Rwanda - How the Anglo American Network Took Power in Rwanda

[Shoestring]

Here is my new blog entry, which has some little known information about former counterterrorism 'tsar' Richard Clarke. Clarke was a key player in the U.S. government's response on 9/11, when he was in charge of the White House Situation Room. But back in 1994, he was responsible for dealing with Rwanda issues, and showed shocking indifference in response to the Rwandan genocide, helping to ensure nothing was done to obstruct the mass killing.

My original blog posting, with links to the source articles, is here:
http://shoestring911.blogspot.com/2010/ ... chard.html

9/11 Counterterrorism Chief Richard Clarke and the Rwandan Genocide

On September 11, 2001, Richard Clarke served in the crucial position of national coordinator for security and counterterrorism, and he ran the U.S. government's response to the terrorist attacks from the White House Situation Room. It was not until March 2004, though, that Clarke came to wider attention, when he went public with his complaints about members of the Bush administration, who, he said, ignored the threat posed by al-Qaeda before September 11, despite his attempts at alerting them to it. [1] Clarke received praise from some quarters for his various criticisms of then-President Bush.

What is little known, however, is that in 1994 Richard Clarke was one of the key individuals responsible for the lack of international response to the genocide in the small African nation of Rwanda, where an estimated 800,000 Rwandans were killed in just 100 days. At the time of the genocide, Clarke was head of the office of global issues and multilateral affairs on the National Security Council, and was therefore in charge of the White House response to Rwanda issues.

CLARKE CLAIMS U.S. 'DID THE RIGHT THING' OVER RWANDA
BBC correspondent Fergal Keane, who won an Amnesty television prize for his investigation of the Rwandan genocide, commented in March 2004: "Nearly a million people were killed and the most powerful nation on earth actively worked to ensure there was no international intervention until it was too late. But Richard Clarke still says they did the right thing. He told [an] interviewer that the U.S. should not be embarrassed. ... You may now understand why I felt a certain sense of astonishment watching Richard Clarke denounce George Bush the other night." [2]

Based on Clarke's indifference to the genocide, one Clinton administration official described him as "a man who has no heart." Describing the woman who, half-way through the genocide, took over from Clarke in dealing with the Rwandan peacekeeping process, a Pentagon official responsible for African affairs said this woman "did not appear to have the malice in her that Dick Clarke appeared to have in him." [3]

ARTICLE REVEALS CLARKE ROLE IN RWANDA CRISIS
Clarke's role in the U.S. response to the Rwandan genocide was described in an extensively researched major article by Samantha Power, published in the September 2001 issue of the Atlantic Monthly. [4] This article was summarized in April 2004 by Paul Street in the Internet newsletter Dissident Voice. Street contrasted Clarke's supposed concern about an imminent terrorist attack against the U.S. in the months up to 9/11 with the indifference he'd exhibited toward the plight of victimized Rwandans.

Quoting Power, Street wrote:

"In reality," Power shows, "the United States did much more than fail to send troops. It led a successful effort to remove most of the UN peacekeepers who were already in Rwanda. It aggressively worked to block UN reinforcements. It refused to use its technology to jam radio broadcasts that were a crucial instrument in coordination and perpetuation of the genocide. And even as, on average, 8,000 Rwandans were being butchered each day, U.S. officials shunned the term 'genocide,' for fear of being obliged to act. The United States in fact did virtually nothing 'to try to limit what occurred.'"

Street continued:

Richard A. Clarke, Power shows, was the leading policy actor behind the Clinton administration's refusal to acknowledge and act upon the threat of genocide in Rwanda. As special assistant to the president from the National Security Council and official overseer of U.S. "peacekeeping" policy, Clarke was chief manager of U.S. Rwanda policy before and during the genocide. For Clarke, Power notes, "the news" of mass Rwandan slaughter "only confirmed [his] deep skepticism about the viability of UN deployments" and sparked his fear that "UN failure could doom relations between Congress and the United Nations."

Clarke, Power shows, was a dark force behind U.S. rejection of an aggressive plan to save Rwandan lives put forth by Romeo Dallaire, the Canadian general who commanded the UN Assistance Mission in Rwanda at the time of the genocide. The empty U.S. proposal advanced by Clarke to counter Dallaire, Power shows, abandoned "the most vulnerable Rwandans, awaiting salvations deep inside Rwanda." It falsely assuming (or pretended to assume) "that the people most in need were refugees fleeing to the border" and could actually make it to the border. "My mission," Dallaire told Power, "was to save Rwandans. Their [the U.S.] mission was to put on a show at no risk."

CLARKE 'SCANDALOUSLY OBLIVIOUS' TO EVIDENCE OF LOOMING GENOCIDE
Street then drew a parallel between the actions of the Bush administration prior to 9/11 that Clarke complained about, and Clarke's own actions during the Rwandan crisis:

U.S. officials like Donald Steinberg and Joyce Lawson, a key State Department deputy who argued early on for the U.S. to "send in the troops," were frustrated by official U.S. bureaucratic inaction in much the same way that Clarke credibly claims to have been stymied by Bush and Rice et al. prior to 9/11. "Steinberg," Power notes, "managed the African portfolio at the NSC and tried to look out for the dying Rwandans, but he was not an experienced infighter and, colleagues say, he 'never won a single fight with Clarke.'"

Furthermore:

Clarke was the "primary architect" of Presidential Decision Directive (PDD)-25, "a new peacekeeping doctrine" unveiled on May 3, 1994 (the genocide began the previous month). This directive "circumscribe[d] U.S. participation in UN missions" and "limited U.S. support for other states that hoped to carry out UN missions," subordinating basic humanitarian concerns to cold calculations of global realpolitik and "U.S. interests."

Additionally, "Before the mass killing began, Clarke and his colleagues and subordinates in the NSC were scandalously oblivious to abundant, widely available evidence indicating the terrible fate that lay around the corner for Rwanda's Tutsis and moderate Hutus."

CLARKE HELPED PREVENT POSITIVE ACTIONS
In her article, Power had suggested several potentially life-saving actions the U.S. government could have taken in response to the Rwandan genocide. It could have:

● agreed to Belgian pleas for UN reinforcements prior to the genocide;

● deployed U.S. troops to Rwanda once the mass killing had begun;

● joined Dallaire's forces;

● intervened unilaterally with UN Security Council support, "as France eventually did in late June";

● made the case to Congress that genocide was underway, that this reality challenged core American values, and that U.S. forces could "stop the extermination of a people" at "relatively low risk."

But, as Street noted, "None of these basic acts of civilized imperial statecraft occurred, thanks in part to the structurally empowered skepticism and stonewalling of Richard A. Clarke."

Street concluded:

[T]he government and many citizens of Rwanda carried out what Power calls "the fastest, most efficient killing spree of the 20th century." This horrific mass butchery was deeply enabled by the U.S. through stubborn and systematic inaction, reflecting in part the successful "bureaucratic infighting" and moral vapidity of top White House imperial functionary Richard A. Clarke, the chief official accuser of pre-9/11 inaction in the White House. [5]

And, keep in mind, this man--Richard Clarke--is the person described as "the nation's crisis manager on 9/11." [6]

NOTES
[1] See, for example, Rebecca Leung, "Clarke's Take on Terror." CBS News, March 21, 2004; "National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States: Eighth Public Hearing." 9/11 Commission, March 24, 2004; Joe Conason, "Richard Clarke Terrorizes the White House." Salon, March 24, 2004; Romesh Ratnesar, "Richard Clarke, at War With Himself." Time, March 25, 2004.
[2] Fergal Keane, "The Shocking Story of Richard Clarke and the U.S. Failure to Stop Genocide in Rwanda." The Independent, March 27, 2004.
[3] Jared Cohen, One Hundred Days of Silence: America and the Rwanda Genocide. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2007, pp. 101-102.
[4] Samantha Power, "Bystanders to Genocide." Atlantic Monthly, September 2001.
[5] Paul Street, "A Curious Backdrop for the 9/11 Hearings: Richard A. Clarke, Rwanda, and 'Narcissistic Compassion.'" Dissident Voice, April 10, 2004.
[6] Richard Clarke, Against All Enemies: Inside America's War on Terror. New York: Free Press, 2004, from the book's back flap.

