The situation in North Kivu takes a turn for the worse, as Tshisekedi, at the helm of the criminal-ruled banana republic known as the DRC, plunges the city of Goma into darkness in order to create chaos before the upcoming December elections. With just a mere four years under his belt, Tshisekedi has proven to the world that he is cut from the same cloth as history’s most notorious dictators – Mobutu Sese Seko, Habyarimana Juvenal, Ian Smith, Obiang Mbasogo, and Jean Bédel Bokassa.
For a start, Tshisekedi recently issued orders to the FARDC, the national army, to target the power supply lines to Goma with mortar fire, a move designed to sow chaos in the city. Goma is home to thousands of undereducated, unemployed Congolese civilians trapped in destitute, infrastructure-deprived neighborhoods, where access to basic amenities like sewage systems and reliable water supply is a distant dream. Tshisekedi exploits the desperation of these civilians, weaponizing their discontent to fuel the chaos and violence that serves his political survival.
Furthermore, the power outage in Goma serves Tshisekedi’s demagogic and populist propaganda machine, designed to divert attention from his own incompetence. This tactic has led to a proliferation of hate speech, tinged with xenophobia and ethnic undertones, a disturbing trend condemned by the United Nations Special Adviser for the Prevention of Genocide, Alice Wairimu Nderitu. In an extensive written statement following her visit to the DRC, she expressed official alarm at “the proliferation of hate speech in the DRC” and warned of the fragile state of society and the presence of conditions reminiscent of past genocides.
Lastly, Tshisekedi emerges as the primary obstacle to achieving peace in the East, where M23 and Rwanda serve as his tools to maintain his grip on power. Tshisekedi exhibits no intentions of facilitating elections, and thus, he appears committed to stoking unrest throughout the nation to delay the electoral process, all under the guise of a national crisis, which he refuses to acknowledge and address through political means. This path has the potential to escalate into a regional conflict and a devastating genocide, marking the second of its kind in the region.
In summary, the responsibility for the power outage in Goma falls squarely on Tshisekedi’s shoulders. His unsubstantiated claims that Rwanda is behind this outage, supposedly driven by a desire to balkanize the DRC, represents a manipulative form of communication aimed at inciting hate speech against Rwanda and the Congolese Rwandaphone communities, who are unjustly portrayed as internal enemies by Congolese extremists.
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