Physicians for Human Right, an American led rights organisation, has denounced a recent comment made by former Rwandan Defense Minister James Kabarebe on Congolese doctor and Nobel Laureate Denis Mukwege , labelling it as a threat made on the doctor's life.
Kabarebe was quoted on a Rwandan television channel saying that, Dr Mukwege was being used by some organisations to run a propoganda on the deaths of six million Congolese people when evidence of such atrocities did not exist.
The comment was made at a time when the doctor had raised serious concerns surrounding his safety and that of his family. Since July 2020, the doctor has been receiving death threats messages from anonymous sources, and there have been online campaigns to discredit his name.
According to Dr Mukwege threats to his life began after he once again called for the re-mapping of the United Nations report, which recognised the war and atrocities that took place in the Democratic Republic of Congo between 1993 and 2003, and asked for investigation and prosecutions of the perpetrators of the violence.
There have been countless reports, including that from the United Nations' panel of experts, accussing Rwanda of having played a major role in fuelling the long standing conflict in the eastern parts of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
James Kabarebe, as a senior Rwandan army officer, is said to have commanded various military offensives in Congo and ordered the massacre of innocent civilians.
The American human rights organisation has called on the United Nations mission in Congo to guarantee the protection of the doctor.
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