The Matiti Mboka operation Lubumbashi campus , would we really know what had happened ?

The Matiti Mboka operation Lubumbashi campus , would we really know what had happened ?

When everyone is looking for a washing forgetting the past to rebuild a path in life , leaving behind him a massacre he wants at all costs to be buried with this truth. You never bury the truth with the carrier. Because it remains even when the man dies. Soon 24 years to the day since the event of the operation matiti mboka , but we are still in speculation and denial of innocence and play in the language of each other .

At the time it was difficult to ask people to go out to claim the missing or testify, we not forget the terrors of the Second Republic. What was really going on?

I am not able to answer this question, but I suggest you replay two written in the 1990s about the massacres letters.

The first was written by priests of the Archdiocese of Lubumbashi, May 19, 1990

Lubumbashi, May 19, 1990

Brothers and Sisters

We priests of Lubumbashi, in this day of gathering Sunday to commemorate Jesus Christ , dead and resurrected , given the silence of the media that promote a climate of uncontrolled and uncontrollable rumors , under our responsibility to denounce evil and announce the truth, justice and love, we can not ignore the following facts:

- The night of Wednesday 09 to Thursday 10 May, students discover that campus for years, 23 of them have been eliminated. They bully so inhuman three of them believed to be responsible , with others, for these disappearances companions.

- On the night of Friday, May 11 to 12 , a power outage on university campuses in 19 hours .

- At 11:30 p.m. , according to eyewitness accounts of students, brutal intervention of a commando from elsewhere. They operate according to a precise list of victims in their possession. The methods used (password or code : matiti MBOKA ) show men particularly well trained for this kind of murderous operation : stabbing , bayonet , machete without any form of trial.

- Saturday, May 12 , Response ambulances to evacuate many wounded . The university alone in conduit 14 to the various clinics in the city . The order is given to students to evacuate the campus for 10 hours .

Some official information raise questions

The wounded , they say, would come as clashes between students ! ! ! ! ! !

How, then, the forces that surround the campus are they not intervene ?

Or did the students who opt with this savagery the night of May 11 to 12 ?

Why , for several days , until the following Monday the authority has it kills ?

If there were only wounded , why so many families speak they missing ?

How many actually died ? How many are missing ?

We denounce accordingly:

- Killing without any form of trial;

- What groups what they are taking charge of their vengeance ;

- The cruelty of the methods used, where it comes from ;

- The tribalistic spirit resurfaced following this situation ;

- The insecurity caused by the threats , wherever they come from ;

- The silence extends media that open the door to rumors and anxiety.

We have heard the word of God.

The words of the prophet Isaiah 3.7 : '' I have seen the affliction of my people , I heard the cry that make their taskmasters .''

We know that God frees his people , but not without him, Moses went to find Pharaoh ; the people rose, he left Egypt.

We believe that God , today we want to release us. Will we have the courage to overcome our fear, explain and act ?

And Jesus, in the Gospel , says : The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me by anointing to preach good news to the poor ; he has sent me to proclaim release to the captives , the blind recovery of sight , to set at liberty those who are oppressed .'' (Luke 4,18 Ss) . The mission of Christ is now ours by force of mind and our baptismal commitment .

And St. Peter tells us in 1 Peter 3, 15 Ss : '' you should always be ready to explain to those who calls you to account for the hope that is in you . But do this with gentleness and respect. '' And he continues: '' Have a right conscience to shame your opponents at the same time or they accuse the right life you live in Christ .''

In summary : Do not kill , in any case :

- Do not try to overcome evil with evil, but let's winners evil with good (Romans 12:21)

- Together we can build our country : IN THE TRUTH AND NO LIE IN THE JUSTICE AND NOT BY OPPRESSION IN THE FORGIVENESS OF OFFENSES .

Pray together for peace and harmony in our country

Forty priests Lubumbashi

The second letter was written by a group of young people , with the signing youth voice , I did not identify the specific group author of this message as they wrote down recommendation to move and I decided to multiply the do as the Congo needs to reread the story.

Voice the letter:

DEAR BROTHERS AND FELLOW DEAR PARENTS

We inform you with great dismay that during the night of Friday to Saturday , from 11 to 12 May 1990 , a plane on which stood commandos DSP ( Special Presidential Division) , is down to the airport Luano for a very specific mission. Under the order of the authority of the place, these commandos stormed the campus in pregnant care to cut the power first.

