{"id":14289,"date":"2016-04-13T06:47:40","date_gmt":"2016-04-13T06:47:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.acnmalta.org\/?p=14289"},"modified":"2016-04-13T06:47:40","modified_gmt":"2016-04-13T06:47:40","slug":"congo-priest-who-reported-atrocities-and-campaigned-for-human-rights-killed-by-gunmen-acn-malta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/2016\/04\/13\/congo-priest-who-reported-atrocities-and-campaigned-for-human-rights-killed-by-gunmen-acn-malta\/","title":{"rendered":"CONGO &#8211; Priest who reported atrocities and campaigned for human rights killed by gunmen &#8211; ACN Malta"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\"><\/style><h2><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>CONGO &#8211;\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Priest who reported atrocities and campaigned for human rights killed by gunmen<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A 51-year-old Congolese Catholic priest who documented human rights abuses in his home country was killed by armed militants in the North Kivu province of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Father Vincent Machozi Karunzu was visiting his family in the village of Katolu.<\/p>\n<p>Details of the priest\u2019s death were revealed on the human rights website Beni Lubero, which he had founded. Ten uniformed soldiers of the DRC\u2019s armed forces stormed a social center where Nande tribal chiefs were holding a meeting about peace efforts. The gunmen demanded to be taken to the priest and to Mwami Abdu Kalemire III, the leader of the Basho community.\u00a0 Fr Vincent was working on a laptop in the courtyard when they shot him. His last words were \u201cWhy are you killing?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fr Vincent worked in peace-building activities and documented human rights abuses and atrocities in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. Shortly before he was killed, he had posted an article online denouncing Congolese and Rwandan presidents\u2019 alleged involvement in massacres of innocent civilians. He accused\u00a0the local Hutu people of plotting with the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Congo to murder the local Nindu population.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Fr Vincent had survived at least seven previous attempts on his life and had spoken of his fears last October\u00a0 to Rev. Emmanuel Kahindo, the vicar general for the Assumptionist religious order: \u201cMy days are numbered. I will be murdered, I feel it [\u2026] but like Christ, for the sake of our people, I will not be silent,\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Timothy Longman, a Boston University science professor said his former colleague\u00a0\u00a0 Fr Vincent was only trying to tell the world about the killing in his country\u00a0 and who was responsible for these atrocities. . \u201cHe wasn\u2019t on any particular side.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dana Robert, a professor of world Christianity, praised Fr Vincent\u2019s work in documenting massacres and his role in \u201cgiving voice to the voiceless.\u201d Comparing him to others who had been killed for speaking out against injustice such as Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Romero or Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., she said \u201cWhen you do that, you become a target, and he did that knowing what the danger was\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Fr Vincent was one of thirteen children, some of whom died at birth, which is why his mother called him Machozi, \u201cson of tears.\u201d He joined the Assumptionists at the age of 17.and taught religion, chemistry and mathematics before taking final vows.<\/p>\n<p>Fr Vincent obtained a master\u2019s degree in theology at the Institut Catholique in Lille, France. He then moved to the U.S. in 2003 and later began dostudying for his doctorate in conflict management and peace processes in Africa at Boston University\u2019s Department of Theology . While he was in Boston, he worked with the Haitian community as a French-speaking priest.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em><strong> ACN Malta<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CONGO &#8211;\u00a0Priest who reported atrocities and campaigned for human rights killed by gunmen &nbsp; A 51-year-old Congolese Catholic priest who documented human rights abuses in his home country was killed by armed militants in the North Kivu province of the Democratic Republic of Congo. 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