Via Radio Okapi: Butembo: civil society calls on armed groups to stop attacking Ebola Treatment Centers. The Google translation:
The coordination of the civil society of North Kivu and the forces of the city of Butembo and the territory of Lubero call on the armed groups to stop the attacks of the Ebola treatment centers and the personnel engaged in the response of this disease.
These civic structures launched this call Friday, March 29 in a statement issued from Butembo, the city considered as the current hotbed of the Ebola virus epidemic in North Kivu.
According to them, these attacks caused large-scale contamination of populations in the Beni, Butembo and Lubero regions.
"Ebola treatment center fire events, threats and popular resistance have caused large-scale contamination of people in the Beni and Lubero territories as well as in the cities of Beni and Butembo. These continual barbarities, perpetrated most often by malicious people, have added to the activities of the response and increased the number of cases. The coordination of North Kivu in collaboration with the coordinators of the civil society forces of Butembo and Lubero recommend to the population to abstain from the violence," recommends Georges Katsongo, general rapporteur of the civil society of North Kivu.
The civil society of North Kivu also appeals to all those who "claim to be members of the armed groups or their collaborators and who prevent the actions of the response on the ground from ceasing to unnecessarily expose innocent people under the pretext of their protection".
