SIR-I wish to bring my
attention to the international community and the Great Lakes region authorities
SIR-I wish to bring my
attention to the international community and the Great Lakes region authorities to
the current barbaric killing of Kivu-Congo Banyamulenge people out of negative and selfish motives in Kivu province of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Banyamulenge were living a happier life in Kivu together with their other Congolese tribes until the Tutsi regime was installed in Kigali where it had to cross into Kivu under the pretext of pursuing the Interahamwe militia when the Rwandan Batutsi turned against their fellow Banyamulenge and started killing them and looting their wealth.
The Banyamulenge peasants and cattle-keepers in Uvira-Fizi mountains are today surrounded by the following categories of international killers:
1. The Interahamwe militia of the Rwanda genocidaires
in 1994.
2. The FDD forces composed
of Hutu fighters trying to
overthrow the Buyoya
government.
3. Kigali forces that want to use the Banyamulenge-Tutsi coverage to continue looting and occupying the Kivu region for their own interests.
4. The Mai-Mai who happen to be Congolege who are fighting an indiscriminate war although they are not a big threat to Banyamulenge.
Our appeal is to the international community, Amnesty International and other
independent bodies, to wake up and save this innocent
population from extinction.
Concerned Banyamulenge
Congo