Why all these rebounding genocides that we have witnessed in Rwanda and Congo since 1959 Hecatombs of degeneracy-stricken modern times are humans butchered en masse for no sacred purpose or no purpose at all. Can the US President, the French president, the Belgian Prime Minister, the Britannic Prime Minister, …, the Rwandan and Congolese Presidents, tell us today the real or supposed purpose of the rebounding genocides that we have witnessed in Rwanda and Congo since 1959 down to March 2013? US President Barack Obama, can you? Will you take a wild guess as to the above said? French President Hollande, can you? Will you blunder through and account? Belgian Prime Minister Elio Di Rupo, can you? Will you come forth and explain? Britannic Prime minister David Cameron, can you? Will you care to volunteer a your say? President Paul Kagame, can you and will please give us your say? Defunct President Habyarimana, can you cough up a word if exhumed? Defunct President Mitterrand, will you talk if we raised you from the dead? President Museveni, could you please come forth and extemporize on the hecatombs’ use? Tutti quanti, All and sundry heading the 190-ish global States and governments, will you talk? Do you not know that you are all legally bound to talk and act in respect of this sinister affair that will soon reverberate across the globe, if adequate care is not taken as due per legem, President of the UN Security Council….? UN Secretary Ba Ki Moon,…..? May I ask you President Obama if you might, albeit remotely, think this affair does not concern you since you were not yet born in 1959, and were not in the US presidential office in 1994, 1998- ? Do you think we must exhume President Dwight Eisenhower, damn desecration and all the fundamental laws, and extract President William Jefferson Clinton from his retirement? Are we to make your predecessors account for the gross and utterly disastrous failure of the US President to assume constitutional responsibilities in respect of the Rwandan and Congolese genocidal hecatombs that you have been idly watching live in real time, on a day-to-day basis, on TV? These may give you the air of being mere rhetorical questions, Gentlemen and Lady Presidents and prime ministers. They are actually not, except in the appearance or on the surface. My questions here mean a lot more than you will ever live to know. What is the purpose of the Rwandan and Congolese human hecatombs? Adolph Hitler explained and programmed the hecatombs of Jews to seek a “leben raum” (living space) for the good Aryan race. German Chancellor Adolph Hitler made it crystal-clear he and his Nazi government did not want to accommodate “the Jewish vermin” alongside lots of European Untermenchen or sub humans. Congolese Banyarwanda are still being bundled together like firewood and incinerated in public, with all the world leaders watching! These glaring genocidal acts are still unfolding today, in the background of a defunct State, D R Congo, under the uncaring eye of the US $ 1.5 billion per annum UN mission, so massively present in Congo, has never filed a report of a genocide occurring in Congo. Apparently, with the mere fictional existence of Congo, in this world gone berserk and lawless, the Congolese M23 rebellion alone must shoulder the responsibility to stop genocide in Congo just as the Rwandan RPF rebellion assumed responsibility to put a stop to genocide in Rwanda in 1994. Finally, I make it a point of duty to hereto append an insightful article that might serve as a revelation and possibly a catalyst for all and sundry who virtually seem complacent and careless: The Democratic Republic of the Congo does not exist – JEFFREY HERBST congodrcnews/2013/02/13/the-democratic-republic-of-the-congo-does-not-exist-jeffrey-herbst/ ******************************************************************* The Democratic Republic of the Congo does not exist – JEFFREY HERBST congodrcnews/2013/02/13/the-democratic-republic-of-the-congo-does-not-exist-jeffrey-herbst Why the only way to help Congo is to stop pretending it exists. The international community needs to recognize a simple, albeit brutal fact: The Democratic Republic of the Congo does not exist. All of the peacekeeping missions, special envoys, interagency processes, and diplomatic initiatives that are predicated on the Congo myth — the notion that one sovereign power is present in this vast country — are doomed to fail. It is time to stop pretending otherwise. Much of Congo’s intractability stems from a vast territory that is sparsely populated but packed with natural resources. A mostly landlocked expanse at the heart of Africa, Congo comprises 67 million people from more than 200 ethnic groups. The country is bordered by nine others — among them some of the continent’s weakest states. A local Kiswahili saying holds, Congo is a big country — you will eat it until you tire away! And indeed, for centuries, this is precisely what Congo’s colonial occupiers, its neighbors, and even some of its people have done: eaten away at Congo’s vast mineral wealth with little concern for the coherency of the country left behind. Congo has none of the things that make a nation-state: interconnectedness, a government that is able to exert authority consistently in territory beyond the capital, a shared culture that promotes national unity, or a common language. Instead, Congo has become a collection of peoples, groups, interests, and pillagers who coexist at best. The Kivu provinces are not the only restive areas. Trouble has flared sporadically in the Bas-Congo, Ituri, Katanga, and Kasai provinces of sub-Saharan Africa’s largest state. At January 2008′s peace talks, the government categorized one of the largest rebel groups, the CNDP, as just one of two dozen armed militias not under government control. Nationwide elections in 2006, on which the international community spent more than a billion dollars, did little to mend Congo’s many divisions. Given the immense human tragedy, it is time to ask if provinces such as the Kivus and Katanga (which are themselves the size of other African countries) can ever be improved as long as they fall under a fictional Congolese state. Although African states recognize the borders on paper, Congo’s neighbors have often acted as if no such lines exist. The international community is the only remaining player devoting large amounts of resources to the idea of one Congo — with dismal returns. A solution to Congo’s troubles is possible with a reimagined approach. The West could start by making development and order its first priority in the Congolese territory, rather than focusing on the promotion of the Congolese state. This simple distinction immediately casts the Congolese problem in a whole new light. It would mean, for instance, that foreign governments and aid agencies would deal with whomever exerted control on the ground rather than continuing to pretend that Kinshasa is ruling and running the country. Such an approach might bring into the picture a confusing array of governors, traditional leaders, warlords, and others rather than the usual panoply of ministers. But that would finally be a reflection of who is actually running Congo. Instead of continuing to spend billions of dollars on putting Congo together, the international community could regionally address actual security and political problems. For instance, troubles in eastern Congo have as much to do with continuing Rwandan insecurity than with what the government in Kinshasa is (or is not capable of) doing. A more realistic foreign policy toward eastern Congo would assign a high priority to Rwandan security interests, given that many derive from the wake of the 1994 genocide. Get this right and there might actually be a chance to reduce the violence that has haunted the Kivus. It would also incentivize the Rwandans to see Congo as a natural partner in trade and development rather than a security problem to be managed unilaterally. Joint Congolese-Rwandan operations early this year are a step in this direction. Congo is rightly notorious for being one of the most pathological instances of the European division of Africa. Perhaps as a result, Western powers have shied away from anything other than reflexively trying to get Congo to work within the boundaries that the king of Belgium helped establish in 1885. Setting aside the scope of human tragedy, there are real reasons that getting things right in Congo matters now more than ever. The country is the region’s vortex; when it has failed in the past, its neighbors have often gone down with it. The very concept of a Congolese state has outlived its usefulness. For an international community that has far too long made wishful thinking the enemy of pragmatism, acting on reality rather than diplomatic theory would be a good start. Copyrigh foreignpolicy/, article written by JEFFREY HERBST congodrcnews/2013/02/13/the-democratic-republic-of-the-congo-does-not-exist-jeffrey-herbs congodrcnews
Posted on: Tue, 10 Sep 2013 16:36:05 +0000
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