In the atmosphere of amazement and disorder , these executioners are books most heinous imaginable by exterminating son and daughters , students from shaba , two Kasai and Kivu using bayonets during that carnage ferrying the same occasion theirs Kinshasa .

After completing their diabolical Mission During this night , they withdrew before the emergence of the sun leaving the field fifty ; students on the ground excluding missing.

The official opinion is trying to cover this event by stating that students were killing themselves.

We would like to deny the truth in saying that it is the power that is being illustrated by the state terrorism , had introduced on campus among students and a group of spies their balance under the false label students who had spy on movement of life of students and make daily report using a sophisticated equipment to power.

Overdrafts by students , these spies were molested and are in a hospital or care they receive . If the power is not responsible, why should he drop commandos after these fights that pitted the students with these spies his sales?

Some do not know the motivation of claims and the attidude of students translate their discontent that the Legislative Council has lost its legitimacy through corruption of its members. How can we understand differently if we see some commissioners aborer pleased badge MPR ?

Can we tolerate our son and daughters are slaughtered like sheep by commandos Envoys by'' pacifier and the guarantor of the security of people and their property ? '' . Can we tolerate these students innoncents perish under the sword of the latter as a butcher to claim their rights and freedom for all of us ?

Considering our responsibility before history, measurements below ANNOUNCED just be preconissees .

1. Until otherwise provided for , death by killing these children affects us all , if you you do not have a son to campus, your friend or loved one has . So join your heart to hers for seven days of mourning and consternation as is our custom .

2 . A general strike for an indefinite duration imposes on us a reflection for the massacre of our children. Because if we work every day , it is for our children. So who admit to go to work while our children are dead. Note that no less considerable efforts provided by our work and the resulting profits which for twenty- five (25 ) During years , allowed only for such families appellees '' NATIVES OF NAZARETH " to celebrate and to rejoice over our families languish in misery and starvation. Above all this , the supreme power thanked us by killing our children.

. 3 We ask all detenants or proprietaries has music boxes and bars close their homes during this period of enxiete ; Woe to the one who would venture to open his box , because the state terrorism and vandalism would be applied the same popular rigors .

4. Then we remind workers who enteteraient and anyone would in the office or place of work, suffer the consequences and atrocities that were committed against our colleagues and our children Lubumbashi campus .

5. If you are brave , you exortons out on the street and protest for the death of our children '

6 . However, we urge you to avoid any revolt that would wait a life homes . Simply manifest our anger and our sadness for the death of our children, future elites , stifled in the homes of embrions by Mobutu .

7 . We died a fifty in one night! That would be for the rest of the nights succeed each night somber ?

All people do not die at once, it is still a few for the continuity of history.

Understand - you something! What would - you dear parents consequences .

Our condolences !

VOICES OF YOUTH

NB : WITH RECOMMENDATION TO OPERATE THIS MESSAGE OR THE MULTIPLIER hastily .

On www.7sur7.be website , you can read an article from July 24, 2008 entitled : '' " No student massacre in Lubumbashi in 1990 " according to this article: '' The APA (independent) cites former division chief of the National intelligence and Protection Service ( SNIP ) in Katanga , Jean -Pierre Musasa Dibwe . He said Wednesday during a literary morning in Kinshasa organized by the Ministry of Culture and Arts, there has never been a student massacre on the campus of the University of Lubumbashi ( UNILU ) .

Mr. Musasa added , taking the official version at the time, one student by the name of Ilombe Ilombe had died in the night of 11 to 12 May 1990 in incidents between students, by a fall. '' http://www.7sur7.be/7s7/fr/1505/Monde/article/detail/357614/2008/07/24/Aucun-massacre-d-etudiants-a-Lubumbashi-en-1990.dhtml

Can we afford to say after reading these letters , people who remain alive we can bring them to justice for their dissent us what happened exactly? Because there were dead so there was something. The tale speaks spies on campus what their role is in the middle of a study or freedom of expression should be encouraged ? We always said if I Trampe you trampes therefore verifies the derrieres of each other and why so many book to deny this fact but can you just tell us why spies who sent them and why, these mysteries people are dead before they fictions. For true there are still people who know the truth . The nation does not build themselves by washing in dirty water to say it's still water.