Just a week before the start of the Leopards’ training camp, Cédric Bakambu, who returns to the national team after a year’s absence, spoke out on the security situation in eastern DRC. Speaking to Spanish media outlet “El pais”, the Leopards star expressed his solidarity with his “compatriots” in Goma and Bukavu.
Without clearly condemn Rwanda, Cédric Bakambu did not spare France and its President Emmanuel Macron for its propensity for verbal condemnations without concrete action to force Kigali to withdraw its troops from Congolese territory.
“The French president can go out and make a speech saying that the situation cannot go on like this, but if there are no sanctions… What makes me angry is the hypocrisy of people who look the other way and say nothing,” he castigated.
The Betis striker recalled that the war in the DRC is now common knowledge, denouncing at the same time the carelessness of the international community.
“Everyone knows what’s going on and looks the other way when there are thousands of deaths [in the DRC]. It doesn’t matter to anyone as long as they have a cell phone. They don’t care where it comes from or how it happens,” he continued.
Very attached to the DRC despite being born in France, Bakambu frequently uses his aura to denounce the war in the DRC. “I’m not a politician, I’m just a footballer, and all I can do is make sure the whole world sees what’s going on, but there are well-proven facts that there are vested interests,” describes the player who has popularized a singular way of denouncing Rwandan aggression in the DRC on the soccer pitch. His celebration, with one hand covering his mouth and the other pointing to his temple, symbolizes the silence of the international community while people are being killed in his country.
“The hand on the temple represents death, and I’m doing this to say that they’re killing us through this war. And the problem is that nobody’s talking about it,” explains the second-highest scorer in the history of the national team, who made no secret of his “honor to be able to represent” the DRC.
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