 Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. My name is Orin Koibofumbo and I am the president of the Congolese community of men and We are here to March for the killings that are happening in Congo We are here to break the silence our brothers and sisters are dying there And this is why we are here. I'm gonna pass the mic to all of our members So they can tell you how much we are crying why the international opinion is staying in silence We are tired enough is enough people are being killed as chickens as Goats and it must stop. This is why we are here today This is why we are marching you going to hear from our fellow members Why these things are happening and there is a silence? Thank you. So I do have here the Henry which is a Public relations is going to say a word about the March of today Henry. What are you thinking about it? My friend? Thank you for asking me that question. I think we're all here It's because of what is happening in our country as you can see on those pictures right there People are dying our family that being killed and then the rest of the world are not even saying a word about it We've seen what is happening in other countries and they always focus on so where are all those international? Channel TV CNN folks all those news station. They're not even talking about it This is the serious issue. They're gonna wait until the whole country is gone And then they're gonna regret about it. This is the time to stop this killing. That's all I have It's so sad that the rest of the world are not even thinking about Africa It looks like the whole they only care about some mineral what is getting from our country Congo We want them to do something about our country We want them to do whatever they can do to stop to prevent something like this to continue That's all I have to say. Thank you. Thank you. We do have pasta bean who is among us He decided not to stay at home, but he's here with us and pasta bean. I know you do have something to say about That day that we are gathering today We are here because we are wounded Our fellow citizen are being destroyed killed like animals Life is a gift from God Nobody has a right to take a life from somebody We are talking to you brothers You we can stand as a citizen of this world to plead for this case How young Peeky that killed how ladies are wrapped houses are being burned school destroyed hospitals and Medical personnel are being destroyed killed and burned who's gonna speak for us I ask you my brothers and sister to join us and stand and let this What is going on in our country to stop God bless you as we we ask this Please help us to stop what is going on right now Absolutely, it must stop. It must stop and my brother. I know that you are angry For what's happening there? I know I'm going to let you speak Hi, so my name is Danny and I'm from Congo and I decided today today together with my brothers and sisters to stand up and Rise a voice about what's going on in our country Because what's happening there is just like a genocide and I know that the United States is Against such thing happening in the world and this is the opportunity we're giving to you people so that you can join us and Say a word about what's going on. We want this massacre to stop Eastern part of the Congo is the part of the world. So you cannot just stay silent In front of what's happening. We cannot let these people Continue to kill and and and and and do whatever they want with our fellow citizen That's why we decided today to join our forces and and rise a voice to say that this massacre should stop. Thank you Thank you. Thank you This is you can see what's happening there and this is not good at all So I'm going to ask a question in French and then I'm going to translate in English Bandico situation is also matters. That was a say to tell me how I Yes, it's a pass. Why why people must die like that? Why? There is a silence Are we chickens? Are we goats? That people are coming to destroy us like that Why do we have to die like that? I'm going to pass the word to someone here And someone will say to me my brother say something My name is Bartel Emile Boulas. I come from Congo. I am originally from Congo So his name is Bartel Emile Boulas. He's from Congo originally from Congo Yeah, I wanted to talk about About the country of Congo is our country about what is happening in Congo In any case, we are very affected with what we have lived like we kill the children The people like animals. In any case, we want to ask the law of man We see as if the law of man does not exist in the world The countries are trying to please the years of the years but now there are so many millions who are trying to die every day every day But we do not see the law of man. Where is the law of man? We are in the United States There is the law of man. We want the problem here is that the law of man The law of man who can look at these problems. If they do not look at it, we do not know how we can deal with the situation We ask, we cry every day. It's not because we are in the United States that we are calm, we are in peace Like we go to our brothers, they are massacred, they are murdered in our country In any case, we cannot be at ease in these countries, even though we are in the States, we are not at peace We want the United States to look at the situation here that is happening in our country We cry every day, every night. In any case, it is the millions of millions who are trying to die in Congo In any case, the United States can look at the situation here I would like to thank you that everyone can take the responsibility of these situations at the world level We say people, we are crying there in Congo. Children have been killed United Nations, they came. Where are you? We need you there. Do something We are tired of those killings. And even though we know that the brother is saying that we have the human rights here in America Please do something. Go and investigate. Go and investigate Do something. We cannot continue like that. We are here in America, but our brothers and sisters, our families, they are there They are dying just like that. And we are feeling the pain. We are mourning. We need something to happen I'm going to ask another fellow who has something to say One second, the ladies Good evening. My