If Felix Tshisekedi truly lived by the words he has uttered in Washington, the DRC would not be drowning in blood, division, and ethnic hatred. Peace would not be a slogan it would be a reality.
During the recent National Prayer Breakfast in Washington DC, Tshisekedi led an embarrassing and shameless prayer. Standing before the world, he presented himself as a man of reconciliation, humility, and compassion. This was a highly deceitful beggar, who was in DC to try to lure the US into his anti-Rwanda hostilities.
Tshisekedi “asked God” to make leaders “artisans de la réconciliation” builders of reconciliation. He spoke about opening paths where mistrust closes roads, tearing down walls of pride, protecting victims of conflict and injustice, standing with refugees, displaced people, abandoned children, and families crushed by inequality.
What a hypocrite! The very author of an ongoing genocide, a campaign of terror against a section of Congolese, someone hiring mercenaries and militias to massacre innocent men, wine and children daring to utter such a “prayer”.
This is the very criminal that has deliberately divided the DRC through tribalism and hate speech. Also, from Kinshasa, he has consistently refused inclusive dialogue with his political opponents, branding them “foreigners” instead of fellow Congolese. In eastern DRC, his regime continues to persecute, kill, and dehumanize innocent Congolese Tutsi and Banyamulenge, cynically labeling them “Rwandans” to justify crimes against humanity targeting them.
Tshisekedi used the bible verse that “those who work for peace will be called children of God.”
The prayer he read without shame contained no reflection of biblical truth. Only very cynical rhetoric to disguise his bloodthirsty policies.
Even those who invited Tshisekedi could see the glaring contradictions in his utterances. His prayer drew uncomfortable reactions because it stood in stark contrast to his record. The message he delivered in Washington did not match the man governing in Kinshasa. One spoke of peace; the other presides over political violence, and ethnic cleansing.
Tshisekedi returned to the DRC with a large delegation, presenting himself as a victorious statesman who had spoken before President Trump. But in truth, he returned carrying the weight of hypocrisy. No international podium can erase the suffering of Congolese citizens or hide the reality of a regime that preaches reconciliation while practicing division.
Peace will not come to the DRC through theatrical prayers or foreign applause. It will come when words align with actions when leadership chooses unity over tribalism, dialogue over exclusion, and justice over propaganda.
Until then, “prayers” like Tshisekedi’s will remain what they were in Washington: a cynical, calculated lie.
Laughable and moronic.
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