President of France, Nicolas Sarkozy, a descendant of Hungarian immigrants who was born into wealth, on March 26th, 2009, stood inside the Parliament of the Democratic Republic of Congo and would neither apologize nor offer reparations for France's role in the deaths of over five million Congolese who have perished from wars inside Congo's borders; the massive looting of the country's resources; the destruction of her economy, and the culture of international impunity against the Congo all of which occurred between 1998 and 2009.

With typical contempt, he sought to divert attention by becoming a new philosopher of unity, cooperation and courage in relations between a deeply injured Congo and a gun-totting economically rapacious Rwanda. He saluted as a "courageous decision" a recent blood-stained collaboration between the armies of Rwanda and Congo that turned Hutu refugees into mere pests to be hunted down, outside the cover of morality and humanism, even though they remained citizens of Rwanda. In President Sarkozy's view, armed Hutus are apparently the only ones who can commit genocide.

The year 1997 marked the historic, even if silent, fall from power and flight into a short exile, quickly followed by death from cancer, by President Mobutu Sese Seko Kukubendu Wazabanga. His venalities were longer, and more destructive, than his names. Mobutu had, since his role in the murder of Patrice Lumumba - Congo's first and vigorously anti-colonial Prime Minister- ruled and ruined the country continuously for 29 years as a loyal friend of France and the NATO countries. Nelson Mandela must today dread the day he sought peace and reconciliation on a South African navy ship off the coast of Congo by calling a sick and frightened Mobutu sitting to his right, and a bulky Kabila cheered by alcohol to his left, as "two of the greatest sons of Africa". Under his rule French global propaganda could proudly claim that sad and tortured country as the largest "French-speaking country in the world".

His fall came when the Cold War had ended, Soviet communists had become new Russian millionaires hawking raw gold inside suitcases inside hotels in New York, London and Amsterdam. The Soviet empire had broken up under Mikhail Gorbachev as western leaders, led by Henry Kissinger, mocked his naiveté in global statesmanship by believing that President Reagan and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher loved him and were trusted friends. With the fall of Soviet power also fell the usefulness of Mubutu as a herds-boy and loyal foreman to protect the vast natural resources of the Congo by keeping away communist rivals.

The road to Mobutu's fall started when France decided to fight a defensive diplomatic and military battle over Rwanda against a British-American plan encircle and contain Islamic fundamentalism being brewed by Omar Bashir in Sudan by putting in power friendly rulers in Eritrea, Ethiopia, Uganda and Rwanda. In Rwanda they would replace the Hutu rulers, who were linked to the French language, by supporting an invasion launched from Tanzania against Idi Amin; and later re-launched from Uganda against Habyalimana's government in Kigali. The second offensive saw Museveni's troops, tanks and guns being used by the Tutsi-based Rwanda Patriotic Front, RPF, whose leaders had grown up and been educated up to university level, in Uganda. Their Tutsi parents had escaped brutal death and slaughter by Hutu gangs on the eve of the country's independence in 1959. Having seen Idi Amin seize and use power in Uganda around a tribal dream, even though clothed with Islam, the leaders of the RPF also began to dream of going back home to grab back the power that had been launched with the blood of the Tutsi as libation to long fermented anger of oppressed Hutu ancestors. Realizing that the triumph of RPF would mean the expansion of the English language into the Great Lakes region, and would eventually eat up the vast Congo, French leaders decided to welcome Tutsi fighters into a Rwanda without any Tutsi's left to join their invading forces. France had once played a similar vicious game of destroying furniture, ripping off telephones from government offices, tearing up and burning government files in anger that SekourToure's people in Guinea had voted to become independent instead of remaining tied to France. It is either France gets all the control in Africa or nothing remains standing.

The government of Paul Kagame has publicly accused French diplomats, military officers, business adventurers and administrators of deliberately and systematically planning and training Hutu militias to exterminate Tutsis out of Rwanda. France has countered back by accusing Kagame himself of carrying out the shooting down, in 1994, of the aircraft that was carrying the two democratically elected Hutu presidents of Rwanda and Burundi . They were returning from peace talks, held in Arusha, Tanzania, and a power-sharing formula between the invading RPF and the incumbent Hutu-led government. Hutus constitute the majority in both countries, and since democracy is a game of arithmetic, they would win a free and fair election any day. Sarkozy inherited the bitter recriminations with Kagame. He also inherited France's role in the 1994 genocide that exploded all across Rwanda. As the RPF became unstoppable, Hutu civilians in their hundreds of thousands fled into Mobutu's Congo. So did the remnants of the Rwanda army and the militias that had been trained to conduct the genocide planned with the collaboration of French officials.

French officials and diplomats supported efforts by the international non-governmental organizations and the International Committee of the Red Cross to feed the Hutu refugees, the Interahamwe "genocedaires", and remnants of former Rwanda troops inside the Congo. They were camped within easy range if they wished to continue fighting the RPF inside Rwanda. Herein lay the main body of France's 'Rwanda hook-bomb' that would explode inside Congo and blast Mobutu out of power. The RPF, and their supports in Uganda, would be lured into not only chasing after the Hutu attackers now lodged across the border in Congo, but also the temptation to drive out their willing host, Mobutu, and rule over a vast Congo empire.. The genocide in Rwanda had disgusted even former President Nyerere to the point where he would not be in a position to restrain those in Tanzania who agreed with a plan to rid East and Central Africa of Mobutu as a long deadly political poison. Tanzanian officials are reported to have recovered Laurent Kabila from bars of Dar es Salaam and dusted him up into returning to his days as a revolutionary who once had the historic honour of being assisted by the legendary Che Guevara in his short-lived armed war against Mobutu in the mid-1960s.