Statement by RADHOSKI on the 2nd anniversarty of

the assassination of Pascal Kabungulu

31^st July 2005-31^st July 2007 makes two years, day after day, since the leading human rights defender Pascal Kabungulu was gunned down at his home in Bukavu. The trial that began some months following the murder was astonishingly interrupted on December 12^th, 2005. Up to now it has never resumed.

RADHOSKI (Platform of human rights organisations in South Kivu here by advocates that:

·         The trial on the murder of Pascal kabungulu resumes and that local authorities provide sufficient means to carry it out.

·         All suspects involved in the murder of Pascal Kabungulu be kept in custody until the end of the trial. It is surprising to see some of them walking freely in the streets of Bukavu. Some more others escaped from the prison .

·         The government works out a protection plan for human rights defenders and journalists.  

·         The trial on the murder of the journalist Serge Maheshe be fairly carried out avoiding mistakes done in Pascal Kabungulu’s trial.

·         The local government designate a location to be set a monument for Pascal Kabungulu.

Bukavu 31 july 2007

Human Rights Defenders Organizations