{"id":4000085065,"date":"2026-08-18T12:15:56","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T10:15:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/?p=4000085065"},"modified":"2026-08-18T12:15:57","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T10:15:57","slug":"minembwe-bisimwa-affirme-vouloir-eviter-un-second-gatumba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/minembwe-bisimwa-affirme-vouloir-eviter-un-second-gatumba\/","title":{"rendered":"Minembwe : Bisimwa affirme vouloir \u00e9viter un \u00ab second Gatumba \u00bb"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Bisimwa s\u2019exprimait \u00e0 l\u2019occasion de la comm\u00e9moration du 22\u1d49 anniversaire du massacre de Gatumba, au cours duquel des r\u00e9fugi\u00e9s congolais, majoritairement Banyamulenge, avaient \u00e9t\u00e9 tu\u00e9s dans un camp situ\u00e9 pr\u00e8s de Bujumbura. Selon plusieurs sources, 166 personnes avaient \u00e9t\u00e9 tu\u00e9es et 106 autres bless\u00e9es lors de l\u2019attaque des 13 et 14 ao\u00fbt 2004.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dans son intervention, Bertrand Bisimwa a accus\u00e9 les forces gouvernementales congolaises et leurs alli\u00e9s, notamment les forces burundaises, les FDLR, les Wazalendo et des combattants \u00e9trangers, de faire peser une menace sur les populations de Minembwe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Selon lui, les op\u00e9rations de l\u2019AFC\/M23 dans cette partie du Sud-Kivu r\u00e9pondraient \u00e0 la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 de prot\u00e9ger les populations banyamulenge et d\u2019emp\u00eacher la r\u00e9p\u00e9tition des violences de Gatumba.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cette position reprend les accusations formul\u00e9es par Bisimwa en juin 2026 apr\u00e8s le bombardement signal\u00e9 de l\u2019h\u00f4pital g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de Minembwe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

L\u2019AFC\/M23 affirme que la protection des civils rel\u00e8ve de sa \u00ab responsabilit\u00e9 patriotique \u00bb, une position que Bertrand Bisimwa avait d\u00e9j\u00e0 d\u00e9fendue en mars 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00ab \u00c9viter un second Gatumba \u00bb<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Le massacre de Gatumba reste particuli\u00e8rement sensible pour la communaut\u00e9 banyamulenge. L\u2019attaque perp\u00e9tr\u00e9e par des combattants, dont plusieurs membres des Forces nationales de lib\u00e9ration (FNL), dans un camp de r\u00e9fugi\u00e9s \u00e0 Gatumba, dans l\u2019ouest du Burundi, avait fait au moins 152 morts parmi les civils congolais et 106 bless\u00e9s, selon Human Rights Watch. Les victimes \u00e9taient majoritairement banyamulenge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le bilan a, par la suite, \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9\u00e9valu\u00e9 \u00e0 166 victimes, chiffre retenu lors de plusieurs comm\u00e9morations et dans des rapports ult\u00e9rieurs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00c0 l\u2019occasion du 22\u1d49 anniversaire, plusieurs repr\u00e9sentants de la communaut\u00e9 banyamulenge ont renouvel\u00e9 leurs appels \u00e0 la reconnaissance du massacre et \u00e0 la justice pour les victimes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bisimwa affirme que l\u2019AFC\/M23 ne veut pas seulement d\u00e9noncer la situation s\u00e9curitaire \u00e0 Minembwe, mais entend maintenir ses forces sur le terrain afin d\u2019emp\u00eacher que la r\u00e9gion ne connaisse un \u00ab second Gatumba \u00bb.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il accuse ainsi les autorit\u00e9s de Kinshasa et leurs alli\u00e9s de faire peser une menace existentielle sur les Banyamulenge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La r\u00e9f\u00e9rence \u00e0 Gatumba intervient alors que Minembwe demeure l\u2019un des foyers de tensions dans les hauts plateaux du Sud-Kivu. L\u2019AFC\/M23, qui s\u2019est alli\u00e9e \u00e0 des groupes arm\u00e9s actifs dans cette r\u00e9gion, notamment Twirwaneho, affirme vouloir y assurer la s\u00e9curit\u00e9 des populations qu\u2019elle consid\u00e8re comme menac\u00e9es.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bertrand Bisimwa, affirme que les op\u00e9rations men\u00e9es par le mouvement dans la r\u00e9gion de Minembwe, visent notamment \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les Banyamulenge ne soient victimes d\u2019un massacre similaire \u00e0 celui de Gatumba<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Le vice-coordinateur de l\u2019AFC\/M23, Bertrand Bisimwa, affirme que les op\u00e9rations men\u00e9es par le mouvement dans la r\u00e9gion de Minembwe, dans le Sud-Kivu, visent notamment \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les Banyamulenge ne soient victimes d\u2019un massacre similaire \u00e0 celui de Gatumba, au Burundi, en 2004.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":452,"featured_media":4000085069,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7533],"tags":[7618],"byline":[7717],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-4000085065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-economie","tag-grandlacnews","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}],"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}],"featured_image":{"id":4000085069,"url":"https:\/\/cdn.igihe.com\/fr\/2026\/08\/BISS.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":1000,"height":583,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/cdn.igihe.com\/fr\/2026\/08\/BISS.jpg","width":1000,"height":583},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/cdn.igihe.com\/fr\/2026\/08\/BISS.jpg","width":1000,"height":583},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/cdn.igihe.com\/fr\/2026\/08\/BISS.jpg","width":1000,"height":583},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/cdn.igihe.com\/fr\/2026\/08\/BISS.jpg","width":1000,"height":583},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/cdn.igihe.com\/fr\/2026\/08\/BISS.jpg","width":1000,"height":583}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4000085065","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=4000085065"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4000085065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4000085088,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4000085065\/revisions\/4000085088"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4000085069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4000085065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4000085065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4000085065"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=4000085065"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=4000085065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}