Give them a break, it’s their people!

Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have taken the unprecedented move of working together to bring back stability to eastern DRC, but this seems to have struck the wrong chord in some people’s hearts. Rwandans have a saying that, if literary translated means; “He who shows more sympathy for a child than its mother, has no good intentions towards it” (Urusha nyina w’umwana imbabazi aba ashaka ku murya). Do these fellows mean to say that they are more affected by the plight of the population than the Congolese and Rwandans’ who feel the full blunt of the insecurity? Judging from the reactions coming from the some sections of the international community – especially the so-called human rights defenders – against the joint operation, it not only reeks of pure shameless posturing to gain airtime, it is also an attempt to cover for their criminal neglect of the Congolese population.