RSF expressed its concern about the repeated attacks on press freedom in the region, and asked Ilunga to see to it that journalists are able to freely exercise their profession in territory which is under the RCD's control. According to the information collected by RSF, Kibel Bel'Oka was arrested on 25 May 2000 by RCD security officers, who also seized a computer and telephones.
Nobody knows where the journalist was taken.
He was accused of having stated in his newspaper that certain RCD members had robbed lands bordering Lake Kivu in order to resell them.