[Shoestring]

In case anyone wants more information on Richard Clarke, and his actions on 9/11, check out my earlier blog posting, "Richard Clarke, 9/11, and the Continuity of Government Plan":
http://shoestring911.blogspot.com/2008/ ... ty-of.html

[TonyGosling]

Full-scale invasion as the United States deploys troops in 35 African countries

By John Pilger, TRANSCEND* - A full-scale invasion of Africa is under way. The United States is deploying troops in 35 African countries, beginning with Libya, Sudan, Algeria and Niger. Reported by Associated Press on Christmas Day, this was missing from most Anglo-American media.

The invasion has almost nothing to do with “Islamism”, and almost everything to do with the acquisition of resources, notably minerals, and an accelerating rivalry with China.

Unlike China, the US and its allies are prepared to use a degree of violence demonstrated in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen and Palestine.

As in the cold war, a division of labour requires that western journalism and popular culture provide the cover of a holy war against a “menacing arc” of Islamic extremism, no different from the bogus “red menace” of a worldwide communist conspiracy.

Reminiscent of the Scramble for Africa in the late 19th century, the US African Command (Africom) has built a network of supplicants among collaborative African regimes eager for American bribes and armaments.

US Operation African Endeavor

Last year, Africom staged Operation African Endeavor, with the armed forces of 34 African nations taking part, commanded by the US military. Africom’s “soldier to soldier” doctrine embeds US officers at every level of command from general to warrant officer. Only pith helmets are missing.

It is as if Africa’s proud history of liberation, from Patrice Lumumba to Nelson Mandela, is consigned to oblivion by a new master’s black colonial elite whose “historic mission”, warned Frantz Fanon half a century ago, is the promotion of “a capitalism rampant though camouflaged”.

A striking example is the eastern Congo, a treasure trove of strategic minerals, controlled by an atrocious rebel group known as the M23, which in turn is run by Uganda and Rwanda, the proxies of Washington.

Long planned as a “mission” for Nato, not to mention the ever-zealous French, whose colonial lost causes remain on permanent standby, the war on Africa became urgent in 2011 when the Arab world appeared to be liberating itself from the Mubaraks and other clients of Washington and Europe.

Hysteria in Imperial Capitals

The hysteria this caused in imperial capitals cannot be exaggerated. Nato bombers were dispatched not to Tunis or Cairo but Libya, where Muammar Gaddafi ruled over Africa’s largest oil reserves. With the Libyan city of Sirte reduced to rubble, the British SAS directed the “rebel” militias in what has since been exposed as a racist bloodbath.

The indigenous people of the Sahara, the Tuareg, whose Berber fighters Gaddafi had protected, fled home across Algeria to Mali, where the Tuareg have been claiming a separate state since the 1960s.

As the ever watchful Patrick Cockburn points out, it is this local dispute, not al-Qaida, that the West fears most in northwest Africa… “poor though the Tuareg may be, they are often living on top of great reserves of oil, gas, uranium and other valuable minerals”.

The United Kingdom

Almost certainly the consequence of a French/US attack on Mali on 13 January, a siege at a gas complex in Algeria ended bloodily, inspiring a 9/11 moment in David Cameron. The former Carlton TV PR man raged about a “global threat” requiring “decades” of western violence. He meant implantation of the west’s business plan for Africa, together with the rape of multi-ethnic Syria and the conquest of independent Iran.

Cameron has now ordered British troops to Mali, and sent an RAF drone, while his verbose military chief, General Sir David Richards, has addressed “a very clear message to jihadists worldwide: don’t dangle and tangle with us. We will deal with it robustly” – exactly what jihadists want to hear.

The trail of blood of British army terror victims, all Muslims, their “systemic” torture cases currently heading to court, add necessary irony to the general’s words. I once experienced Sir David’s “robust” ways when I asked him if he had read the courageous Afghan feminist Malalai Joya’s description of the barbaric behaviour of westerners and their clients in her country. “You are an apologist for the Taliban” was his reply. (He later apologised).

These bleak comedians are straight out of Evelyn Waugh and allow us to feel the bracing breeze of history and hypocrisy. The “Islamic terrorism” that is their excuse for the enduring theft of Africa’s riches was all but invented by them.

“The Mujahedin of al-Qaida and the Taliban Were created by the CIA”

There is no longer any excuse to swallow the BBC/CNN line and not know the truth. Read Mark Curtis’s Secret Affairs: Britain’s Collusion with Radical Islam (Serpent’s Tail) or John Cooley’s Unholy Wars: Afghanistan, America and International Terrorism (Pluto Press) or The Grand Chessboard by Zbigniew Brzezinski (HarperCollins) who was midwife to the birth of modern fundamentalist terror.

In effect, the mujahedin of al-Qaida and the Taliban were created by the CIA, its Pakistani equivalent, the Inter-Services Intelligence, and Britain’s MI6.

Brzezinski, President Jimmy Carter’s National Security Adviser, describes a secret presidential directive in 1979 that began what became the current “war on terror”.

For 17 years, the US deliberately cultivated, bank-rolled, armed and brainwashed jihadi extremists that “steeped a generation in violence”. Code-named Operation Cyclone, this was the “great game” to bring down the Soviet Union but brought down the Twin Towers.

Since then, the news that intelligent, educated people both dispense and ingest has become a kind of Disney journalism, fortified, as ever, by Hollywood’s licence to lie, and lie.

There is the coming Dreamworks movie on WikiLeaks, a fabrication inspired by a book of perfidious title-tattle by two enriched Guardian journalists; and there is Zero Dark Thirty, which promotes torture and murder, directed by the Oscar-winning Kathryn Bigelow, the Leni Riefenstahl of our time, promoting her master’s voice as did the Fuhrer’s pet film-maker. Such is the one-way mirror through which we barely glimpse what power does in our name.

http://www.newstimeafrica.com/archives/30714

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[TonyGosling]

How the Anglo American Network Took Power in Rwanda and DRC Using Tutsi Supremacists and Minority Rights
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PD Lawton -

https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/0 ... ty-rights/

July 18, 2024 2
0905 President Bush meets with President Jospeh Kabila, Democratic Republic of Congo (far right) President Thabo Mbeki, South Africa; and President Paul Kagame, Rwanda (far left). Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. New York City.

“Rwanda is not defined by a geographical space; it is a state of mind.”
– Rwandan Patriotic Army (RPA) Brigadier General Frank Rusagara.[1]

The eastern provinces of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have been in a state of permanent war, depopulation and plunder since 1996 when the DRC (then Zaire) was invaded.

During the “First Congo War,” 1996-1998, proxy armies backed by the United States (and allies) invaded and occupied Zaire, removed long-time U.S. operative President Mobutu Sese Seko and installed Laurent-Désiré Kabila as president. Since 1996, well in excess of 12 million Congolese have died violent deaths and the entire population of eastern Congo has been terrorized, traumatized and dislocated.

Keith Harmon Snow, a journalist who reported for many years from Central Africa, noted:

“In 1996, the proxy armies invaded from Rwanda and Uganda, under the direction of Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni and Rwandan president Paul Kagame, but they also included Eritrean and Ethiopian troops, and they were backed by a phalanx of powerful corporate interests, mercenaries, military intelligence operatives, and other war profiteers. Barely behind the scenes, they had the full support of the U.S. Pentagon.”

“Now 28 years later, the destabilization of the Congo—the mass murder and plunder facilitated by global supply chains and rogue capitalism—continues. The most recent attacks in early June 2024 culminated in at least 50 innocent Congolese civilians in a massacre committed by one of the more than 200 militias occupying eastern Congo.”

Snow continued:

“The civilians were tortured, their arms tied behind their backs at the elbows—a torture technique called Akandoya—and thrown in the Luholu River in the province of North Kivu. The bodies were also mutilated. Akandoya is a torture technique first used by Museveni’s National Resistance Army during the Luwero Triangle terror in Uganda (1980-1985), adopted by Museveni’s protégé and Director of Military Intelligence Paul Kagame, routinely used by Kagame’s RPA during the Rwandan Civil War (1990-1994), and it is a signature reminder of the unrelenting atrocities committed by the Rwandan and Ugandan militias in Congo. Many of these Rwandan and Ugandan soldiers have been ‘trained’ by U.S. military experts, training in the euphemistically named ‘counter-insurgency’ guerrilla warfare tactics perfected by the legendary U.S. military School of the Americas known for training death squad commandos and dictators.” 
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[Source: rwanda.bz]

Eastern Congo is comprised of three provinces; Ituri, North Kivu and South Kivu. All three provinces are extremely beautiful, fertile and blessed with water, in addition to mineral wealth which is an unparalleled global phenomenon. The ultimate goal of Paul Kagame`s Rwanda is annexation of North Kivu. Constant low-intensity war over the last 30 years has resulted in depopulation, a gradual genocide.

