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| la gachette du Zaire |
by Frantz Bataille
Everything begun on the 28 November of 2011 in the aftermath
of the general elections. Having declared
himself the winner, the incumbent
president sworn in a few days later in
the military barracks. According to his main opponent, the 81 year old Etienne Tshisekedi, that proved enough that the run off
had been stolen. Joseph Kabila, the son of the late Laurent Kabila killed in 2011, had
to apply the law of force to these
elections considered marred by the Carter Center and the CNEI,
the catholic conference. So labeled,
the 2011 election remains even today a
national dispute issue and threats again
the volatile peace in this big country worn out by still raging skirmish back to 1997,
the year Mobutu Sese Seko relinquished power. |
| Dr E. Tshisekedi |
Joseph Kabila ,then in his late thirties or early forties, became in 2001, the youngest head of
State in the world. Despite his lack of legitimacy and fluency in French and Lingala- he was said to have
been born in Tanzania or Eastern Congo-,
turned out to be as much corrupt as his father, nothwistanding his
promising beginnings and youthfulness. Over
the years his tenure was clashing with the main figures of the Congolese opposition
among them Mr Vital Kamerte from the PPRD ( Parti du Peuple Pour la
Reconsruction et la Democratie) and Jean Pierre Bemba from the MLC ( Mouvement Pour la
Liberation du Congo)… but, his main rival
is still
Dr Etienne Tshisekedi, a kind of epic figure who epitomizes the history of Africa, back to these exciting
sixties, when the whole Africa were
dreaming of the sunny tomorrows and the
drums of happiness after a so long darkness.
Born and raised in
Kasai and very popular in the Katanga
and Kinshasa, Dr Tshisekedi had lived a live of hardships and martyr. He had
spent as much time in jail, arrest house and exile, but his experience and his
role in the independence years sound unique and colorful. Having dedicated his
life to politics, and smiled so much to death, he believes himself that his
mission is a kind of messiah like. “ I will fight to death … this is my last
fight” claims this man turning now the 80s after having buried not only Kasa
Vuvu and Patrice E. Lumumba, but also Mobuto SeSe Seko, whose he has been three times PM and Kimla
and his supporters he was told to have sent
to death in 1965.
This lively legend is
still in house arrest. But people from America and the Black Diaspora want to know more about him and the current situation in the former
Zaire. The wealthiest of the poor
countries OR THE POORER OF THE WEALTY COUNTRIES, Dr Tshisekedi says, need s
good governance and the rule of laws. Unfortunately, the RDC is ruled by the
goods to nothing. Mr. Kabila is confused by taking the crowd for the people... this people wants me as their president. So,
I am going until the end.”
In fact, ordinary people and famous at Nice or in Belgium
continue to protest against this “masquerade” as the founder of the UDPS ( in French: Union
pour la Democratie et le Proges social) called the 2011 elections with a bloody
aftermath. The UDPS candidate has
himself declared president. This situation is hanging over the RCD as the Damocles’ sword. Fighting has already resumed somewhere while
street violence in Kinshasa keep blackening the future of this country of 46 million
with so much diamond, cold and bauxite that living in the RDC is like sleeping
on wealth and honey.
M. Tshisekedi wants the Congolese people to have a better fate
and be the master of his future.
February 13, 2013
North Miami, Fl
February 13, 2013
North Miami, Fl
DR FRANTZ BATAILLE
A Miami -based medical doctor, Frantz Bataille is currently publishing his blog : globeadventureshorizons. while doing research on sunlight and its application in medicine.
Globeadventureshorizons.blogpost.com
