CAR / WEAPONS HANDOVER

Former members of the Central African Republic’s PK5 self-defence groups symbolically handed over their weapons in the presence of the Minister of Disarmament, Demobilization, Reintegration and Repatriation (DDRR), during a launching ceremony for the fourth phase of the Community Violence Reduction (CVR) programme in Bangui. MINUSCA

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:02:36
• Production Date: 26 October 2020
• Asset Language: English
• Corporate Name: UNITED NATIONS MULTIDIMENSIONAL INTEGRATED STABILIZATION MISSION IN CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC - MINUSCA
• Subject Topical: DISARMAMENT; PEACE AGREEMENTS; PEACEKEEPING OPERATIONS; WEAPONS SURRENDER
• Geographic Subject: CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC
• MAMS Id: 2575836
• Parent Id: 2575836
• Alternate Title: unifeed201026g

Description

STORY: CAR / WEAPONS HANDOVER
TRT: 02:42
SOURCE: UNIFEED / MINUSCA
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: FRENCH / SANGO / NATS

DATELINE: 22 OCTOBER 22, BANGUI, CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC (CAR)

Shotlist

1. Wide shot, Mohamed Rahama, Spokesperson of the PK5 vigilante groups, hands over a gun to Maxime Mokom, Minister-in-Charge of DDRR
2. Wide shot, leaders and public assisting the ceremony
3. Close up, Mokom
4. Wide shot, display of surrendered weapons
5. Wide shot, MINUSCA military
6. SOUNDBITE (Sango) Mohamed Rahama, Spokesperson PK5 Vigilante Groups:
"We are now stopping the firing of weapons. We believe in it. We want peace to return to the Central African Republic. Thank you.”
7. SOUNDBITE (French) Maxime Mokom, Minister-in-Charge of DDRR:
“We are all delighted today to see our brothers and sisters of PK5 taking
the initiative to come voluntarily to hand over their arms and thus definitively turn the page on community-based violence.”
8. Various shots, display of surrendered weapons
9. Wide shot, leaders of vigilante groups Mokom and MINUSCA representative
10. SOUNDBITE (Sango) Mohamed Rahama, Spokesperson PK5 Vigilante Groups:
"We had the will to lay down our arms a long time ago. First, we started building social cohesion with a fellow ex Anti Balaka. And here is the second phase. We have already laid down a few weapons. It means that we are truly on the path to peace.”
11. Wide shot, MINUSCA military
12. Various shot, Pk5 vigilante groups leaders
13. SOUNDBITE (French) Pierre Emmanuel Ubalijoro, Chief of DDRR, United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA):
"I am delighted with this symbolic deposit of arms today. It shows that there is really a dedication to go towards peace in the community of PK5. And on behalf of the MINUSCA, of the hierarchy of MINUSCA, I congratulate you and encourage you to move forward.”
14. Wide shot, display of surrendered weapons
15. Med shot, participants
16. Wide shot, registration of surrendered weapons.

Storyline

Former members of the Central African Republic’s PK5 self-defence groups symbolically handed over their weapons in the presence of the Minister of Disarmament, Demobilization, Reintegration and Repatriation (DDRR), during a launching ceremony for the fourth phase of the Community Violence Reduction (CVR), programme, Thursday (22 Oct) in Bangui.

PK5 spokesperson Mohamed Rahama said, "we are now stopping the firing of weapons. We believe in it. We want peace to return to the Central African Republic.”

The Minister-in-Charge of DDRR, Maxime Mokom, said, “we are all delighted today to see our brothers and sisters of PK 5 taking the initiative to come voluntarily to hand over their arms and thus definitively turn the page on community-based violence.”

A total of 14 weapons of war, a homemade weapon, four rockets and shells, and 104 ammunitions, were symbolically handed over by the 14 former self-defence groups of Pk5 and members of the community of the 3rd arrondissement.
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Rahama said, “we had the will to lay down our arms a long time ago. First, we started building social cohesion with a fellow ex Anti Balaka. And here is the second phase. We have already laid down a few weapons. It means that we are truly on the path to peace.”

The United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA) Chief of DDRR, Pierre Emmanuel Ubalijoro, said, “I am delighted with this symbolic deposit of arms today. It shows that there is really a dedication to go towards peace in the community of PK 5. And on behalf of the MINUSCA, of the hierarchy of MINUSCA, I congratulate you and encourage you to move forward.”

MINUSCA, through its program to reduce community violence, known as CVR, supported the Central African government in the pacification of PK5, a predominantly Muslim neighbourhood of Bangui, long subjected to the action of armed groups that present themselves under the name of self-defence groups.