RE: Request for intervention to the Banyamulenge people.
Secretary General,
I am writing this letter to you to use your power and ability so that you can intervene on the side of the Banyamulenge people in the Congo who are facing the killings and massacres now.
In fact, sir, the reason that drives me to write this letter is because I know you have the power and the ability to intervene as you have a contingent of the UN (MONUSCO) army for peacekeeping in the Democratic Republic of Congo who can intervene and stop the killings in case the organization that you lead can give them this mandate.
Let me tell you that what is being done for the Banyamulenge people are killings that I can not hesitate to say is genocide because of what they are being killed because of their ethnicity.
Mr. Secretary General, the term genocide is heavy, but as you have defined, it is killings organized by people or a government against a people of the one ethnicity.
To say this, this does not require the killings of many people to call it genocide. For the case of Banyamulenge those who have already been killed can be counted in several hundred or even thousands since 1996 until today. Remember also that there were killings for the same people in Gatumba, Burundi, where they had taken refuge during the AFDL, RCD and Mai mai wars and in different periods. This population has always suffered killings, viols, and massacres, destruction of their homes and the taking of their property by force and the survivors are deprived of everything.
All these lugubrious acts were always orchestrated under the pretext that they are not Congolese but rather Rwandans and for that they must return to Rwanda and yet they are not Rwandan but rather Congolese as their persecutors, because even the Congolese constitution accepts them as Congolese, which proves that it is an ideology of hatred and without foundation.
Hatred towards this Banyamulenge people has already reached a higher aspect in the sense that one can ask the question why they are attacked by people of different ethnicities in their entourage but this is not manifested in other regions of Congo ?
In Congo as well as all Africa, the reality that you do not seem to ignore is that the inhabitants on both sides of the borders are that they speak similar languages but with different nationalities. If this is the Lingala language that is spoken in Kinshasa, the capital of the DRC and when you cross the border you will find that the same language is spoken in Congo Brazaville.
In the country that hosts the UN Headquarters, most of the inhabitants are immigrants and come from different races but there are no killings? Going against the violation of human rights is a crime included in the United Nations Charter signed by the member countries of the organization you run, of which the Congo is a signatory. It would be a shame for you in particular and for the United Nations Organization in general to see a genocide replay in the region in a period of 25 years and especially under your leadership.
Remember the case of the Rwandan genocide, when your predecessor, Boutros Boutros Ghali, was called upon to remain silent and as a consequence more than 1 million Tutsis perished. The UNAMIR command at this time appealed to the UN, but nothing was done to the contrary the UN soldiers abandoned the Tutsi at the mercy of their ruffians to exterminate them.
So, Mr. Secretary General, what are you missing and your organization to stop the atrocities happening in the Democratic Republic of Congo? You have published reports against these evildoers. Do you think that these communications are sufficient to rescue and save the life of Banyamulenge in danger?
If you knew what these Banyamulenge are going to suffer especially the vulnerable (the children, the old people and the indigent) are being slaughtered and slaughtered animals in the slaughterhouse without any protection.
Currently this layer of the Congolese population has become a refugee in his own country, and abroad. No social assistance like medical, education for children, no steps everything is flat, do not you see that the facts mentioned above tend to genocide?
To conclude, I humbly request you…., I ask you, Mr. Secretary General, the things hereinafter;
– that a rapid and thorough investigation be conducted into these killings to identify the investigators and bring them to justice,
– Intervene and stop these acts of killings in emergency,
– To make a request to the Government of Congo not to observe only these orchestral killings on its territory and on a part of its population but rather to protect them,
– To bring emergency aid to these people like to live them, medicines, tarpaulins so that this survivors do not die because of the lack of this help.
If you manage to do it on time, this will be your personal success and the United Nations in general.
God bless you
Samuel Munyakayanza
Political Analyst/Human rights activist
