This week, social media users discovered that Dr. Christoph N. Vogel was married to a woman who excels in anti-Tutsi hate speech and vehemently supports FDLR, considered as the Nazis of the region.
Even though everybody knew that Vogel never denounced ethnic crimes or hate speech by his friends La Lucha, no one had imagined that he would, not just be an ally but a close friend of the communications services of DRC Government, who themselves excel at stigmatization of Rwandans or Rwandophone Tutsi of Kivu.
In a tweet dated July 21st, 2021, Patrick Muyaya, the mouthpiece of the Tshisekedi regime, congratulated the newlyweds Mr. and Mrs. Vogel, recalling the upcoming make-up dinner they had planned to celebrate the wedding, which Muyaya had supported. On that day, Christoph N. Vogel, the man who fancies himself a “Researcher,” and operates as a modern-day Reyntjens, spreading a tropical version of Nazi ideology, was married to Valeriane Ndena, notorious for spewing venomous xenophobic hate speech, particularly targeting Rwanda and Congolese Tutsi communities.
How can someone, who has been in the region, presenting himself as an expert, and to cap it all being a Franco-German, knowing the history of France and Rwanda, and the history of Germany and the Holocaust, spend his time calling “Nazi” the survivors of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, when his own wife promotes FDLR, which comprises perpetrators of the same genocide? How can someone who pretends to be an expert in the region spend his time calling “Nazi” anti-hate, anti-hate-speech, and anti-genocide-ideology activists, when his own spouse promotes hate and genocide ideology?
The question on everyone’s mind: Why did Muyaya support the wedding of these two extremists? The answer lies in Vogel’s long-standing role as the mastermind behind Muyaya’s, and by extension Tshisekedi’s, anti-Tutsi inclinations, and behind the xenophobic Congolese association, Lucha. Despite Vogel’s attempt to paint Lucha as a non-violent grassroots movement, it is anything but. In truth, it operates as a dangerous tool, manipulated by cunning Congolese political schemers and epistemological colonizers like Vogel, resembling the notorious Interahamwe in their tactics.
Under Vogel’s influence, Lucha has resorted to calling Rwandan President Paul Kagame, who stopped the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, “Hitler,” while Vogel himself continues to label the survivors of the same genocide “Nazis.”
Furthermore, Vogel co-authored a piece with Steward Muhindo, prominent executive member of Lucha, infamous for his xenophobic animosity towards Congolese Tutsi communities and Rwandans. In this paper, Vogel and Muhindo label Nazi the only Hate Speech observatory in DRC, “Maisha”.
Another close friend and associate of Vogel, Bienvenu Matumo, a Lucha executive member, has gained notoriety for disseminating ethno-racist slurs and promoting genocide ideology. In a tweet dated July 25, 2022, Matumo referred to Tutsis as “félins,” displaying the extent of his hatred. He even prided himself on July 22, 2023, of having sold several copies of Charles Onana’s Book Holocaust in the Congo “so as to make some money” as he says, a Book Matumo found informative, despite it being an equivalent of an anti-Tutsi Mein Kampf.
In truth, Vogel and his cohorts have astutely manipulated the most vulnerable members of Congolese society, targeting those marginalized and disillusioned youth who are grappling with their dire circumstances and limited prospects for a brighter future. With their cunning tactics, Vogel and his allies employ primitive anti-Tutsi and nationalist rhetoric to exploit these illiterate and unemployed young individuals, who are already struggling with the challenges of living under a regime that doesn’t care about them.
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