### A shadow above the DRC: the mystery of Daniel Ngoy Mulunda
The portrait is striking: a man lying on a bed, surrounded by a blurred who leaves more questions than he provides answers. The recently broadcast video claims to show Daniel Ngoy Mulunda, the former president of the Independent National Electoral Commission. But what does it really mean? Who hides behind this blurred image? Is the reality so simple as a face on a screen? Or is he hiding a spectrum of anxiety and despair behind this alleged reinsurance?
### The vagueness of detention
Daniel Ngoy Mulunda is not a simple refugee. This pastor was at the head of a crucial institution for democracy in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). After being arrested and sentenced to three years in prison for vague accusations – incentive to tribal hatred, suffering from the interior security of the state – her fate took a tragic turn. His extradition to the DRC is surrounded by palpable anxiety, amplified by human rights organizations which denounce manifest violations of international law. He was kidnapped in December 2024 in Lusaka, even though he was recognized as a refugee. Who, in a world who self-proclaims human rights, can then justify such an action?
The climate of ambiguity surrounding the situation of Ngoy Mulunda is almost Kafkai. We are talking about secret dungeons, clandestine transport, unconfirmed dead … In the 21st century, the DRC seems to sail in an ocean of darkness that borders on the surrealist. Organizations like ASADHO and ANMDH call for transparency that should be the norm. Instead, silence is deafening. Can we really believe that a man, former president of such a vital organ, is reduced to a number in the shadow of Congolese prisons?
### between rumors and realities
The rumors of his death circulate, nourished by the blatant lack of official communication. Is it too cynical to wonder if the Congolese state does not prefer that it disappears in oblivion? The tendency to silence voices like that of Ngoy Mulunda is a distant echo of historical repression practices. In a society where dissent is often criminalized, where fear is cultivated as a weed, what is played out here goes beyond a simple individual story. Ngoy Mulunda becomes a symbol. His detention is a reflection of a system which, under a varnish of modernity, retains archaic and oppressive foundations.
And what about the deafening silences of international institutions? The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), supposed to be the guarantor of the rights of refugees, is found in a delicate position. Faced with such human rights violations, an inaction could compromise its global credibility. Could such weakness encourage other states to ignore their commitments to international law? Dodging the responsibility here would be a terrifying previous.
### The right to uncertainty
Thus, the quest for precise information on the state of health and the place of detention of Ngoy Mulunda raises much larger questions. What does the right to information really mean in such a troubled context? The request for access to family and lawyers, purely legal in theory, seems to be a glimmer of hope here in the midst of overwhelming darkness. However, what about the rights of the populations as a whole under a moving, unstable regime?
The case of Ngoy Mulunda recalls with palpable anxiety the Nuremberg court and the post-war trials, where the international community has awakened in the face of atrocities too long ignored. Could it be that a quarter of a century after the atrocities of the Rwandan genocide, history is repeated before our eyes, with only the actors who change?
### A call for action
To those who have the voice, those of NGOs or committed individuals, do not forget Ngoy Mulunda, is also to act against oblivion. The expectations of these civil society organizations, their requests for transparency and responsibility, must sound as a call for collective awakening. In a world in perpetual movement, which can afford to forget a man, even watched through the blurred lenses of a video of anxiety?
History, complex and woven with nuances, is not yet written. The fate of Daniel Ngoy Mulunda could well be the revealing of an era, a tragedy that escapes memory but calls for justice. Who will get up to shed light on the shadow that power seems to want to erase?