History teaches us that any deliberate effort of trying to erase any segment of human race has never succeeded.
What has largely succeeded is an attempt to exterminate, dehumanize through suppressive and oppressive means a section of the targeted population and relegating it to second class citizens with no rights at all.
It has happened in many countries including the most powerful as reflected in the stories of the Aboriginals of North America or Australia. In Rwanda, it was attempted for decades and climaxed into the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi.
Unfortunately, this cancer of using segregation to deny segments of disadvantaged population a God-given right to citizenship has continued to occur even in modern day politics.
It is happening next door and the world is simply watching.
The bitter truth is a section of Congolese in both South and North Kivu are living like 'endangered species.' Killing them has become a lesser crime compared to killing a Gorilla in the Virungas. Young Girls and women are raped daily. Those who survive the bullet do not survive Cholera. Constant displacement and refugee life has become a part of their daily menu.
If it's not FDLR pointing a gun barrel today, it's the Mai Mai or the Government soldiers or any of the rag-tag rebel outfits operating from this troubled region.
And yet the world has largely ignored this inhumane suffering. Nobody seems interested in raising voice over this bitter reality of suffering, misery and destituteness.
Instead, the chorus rotates around one individual, Bosco Ntaganda. Ironically, Ntaganda is accused of recruiting child soldiers and yet criminals accused of greater heinous crimes remain free and continue to wreck havoc.
As I have mentioned before, Eastern DRC will never be peaceful as long as the security concerns of this segment of population are not addressed.
Unfortunately, instead of addressing these concerns, some actors that are important in driving forward the peace process seem to be the very ones undermining this process by fanning the conflict.
The UN, through MONUSCO, is meant to play a neutral role. Unfortunately no action from their side, be it verbal or physical, that demonstrates this principle of neutrality. Instead they seem to gang up against one group without objectively examining whether their grievances are substantial.
Some human rights groups are worse. Instead of championing the rights of everyone irrespective of race, colour, creed or geographical location, they are part of the conspiracy articulating that is silencing the truth behind the root cause of this conflict.
The international media have also been hoodwinked. Either because of arm-chair journalism or deliberate effort to ignore the truth, they have mainly relied on the rumor mill circulated through the so-called 'experts' or the deliberately 'leaked' documents to draw their stories and conclusions.
Interestingly the title 'expert' seems to be a God-given right for some fellows alone. A chap descends from Paris, New York or London, spends one day in Goma , next day in Kigali and the following day is on BBC or CNN claiming to be an 'expert' of the Great lakes region.
The Kinshasa media which should be piling pressure on its lukewarm Government to explain why the truce signed with CNDP has never been respected, is instead falling back to hate speech that we saw 1998, with some openly calling for the annihilation of Kinyarwanda speaking Congolese.
This, once again begs the questions; If the United Nations, Human rights groups or the Kinshasa government have completely ignored the security threat of Kinyarwanda speaking Congolese, who will raise a red flag to ultimately end continued extermination or ethnic cleaning of these people?
There seems to be a coordinated move to shift blame on Rwanda. But the aim here is to divert attention and strategically put Rwanda on the defensive so that instead of consistently and constantly raising these concerns, it spends more time responding to rumors.
And the conspiracy is growing stronger. For example, I gather there's a report coming out of UN with names of some Rwandan military officers allegedly accused of arming the M-23 rebel group. Much as the credibility of this report has already been questioned, I can only hope that this list will be accompanied by another of fellows arming or trading in minerals with FDLR, the root cause of the problems we see today. Without it, then the conspiracy I mention cannot be questioned.
Truth be told; as long as a section of the population inside the Kivus continue to be killed with no tangible solution to ending it, then eastern DRC can kiss good bye to peace.
And again, if this conspiracy to silence the root cause of the problem continues, who will save the 'endangered' section of Congolese in eastern DRC? The options seem to be only two - defend themselves or perish!
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It is with a sad heart that I am commenting on this article entitled endangered people of eastern DRC. Really sad because according to this author only tutsi people in DRC are suffering. The author is trying to project an image used by their politician that a silent genocide is taking place in DRC and that the DRC government is behind that. What a lie, what a lie when people with the ability to think, to reason are creating chaos only for their own ego and selfish economical interest.
I would like to make it clear, I as a human being will never encourage war or genocide neither simple injustice. Hearing Kagame saying that the problem of Congo started before he was born makes me sad. Based on history the first genocide or first ethnic clashes in Rwanda between the hutus and tutsis was in 1957 or 1959, at that time DRC was still a belgium colony. Therefore DRC has nothing to do with the hatred between hutus and tutsis.
