Overblog
Suivre ce blog Administration + Créer mon blog
18 février 2013 1 18 /02 /février /2013 13:58

Comme ses confrères Angolais, Diana Gikupa,un vrai journaliste d'investigation: Dans le cadre de leur coopération sécuritaire, la Chine et l'Angola ont démantélé des réseaux criminels chinois à Luanda

http://www.lencrenoir.com/index.php/2012/08/reseaux-criminels-chinois-demanteles-en-angola/

 

Samedi 26.08.2012, la police chinoise a  ramené 37 présumés gangsters de l ’Angola vers la Chine, où ils ont été arrêtés pour des crimes graves en sol africain, tels que l ’enlèvement, le vol à main armée, l’extorsion, trafic d ’êtres humains et la prostitution.

Des dizaines de milliers de Chinois vivent en Angola, et gèrent des entreprises aux intérêts chinois. Selon des sources chinoises, ils seraient environ 260.000 à vivre en Angola.

Des dizaines de milliers de Chinois vivent en Angola, et gèrent des entreprises aux intérêts chinois. Selon des sources chinoises, ils seraient environ 260.000 à vivre en Angola.

L ’opération a été décrite comme le premier du genre en Afrique, selon l ’état agence de nouvelles Xinhua, qui affirme que les criminels faisaient preuve d’une « brutalité extrême » pour commettre leurs méfaits ». Ils brulaient leurs victimes après avoir versé de l ’essence sur eux et enterraient même leurs victimes vivantes.

Les malfaiteurs ont attiré des femmes en Angola, en promettant des emplois bien rémunérés, mais elles furent soumises à la prostitution, selon les révélations de la police chinoise.

Selon le ministère de la Sécurité publique chinoise, ces malfrats avaient pour cible des membres fortunés de la communauté chinoise qui se sont établis dans le sud-ouest du continent africain, riche en pétrole.

Ces crimes préoccupent hautement la Chine, qui est devenue le principal partenaire commercial de l ’Afrique où pleuvent des milliards de dollars en investissement. Surtout en Angola, un pays riche en minéraux, premier partenaire de la Chine en Afrique avec des échanges commerciaux atteignant plus de 24 milliards de dollars en 2010.

En conséquence, de nombreux Chinois travaillent en Afrique, et leur présence a occasionné certains problèmes de criminalité chez les Chinois, surtout possibles dans les pays politiquement instables qui fournissent un terrain toujours fertile pour les criminels.

Le ministère de la Sécurité publique a déclaré qu’en juillet le gouvernement chinois a envoyé une force de police spéciale en Angola qui a travaillé avec la police locale pour briser les reins  de douze gangs chinois, résoudre 48 affaires criminelles et secourir 14 victimes chinoises, dont la plupart avaient été forcées à se prostituer.

En Chine, la police a arrêté 24 personnes et d ’autres sont soupçonnés d ’être impliqués dans les divers trafics, a indiqué le ministère.

Les 37 hommes et femmes qui ont été extradées samedi en Chine, feront face à accusations d’enlèvements, vols à main armée et d ’extorsion. Ils sont arrivés à Pékin sur un avion affrété, selon le ministère.

Ces crimes nuisent aux entreprises chinoises à l ’étranger et ternissent l ’image du pays. Ils ralentissent certainement l’effort d’instaurer un climat de confiance entre les partenaires d’affaires.

En tant que puissance montante, la Chine par son coup de filet médiatisé démontre qu’il est capable de protéger ses citoyens à l ’extérieur de son territoire et punir ceux qui commettent des crimes à l ’étranger.

Un site de nouvelles en ligne géré par le ministère a publié trois articles, samedi, sur lutte contre la criminalité en Angola. Dans un article, un prétendu détective a dit que beaucoup de Chinois peu qualifiés et à faibles revenus deviennent des gangsters chinois dans le Sud-ouest africain.

Les médias d ’État ont rapporté des enlèvements d’hommes d ’affaires chinois en plein jour, pour en obtenir une rançon.

Le site de nouvelles ajoute qu ’il y avait 14 cas d ’enlèvements en 2011 et cinq personnes sont mortes. De peur, de quelques entreprises chinoises ont fermé leurs portes à Luanda la capitale du pays.

Partager cet article
Repost0
18 février 2013 1 18 /02 /février /2013 13:48

Certains dirigeants Congolais mariés à des rwandaises/ougandaises? Ça c'est leurs vies privées! Mais si par conséquent les dites rélations nuisent à l'intérêt national suprême, nous les dénoncerons!

 

Posez des questions n'est ni un crime ni délit de presse!

 

Diana Gikupa,vous avez tout notre soutien!

Partager cet article
Repost0
18 février 2013 1 18 /02 /février /2013 13:47

Il y a 14 ans, Tryphon Kin-Kiey Mulumba a co-entérré les femmes Congolaises - supposées être ses compatriotes - vivantes! Suffit-il d'applaudir à Joseph Kabila pour enterrer les crimes qu'on a commis?!

