardly be compatible for his new role."After the conflict in Ituri, Ntaganda led a Tutsi rebel group in North Kivu province. Now, the rebels and the army have agreed to join forces and attack the Hutu rebels.Diplomats from the EU, Britain and France walked out of a ceremony attended by Ntaganda on Thursday to mark the start of the process meant to integrate over 6,000 of his fighters."We had informed the authorities that we could not remain there if Bosco came," Jean-Michel Dumont, the EU's special representative in Goma, told Reuters.A Congolese military spokesman confirmed Ntaganda had been named deputy commander for the operations, which get logistical support from Congo's U.N. peacekeeping mission, MONUC.LACK OF ACTIONIn an abrupt turnaround in diplomatic relations between the two Great Lakes neighbours, former foes during a 1998-2003 war, Rwanda sent more than 3,500 soldiers across the border last week at the invitation of the Congolese government.The pact to root out the Hutu rebel Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR) has been touted by both as an effort to end a lingering conflict and humanitarian disaster that has killed an estimated 5.4 million people since 1998.Congo signed the Rome Statute creating the ICC, which obliges it to execute arrest warrants issued by the court. But Congo says government's first priority was to pacify its eastern borderlands."For us, there is no great difference between today and tomorrow. It's a question of time. We know that the problem exists," said Information Minister Lambert Mende.New York-based rights group Human Rights Watch has criticised a lack of action by the international community to pressure Congo to arrest Ntaganda, who has appeared in public with government ministers and army commanders in recent weeks."MONUC has a mandate to promote justice. This is simply not something the United Nations should be part of," Anneke Van Woudenberg, a senior researcher with HRW, said of MONUC's role of giving logistical support.The ICC's first ever trial against another Congolese warlord, Thomas Lubanga, began on Monday.
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By: Reuters
Published: 30 Jan 09
A Congolese rebel leader who is wanted for war crimes but is helping lead a United Nations-backed military campaign should be arrested, a top European diplomat and rights campaigners said on Friday.General Bosco Ntaganda is accused by prosecutors at the International Criminal Court of crimes including recruiting children to fight an ethnic conflict in Democratic Republic of Congo's eastern district of Ituri.Ntaganda, known as "The Terminator", is now deputy commander of a joint military offensive by Congo and Rwanda aimed at rooting out Rwandan Hutu rebels, who are blamed for more than a decade of conflict in Africa's Great Lakes region."Given that he is indicted by the ICC, the European Union's position is that he should be brought to The Hague as soon as possible," Roland Van Der Geer, EU special envoy for the Great Lakes region, told journalists in the eastern city of Goma."That would hardly be compatible for his new role."After the conflict in Ituri, Ntaganda led a Tutsi rebel group in North Kivu province. Now, the rebels and the army have agreed to join forces and attack the Hutu rebels.Diplomats from the EU, Britain and France walked out of a ceremony attended by Ntaganda on Thursday to mark the start of the process meant to integrate over 6,000 of his fighters."We had informed the authorities that we could not remain there if Bosco came," Jean-Michel Dumont, the EU's special representative in Goma, told Reuters.A Congolese military spokesman confirmed Ntaganda had been named deputy commander for the operations, which get logistical support from Congo's U.N. peacekeeping mission, MONUC.LACK OF ACTIONIn an abrupt turnaround in diplomatic relations between the two Great Lakes neighbours, former foes during a 1998-2003 war, Rwanda sent more than 3,500 soldiers across the border last week at the invitation of the Congolese government.The pact to root out the Hutu rebel Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR) has been touted by both as an effort to end a lingering conflict and humanitarian disaster that has killed an estimated 5.4 million people since 1998.Congo signed the Rome Statute creating the ICC, which obliges it to execute arrest warrants issued by the court. But Congo says government's first priority was to pacify its eastern borderlands."For us, there is no great difference between today and tomorrow. It's a question of time. We know that the problem exists," said Information Minister Lambert Mende.New York-based rights group Human Rights Watch has criticised a lack of action by the international community to pressure Congo to arrest Ntaganda, who has appeared in public with government ministers and army commanders in recent weeks."MONUC has a mandate to promote justice. This is simply not something the United Nations should be part of," Anneke Van Woudenberg, a senior researcher with HRW, said of MONUC's role of giving logistical support.The ICC's first ever trial against another Congolese warlord, Thomas Lubanga, began on Monday.
