The Bodyguards of Zoé Kabila, one of the Raïs' younger brothers, savagely assault traffic cops in Kinshas

Radio Okapi reports this evening that Presidential Guards detached as
bodyguards to Zoé Kabila, one of the Raïs' younger brothers, savagely
assaulted traffic cops today at the Socimat Circle in downtown
Kinshasa.

There were no much details given about the incident in the Radio Okapi
report. But my guess is that Zoé Kabila, who has the reputation of
being bratty with a distorted sense of entitlement, wanted to go
through the traffic circle without bothering with the nuisance of
traffic rules and was prevented from doing so by highway cops who act
as traffic lights in a city that has virtually none.

The report also featured Jean-Claude Katende, the president of the
human rights group ASADHO, who voiced his outrage over the savage
beating of those traffic cops and the utter impunity of the
Presidential Guards. Katende also mocked the new so-called "Zero
Tolerance" policy of the government that never applies to the regime
stalwarts, dubbing it "Zero-effect Tolerance" policy--whatever that
means.

After the suspicious death last month of political activist Armand
Tungulu while in the custody of the Presidential Guards, this beating
of traffic cops by Zoé Kabila's bodyguards will further reinforce in
the eyes of many the roguish and brutal drift of the Kabila regime.

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