{"id":38815,"date":"2025-08-14T10:27:46","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T10:27:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/Gatumba-et-la-doctrine-d-extermination-38815\/"},"modified":"2025-08-14T10:26:53","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T10:26:53","slug":"Gatumba-et-la-doctrine-d-extermination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/Gatumba-et-la-doctrine-d-extermination\/","title":{"rendered":"Gatumba et la doctrine d\u2019extermination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cette doctrine d\u2019exclusion, loin de s\u2019\u00e9teindre, se voit r\u00e9guli\u00e8rement raviv\u00e9e et amplifi\u00e9e par des canaux de communication \u00e9tatiques, tant en R\u00e9publique d\u00e9mocratique du Congo qu\u2019au Burundi, o\u00f9 s\u2019installe et prosp\u00e8re un discours de haine savamment distill\u00e9. <\/p>\n<p>Par un lexique d\u00e9shumanisant, \u00ab cr\u00e9atures de Satan \u00bb, \u00ab \u00e9trangers \u00bb, \u00ab envahisseurs \u00bb ces rh\u00e9toriques meurtri\u00e8res pr\u00e9parent le terrain psychologique des crimes de masse, l\u00e9gitimant par avance l\u2019inacceptable.<\/p>\n<p>Les tutsi congolais, en particulier, demeurent l\u2019objet d\u2019une stigmatisation m\u00e9thodique qui s\u2019accompagne de pers\u00e9cutions syst\u00e9matiques : assassinats cibl\u00e9s, d\u00e9placements forc\u00e9s, privations de droits fondamentaux et marginalisation institutionnalis\u00e9e. Ces exactions, souvent commises au vu et au su de tous, b\u00e9n\u00e9ficient d\u2019une impunit\u00e9 quasi absolue, renforc\u00e9e par la complicit\u00e9 passive voire active de certaines autorit\u00e9s locales et nationales. Ainsi, le tissu social se trouve volontairement lac\u00e9r\u00e9, et la peur install\u00e9e comme mode de gouvernance.<\/p>\n<p>Or, face \u00e0 de telles trag\u00e9dies, l\u2019imp\u00e9ratif de la m\u00e9moire s\u2019impose comme un rempart contre l\u2019oubli, cet alli\u00e9 perfide des bourreaux. Se souvenir, c\u2019est refuser que les victimes soient rel\u00e9gu\u00e9es au silence des anonymes et que leurs souffrances soient effac\u00e9es par le cours impassible du temps. <\/p>\n<p>La m\u00e9moire, en ancrant les faits dans la conscience collective, conf\u00e8re aux g\u00e9n\u00e9rations futures une vigilance \u00e9clair\u00e9e ; elle transforme la douleur en le\u00e7on, l\u2019horreur en avertissement, et oppose \u00e0 la m\u00e9canique de la n\u00e9gation la persistance obstin\u00e9e de la v\u00e9rit\u00e9.<\/p>\n<p>Mais la m\u00e9moire seule, aussi noble soit-elle, demeure incompl\u00e8te sans la justice. Rendre justice, c\u2019est arracher les crimes \u00e0 l\u2019ombre de l\u2019impunit\u00e9 pour les placer sous la lumi\u00e8re inexorable du droit.<\/p>\n<p>C\u2019est restaurer la dignit\u00e9 des victimes en nommant les coupables, en sanctionnant les actes et en r\u00e9parant, autant que possible, les plaies inflig\u00e9es. La justice v\u00e9ritable ne se limite pas au ch\u00e2timent : elle r\u00e9tablit l\u2019\u00e9quilibre moral, r\u00e9affirme la primaut\u00e9 des droits humains et constitue, pour les soci\u00e9t\u00e9s meurtries, le socle indispensable \u00e0 toute r\u00e9conciliation authentique.<\/p>\n<p>Et pourtant, face \u00e0 cette adversit\u00e9 implacable, ces communaut\u00e9s manifestent une r\u00e9silience admirable, tissant dans l\u2019ombre les fils t\u00e9nus mais indestructibles de leur dignit\u00e9. Leur persistance \u00e0 vivre, \u00e0 pr\u00e9server leur identit\u00e9 et \u00e0 transmettre leur m\u00e9moire devient alors un acte de r\u00e9sistance silencieuse, mais \u00f4 combien \u00e9clatant, contre la m\u00e9canique de\u00a0l\u2019effacement.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-64581 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/fr.igihe.com\/IMG\/jpg\/bany-3.jpg\" alt=\"Les Banyamulenge vivant au Rwanda ont comm\u00e9mor\u00e9, ce 13 ao\u00fbt, leurs proches tu\u00e9s \u00e0 Gatumba, au Burundi, en 2004\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-64576 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/fr.igihe.com\/IMG\/jpg\/b6-6.jpg\" alt=\"Rutebuka Jules, pr\u00e9sident de la Coordination des Mutualit\u00e9s Banyamulenge, a accus\u00e9 le Burundi et la RDC de perp\u00e9tuer l\u2019id\u00e9ologie g\u00e9nocidaire\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-64575 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/fr.igihe.com\/IMG\/jpg\/b7-6.jpg\" alt=\"Les rescap\u00e9s de Gatumba, au Burundi, ont de nouveau r\u00e9clam\u00e9 justice\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-64577 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/fr.igihe.com\/IMG\/jpg\/b5-6.jpg\" alt=\"Israel Mbonyi (\u00e0 gauche), l\u2019Ap\u00f4tre Christophe Sebagabo et Prosper Nkomezi comptent parmi les participants \u00e0 la c\u00e9r\u00e9monie de comm\u00e9moration des 166 Banyamulenge tu\u00e9s \u00e0 Gatumba\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-64578 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/fr.igihe.com\/IMG\/jpg\/b4-10.jpg\" alt=\"La communaut\u00e9 banyamulenge a comm\u00e9mor\u00e9 pour la 21\u1d49 fois le massacre perp\u00e9tr\u00e9 au Burundi en 2004\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-64579 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/fr.igihe.com\/IMG\/jpg\/b3-14.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-64580 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/fr.igihe.com\/IMG\/jpg\/b2-14.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Le massacre de Gatumba ne saurait \u00eatre consid\u00e9r\u00e9 comme un fait isol\u00e9 ; il s\u2019inscrit dans la continuit\u00e9 d\u2019une id\u00e9ologie funeste qui, depuis des d\u00e9cennies, impr\u00e8gne les imaginaires politiques et sociaux de la r\u00e9gion des Grands Lacs, et qui vise avec une constance tragique les tutsi, les Banyamulenge et les Hema. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":488,"featured_media":4000064574,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7581],"tags":[7605],"byline":[9102],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-38815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ideologie","tag-homenews","byline-tite-gatabazi"],"bylines":[{"id":9102,"name":"Tite Gatabazi","slug":"tite-gatabazi","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":472}],"contributors":[{"id":9102,"name":"Tite Gatabazi","slug":"tite-gatabazi","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":472}],"featured_image":{"id":4000064574,"url":"https:\/\/fr-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/bany_cp-2.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/fr-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/bany_cp-2.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/fr-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/bany_cp-2.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/fr-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/bany_cp-2.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/fr-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/bany_cp-2.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/fr-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/bany_cp-2.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/488"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38815\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4000064574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38815"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=38815"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=38815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}