During Mr Mobutu's reign as president, tutsis as well as hutus have been given position in DRC. The Zairean government has never applied a policy to exterminate tutsis or make them feel as second citizens, the author will not be able to mention a single law passed either by our government or parliament alienating the tutsi population.
Since 1997, upon the arrival of Mr Kabila Laurent up to now with the government of Mr Joseph Kabila, the author of this terrible, unfair, full of lies article will be unable to prove or show us any piece of legislation passed against the tutsi population in DRC.
Beside from may 1997 up to August 1998 our chief of staff of the National Army was mr James Kabarebe, a rwandan national, who is currently the Minister of Defense in Rwanda and who is named of orchestrating this so called new rebellion of the M23 in the UN Report.
Dear readers, please think of it. Mr Kabarebe, the actual Minister of Defense of Rwanda, was our chief of staff of the army.
Since August 1998 up to December 2003, which is more than five years, almost a third of DRC was occupied by Rwanda through their agents, the so called "RCD" Rassemblement congolais pour la democratie, a rebellion mouvement.
Please dear readers think of it. Rwanda has occuppied the North and South Kivu, the Maniema Province, The Oriental Province(they even fought twice in Kinsangani with the ugandan army for the control of some diamond mines: Kisangani is located around 1500km from the Rwandan borders), a part of the katanga Province.
In 2004, we as a country have implemented the Sun City political accord. Based on that accord we had four vice presidents. One of the vice President Mr Ruberwa is a tutsi citizen and he was in charge of the security and army portfolio. He currently lives in Kinshasa, peacefully.
Dear readers think of it, a tutsi vice president of the Republic and this author wants to make you think that the tutsis in congo are an endangered "species".
For you who do not know, dear readers, our Chief of Police is Mr Bisengimana, a tutsi citizen. (Anywaw let me carry on).
Therefore this article is unjust and unfair and does not portray the reality on the ground. Our town of Goma or the North Kivu province can be regarded as the capital of rape in the world(sad reality), statistics are there to prove me wrong, THE VICTIMS ARE CONGOLESE CITIZENS AND THE MAIN PERPETRATORS ARE RWANDAN CITIZENS EITHER HUTUS OR TUTSIS.Now if you want you can go into the details to find out from which tribes the majority of the victims are and you will be surprised to learn that the majority of the victims are not the tutsis people leaving in DRC.
You will be surprised to learn that the majority of the rapists, the perpetrators are soldiers serving under the CNDP of Mr Laurent Nkunda and Bosco Ntanganda who are just tutsis citizens backed by Rwanda.
Now instead of portraying lies over the internet, instead of covering the killings, the rape, the destruction of my people in the eastern part of DRC let us for once address the issue of impunity when states such as Rwanda violates UN resolution by creating, arming and encouraging the killing of fellow human beings in the DRC.
I forgot to mention all these massacres conducted during the five years occupation period by the tutsis soldiers of Rwanda and those one of Mr Nkunda, Bosco, Ruberwa and so forth.
Today, the whole world through the UN has documented the kiwanja massacre where Bosco Ntanganda and his colleagues are involved.
Today we have to address the issue of Rwanda always interfering in the interior affairs of an independent state trough their agents only because they want to have a say in order to secure a share of the mineral wealth of DR Congo.
Today let us address the issue of the kidnapping of children, young congolese children to be used as sex slaves, carriers, soldiers for the benefit of Rwanda through their agents.
Today let us address the sacrifice, killing of some tutsis congolese by the Rwandan government through their agents in order to justify their unjust war against the congolese people.
There is a clear violation of UN resolution and please let us address this issue for the sake of my people.
Lies then and lies again today...about an "endangered" people in Eastern Congo to justify eternal meddling in Congo affairs by Rwanda. In the Congo, we already knew the truth but the rest of the world now has a glimpse of the reality in Eastern Congo with the recent UN Experts report. Perpetrate chaos in a sovereign country by recycling never ending FDLR rebels and sponsoring armed groups to loot, plunder, rape ...to justify illegal occupation is the modus operandi of Rwanda. The world now knows and will stop the flow of free money collected through guilt effect to destabilize Congo. The free lunch is ending very soon. As the quote goes "...You can't indefinitely lie to all the people all the time..."
This is how they try to win the West's sympathy by writing articles based on lies. Keep it up, we'll see how long it'll last. Over 4 million people died in Congo and all this is because of trying to protect about 20 000 supposedly 'endangered' tutsi refugees from Rwanda? What a joke. Just keep it up, you'll have to pay for it sometime soon. We are watching