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Congolese community calls on PM to act to end DRCongo violence

(21 Nov 2008) SHOTLIST ++NIGHT SHOTS++ 1. Wide of protest 2. Mid of protest, banner reading (English) "UK stop selling guns to Kunda" 3. Protesters marching UPSOUND: "Yes we can, this is Congo." 4. Close of policeman walking near motorcycle, protest in background 5. SOUNDBITE: (English) No name given, protester, vox pop: "We want British government out of Congo, American people out of Congo, Zimbabwe out of Congo, Rwanda, Belgium, French people out of Congo. Leave Congo alone for Congolese people to resolve their problems." 6. Police walking in front of protesters 7. Mid of woman protesting 8. SOUNDBITE: (English) No name given, protester, vox pop: "We don't want the Vatican, we don't want Christianity coming to interfere in our culture. They're killing Congolese culture and you're taking the side of the Rwandese because you think they are your cousins. Gordon Brown knows what it's about, George Bush knows what it's about but the children will pay for what they're doing for the Congo." 9. Back shot of protest 10. SOUNDBITE: (English) No name given, protester, vox pop: "They are raping women, they are raping our mothers, our grandmothers, our daughters, there are killings, guns coming from western countries. They are doing double standard politics. What they are doing is not good." 11. Wide of protest 12. SOUNDBITE: (English) No name given, protester, vox pop: "There are almost 60 million Congolese in the country and almost 10 percent of the population died in this war since 1996. What the UK government is saying, what the international community is saying, all of them are involved in those massacres, all those killings, all the suffering of children, the suffering of women, suffering of political opposition. All these people have been suffering for long. Now we want freedom." 13. Close up of lit candle 14. Zoom in on "Save The Congo" group chairman Vava Tampa walking to number 10 Downing Street, residence of British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, to hand in petition 15. Mid of Tampa handing in petition to guard. 16. SOUNDBITE: (English) Vava Tampa, chairman of Save the Congo group: "We cannot wait for another month or two months until the UN deploys the 3,000 peacekeeping force which they have approved yesterday. So the Prime Minister needs to take serious actions. This is the time that the Prime Minister needs to show proper leadership as he has shown recently on the financial crisis. He needs to take serious steps, he needs to act now, act boldly and act decisively. We need to start naming and shaming those responsible." 17. SOUNDBITE: (English) Vava Tampa, chairman of Save the Congo group: "If we do not, if the Prime Minister does not show leadership on this issue, then the Congo soon will witness the same violence and the same evil that swamped Rwanda in 1994." 18. Various of protest STORYLINE Some 100 members of the Congolese community in Britain staged a protest on Friday in London against escalating violence in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. The protest, organised by student group Save The Congo, took demonstrators from Marylebone to the Rwandan embassy and then to Prime Minister Gordon Brown's residence at Downing street where a petition was handed calling for decisive action to help end the conflict. Chairman of the group Vava Tampa told reporters that the petition, signed by more than 3,000 people, asked Brown and the UK government "to act now, act boldly and act decisively" to stop the conflict or else DR Congo soon "will witness the same violence and the same evil that swamped Rwanda in 1994." Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...