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THE LATEST US SANCTIONS ON RWANDA AIM TO HIDE ATTACKS ON BANYAMULENGE?
US sanctions on Rwanda’s Gasabo Gold Refinery appear timed to divert attention from alleged ethnic cleansing of Banyamulenge Congolese-Rwandophones by the Congolese government in Minembwe, South Kivu.
Regional commentators criticize the timing amid heavy fighting after government attacks, civilian casualties in government drone strikes on Minembwe hospital.
Observers argue that by announcing sanctioning a mining entity, the US is trying to sustain the "mineral conflict" narrative while hiding targeted ethnic violence by a sitting government.
Some warn this mirrors how US, France and Belgium shielded the Rwandan regime in 1994 by holding the media from publishing the truth of what was evolving— downplaying atrocities as the pattern repeats in eastern DRC today. #FactsOnRwanda
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