Peter Kazadi, Minister of the Interior of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), The death toll from the suppression of protests rose to 51 this Thursday Against the UN mission (MONUSCO) in the city of Goma in North Kivu. “We counted 51 deaths,” Kazadi said at a press conference, according to the Congolese news portal 7sur7.
Last week, a local armed group known as Wazalendo (patriots in French) called for an unauthorized demonstration against MONUSCO and was brutally suppressed after the demonstration for “undermining public order”. protesters so-called they will kill from stoning a copAccording to the government of the country.
Despite this, KDC officials arrested two high-ranking officers to determine responsibility after an inter-ministerial commission of inquiry was set up.
140 more are on trial by the Military Prosecutor’s Office in Goma, Congo, for conspiring to commit a crime and participating in an insurgency; these are all arrested as of August 30, including Wazalendo member and pastor Ephraim. Bisimwa, the leader of the sect.
The eastern KDC has witnessed many protests in recent years against the MONUSCO ‘blue helmets’ as security in the region, where dozens of armed groups operate, including an arm of the Islamic State, deteriorates. jihadist group.