JK 🇧🇯🇨🇩

The only legacy the people of the DRC will remember from the man who went from selling pizza to becoming president is a trail of death, destruction, and suffering. This woman lies helpless in Kibabi Hospital after being shot in the shoulder by men armed, funded, and deployed to terrorize civilians. Her story is not unique. It is one of countless tragedies happening every day while the world looks away. We will continue to document every victim, every wounded civilian, every grieving family, and every destroyed home until action is taken. We will continue until organizations that claim to defend human rights stop relying on narratives written in Kinshasa and start listening to the real victims lying in hospital beds, buried in mass graves, or fleeing bombardments with nothing but the clothes on their backs. The greatest tragedy is not only the violence itself. It is the silence that surrounds it. Under the watch of the international community, civilians are bombed, villages are attacked. Yet far too many foreign actors seem more interested in the minerals beneath the soil than the human beings living on it. That is what appears in their reports no single day the international community hold Kinshasa accountable. To those who continue to support, or ignore kinshasa crimes, hear this: the people being killed are not mining, they do not own factories that process minerals, they are not political actors. They are farmers who want to cultivate their fields in peace. They are herders who want to raise their cattle in peace. They are mothers, fathers, and children who simply want to live. History will ask a difficult question: how did the world end up siding with the very man responsible for the suffering of his own people? And when that question is asked, silence will not be an acceptable answer.