The rural communities in North Kivu and Ituri are routinely subjected to extreme coercion, forced under terrorizing tactics into working with the Rwandan-backed militias, M23, and the Ugandan-backed militia, ADF. Village and community leaders who refuse to collaborate are routinely murdered; women are subjected to extreme sexual violence before being murdered. Terrorism is an insufficient word to describe what is happening in North Kivu. The names of towns like Beni in Lubero Territory are synonymous with massacres.
[Source: io.wp.com]

Violence escalated dramatically around October 2023. This is because the president of DRC, Felix Tshisekedi, is achieving a measure of success in getting the international community to respond to his calls for Rwanda to be recognized as the force behind M23. As Paul Kagame is now facing the end of his tenure, his tyranny is having a final killing spree.

The increase in violence escalated after Tshisekedi announced the date of December 2023 for the withdrawal of MONUSCO, the UN stabilization mission that has worked in tandem with Kagame and his fellow Tutsi supremacists in DRC.

MONUSCO is a mercenary operation run by the NATO alliance. As of June 2024 they have yet to depart.

The EU ambassadors were recently summoned in Kinshasa. We can assume Tshisekedi explained to them that Congolese minerals will in the future only be traded through DRC. They will no longer be able to buy cheap, illicit Congolese minerals from Rwanda.
EU ambassadors received by President Tshisekedi. [Source: io.wp.com]

President Tshisekedi is confronting Silicon Valley, as reported in the Financial Times:

“In the letter, France- and US-based lawyers for the DRC say that Apple’s iPhones, Mac computers and other accessories are “‘tainted by the blood of the Congolese people.’”

“M23’ is the acronym for the Movement of March 23 [2009], but it is nothing more or less than another of the hundreds of Rwandan and Ugandan military offshoots comprising the alphabet soup of terrorist forces in the Congo. The M23 militia is merely the most recent incarnation of Rwandan and/or Ugandan troops that have occupied the Congo. The M23 was born the day that war criminal Laurent Nkunda called for ‘peace talks’ and thereafter orchestrated the veritable coup d’etat of having Rwandan troops of the National Congress for the Defense of the People (CNDP)—then the most recent incarnation of Rwandan terrorism in Congo—integrated in the Forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo, it’s former enemy army, the Congolese national army.
M23 forces enter Karuba
M23 troops in eastern Congo. [Source: aljazeera.com]

Wikipedia’s description of the CNDP is a laughable farce that mirrors many international media statements about the CNDP and its commanders:

“The National Congress for the Defence of the People (French: Congrès national pour la défense du peuple, CNDP) is a political armed militia established by Laurent Nkunda in the Kivu region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo in December 2006. The CNDP was engaged in the Kivu conflict, an armed conflict against the military of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. In January 2009, the CNDP split and Nkunda was arrested by the Rwanda government. The remaining CNDP splinter faction, led by Bosco Ntaganda, was planned to be integrated into the national army.”

This caricature of reality advances the mythology that Rwandan General Laurent Nkunda was arrested by his “superiors” in Rwanda. In fact, General Laurent Nkunda commands the Rwandan M23 forces in Congo today. The “arrest” of Nkunda and his subsequent disappearance on the world stage is part of the smoke-and-mirror or slight-of-hand games played by Paul Kagame and his Tutsi extremist mafia. Kagame’s magic tricks are welcomed by the “international community,” offering the supposed ruse of plausible denial that international power brokers and governments hide behind.

American networks which are Kagame`s sponsors will attempt to capitalize on the current horrific level of violence against civilians by calling for humanitarian intervention which could result in a “temporary” provisional government being imposed by the UN, ultimately playing into the goal of Rwandan annexation of Congolese territory or at least a semi-autonomous region in eastern Congo, governed behind the scenes by the Anglo-American multi- national corporate network (large corporations that dominate the country and influence its governments to their liking).

The International Committee of the Red Cross produced a report in March 2024 which details the increasing humanitarian disaster in North Kivu. However, the ICRC and the entire Western apparatus, media, academia and non-governmental organizations perpetuate a false narrative that armed rebel militias are vying for control of the mines:

“The increase in the number of parties involved in the fighting is a challenge. Around 100 different groups, of varying size and degree of organization, are competing for control of the land and resources.”

That narrative is a lie. Congolese territory has been invaded and occupied by its aggressive Western-backed neighbors, Rwanda and Uganda, for the last 25 years. Currently, Goma is calm. The fighting between the Congolese Armed Forces, Forces Armées de la République Démocratique du Congo (FARDC) and M23 (Rwandan military) is most active in North Kivu in the vicinity around Goma.

People have been fleeing the countryside to seek shelter as close to Goma as possible. Camps are now extremely overcrowded. Food is being restricted from coming into the city because M23 is blockading roads mainly from the Masisi Territory where most food staples such as potatoes, cassava and maize are grown. Food is now very expensive in Goma. There are currently about 1.7 million internally displaced people in North Kivu. Just under one million are now seeking safety in Goma. Goma had a previous population of 1.5 million.
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Tent encampments in Goma refugee camp. [Source: cleantheworldwithcompassion.org]

In the first week of May 2024, Rwanda bombed a temporary refugee camp, Mugunga, a village between Sake and Goma, resulting in more than 25 dead and many injured. This is not an unusual occurrence of violence, just one of thousands of attacks by Rwanda/M23 on unarmed civilians. Countless massacres are done using machetes to save on bullets. For the Congolese there are no ambulances and no paramedics with painkillers: Injured people are transported by motorbike on rough, muddy, unpaved roads to the nearest hospital in this country that has the worst infrastructure deficit in the world.

Footage of this recent attack on social media shows a young woman with most of her leg torn apart, being held on the back of a motorbike by the pillion passenger. The noises she makes are of a person barely able to stand the pain. Other footage shows a tent that was a makeshift home for a displaced family hit by a mortar. It is clearly seen on the video that a number of young children were blown to bits. The sheer distress of the people around is heart-rending.

This is nothing new for the Congolese, nothing new at all.

Rwanda controls the telecommunications network over eastern Congo. Everything is monitored by Tutsi technicians. People are afraid to speak because Rwanda has agents everywhere.
Forever wars in Central Africa

Paul Kagame’s Rwanda is an occupying aggressor, mislabeled as the M23 militia, on foreign soil and those allied to his Tutsi supremacist ideology and their fascist agenda continue to be infiltrated into Congolese state institutions including the Congolese military, using the UN mandate of Minority Rights as written in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Those networks keep the war going because they benefit from the instability.

The Constitution of the Democratic Republic of Congo adheres to the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights calling for the equal representation of ethnic groups. By its definition it is an anti-republican concept that feeds identity politics. In the case of many states in Africa and around the world, it is being used to undermine the sovereignty of government.

In this article, reference to “Tutsi supremacists” is specifically in reference to the Tutsi elite and not to the ethnic group itself. The origins and history of the Tutsi aristocracy, Tutsi elite, have been covered in depth and detail by investigative journalist Keith Harmon Snow and Jean-Marie Vianney Higiro, Ph.D.

Paul Kagame has been president since 1994. Rwandans continue to suffer under his undemocratic regime and that of his alliance of Tutsi supremacists who have incited ethnic hatred and division across the Great Lakes region of Central Africa and attempted to obliterate a previously held deep sense of brotherhood rooted in family ties that existed between the people of Rwanda, DRC, Uganda and Burundi not that long ago.
Rwanda 1994 and Corporate Colonialism

The RPF, Rwandan Patriotic Front, was put in power in 1994 with the intention of creating a nexus in Central Africa using the Tutsi elite as Belgian colonialists had done prior to the social revolution in 1959 which began the overthrow of the Tutsi monarchy’s feudalism. As stated by Jean-Marie Vianney Higiro in his article: “Message to the Rwandan Youth on the 30th Anniversary of the Rwanda Genocide:”

“Under colonization, indirect rule allowed the royal lineages to wield power serving as the intermediaries between colonialists and the population made up of Hutu, poor Tutsi, and Twa.

