Democratic Republic of the Congo, the destruction of the rubber occupied by M23

Marina Bacon – Vatikan Seydad

After more than two months of the occupation, the city of the rubber is at the mercy of the Military Administration of the M23, Rwanda’s salary. The horrific videos sent by the residents of the capital of Kivu del Norte (in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo that destroyed the conflict) show citizens who are subjected to torture and beating to death, and the bare bodies of women who float in the lake and mothers who are crying hard on the bodies of their children in a group of blood.

United Nations data

United Nations reports talked about at least 8,000 people, between the army and civilians, and countless injured and missing. Thousands of refugees in the fields of fugitives around the rubber now have to take a return trip by order of their new masters, but when they reach their original cities, they find their homes destroyed or busy and start roaming from one place to another, without knowing where they go exactly. The population, who have already been tested for more than three years of siege and atrocities, is exhausted by rebel groups. In addition to their new patterns, they also have to deal with prisoners who fled from the city’s prison, about 3000, and those who plant terrorism. All men. 129 women and 29 children died in the prison, burning in the fire, which caused the building.

All institutional attempts to dialogue with neighboring countries and population, which has always been active and designed, failed to rely on the government’s ability to neutralize armed groups, now they feel abstract from everything, even hope.

Muungan community certificate

The situation is also catastrophic on the economic level, as a member of Union (Solidarity together, in Sajali), a religious and secular community founded in 1976 by Silvio Turzzi and Edda Colla, was dedicated to Virgins. “The banks are closed and workers cannot withdraw their salaries. Those who can go to Gisenyi, Rwanda, to store international financial institutions, but the currency is Rwandés Franco and transferred to the dollar or the Congolese franc is very harmful. For example, our sister’s sister is a teacher and wins the equivalent of $ 130 per month. In February, he was lost at a loss of $ 25 at the exchange rate. A very radical decrease, in general, especially in moments of great instability. “There is no money to store it on small amounts of food,” our source continues, which prefers to maintain not to be identified for security reasons. “In addition, rebels imposed food transportation graphics, which mostly come from Rwanda, causing increased costs.” The church, which has always been active in KIVU, has mobilized citizens to exchange food and clothes. In addition to eating, it is also difficult to send children to school because teachers ask for an additional salary (parents usually have to contribute economically given the miserable salaries of teachers). Something impossible now for many residents who, in any case, avoid sending their children to school for fear of recruiting them in the rebels.

Violence puts years of work

UnionInitially a simple wooden house was transferred, through a nutrition center, a health center and many free training workshops: literacy, sewing, handicraft manufacturing, and carpentry. Street children and persons with disabilities are also taken, a condition that lived in the first person by the father turningi, who is on a wheelchair since it was 30 years after a car accident in which he lost his legs. In Kivu, the missionary, who died in 2022, arrived with Ida in 1975, and a year later, he created the small solidarity village. Now, the intensive activity of the center is at risk. The clinic, which helped thousands of users over the years, got about 1400 dollars a month before the war, which was divided among the 12 health workers; In February, only $ 450 was introduced to the same number of employees. Health is no longer a priority. Like training. Of 198 laboratories, 100; There are still 20 teachers, but they no longer receive a salary dependent on the returns of selling products. Now, also due to the pump that has damaged the ceiling, production has been largely reduced.

Everything is unstable, unsafe, frightening. «Murder occurs every day without anyone interfering. There is no longer police, courts or judges, and the number of the military present is not sufficient to ensure the security of the city, which today has nearly two million people, “continues our testimony. Families.