 

Il les a, par la suite, accusées de sorcellerie! Incroyable! Du passage éphémère au ministère de l'information puis dans la "rébellion". En tant que dernier porte-parole du gouvernement de Mobutu, Kin kiey était chargé de rédiger des communiqués soporifiques censés entretenir la bonne image d’un maréchal mourant, lâché par tous ses protecteurs occidentaux. Il passait ainsi de son rôle de conseiller occulte à celui de dernier porte voix officiel de la mouvance présidentielle(F.D.U.)

 

Nous avons le souvenir pathétique du dernier compte rendu d’un conseil de ministre, lu à la radio(OZRT) par un Kin kiey sans conviction pendant que Mobutu lui-même avait déjà quitté Kinshasa. Puis vint l’heure de l’exil pour le dernier carré de tous les Mobutistes, et Kin kiey quitta également le pays pour intégrer plu tard la rébellion militaire du RCD, il en fut même l’une des grandes figures à une époque. Devenu conseiller spécial de Kagame chargé des affaires congolaises, il installe les bureux de son journal le Soft à Kigali. Comme Ludo Martens, l'ecrivain Belge nous rappelle dans son article du 7 mars 200, intitulé «Caches d'armes et mutinerie à Bukavu, danger d'une troisième guerre au Congo», Kin-Kiey Mulumba se fait le porte-parole des capitaux américains et rwandais qui veulent "faire éclater les frontières" pour que "le monde devienne un vaste marché pour quiconque sait vendre et sait acheter"…

 

 

Voici comment ce digne mobutiste-kagamiste s'est exprimé le 26 février 2004: «A Bukavu, le gouverneur RCD Chiribanya Chirimwami est brutalement limogé par le gouvernement dont l’ex-mouvement rebelle étatisé est partie prenante sans qu’il ne cherche à broncher. La crise qui couvait depuis juin 2003, a atteint sa phase terminale. Hutu et Tutsi, tous Banyarwanda, tous frères et sœurs, ennemis jurés hier jusqu’à s’entre-tuer massivement, ont enterré machettes et lances, et fait chorus. Ensemble, ils vont défendre leurs terres, en premier, leur gouverneur hutu Eugène Serufuli Ngayabaseka.

 

La question n’est plus l’entrée en ébullition, la question est de savoir quand. À l’heure où les frontières éclatent, où le monde devient vaste marché pour quiconque sait vendre et sait acheter, il n’y a que dans l’ex-Zaïre où, faute de leadership, l’habitant n’a rien compris. Le Kivu lui veut vivre, se produire et se reproduire. Il se tente et se laisse tenter par une culture moderne, loin des incuries et qui marche. Qui lui en fera le reproche ?" (Tryphon Kin-Kiey Mulumba, Le Soft, 26 février, n° 782; lesoftonline.net 04/03/2004). «Kin-Kiey Mulumba, comme Tshisekedi et Katebe Katoto, est parmi les politiciens qui jouent à fond la carte des Américains et de leur libéralisme outrancier qui fait sauter les frontières. Kagame possède une armée puissante qui s'insère délibérément dans la stratégie politico-militaire des EU pour la domination du continent. Son armée est très présente au Kivu où elle se fait passer comme faisant partie des rwandophones congolais…

 

Cette présence politico-militaire au Kivu, jointe à une pénétration économique, permettra à l’alliance Etats-Unis-Rwanda kagamiste de dominer le Kivu sans l'annexer formellement. «C'est à cette lumière qu'on peut interpréter les dires de Kin-Kiey Mulumba. « Paul Kagame éprouve des nouveaux besoins : il veut reconstruire son pays; il veut tisser des nouveaux liens dans le monde basés sur la compétitivité et la bonne gouvernance; il veut tourner le dos à la guerre et être vraiment ce nouvel homme que son pays et la région attendent. (Récemment,) il a fait fermer la frontière entre Bukavu et Cyangungu. Là aussi un même message adressé aux Congolais: 'Si vous vous battez, c’est bien entre vous. Les Rwandais n’ont rien à y faire'. »

 

Quelque temps plu tard il va quitter le RCD, n’ayant certainement pas trouvé sa place dans un mouvement téléguidé par le Rwanda. Et à la faveur des accords de Sun city, il retourne à Kinshasa pour y retrouver sa place de courtisans. Faute de n’avoir pas su faire décoller sa carrière politique, il excelle dans l’art de l’intrigue dans les milieux politiques kinois tout en s’appuyant exclusivement sur un mouvement politique composé essentiellement de ses proches.

 

Et pour entretenir son image, il n’hésite à bouffer à tous les râteliers à l’instar de tous les journalistes griots de Kinshasa. Devenu membre à part entière de l'AMP, maintenant nous apprenons que le député Kin Kiey Mulumba, rassemblant une poignée des Congolais de son lieu de naissance, vient de lancer un nouveau parti politique dénommé Parti pour l’Action (P.A.) - pour eroder l'electorat de Gizenga au Bandundu?