The Hutu were not only subjected to forced labor but also to heavy taxation while being excluded from education (only provided to the sons of the Tutsi chiefs and subchiefs). The latter came almost exclusively from Tutsi royal lineages or the matrilineal dynasty as not all Tutsi were involved in the monarchal rule. According to Belgian officials at the time, ‘the Tutsi were born to rule and the Hutu were born to labor.’ This ideology stemmed from a European racist theory (known as the Hamitic hypothesis) according to which Tutsi were Hamites or Caucasians except that they were black.”

Rwanda, under Kagame, is like Israel, a UK/U.S. military outpost, that destabilizes the Great Lakes Region while it collects and is the conduit for eastern Congo’s vast wealth in resources that until very recently had been solely traded via Rwanda and Uganda to Brussels, Paris, Washington, London and Tel Aviv.

Genocide investigator Keith Harmon Snow spent years documenting RPF crimes and the international criminal networks and supply chains that move Congo’s property into the international markets.

Snow writes:

“In 2011, I uncovered an international shipping Air Waybill [Consignment Note] issued by RwandAir showing a shipment of ‘soil samples’ out of Bukavu. This illegal minerals export comprised 15 parcels weighing 192 kgs (438 pounds) and the supply chain led straight from Bukavu (South Kivu, DRC) to the SGS Laboratories in Tanzania. This single document established the international involvement of the Swiss conglomerates Société Générale de Surveillance (SGS) and Swissport AG; DHL International [government of Germany-controlled]; RwandAir, and Precision Air Services [Tanzania/Kenya]; behind these are investment banks, international directorships and private investors.”

Snow continued:

“Kagame is always denying that Rwanda is behind the plunder and murder in DRC, and the media regurgitate Kagame’s lies and help to obscure the complex supply-chains, but the players have been revealed over and over, Kagame lies through his teeth—simultaneously benefiting from the genocide credit—and the horrible suffering of the Congolese people continues.”
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[Source: towardfreedom.org]

The extent of the DRC’s mineral wealth and that of its neighbor, Burundi, have been known about by geologists for more than a century. The Copper Belt which supplies most of the world with copper is considered to be as only existing in Zambia; however, Zambia`s reserves of copper are the tip of the greater reserve which is in neighboring DRC.

The provinces of eastern Congo contain every resource needed by today’s digital and green energy technology. It supplies 65% of the world’s coltan (short for columbite-tantalite which, when refined, becomes a heat-resistant powder which has unique properties for storing electrical charge). There are vast quantities of precious stones and gold. There is even a recent discovery of an unnamed mineral with a crystalline structure that produces an electric charge. However, as pointed out by Keith Harmon Snow, it is the cobalt that is the mineral of the greatest strategic interest.

“At first we were told that it was the white-collar world’s bloodlust for Congo’s coltan that was the driver of the war in Congo,” says Snow. “Back in the early years of the perpetual war and plunder columbium-tantalite (coltan) was the boom and so the New York Times and Atlantic Monthly and New Yorker and Financial Times et al ran heaps of racist propaganda about child soldiers and child slave labor in Congo, which they billed the ‘rape capital of the world,’ and they regurgitated the empty claim that Rwandan Hutus in Congo were a threat to Rwanda, bent on returning to ‘finish the genocide.’”

“However crucial cobalt is to electric vehicles and cell phones, the military-industrial complex has had a lock on Congo’s cobalt since the 1950s, and the extraction of cobalt ain’t no Congolese children’s affair. Enter the ‘untouchable’ international robber barons from Europe, North America and Israel.” 

Snow elaborates on the propaganda smokescreen:

“Cobalt is essential for cobalt-based superalloys and these are essential for virtually every industry that requires materials able to withstand super high or low temperatures, pressures, and tensile strength. Basically, we can’t have the military-defense, mining-transportation, space or sea exploration—satellites, nuclear weapons or reactors, tank armor, ship hulls or submarines, oil derricks, blast furnaces—without Congo’s cobalt. A few years ago the propaganda system began claiming that Congo’s woes were due to Chinese run companies that were profiting off the backs of Congolese children with shovels and baskets moving cobalt. Industrial cobalt extraction has almost completely been whited out of the story.”

“The numbers game is also part of the dog-and-pony show played by Kagame, Museveni and international capitalism. Somewhere around 2003 they counted 4 million dead from the first and second ‘Congo Wars’; then the Lancet in Britain did a study and the number went up to 6 million. It still hangs at six million today. An accurate count circa 2011 was more like 10 million. Twelve million dead since 1996? I think it’s well over 12 million by now, counting the secondary and tertiary effects of starvation, disease, and death by exposure.”
DR Congo cobalt mining
Artisanal miner holds a cobalt stone in Kolwezi in 2022. [Source: aljazeera.com]

The discovery of significant reserves of nickel, larger than DRC’s, in Burundi around 2010 was the reason behind the attempted overthrow of the former Burundian President, Pierre Nkurunziza, in 2015 by the NATO alliance.

The atrocities committed on Burundian soil prior to that date were intended to be the pretext for an “humanitarian” occupation by the West using the international law brought in by former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, called R2P, Responsibility 2 Protect. This law obviously only applies when the West wants regime change, as in the case of Libya, and not applicable in Gaza or eastern Congo.
Much-loved Burundian President Pierre Nkurunziza (2005-2020). [Source: io.wp.com]

Fortunately, Russia vetoed the UN Security Council humanitarian intervention vote. Burundians and their military stood firmly by their elected leader, President Pierre Nkurunziza, who died in June 2020 of a supposed heart attack despite being just 55 years old and a life-long health and fitness fanatic.

As a Burundian stated: “They [Western and Israeli mining interests] tried to make another genocide in Burundi so they could install another Kagame.”

Burundians continue to be united under their incumbent president, Evariste Ndayishimiye, the successor of Pierre Nkurunziza. Both presidents are Hutu. As stated by a Burundian source:

“If it were not for Nkurunziza and now Ndayishimiye we [the Hutu population] would by now all be living somewhere in a refugee camp.”
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Evariste Ndayishimiye [Source: africanleadershipmagazine.co.uk]

Burundians consider Nkurunziza’s untimely death suspicious as do Tanzanians of their popular leader, the late President John Pombe Magufuli in 2021. Both late presidents refused to accept the World Health Organization`s Covid-19 pandemic.

The events in Rwanda 1994 led to the creation of a genocide narrative that has protected the Tutsi elite and regime of Paul Kagame ever since on behalf of organizations such as the Mont Pelerin Society (an international organization of elite business leaders) and the financial networks that are behind Wall Street and the City of London whose extractive industry is quite clearly the beneficiary of Africa`s on-going colonialism, corporate colonialism, which has looted Africa since the days of the Dutch East India Company, destabilized Africa and keep it unindustrialized for the sake of neo-liberal economic policy that benefits from the continent remaining as its raw materials market. The ideology of neo-liberalism is to keep Africans in financial serfdom through the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Tutsi supremacists have fit in well with neo-liberal feudalism.

The Canadian multinationals Barrick Corporation and Banro Corporation stand out in infamy in eastern Congo, among others. They are Canadian mining corporations but are connected to the Anglo-American networks as Canada is a member of the British Commonwealth. Congolese author Patrick Mbeko and the late Honoré Ngbanda, former Defense Minister under President Mobutu, have detailed the role of these Canadian companies in destabilizing eastern Congo in order to rape its resources amidst the chaos.
Mbeko – Canada and the Tutsi Power of Rwanda: Two decades of complicity. [Source: io.wp.com]
Mbeko. Strategies of Chaos and Lies. [Source: io.wp.com]

Roger Winter appeared on the scene in Kigali in 1994 and was regarded as Paul Kagame`s chief adviser. Winter, who died in January 2023, was Executive Director of the U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants which is an American NGO. He also held positions as the Assistant Administrator of USAID and worked at the State Department as Deputy Secretary. He was the Special Representative for Sudan.

Winter was personally awarded two medals by Paul Kagame: He was the recipient of “URUTI,” Rwanda’s National Liberation Medal, and “UMURINZI,” Rwanda’s Campaign Against Genocide Medal.
Roger Winter and Paul Kagame, Kigali. [Source: io.wp.com]

Roger Winter played a fundamental role in supporting the Tutsi aristocracy who were expelled from Uganda by Milton Obote. He crafted the narrative in Washington that the Tutsi elite were a persecuted minority in Rwanda. Winter was not a philanthropist. He worked for the United States shadow government to orchestrate regime change in Rwanda and the balkanization of Sudan under John Garang.

