And join us in our mobilizations in Paris:
Citizen Tribunal of the Françafrique, Wednesday, December 4, from 18 PM to 10 PM, at the Grand Parquet
Inter-organizations Union, Thursday, Dec. 5, at 18 PM, Place de la République
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J-8 avant le Sommet de l'Elysée sur la paix et la sécurité en Afrique, mobilisons-nous !!
La paix en Afrique ne doit pas se décider à l'Elysée avec des dictateurs
Et rejoignez-nous dans nos mobilisations à Paris:
Tribunal citoyen de la Françafrique, le mercredi 4 décembre, de 18h à 22h, au Grand Parquet
Rassemblement inter-organisations, le jeudi 5 décembre, à 18h, place de la République
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* Allez les citoyens ! By, M.Motandi. Activist, Kinshasa, DRC.
French president Francois Holland, has invited African head of states to a summit on peace and security in Africa, from the 6-7th December 2013, in Paris, France.
We are talking about a gathering into one place of some of the worse serial rapists, assassins, war criminals and terrorists.
And according to rumors, amongst them would be Joseph Kabila, one of the most brutal war criminal in the world on the run, under the protection of the ' international community '.
Activists and allied forces all over Africa, Asia, South America, western Europe, the middle east, Canada and the United states are mobilized and ready to carry out a citizen-arrest of Joseph Kabila while in he is in Paris, to send a message to the corrupt United Nations and the international criminal court for their failures to enforce international law for war crimes committed in the Congo since 1996.
Activists and allied forces are calling on every single citizen of the French republic who has the means, the tips, the information and the opportunity to take action. Don't let this gathering of war criminals debase the French republic. Uphold the universal that say that war criminals must be held accountable and that all people are to be treated fairly and equally .
We are calling on you, the French politician,
You, the French policeman,
You, the regular folks,
You, the taxi driver,
You, the bus driver,
You, the French army officer,
You, the soldier,
You, the secret service agent,
You, the border guard agent,
You, the journalist,
You, the student,
You, the clergyman, we thank you in advance for your cooperation.
After million deaths and raped women, war criminals have turned their terrorism on the street children of Kinshasa. They are being murdered as we speak since November 15, 2013 by a police death squads.
A cleansing campaign of homeless kids. These kids have been pushed to the street, and a life of thefts and forced prostitution thanks in part to the international community's warfare policy of the last 20 year in the Congo. Some of them doing prostitution are as young as 10 year old. Most of their johns / clients are Congolese ministers and government officials with monies.
Those doing the killings of these kids are former war criminals like Joseph Kabila, taking orders directly from him and his collaborators. Where is the UNICEF? Where are the diplomats, the MONUSCO, the UN officials and the ruling powers, usually quick in their feet to call for negotiations with he M23 terrorists and war criminals? Where is the outrage from the African Union secretary general Nkosazana Zuma ? why the silence?
On December 6th, lets send a message to the whole world that war criminals belong in a jail cell. They are not welcomed to France, and to self respecting nations. Lets capture Joseph Kabila in Paris.
Lets send a message that the people of the world are waking up and marching forward.
Stand up for decency and common sense in global affairs. Stand up for real economics that create real jobs for the workers. Stand up for justice, for freedom and the universal.
Debout la France !
Debout la republic !
Allez les citoyens !
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* The African Union and moral abdication. By Olúfémi Táíwò, professor at the Africana Studies and Research Center, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.USA. Ugandancom , 20/11/2013.
African leaders and their intellectual enablers in the cozy confines of their Chinese-donated palatial headquarters in Addis Ababa think nothing of justice, forget respect when they ask for immunity of prosecution. This is nothing more than moral abdication.