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Letter to all EU Foreign Ministers
Urge Congolese Government to Enforce ICC Arrest Warrant on War Crimes Charges
February 2, 2009
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Brussels, February 2, 2009
Dear Foreign Minister,
We are writing to express Human Rights Watch's deep disappointment that the European Union (EU) has not publicly called on the government of the Democratic Republic of Congo to arrest Bosco Ntaganda, who is wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for the war crime of enlisting and conscripting children under age of 15 as soldiers and of using them in hostilities between 2002-2003 in the Ituri district of eastern Congo.
As a party to the Rome Statute that established the ICC, the Congolese government has a legal obligation to assist the court in arresting persons for whom arrest warrants have been issued, such as Ntaganda. In May 2007, Congo recognized that responsibility by asking the United Nations Mission in Congo (MONUC) for assistance in arresting Ntaganda, a request that took great courage and which we applauded at the time.
As you know, in early January 2009, Ntaganda claimed he was taking over leadership of the National Congress for the Defense of the People (CNDP) from its former head Laurent Nkunda, and on January 16 he declared that instead of waging war on the Congolese national army, he would join its troops in fighting the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR), a Rwandan armed group some of whose leaders participated in the genocide in Rwanda in 1994.
Despite having an international legal obligation to arrest Ntaganda, the Congolese authorities to date have made no attempt to do so. On January 16, Ntaganda was in Goma for a joint press conference alongside the Congolese Minister of the Interior and Security, Célestin Mbuyu Kabangu, the Inspector General of the Police, General John Numbi, Rwanda's Chief of Defence Staff, General James Kabarebe, and other senior Congolese military officers. Indeed, the Congolese government has given Ntaganda a senior position in the integration process of CNDP troops into the Congolese army and is considering appointing him to a top position in the joint Rwandan-Congolese military operations in eastern Congo.
The silence thus far of the European Union on the open Congolese collaboration with Ntaganda contrasts glaringly with the declaration on January 28 by the Presidency on behalf of the European Union following the start of the ICC's trial of Ntaganda's co-defendant, Thomas Lubanga. In the EU's declaration, the presidency underscored its commitment to work towards the prevention of crimes of international concern and the ending of impunity for the perpetrators of such crimes. The EU also encouraged the Congolese authorities to continue their "good cooperation" with the International Criminal Court. We strongly urge the EU - and its 27 member states - to make clear to the Congolese authorities that "good cooperation" with the ICC also includes the arrest and surrender of Ntaganda to the ICC to face justice.
The frequency with which Ntaganda has been accused of terrible abuses against Congolese civilians underlines the importance of his arrest. In addition to the war crimes that form the basis for the ICC arrest warrant against him, charges against Ntaganda include the following:
On November 4 and 5, 2008, CNDP troops under Ntaganda's command killed an estimated 150 people in the town of Kiwanja, one of the worst massacres in North Kivu in the past two years.
As chief of military operations of the Union of Congolese Patriots (UPC), Ntaganda was in command of combatants who arrested, tortured or killed hundreds of civilians of Lendu and Ngiti ethnicity between August 2002 and March 2003.
In November 2002 Ntaganda led troops who slaughtered at least 800 civilians on ethnic grounds at Mongbwalu, including the first priest killed in the Ituri conflict, Abbe Boniface Bwanalonga.
In November 2005 Ntaganda was placed on a UN sanctions list for having violated the arms embargo. He remains on the list.
According to UN peacekeepers, troops under Ntaganda's command were responsible for killing a Kenyan UN peacekeeper in January 2004 and for kidnapping a Moroccan peacekeeper later that year.
That forces under Ntaganda's command continue to commit serious crimes, such as the recent killings in Kiwanja, North Kivu, underscores why the European Union must make it clear to Congolese authorities that Ntaganda's arrest is both urgent and essential.
Efforts by the Congolese authorities to legitimize Ntaganda as a "partner for peace" reinforces the perception that those who commit heinous crimes against civilians in Congo will be rewarded rather than punished. Such practices feed the vicious culture of impunity that has ravaged Congo to date.
The EU has publicly stated its commitment to work towards ending impunity for the perpetrators of crimes of international concern. Consistent with that commitment, Human Rights Watch urges the EU to use all possible means to influence the Congolese authorities to ensure Ntaganda's arrest. The countless victims in Congo deserve nothing less.