In an interview with Keith Harmon Snow, Faustin Twagiramungu, former Prime Minister under Paul Kagame`s Rwandan Patriotic Front government (1994-1995), said of U.S. intelligence operative Roger Winter:

“Well Roger Winter is a mysterious personality I should say. The first time I saw this man was on July 19, 1994. This was in Kigali. I saw him clapping the shoulders of Mr. Kagame. Then I was so curious I asked ‘who is this?’ I was told that is Mr. Roger Winter. What did he do? He is the person who helped the RPF take power.’ This is the information I got. Then I asked: why did he help RPF? Oh he was in charge of the American refugee committee or something like this. And therefore he negotiated with the people, the media, to make sure the RPF is the only one taken into account for having suffered a lot while the Tutsis were in the camps and the time has come for them to go back, not peacefully but taking up arms. Roger Winter personally is a trouble-maker in Africa. Today I think he is busy with the situation in Sudan, in Darfur. I don’t know what part of the rebels he is helping to take power there. But he is a very dangerous person for me and for the continent, I should say.”

Roger Winter worked with, among others, John Prendergast, who formed the Enough Project using Hollywood to propagandize the “genocide” narrative with actors such as George Clooney, Don Cheadle, Ben Affleck, Mia Farrow and Angelina Jolie. They perpetuate the myth of the origin of Paul Kagame and the RPF’s role in the events of 1994, as do the Western corporate media.
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John Prendergast working under the cover of a humanitarian. [Source: savedarfuraccountabilityproject.wordpress.com]
Commercialization of Poverty

Organizations like the U.S. Committee for Refugees are not philanthropic. They are part of the poverty/misery industry. They benefit by commercializing poverty, capitalizing on suffering. The millions in funding come from taxpayers but are recycled within the country of origin, making the organization or NGO-industrial complex an extremely well-funded and influential lobby group to influence foreign policy makers and public opinion through the corporate media. They function in the same way as the military-industrial complex that keeps wars going to sell weapons and keep in their pay senators and congressmen.

The United States is the largest humanitarian aid provider in DRC, providing US$ 375 million in 2023/2024 alone. This commercialization of poverty like any industry relies on supply and demand. In Congo it functions on a societal level, much like a welfare state, without much welfare. It provides only hand-outs, not hand-ups, while it undercuts domestic production, making it difficult for genuine entrepreneurs. It creates the aid economy and perpetuates the supply of poverty. Being needy pays.

It is estimated that up to 60% of humanitarian aid from donor countries remains within the donor country`s economy. It is a recycling of money or money laundering which subsidizes the donor economy.

Renzo Martens’ documentary Enjoy Poverty illustrates how the poverty industry works in favor of the West and how organizations such as Save the Children and UNHCR use poverty to market their product of humanitarian aid.

Bill Clinton is integral to Rwanda 1994. While governor of Arkansas, according to an insider Congolese source, Bernard Buleri, he supported the diaspora of the Tutsi elite, many of whom were in exile in the U.S., having been thrown out of Uganda by Milton Obote. As a student, Clinton had studied with Jean-Paul Rutagarama, the son of a Rwandan businessman. Clinton reportedly had an affair with his sister who he wanted to marry but Clinton`s family would not allow it. According to Buleri, she became his link to the inner circles of the Tutsi elite and Bill Clinton became the Tutsi elite`s lobbyist.

As stated by Jean-Marie Vianney Higiro:

“As soon as the RPF took control of Rwanda, the United States under President Clinton
dispatched a military contingent supposedly to provide humanitarian assistance to war survivors in Rwanda and Rwandan refugees in Zaire, now the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), and to assist in the reconstruction of the country. It set up a military assistance program to transform the RPF guerrilla army into a more professional army. The Rwandan army became an important component of the U.S. strategy of the Africa Command (AFRICOM) headquartered in Stuttgart, Germany.”

Bill Clinton was an honorary guest at this year’s 30th anniversary commemoration of Rwanda 1994.
Bill Clinton at Kigali International Airport. [Source: io.wp.com]

The West continues with the charade of Paul Kagame, the hero of Rwanda. Jeremy Kuzmarov writes in his article: `Psyops Regarding 1994 Rwanda Genocide Continues With 30th Anniversary Commemoration:` 

“President Joe Biden, a U.S. Senator at the time of the genocide, released a statement on April 7 emphasizing that “most of the more than 800,000 women, men and children killed in the one hundred days that followed the launching of the genocide were ‘ethnic Tutsis.’” Biden’s claim is contradicted by the 1991 Rwandan census, which listed 596,000 Tutsis living in Rwanda, with 300,000 estimated to have survived. That would mean that 296,000 Tutsis were killed by Hutu and that the rest of the dead—over 500,000—were Hutus. An overwhelming number of the latter were killed by the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF), which Kagame led.”

Rwandan businessman Jean-Paul Rutagarama is a close associate of Paul Kagame. They have recently invested in a joint venture in northern Mozambique. Their business near Cabo Delgado is gold mines and terrorism.

The Clintons’ connection is covered in Wayne Madsen’s Decade of Death: Secret Wars and Genocide in Africa 1993-2003, published in 2012.

The Tony Blair connection to Paul Kagame is also integral to the origin of Rwanda 1994. Blair, Britain’s most unpopular politician, was prime minister from 1997 to 2007. Under his leadership the UK was complicit in a regime-change war in Sierra Leone. Tim Spicer`s British mercenary company Aegis Defence Services, formerly known as Sandline, and a South African mercenary company linked to the Anglo-American De Beers network, Executive Outcomes were key operatives in one of Africa’s most brutal wars. Sierra Leone is rich in alluvial diamonds. Hollywood dutifully produced Blood Diamond in order to propagandize Western complicity in the carnage.

In 2003 Tony Blair duped the British Parliament into supporting active intervention in Iraq by lying about Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction.

Blair is chairman of the international council of the Wall Street bank JP Morgan and facilitated the merger of Glencore and Xstrata, both City of London multinational corporations. The City of London extractive multinationals are the main beneficiaries of the mineral looting and destabilization of eastern Congo.

Blair founded the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change (TBI) in 2016. Prior to then, he operated under the African Governance Initiative (AGI) which is operational in 14 African countries including Rwanda. Blair`s TBI promotes neo-liberal economic policies and facilitates private networks for the City of London financial circles.

For anyone who doubts the intimate relationship between Paul Kagame and the City of London, let us go back to the summer of 2015.

Rwanda`s Chief Intelligence Officer, General Emmanuel Karenzi Karake, landed at Heathrow Airport in June 2015 on official business for the Rwandan government. Spanish authorities promptly arrested him for war crimes connected to the 1994 genocide.

Of all the defense lawyers in London, who should come running to his aid and fight his extradition to Spain, but Cherie Booth, the wife of Tony Blair.
A person in a dress holding a blue folder Description automatically generatedCherie Booth, wife of Tony Blair. [Source: io.wp.com]
Kagame`s Pretext

After the Rwandan Patriot Army (RPA) took power in 1994, the armed forces of Rwanda were forced to flee across the border into eastern Congo. They congregated in the nearest foreign place of safety, the city of Goma in North Kivu, DRC. The armed forces of Rwanda prior to 1994 were the Force Armee du Rwanda, FAR. Once the Western media had cemented the false narrative of the events of April-July 1994, the Habyarimana government and its armed forces were falsely accused of genocide. The FAR then assumed the role of the liberation of Rwanda from Kagame`s RPF and became a guerrilla-style force operating in eastern Congo. The FAR were renamed the FDLR, Les Forces Démocratiques de Libération du Rwanda.

The FDLR became and continues to be the pretext for Kagame`s Rwanda to carry out incursions on Congolese territory as they accuse it of being a national security threat to Rwanda and accuse it of atrocities against the Tutsi community in Congo, the Banyamulenge community. M23, which is in effect the Rwandan military, uses the pretext of the FDLR as it claims to exist in order to protect the Banyamulenge Tutsi community in North Kivu from persecution.

