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Refugees from the Democratic Republic of Congo construct makeshift shelters at a refugee camp at Bunagana near Kisoro town 521km (312 miles) southwest of Uganda capital Kampala, May 15, 2012. (James Akena/Courtesy Reuters)
The UN office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) reports that internally displaced people (IDP) in Congo-Kinshasa numbers more than two million, as of March 31. That is up from 1.7 million IDPs at the end of December. Most of this increase is in the two eastern provinces of North and South Kivu. The UN Stabilization Mission in Congo (MONUSCO) is stepping up efforts to protect civilians, especially in North Kivu, in the aftermath of a mutiny led by Bosco Ntaganda. Ntaganda is a Tutsi warlord whose forces had been incompletely incorporated into the regular Congolese army as part of a deal between Kinshasa and Kigali. MONUSCO refers to “significant” displacement of civilians and refugee flows into Uganda and Rwanda.
Luis Moreno-Ocampo, Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) is seeking new charges against Ntaganda for war crimes.
BBC reports cite UN sources of Rwandan involvement in training fighters engaged in the civil strife in eastern Congo, presumably associated with Ntaganda and the Tutsis. This has resulted in a blistering denial by Rwanda’s foreign minister, who is bitterly critical of MONUSCO. She said, “This billion-dollar-a-year operation makes up one quarter of the UN’s entire peacekeeping budget, and yet it has been a failure from day one…MONUSCO has become a destabilizing influence, primarily concerned with keeping hold of its bloated budgets and justifying its ongoing existence.”
A useful analysis published by Pretoria’s Institute for Security Studies (ISS) recalls the role of armed groups associated with the Tutsis and the Hutus and the complex relations between the governments of Joseph Kabila in Kinshasa and Paul Kagame in Kigali. It was Kigali, ISS argues, that appointed Ntaganda as the head of the Congrès National pour la Défense du Peuple (CNDP) that supports the Tutsis, especially against the Forces Démocratiques de Libération du Rwanda (FDLR), a Hutu group associated with the Rwanda genocide. It is apparently Ntganda’s CNDP that has mutinied.
The Rwandan genocide still casts a long shadow, and the people of eastern Congo continue to pay the price.
“The Rwandan Genocide still casts a long shadow and the people of eastern Congo continue to pay the price’
When the author of this article uses these words, he knows perfectly what he wants to send out as message, though in a veiled style: Since Kagame provoked and used the Rwandan genocide as an alibi to take power in Rwanda and attack DRC, poor eastern Congolese continue to be massacred on pretext of fighting fdlr.
It is proven tody that FDLR is totally desintegrated, almost nonexistent. But it is also certified and proven that the most FLDR groups operating in DRC are the Kagame-Kabila armed fractions in order to control the rich eastern DRC mineral resources, lands and administration, occupy the territory and accelerate its balkanization from the rest of Congolese main land. some international key countries and figures, business leaders as well as politicians have abaissed themselves to the rank of Kagame-Kabila vassals in exchange for business favor and brivery, by supporting these monsters in their madness.
When kagame was last at the CFR, from which emanates this article, he was asked to explain why Rwanda cannot help stop the rebel fractions in eastern Congo and why Mai Mai were fighting. The modern Hitler, who arrogantly continue to benefit of the support of some American, Jews and British corporations, responded so vaguely and so irrationally that, I bet, the audience remained more on its hunger for the truth about war in eastern Congo.
The CFR has the ARP Memorandum to the UNSC, in which this Congolese coalition for change, expose simply and in clear words the direct involvement of Kabila Joseph and Kagame in the eastern Congo untold Genocide and crimes against humanity. ARP confirms that DRC is occupied and there is a balkanization plan being carried out on the ground by the dangerous Kagame-Kabila machine of death, the Tutsi and Hutu extremists and their backing powers.
We have said it: those who continue to support Kagame and Kabila in order to finish eastern congo occupation and accelerate its balkanization, will have to assume their own irrational moves against the people of DRC and their country and against their business interests in this power hub of strategic natural resources.
But those who play the early bird card against the genocide, denounce it, help us bring kagame and Kabila to justice for crime against humanity and genocide in the great Lakes Region and in DRC, to those, we guarantee our long term and mutually profitable partnership.
in this fight, Congolese, Rwandan and others, we will work together in harmony and integrative manner. Rudasingwa, former Chief of Staff of Paul Kagame, Victoire Ingabire and others could carry the flag for a real rebirth of a reconciled Rwanda respectful of its giant sleeping neighbor.
NB. ARP is a Congolese strategic alliance of Military, politicians and civil society members, who are determined to end the misery of DRC people by forcing out the Genocidal and predatory DRC Regime of impostor President, Joseph kabila.
The coalition is headed by a former DRC Army chief of Staff, General Faustin Munene, one of the very rare sincere, visionnary and flexible officers in DRC, whom, unfortunately, some key international partners and business leaders do not want to discover, along with his core strategic team, and really support, in order to end once and for all the Kagame-kabila Genocide, madness and nonsense in Great Lakes Region.
Only mean people suck, while great people swallow!
Daniel Mamba
skype: cafida.group
Missionaries and missionary workers are a blessing to the whole world, I wish poeple would give them more credit for the work they do. Great post thank you.