Yours sincerely,
Lotte Leicht Georgette GagnonEU Director Africa DirectorHuman Rights Watch Human Rights Watch
CC. PSC Ambassador Political Director
Urge Congolese Government to Enforce ICC Arrest Warrant on War Crimes Charges
February 2, 2009
Downloadable Resources:
Letter to all EU Foreign Ministers
Related Materials:
DR Congo: Arrest Bosco Ntaganda
Letter to President Kabila: Arrest Bosco Ntaganda
Killings in Kiwanja
Brussels, February 2, 2009
Dear Foreign Minister,
We are writing to express Human Rights Watch's deep disappointment that the European Union (EU) has not publicly called on the government of the Democratic Republic of Congo to arrest Bosco Ntaganda, who is wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for the war crime of enlisting and conscripting children under age of 15 as soldiers and of using them in hostilities between 2002-2003 in the Ituri district of eastern Congo.
As a party to the Rome Statute that established the ICC, the Congolese government has a legal obligation to assist the court in arresting persons for whom arrest warrants have been issued, such as Ntaganda. In May 2007, Congo recognized that responsibility by asking the United Nations Mission in Congo (MONUC) for assistance in arresting Ntaganda, a request that took great courage and which we applauded at the time.
As you know, in early January 2009, Ntaganda claimed he was taking over leadership of the National Congress for the Defense of the People (CNDP) from its former head Laurent Nkunda, and on January 16 he declared that instead of waging war on the Congolese national army, he would join its troops in fighting the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR), a Rwandan armed group some of whose leaders participated in the genocide in Rwanda in 1994.
Despite having an international legal obligation to arrest Ntaganda, the Congolese authorities to date have made no attempt to do so. On January 16, Ntaganda was in Goma for a joint press conference alongside the Congolese Minister of the Interior and Security, Célestin Mbuyu Kabangu, the Inspector General of the Police, General John Numbi, Rwanda's Chief of Defence Staff, General James Kabarebe, and other senior Congolese military officers. Indeed, the Congolese government has given Ntaganda a senior position in the integration process of CNDP troops into the Congolese army and is considering appointing him to a top position in the joint Rwandan-Congolese military operations in eastern Congo.
The silence thus far of the European Union on the open Congolese collaboration with Ntaganda contrasts glaringly with the declaration on January 28 by the Presidency on behalf of the European Union following the start of the ICC's trial of Ntaganda's co-defendant, Thomas Lubanga. In the EU's declaration, the presidency underscored its commitment to work towards the prevention of crimes of international concern and the ending of impunity for the perpetrators of such crimes. The EU also encouraged the Congolese authorities to continue their "good cooperation" with the International Criminal Court. We strongly urge the EU - and its 27 member states - to make clear to the Congolese authorities that "good cooperation" with the ICC also includes the arrest and surrender of Ntaganda to the ICC to face justice.
The frequency with which Ntaganda has been accused of terrible abuses against Congolese civilians underlines the importance of his arrest. In addition to the war crimes that form the basis for the ICC arrest warrant against him, charges against Ntaganda include the following:
On November 4 and 5, 2008, CNDP troops under Ntaganda's command killed an estimated 150 people in the town of Kiwanja, one of the worst massacres in North Kivu in the past two years.
As chief of military operations of the Union of Congolese Patriots (UPC), Ntaganda was in command of combatants who arrested, tortured or killed hundreds of civilians of Lendu and Ngiti ethnicity between August 2002 and March 2003.
In November 2002 Ntaganda led troops who slaughtered at least 800 civilians on ethnic grounds at Mongbwalu, including the first priest killed in the Ituri conflict, Abbe Boniface Bwanalonga.
In November 2005 Ntaganda was placed on a UN sanctions list for having violated the arms embargo. He remains on the list.
According to UN peacekeepers, troops under Ntaganda's command were responsible for killing a Kenyan UN peacekeeper in January 2004 and for kidnapping a Moroccan peacekeeper later that year.
That forces under Ntaganda's command continue to commit serious crimes, such as the recent killings in Kiwanja, North Kivu, underscores why the European Union must make it clear to Congolese authorities that Ntaganda's arrest is both urgent and essential.
Efforts by the Congolese authorities to legitimize Ntaganda as a "partner for peace" reinforces the perception that those who commit heinous crimes against civilians in Congo will be rewarded rather than punished. Such practices feed the vicious culture of impunity that has ravaged Congo to date.
The EU has publicly stated its commitment to work towards ending impunity for the perpetrators of crimes of international concern. Consistent with that commitment, Human Rights Watch urges the EU to use all possible means to influence the Congolese authorities to ensure Ntaganda's arrest. The countless victims in Congo deserve nothing less.
