Has the M23 rebel group been defeated? No. And there is nothing in the recent reportage in major western media that tells anything close to the whole truth about the ongoing genocide and depopulation in DRC.
The western propaganda system is again trotting out the refrain that 'rebels in Congo have been defeated.' The latest so-called 'rebels' -- the M23 forces -- are actually Rwandan government troops, not rebels. (True Congolese 'rebels' -- such as the Mai Mai [also spelled Mayi-Mayi] -- are always denigrated by the international corporate media system.)
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