Lettre à sa Majesté Omusinga Charles Whesley Mumbere Irema-Ngoma w’Obusinga bwa Rwenzururu
Objet: Absence de la Communauté Yira de la République Démocratique du Congo à la célébration du 47 ième anniversaire
Sa Majesté,
Nous, Communauté Yira de la République Démocratique du Congo, avons l’insigne honneur de vous remercier de votre invitation aux cérémonies marquant le 47ième anniversaire du Royaume de Rwenzururu en date du 19 octobre 2013. Cependant le Kyaghanda Yira ne sera pas de la partie à cause d’un conflit d’agenda.
En effet, le 19 octobre 2013 sera aussi la date de la première commémoration du kidnapping de trois Yira prêtres assomptionnistes qui étaient enlevés nuitamment le 19 octobre 2012 de leur presbytère de la Paroisse Catholique de Mbau, Territoire de Beni, par des ravisseurs supposés être des terroristes ougandais ADF/NALU. A l’heure qu’il est, plus de 800 Yira y compris nos trois prêtres assomptionnistes ont déjà été enlevés et emportés vers une destination inconnue.
De la bouche des gens qui se présentent comme des rescapés de camps de concentration tenus par des terroristes ougandais ADF/NALU, nous apprenons que les otages femmes servent d’esclaves sexuels, les otages masculins seraient soumis à des travaux forces dans le domaine minier et du bois, que tous les otages seraient soumis à un constant lavage de cerveau sur la nature du conflit congolais, l’histoire et la géographie de la R.D. Congo ; et que les terroristes ougandais ADF/NALU seraient aussi des trafiquants d’organes humains prélevés sur les cadavres de leurs victimes et que parfois ils prenaient plaisir de manger la chair humaine de leurs otages.
Les membres du Kyaghanda Yira qui prenaient part aux ceremonies marquant le 46 ième anniversaire de votre Royaume n’en reviennent pas quand ils s’imaginent que pendant qu’ils étaient à la fête à Kasese le 19 octobre 2012, leurs prêtres assomptionnistes étaient en train d’être enlevés à Mbau. C’est pourquoi ils ont décidé de participer aux activités commémoratives du premier anniversaire de ce triste événement, lesquelles activités seront organisées à Mbau par la Congrégation des Peres assomptionnistes, le Diocèse de Butembo-Beni, et la communauté Yira dans l’ensemble.
Our request is that you will take the opportunity of the 47th anniversary to call to mind of our Ugandans brothers and sisters the terrible fate of the 800 kidnapped Yira including innocent the three priests, and do what you can to intercede on our behalf for their liberation. As you know, your President Kaguta Yoweri Museveni is known as the backbone of the ADF/NALU and the M23 negative foransces that, as of today, continue to kill Yira, kidnap others, put on fire entire villages and force their inhabitants to flee and scatter in bushes. We believe that your call upon your president leadership in the liberation of our Yira brothers and sisters taken hostages by his supported negative forces may be of good avail and make a big difference. This move on your side will without doubt enforce and strengthen our friendship and cultural exchanges for the benefit of the whole region.
His Majesty, In the name of the Yira community of the D.R. Congo, we are glad to wish you a very pleasant 47th anniversary of the Businga of the Rwenzururu Kingdom.
Fait à Butembo, le 09 Octobre 2013
Edgar Katembo Mateso Fr. Vincent Machozi, a.a.
General Secretary of the Kyaghanda President of the Kyaghanda Yira
Kyaghanda Yira Butembo, October 9, 2013
Open letter to his Majesty Charles Whesley Mumbere Irema-Ngoma of Rwenzururu Kingdom
Object: Absence of the Kyaghanda Yira to the 47th anniversary celebration
His Majesty,
The Yira community of the Democratic Republic of Congo was very happy to receive your kind invitation to the 47th anniversary celebration of the enthronization of the Rwenzururu Kings that will take place on October 19, 2013. Unfortunately, this year, we cannot attend this celebration because of a conflicting agenda, namely, the 1st commemoration of the kidnapping of 3 Yira priests by the Uganda-backed negative forces called ADF/NALU.
In fact, as you may know, on October 19, 2012, while we were celebrating with you in Kasese the 46th anniversary of the enthronization in the Rwenzururu Kingdom, three yira assumptionnists priests were kidnapped at the rectory of the Catholic Parish of Mbau, in Beni territory, North-Kivu Province. As of today, more than 800 other Yira have been kidnapped in the same area and we know nothing about their real fate. Some people who pretend to have escaped from the hands of these outlawed Ugandans have said that the hostages are held in some kinds of concentration camps where women captives are taken as sexual slaves and men subjected to torture, brain washing about the Congo conflict, force labor in the mining sector and the wood ( timber) exploitation, etc. From these same reports, we learn that these outlawed Ugandans are dealers of human organs trafficking, organs they take from their killed captives, and that they even take pleasure in eating human flesh.
The date of October 19, 2013, day of the 47ther anniversary of the enthronization in the Rwenzururu Kingdom, corresponds unfortunately with the 1st commemoration of the sad kidnapping of our three assumptionnists priests. On this occasion the Yira community of the D.R.Congo, together with the Diocese of Butembo-Beni and the Religious Congregation of the Assumptionnists Fathers, are organizing many activities on which the Kyaghanda Yira cannot afford to be absent. It is because of this conflicting agenda, that the Kyaghanda Yira will not attend the 47th anniversary in Kasese. It will only be with you in spirit on this important day in the Rwenzururu Kingdom.
Our request is that you will take the opportunity of the 47th anniversary to call to the mind of our Ugandan brothers and sisters the terrible fate of the 800 kidnapped Yira including the three priests, and do what you can to intercede on our behalf for their liberation. As you know, your President Kaguta Yoweri Museveni is known as one of the backbones of the ADF/NALU and the M23 negative forces that, as of today, continue to kill innocent Yira, kidnap others, put on fire entire villages and force their inhabitants to flee and scatter in bushes. We believe that your call upon your president leadership in the liberation of our Yira brothers and sisters taken hostages by his supported negative forces may be of good avail and make a big difference. This move on your side will, without any doubt, enforce and strengthen our friendship and cultural exchanges for the benefit of the whole region.
His Majesty, In the name of the Yira community of the D.R. Congo, we are glad to wish you a very pleasant 47th anniversary of the Businga of the Rwenzururu Kingdom.
Edgar Katembo Mateso Fr. Vincent Machozi, a.a.
General Secretary of the Kyaghanda President of the Kyaghanda Yira
