Communiqué against the black African genocide and position on the assassination of Moïse Kabamgabe

We believe this communiqué is without the illusion that it will be the last manifesto against the black African genocide in Latin America. The commitment CLACSO Working Group Bodies, Territories, ResistancesAs we reaffirm in our collective constructions, we are fighting for life and looking forward to strategies and ancestral existences, rather than the colonial tempo, which continues and persists.

For this reason, we collectively see and together with the words of two African students from UNILAB Campus Malês, manifest and make public an assassinated death due to anti-black racism in Brazil: the assassination of Moses Kabamgabe, occurred last week, in a kiosk where he worked, in Barra da Tijuca, Rio de Janeiro.

Moïse was a young Congolese man of 24 years old, who even demanded his payment for the days of work at the kiosk, was brutally murdered by three men, with the audience of other people who passed by the local and did not intervene in the situation. Only now, after a week of his assassination, the official authorities and a large part of the press began to disseminate his death, in many cases, in a disrespectful manner, adding words that suggest reasons and justifications for his assassination.  

We understand that it is a communication through the CLACSO networks, and also an invitation to the theoretical body committed to urgent social changes, impossible to be raised daily without an anti-racist stance from all, so that we no longer treat the African black genocide and two original peoples, as simple themes of investigation, but we must take responsibility for acting in all the spaces of life, against the assassinations, silencing and violent actions that occur, more and more in the families and communities of black Africans, throughout the entire continent and the world-system. Além disso, this communiqué is soma as ações mobilized by multiple sectors of the Black Movement of Brazil and the world, in solidarity and as a call to rethink in the absence of action in the face of the daily advance of two assassinations and two shutdowns of strategies against colonies in progress.

We share below the manifesto of the Association of Students and Friends of Africa (ASEA), in relation to the assassination of Moïse. We enclose this statement, informing that on February 5, national and international mobilizations of visibility of more this robbery of black African life in the world will occur. This statement is also a call to reposition our theoretical and practical actions, in the face of the multiple genocides in progress.

February 8th 2022
CLACSO Working Group
Bodies, territories, resistances

ANNEXED
NOTE OF REPUDIO FROM THE ASSOCIAÇÃO DE ESTUDANTES E AMIGOS DA AFRICA (ASEA) – São Francisco do Conde, Bahia, Brazil.

Foi por meio das media sociais eda imprensa que sadmente chegou a conhecimento da Associação de Estudantes e Amigos da África (ASEA) o episódio do bárbaro assassinato do Moïse Mugenyi Kabagambe, Congolese residing in Rio de Janeiro when, on January 24, 2022, he was brutally and supremely deprived of these conditions – to enjoy his life.

The incident occurred in two kiosks in Barra da Tijuca, Rio de Janeiro, when the victim was trying to collect earnings from labor activities provided to the establishment.

In a recurring and very regrettable way, this episode enters our memories as another case of serious violation of the human rights of migrant people residing in Brazil, highlighting the socio-racial profile that has been historical victims of these types of violence.

Embora existam international normative tables and national laws for meio dos quais or Brazil has assumed commitments to guarantee two rights of refugees – vide Convention relative to the Statute of Refugees of the Organization of the United Nations/1961 to its own Migration Law/2017 – episodes of this type still constitute Permanent protections to the full joy of protection that Moïse Mugenyi Kabagambe searched for and finally found in Brazil.

I aim for full and equal integration of communities and human values ​​between our essential pillars, we reiterate:

1. A condemnation veemente ao ato que ruu a vida de Moïse Kabagambe;
2. In our voices we appeal to the authorities for justice. Both nationally and internationally, providing legal and fair family protection;
3. We offer our solidarity to all Congolese communities residing in Brazil, with deep wishes of regret and demands for justice for the families.
4. We remembrance and encourage the need of every society to participate without immediate and incessant change in all forms and motivations of discrimination, seeking better and more human coexistence between people. São Francisco do Conde – Bahia, February 2022.

This statement expresses the position of the Working Group Bodies, territories and resistances and not necessarily that of the centers and institutions that make up the CLACSO international network, its Steering Committee or its Executive Secretariat.