 

Mais ce sont les actions passées de Kin Kiey Mulumba qui comptent. En fait, cette année, c'est le 9e anniversaire des viols et des violences sexuelles contre les femmes de Mwenga (1999-2008) comme nous le rappelle de Dr Shungu Tundanonga! De femmes congolaises de cette localité, située dans le Sud Kivu, aux confins du Parc de Kahuzi-Biega, furent violées en public, lynchées et enterrées vivantes, après les viols, leurs bourreaux les avaient violées avec de morceaux de bois, de branches d'arbres et de barres de fer et mis de bâtons dans leurs organes génitaux (vagins).

 

 Ensuite, ce fut du sel et du piment qu'ils mirent dans leurs vagins avec des objets contendants. Finalement, les moins malheureuses furent immediatement enterrées vivantes dans les trous que leurs maris, frères, pères et fils avaient été forcés de creuser, et, les plus malheureuses durent passer toute une nuit dans de fossés creusés par les mâles de Mwenga sous la menace des armes. Ces fossés étaient remplis d'eau salée, qui atteignaient les plus grandes jusqu'au cou (les plus petites furent noyées), le lendemain elles furent retirées de ces fossés, reviolées et massacrés l'une après l'autre. Ces évenements ont été documentés par les ONG congolaises de droits de l'homme (COJESKI fut la première), vérifiés et confirmés par la Monuc et autres ONG internationales de droits de l'homme dont HRW. Voici comment Ki-Kiey Mulumba, un sadique à la solde des Tutsi, a reagi à ces crimes indescrptibles contre l'humanité!

 

Jugez-en l'homme vous-mêmes!

 

Goma, 19 mai 2000

 

1. A la suite de diverses accusations portant sur des violations des droits de l’homme qui auraient été perpétrées dans la province du Sud-Kivu plus particulièrement l’affaire de «quinze femmes enterrées vivantes» qui se serait produite dans la localité de Mwenga, le Rassemblement Congolais pour la Démocratie, RCD demande de manière pressante à l’Organisation des Nations Unies d’envoyer au Sud-Kivu une mission d’enquête internationale indépendante en vue d’établir la véracité sur ces allégations.

 

2. Le RCD s’engage à mettre tout en œuvre en vue de faciliter le travail des enquêteurs en leur assurant notamment toute la sécurité nécessaire lors de leur mission dans la région concernée.

 

3. Selon tous les rapports en possession du Rassemblement Congolais pour la Démocratie, la tragédie de Mwenga s’est produite lorsque trois femmes accusées de sorcellerie par la population locale ont subi des sévices corporels, selon la coutume locale.

 

4. Selon ces rapports, aucun soldat, aucun commandant de l’Armée Nationale Congolaise-RCD n’a été mêlé dans cette tragique affaire.

 

5. Si à l’issue de cette enquête, une responsabilité quelconque était établie mettant en cause un élément ou des éléments de l’ANC-RCD, le Mouvement s’engage à prendre toutes ses responsabilités conformément aux textes de loi en vigueur dans le territoire libéré et en temps de guerre.

 

6. Le Mouvement rappelle que récemment encore, la Cour martiale a condamné à la peine capitale un policier qui, à Goma, au Nord-Kivu, avait ouvert le feu sur une compatriote.

 

7. Le RCD qui lutte, de toutes ses forces, pour l’instauration de la Démocratie et l’Etat de droit dans notre pays ne saurait en aucun cas tolérer des pratiques qu’il condamne.

 

8. Lors de la rencontre avec la délégation des Ambassadeurs des Nations Unies conduite par l’Ambassadeur américain Richard Holbrooke, les autorités du RCD avaient déjà, répondant à une question de l’Ambassadeur des Pays Bas, demandé l’envoi de cette mission à Mwenga.

 

9. Le RCD espère ardemment que cette mission d’enquête internationale indépendante pourrait se rendre au Congo et au Sud-Kivu aussi vite que possible.

 

Signé Prof Kin-kiey Mulumba

Chef de Département de la Communication et de la Culture du RCD.

Porte-parole

Partager cet article
Repost0
18 février 2013 1 18 /02 /février /2013 13:45

Silence! Personne ne parle plus des crimes contre l'humanité commis par Onosumba, Amisi Tango Fort, Ruberwa, Kin Kiey Mulumba...., Même digitalcongo.net plaide maintenant la cause d'ONOSUMBA!

 

Au délà de Miraille Owale, il y a les crimes contre l'humanité commis par Onosumba!

http://www.digitalcongo.net/article/88717

Faut-il applaudir à Joseph Kabila pour enterrer les crimes qu'on a commis?!

Partager cet article
Repost0
18 février 2013 1 18 /02 /février /2013 03:28

Réaction à l'intervention de l'Honorable F. Kalombo (Top Congo):

 

1. Joseph Kabila tire sa légitimité du peuple Congolais qui l'a élu et non de la Francophonie. Cette dernière, dans le cadre de son sommet de Kinshasa,  n'a fait que  reconnaître le verdict du peuple. 

 

2. Vous avez dit "Vous travaillez tous pour Joseph Kabila?"

Or Joseph Kabila lui-même a l'habitude dire: "Nous travaillons tous pour le peuple" .

