Congo-Kinshasa: Fall of DRC Rebels - One Small Step
7 November 2013 , By Tichaona Zindoga, Source: The Herald
THE assassination of Patrice Lumumba, Zaire's first elected leader in
1960, ranks as one of the worst cases of western involvement in
Africa, and in particular this troubled country, now Democratic
Republic of Congo.
It reeks and rankles; and DRC remains to this date a tragic embodiment
of the instability in what is known as the Great Lakes region of
Central Africa.
Lumumba's assassination was connivance among such countries as
Belgium, Britain and notoriously the USA whose then president Dwight D
Eisenhower engineered the plot carried out by the CIA.
Instability in DRC has led to millions of deaths while an equal number
has fled their homes. The fall of rebels in DRC this week may yet call
for a guarded reason to celebrate. It is but a small step in securing
peace, as other fundamentals must change.
The first reason is simply that the spectre of western influence in
DRC and the region has simply not gone away; it has only retreated.
While the DRC government, the Sadc regional force and the UN mission
could pat their backs for having defeated the M23 rebels after a
20-month attrition war, there is one reality that they have to face.
The rains started beating on the rebels when the US and Britain
ordered that Rwanda stop sponsoring rebels. Rwanda, a government led
by minority Tutsi ethnic people, has been backing Tutsi rebels in the
DRC. It is said Tutsis want some Tutsi republic in Central Africa.
Last year, United Nations identified Rwanda Defence Minister, General
James Kabarebe, as the commanding officer of a major rebel movement in
the DRC, indicating that president Paul Kagame and his government are
behind much of the instability in the Sadc member state.
Sadc leaders were unhappy with Rwanda for the same. Uganda was also
fingered in supporting the rebels by supplying M23 with arms.
The order for freezing rebel support which Rwanda and Uganda have
accepted - grudgingly and gracefully, respectively - if the recent
Sadc meeting is anything to go by appears to have been the decisive
factor in the DRC. And the peace depends on the game plan of Rwanda
and its backers.
Some of us are not in the know, at the moment. But there is something
rather worrying in the relationship between the US so entrenched in
its interests in the region, and Kagame who one sees as always keen to
cause havoc in the region, maybe to satiate his power hunger.
One may discount the fact that the United States has said it welcomes
M23's laying down arms, and DRC government's "positive response to the
M23 statement, and its willingness to return to Kampala to sign a
final agreement."
It is understood that Kagame is a favourite of US, and in particular
Susan Rice, Secretary of State.
Jennifer Fierberg, a US social worker and commentator working on peace
and justice issues in Africa with an emphasis on the crisis in Rwanda
and throughout the central region of Africa offers some unsettling
perspectives in US-Rwanda relations. Kagame is a lapdog ally of the
US, and gets away with murder.
She writes, "The assassinations of three Presidents in the Central
African region are linked to President Paul Kagame which includes
President Juvenal Habyarimana of Rwanda, President Cyprien Ntaryamira
of Burundi and President Laurent Desire Kabila of DR Congo.
"How can three sitting presidents be killed in cold blood with no
international outcry, investigation or justice for these murders? For
a person to get away with murder they would have to have friends in
very high political places who are covering up those crimes or are
complicit in them."
She notes that the relationship of President Paul Kagame with his US
and UK supporters goes back to when the RPF was still a rebel group
being formed in Uganda. It stems in part to sympathy of the minority
Tutsis who were massacred. But Fierberg also cites researcher and
Human Rights Watch Researcher Alison Des Forges as having documented
the many crimes of Paul Kagame.
Then comes the special relationship of Susan Rice and Kagame.
Says Fierberg: "Rice has a long history of supporting Paul Kagame in
various ways. From the Clinton administration on the National Security
Council and as Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs during
President Bill Clinton's second term."
Even the New York Times is wary of the Rice-Kagame axis.
Last December, when Rice was still US ambassador to the UN, NYT wrote:
"Support for Mr Kagame and the Rwandan government has been a matter of
American foreign policy since he led the Tutsi-dominated Rwandan
Patriotic Front to victory over the incumbent government in July 1994
. . . But according to rights organisations and diplomats at the
United Nations, Ms Rice has been at the forefront of trying to shield
the Rwandan government, and Mr Kagame in particular, from
international censure, even as several United Nations reports have
laid the blame for the violence in Congo at Mr. Kagame's door."
Rice also worked with Kagame at Intellibridge, a strategic analysis
firm in Washington.
Western interests in Congo, including from the likes of Canada and a
host of big corporate organisations - which all thrive on chaos and
darkness of war - may have first give way for real peace to obtain in
the region.
Regional leaders and genuine DRC peace seekers should actively engage on this.