Yours sincerely,
Lotte Leicht Georgette GagnonEU Director Africa DirectorHuman Rights Watch Human Rights Watch
CC. PSC Ambassador Political Director
Lettre aux Ministres des Affaires étrangères de l’Union européenne
Il faut pousser le gouvernement congolais à exécuter le mandat d’arrêt de la CPI pour crimes de guerre
February 2, 2009
Downloadable Resources:
Lettre aux Ministres des Affaires étrangères de l’Union européenne
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RD Congo : Il faut arrêter Bosco Ntaganda
Lettre au Président Kabila: Il faut arrêter Bosco Ntaganda
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Bruxelles, le 2 février 2009
Monsieur le Ministre, Madame la Ministre
Nous vous écrivons pour vous faire part de la profonde déception de Human Rights Watch du fait que l'Union européenne (UE) n'a pas publiquement appelé les autorités congolaises à arrêter Bosco Ntaganda, recherché par la Cour pénale internationale (CPI) pour crime de guerre, pour avoir enrôlé et recruté des enfants de moins de 15 ans comme soldats et les avoir utilisés dans les hostilités en 2002-2003 dans le district d'Ituri de l'est du Congo.
En tant qu'Etat partie au Statut de Rome qui a établi la CPI, le Congo a l'obligation d'aider la cour à arrêter les personnes faisant l'objet d'un mandat d'arrestation, comme M. Ntaganda. En mai 2007, le Congo a reconnu cette responsabilité en sollicitant l'assistance de la Mission des Nations unies au Congo (MONUC) pour arrêter M. Ntaganda, demande qui a exigé beaucoup de courage et que nous avons alors applaudie.
Comme vous le savez, début janvier 2009, Ntaganda a affirmé qu'il s'emparait de la direction du Congrès national pour la défense du peuple (CNDP) en remplacement de Laurent Nkunda. Le 16 janvier, il a déclaré qu'au lieu de faire la guerre à l'armée nationale congolaise, il joindrait ses forces au combat contre les Forces démocratiques de libération du Rwanda (FDLR), un groupe armé rwandais dont certains leaders ont participé au génocide au Rwanda en 1994.
Malgré son obligation internationale d'arrêter M. Ntaganda, les autorités congolaises n'ont fait jusqu'ici aucune tentative à cet égard. Le 16 janvier, M. Ntaganda se trouvait à Goma pour une conférence de presse commune aux côtés du ministre congolais de l'Intérieur et de la Sécurité, M. Célestin Mbuyu Kabangu, de l'Inspecteur général de la police, le Général John Numbi, du Chef d'état-major, le Général James Kabarebe, et d'autres hauts gradés de l'armée congolaise. Le gouvernement congolais a accorde à M. Ntaganda un rôle crucial dans le processus d'intégration des troupes du CNDP dans les forces armées congolaises et envisage de nommer M. Ntaganda à une haute fonction relative aux opérations militaires dans l'est de la République démocratique du Congo.
Le silence de l'Union européenne jusqu'ici sur la collaboration ouverte du gouvernement congolais avec M. Ntaganda contraste étonnamment avec la déclaration faite cette semaine par la présidence au nom de l'Union européenne, après l'ouverture du procès à la CPI du co-accusé de M. Ntaganda, Thomas Lubanga (déclaration de l'UE du 28 janvier 09). Dans la déclaration de l'UE, la présidence a souligné son engagement à œuvrer pour la prévention des crimes de portée internationale et pour mettre fin à l'impunité pour les auteurs de ces crimes. L'UE a aussi encouragé les autorités congolaises à continuer leur « bonne coopération » avec la Cour pénale internationale. Nous incitons fortement l'UE - et ses 27 Etats membres - à expliquer clairement aux autorités congolaises que la « bonne coopération » avec la CPI comprend aussi l'arrestation de Bosco Ntaganda et sa remise à la CPI pour qu'il affronte la justice.
La fréquence des exactions terribles qu'aurait commis Ntaganda contre les civils au Congo souligne l'importance que revêt son arrestation. En plus des crimes de guerre qui constituent le fondement du mandat d'arrêt de la CPI à son encontre, les chefs d'accusation contre M. Ntaganda sont les suivants :
Les 4 et 5 novembre 2008, les troupes du CNDP sous le commandement de M. Ntaganda ont tué environ 150 personnes dans la ville de Kiwanja, l'un des pires massacres au Nord Kivu des deux dernières années.
