For the past three days, Democratic Republic of Congo leaders have been publicly mobilizing young Congolese to take to the streets chanting anti-Rwanda slogans, targeting Kinyarwanda-speaking citizens, burning Rwandan flags, and other condemnable acts.
A number of excited mob members, some with face masks, flocked nearest border spots with Rwanda, hurling insults against its leaders, blandishing rudimental weapons like machetes and batons, while chanting songs that call for extermination of Congolese Tutsi citizens.
The latest bout of ethnic targeting of Congolese, Kinyarwanda-speaking communities is taking place in broad daylight and under the incitement of the Tshisekedi regime, despite continuous condemnation, or stern warnings by the International, and regional communities. The regime deliberately violates regional peace process mechanisms like the Luanda Road Map or Nairobi Peace process accords, to resolve issues of insecurity in DRC.
As a tell-tale sign, the Tshisekedi regime is yet to issue a single communique denouncing such heinous mob activities. The silence says it all. The mobs calling for genocide are part and parcel of a criminal mobilization in the name of “defending territorial and sovereignty integrity.”
But the Tshisekedi regime isn’t alone in its continued violations of peace efforts (and the targeting of sections of the DRC populations). The United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, commonly known as MONUSCO, has exposed itself as equally complicit.
If nothing is done in the quickest time possible, a full brown genocide against Tutsi, Kinyarwanda-speaking Congolese is very possible and both DRC regime and MONUSCO should stand accountable. MONUSCO is revealed to be working with Congo army, FARDC, and FARDC is in bed with the genocidal FDLR (founded by the people that perpetrated the 1994 Genocide Against the Tutsi). It’s not surprising that MONUSCO is using FDLR kind of coded language that the genocidaires used when trying to exterminate the Tutsi in Rwanda.
The ongoing hate speech campaign in DRC is a clear demonstration that DRC authorities learnt nothing from the heinous crime. They instead are inciting and fueling genocide in the country, and Monusco which should keep the peace is complicit.
This can’t end well for everyone.
Tshisekedi should be warned.
ellenkampire