More on threats to Wamba and Kiakwama

[Susan Lyon]

 

Ota Benga Alliance for Peace, Healing, and Dignity

P.O. Box 2847 Berkeley, CA 94702

 www.otabenga.org  otab...@comcast.net

 

 

 

Ota Benga Alliance for Peace, Healing, and Dignity

P.O. Box 2847 Berkeley, CA 94702

 www.otabenga.org  otab...@comcast.net

 

 

Dear Friends,

 

Most of you will already have received the press release written by our executive director, Jacques Depelchin, currently residing in Mozambique, of a grave threat to one of our honorary board members. (I've attached it in case you haven't.)  Professor Ernest Wamba dia Wamba lives in Kinshasa and recently has been very much involved in protesting the brutality of the government toward the people of Bas-Congo (Lower Congo)--especially toward members of the Bundu dia Kongo (BDK), a "movement for the cultural and spiritual emancipation of the Congo people," as Jacques describes it in the attached press release. Professor Wamba has been active in supporting the right of the BDK and others to express themselves freely, and for this he and Honorable Deputy Kiakwama apparently are the targets of an assassination plan.

 

The situation is urgent, and we ask your help in publicizing and protesting these threats. Below are some people and agencies to contact, but we hope you will raise your voices wherever you think they would be most effective.

 

In solidarity,

 

Susan Lyon

Executive Board Member

 

DR Congo Diplomatic representation in the US:                        

Chief of mission: H.E. Faida MITIFU

Embassy: 1800 New Hampshire Avenue NW, Washington, DC

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Diplomatic representation from the US:

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US Embassy in DRC

U.S. Ambassador to DRC:  William John Garvelink

American Embassy, Kinshasa
B.P. 697, Kinshasa 1
République Démocratique du Congo

 

U.S. Mailing Address:
American Embassy
Unit 31550,
APO, AE 09828 - USA

Telephone and E-mail:
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DRC Permanent Mission to the United Nations

H.E. Ambassador Atoki Ileka
Permanent Representative of
the Democratic Republic of
the Congo to the UN

866 United Nations Plaza - Suite 511 - New York, N.Y. 10017 - USA

Tel:  (212) 319-8061 - Fax: (212) 319-8232

 

UN Commission on Human Rights

Louise Arbour, High Commissioner for Human Rights

Palais Wilson
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Telephone: +41 22 917 90 00 
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Department of State

Jonathan D. Farrar

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Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor

Department of State

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Jendayi E. Frazer
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