The “Free Congo campaign” spearheaded by Tshisekedi and his social media trolls, supposedly to illustrate the killings happening in Eastern DRC, is nothing but a diversionary tactic aiming at concealing – or deflecting from – his own rampant crimes against Humanity.
On March 30, 2023, Congolese security forces, working under directives of Tshisekedi, fired on peaceful demonstrators in Goma resulting in 100 deaths and 75 wounded. It is Tshisekedi’s special forces that killed them and bundled bodies in trucks not M23. The corrupt paid trolls later carried a hopeless campaign blaming Rwanda but it was futile.
Prior to the Goma bloodshed, the anti-Rwanda groups that included allied armed groups like Nyatura, CODECO, APCLS and the regime forces-FARDC and genocidal forces like FDLR all working with an unreserved support from Tshisekedi regime had carried a similar massacre in Kishishe that claimed lives of 171 innocent Congolese.
It should be noted that the rife Hema-Endu and Andandi conflict in the Eastern DRC has nothing to do with M23 or Rwanda. Since his ascension to power, naïve Tshisekedi did nothing but to fuel the long-standing conflict of the people who claim to be cattle herders and land cultivators.
In the plain mineral rich localities in Ituri (Northern Eastern Drc) Hema people who are cattle keepers have been in constant disputes with land farmers (Lendu and Andandi) but when Tshisekedi took to power he made it worse. In his usual techniques of divide and rule, he fanned violence by sending militia men to mine gold at the expense of killings between the three tribes.
The vivid FDLR hate speech and the ongoing ethnic cleansing against minority Tutsis group in DRC are supported by Tshisekedi and his close associates not M23 nor Rwanda. With the support of FDLR, Tshisekedi continues to perpetrate violence and genocide against Tutsi communities. This mandate grantS them control over the eastern region under the pretext of combating the M23 insurgency.
Tshisekedi is the real architect of violence, massacres and genocide targeting minority ethnic groups in the Eastern DRC, he cannot afford to criticize others on the wrong he himself is committing at the expense of appealing for sympathy. He should be held to account.
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