The Genocide Narrative of Rwanda 1994 Supports the Claim of Congolese Tutsi Persecution. The only purpose of M23 and ADF is to control the mines, terrorize and depopulate in preparation for Rwandan annexation of North Kivu.
Sun City and “In the Name of National Unity”

In 1997, three years after Kagame took power in Rwanda, the Alliance of Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Congo-Zaire (AFDL) posing as an indigenous rebellion took power from the ousted President Mobutu Sese Seko. Laurent-Désiré Kabila was made president by the Ugandan-Rwandan puppeteers of the AFDL. Once in power in Kinshasa, Kabila attempted to turn the tables on his Rwandan and Ugandan backers. He sought help from tribal leaders across DRC asking for their support to rid Congo of outside forces. The Congolese military from the Mobutu era amassed to support him against the Rwandan and Ugandan invaders.
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Laurent-Désiré Kabila [Source: chronicles.rw]

There is documented evidence of 21 large-scale massacres carried out by Kagame`s Rwandan military on the website Hutugenocide.org. As stated on that source those are:

“only a small fraction of deliberate and arbitrary killings, massacres and extrajudicial executions of unarmed Hutu civilians and Hutu refugees in DRC by soldiers of the Rwandan Patriotic Army (RPA) and its Congolese ally Alliance des Forces Démocratiques pour la Libération du Congo-Zaïre (AFDL).”

President Laurent-Désiré Kabila was assassinated in January 2001 because he was refusing to carry out the orders of Kagame and Museveni on behalf of the multinationals. He was also refusing to pay the World Bank the enormous and odious debt owed from the government of Mobutu. Debt owed by a previous administration is called odious debt. Ten days after his assassination, one of his sons, Joseph Kabila, was inaugurated as president.

Professor Yaa-Lengi Ngemi states that the real identity of Joseph Kabila is Hyppolite Kanambe, Rwandan Tutsi and nephew of James Kabarebe. Kabarebe has been Paul Kagame`s right-hand man since Rwanda 1994. Kanambe, who publicly went by the name Kabila, (2001-2019) allowed for the complete rape and pillage of eastern Congo`s people and their minerals. However, during the latter part of his presidency he did attempt to act for Congo.
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Hyppolite Kanambe (aka Joseph Kabila). [Source: cntlive.com]

In January 2021, President Tshisekedi pardoned all those convicted of the murder of Laurent-Désiré Kabila, namely Colonel Eddy Kapend, indicating that he and those convicted with him were not responsible for the assassination.
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Colonel Eddy Kapend [Source: opinion-info.cd]

In 2002 the Pretoria Accord was signed in South Africa between Rwanda and DRC. Rwanda agreed to the withdrawal of the estimated 20,000 Rwandan troops from the DRC in exchange for international commitment toward the disarmament of the FAR/FDLR which by that time were denounced by the international community as “genocidaires” responsible for Rwanda 1994.

The disarmament process was used as a vehicle to disarm not just the FDLR but also the Congolese military by classifying Hutu militia as the target of disarmament. Prior to that, the DRC had already been under an arms embargo imposed on it by the United States. This was the forward planning to incapacitate the Congolese military.

The massive presence of Rwandan troops had not only resulted in mass murder of Rwandan Hutus but in mass murder of Congolese. Rwanda looted every mechanical object and anything of value from the eastern provinces during this time, including machinery from factories, rendering the productive economy that did exist under Mobutu obsolete.

By 2003 the mass killings had reached epic proportions resulting in international intervention by the United Nations. South Africa, then under the presidency of Thabo Mbeki, hosted the peace accords at a location in South Africa, a casino called Sun City. Etienne Tshisekedi, leader of the Congolese political party UDPS, attended but refused to sign. Etienne Tshisekedi was the father of the current president, Felix Antoine Tshisekedi.

The Sun City Agreement facilitated the legalized coup of the DRC state apparatus on behalf of the Anglo-American financial networks which wanted access to the strategic minerals, especially cobalt.

Over the years the world has been deliberately confused by a plethora of acronyms representing around 200 armed militia groups operating across eastern Congo, a tactic designed to confuse the public as the armed militias, despite the different labels such as M23, were and still are the invading forces of Rwanda and Uganda. M23 is a renamed version of CNDP, Congrès National pour la Défense du Peuple. Laurent Nkunda was its warlord and is a Congolese Banyamulenge Tutsi. The CNDP then split with another version headed by Bosco Ntaganda.

M23 is now being relabeled again as AFC, Alliance Fleuve Congo. This outfit uses the customary claptrap about seeking equal rights for the Banyamulenge community on its website:

“The Alliance Fleuve Congo (AFC) was founded in December 2023, stemming from a deep desire to see a united, prosperous and peaceful Congo. Born out of the need to combat divisions and inequalities, the AFC is the result of collaboration between various political leaders, social activists, and committed citizens.”

Its leader, Corneille Nangaa, has been seeking the backing of Washington`s new NATO partner in Africa, Kenya President William Ruto, who is Nilotic/Semitic/Tutsi/Hima. All of those ethnic groupings essentially form an ethnic group of Semitic origin. Unlike his predecessor, Uhuru Kenyatta, who was an Africanist, Ruto is allying with supremacist friends. Kenyan forces were and possibly still are deployed in DRC as part of the East African Community, EAC, peacekeeping deployment as DRC joined the EAC two years ago. It is said that the Kenyan forces re-armed M23 while deployed in DRC, which is why the population of North and South Kivu and Ituri demanded they be removed, and why DRC is now considering withdrawing from the EAC.
President William Ruto at the White House 2024. [Source: io.wp.com]

South Africa and the Southern African Development Community, SADC, are proving to be a genuine ally to DRC in combating Kagame and Museveni.

The illegal trade in minerals from eastern Congo goes via Rwanda or Uganda. Uganda has been devastating the once beautiful forests of Ituri, home to the Twa, which is why the Twa have been murdered and terrorized for so long. From Uganda, the illegal cargo goes via Ituri to Kenya. Once in Kenya it is shipped internationally via Mombasa.

Under the Sun City Agreement and in the name of national unity, warlords were allocated positions in the new government of national unity and their militia groups turned into political parties.

This is not a unique procedure in the case of DRC. Transitional governments and governments of national unity arranged under the auspices of the United Nations have used the pretext of peace building to gain entry into many African governments using this “peace-building” technique. Somalia and Libya are other examples where pro-Western governments have been installed through this process.

This process is currently under way in Haiti in order to install a pro-American government. In the case of DRC, creating a “Government of National Unity” out of military men who had track records of killing in the coldest of blood was an insult of epic proportions.

The Sun City Accord assimilated all Rwandan and Ugandan-backed militias into FARDC, Forces Armées de la République Démocratique du Congo.

Sun City resulted in four vice presidents under the United Nations-appointed Transitional Government. Of those four, the key appointment was that of Azarias Ruberwa. The others were included to make the appointment of Ruberwa less obvious in its purpose: he was Paul Kagame`s main agent. Jean Pierre-Bemba was appointed for the Ugandan connection. His role was to facilitate the illegal trade of minerals and timber to Museveni.
Azarias Ruberwa président du RCD

The Sun City peace agreement resulted in the writing of the new Constitution. Azarias Ruberwa was appointed the Chief of the Commission for the Constitution. Ruberwa was from the militia RCD, Rassemblement Congolais pour la Démocratie. and is from the Banyamulenge community. He was appointed Vice Prime Minister in 2003. Under the new Constitution equal rights, i.e., minority rights, must be given to all ethnic groups.
Banyamulenge, Congolese Tutsi Community

According to living memory, the very first Tutsi from Rwanda, Banyamulenge, arrived on the Ruzizi Plains in 1936, having migrated there with their cattle herds in search of grazing. There was a famine in Rwanda at the time. More Banyamulenge arrived after 1945. Under President Mobutu, Rwandan Banyamulenge were granted Congolese citizenship.

The Banyamulenge community consists of approximately 600,000 people, out of a total Congolese population of 102 million. There are more than 400 different ethnic groups that make up the Congolese nation and yet minority rights written into the DRC Constitution are used as the legal reason for the appointment of Banyamulenge to powerful positions within government and the framework of the state.

Banyamulenge Tutsi generals and high-ranking officers have been placed in powerful positions, according to constitutional equal representation and the historic incorporation into FARDC of rebel militias. These sectors of Banyamulenge Tutsi military have committed atrocities in the past against Congolese civilians.

