By
Gael Masengi
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| M23 rebels making way in the town of Goma |
History
might without doubt repeat itself if the Rwandan-backed rebel fighters of the
M23 movement decide to advance into the capital Kinshasa as they have been
promising, but unfortunately for them, this time will be way too different compared
to more than a decade ago when another group made of dominantly Rwandan
military and Congolese (formerly Zairian) dissidents walked into the city and
received a stunned heroic welcome.
Resistance
will be the word of the day and no Congolese will let again be fooled by some
hollow speech of democracy and peace by a bunch of insurgents responsible of
countless number of death of their mothers and sisters,what
for? To “free” them from whom they helped put in power?! I can tell you that in
the DRC nationalism may not be a course taught at any school but it is an
ideology which every Congolese carry with him wherever he found himself, today
you can surf streets of every province of the Democratic Republic of Congo and
ask who’s the brain behind the status quo they will tell you clearly that it
always has been Rwanda’s wish to weaken its giant neighbour, if possible create
a state within state, therefore using Joseph Kabila as a facilitator to
accomplish the fore mentioned, a sentiment the diaspora also echoes.
Many
analysts I spoke to recently believe that the current Eastern DRC crisis
highlight in bold how determined is Rwanda’s Paul Kagame to expand his tyrannical
rule in central Africa in whatever way. From using the pretext of ‘going-after-members-of-former-ruling
Hutu-ethnic-responsible-of-genocide-hiding-in-the-DRC’ to arming Rwandans and
attack the Congo, as the Telegraph reported of UK last week, clearly the “new
boss” of the Great Lake region will never rest until his mission is achieved. Even a
two years old toddler will found it pathetic of the rebels to claim that Joseph
Kabila has to admit he cheated last year’s presidential election and step down. Is
the M23 some kind of electorate observing mission? What I observed is that, the
people of Congo have advanced politically to comprehend who’s their enemy and
who’s a real pal, Abraham Lincoln once said: “You can fool all the people some
of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the
people all of the time.”Obviously no soul will again afford any more
lies from any pretender to come in name of ‘peace and reconciliation.’
Here
we are fifty years after independence, the country hasn’t made any important progress in terms of political stability, infrastructures
development, economy growth, health care delivery or quality education yet we
are still debating who will rig the next presidential election or what armed
group will seize what part of the country, I will somewhat blame ourselves because
of the failure to take extreme actions which are indeed necessary in order to
establish an equitable state the DRC badly needs thus far never was since its
existence. Reliance on so-called International Community (whoever they are) have
proven to be a biggest disappointment, proof, since the UN started its mission
in the country some thirteen years ago over 5.4 million people had died under
their watch and an estimated number of more than 1.5 million people are
internally displaced, many of them women and children. How many again do we
want dead for us to take action? maybe a sort of civil revolution/war is definitely
needed in order to take back what is rightfully for the people and establish a
legitimate government as suggested a former Congolese soldierliving on exile in
Johannesburg, turned “Combatant” —anti Kabila activist— He reckoned that power in the Democratic Republic of
Congo rest on the hands of Kigali-controlled incompetent Joseph Kabila and
must be snatched away from him whatever it takes, however doing so, he said, will
require a lot of courage and effort, the audacity former service man stresses
Congolese people don’t have…yet.
Certainly the
frustration is growing among the Congolese people whether be in the diaspora or
at home, it is only a matter of time until the folks, especially those within
the DRC borders to realise that a ‘Patria O Muerte’ speech is needed to overcome
that evil of fear, adopt the ‘Egyptian-approach’ and go “Tahrir-Square” on both Joseph Kabila and his M23 creation and
finally put an end to eleven years reign of impunity, serious human-rights
abuse, organised rebellion and dictatorship.
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