Tshisekedi, the incompetent, has chosen allies who hate each other almost as much as they hate Rwanda

By now, most serious observers of Central African politics have stopped expecting anything resembling statecraft from Kinshasa. But even by his catastrophically low standards, Felix-Antoine Tshisekedi Tshilombo has managed to achieve something truly spectacular: assembling the most dysfunctional, delusional, and frankly hilarious anti-Rwanda coalition in recent memory.

Let us review the cast of characters the Führer of Kinshasa has chosen as his strategic partners.

First, there is Jean-Luc Habyarimana, the son of the late genocidal ruler Juvénal Habyarimana, who built his regime on northern ethnic supremacy, starved his political opponents to death behind prison walls, and whose family has served as the chief financial mobilizer of the genocidal FDLR, ever since that criminal organisation was born in eastern Congo. Habyarimana’s son now surfaces in Kinshasa, embraced by a regime that has “publicly vowed regime change in Kigali.”

Then we have the FDLR itself, those tropical nazis in the jungles of eastern DRC, the direct ideological descendants of a force that slaughtered over a million Tutsi in 100 days. These are the people Tshisekedi is supporting against Rwanda. Men with Interpol warrants. Men convicted of genocide. Men whose founding ideology carries the same DNA as the swastika, only with machetes.

And completing this trio, Kayumba Nyamwasa and his Rwanda National Congress, convicted in absentia for orchestrating grenade attacks that killed 17 people and maimed over 400. A man whose own former commanders testified against him in court. A man whose collaboration with the FDLR is documented by the UN Group of Experts, corroborated by arrested FDLR intelligence officers who confessed to meeting RNC envoys, explicitly to destabilise Rwanda.

So here we have it: Fatshi the incompetent, Jean-Luc the exiled, Kayumba the convicted terrorist, and the FDLR genocidaires. These are, without exception, deeply unserious people with wildly different agendas.

Habyarimana wants the “presidential throne”, no doubt among other things to complete his parents’ genocidal project. Nyamwasa wants power, only naked power. The FDLR wants the resurrection of Hutu Power and the resumption of what they left unfinished in 1994. And Tshisekedi wants Rwanda weakened enough that his own failures look comparatively acceptable.

Who, among all these clowns, is fooling whom? Probably all of them are fooling each other simultaneously. That is the only logical conclusion when ambitious fraudsters with nothing in common except hatred assemble under the same leaky tent.

Rwandans are watching. Clearly. Calmly. They have seen this movie before, and they know exactly how it ends. The people of Rwanda have built something real from the ashes. They have zero appetite for being governed again by the ideological children of those who tried to exterminate them.

Tshilombo, light years removed from Congolese reality and even further from Rwandan reality, would do well to understand that Rwanda’s awareness of these evil intentions is total, its memory long, its patience with this particular nonsense completely exhausted.