The Midwest Federation of UDPS supports regional efforts to bring about an immediate ceasefire, to resolve the conflict peacefully, and to set up a framework for a lasting peace in Congo according to the resolutions of the National Sovereign Conference for which the blood of our people and of our many comrades has been shed as a supreme sacrifice for the revival of our country. On Sunday August 9, Day of the Assumption, I addressed a pastoral letter to you in which I asked all of you to defend at all costs our country the Democratic Republic of Congo and its integrity. I protested vigorously against the unjust aggression of which we were objects. Same Sunday August 9, I opened a novena of prayers for all the parishes of our archdiocese of Kinshasa. I also drew your attention to the great command of love and the respect for the human life.
Human life is sacred and nobody has the right to remove it.
Now the situation of the country is becoming increasingly confused with contradictory and alarming news in certain parts of the country. We must continue to defend at all cost our country, its integrity and its people. To defend the fatherland is a sacred duty which we cannot escape. It is therefore necessary that the military and civil autorites continue to take the necessary measures to bring peace to the country and safeguard its territorial integrity. While defending the integrity of our country and doing everything to keep the enemy out, we cannot let ourselves be dominated by the feelings of hatred and revenge against the Rwandan and Ugandan people in general and in particular against those who have lived in our country for many years.