{"id":4000084999,"date":"2026-08-17T12:27:54","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T10:27:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/?p=4000084999"},"modified":"2026-08-17T12:27:55","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T10:27:55","slug":"gatumba-yolande-makolo-accuse-kinshasa-dinstrumentaliser-la-memoire-des-victimes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/gatumba-yolande-makolo-accuse-kinshasa-dinstrumentaliser-la-memoire-des-victimes\/","title":{"rendered":"Gatumba : Yolande Makolo accuse Kinshasa d\u2019instrumentaliser la m\u00e9moire des victimes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Dans une d\u00e9claration publi\u00e9e ce dimanche 16 ao\u00fbt 2026 sur X, Makolo r\u00e9agissait aux propos du porte-parole du gouvernement congolais et ministre de la Communication et des M\u00e9dias, Patrick Muyaya, qui a soutenu que \u00ab les Banyamulenge ne sont pas les \u201cRwandais du Congo\u201d, mais des Congolais, au m\u00eame titre que toutes les autres communaut\u00e9s de notre pays \u00bb.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cette d\u00e9claration de Muyaya intervenait alors que les Banyamulenge comm\u00e9moraient actuellement le 22e anniversaire du massacre survenu \u00e0 Gatumba, au Burundi, en 2004, qui avait fait plus de 150 victimes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Makolo a reproch\u00e9 \u00e0 Muyaya de transformer la comm\u00e9moration des victimes en une plateforme de \u00ab propagande anti-rwandaise \u00bb.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00ab Les Banyamulenge massacr\u00e9s en 2004 par les alli\u00e9s burundais de la RDC \u00e9taient des Congolais. Leur m\u00e9moire ne doit pas servir d\u2019instrument politique \u00e0 Kinshasa, pas plus qu\u2019elle ne doit \u00eatre pr\u00e9texte \u00e0 une indignation s\u00e9lective \u00bb, a-t-elle indiqu\u00e9.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Elle a \u00e9galement d\u00e9nonc\u00e9 le fait que les FDLR soutenues par Kinshasa et d\u2019autres groupes issus des forces g\u00e9nocidaires continuent d\u2019op\u00e9rer en toute impunit\u00e9 sur le sol congolais, en violation de l\u2019Accord de paix de Washington.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Plus de 150 morts \u00e0 Gatumba<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Le massacre de Gatumba s\u2019est produit le 13 ao\u00fbt 2004 dans un camp de r\u00e9fugi\u00e9s situ\u00e9 pr\u00e8s de la fronti\u00e8re entre le Burundi et la RDC. Plus de 150 r\u00e9fugi\u00e9s congolais, majoritairement des Banyamulenge, avaient \u00e9t\u00e9 tu\u00e9s et plus de 100 autres bless\u00e9s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

L\u2019attaque avait \u00e9t\u00e9 attribu\u00e9e aux Forces nationales de lib\u00e9ration (FNL), un mouvement rebelle burundais majoritairement hutu. Le groupe avait initialement revendiqu\u00e9 l\u2019attaque, avant qu\u2019un de ses anciens dirigeants ne d\u00e9mente ult\u00e9rieurement cette revendication.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le r\u00f4le de certaines forces burundaises et l\u2019\u00e9ventuelle implication de combattants congolais ont \u00e9galement fait l\u2019objet d\u2019interrogations et d\u2019appels \u00e0 des enqu\u00eates approfondies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vingt-deux ans apr\u00e8s les faits, les survivants et les familles des victimes continuent de r\u00e9clamer justice et l\u2019\u00e9tablissement des responsabilit\u00e9s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2024, des survivants et des proches des victimes avaient relanc\u00e9 les d\u00e9marches judiciaires contre des personnes soup\u00e7onn\u00e9es d\u2019implication dans le massacre. Des \u00e9l\u00e9ments li\u00e9s \u00e0 ces affaires avaient \u00e9galement \u00e9t\u00e9 transmis \u00e0 la Cour p\u00e9nale internationale (CPI).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dans sa d\u00e9claration, Yolande Makolo a enfin accus\u00e9 Kinshasa de chercher \u00e0 d\u00e9tourner l\u2019attention des causes de l\u2019ins\u00e9curit\u00e9 dans l\u2019est de la RDC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00ab Occulter ou d\u00e9tourner d\u00e9lib\u00e9r\u00e9ment l\u2019attention des v\u00e9ritables sources d\u2019ins\u00e9curit\u00e9 dans l\u2019est de la RDC constitue le c\u0153ur m\u00eame de cette \u201cinstrumentalisation\u201d \u00bb, a conclu la porte-parole du gouvernement rwandais.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Yolande Makolo, a accus\u00e9 la RDC d\u2019instrumentaliser la comm\u00e9moration du massacre de Gatumba de 2004 \u00e0 des fins de propagande anti-rwandaise<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

La porte-parole du gouvernement rwandais, Yolande Makolo, a accus\u00e9 la R\u00e9publique d\u00e9mocratique du Congo (RDC) d\u2019instrumentaliser la comm\u00e9moration du massacre de Gatumba de 2004 \u00e0 des fins de propagande anti-rwandaise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":452,"featured_media":4000085000,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"archived_slugs":[],"footnotes":"","igh_game_id":0},"categories":[7529],"tags":[9962,7600],"byline":[7717],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-4000084999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-actualite-3","tag-editors-choice","tag-highlights-home","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":7717,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","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":393,"twitter_handle":""}],"contributors":[{"id":7717,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","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":393,"twitter_handle":""}],"featured_image":{"id":4000085000,"url":"https:\/\/cdn.igihe.com\/fr\/2026\/08\/MAK-CP.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":800,"height":534,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/cdn.igihe.com\/fr\/2026\/08\/MAK-CP.jpg","width":800,"height":534},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/cdn.igihe.com\/fr\/2026\/08\/MAK-CP.jpg","width":800,"height":534},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/cdn.igihe.com\/fr\/2026\/08\/MAK-CP.jpg","width":800,"height":534},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/cdn.igihe.com\/fr\/2026\/08\/MAK-CP.jpg","width":800,"height":534},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/cdn.igihe.com\/fr\/2026\/08\/MAK-CP.jpg","width":800,"height":534}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4000084999","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\/452"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4000084999"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4000084999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4000085002,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4000084999\/revisions\/4000085002"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4000085000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4000084999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4000084999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4000084999"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=4000084999"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=4000084999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}