THEME OF THE CONFERENCE:

FOR PEACE AND DEVEVELOPPEMENT = DISARM NOW.


ADDRESS OF SIR Isidore Kashiba TO 62TH UNITED NATIONS CONFERENCE IN MEXICO City (Mexico) September 09, 2009.




Ladies and gentlemen,

First of all, I beg you to stand and observe a minute's silence in memory of girls and women worldwide and, through them, those of the Democratic Republic of Congo who are raped, traumatized and sometimes buried live ... Please, sit.



Mr. Secretary General of the UN

Mr Representative of the Peace Action International

Madam Chief, Division of the Department of Public Information United Nations,

Ladies and gentlemen, delegates (es) of various non-governmental

Excellent Heads of diplomatic corps, representatives of Heads of States and Governments,

Ladies and gentlemen,

Distinguished (es) guests (es).


We come from different backgrounds to discuss not only the absence of peace in the world, also and especially to find ways and means for genuine peace and sustainable in a healthy environment and unarmed. Like their counterparts in other countries, girls and women of the Democratic Republic of the Congo aspire to that and still believed possible. Their eyes are fixed on their ears and we await with hope the slightest noise from this session.


Please accept, in my humble voice, the warm greetings of girls and women of the Democratic Republic of Congo. They hope that the resolutions that emerge from this conference will not only wishful thinking.


Ladies and gentlemen,

For more than twelve (12) years I am dedicated to serving girls and women raped. I'm doing this because my personal struggle and the leitmotif of my perseverance. My commitment to the welfare of girls and women victims of various abuses, is such that 24 hours per day are not enough to work. That is why , I work 25 to 24 hours.


Thank you for giving me this opportunity to share the tears and suffering of women and girls in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.



Mr. Secretary General of the UN

Mr Representative of the Peace Action International

Madam Chief, Division of the Department of Public Information United Nations,

Gentlemen, ladies delegates (es) of various non-governmental

Excellencies Heads of Diplomatic Corps, representatives of Heads of States and Governments,

Ladies and gentlemen,

Distinguished (es) guests (es).



Before treating a patient, any good physician should first seek to know what the patient suffers. Once diagnosis established, it will then prescribe the appropriate treatment to eliminate the cause of the disease.

The same goes for war and the proliferation of weapons in the world. To establish a true and lasting peace in the world, it is not enough just to condemn war and proclaim peace, we must fight and eliminate the root causes of these wars.


Since the dawn of independence, the DRC is ravaged by wars initiated and carried out by Western powers. My country is today a very sick man suffering from excruciating pain, and at whose bedside the so-called International Community administers from time to time, analgesics, without worrying about putting a definitive end to the causes that generate such pain. It is open secret that during the past twelve years, the DRC is the victim of wars of aggression carried out by major Western powers, under cover of Rwanda. And everyone knows that it is still and always women and children who pay the highest price: violent rape, mutilation of genitalia, unwanted pregnancies, sexually transmitted diseases, childbirth in harsh conditions and unhygienic , widow, family separation, sexual slaves. When not trapped, they are refugees in their own country. As children, they are conscripted into the army of occupation or in the militia and are used without compensation in the mining of gold, cassiterite, columbite-tantalite (coltan), diamond and other precious minerals. To date, the eastern the Democratic Republic of Congo is emptied of its population.



It would be wrong for the part of this distinguished gathering to talk about peace, development and disarmament without finding out why the war that rages in the world.


Ladies and gentlemen,

Allow me to say above, what many here think the bottom: from Leopold II, King of the Belgians, the Congo and Congo are victims of greed because of enormous riches that abound the basement and the ground of their beloved countries. To take ownership of these assets cheaply or even free, the vultures of mining companies and other Western countries have not hesitated to destabilize the young republic just eleven (11) days after its independence, by making the secession of Katanga province, followed by that of Kasai, causing the army mutiny in assassinating Prime Minister Patrice Emery Lumumba, causing unrest and civil wars throughout the country, putting in power by a coup or a sham election, a docile pawn to further their interests at the expense of the people, etc.. ... That's the plain truth. Even the invasion of Congo by Rwanda, Uganda and Burundi to the Balkanization refers only to its mineral and vegetable, and its territory.


If you believe the statistics and report International Rescue Committee (IRC), More than 6 million people died of this devastating war and its consequences.


If we really want peace, we must end the hypocrisy and the greed of multinational.




Mr. Secretary General of the UN

Mr Representative of the action of international peace,

Madam Chief of Division of the Department of Public Information United Nations,

Gentlemen, ladies delegates (es) of various non-governmental

Different members of the diplomatic corps, representatives of Heads of States and Governments,

Ladies and gentlemen,

Distinguished (es) guests (es).



