ALERT: Ethnic demonizing of Tutsis in DRC worsens as Tshisekedi deploys more genocidal measures

The lives of Kinyarwanda-speaking Congolese Tutsis are deeper in peril, with the Tshisekedi regime always forging new ways to fast-track a silent genocide against them. This is despite calls by various concerned parties to halt the genocide.

The current situation in Congo resembles a hundred per cent, the events that led to the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda. The perpetrators of that genocide (ex-FAR and Interahamwe) are today the FDLR, now a terrorist group working hand in hand with Tshisekedi and his army, FARDC.

For instance, Justin Bitakwira, DRC’s former Minister for Rural Development who also doubles as a henchman to President Tshisekedi early this week took to one of the State Televisions to utter incendiary pronouncements inciting the public to massacre the Congolese Tutsis.

Bitakwira was echoing verbatim a prominent and historical hate speech that a convicted genocidaire Leon Mugesera gave on 22nd November 1992 in the then Gisenyi Prefecture demonizing Tutsis while also calling other citizens to exterminate the Tutsis.

Rwanda and regional countries at large have never ceased to urge Kinshasa to shun hate speech and ethnic stereotyping against Congolese Tutsi and Kinyarwanda-speaking communities in DRC. This appeal has always fallen on deaf ears, as the Tutsi witch-hunting campaign is intensifying as days go by.

Even the United Nations (UN) through its office on Genocide Prevention and the Responsibility to Protect has recently pronounced itself on a silent genocide that is being committed against Congolese Tutsi citizens of Congo and called out the Kinshasa regime to urgently stop it.

Now it is beyond high time the International Community translated words into actions. Tshisekedi and his henchmen are determined to commit crimes against humanity – and they should be held accountable.