By RFIPalled on 23-09-2019Modified on 23-09-2019 at 09:25

The Congolese President's statements on TV5 Monde reassure his coalition allies, but go wrong with those who continue to demand justice for blood crimes and economic crimes of the Kabila era.

" I will not do this job of poking around in the past, " Congolese President Félix Tshisekedi told TV5 Monde and Le Monde on September 22. The statement reassures his allies of Joseph Kabila's coalition, but it goes wrong in the civil society that is constantly demanding justice for blood crimes and economic crimes of the Kabila era.

There are those who think about blood crimes, such as activist Gloria Senga of the Vigilance Citizen movement (Vici), who herself spent several weeks in prison for opposing the Kabila regime. For her, it is " defiling " the collective memory: " Today, we say that he can not search in the past on the pretext that it would be perceived as a settling of accounts, it is defiled this collective memory, she is unworthy. This leads us to believe those people who say that our President of the Republic does not have the power, that he is just serving Mr. Kabila and his men. "

The same is true for the citizen movement, the Struggle for Change (Lucha), which believes that " Congolese are forced to drastically reduce their hopes for change " under this five-year period. Mr. Jean-Claude Katende, of the African Association of Human Rights (Asadho), remains adamant: the change " begins first with justice for crimes committed in the past ".

" It's not up to him to go snooping "

In the ranks of relatives of the camp in power, however, we try to put things in their place. Defender of human rights, Me Hubert Tshiswaka Masoka think it does not fall to the president to take the initiative: " It is his responsibility to ensure that there is no political crisis. It's not up to him to go snooping, he says. It is rather the magistrates who must educate and NGOs human rights. It is not up to the head of state to do everything because that is what we have decried with President Kabila. "

As a pledge of change, the lieutenants of Tshisekedi recall that none of the personalities under American and European sanctions are included in the new government, but in the ranks of the security services. Most of them have kept their posts.

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