Congolese President Félix-Antoine Tshisekedi stood up during the Global Gateway Forum in Brussels – where a number of heads of state and other high-ranking dignitaries were gathered – late last week and made a series of claims that, simply, were in their falsehoods, and in their detachment from reality. They included such claims as: “at no time have I displayed any belligerent attitude whatsoever towards Rwanda, or Uganda, or any other of our neighbors.” What! I burst out laughing, like I have laughed all year, when I heard this. ALSO READ: Rwanda says the ball is in Tshisekedi's court to end DR Congo crisis Mr. “Apartir ya Goma to koki toucher Kigali wana!?” (yes, my Lingala is poor but even I understood the man was boasting about his military’s ability to hit our capital, from Goma) now claims he’s never been belligerent toward Rwanda? Mr. “Lisez sur mes lèvres, à la moindre escarmouche, je réunis le congrès pour avoir leur autorisation afin d’attaquer le Rwanda (my French isn’t good enough, but I understood Tshisekedi was threatening to ask authorization from his parliament to attack Rwanda “at the slightest skirmish.”) That’s the fellow that now dons sheep’s clothing, to try to hoodwink people about his true attitudes toward Rwanda? But these only are two examples of the threats, bombast, and over-the-top hostility that have come out of the mouth of Tshisekedi, himself. Not from his assistants, propagandists, and members of his cabal in Kinshasa (though they too, not surprisingly, have poured more than their share of verbal invective on Rwanda). But from him personally. Tshisekedi has personally, loudly, and repeatedly threatened he will attack Rwanda “to change the government in Kigali.” So now what does he want everyone to believe he meant? What would he attack Rwanda with? Tshisekedi wants to mean he could only unleash a bunch of goats? Very lucky for him ridicule indeed doesn’t kill. Moreover, he has been saying all his hostile words to a country, Rwanda, whose leadership has never uttered one provocative word to him; never issued a single threat to his country. The only thing Rwanda has ever done is request Kinshasa to dismantle the DR Congo-based FDLR - a terrorist group well-known for being descended from the Hutu extremist army and militias that perpetrated the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda. After which, upon defeat, they crossed into the then Zaire, where they were never disarmed by the government. ALSO READ: UN confirms FDLR active in DR Congo, warns of genocide Today the genocidal FDLR still very much is driven by the same hate ideology as in 94: to exterminate a section of Rwanda’s population, and it constitutes a clear and present danger to Rwanda. It is the country’s biggest security threat. But rather than listen to Rwanda’s request, the Tshisekedi regime has held the genocidal militia into an even tighter embrace. Even though FDLR not only kept busy with preparations to attack Rwanda from the forests of eastern DR Congo, but even launched attacks into Rwanda, like one incident in 2019 when terrorists crossed into Kinigi and massacred up to 16 civilians, before they were neutralized. Beyond that, the Tshisekedi regime has seen it fit to integrate FDLR into its national army, FARDC. The genocidal militia in fact is such a part of Tshisekedi’s military its fighters constitute part of his Republican Guard. Yet Tshisekedi still insists on entertaining the world with comedic claims he’s never displayed any belligerent attitude toward Rwanda, heh! Its beyond risible actually when one thinks how in fact FARDC, working with FDLR, has fired shells into Rwanda from their side of the border, hoping to provoke the Rwandan military into retaliating - probably calculating that such a retaliation would provide them the pretext to cry everywhere in international forums that Rwanda had attacked them. Already Tshisekedi and members of his government travel the world, whining to everyone about how “Rwanda is aggressing their country.” They claim this while spending billions on advanced weapons in preparation to bring war to Rwanda, and while putting together coalitions of forces from all over the region, not mentioning their importation of mercenaries from European. Then they; the Tshisekedists composed of the Muyayas, Kayikwamba’s, their paid lackeys in Europe like the (Lydia) Mutyebeles - a so-called Belgian parliamentarian of Congolese origin that is nothing but Tshisekedi’s propaganda mouthpiece stationed in Brussels - go moaning in every forum that Rwanda is “the aggressor”. Tshisekedi mounts a campaign of genocide against unarmed Congolese Tutsi communities, massacring them through attacks by FARDC, together with FDLR, and militias like the Wazalendo, Nyatura, and others on his payroll. But he, and his people have no shame travelling the world, spending ridiculous amounts of money trying to sell the claim “Rwanda has done genocide in Congo” - the concocted, so-called Genocost. This before we even go into their policy of sabotage; particularly targeting the Visit Rwanda campaign - a tourism promotion initiative that has zilch to do with cross-border quarrels. Yet Tshisekedi can claim, with a straight face, that he’s never shown a belligerent attitude toward Rwanda? Now I’ve seen it all!