Il  doit donc y avoir une difference entre ces deux positions.

Et Joseph Kabila, et sa majorité et l'opposition ont à  rendre compte au peuple.

Or, comme l'ecrit Colette Braeckman,  "la population s’impatiente, car les fruits de la croissance se font attendre tandis que les taxes se multiplient, mais de puissants intérêts mafieux, actifs entre autres dans le blanchiment de l’argent sale via les exportations de diamants, ne sont pas disposés à se laisser remettre au pas, mettant de l’argent à la disposition de groupes factieux . . .  Largement critiqué au sein de la population, le chef de l’Etat congolais apparaît comme un homme assez seul et menacé..." 

Que l'honorable Kalombo mette la main dans la patte pour que cette situation change.

 

 

Partager cet article
Repost0
18 février 2013 1 18 /02 /février /2013 03:03

Déloger les miliciens d'un canton à un autre ne suffit pas! Asseoir l’autorité de l’Etat dans tout l’Est du pays demeure l'objectif des FARDC sous le commandement du Général Olenga.

Partager cet article
Repost0
17 février 2013 7 17 /02 /février /2013 03:15

Pope Benedict to seek immunity and protection from Italian President Giorgio Napolitano on February 23

http://itccs.org/2013/02/14/pope-benedict-to-seek-immunity-and-protection-from-italian-president-giorgio-napolitano-on-february-23/

Posted on February 14, 2013 by itccs
International Tribunal calls on Napolitano to "not collude in criminality", and announces global campaign to occupy Vatican property and launch human rights inquiry in Italy

Rome (9 am local time):

Pope Benedict, Joseph Ratzinger, has scheduled a meeting with Italian President Giorgio Napolitano for Saturday, February 23 to discuss securing protection and immunity from prosecution from the Italian government, according to Italian media sources.

Ratzinger's meeting follows upon the apparent receipt by the Vatican of a diplomatic note from an undisclosed European government on February 4, stating its intention to issue an arrest warrant for Ratzinger, who resigned from his pontificate less than a week later.

In response to the February 23 meeting, the International Tribunal into Crimes of Church and State (ITCCS), through its field Secretary, Rev. Kevin Annett, has written to President Napolitano, asking him to refrain from assisting Ratzinger in evading justice.

The ITCCS letter states, in part,

"I need not remind you, Mr. President, that under international law and treaties that have been ratified by Italy, you and your government are forbidden from granting such protection to those like Joseph Ratzinger who have aided and abetted criminal actions, such as ordering Bishops and Cardinals in America and elsewhere to protect known child rapists among their clergy.

"Your obligation to the Vatican through the Lateran Treaty does not negate or nullify the requirements of these higher moral and international laws; nor does it require that you give any protection or immunity to a single individual like Joseph Ratzinger, especially after he has left his papal office."

A copy of the complete text of the ITCCS letter follows.

In response to the documented crimes of child torture, trafficking and genocide linked to Pope Benedict and Vatican officials, the ITCCS will be sponsoring a series of ongoing protests and occupations of Roman Catholic churches and offices through its affiliates around the world beginning in Easter week, March 24-31, 2013, and continuing indefinitely.

These actions will accompany the legal efforts to bring Joseph Ratzinger and other Vatican officials to trial for their proven complicity in crimes against humanity and criminal conspiracy.

The Easter Reclamation Campaign will seize church property and assets to prevent their use by child raping priests, who are protected under Catholic canon law. Citizens have this right to defend their communities and children when the authorities refuse to do so, under international law.

Rev. Kevin Annett and an official delegation from the ITCCS Central Office will also be convening a formal human rights inquiry in Rome commencing the week of May 13, 2013, to consider further charges against the Vatican and its new Pope  for crimes against humanity and obstruction of justice.

Rev. Annett and his delegation will be working with organizations across Italy in this investigation. In 2009 and 2010, he held rallies outside the Vatican and met with media and human rights groups across Italy to charge the Vatican with the death of more than 50,000 aboriginal children in Canada.

 

——————-

An Open Letter and Appeal to Giorgio Napolitano, President of the Republic of Italy from Rev. Kevin D. Annett, Secretary of the International Tribunal into Crimes of Church and State
 

14 February, 2013
Al Presdente della Repubblica Italiana Giorgio Napolitano
Presidenza della Repubblica
c/o Palazzo del Quirinale
00187 Roma
Italia                                 

   
Dear President Napolitano,

On behalf of our Tribunal and people of conscience everywhere, and of the millions of victims of church abuse, I am making an appeal to you regarding your upcoming meeting with Joseph Ratzinger, who will retire soon as Pope Benedict, the Pontiff of the Church of Rome.

Our understanding is that, in the wake of pressure to have him resign his office because of his proven complicity in concealing child trafficking in his church and other crimes against humanity, Joseph Ratzinger is seeking the assistance of the Italian government in securing protection and immunity from legal prosecution.

