Less than 24 hours before the 6th Ministerial Meeting of the Luanda Peace Process in Angola – a high level initiative effort aimed at diffusing conflict in DRC – the Congolese Minister of Justice, Constant Mutamba, has made ranted crazily against the Rwandan leadership.
Mutamba’s incendiary words not only undermine peace, but show what a bad faith actor Kinshasa is.
The imbecile justice minister, who was visiting the Munzenze prison in Goma, fulminates that “the President of Rwanda has to be arrested”, or that “a price be put on the Rwandan president’s head”, or that he himself will “kill Kagame”, or that prisoners that identify Rwandans will be rewarded”, and other hate speech gibberish. How then can one expect a government of such clowns to sit on the negotiating table for peace?
Seriously the DRC suffers a strange madness where a so-called justice minister claims to put a price on the head of the president of another country, claiming they are “going to kill him…” All this while Rwanda and DRC are all engaged in mediation in Angola?
The hate speech of this Minister that seeks to incite prisoners and prison guards to “designate the presumed ennemi”, based on xenophobic stereotypes that perceive a section of the Congolese population as “foreigners” in fact is ground for an international tribunal to issue an arrest warrant for that man.
Mutamba stokes ethnic hate and threatens violence, obviously a broader political strategy to consolidate power by scapegoating Rwanda. Tshisekedi himself has on numerous occasions used inflammatory language toward President Kagame, at one point suggesting he would “make Kagame sleep in the bush.”
Pity those that continues to place hope in Luanda, or other peace processes for DRC!
If senior Congolese officials behave like uncouth goons unwilling to cooperate in any peace talks but instead leverage Rwanda as their scapegoat (for political survival) what hope can there be for meaningful progress?
Angola, and the broader international community must recognize the gravity of the inflammatory words and actions of senior Tshisekedi regime officials, as a clear indication they are the problem.
The road to peace requires honest commitment from all parties, to state the obvious.
The behavior of Tshisekedi government fat cats shows what a dishonest, unruly, unreliable gang they are.
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