En tant que chef des opérations militaires des Forces patriotiques pour la libération du Congo (FPLC), M. Ntaganda commandait les forces qui ont arrêté, torturé ou tué des centaines de civils appartenant aux ethnies Lendu et Ngiti, entre août 2002 et mars 2003.
En novembre 2002, M. Ntaganda commandait les troupes qui ont massacré au moins 800 civils pour des motifs ethniques à Mongbwalu. En novembre 2005, M. Ntaganda a été placé sur une liste de sanctions de l'ONU pour avoir violé l'embargo sur les armes.
Selon les soldats de maintien de la paix de l'ONU, les soldats placés sous le commandement de M. Ntaganda se sont rendus coupables du meurtre d'un soldat kényan de maintien de la paix en janvier 2004 et de l'enlèvement d'un soldat marocain de maintien de la paix plus tard la même année.
Ces forces se trouvant sous le commandement de M. Ntaganda continuent à commettre des crimes graves et démontrent les raisons pour lesquelles l'Union européenne devrait expliquer clairement aux autorités congolaises que l'arrestation de M. Ntaganda est à la fois urgente et essentielle.
Les efforts des autorités congolaises pour légitimer M. Ntaganda comme un « partenaire pour la paix » renforcent l'impression dominante que ceux qui commettent des crimes haineux contre les civils au Congo seront récompensés au lieu d'être punis. Au lieu d'encourager le respect pour l'Etat de droit, de telles pratiques nourrissent la culture cruelle de l'impunité qui ravage le Congo depuis longtemps.
L'UE a publiquement déclaré son engagement pour œuvrer en vue de mettre fin à l'impunité pour les auteurs de crimes de portée internationale. Conformément à cet engagement, Human Rights Watch presse l'UE d'utiliser tous les moyens possibles pour influencer les autorités congolaises afin qu'elles garantissent l'arrestation de M. Ntaganda et sa remise à la CPI. Les innombrables victimes au Congo méritent au moins cela.
Veuillez agréer, Monsieur le Ministre, l'expression de mes sentiments distingués.
Lotte Leicht Georgette Gagnon
Directrice Directrice
Bureau auprès de l'Union européenne Division de l'Afrique
Human Rights Watch Human Rights Watch
Cc : Ambassadeurs auprès du COPS
Directeur politique
Il faut pousser le gouvernement congolais à exécuter le mandat d’arrêt de la CPI pour crimes de guerre
February 2, 2009
Downloadable Resources:
Lettre aux Ministres des Affaires étrangères de l’Union européenne
Related Materials:
RD Congo : Il faut arrêter Bosco Ntaganda
Lettre au Président Kabila: Il faut arrêter Bosco Ntaganda
Massacres à Kiwanja
Bruxelles, le 2 février 2009
Monsieur le Ministre, Madame la Ministre
Nous vous écrivons pour vous faire part de la profonde déception de Human Rights Watch du fait que l'Union européenne (UE) n'a pas publiquement appelé les autorités congolaises à arrêter Bosco Ntaganda, recherché par la Cour pénale internationale (CPI) pour crime de guerre, pour avoir enrôlé et recruté des enfants de moins de 15 ans comme soldats et les avoir utilisés dans les hostilités en 2002-2003 dans le district d'Ituri de l'est du Congo.
En tant qu'Etat partie au Statut de Rome qui a établi la CPI, le Congo a l'obligation d'aider la cour à arrêter les personnes faisant l'objet d'un mandat d'arrestation, comme M. Ntaganda. En mai 2007, le Congo a reconnu cette responsabilité en sollicitant l'assistance de la Mission des Nations unies au Congo (MONUC) pour arrêter M. Ntaganda, demande qui a exigé beaucoup de courage et que nous avons alors applaudie.
Comme vous le savez, début janvier 2009, Ntaganda a affirmé qu'il s'emparait de la direction du Congrès national pour la défense du peuple (CNDP) en remplacement de Laurent Nkunda. Le 16 janvier, il a déclaré qu'au lieu de faire la guerre à l'armée nationale congolaise, il joindrait ses forces au combat contre les Forces démocratiques de libération du Rwanda (FDLR), un groupe armé rwandais dont certains leaders ont participé au génocide au Rwanda en 1994.
