Tuesday, June 23, 2020

Banyamulenge students denounce the repeated attacks of the refugee camps harbouring the Banyamulenge

Students from the Banyamulenge community in South Kivu gathered in the Ubumwe and humura dynamics call on the provincial authorities to protect over 1.000 displaced people from their community, victims of repeated attacks on the of site.
In a statement made Monday, June 2020, 22, they call on the provincial authorities to punish the perpetrators of repeated attacks against the Banyamulenge.
" We were about to organize a march on Monday to denounce repeated attacks against the Banyamulenge displaced in Mikenge. Within a month, this site was attacked 3 times and during these attacks several people were injured and property looted ", they said.
These students regret to see that a woman injured in these attacks has died from her hospital injuries.
They promise to organize a march to denounce these attacks soon.

In this same area,prisoner are about to perish in cells due to hungerMore than 90 inmates from the central prison of Kamituga, in the territory of Mwenga in South Kivu, are in danger of death due to lack of food.
The last food grant from the authorities was last March says Richard,, director of this prison house.
He says that inmates are at risk of dying because they do not have food and no medicine.
" Here we have nothing as a grant. We got the last grant last March. We are having a lot of trouble. Inmates don't have food and they don't have medicine ", he said.
Richard, also points out that inmates live this last time only donations from some Christians from churches in Kamituga.
He also reports that several inmates suffer from contagious diseases.
It should be noted that, on Friday, April 24, an inmate died following the famine at the Central Prison.

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