Now their tactic is to turn a blind eye when M23 commits massacres. They will witness atrocities and not protect. Currently, there are 15 Tutsi generals and 240 Tutsi colonels. These Banyamulenge-headed contingents have deliberately given false intelligence to non-Banyamulenge FARDC contingents in order that they be ambushed by M23.

The United Nations MONUSCO peacekeeping/occupation force operates in the same way. They turn a blind eye. There are multiple cases of MONUSCO ignoring the presence of M23. There are videos on social media showing M23 filing past MONUSCO troops who act as if they do not see them.

This is why, in 2007, a FARDC general, General William Yakutumba, left FARDC and created the Mai-Mai militias in order to protect the civilian population. The U.S. designated the Mai-Mai a terrorist force and The Economist published a desultory piece mocking their efforts. That Economist article is no longer available on the internet.
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President Felix Tshisekedi, who was elected in 2019, has openly called out Rwanda as the force behind M23. In doing so he has broken a previously held open secret that all have known all along. It was a break with diplomacy for him to do so and on a personal level, very brave. He has openly accused Kagame of behaving like Hitler and has said “I promise he will end up like Hitler.”
A person sitting at a table Description automatically generatedFelix Tshisekedi [Source: congoprofond.net]

In his address to the 78th Session of the UN General Assembly, President Tshisekedi, announced that the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the DRC, MONUSCO, will end in December 2023. In addition, he urged the UN Security Council to act on its mandate and charge Rwandans and Ugandans whom the UN has already found complicit in heinous crimes in eastern DRC as documented in the Mapping Report.

President Tshisekedi stated that MONUSCO has had the same net result as experienced in other regions of the continent where its mandates are now being revoked. He said the following:

“It is thus illusory and counterproductive to continue to cling to maintaining MONUSCO to re-establish peace in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and to stabilize it. Furthermore the accelerated withdrawal of MONUSCO is absolutely necessary to ease the tensions between MONUSCO and our citizens. It is the time to explore new avenues for strategic collaboration with the United Nations mechanisms that are more in lockstep with our current realities. This is why in my capacity as guarantor under the Constitution, guarantor of the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence in my country and to ensure the good conduct of our nation and the well-being of my compatriots, in this capacity I’ve instructed the government of the Republic to begin discussions with the UN authorities to ensure an accelerated withdrawal of MONUSCO from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, moving up the deadline from December 2024 to December 2023. And this is the meaning behind the step of our government which addressed a letter to the president of the Security Council of the United Nations dated one September 2023 asking for the accelerated withdrawal of MONUSCO.”

The population deeply resents MONUSCO’s presence. The Tutsi-controlled military units within FARDC and MONUSCO have presided over 25 years of carnage.

Édouard Mwangachuchu Hizi is the key mineral dealer in eastern DRC. To put into perspective the complicity of MONUSCO, Mwangachuchu`s house is directly opposite MONUSCO headquarters in Goma. Mwangachuchu is a Tutsi. He was arrested by the Congolese authorities earlier this year for his illegal activities spanning decades: supplying Congolese minerals, coltan, from the Rubaya mines, to Rwanda. He was released from prison pleading charges of persecution as he is Banyamulenge.
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Édouard Mwangachuchu Hizi [Source: mediacongo.net]

Tshisekedi knows FARDC is infiltrated but cannot change this as the Banyamulenge are protected by the Constitution and must have representation in all sectors of government. Many Banyamulenge Tutsi are in high positions in the National Intelligence Service and the police.

Using members from the Banyamulenge community to act for the interests of Kagame when in powerful military or government positions is an on-going reason for the continuation of instability in the east.

The Parliament passed an extremely important bill in 2023 that makes it illegal to assimilate into FARDC any soldier who has previously borne arms against the state. Passage of this bill defies the United Nation as well as the Sun City Agreement.

It is for Congo and the Banyamulenge community to resolve this issue once and for all. For the Banyamulenge moneyed elites, it is for them to come to terms with the fact that they no longer need to be slaves to a Rwandan Tutsi aristocracy, who class them as lowly cousins; they can instead be full citizens of the DRC and work for the interests of the Congolese nation. However, unless they can dramatically change their views, there can be no inclusion of them into Congolese society.

The Banyamulenge community continues to demand the right to land. This is an indication that they do not see themselves as citizens of Congo, or as Congolese, but as Rwandan Tutsis.

If the Great Lakes nations are to proceed peacefully, the dictatorship of Paul Kagame and the Tutsi supremacist ideology must end. In a televised address to the convention of the Rwandan People’s Government in Exile (GREX) in 2023, journalist Keith Harmon Snow reiterated the need for change in Rwanda:

“Until we forgive, we do not love. And more than anything else in the world, love is in need of love today. And so, I will close by saying that we must both understand and never forget our true history. It is only through this understanding, this truth, combined with integrity, forgiveness and love, can we hope to break the cycle of violence against others, and ourselves. This is a very personal responsibility for each and every one of us.”- Keith Harmon Snow, “The Emancipation of the Rwandan People,” given at the convention of the Rwandan People’s Government in Exile (GREX) Paris, 2023.
Rwanda Is Conscripting Rwandans

Footage on social media shows the state of Rwandan foot soldiers, those captured by FARDC and held as POWs. They are emaciated. Many of these young, under-fed recruits are from very poor rural areas of Rwanda. Paul Kagame runs an apartheid, feudal state that discriminates against poor, rural people, especially Hutu Rwandans. There are no human rights in Kagame’s Rwanda.

Kagame has reigned supreme for the last 30 years. He has returned Rwanda to the supremacist ideology of his forefathers of the Tutsi aristocracy who kept Hutu as landless, cattle-less serfs and treated the poor of their own kind with the same cruel disdain. The Tutsi elite are fascist supremacists who view themselves as the only rightful rulers of the Great Lakes. They despise other people and, like Hitler`s Nazi ideology, do not regard them as worthy of living.
Asylum Center

The UK has finalized a deal with Rwanda to send migrants entering the UK to Rwanda to be processed in a facility there. Veteran Congolese activist Charles Onana says that this deal is to supply new cannon fodder for the Rwandan military. Others say it is to start an ISIS cell in the Great Lakes region.

The UK-Rwanda deal, very likely, has also to do with cash. The UK is using it as a pretext to prop up the ailing economy of Kagame`s Rwanda in order to keep the illegal mineral trade operating. FARC is securing more areas from M23 control, which has led to a much-reduced illegal flow of minerals from Congo mines to Rwanda. Rwanda used to be among the top ten gold exporters globally.

There is no gold in Rwanda.
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Regional Support

Burundi is fully supporting DRC. There is a strong friendship between Burundian President Évariste Ndayishimiye and President Tshisekedi. Ndayishimiye has called on Rwandans to be brothers once again in the Great Lakes.

Tanzania has now joined Burundi and Congo in calling out Paul Kagame as the operator of all terrorism in the region, including in northern Mozambique.
Child Slavery in Perspective

To trade in coltan you need a mineral trading license that costs around $60,000. The cost of the license is part of the conflict-free certification. All that does is keep the trade within elite circles. All the hype in the media about child labor is to continue the narrative of “conflict-free.”

A child can earn more in a week digging for coltan than he can earn in a year otherwise. The real slavery is the imperialist system operated from the West that has kept Africa the raw materials market of the world, the spider`s web of Empire.

Until recently Congo had an annual budget of $6 billion. Tshisekedi has now managed by forcing taxation rises, to increase it to $18 billion. Congo is four times larger than France. It is the richest country in the world in terms of resources and yet its annual budget is the equivalent to that of just one province in South Africa, the Western Cape.

Some 90% of its revenue (figure now lower as Tshisekedi is diversifying the economy) is from mining. Western mining companies in Africa can pay as little as 3% tax through fraudulent accounting. Mining corporations in DRC currently pay around 10% tax. Congo has been the looting ground of the West since the days of King Leopold and his rubber plantations.

Kagame`s nexus is now crumbling as the entire edifice of Western hegemony is subject more and more to challenge.

Several years ago, people in DRC were misled into believing in Paul Kagame`s demise. The celebrations that took place were larger and more exuberant than if Congo had won the World Cup. All that is needed is the emancipation of the Rwandan people which will lead to the emancipation of the Congolese and the re-unification of the Great Lakes nations.

The author would like to thank Keith Harmon Snow for contributing to this article.