Malgré son obligation internationale d'arrêter M. Ntaganda, les autorités congolaises n'ont fait jusqu'ici aucune tentative à cet égard. Le 16 janvier, M. Ntaganda se trouvait à Goma pour une conférence de presse commune aux côtés du ministre congolais de l'Intérieur et de la Sécurité, M. Célestin Mbuyu Kabangu, de l'Inspecteur général de la police, le Général John Numbi, du Chef d'état-major, le Général James Kabarebe, et d'autres hauts gradés de l'armée congolaise. Le gouvernement congolais a accorde à M. Ntaganda un rôle crucial dans le processus d'intégration des troupes du CNDP dans les forces armées congolaises et envisage de nommer M. Ntaganda à une haute fonction relative aux opérations militaires dans l'est de la République démocratique du Congo.
Le silence de l'Union européenne jusqu'ici sur la collaboration ouverte du gouvernement congolais avec M. Ntaganda contraste étonnamment avec la déclaration faite cette semaine par la présidence au nom de l'Union européenne, après l'ouverture du procès à la CPI du co-accusé de M. Ntaganda, Thomas Lubanga (déclaration de l'UE du 28 janvier 09). Dans la déclaration de l'UE, la présidence a souligné son engagement à œuvrer pour la prévention des crimes de portée internationale et pour mettre fin à l'impunité pour les auteurs de ces crimes. L'UE a aussi encouragé les autorités congolaises à continuer leur « bonne coopération » avec la Cour pénale internationale. Nous incitons fortement l'UE - et ses 27 Etats membres - à expliquer clairement aux autorités congolaises que la « bonne coopération » avec la CPI comprend aussi l'arrestation de Bosco Ntaganda et sa remise à la CPI pour qu'il affronte la justice.
La fréquence des exactions terribles qu'aurait commis Ntaganda contre les civils au Congo souligne l'importance que revêt son arrestation. En plus des crimes de guerre qui constituent le fondement du mandat d'arrêt de la CPI à son encontre, les chefs d'accusation contre M. Ntaganda sont les suivants :
Les 4 et 5 novembre 2008, les troupes du CNDP sous le commandement de M. Ntaganda ont tué environ 150 personnes dans la ville de Kiwanja, l'un des pires massacres au Nord Kivu des deux dernières années.
En tant que chef des opérations militaires des Forces patriotiques pour la libération du Congo (FPLC), M. Ntaganda commandait les forces qui ont arrêté, torturé ou tué des centaines de civils appartenant aux ethnies Lendu et Ngiti, entre août 2002 et mars 2003.
En novembre 2002, M. Ntaganda commandait les troupes qui ont massacré au moins 800 civils pour des motifs ethniques à Mongbwalu. En novembre 2005, M. Ntaganda a été placé sur une liste de sanctions de l'ONU pour avoir violé l'embargo sur les armes.
Selon les soldats de maintien de la paix de l'ONU, les soldats placés sous le commandement de M. Ntaganda se sont rendus coupables du meurtre d'un soldat kényan de maintien de la paix en janvier 2004 et de l'enlèvement d'un soldat marocain de maintien de la paix plus tard la même année.
Ces forces se trouvant sous le commandement de M. Ntaganda continuent à commettre des crimes graves et démontrent les raisons pour lesquelles l'Union européenne devrait expliquer clairement aux autorités congolaises que l'arrestation de M. Ntaganda est à la fois urgente et essentielle.
Les efforts des autorités congolaises pour légitimer M. Ntaganda comme un « partenaire pour la paix » renforcent l'impression dominante que ceux qui commettent des crimes haineux contre les civils au Congo seront récompensés au lieu d'être punis. Au lieu d'encourager le respect pour l'Etat de droit, de telles pratiques nourrissent la culture cruelle de l'impunité qui ravage le Congo depuis longtemps.
L'UE a publiquement déclaré son engagement pour œuvrer en vue de mettre fin à l'impunité pour les auteurs de crimes de portée internationale. Conformément à cet engagement, Human Rights Watch presse l'UE d'utiliser tous les moyens possibles pour influencer les autorités congolaises afin qu'elles garantissent l'arrestation de M. Ntaganda et sa remise à la CPI. Les innombrables victimes au Congo méritent au moins cela.
Veuillez agréer, Monsieur le Ministre, l'expression de mes sentiments distingués.
Lotte Leicht Georgette Gagnon
Directrice Directrice
Bureau auprès de l'Union européenne Division de l'Afrique
Human Rights Watch Human Rights Watch
Cc : Ambassadeurs auprès du COPS
Directeur politique
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