During a recent interview with a Congolese journalist, Kinshasa regime’s mouthpiece Patrick Muyaya was allowed to clearly condemn the inflammatory remarks made by General Ekenge against Congolese Tutsi women. Instead of doing so, Muyaya chose a different path. He deflected responsibility by claiming that “the stigmatization of Congolese Tutsis comes from Rwanda.” This statement is not only misleading, but it is also dangerous.
If stigmatization truly “comes from Rwanda,” then Muyaya must explain whether figures such as General Ekenge, Justin Bitakwira, Muhindo Nzangi, Willy Mishiki, Constant Mutamba, Kalonji, Mubenga, Nyamabo, Jean-Pierre Bemba, and the Wazalendo militias are also Rwandans. These individuals and groups are Congolese actors operating within Congolese political and military structures, openly spreading hate speech against Congolese Tutsi communities.
Blaming Rwanda has become a convenient political strategy to avoid accountability for internal failures and abuses. But this strategy collapses when confronted with facts on the ground.
It is not Rwanda carrying out drone attacks against Banyamulenge and other Congolese Tutsi communities in Minembwe and Masisi. These attacks are being conducted under the authority or with the complicity of warmongering despot Tshisekedi’s regime.
Muyaya is fully aware of the actual tormentors of Bayamulenge. He also knows that many individuals who actively fuel anti-Tutsi hatred are funded, protected, or politically enabled by the state. Some operate from abroad, including in the United States, while others are Rwandan nationals affiliated with the FDLR a genocidal group that has long terrorized Tutsi populations in the region.
The stigmatization of Congolese Tutsis did not begin today, nor did it begin with President Kagame or modern Rwanda. It dates back to the 1960s. As early as 1963, during the so-called Kanyarwanda War in Kivu, Congolese Tutsis were already being hunted in Masisi and Kalehe. Paul Kagame was not president then. The infamous Banyamulenge pogrom remembered by survivors as “Bote Barudiye Kwabo” occurred decades before Rwanda’s current leadership existed.
In Kirotshe alone, more than 1,000 Congolese Tutsis were massacred by Mai-Mai militias supported by the government army. These are documented historical facts, not foreign propaganda.
Today’s media campaigns promoted by the Tshisekedi regime, claiming that the M23 is merely a group of “foreign Rwandans,” fit neatly into this long-standing policy of anti-Tutsi stigmatization. This narrative deliberately ignores the Congolese roots of the conflict and the legitimate grievances that have remained unresolved for decades. It is precisely this failure, dating back to independence and reinforced by repeated broken agreements, that explains why AFC/M23 exists.
By refusing to condemn hate speech and by redirecting blame toward Rwanda, the regime’s loudmouth Vuvuzela Muyaya contributes to the normalization of violence and stigmatization against an entire Congolese community; this is not statesmanship, it’s rather denial.
Peace in the DRC will not be achieved through propaganda, scapegoating, or historical revisionism. It will only come when Congolese leaders acknowledge the truth, confront hate within their own institutions, and protect all citizens without exception.
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