I need not remind you, Mr. President, that under international law and treaties that have been ratified by Italy, you and your government are forbidden from granting such protection to those like Jospeh Ratzinger who have aided and abetted criminal actions, such as ordering Bishops and Cardinals in America and elsewhere to protect known child rapists among their clergy.

Your obligation to the Vatican through the Lateran Treaties does not negate or nullify the requirements of these higher moral and international laws; nor does it require that you give any protection or immunity to a single individual like Joseph Ratzinger, especially after he has left his papal office.

The need for you to abide by international law and not be seen to collude with Joseph Ratzinger is even more true when one considers the enormity of the crimes of which the Vatican and its highest officials are clearly guilty, according to considerable evidence gathered and documented by our Tribunal and other groups, and acknowledged by many governments.

In Canada alone, the Roman Catholic Church and its Vatican agents have been found guilty of responsibility for genocide and the deaths of at least 50,000 aboriginal child children in the Jesuit-initiated Indian residential school system, that operated until 1996.

In Ireland, more than 10,000 women suffered and were exploited in the Catholic-run Magdalene Laundries, where many of them died. Similar church-run institutions all over the world have caused enormous mortality, disease and ruination for millions of children. And yet the church has never been held accountable or prosecuted for these deaths and the theft of enormous wealth from entire nations.

With the recent initiative of at least one European government and a host of lawyers to bring Joseph Ratzinger and other church officials to trial for these crimes, we feel it is incumbent on you neither to assist nor to be seen to assist or condone the attempt by him to evade, obstruct or delay justice, lest you open yourself to a charge of being an accessory to a crime.

On behalf of our Tribunal and of many people who cannot speak, I call on you to stand on the law of nations and humanity, and offer no support or protection to Joseph Ratzinger or his accessories in their efforts to evade responsibility for their proven crimes.

I look forward to your reply, and to discussing this with you more when I visit your country in May with a human rights delegation to investigate this matter more closely.

Sincerely,

Kevin D. Annett, M.A., M.Div.

Secretary, The International Tribunal into Crimes of Church and State
Central Office, Brussels

cc: world media

Pope Benedict 'complicit in child sex abuse scandals', say victims' groups

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/feb/11/pope-complicit-child-abuse-say-victims

Pope Benedict XVI 'knew more about clergy sex crimes than anyone else in church yet did little to protect children', say critics

Children play in St Peters' Square at the Vatican.
Children play in St Peters' Square at the Vatican. Benedict, then Cardinal Ratzinger, was in charge of investigating sex abuse scandals but critics say he covered up paedophilia. Photograph: Gregorio Borgia/ AP

For the legions of people whose childhoods and adult lives were wrecked by sexual and physical abuse at the hands of the Roman Catholic clergy, Pope Benedict XVI is an unloved pontiff who will not be missed.

Victims of the epidemic of sex- and child-abuse scandals that erupted under Benedict's papacy reacted bitterly to his resignation, either charging the outgoing pontiff with being directly complicit in a criminal conspiracy to cover up the thousands of paedophilia cases that have come to light over the past three years, or with failing to stand up to reactionary elements in the church resolved to keep the scandals under wraps.

From Benedict's native Germany to the USA, abuse victims and campaigners criticised an eight-year papacy that struggled to cope with the flood of disclosures of crimes and abuse rampant for decades within the church. Norbert Denef, of the NetworkB group of German abuse victims, said: "The rule of law is more important than a new pope."

Denef, 64, from the Baltic coast of north Germany, was abused as a boy by his local priest for six years. In 2003, Denef took his case to the bishop of Magdeburg. He was offered €25,000 (then £17,000) in return for a signed pledge of silence about what he suffered as a six-year-old boy. He then raised the issue with the Vatican and received a letter that said Pope John Paul II would pray for him so that Denef could forgive his molester.

"We won't miss this pope," said Denef. He likened the Vatican's treatment of the molestation disclosures to "mafia-style organised crime rings".

That view was echoed by David Clohessy in the US, executive director ofSNAP (Survivors' Network of those Abused by Priests), an organisation with 12,000 members: "His record is terrible. Before he became pope, his predecessor put him in charge of the abuse crisis.

"He has read thousands of pages of reports of the abuse cases from across the world. He knows more about clergy sex crimes and cover-ups than anyone else in the church yet he has done precious little to protect children."

Jakob Purkarthofer, of Austria's Platform for Victims of Church Violence, said: "Ratzinger was part of the system and co-responsible for these crimes."

Link to video: Pope's UK visit: child abuse survivors campaign for justice

Under the German pope, his native country, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Austria were rocked by clerical sex-abuse scandals, triggering revulsion at the clergy in Europe just when Benedict saw his mission as leading a Catholic revival on a secular continent.

Before becoming pope, there were also major scandals in the US andIreland at a time when Pope John Paul II had put the then Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger in charge of dealing with them.

A combination of deep rancour and disgust over the crimes and disaffection with the conservative ethics of the Catholic hierarchy has nudged the church in Austria towards schism, with rebel priests leading an anti-Vatican movement of hundreds of thousands, dubbed We Are The Church.

