Assassination of Chebeya and Bazana in the DRC: a complaint filed against General Djadjidja

It is in Mitendi that the tomb of Floribert Chebeya is located.

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This follows the revelations of RFI.

Indeed, it would be on the plot of this Congolese army officer that the body of Fidèle Bazana, the driver and assistant of human rights activist Floribert Chebeya, was buried.

According to the testimonies of two police officers collected by RFI, the two activists were killed at the General Inspectorate of the Police in Kinshasa on June 1, 2010. The military prosecutor would have secured the site, says a judicial source.

This is the start of a process that promises to be long.

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Sonia Rolley

According to a judicial source, the alleged perimeter has been secured since Wednesday evening by a mixed team

of justice and military police

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This follows a complaint filed by one of the civil party lawyers against General Djadjidja, cited in the RFI investigation.

In any case, human rights activists have been invited to inspect the premises to confirm and verify whether it is indeed General Djadjidja's concession.

These activists had already inspected the premises in 2012. At the time, they were based on indications from the first policeman to have broken the silence: Paul Mwilambwe, head of security at the General Inspectorate of the Police.

He was sentenced in absentia to life imprisonment in 2011 for this double murder, but has always claimed his innocence.

He himself had not been there on the night of the double murder, but said he had learned the secrets of some of his comrades after the murder.

This indirect testimony had enabled the NGOs to draw up a plan of the possible landfill site.

Several problems now arise.

First of all, it is a question of verifying that it is indeed the same place

as that cited by the two police officers questioned by RFI

, them who directly participated in the burial.

According to a judicial source, they could be the subject of an international rogatory commission as soon as they are located by justice.

But eleven later, the landscape has completely changed, there are new constructions, portions of land have been sold.

There is no guarantee that the body has not been moved since.

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  • Floribert Chebeya and Fidèle Bazana