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Five Rwandan genocide suspects living freely in Britain 30 years after massacre

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/c ... 82814.html

Exclusive: MPs’ fury as Metropolitan Police fails to conclude investigation it started six years ago and judges refuse to extradite the men who have lived here for two decades

Amy-Clare Martin Crime Correspondent Saturday 06 April 2024 17:04 BST

Rwandan genocide suspects are still living freely in Britain, 30 years after the massacre which killed 800,000 people, amid “inexplicable” delays to a UK police probe into the allegations.

MPs and the Rwandan authorities have called on the Metropolitan Police – which launched an investigation six years ago – to hurry up and decide whether they can bring a case against the five men, who settled in the UK in the aftermath of the 1994 genocide.

The five suspects, who have lived in the UK for decades, deny any involvement with the atrocities and have never faced trial to answer horrific allegations. One of the men is accused of helping to lead attacks in a village where 40,000 Tutsis were said to have died.

British High Court judges have so far refused Rwanda’s extradition pleas over fears the men would not face a fair trial in their home country.

But officials in Kigali have called for a trial in the UK instead, with Britain accused of “lagging behind” other nations in ensuring those suspected answer to allegations. France and Belgium are among the countries that have already held trials for a number of accused.

Campaigners and politicians have now urged the government to ensure “justice is done”, amid fears time is running out for the suspects to answer to the allegations, and as the country marks the 30th anniversary of the start of the Genocide Against the Tutsi, which took place between 7 April and 15 July 1994.

It comes as Rishi Sunak battles to push through his controversial Rwanda deportation plan, which, if passed, would see asylum seekers who arrive illegally in the UK sent to the east African country. They are currently not allowed to be sent there as Rwanda is not seen as safe.


Reporter Amy-Clare Martin approaches suspect Celestin Mutabaruka in 2019
Reporter Amy-Clare Martin approaches suspect Celestin Mutabaruka in 2019 (Mirrorpix)


Speaking to The Independent, senior Tory MP Stephen Crabb, chair of the war crimes all-party parliamentary group (APPG), said the delays in the police probe were “frustrating and inexplicable”.

“Our small cross-party group of MPs and peers have become increasingly concerned about the lack of action with respect to the alleged genocidaires,” he said.

“We have previously had contact with the Met police about why no case has yet been brought. I would note that resource issues haven’t prevented the Met from pursuing other international issues, most recently with Israel and Gaza where they have been advertising for witnesses to come forward.”

He added: “With each passing year we have seen, unfortunately, the chances of getting a successful prosecution are diminishing.”

Around 800,000 people were killed in just 100 days in the Rwandan genocide, led by Hutu militias who targeted the Tutsi minority community and some moderate Hutus. Many perpetrators fled overseas.

The five suspects who have been living in England for around 20 years, all in their 60s, are named in an extradition judgement as Celestin Mutabaruka, from Kent; Vincent Brown, also known as Vincent Bajinya, from Islington, north London; Celestin Ugirashebuja, from Essex; Charles Munyaneza, from Bedford; and Emmanuel Nteziryayo, from Manchester. They all strenuously deny any wrongdoing, while one told The Independent the allegations were politically motivated.

Four of the men were first arrested in 2006 and detained after an extradition request by the Rwandan government, but released after they successfully appealed. A second request was issued for all five in 2013.


Rwandan high commissioner Johnston Busingye called for an investigation into the suspects to be expedited
Rwandan high commissioner Johnston Busingye called for an investigation into the suspects to be expedited (AFP/Getty)


Although a judge said each suspect had a prima facie case to answer, a 2017 High Court judgement concluded “there is a real risk of a flagrant denial of justice for these men if returned to Rwanda”.

Instead, Rwanda has supported an investigation launched in 2018 by Scotland Yard’s war crimes team, part of Counter Terror Command, with the potential for them to be tried in the UK.

However, despite multiple trips to Rwanda and several interviews under caution, the ongoing probe has so far not resulted in any arrests or charges.

While the lengthy Met investigation continues, one of the suspects has been living in a housing association-owned semi-detached home in Ashford, Kent. Celestin Mutabaruka co-founded the Fountain Church in Ashford, Kent, with his wife where he describes his role as a pastor.

In a statement to The Independent, he said: “I categorically refute all accusations levelled against me. These allegations are baseless and concocted by the Rwandan authorities.”

Responding to pleas for the investigation to be expedited, he said the police operate independently, adding: “I take solace in this independence, and welcome the investigation into the allegations against me, as it will demonstrate their falsehood and hopefully shed light on the similar plights plaguing Rwandans who dare oppose the regime.”

Vincent Bajinya, a doctor who has acquired British citizenship and changed his name to Brown, lives with his family in a flat on a Peabody-owned estate in Islington, north London. He categorically denies any wrongdoing.


Stephen Crabb MP, chair of the war crimes APPG, said he was ‘increasingly concerned’ over the lack of action over the suspects
Stephen Crabb MP, chair of the war crimes APPG, said he was ‘increasingly concerned’ over the lack of action over the suspects (PA Media)


Charles Munyaneza is understood to live in Bedford. The Independent contacted him for comment. His lawyer previously told the Mirror: “He lives with the stigma of the allegation. He has repeatedly asked to have that evidence tested in a UK court and is pleased that may finally take place.”

Celestin Ugirashebuja is said to be a care worker living in Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex. Emmanuel Nteziryayo, who was born in 1963, is thought to be living in Manchester.

Meanwhile, in a statement to The Independent, Rwanda issued a plea for the lengthy probe to be expedited.

Rwandan high commissioner Johnston Busingye said: “Alleged perpetrators of horrific crimes live freely, despite us knowing their names and the jurisdictions in which they live.

“We’ve been working with all the relevant authorities in the UK to ensure these individuals face justice. Every day justice is delayed for these victims is a day too many.

“We hope that all necessary measures are going to be taken to expedite the process that has taken a long time and to ensure that those who are alleged to have committed these crimes face justice.”

It comes after Paul Kagame, the president of Rwanda, previously suggested the men living in Britain should be extradited to Rwanda in light of the prime minister’s deal for Britain to send asylum seekers to be processed there.

Speaking in Kigali in May last year – less than two weeks after striking an asylum deal with the British government – Mr Kagame said he hoped “that when the UK is sending us these migrants, they should send us some people they have accommodated for over 15 years who committed crimes [in Rwanda]”.

Dr Andrew Wallis, who has written two books on the genocide, told The Independent: “We would like to think that our government would do everything possible to bring them [the suspects] back or for that country to put them on trial. So why is it different when the victims are not British?

“We tell the world that our justice system is the best, yet it seems grossly unfair that we are not interested in justice for those who are not British citizens.”

He added: “Time is ticking on this. The government has sat on its hands for too long.”


Rishi Sunak and Rwanda president Paul Kagame. Mr Kagame previously suggested the men should be extradited to Rwanda in light of the asylum deal
Rishi Sunak and Rwanda president Paul Kagame. Mr Kagame previously suggested the men should be extradited to Rwanda in light of the asylum deal (PA Archive)

This week Amnesty International called for nations to urgently pursue justice after several suspects sheltering around the world died before allegations were tried in court.

“Justice delayed is justice denied,” said Tigere Chagutah, Amnesty International’s regional director for east and southern Africa, as he urged authorities to “maintain momentum to deliver justice for survivors and relatives of victims in Rwanda”.

Meanwhile, the Liberal Democrats’ home affairs spokesperson, Alistair Carmichael, said: “Thirty years on, justice for survivors of the Rwandan genocide is long overdue. The Met and the Conservative government should be working together to do everything they can to deliver justice in this case, while respecting the findings of the High Court.”

A Met Police spokesperson said its investigation relating to allegations of genocide offences in Rwanda in the 1990s is ongoing, adding that dozens of witness statements had been taken and a number of interviews carried out under caution.

They added: “We continue to liaise with the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) and partner agencies in Rwanda as we progress lines of enquiry. Investigations into alleged historical war crimes committed overseas are extremely challenging and complex, and building cases is often a lengthy process.”

Asked if the government will challenge the court’s extradition refusal in light of the Rwanda deportation policy, a Home Office spokesperson said: “Extradition matters with Rwanda are not part of our migration and economic development partnership and to suggest otherwise would be completely wrong.

“This is an independent Metropolitan Police inquiry and it would be inappropriate for us to comment further.”