Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have been loud with synchronized campaign against the M23 movement in eastern Congo. Their two previous reports claim M23 has ‘conducted attacks in Goma and other locations killing people.’
Without verifying facts on the ground, without naming credible sources, in a typical pathetic propaganda style, they are painting a false picture of a group fighting for self-determination, while turning a blind eye to the actual perpetrators of violence.
The true killers in the Democratic Republic of Congo are no secret. They include the Wazalendo militias, remnants of the genocidal FDLR, and Burundian forces, all of whom operate with the full support and coordination of the Congolese army, FARDC.
FDLR and Wazalendo which he work as proxies to FARDC, are responsible for the worst atrocities in recent years. Yet in the smear campaigns orchestrated by these rights organizations, not once have they been held mentioned or called for accountability. It is shocking that these same groups behind ethnic cleansing and large-scale massacres are deliberately left out of these sham reports.
When the FDLR executed hundreds of Congolese Tutsis in Masisi burning homes in Nturo village and driving survivors into the forest, there was not a single press statement, no such similar reports have ever been published from these groups. When FARDC’s own Republican Guards massacred dozens of unarmed worshippers in a Goma church early last year, no urgent investigation followed. And today, as the Banyamulenge are hunted down in southeastern Congo, their homes torched and their lives uprooted, these watchdogs remain silent. Their selective outrage is not just suspicious, it is damning.
With fat cheques from Kinshasa and instructions whispered from neo-colonial interests in Europe and Washington, these groups are no longer guardians of human rights. They are mouthpieces for a failing regime, inventing crimes, ignoring facts, and pushing a toxic narrative they were paid to deliver. Their corruption is not just moral, it is institutional. And the victims they pretend to protect deserve better.
Amnesty and rights groups’ bias is not only deliberate, it is shameful, rights groups are supposed to be neutral, not sellouts in suits. Instead of standing with victims, they are standing with the perpetrators for a price.
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