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DR CONGO: Deadly Crackdown

DR CONGO: Deadly Crackdown Defiant protestors are fired on by security forces as they gather in churches.Catholics in crisis‐torn DR Congo vowed on December 30th to defy a protest ban and hold a “peaceful march” on December 31st to urge implementation of a deal for President Joseph Kabila to leave office and for delayed elections.Kabila has been in power since 2001 when he succeeded his assassinated father Laurent Kabila and refused to step down at the end of his second and final term in December 2016.That refusal led to protests and a bloody crackdown. Demonstrations have been banned or else widely repressed since September 2016, but a large number have nonetheless gone ahead with many ending in bloodshed in recent months.A day of protest on December 19th attracted a small turnout, but there were a number of arrests of members of the opposition Union for Democracy and Social Progress (UDPS) of Felix Tshisekedi in the central Kasai region, and 27 people were arrested in Kindu in the centre‐east, according to police spokesman Pierre Mwanamputu.Other protests had taken place on November 30th in several Congolese cities. In Kinshasa the UDPS general secretary, Jean‐Marc Kabund, lawmaker Martin Favulu and Olivier Endundo were arrested; in Kananga http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Africa Research Bulletin: Political, Social and Cultural Series Wiley

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Wiley
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© 2018 John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
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0001-9844
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10.1111/j.1467-825X.2018.08022.x
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Defiant protestors are fired on by security forces as they gather in churches.Catholics in crisis‐torn DR Congo vowed on December 30th to defy a protest ban and hold a “peaceful march” on December 31st to urge implementation of a deal for President Joseph Kabila to leave office and for delayed elections.Kabila has been in power since 2001 when he succeeded his assassinated father Laurent Kabila and refused to step down at the end of his second and final term in December 2016.That refusal led to protests and a bloody crackdown. Demonstrations have been banned or else widely repressed since September 2016, but a large number have nonetheless gone ahead with many ending in bloodshed in recent months.A day of protest on December 19th attracted a small turnout, but there were a number of arrests of members of the opposition Union for Democracy and Social Progress (UDPS) of Felix Tshisekedi in the central Kasai region, and 27 people were arrested in Kindu in the centre‐east, according to police spokesman Pierre Mwanamputu.Other protests had taken place on November 30th in several Congolese cities. In Kinshasa the UDPS general secretary, Jean‐Marc Kabund, lawmaker Martin Favulu and Olivier Endundo were arrested; in Kananga

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Africa Research Bulletin: Political, Social and Cultural Series – Wiley

Published: Jan 1, 2018

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