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MEMORANDUM FROM THE CONGOLESE COMMUNITY RESIDING IN THE UNITED KINGDOM ON THE OCCASION OF THE MARCH WHICH TOOK PLACE IN MANCHESTER TODAY SATURDAY 8 NOVEMBER 2008 TO PROTEST AGAINST THE BALKANISATION OF THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO

By demonstrating today the Congolese people, those of us who live in Great Britain, those who live in our home country and others scattered throughout the world wish to proclaim before the eyes of all peace-loving and justice-promoting nations and peoples our unanimous disapproval and condemnation of the plot to dismember the Democratic Republic of Congo our homeland. The latest evidence of the acceleration of this plot is of course the seizure of the areas close to Goma in North Kivu by Nkundabatware’s CNDP ( Conseil National pour la Defense du Peuple ) and his intended declaration of independence for Kivu by regrouping three of the provinces in the East of the country.

We maintain that it is the common will of all our people to live together, and that , according to the principle of the Charter of African Union concerning the inviolability of the borders inherited from colonisation, the Democratic Republic of Congo is , and must remain one and indivisible.

We would like to hope that with the advent of the new President of the United States of America, Mr Barak Obama, the imperialist powers and their pawns in the region of the African Great Lakes will be forced to re-examine their aims with regard to the DRC. We call on President Obama to strive to concretise his campaign speeches and dare to believe that he will change America and . the world. For, if the day after his election, the allies of the United States ( the countries of the European Union ) expect a development of equal relationships between partners, Russia, like the other emerging countries, wants to see the end of the American conception of a unipolar world, the Congolese, for their part, expect the immediate cessation of the plotting by the aforementioned powers and their henchmen in the region( Museveni in Uganda, Kagame in Rwanda,the Kabila-Nkundabatware mercenaries and others in the Congo) thus allowing the Congolese people to enjoy their natural and legitimate right to utilise their inheritance as they wish, choose for themselves,freely and without interference their own rulers, just like other nations, and focus on their socio-economic development..

Our demands are as follows:

1. Cessation of all conspiracies to balkanise the DRC

2. Recognition of the perpetration of genocide against the Congolese people.

3. Institution of a tribunal to investigate the genocide and other crimes committed in the DRC

4. International conference on the Congo.

5. International obligation to repatriate Rwandan refugees,whether they like it or not.

6. Repair of all damage inflicted on the Congo

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