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Assassination threat against Wamba dia Wamba and Kiakwama
Ota Benga Alliance
2008-05-06, Issue 368
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Within the context of an elusive peace in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo and an ongoing assault by the government against the fundamental rights of the people of the Lower Congo Region, it has come to our attention that Professor Ernest Wamba dia Wamba and the Honorable Deputy Kiakwama have been targeted for assassination.
Both individuals have been actively defending the rights of the people of the Lower Congo to express themselves freely. They, like many other Congolese from other regions of the country, have condemned the wanton violence of government police forces against members of the Bundu dia Kongo (BdK), a movement for the cultural and spiritual emancipation of the Congo people. They have condemned the manner in which, since February 2008, brutal repression has led to the deaths of innocent people, including infants and older people. BdK is working to find a way for all sides to come together, so that a healing process can be initiated.
Ota Benga Alliance for Peace, Healing and Dignity calls on the DRC government to protect Wamba dia Wamba and Deputy Kiakwama from threatened assassinations.
If the information regarding the threats against the lives of Professor Wamba dia Wamba and Deputy Kiakwama is correct, we call on all those in the government who are directly and indirectly responsible for the maintenance of safety and peace for all Congolese citizens to do everything in their power to prevent the execution of such a plan.
Should the above threat against the lives of Prof Ernest Wamba dia Wamba and Honorable Kiakwama take place, we shall hold the government of the DRC responsible and accountable, and do all that is necessary to ensure that the institutions and/or individuals are brought to justice.
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This is a big joke! How can a former warlord (Wamba), who is free today pretend to be threated today?
This article is not telling the truth about the situation in the province Bas-Congo (RDC).
This is POLITICAL RELIGEOUS movement (the chairman is a MP), which killed Police officers and other Congolese, who refused to follow their neo-fashist ideology. The mebers of this criminal gang has burned social facilities like schools, hospitals and public facilities like city hall! It is a gang of Neofashists, because they preach the hate, because they have killed innocent people, because it is a minority (<1% of the Congolese) in the DRC. Indeed, they want the old Kongo kingdom back, which covered Northern Angola, Bas-Congo province, Cadinda district (part of Angola) and South-Western pat of the Republic of the Congo.
Their members were armed and were acting like the worst us american street gangs.
Wo takes care of those two guys actually in the DRC? Nobody!
It is a question of time, DRC will be a State of law and the former chaiman of the RCD will respond for the crime against the human kind, this rebell movement committed in Eastern Congo.
No country in the Western wolrd, even the USA, will accept, will allow a criminal gang to undermine the internal security.
Wamba is known in Kongo as a former warlord and the other guy is a nobody.
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