I ACCUSE

(This is partly a response to a comment by Nshuti Habimana, on a post by Friends of the Congo, here)


I am fed up. I am fed up of people always blaming the victims of the conflict in the Congo, of creating the conflict. I am sick and tired of hearing so-called experts on Congo, and duped well-meaning entertainment personalities, mis-characterize the reality of the conflict in my country. So, I have decided to accuse, as objectively and as concisely as I can, those people that are the main causes of this conflict, so that maybe people can finally go after them. This is a work in progress, and I get precisions on specific names of people, with accessible and tangible proof, I will update this. So I ACCUSE:


- I ACCUSE elements within the current leadership of the Republika y'Urwanda, of having planned, engineered, and masterminded a series of social, political and military operations, to effect the vicious, deliberate and meticulous destabilization of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, directly and/or by proxy, and consequently, to be responsible for the chaos, and the Shoah-proportioned fatalities that resulted from said planing, between 1996 to 2008.

- I ACCUSE these same elements of the said current leadership of Rwanda of having exploited pre-existing ethnic tensions in the Great lakes region, and the world's LEGITIMATE sympathy towards the victims of (and DESERVED guilt for their inaction during) the 1994 genocide, to guarantee some level of impunity in their massacre of millions of Congolese people and non-combatant Rwandan Hutu refugees, and subsequent rabid exploitation of mineral resources in the East of the DRC.

- I ACCUSE these same elements of the said current leadership of Rwanda of having expansionist aims at the expense of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and of using the aforementioned legitimate and deserved sympathy and/or guilt, to endear Western powers into adopting these blatantly illegal and abhorrent expansionist ambitions as potential solutions to the conflict they themselves generated.

- I ACCUSE these same elements of the said current leadership of Rwanda of having engineered the use of rape and the HIV virus as a weapon of war in the East of the DRC, and of having financed multiple shell-rebel organizations to achieve their ignominious aims in the DRC.

- I ACCUSE certain elements of the leadership of the Democratic Republic of the Congo to be in traitorous collusion with the aforementioned elements of the said current leadership of Rwanda.

- I ACCUSE eminent members of the leadership, and the intelligentsia of the United States of America, the UK, France, Belgium, Canada, China and South Africa of willfully, and criminally, turning a blind eye to the actions of the aforementioned elements of the said current leadership of Rwanda, in order to allow several of their ventures and corporations to benefit from the cheap labor, and general lack of regulations, resulting from the chaos created by the aforementioned vicious, deliberate and meticulous destabilization of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

- Finally, I ACCUSE those among us Congolese, Rwandan and Western principled citizens that have the required information to nominally identify (with tangible proof) the aforementioned negative elements of the leaderships of Rwanda, Congo, and the International community. I ACCUSE them of genocidal cowardice at worst, or genocidal apathy at best.


I have accused. Prove me wrong!!

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Outrageous!!!!

I have not been writing on The Salon for a while. That's because I have lost a bit of the grasp I had of the situation back home, in the Congo (DRC). Both the political power-players and the political game itself became blurry. There was a point when I could discern between constructive forces, and the destructive ones in a clearer fashion. Who pulls Kabila's strings? How to uncover the multiple layers of the mystery Kagame? What realistic and pragmatic alternatives exist on the field? Those are all things that I am trying to reacquaint myself with. But one thing I know: Laurent Nkunda may simply be a symptom of a larger problem, but he is definitely a parasite to be dealt with. That is why I was outraged when I saw this on Facebook:

A Fan-page for Nkunda? Are you serious? You have got to be kidding me!! A murderous warlord like him? I mean I wouldn't even tolerate a Fan-page for Kabila (because he is shady too), and he is the President!! I mean, this is not acceptable. I am all for freedom of expression, do not get me wrong, but this deserves some responses. I would appreciate suggestions.

What is appalling here is the proficiency and sophistication of Congo's foes in communication, media manipulation, and staying on message. They are always miles ahead of those of us standing for Congo, and we are always playing catch up. That needs to change. The narrative needs to change.

Congo in Crisis: What President Obama Can Do To Right Past Wrongs In US Policy - The Daily Voice - Black America's Daily News Source

I am working on restarting The Salon soon, on Maneno.org. But in the mean time, I wanted to share this article by my very passionate friend Kambale Musavili, Spokesperson for Friends of the Congo.