When a woman is raped repeatedly by 4, 5, 6, 7 people, you will agree with me that rapists do not satisfy a sexual desire. In addition, to humiliate the woman is raped in public in front of family, children and neighbors. Finally, rape is used as a weapon to depopulate the great Congo after being raped, the woman is obliged to remove his legs to undergo genital mutilation. This abominable strategy to destroy an entire community, will destroy not only the woman physically and psychologically, but the whole family and society. A raped woman is abandoned by her husband, family and community. Nobody wants it because they think she was infected with HIV.


In the DRC, it became very dangerous to an unborn daughter for fear of being a woman and end up in the east of the country a day because it is not uncommon for a knife, pieces of wood, glass , rusty nails, or sand are introduced into the vagina. Often, these are guns that are introduced while they receive a shot in the genitals.


Moreover, women raped and mutilated, was unable to control his urine and feces. She exudes an odor so foul and unbearable. Not only is it abandoned, but she is pushed and rejected by her community.

Rapists sow terror and desolation wherever they are and where they go. They have weapons like rifles, machetes, hou ....

Rape is their greatest weapon through which people are forced to sell their land. A strategy to destabilize communities and to force them to flee and take refuge elsewhere.

They engrossent together to perpetuate their race, they infect others with HIV / AIDS with the aim to exterminate the peoples they hold the farmers' fields and make the rural business with almost zero results in greater poverty populations. They kidnap women and sell them elsewhere to destabilize families.


This is an overview of the plight faced by girls and women in eastern Congo.

What have they done to deserve this fate? The only crime that these girls and women have committed is to be born in a rich country and they do not even enjoy these riches.


What will happen to these children who have seen their mothers suffer such abuse and their father murdered horribly? We believe today to supervise the children so they do not become tomorrow outsiders?


The impunity of the rapists is such that women victims of rape can not complain because not only do they fear reprisals but also person or institution will never come to their rescue. Being forced to be silent and without any resources, they are candidates for prostitution in neighboring villages.


Mr. Secretary General,


The Democratic Republic of Congo is a stable vultures, Zimbabwe, Angola, Namibia, Sudan, Libya, Central African Republic and Chad are in Congo on behalf of the government. As for invading there Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda not to mention their countless followers. A strange war, fought over by foreign allies that the military government.


In addition, elements of the UN Mission in Congo (MONUC) that are responsible for maintaining peace, unfortunately, many of them are counted among the rapists of girls and women in the Democratic Republic of Congo.


Before the war, women were the center of the household. These targeted attacks are strategic. Those who attack women, know that it is the social fabric of the Congo is destroyed. Despite the level of violence, the highest in the world, there is still no appropriate response to protect women and girls in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Of all crimes, sex crimes are among the most atrocious, especially when they occur in wartime. The horror is then pushed to transform the body target, objectives of war. Are not isolated cases, these atrocities committed against girls and women, suggest that orders were given in this regard by the military hierarchy, and then take a totally different dimension, reaching the qualifying war crimes or crimes against humanity.

The banality of these abuses, which echoes the impunity enjoyed during their sponsors, in fact, had disastrous consequences in society, where rape has become a common behavior.

In the prosecution of rape, domestic courts have shown throughout their failures, whether gunmen or civilians. Whether in terms of acceptance of complaints in the judicial treatment that follows, or alternatively in the monitor of the few convictions obtained: nothing seems to be intended to help victims.

Although both statutes have been adopted against sexual violence, they are hardly enforced.

When these sexual assaults are treated as crimes, and when national courts are deemed so defective, the International Criminal Court (ICC) is expected to then take over. But the ICC prosecutor, he was able to obtain the extradition of Thomas Lubanga and Jean Pierre Bemba, why not get these sex offenders?

Physically, morally, these victims of sexual crimes, never find serenity with immense inner strength. For many of them, the only way to survive is to seek justice. That's why I fight like a wounded animal, I organize myself as best I could, I show (now evangelist of the bad news), I continue to put pressure on the authorities of the Democratic Republic of Congo so that these women raped obtain justice and compensation.

We must pay tribute to all those women, and all NGOs in the field who support and fight for these abuses are known and judged. All those activists who are also supporting these traumatized victims and injured, affected by HIV and other STDs, or who still work with people to raise awareness of the horror of these crimes.

You need support, you too, and to this end I am launching today the call for general mobilization of the international community to eradicate sex crimes in DR Congo.


Mr. Secretary General,

Distinguished guests,

Regarding the Democratic Republic of Congo, we must simply seek to establish an independent judiciary in power, a judicial system with the mastery of acting on all Congolese and foreign, military and civilian officials of the MONUC and other rebels who committed these crimes.


Whether this year or, finally, that of justice, and therefore the return of peace to all girls and women of the Democratic Republic of Congo.




Thank you,





Delivered in Mexico City (Mexico), 09 September 2009.

Speech to 18 hours 5 minutes (time IS DRC).



Isidore Kashiba,

Specialist Studies and International Women's Rights,

Advocate for women.

President Director of the World Solidarity for Africa

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