"He should have come clean about the abuses, but was not really able to change anything fundamentally," said Purkarthofer. "The resignation is a chance for real change, perhaps the best thing he could have done for the church."

While also intensely critical, some Irish victims of the seminaries, convent schools, and church-run orphanages gave the pope the benefit of the doubt, but lamented that not enough action had followed Benedict's expressions of remorse in the spring of 2010.

"When the pope issued his pastoral letter to the people of Ireland we welcomed it," said one Irish campaigner. "Because of the sincerity of the words in that letter from the pope in the name of the church. He said he was 'truly sorry' and accepted that our 'dignity had been violated'.

"So we went on to meet the group of bishops in Ireland thinking that this would be a new era. But what we got instead were pastoral platitudes and special masses offered up."

The fallout from these scandals continues to reverberate. Next Monday campaigners for justice are to protest in the ancient west German city of Trier when the country's church leadership gathers. Last month a church-sponsored inquiry into the abuses collapsed in disarray amid recrimination between the clergy and outside criminologists involved in the examination.

A similar situation persists in Austria, where a church-led inquiry into the abuse and compensation has degenerated, in the view of activists, into a smokescreen. In Belgium, where the head of the church nationally had to resign and then made matters worse by going on television to plead innocence while admitting "intimacy" by having boys in his bed, there are parallel frustrations with the partial nature of the church's openness.

A couple of years ago US activists sought to file a criminal suit against the Vatican at the international war crimes tribunal in The Hague, while victims' associations responded to the current drama by demanding an international commission be set up to examine Catholic paedophilia, independent of the church.i

Clohessy said a big question for Benedict's successor is "what he will do in a very tangible way to safeguard children, deter cover-ups, punish enablers and chart a new course.

"There are 30 bishops in the US [who] have posted on the diocese websites the names of predator priests. The pope should require bishops to do that and to work with secular lawmakers to reform archaic sex abuse laws so that predators from every walk of life face justice."

John Kelly, one founder of Ireland's Survivors of Child Abuse group and a former inmate at Dublin's notorious Artane Industrial School, which was run by the Christian Brothers, said Benedict had resisted their demands to properly investigate and disband religious orders tainted by sexual and physical abuse.

"In our view, we were let down in terms of promises of inquiries, reform and most importantly of all the Vatican continuing not to acknowledge that any priest or religious bodies found guilty of child abuse would face the civil authorities and be tried for their crimes in the courts.

"I'm afraid to say Pope Benedict won't be missed as the Vatican continued to block proper investigations into the abuse scandals during his term in office. Nor are we confident that things are going to be different because of all the conservative Cardinals he appointed. For us, he broke his word."

The Austrian campaigner called for church files on paedophilia to be opened and generous compensation for the victims.

Denef pointed to the discrepancies between the response in the US and in Europe, insisting that clergy suspects must be brought before the law.

"From our point of view, Ratzinger did nothing to support the victims. Instead, perpetrators and serial perpetrators were protected and moved to new jobs," he said.

"Victims in the US have been compensated sometimes with more than a million dollars and the personal files of the perpetrators were put on the internet. But the victims of sexual violence by the clergy in Germany had to settle for a few thousand euros, often conditional on pledges of silence and no more claims.

"We demand from German politicians that this concern [the church] is no longer beyond the rule of law. That's more important than waiting to see whether a new pope will be more reactionary than the old one."

• This article was amended on 13 February 2013 because the original attributed quotes from Norbert Denef, of NetworkB, to Matthias Katsch. Katsch is not a member of NetworkB. The original has also been amended to correct the description of NetworkB. It is not a "group of German clerical-abuse victims" as the original said, but a group of German abuse victims.

Le pape jouira de la sécurité, de l'immunité en restant au Vatican.
Pope will have security, immunity by remaining in the Vatican

 

Pope Benedict XVI Gives State Of The World AddressReuters – by Philip Pullella

Pope Benedict’s decision to live inthe Vatican after he resigns will provide him with security and privacy. It will also offer legal protection from any attempt to prosecute him in connection with sexual abuse cases around the world, Church sources and legal experts say.

“His continued presence in the Vatican is necessary, otherwise he might be defenseless. He wouldn’t have his immunity, his prerogatives, his security, if he is anywhere else,” said one Vatican official, speaking on condition of anonymity.

“It is absolutely necessary” that he stays in the Vatican, said the source, adding that Benedict should have a “dignified existence” in his remaining years.

Vatican sources said officials had three main considerations in deciding that Benedict should live in a convent in the Vatican after he resigns on February 28.

Vatican police, who already know the pope and his habits, will be able to guarantee his privacy and security and not have to entrust it to a foreign police force, which would be necessary if he moved to another country.

“I see a big problem if he would go anywhere else. I’m thinking in terms of his personal security, his safety. We don’t have a secret service that can devote huge resources (like they do) to ex-presidents,” the official said.

Another consideration was that if the pope did move permanently to another country, living in seclusion in a monastery in his native Germany, for example, the location might become a place of pilgrimage.

POTENTIAL EXPOSURE

This could be complicated for the Church, particularly in the unlikely event that the next pope makes decisions that may displease conservatives, who could then go to Benedict’s place of residence to pay tribute to him.

