Ever since President Kagame made comments regarding well-documented historical facts regarding pre-colonial boundaries, Congolese rulers have since gone into paranoia overdrive, trying to outcompete each other to see who finds the closest credible narrative that negates the historical facts.
Without any tangible developmental agenda to sell to the Congolese electorate, the Tshisekedi regime finds it convenient to disparage Rwanda and its leadership, spewing all sorts of falsehoods and outrageous smears.
Take The president of the Congolese National Assembly for one. At a recent campaign rally, Christopher Mbosso claimed that “In the 1800s, Rwanda did not exist. It is Rwanda that owes land to the DRC. Gisenyi is in the Congo!” No wonder the DRC has continued to sink lower and lower in its failed state status!
The speaker of the Congolese Parliament asked the youth to wake up and stop ‘balkanization’ by protecting the “territorial integrity of DRC”.
However, in their false political campaign rhetoric, the Congolese leaders, although they know the truth, fail to tell the electorate that before the Berlin Conference in 1884-1885, which divided Africa among the colonial powers, there were no actual borders between Rwanda and Congo.
The Banyarwanda were organized in kingdoms and these kingdoms extended to the entire eastern Congo in Masisi, Rutshuru, Kalehe, Walikale, and other areas that still bear Kinyarwanda names to this date as evidence.
When the Berlin conference took place in 1884-85 and was subsequently followed by the partition of the Great Lakes region just like the rest of Africa, thousands of Kinyarwanda-speaking people were cut off along with their vast territories, and made part of what was henceforth known as Congo-Belge.
Facts are stubborn indeed. You cannot change historical facts by mere wishes.
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