Dani Valls, Amnesty International campaigner, blogging about international action on DRC
DRC demo in London ©Amnesty International
I came back from the demonstration in front of Mr. Brown’s office, at 10 Downing Street in London, in a good mood and with a utopian sense of hope.
There was a mix of powerful energy, clear demands, clocks, banners and a crowd of around 150 people backing up the demands that heads of the different organizations present and a Congolese youth activist made to the Prime Minister.
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Dani Valls, Amnesty International campaigner, blogging about international action on DRC
I read that a journalist from UN-sponsored Radio Okapi was killed by unknown assailants in the Democratic Republic of Congo last Friday. He was my age, 34. He left a wife and three children.
And I hear the stories of children, forced to leave their homes to join some of the rebel armed groups, the silence from women and girls raped during the looting. More killings. Many which will never make it to the news.
I’m glad to see all the mobilizations happening in support of the people of the Democratic Republic of Congo in different cities of the world this week.
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