The systems that produce truth about global conflicts are compromised.
President Felix Tshisekedi's electoral campaign just before the December 2023 elections was not about domestic reform: it was mobilisation for war with Kigali. Now that the war he promised is upon us, the international community perversely demands peace from Rwanda rather than accountability from the man who volunteered his state as surrogate motherland for the next genocide in our region. A man who literally campaigned on his neighbour's destruction.
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By refusing to hold Kinshasa responsible, the UN, the AU, and world leaders have created a permanent void between diplomatic signatures and ground reality. This cycle of ceasefires without consequence is what Robert David Steele warned of in his Open Source Everything Manifesto:
"While the UN has committed itself to coherence, with the meme of &039;Delivering as one,' they do not have the intelligence, nor the integrity, to actually do that."
As La Libre Afrique writer Hubert Leclercq wrote, "La guerre est devenue le plan A." War became Kinshasa's Plan A.
Kinshasa's minister for communication, Patrick Muyaya, functions as little more than the minister of #PoisonRwandais. His government's sole consistent service to its people is an enemy. Governance has been replaced by narrative. Reality, by repetition. Ignorance is not accidental. It is engineered, 2,000 kilometres away from every Turkish and Chinese drone strike Kinshasa fires on eastern Congolese civilians.
The evidence is not abstract.
In March 2026 alone, not only were M23 spokesperson Willy Ngoma and French UNICEF worker Karine Buisset killed, bu investigations by CIDHC – the International Consortium for Human Rights in DR Congo - documented 1,564 civilians slain since July 2025 across Minembwe, Masisi, Walikale and Goma. All in markets, displacement camps, schools and homes, photographed and verified the morning of each strike.
ACLED's independent data confirms that more than 95% of drone strikes during every ceasefire, from Luanda to Washington to Doha, were carried out by FARDC and Wazalendo forces. This is not an isolated incident. It is a system: one enabled by UN narratives that spotlight M23 in sexual-violence charts while burying FARDC, Wazalendo and FDLR in figures that go unnamed the same week Buisset was murdered. A system sourced by Reuters when calling UNSC meetings that doubled the so-called 'Rutshuru farmer massacre' from 169 to 319 victims in five days, with no bodies to show, or even farms. Not only did an independent report by African Facts find no material evidence supporting the alleged massacre, exposed the unexplained doubling of figures from 169 to 319 within five days, and traced the claims to Nyatura (FDLR-linked) sources.
The lack of intelligence with integrity is striking. When M23 strikes Kisangani airport, the very base it warned was being used to launch drones on civilians, the AU and the UN invoke terrorism conventions and the Rome Statute. When Kinshasa's drones kill over 1,564 civilians since the summer of 2025, and a UN humanitarian worker in a residential neighbourhood, MONUSCO responds with "all parties" and "deep concern."
The double standard is not incidental. It is the system.
Rwanda's knowledge is not theoretical. It is lived. It is the memory of a genocide ended by its own people while the world debated terminology. It is the rebuilding of trust where none were meant to survive. That trust, intangible, spiritual, unquantifiable, is something no institution can fabricate and no state can purchase. It is the only currency that sustains our peace.
Whether European pens take note or not, that resilience the world calls Rwanda today is under attack. This is a war against NdiUmunyarwanda: a unified, healing, pan-Africanist identity. Somehow, its defense raises more alarm across the world than the relocation of Akayesu-judgment offenders, now operating as the FDLR, whose brutality led to sexual violence being recognised as a genocide crime for the first time in history, and who have since turned eastern Congo into the rape capital of the world.
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All the while, Antwerp, a Belgian port city with no diamond mines, is known as the diamond capital of the world. Neither the FDLR nor Belgium have been sanctioned for committing mass atrocities for mineral gain in the DR Congo. Yet Rwanda has.
The UN's data does not reflect a change in the nature of this conflict. It reflects a captured narrative.