Cablegate: Sitrep 16: Appeal From Civil Society for International

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P 221317Z AUG 06
FM AMEMBASSY KINSHASA
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 4651
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UNCLAS KINSHASA 001331

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SENSITIVE
SIPDIS

E.O.12958: N/A
TAGS: PGOV ASEC CASC KPKO CG
SUBJECT: SITREP 16: APPEAL FROM CIVIL SOCIETY FOR INTERNATIONAL
COMMUNITY NOT TO DISENGAGE

REF: A) KINSHASA 1329 and previous

Sensitive but unclassified. Not for internet distribution.

1. (SBU) The Executive Secretary of Civil Society/Forces Vives, who
is also the president of the civil servants' trade union, Mr.
Naupess Kibiswa, called PAO at 10:15 GMT. He "begged" that the
international community not start evacuating people from the DRC as
a result of the fighting. To do so, he said, would panic the
general population.

2. (SBU) Kibiswa added that he was distressed that some television
stations in Kinshasa (for example, Mirador and Digital Congo) were
showing macabre images of the fighting. Kibiswa said he had been in
touch with all Civil Society's provincial coordinators to instruct
that they do what they can to discourage any demonstrations for or
against either of the belligerents in the provinces.

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