“That would be very problematic,” another Vatican official said.

The final key consideration is the pope’s potential exposure to legal claims over the Catholic Church’s sexual abuse scandals.

In 2010, for example, Benedict was named as a defendant in a law suit alleging that he failed to take action as a cardinal in 1995 when he was allegedly told about a priest who had abused boys at a U.S. school for the deaf decades earlier. The lawyers withdrew the case last year and the Vatican said it was a major victory that proved the pope could not be held liable for the actions of abusive priests.

Benedict is currently not named specifically in any other case. The Vatican does not expect any more but is not ruling out the possibility.

“(If he lived anywhere else) then we might have those crazies who are filing lawsuits, or some magistrate might arrest him like other (former) heads of state have been for alleged acts while he was head of state,” one source said.

Another official said: “While this was not the main consideration, it certainly is a corollary, a natural result.”

After he resigns, Benedict will no longer be the sovereign monarch of the State ofVatican City, which is surrounded by Rome, but will retain Vatican citizenship and residency.

LATERAN PACTS

That would continue to provide him immunity under the provisions of the Lateran Pacts while he is in the Vatican and even if he makes jaunts into Italy as a Vatican citizen.

The 1929 Lateran Pacts between Italy and the Holy See, which established Vatican Cityas a sovereign state, said Vatican City would be “invariably and in every event considered as neutral and inviolable territory”.

There have been repeated calls for Benedict’s arrest over sexual abuse in the Catholic Church.

When Benedict went to Britain in 2010, British author and atheist campaigner Richard Dawkins asked authorities to arrest the pope to face questions over the Church’s child abuse scandal.

Dawkins and the late British-American journalist Christopher Hitchens commissioned lawyers to explore ways of taking legal action against the pope. Their efforts came to nothing because the pope was a head of state and so enjoyed diplomatic immunity.

In 2011, victims of sexual abuse by the clergy asked the International Criminal Court to investigate the pope and three Vatican officials over sexual abuse.

The New York-based rights group Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and another group, Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP), filed a complaint with the ICC alleging that Vatican officials committed crimes against humanity because they tolerated and enabled sex crimes.

The ICC has not taken up the case but has never said why. It generally does not comment on why it does not take up cases.

NOT LIKE A CEO

The Vatican has consistently said that a pope cannot be held accountable for cases of abuse committed by others because priests are employees of individual dioceses around the world and not direct employees of the Vatican. It says the head of the church cannot be compared to the CEO of a company.

Victims groups have said Benedict, particularly in his previous job at the head of the Vatican’s doctrinal department, turned a blind eye to the overall policies of local Churches, which moved abusers from parish to parish instead of defrocking them and handing them over to authorities.

The Vatican has denied this. The pope has apologized for abuse in the Church, has met with abuse victims on many of his trips, and ordered a major investigation into abuse in Ireland.

But groups representing some of the victims say the Pope will leave office with a stain on his legacy because he was in positions of power in the Vatican for more than three decades, first as a cardinal and then as pope, and should have done more.

The scandals began years before the then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger was elected pope in 2005 but the issue has overshadowed his papacy from the beginning, as more and more cases came to light in dioceses across the world.

As recently as last month, the former archbishop of Los Angeles, Cardinal Roger Mahony, was stripped by his successor of all public and administrative duties after a thousands of pages of files detailing abuse in the 1980s were made public.

Mahony, who was archbishop of Los Angeles from 1985 until 2011, has apologized for “mistakes” he made as archbishop, saying he had not been equipped to deal with the problem of sexual misconduct involving children. The pope was not named in that case.

In 2007, the Los Angeles archdiocese, which serves 4 million Catholics, reached a $660 million civil settlement with more than 500 victims of child molestation, the biggest agreement of its kind in the United States.

Vatican spokesman Father Federico Lombardi said the pope “gave the fight against sexual abuse a new impulse, ensuring that new rules were put in place to prevent future abuse and to listen to victims. That was a great merit of his papacy and for that we will be grateful”.

(Reporting by Philip Pullella; Additional reporting by Robin Pomeroy; Edited by Simon Robinson and Giles Elgood)

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/02/15/us-pope-resignation-immunity-idUSBRE91E0ZI20130215

Partager cet article
Repost0
17 février 2013 7 17 /02 /février /2013 03:10
Un général américain exhorte Pentagone pour renforcer ses missions d'espionnage africains de 15 fois
US general urges Pentagon to boost its African spying missions by 15-fold
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2013/02/15/289051/us-urged-to-boost-africa-spying-15fold/

Gen. David Rodriguez will lead US Africa Command force if confirmed by the Senate.

Gen. David Rodriguez will lead US Africa Command force if confirmed by the Senate.
Fri Feb 15, 2013 9:9AM GMT
20
91
 
16
 

I believe additional intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance capabilities are necessary to protect American interests [in Africa] and assist our close allies and partners.”

