What is happening in Kivu?

By El Memeyi Murangwa
07/24/13
FORT WORTH, Texas – The text below is a call against a criminal policy implementation. It is taking place before our eyes as a thick blanket of media disinformation disguised as good intentions.
In 1994, perpetrators of the Tutsi genocide in Rwanda fled en masse to Kivu in eastern Congo. For nearly twenty years the genocidal Rwandan army and Interahamwe militia, known as the FDLR, have spread terror throughout the region; killing villagers, raping, and using female genital mutilation as a means of forced sterilization. Systematic rape is now part of a genocidal program of terror. The integration of the FDLR into the armed forces of the DRC (FARDC) partly explains the fact that the main battalion of rapists is found within the government army. Most of the time the wrong perpetrators are accused by Human Right Watch (HRW), which use an elementary technique of misinformation relayed by the French-African networks for geopolitical interests. Government propaganda used by Laurent Kabila and continued by his son Joseph Kabila is reported as “fact.” And this assigns responsibility and blame for crimes against women improperly on other armed groups in the region-especially the political and military opposition movement called M23.
The enormity of the scandal of the last twenty years of violence rolling through eastern Congo would eventually come to light, and in December an international petition signed by both the former president, Jacques Chirac, as the companion of the current, Valerie Trierwieler, called on the UN to intervene more effectively to help those martyred women – by not designating FARDC or FDLR for accountability but wrongly the M23 which fight both forces.
In July 2013, MONUSCO (Mission to the United Nations Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo) set up an offensive intervention brigade. For the first time, under Resolution 2098, adopted by the Security Council in March, “peacekeeping” forces in the UN are authorized to go to war.
Mid-July, the armed forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo (FARDC) have engaged in combat against the M23, with the backing of the Rwandan genocidal forces and tactical support of the MONUSCO offensive Brigade.
A UN report was recently leaked and confirms that FARDC collaborates closely with the genocidal FDLR.
The Ambassador of Rwanda to the United Nations, he complained last week that the officers of the MONUSCO intervention brigade had several high-level meetings with the FDLR leaders to coordinate their actions, together with the tight integration of the FDLR into FARDC. MONUSCO supports the action.
For its part, the M23 has complained that MONUSCO could give the FARDC a strategic position to locate their artillery, at the risk of putting the civilian populations under fire.
Recall that the 2098 UN resolution provided a mandate to disarm all rebels, including FDLR. However, now that it is allied with the FARDC, FDLR now finds itself directly involved in the offensive brigade of the UN.
Remember also that this offensive brigade is composed of one-third Tanzanian troops, and the brigade as a whole is under Tanzanian command, even though Tanzania does not hide its sympathy for genocidal forces that their soldiers are likely to encounter on field.
There were reports of delivery of arms and ammunition to the FDLR by the Tanzanian troops.
It is thus obvious that the international community runs the risk of being seriously misguided; going to the rescue of rapists and killers.
One is entitled to ask the French government, responsible for the direction of the forces of the UN peace keeping mission, to take the necessary steps to end the scandal of the corruption of the international action, and help put an end to this 20 year alliance with the Rwandan genocidal forces.