Archive for July 1st, 2009

You are in Mongolia… really?

Tamara Sanderson is a Kiva Fellow with Xacbank in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.

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My Run-in with the Congolese Police

By John Soleanicov, KF8 DRC

I could feel the beads of sweat rolling down my face.  Sitting in a makeshift police station under a tent, I was surrounded by three Congolese policemen and my accuser, a young man that could not have been past his mid twenties.  My crime: videotaping in public.

As I was returning from a group visit with Hope’s Kiva Coordinator, Robert, I wanted to capture the infrastructure realities of Kinshasa (more on this in a later post).  The young man noticed I was taping and began to follow our motorcycle.  You can actually hear him in the video.

Once we arrived at our destination, he made a big scandal, refusing to let us leave peacefully.  Since he was clearly not a police officer, Robert suggested going to a nearby police station to settle the matter “officially.”  Having heard horror stories of the notorious corruption of Congolese police, I feared the confiscation of my camera, passport, or worse.

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