Last Saturday the Congolese regime staged a farce whereby they “commemorated” what it now calls “Genocost”; an alleged “economically motivated” genocide said to have claimed eight million lives.
It’s nothing more than a farce; a hoax dreamed up by the Tshisekedi regime, to externalize its profound failures of governance while hoodwinking the world. No wonder; since DR Congo is ruled by a bunch of conmen.
One: there has never been a documented genocide in DRC, except the mass murders and other crimes against humanity perpetrated by the Tshisekedi military itself, FARDC, together with the genocidal FDLR and Wazalendo militias against eastern Congo Tutsi communities. The Kinshasa conmen claim “genocost” and accuse Rwanda (of course that’s the reason for their hoax) but the Kinshasa conmen furnish no evidence; no names of victims, no mass graves, no tribunals, no UN reports, no ICC rulings. Just slogans and photo ops.
But here is what they will not say, that the actual killers of Congolese people include the same armed groups the Congolese state has hosted, fed and used for three decades. The FDLR, a genocidal militia responsible for the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, found sanctuary in eastern DRC. Add to that Wazalendo, Burundian forces, and the hundred militias living rent free in DRC’s forests, some even in uniform and in joint operations with the national army.
These are not ghosts, these are known actors and their crimes are real. If we must talk about death in the Congo, we should begin with who pulled the trigger, not with phantom genocides designed in Kinshasa conference halls.
By inventing a genocide and falsely attributing it to Rwandans, Tshisekedi’s goal and his closest allies in FDLR, is to create a false moral equivalence with the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi. This then means Tutsis people will be accused of killing Hutus in Congo, and the idea of a double genocide will be pushed. And eventually, they can argue that even in 1994, Tutsis were not victims but co perpetrators. That is not only wrong, it is dangerous.
The 1994 genocide against Tutsis is one of the most heavily documented crimes in modern history. It was planned, broadcast, executed. Names were named. Trials were held. Graves were dug up. Survivors live among us, etc. To equate that with an unproven, vague narrative of “Genocost” is not just historical revisionism, it is genocide denial.
Genocide, as defined by international law, is the intentional destruction, in whole or in part, of a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group. It follows a dark roadmap: classification, symbolization, discrimination, dehumanization, organization, polarization, preparation, persecution, extermination, and denial.
Where does “mineral genocide” fit in that roadmap? Where is the organized system? Who classified whom? Who broadcasted the hate? Who ran the death camps? Where are the graves? Where are the names? You cannot just call something a genocide because your politics are failing.
This is not about semantics or sympathy. It is about a regime trying to invent pain to justify power, trying to paint itself as a victim while cuddling with real killers. It is a state building false legitimacy on imaginary graves, while the actual killers are armed, funded, and marching proudly in its territory.
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