Now that M23 is encircling the City of Goma, the panic is huge inside the Tshisekedi regime. After a meeting with high-ranking security officers within Tshisekedi’s army, FARDC, they have decided not to say the name M23, but rather repeat the lie that “the Rwandan army is occupying many territories in North Kivu.” They imagine they are avoiding humiliation, yet humiliation and guilty is what we see.
The M23 are not Rwandans, have never been, and will never be. They are Congolese, and Tshisekedi is a liar together with his whole cabal of the likes of Muyaya. The problem of Congo is not M23. This liberation movement is a product of many other problems that have not been addressed for decades. If you remember well, M23 was there even before Tshisekedi became President.
It should also be remembered that President Kagame in a meeting once asked Tshisekedi, “Are these people in M23 Congolese or not?” And Tshiseked was quick to answer: “M23 are Congolese.”
The M23 rebels had in 2012 found refuge in Uganda and Rwanda. The DRC government had agreed to find a political solution to the rebels’ grievances. While in Uganda, the rebels led by Brig Sultani Makenga were cantoned at Bihanga Barracks in western Uganda.
In 2013 about 500-600 M23 rebels crossed into Rwanda with their arms, and Rwanda put them in a camp in the Ngoma area as refugees. They were disarmed, and the arms handed back to the government in Kinshasa.
That’s the truth that the Tshisekedi regime can’t even deny.
Congolese leaders then said they wanted to solve the problem of the M23 rebellion, politically. The government of DRC even invited some of the M23 leaders, who went to Kinshasa. There, they were put in a hotel where they spent five months, but without seeing anybody to talk to them! They left.
The M23 continues to occupy many territories in North Kivu, including the hills around Goma, and they are controlling the city. The Tshisekedi regime is in total panic. The inept, grossly incompetent Tshisekedi is receiving calls every day, from international actors and powerful countries, demanding that he start a dialogue with M23, but he is reluctant to do so.
US congressman Andre Carson has released a bill condemning the violence and genocide against Congolese Tutsi in the DRC. This was followed by US Secretary of state Antony Blinken’s call urging Tshisekedi to respect the Luanda and Nairobi processes.
Tshisekedi must stop misleading his people, by blaming his failures on Rwanda.
He should also recognize that M23 is a Congolese movement fighting for the rights of the people it represents, as full citizens of DRC, and all their rights.
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