African leaders want respect from the International Criminal Court and the United Nations Security Council to take them seriously. The lack of both is why the recent extraordinary summit of the heads of state of the African Union gave for asking that the Hague-based International Criminal Court spare President Uhuru Kenyatta of Kenya the indignity of being tried for crimes against humanity by it. They went on to accuse the International Criminal Court of being a tool of Western imperialism and of carrying out a witch-hunt against African heads of state, and so on. Their demands are that the Kenyatta trial be stopped and delayed till he is out of office, five years down the road; and no African president should be tried by the court as long as he or she is in office.
LEAVING MORALITY BEHIND IN ADDIS
Some Africans might see reason with the African leaders but there are many Africans like me who disagree vehemently with their position. What just transpired at their meeting in Addis Ababa is a moral abdication.
The charge that the ICC is the centerpiece of a Western plot is laughable. Did Western countries coerce or trick 34 African countries into ratifying the protocols that established the Court? Where were they when Kenya repeatedly, till as late as this year, asked the ICC to take over the prosecution of those accused of masterminding the post-election mayhem in 2008? Kenya insisted that she did not have the means to prosecute those suspected of sponsoring the carnage. Meanwhile, having been indicted before the elections, both the president and his deputy, William Ruto, promised to cooperate fully with the court, even if they won the election. They did not hint then that they would use their elective to subvert the course of justice.
The last point is important and it is why I consider the latest demands from Africa's leaders dangerous and embarrassing. The summit did not question the validity or legitimacy of the charges brought against all the leaders indicted by the court. Neither Kenyatta nor Ruto has said that the charges against him were bogus or political in nature. Côte d'Ivoire's ex-president, Laurent Gbagbo, had to be forced out of office by French forces after a dithering African Union would not insist that the results of legitimate elections be respected by one of its members.
ENJOYING IMMUNITY
Given that the legality of the charges is not questioned, it means that what irks Africa's leaders is that being in the dock does not bode well for their image and their sense of their own importance. In short, they don't look good in the dock! They think that it is disrespectful to make them answer to grievous charges of doing horrific injury to humanity in their citizens.
The Nigerian President, Goodluck Jonathan, takes the cake with his demand that African leaders enjoy immunity from prosecution as long as they are in office. This should not surprise anyone in the know since the immunity clause in the Nigerian constitution has been used to shield rapacious office holders from being held accountable for their misdeeds. And, of course, should the world concur, it would enable more African crooks to run for office for no other reason than to escape prosecution for criminal acts as used to happen not too long ago in Russia.
The irony is lost on our rulers that they are demanding the world's respect while they disrespect their citizens. What respect do African leaders have for the more than 1,000 Kenyans who perished in the post-election violence? Or for the tens of thousands that have fallen victim to Omer el-Beshir's goons and killer squads in Darfur? Or the 3,000 or more Ivoirian citizens that perished when Gbagbo elected to defy the expressed will of the plurality of Ivoirian voters?
African leaders and their intellectual enablers in the cozy confines of their Chinese-donated palatial headquarters in Addis Ababa think nothing of justice, forget respect, for the lowliest Africans killed, maimed, or displaced by the acts charged under the indictments the prosecution of which they are shameless enough to ask the world to delay. A people who worked so hard to force the world to recognize the crime against humanity perpetrated against their forebears should not deign to be seen making light of any similar allegations against its own ranks. When it does, it is an act of moral abdication.
That African leaders were more agitated by a concern with respect the same week that saw 350 or more Africans lose their lives at sea fleeing their homeland, in this instance, Eritrea, with no public thought given to that tragedy, is the best evidence that we have that African leaders deserve no respect. They should get none. Uhuru Kenyatta, a scion of patriots some of whom have recently forced the perpetrators of unspeakable violence against them to own up, must pay it forward. This is the only path to true respect. African leaders should earn it.
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* The activists' general meeting on November 23rd, in Paris, France- A resounding success.
The amphitheater was packed to the roof. More than 300 activists attended the meeting with flying colors.
Viva Congolese combatants and freedom fighters !
Viva Free Congo !
Viva Free Africa !
Oye! Oye!
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Congolese activists in the Congo and the Diaspora,
Kinshasa, DRC.
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