Congo in Crisis: What President Obama Can Do To Right Past Wrongs In US Policy - The Daily Voice - Black America's Daily News Source

A rant on Congo in French... Je tempête sur le Congo

Il y a certaines choses absolument intolerables qui se produisent en RDC, et il semble que, comme d'habitude, le monde entier y est totalement sourd et aveugle... volontairement!

Des aberrations flagrantes comme le phenomene honteux de Nkunda et les rebelles de l"Est, la multiplicité des rentrées scolaires, la magouille dans l'organisation de la paie des fonctionnaires, et le brouillard entretenu recemment au sommet de l'Etat, cohabitent joyeusement avec des evenements dits Congoptimistes comme la toute première et toute scintillante foire des investissements au Congo (FICO). Et le comble, c'est que ce mélange anchronique et insensé semble être toléré et accepté comme des fatalités inévitables de la sempiternellement médiocre "réalité Congolaise".

Notre frère Cedric demande si les guerres s'arreteront un jour. Meme moi, l'eternel optimiste pour le Congo, je commence a en douter serieusement. Il semble etre dans l'interet de certaines gens bien placées, de maintenir un epouvantail a l'Est, comme le compère G W Bush le fait avec Al-Qaida et "Bernadette Lusamba" aux USA, pour justifier leurs inactions. Mais comme pour Bush, c'est un couteau a double tranchant.

Je suis fatigué de voir la population de mon pays réduite a vivre - et mourrir - dans des conditions moyen-ageuses, et positivement inhumaines, pour satisfaire les ambitions, les bourses et l'hubris d'une poignée d'éminences grises sans scrupules.

Et ce qui m'irrite encore plus, c'est que dans l'entretemps, beaucoup de mes frères/soeurs Congolais (surtout ceux-la qui s'adjoignent l'appelation de Frere ou Soeur une/untel) préfèrent souvent s'éterniser à débattre - et meme à se battre - sur des sujets dont la trivialité patente, comparée à la situation de deliquescence du pays, insulte la mémoire de tous ces martyrs involontaires et innocents qui meurrent chaque jour, pour le simple "crime" d'être nés pauvres, et au Congo ya ba nkoko. Ils passent leur temps a débattre de la malveillance de la musique mondaine, de leur prochaine cible pour un exorcisme, du prochain sorcier a réveler dans le quartier, de la derniere griffe ou de la derniere marque, de l'habillement de nos jeunes adolescent(e)s, de la derniere benediction recue a l'ecran de tele, de la popularité artificielle de tel ou tel politicien, ou de la soi-disant malediction amenée par les homos sur le Congo... et pendant ce temps, le brouillard est entretenu sur les véritables enjeux de ce pays.

Quand la guerre s'arretera-t-elle? De 2 choses l'une. Soit les dirigeants actuels se mettent réellement et honnetement au travail. Soit il va falloir une véritable prise de conscience de la population Congolaise, a la Mai 68, a la revolution Gandhienne. Malheureusement, le "panis et cistercens" de Mobutu - et de Kabila, pour etre juste - a rendu ces deux options peu probables, car les dirigeants sont les memes, et le peuple, ne sachant a quel saint se vouer, recours l'apathie résignation désemparée. Entretemps, Anvil Mining, Boss Mining, Katanga Mining, Malta Forrest et d'autres de ces opportunistes affairés - pour ne citer que ceux-la - se servent largement a la fontaine dorée de nos ressources naturelles tant adulées...

J'ai encore de l'espoir pour mon pays, et d'ailleurs je travaille dessus; mais j'ai aussi très peur. Car je vois, je sens la tempete qui gronde. Les incomprehensions entre les gens d l'Est et de l'Ouest, et la méconnaissance propre et réciproque de nos histoires et coutumes respectives, et les germes de la discorde plantées durant les années de la colonisation, et perenisées par certaines aberrations des régimes Mobutu et suite, et la colère du peuple Congolais a la vue de la véritable razzia opaque que ces entreprises - et leurs complices - effectuent sur les ressources Congolaises, risquent de culminer dans un marasme qui nous fera penser a la periode que nous vivons actuellement comme le bon vieux temps.

J'espere que je me trompe... car je compte bien y vivre moi, au Congo. Let us wait and See.

Congo kino liwa.