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DRC / BENI VATICAN
STORY: DRC / BENI VATICAN
TRT: 02:39
SOURCE: MONUSCO
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: FRENCH / NATS
DATELINE: 30 AUGUST 2016, RWANGOMA VILLAGE, BENI, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO
1. Wide shot, Apostolic Nuncio, MONUSCO SRSG and delegates climbing stairs
2. Wide shot, convoy
3. Med shot, handshake with FARDC Commander in Rwangoma
4. Med shot, visitors walking through village
5. Med shot, Congolese army soldier keeping guard
6. Med shot, UN FIB soldier on guard
7. Close up, piece of cloth on the ground
8. Close up, machete in the grass
9. Med shot, Apostolic Nuncio reciting a prayer
10. SOUNDBITE (French) Monsignor Luis Mariano Montemayor, Apostolic Nuncio in the DRC:
"I thought I could not postpone this visit anymore, to show my solidarity with the victims, the most affected people, the people of Beni. I have just prayed for the victims, for reconciliation and for peace."
11. Various shots, destroyed houses
12. SOUNDBITE (French) Narcisse Kasereka, Rwangoma Resident:
"MONUSCO is here to protect the civilian population. And when things get to this level, it is not understandable and that is why we raised an alarm. MONUSCO has to protect us because MONUSCO is strong and we cannot be sacrificed like abandoned people. "
13. Various shots, abandoned houses
14. Close up shot, UN South African soldiers on guard
15. SOUNDBITE (French) Maman Sidikou, Special Representative for the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Head of the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO):
"Obviously for MONUSCO, speeches, compassion, they are not enough. I would like as chief of MONUSCO, to understand more and give instructions so that our first mandate, the protection of civilians, is not forgotten. Obviously this requires working very closely together with government. It is obvious that we must work with the FARDC in a very close manner and adopt a different strategy. We are counting dead people every two or three months, and this cannot continue."
17. Wide shot, visitors leaving the village
As Pope Francis denounced the violence committed in the North Kivu province of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the Apostolic Nuncio in that country today (31 Aug) visited Rwangoma Village, in Beni, scene of the latest massacre.
After offering a prayer for the victims “for reconciliation and for peace," Monsignor Luis Mariano Montemayor said "I could not postpone this visit anymore, to show my solidarity with the victims, the most affected people, the people of Beni.”
The 13 August violence, in which 51 people died, was allegedly perpetrated by armed elements belonging to the Ugandan rebels of the Alliance of Democratic Forces (ADF).
Local resident Narcisse Kasereka said the UN mission in the DRC (MONUSCO) “has to protect us because MONUSCO is strong and we cannot be sacrificed like abandoned people.”
The Head of MONUSCO, Maman Sambo Sidikou, said "speeches, compassion, they are not enough” and added that the mission must work with the Congolese armed forces (FARDC) “in a very close manner and adopt a different strategy.”
He said “we are counting dead people every two or three months, and this cannot continue."
In the past two years ago, more than 1,150 people have been killed and kidnapped in North Kivu, with thousands more displaced.
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