Patrick Masengo Kalasa, a longstanding advocate for Katangese rights, has vanished under suspicious circumstances, with fears growing for his safety as some suspect he was detained by the ANR.
Masengo, who headed the Alliance de Forces Populaires de Katanga, consistently highlighted the misappropriation of mining revenues by corrupt officials in Kinshasa, arguing that the local population remained impoverished despite the region's wealth.
The Agence Nationale de Renseignements (ANR), Congo's intelligence service, has a notorious reputation for suppressing dissent and has been implicated in human rights violations, including the harassment of human rights defenders.
Enforced disappearance is regarded as a crime against humanity by the United Nations, with Masengo’s suspected detention raising alarms about the treatment of activists in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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