The slaughter and barbarity going on in North Kivu province of the DR Congo, is simply to enable the forces of the self-styled “General” Laurent Nkunda’s National Congress for the Defence of the People (CNDP), act to protect the Rwandan ruling elites’ continued access to the mineral wealth of the area.
They are worried about a deal in which the government in Kinshasa just recently signed a $5bn agreement with China - which gives China access to the region’s minerals.
In I996 General Paul Kagame’s Rwandan Patriotic Front forces crossed the border into Eastern DR Congo, in pursuit of the “genociders”, the Hutu militiamen and former Rwandan soldiers who now constitute the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR).
However, the RPF forces went straight to the mines of the region - rather than pursue the Rwandan Hutu “genociders” (a nonce word that Rwanda’s clever ruling Tutsi elite and Nkunda have patented - and have world intellectual property rights to!).
Clearly, Paul Kagame, the archetypal brutal and cunning African military dictator (now masquerading as a democratically-elected civilian president of the invisible prison and apartheid state that Rwanda has become), who forever dreams of amassing wealth, had no intention of missing the opportunity to pillage the wealth of DR Congo.
Those who now make up the FDLR did not interest him then – and they do not interest him now: they are merely a useful cloak to hide the Rwandan ruling political and business elites' true mission in the DR Congo: raping the mineral wealth of their hapless neighbour.
Pillaging DR Congo’s mineral wealth is now the core business and cash-cow of Rwanda’s ruling elites - who have never ceased doing so, since the day Paul Kagame made a beeline for the mines of the region in 1996. It has made them all very wealthy individually: and swollen the Rwandan military’s bank balance, no end.
Their DR Congo puppet, the ruthless Laurent Nkunda, is kept supplied with men and arms - to guarantee that access. An accurate job description of the self-styled “General” Laurent Nkunda, (who hypocritically talks endlessly about “protecting” DR Congo’s “Tutsi population”), would therefore be: “warlord and stooge-protector” whose military mission is protecting Rwanda’s political and business elites’ lucrative mining enterprises in the eastern part of DR Congo.
To help save their unfettered access to their wholly-owned subsidiary, the DR Congo treasure-trove, which the vast mineral wealth of the region represents for them, their stooge, the ruthless and cunning Nkunda, has once more deployed his perfect ready-made excuse (one that in a world enfeebled by cowardly political correctness, he knows will ensure that no one will dare object publicly to) - his ‘mission’ of “protecting DR Congo’s Tutsis.”
France must quickly come to the assistance of the legitimate and elected government of the DR Congo in Kinshasa, led by the elected President Joseph Kabila, by deploying its Foreign Legion in Eastern DR. Congo.
The UN would do far more good in DR Congo if it approached the US military's Africa Command, AFRICOM (which claims that it has been set up to help in just such African humanitarian emergencies – so must clearly be anxious to grab such a golden opportunity, presumably!) to help them airlift all of the Rwandan Hutu refugees to new specially-built refugee camps in Western DR Congo, as quickly as it is practicable to do so: and permanently remove Rwanda's (and Nkunda's) perfect exuse for the CNDP's treasonable and criminal actions.
The EU and the UN must also make it clear to landlocked Rwanda that they will impose economic sanctions on it if it does not halt its continued support of the renegade Nkunda – whom the International Criminal Court (ICC) ought to indict for war crimes and crimes against humanity, as soon as it is possible to do so!
The sole reason for the current upsurge in fighting, is the new $5bn agreement between the DR Congo government and China (which gives China access to the region’s minerals), which would present Nkunda and the Rwanda’s ruling elites with a powerful competitor: and end their lucrative monopoly in the mining industry of the region.
In other words, the Rwandan ruling political and business elites, have ordered their warlord, the quisling (and their stooge and partner in crime), Laurent Nkunda, to create a crisis that will bring the DR. Congo government to the negotiating table – so that a deal can be "cut" that will give them a piece of the proverbial pie: the region's mineral resources - such as gold and coltan, which is used to make mobile phones.
How can the African Union (AU), the United Nations (UN)and the rest of the world, watch this slaughter of innocents, without stopping Nkunda in his tracks - and for good? Have the citizens of that part of DR Congo not suffered enough - in a holocaust-nation in which over 5 million Africans have lost their lives since 1998?
Why must innocent Africans continue suffering - just so that Rwanda’s wealthy and greedy elite can continue making hundreds of millions of dollars: to fund the obscene and expensive African version of the Hollywood celebrity-lifestyles they have become accustomed to: at the expense of the hapless citizens of eastern DR. Congo?
It is clear, that ultimately, Nkunda and his Rwandan paymasters (whose offensive "reverse-racism" in their unjustified sense of superiority over the Hutus in their country, is similar in nature to the arrogance of South Africa’s Boers during the apartheid era) would like to secede from DR Congo – and realize their collective dream of creating a Tutsi nation by unraveling the results on the ground, in the Great Lakes region, of European colonialism in Africa.
Nkunda’s junior brother Captain Seco alluded to that fact in a speech he recently gave. For the sake of peace and stability of the whole of Africa, they must never be allowed to succeed!
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