In the DRC, demonstrations to demand the departure of the United Nations Mission have followed one another since Monday July 25 in several towns in the east of the country: Goma, Beni, Butembo, Nyamilima, Sake, Uvira. They left 19 dead, including 16 demonstrators and three members of Monusco, a blue helmet and two police officers. Among the demonstrators, four were electrocuted in Uvira, South Kivu, as they headed for Monusco HQ. The controversy grows on the origin of this accident.
What could have caused the fall of an electric cable? on the demonstrators who were heading towards the HQ of Monusco in Uvira? A ballistic analysis would doubtless make it possible to know it.
Without waiting for the investigations promised by both the Congolese authorities, the United Nations and the governor of South Kivu, the government spokesman, Patrick Muyaya, told Reuters that the fatal accident was due to a shooting summons from UN soldiers, who allegedly hit an electric pole: “ The blue helmets fired in the air and the shots hit an electric pole and a cable was torn and unfortunately people were electrocuted. Which caused four deaths. »
This Wednesday, other sources declared that it was the FARDC, the Congolese armed forces, also present around the UN base, which were at the origin of the shots in the air having severed the electric cable.
For the moment, Monusco deplores that ” four people (are) unfortunately dead electrocuted by a SNEL cable, near the Pakistani base of the UN, in Uvira “.
Separately, this Thursday, gunshots were heard today at a base of the United Nations Mission in Beni, North Kivu province, as anti-blue helmet protesters tried to approach it. . They would have been quickly dispersed.