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The UN has ignored its own reports, NGOs and media reports about the massacres of hundreds of thousands of Hutu in DRC Congo (estimated to be more than 400,000) by Kagame when he attacked Hutu refugee camps in Eastern DRC in 1996. This barbaric killings and human rights violations were perpetrated by Kagame’s RPF with the approval of UK and USA and with sympathetic understanding and knowledge of UNHCR and international NGOs which were operating in the refugees camps. According to the UN, NGO and media reports between 1993 and 2003 women and girls were raped. Men slaughtered. Refugees killed with machetes and sticks. The attacks of refugees also prevented humanitarian organisations to help many other refugees and were forced to die from cholera and other diseases. Other refugees who tried to return to Rwanda where killed on their way by RFI and did not reach their homes. No media, no UNHCR, no NGO were there to witness these massacres. When Kagame plans to kill, he makes sure no NGO and no media are prevent. Kagame always kills at night.
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Fw: [rwanda_revolution] Kagame is a lapdog ally of the US, and gets away with murder.
-“The enemies of Freedom do not argue ; they shout and they shoot.”
The principal key root causes that lead to the Rwandan genocide of 1994 that affected all Rwandan ethnic groups were:
1)The majority Hutu community’s fear of the return of the discriminatory monarchy system that was practiced by the minority Tutsi community against the enslaved majority Hutu community for about 500 years
2)The Hutu community’s fear of Kagame’s guerrilla that committed massacres in the North of the country and other parts of the countries including assassinations of Rwandan politicians.
3) The Rwandan people felt abandoned by the international community ( who was believed to support Kagame’s guerrilla) and then decided to defend themselves with whatever means they had against the advance of Kagame’ guerrilla supported by Ugandan, Tanzanian and Ethiopian armies and other Western powers.
-“The enemies of Freedom do not argue ; they shout and they shoot.”
-“The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish.”
-“The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.”
-“I have loved justice and hated iniquity: therefore I die in exile.”
The Rwanda war of 1990-1994 had multiple dimensions.
The Rwanda war of 1990-1994 had multiple dimensions. Among Kagame’s rebels who were fighting against the Rwandan government, there were foreigners, mainly Ugandan fighters who were hired to kill and rape innocent Rwandan people in Rwanda and refugees in DRC.
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SUMMARY : THE TRAGIC CONSEQUENCES OF THE BRITISH BUDGET SUPPORT AND GEO-STRATEGIC AMBITIONS
The Rwandan genocide and 6,000,000 Congolese and Hutu refugees killed are the culminating point of a long UK’s battle to expand their influence to the African Great Lakes Region. UK supported Kagame’s guerrilla war by providing military support and money. The UK refused to intervene in Rwanda during the genocide to allow Kagame to take power by military means that triggered the genocide. Kagame’s fighters and their families were on the Ugandan payroll paid by UK budget support.
· 4 Heads of State assassinated in the francophone African Great Lakes Region.
· 2,000,000 people died in Hutu and Tutsi genocides in Rwanda, Burundi and RD.Congo.
· 600,000 Hutu refugees killed in R.D.Congo, Uganda, Central African Republic and Rep of Congo.
· 6,000,000 Congolese dead.
· 8,000,000 internal displaced people in Rwanda, Burundi and DR. Congo.
· 500,000 permanent Rwandan and Burundian Hutu refugees, and Congolese refugees around the world.
· English language expansion to Rwanda to replace the French language.
· 20,000 Kagame’s fighters paid salaries from the British Budget Support from 1986 to present.
· £500,000 of British taxpayer’s money paid, so far, to Kagame and his cronies through the budget support, SWAPs, Tutsi-dominated parliament, consultancy, British and Tutsi-owned NGOs.
· Kagame has paid back the British aid received to invade Rwanda and to strengthen his political power by joining the East African Community together with Burundi, joining the Commonwealth, imposing the English Language to Rwandans to replace the French language; helping the British to establish businesses and to access to jobs in Rwanda, and to exploit minerals in D.R.Congo.
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This blog reports the crimes that remain unpunished and the impunity that has generated a continuous cycle of massacres in many parts of Africa. In many cases, the perpetrators of the crimes seem to have acted in the knowledge that they would not be held to account for their actions.
The need to fight this impunity has become even clearer with the massacres and genocide in many parts of Africa and beyond.
The blog also addresses issues such as Rwanda War Crimes, Rwandan Refugee massacres in Dr Congo, genocide, African leaders’ war crimes and crimes against humanity, Africa war criminals, Africa crimes against humanity, Africa Justice.
-General Kagame has been echoing the British advice that Rwanda does not need any loan or aid from Rwandan traditional development partners, meaning that British aid is enough to solve all Rwandan problems.
-The British obsession for the English Language expansion has become a tyranny that has led to genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity, dictatorial regimes, human rights violations, mass killings, destruction of families, communities and cultures, permanent refugees and displaced persons in the African Great Lakes region.
- Rwanda, a country that is run by a corrupt clique of minority-tutsi is governed with institutional discrmination, human rights violations, dictatorship, authoritarianism and autocracy, as everybody would expect.
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