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Kigali — It never ceases to amaze, that when someone succeeds at anything without the blessings of "Big Brother", the latter always predicts doom.
Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) one morning wake up and decide that enough is enough; the continued presence of genocidal forces in the eastern DR Congo, the FDLR has reached the end of its tether and the two countries decide to go it alone where the international community had collectively failed.
This unprecedented "home grown" move has made many "experts" of the region go into over-drive because they were not involved in the decision.
It is a well known fact that the so-called humanitarian agencies are always the first to cry foul! Whenever there is no mileage to be won to or support their raison d'etre.
Their argument in this DRC-Rwanda operation in the eastern part of the Congo is; "the UN was not consulted which will lead to the people suffering."
The UN has been spending on MONUC (UN Peacekeepers) close to US$ one billion a year for the last decade and they have nothing to show for it on the ground.
They have failed to disarm the FDLR (and some even find it more profitable to let the conflict drag on) and instead spend their time re-enacting "cowboy and Indian" games they used to play in their blissful child-hoods.
Their neo-colonial attitude, as expressed by the International Crisis Group (ICG) on Aljazeera, that the operation will bring more suffering to the population in eastern DRC, simply because MONUC was not consulted is not only laughable, but it gives the resolve to both Rwanda and the DRC to succeed and prove the prophets of doom wrong.
ICG and the likes have never used their "influence" to campaign for the neutralization of genocidaire leaders living freely in Western Capitals, mobilising resources to bring more suffering to the very people these NGO's claim to protect.
That is the biggest irony.
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First of all, if you know how politics operate, this operation was ordered by the US. How coincidence do you think it is that it comes so soon after Obama becomes president? As a Rwandan whose family lived for many years in Congo, I welcome this operation, however I think it's time we move to making decisions on our own. Last fall Rwanda was helping Nkunda rout government forces, now they are helping the government forces take Nkunda. How funny is that? We Africans are puppets, and like puppets we do things because the puppetmaster pulls our strings even though we might not comprehend why we're doing them. This is what Rwanda is doing. What should be a lesson to all of us Africans, Rwandan leaders included, is that the puppetmaster always has a way of reminding you that he is in charge, not you. When Rwanda's leaders have served their purpose, they will go the way of Nkunda. It's sad, as an African nationalist it breaks my heart to see my people used as if they were chess pieces. Sooner or later, however, we will throw off our chains. We will deal with our Nkundas without waiting for outside orders. I can't wait for that day. http://nyampinga.blogspot.com
The UN and other international organizations are corrupt too. The UN solidiers have been looting, raping and murdering Congolese. The Democratic Republic of Congo is a mess. There are no saints operating there. All are now seeking for their part of action.
The DRC needs to assert its sovereignity, and stop been used as playground for all kinds of other people wars and source mineral wealth. From the cold wars through the Mugabes and UN to now the Konys and the Nkuda, accompained with millions upon millions dead: when is enough enough ?
i am a camerooian teaching in china .one day i asked one of my students what she watched on tv.without any time wasted she told me she watched some pictures from africa,and when i asked back to know her response from those pictures she watched ,she said they were too nasty.i was crust with a holy love for my continent to tell this student what china was like in the 1930s to1950s.just to make a long story short i want to thank God for Kagame and kabila to resolve these differences maturely without the conscent of the imperialists.because they're always out to sow seeds of discords, when cameroon and nigeria peacefully solve their border conflict CNN and BCC never made it their head lines but when Mugabe is trying to flush out imperialism out it now become the talk of the day God bless Africa
Leke, what you call Mugabe "flushing out imperialism" is actually Mugabe choking Zimbabweans to death. Yes, Mugabe talks a lot against the West and "imperialism" just as a cover up for all the atrocities that he and his Zanu-pf are committing against his own people. Starting from the thousands of Ndebele he slaughtered in the Bulawayo area to the current MDC opposition citizens of which some were herded into their homes and burned alive, men women and children. Were these soldiers fighting a war? No. These were defenseless Zimbabweans trying to exercise their God given rights for freedom to vote. Mugabe is a dictator, a murderer and a thief who has stashed billions in foreign banks whilst his own people are starving. Millions of Zimbabweans have fled to neighboring countries from his wrath and for lack of jobs because he s thrashed his country.