Via Radio Okapi: Murder of WHO doctor in Butembo: civil society calls for public hearings. "Civil society" means local government. Excerpt from the Google translation:
The civil society of North Kivu called Friday, April 26th, for the public hearings of eleven alleged perpetrators of the assassination seven days ago in Butembo of Dr. Richard Mouzokou expert of the World Health Organization (WHO ). He was working on the response to the Ebola outbreak in that city.
According to its vice president, Edgard Mateso, the suspects arrested by the military court at the operational military court of North Kivu must also be held in a secure place to avoid their flight.
"Civil society in North Kivu welcomes the action of the Beni-based Military Operational Court, which has captured 11 alleged perpetrators of the murder of Dr. Richard Mouzokou, a WHO expert," he said.
The Armed Forces of the DRC (FARDC) announced on Wednesday, April 24, the arrest by the military justice of 11 alleged perpetrators of the armed attack against clinics of the Catholic University of Graben (UCG) that led to the death the Cameroonian epidemiologist deployed by WHO, Dr. Richard Mouzoko Kibound.
Civil society would also like the public hearings to be organized as quickly as possible in Butembo, so that the members of the teams of the response, the whole population know the reasons for this murder.
"Our wish would be to see these criminals kept in secure prisons so that tomorrow or the day after tomorrow we can not learn that they have escaped," said Edgard Mateso.
