What was revealed in Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) on April 3, 2015 is shocking, and astonishing. 425 persons were buried in one big hole like dogs. Nobody really knows of what they die. Some are speculating that they are the victims of the three famous days of January 19, 20 and 21, 2015. I stick to what was said.
What do we know about the 425 bodies? We know that they did not pay for their hospitalization. We also know that the 425 lived and died indigents. We do not have their names. They are unknown. We could call them the unknown 425 Congolese. Why they buried them all in one big hole? Why the authority decided to bury the 425 altogether?
No place was found for the 425 indigents. Only one big hole, near Kinshasa. I don't know if a priest was invited to say few words for the 425 indigents. Obviously, not. The 425 indigents really got during their life time an unmerciful foe. He pursued them in their dreams of death. He denied the least he would not refuse to his/her worst enemy. What the 425 indigents did to the Congo to earn such a treatment? What or who the 425 indigents displeased so much?
The interior minister said their foe was poverty. They were so poor the government could not give them a proper burial. If poverty was the enemy of the 425 peoples, nothing good is to be expected for the rest of the population. Congolese must start saving for the funeral expenses. Through the 425 bodies, they government is sending a clear message. Pay your bills. If you don't, the government will bury you, yes, but as a community of indigents. Pay your hospitalization expenses, otherwise you will be buried like a dog, if you are lucky.
Someone may think that the interior minister, Boshab, is not of Congolese origin. He is 100% Congolese. The man is a professor of law at the University of Kinshasa. He represents by himself the intellectual caution of the Kabila's regime. So, we are talking about somebody who has a good command of the french language. He came out and called the 425 Congolese indigents. What else they were, if not indigents?
What is amazing in this story is the treatment given to human body. Here, we are not talking about Boko Haram or Al-Shabab, we are talking about the government of the DRC. Yes, the 425 may have been poor. But they were so poor that they did not have a family, or a friend who cares? Those questions I will keep asking myself until the day another story will be told.
What do we know about the 425 bodies? We know that they did not pay for their hospitalization. We also know that the 425 lived and died indigents. We do not have their names. They are unknown. We could call them the unknown 425 Congolese. Why they buried them all in one big hole? Why the authority decided to bury the 425 altogether?
No place was found for the 425 indigents. Only one big hole, near Kinshasa. I don't know if a priest was invited to say few words for the 425 indigents. Obviously, not. The 425 indigents really got during their life time an unmerciful foe. He pursued them in their dreams of death. He denied the least he would not refuse to his/her worst enemy. What the 425 indigents did to the Congo to earn such a treatment? What or who the 425 indigents displeased so much?
The interior minister said their foe was poverty. They were so poor the government could not give them a proper burial. If poverty was the enemy of the 425 peoples, nothing good is to be expected for the rest of the population. Congolese must start saving for the funeral expenses. Through the 425 bodies, they government is sending a clear message. Pay your bills. If you don't, the government will bury you, yes, but as a community of indigents. Pay your hospitalization expenses, otherwise you will be buried like a dog, if you are lucky.
Someone may think that the interior minister, Boshab, is not of Congolese origin. He is 100% Congolese. The man is a professor of law at the University of Kinshasa. He represents by himself the intellectual caution of the Kabila's regime. So, we are talking about somebody who has a good command of the french language. He came out and called the 425 Congolese indigents. What else they were, if not indigents?
What is amazing in this story is the treatment given to human body. Here, we are not talking about Boko Haram or Al-Shabab, we are talking about the government of the DRC. Yes, the 425 may have been poor. But they were so poor that they did not have a family, or a friend who cares? Those questions I will keep asking myself until the day another story will be told.
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