The suffering being caused to hundreds of thousands of ordinary Congolese by the cruel and callous actions of the Tutsi warlord Laurent Nkunda in North Kivu, DR Congo, are totally unacceptable.
He must be indicted by the International Criminal Court (ICC), as soon as it is practicable to do so. What is going on the eastern part of the DR Congo is outrageous - and an affront to the whole of Africa: and the rest of the world.
How can it be, that in the 21st century, nearly a million Africans, living in a constitutional democracy, with an elected government, are at the mercy of a ruthless and ambitious war criminal, being backed on the quiet by neighbouring Rwanda - and yet no one seems brave enough to speak out against Rwanda’s crafty and arrogant ruling Tutsi elite?
The renegade Nkunda, whose current display of his usual recourse to opportunism, is to hijack and deploy the latest fashionable African political phrase: "power-sharing" in a brazen attempt to give respectability to his unpardonable and unspeakable acts of cruelty, which really amount to crimes against humanity.
How is it that one man, with such overweening ambition, and driven by unfathomable greed (for gold and coltan - used to make mobile phones) is allowed by the world to destroy the lives of his fellow Congolese citizens so callously, in pursuit of his (and Rwanda’s ruling business and political elites’) ambition: to control the vast mineral wealth of eastern DR Congo – and get away with it for so long?
To help DR Congo’s poor citizens, the EU and the UN ought to consider imposing economic (and arms) sanctions on Rwanda, if it doesn't stop aiding Nkunda. On its part, the DR Congo government must now appeal to the US Africa Command to help it quickly build a refugee camp - and help it airlift the 800,000 Rwandan Hutu refugees in North Kivu, to Western DR Congo to that new camp, as soon as that is practicable.
Nkunda's real objective is to secede from DR Congo and set up a Tutsi-dominated apartheid state, similar to the apartheid state that is Rwanda today: a nation in which the Tutsi minority dominates society totally.
In a world enfeebled by political correctness, truth dare not speak its name loudly: and confirm the fact that Rwanda is an unjust society and a police state masquerading as a democracy - and desirous of creating a greater Tutsi nation, by using Tutsi proxies outside its borders.
Rwanda’s Tutsi ruling elites must not be allowed to succeed in their aim of a Greater Tutsi nation - especially when they are pillaging DR Congo's mineral wealth in eastern DR Congo, with such impunity: which is what Nkunda's rebellion is really all about.
It is the threat to the Rwandan (and Congolese) Tutsi business elite’s continued enjoyment of a monopoly of access to the gold and coltan mines in the area, posed by a recent agreement signed by the Kinshasa government, which gives the Chinese access to the mines of Eastern DR Congo that is the real cause of the current fighting embarked upon by Nkunda.
For the sake of the suffering citizens of DR Congo’s North Kivu province, and that of their much-troubled nation, DR Congo, the time has now come for the world to stop the large-scale suffering being caused by the warlord and war criminal Laurent Nkunda - and it must be done now!
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The web site, http://www.arrestNKUNDAnow.org , provides information about war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by troups under Nkunda 's command since 2002 . The website is also launching a petition calling on concerned people around the world to demand that MONUC immediately arrest Nkunda for war crimes and crimes against humanity. The U.N.'s biggest peacekeeping mission will soon be over 20,000 in Congo "must ensure that those responsible for serious violations of human rights and international humanitarian laws are brought to justice" said Mr. Kyubwa.
Nkunda is accused of multiple war crimes and crimes against humanity of which most cases are well documented by various human right organzations including Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch. In September 2005, the Congolese government issued an arrest warrant for Nkunda, accusing him of numerous war crimes and crimes against human rights. Human Rights Watch, for example, which has been calling for his arrest for war crimes and crimes against humanity since February 2006 has documented summary executions, torture and rape committed by soldiers under the command of Nkunda in Bukavu in 2004 and in Kisangani in 2002. Also armed groups loyal to warlord Nkunda have been repeatedly accused of using rape as a weapon of war and the recruitment of child soldiers, some as young as 12 after the abduction from their homes.
According to Mr. Kyubwa, NKunda continues to be involved in the committing of crimes in DRC, and in particular in the province of North Kivu, where again groups armed acting under his command are reportedly responsible for killing civilian systematically in the town of Kiwanja. The continuing horrific killing of civilians testifies that Human Rights Watch was absolutely reasonable in its warning then in 2006 and it’s today. “So long as Nkunda is at large, the civilian population remains at grave risk"
The website http://www.arrestNKUNDAnow.org encourages concerned people around the world to sign a petition to demand that MONUC immediately arrest Nkunda for war crimes and crimes against humanity. For more information please call the project coordinator in the United States , Amede Kyubwa at (916) 753 5717 or email: arrestkundanow@hotmail.com
MJPC blames the Congolese Government for the Deteriorating Situation in East Congo(DRC)
"There is no excuse for missing to pay salaries to soldiers in a lawless eastern Congo for six months"
Sacramento, CALIFORNIA: June 29, 2009. Following the deteriorating situation in east Congo, the MJPC called today for the Congolese Government to urgently pay the salaries to thousands of soldiers who have not been paid for over six months in eastern Congo, take swift action to enforce the International Criminal Court's (ICC) warrant against Bosco Ntaganda and to hold accountable perpetrators of sexual violence against women for their acts.
"Failing to hold accountable individuals who commit war crimes and crimes against humunity continues to be the leading cause of widespread and systematic sexual violence acts against girls and women in the easten Congo" said Makuba Sekombo, Community Affairs Director of the Mobilization for Justice and Peace in the DR Congo (MJPC).
Mr. Sekombo again criticized the government of Congo for not only the continuing failure to protect women and young girls from sexual violence, but also for "encouraging conditions that create opportunities for sexual violence to occur". "There is no excuse for missing to pay salaries to soldiers in a lawless eastern Congo for six months" said Sekombo.
The MJPC has also renewed its call for the Congolese government to take urgent needed action to end human rights abuses in east Congo, hold perpetrators accountable and ensure reparation for the victims of sexual violence.
The MJPC has been urging the Congolese government to compensate the victims of sexual violence in order to also help combat impunity in eastern part of Congo where sexual violence against women and children has been widely used as weapon of war for more than decade. The MJPC online petition calling for for help to put pressure on Congolese Government to compensate victims of sexual siolence in Eastern DRC can be signed at http://www.gopetition.com.au/online/26180.html
About MJPC
MJPC works to add a voice in advocating for justice and peace in the DRC particulary in the east of DRC where thousands innocent civilian including children and women continue to suffer massive human rights violations while armed groups responsible for these crimes go unpunished
For more information about the MJPC and its activities, visit http://www.mjpcongo.org. or call Makuba Sekombo @ 1-408-8063-644 or e-mail: info@mjpcongo.org. The online petition calling on the Congolese Government to put urgently in place a comprehensive program of compensation for the victims of sexual violence in eastern Congo can be signed at http://www.gopetition.com.au/online/26180.html
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