name is Patricia Katunda. I am the charge of women, family and women So this is my mom Patricia Katunda, she is in charge of the ladies and families in the community I am especially interested in the United Nations I don't know if the rights of men exist for the Congolese If the United Nations sees what is happening in our country There are a lot of people who die every day, children who know nothing, who know absolutely nothing They are victims, they are massacred, they rape the mother, they torture, they kill every day here Is the United Nations not aware of what is happening in our country? What justice is done? Give us our beautiful country I don't know what I can say, but do something about the future of our country Who is in danger We are going to exterminate all the population If you please, if you please help us We cry every day We are not calm because the family is staying there You can wake up and say we have massacred your family, your father, your mother, your brothers and sisters You are left alone If you please, Nation Zinni, enough is enough, stop, please help us Yes, enough is enough as you can hear Our mothers, our sisters are being raped What's happening there? United Nations, please go there And bring some peace there, bring peace in our beautiful country We need you to do something, I know the brother will say a word I'm going to just say the little one has something as well to do Obama, help us, we have a problem in our country Help us It's asking the President Obama to help us, we do have a situation of trouble in our country Say please Obama, help us, can you please repeat again Obama, help us, we have a problem in our country, help us save our country Obama, help us, we do have a problem in our country, help us save our country, please Another one And this is David Musingela I'm going to speak a little bit about what is happening in our country So you have to look at it Not only follow the interests, but also follow the humanism That is to say, to have the essence of humanity Not only the Congolese, but all the Africans who are trying to die here We are here and we are ready to contest all those who are trying to get out of there It's really inhumane, inhumane We beg you to have the sense of the man Because we believe that there is a right of the man, the UN exists And that the UN can eventually look at what is happening in the Congo So we as the Congolese, unlike the Democratic Republic of the Congo There are tuaries, there are already participants, we are the tuaries So you have to do investigations to know and to stop to stop what is happening there That is the reason for our declaration So we insist on what you can look at Yes, to summarize, human rights Human rights, we need to do something about it Because people are dying there We are tired to see, to hear that we are dying there So otherwise, the board of directors, the coordinator will say something too You have seen the images, the tragedy, the genocide Above us, but your silence is guilty Your silence is suspect You saw the pictures, you heard on the news They're killing people But your silence is guilty And are the silences guilty? That means you are guilty, you're saying nothing, your silence is guilty Yes, I'm a Congolese man I just want to call your attention to what you are seeing here What you are seeing here, it's not something that we want No, we could have time to do other things that we could do But we came here to manifest, to show our disagreement with what is going on in our country Democratic Republic of Congo is a biggest country in Africa It's in the center of Africa When there is peace in DRC, there will be peace everywhere in Africa So we are calling your attention to tell you that we need peace in our country If you are friends of peace, just help us to get peace in our country We are tired, we are fed up We don't have time to run again, to talk again about what is going on in our country We are ready, we are doing, we are showing up all these actions to tell you that we are fed up And who wants to help us can come along with us And the one that can step aside will understand that is guilty And is taking part of what is going on in our country We call your attention, so we would like you to come with us So that all of us, we can get the price of peace that Congolese people want Thank you My name is Stephanie Trice-Gill, I'm here as a representative of the Board of Directors of the Main Association for New Americans, MANA And also as a citizen of the world, standing in solidarity with the people of the Congo and the victims of Ben-Ni It is a shame to have the international community be so quiet when protests are raised for other countries, European countries Let's also raise them for the deaths of African citizens and for the citizens of the RDC, DRC And this is an atrocity, when we stand up against atrocities we have to stand up against all atrocities equally And this is an atrocity where the international community has been silent We need to raise our voices in protest when one community is massacred, when one community is attacked, we are all attacked Human rights are at risk, we need to stand together in solidarity with the victims and the families of Ben-Ni Thank you, we are going to finish this side, thank you We are here for the peace, some have abandoned everything to come here And some are citizens, it's for the peace, it's not for the car, it's not for the houses, it's not for the food And in the end, it stops And why do we need to use one individual or some individuals to kill the compatriots? No, I think it's too much and you have to have only the images and the images speak I think it's too much So many are leaving the country and coming here, they're even becoming citizens It's not for getting cars or houses or jobs, it's because of the troubles that are happening there Some are being used to kill others, it must stop We thank you, we are going to start our march right now And please, if you know you need our minerals, don't kill people Do not kill, we thank you and we are going to meet again And we also know about other things, but we thank you We are kicking off our march right now, thank you very much Listen now, we have to stop killing Hongolies, we are not animals Tabilla Assasin Tabilla Cribs Assasin Tabilla