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[Emoke Greschik]

 Congolese bishops say world is ignoring ‘true acts of genocide’
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posted Saturday, 30 May 2015
  [image: An man stands net to a burnt out United Nations truck in Mukoko,
Democratic Republic of Congo (AP)]
A man stands next to a burnt out United Nations truck in Mukoko, Democratic
Republic of Congo (AP)

Six million have died from war and insecurity, say leaders from eastern
South Kivu province

Bishops from *eastern Congo *have criticised *the failure of their
government and the United Nations* *to act against **“genocide, jihadist
fundamentalism and Balkanisation”* in* the country, which is widely
considered Africa’s most Catholic.*

“For more than 20 years, the eastern populations have fallen victim to war
and insecurity –* in 2010, the victims numbered six million dead, and the
toll continues,*” said the bishops from the Democratic Republic of the
Congo’s eastern South Kivu province.

*“In recent times, the violence has reached an untenable intensity close to
breaking point, as the killers dream up and implement ever crueler
practices. … These are true acts of genocide, war crimes and crimes against
humanity.”*

In a pastoral message, the bishops said they had been moved by the
“profound distress” of “populations bruised by raging violence”.

They said* villages had been burned with impunity by armed gangs, leaving
local populations facing “famine and misery”, while criminals wielding
“machetes, knives and axes” had cut throats, mutilated children and
disemboweled pregnant women. *

“We pay homage to Congolese officers and soldiers who have shown devotion
and shed their blood in this cause. But security, peace and territorial
integrity do not, curiously, seem to have been priorities for our public
authorities,” said the message, signed by Archbishop François-Xavier Maroy
Rusengo of Bukavu and bishops from Goma, Butembo-Beni, Kindu, Uvira and
Kasongo.

“*The international community has been observing events with its drones*,”
the bishops said. “*Must we wait for the mayhem to become generalised for
the same international community to rain a deluge of fire on this region
under the pretext of combatting jihadism?”*
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