US Gen. David Rodriguez

A US general nominated to lead American military’s Africa Command has called for a 15-fold surge in US spying missions in Africa amid reports of Pentagon’s plans to further expand its growing military presence in the continent.


Army General David Rodriguez estimated in a written statement submitted to the US Senate Arms Services Committee during his confirmation hearing on Thursday that the American military needs to boost its “intelligence-gathering and spying missions in Africa by nearly 15-fold,” The Washington Post reports Friday. 

“I believe additional intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance capabilities are necessary to protect American interests and assist our close allies and partners,” said the four-star general who has previously commanded US-led intervention forces in Panama, Iraq and Afghanistan. 

“The recent crises in North Africa demonstrate the volatility of the African security environment,” he added. 

Rodrigues further emphasized during the hearing that Africa Command requires additional drones, other spying aircraft and more satellite imagery, adding that the US command currently gets only half of its “stated need” for North Africa and just seven percent of its total “requirements” for the entire continent, the report says.

The surging US military involvement in Africa has emerged despite earlier instructions by the Obama administration for the Pentagon to “pivot its forces and reorient its strategy toward fast-growing Asia,” the daily underlines. 

The development comes as the American military has intervened over the past two years in internal conflicts in African nations of Somalia, Libya and Mali, as well as central Africa. 

This is while the US Air Force is building its fourth assassination and spying drone base in the poor African state of Niger as American Navy warships are expanding their missions along the coastlines of East and West Africa, according to the report. 

Despite insistence by US military authorities that they did not have plans to establish bases or move troops to Africa when they created the Africa Command in 2007, the Pentagon has since built a network of “staging bases,” including assassination drone facilities in Ethiopia and the Seychelles, and “a forward operating base for special operations forces in Kenya,” the report notes. 

It further adds that the Pentagon has also expanded its military operations and construction at “the only permanent US base on the continent, Camp Lemonnier in Djibouti, which serves as a hub for 'counterterrorism missions' in Somalia and Yemen.” 

Now, the daily emphasizes, there is a growing pressure to add even more bases in North and West Africa as the US military is set to build an assassination drone base in the West African country of Niger, which borders Mali, Libya and Nigeria, all nations that the Obama administration claims are threatened by an increasing influx of al-Qaeda-linked Muslim militants.

The US Africa Command has been based in Stuttgart, Germany since it was established in 2007. Efforts to move the headquarters to an African country faced hurdles as numerous nations “expressed concern that the Pentagon was seeking to militarize US policy or infringe on their sovereignty,” according to the report. 
Partager cet article
Repost0
17 février 2013 7 17 /02 /février /2013 03:08

Déploiement des drones: La RDC doit accélerer la construction de "Congo Sat1", son propre satellite pour surveiller ses propres frontières.

Partager cet article
Repost0
16 février 2013 6 16 /02 /février /2013 14:32
CPJ asks Congo to release imprisoned journalist
http://news.yahoo.com/cpj-asks-congo-release-imprisoned-journalist-122145432.html

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — A leading media advocacy group is calling on Congolese authorities to release a journalist who was sentenced in December to six months in prison on defamation charges.

The Committee to Protect Journalists said Saturday that Joachim Diana Gikupa, editor of daily newspaper La Colombe, should be released pending an appeal. U.N. radio Okapi reported that Gikupa's lawyers filed an appeal saying he was in poor health.

CPJ says that Gikupa was convicted of criminal defamation for publishing a report alleging that a Chinese company managing a local hospital had sold expired medication, among other things. It condemned Congo's use of criminal defamation charges to jail journalists for critical reporting.

The group says the Chinese company, Gen Tai, denied the allegations and filed a complaint against the Feb. 9, 2012 report.

Partager cet article
Repost0

Présentation

  • : Congo Panorama. Le blog du soldat du peuple: Par Antoine Roger Lokongo, le Soldat du Peuple engagé dans la bataille des idées pour un Congo meilleur. Un Congo qui s'assume et devient un parténaire clé de la Chine, hier un pays sous-développé, qui, en un lapse de temps, a changé son destin en comptant sur ses propres efforts et devenu une puissance.
  • : A partir des idées de mes héros, Patrice Emery Lumumba et Laurent Désiré Kabila, je suis l'actualité politique de mon pays, la République Démocratique du Congo en partuclier et de l'Afrique en général et je donne mes commentaires. Antoine Roger Lokongo
  • Contact

Hymne des Opprimés

  Ces CPP-ci sont la lumière des ouvriers
et des paysans,
ainsi que de tout opprimé.

Il n’y a point de doute d’abattre l’exploitation et de créer une juste société.

Notre serment est de ne jamais échouer,
enjoignons toutes nos forces en un faisceau,
tenons bien nos armes dans nos mains,
car ces CPP sont la force du peuple.


Dans sa noble cause,
jamais de spoliation.

Notre lutte revendique nos droits,
quoiqu’il en coûte,
jamais de servitude.


Pour les opprimés,
la Révolution est un rempart,
son ultime but est que le peuple gouverne.

Laurent Désiré Kabila,
lâchement assassiné le 16 janvier 2001.

Recherche

Liens Préféres