#FARDCKillingCongolese

[Tom Ndahiro @TomNdahiro]

Merci beaucoup Gaël Faye pour la message #Kwibuka30

[#FARDCKillingCongolese @AkiGarment]

@NKasinge Conspiracy theories…

[Mamy Kazadi 🇨🇩 @MamyKazadi]

Le prémier ministre Senegalais @SonkoOfficiel considère le président rwandais @PaulKagame comme un modèle à copier en #Afrique ,tozo zela nini biso pe to copier modele?🤔

[Bojana Coulibaly, Ph.D. @CoulibalyBojana]

While we are commemorating this year the 30th anniversary of the genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, there are those significant moments in history that show how language use and discourse often determine societal outcome.

In his book A Thousand Hills, @stephenkinzer recalls the now famous June 10th 1994 exchange between US State Dept. Spokeswoman Christine Shelly, and Alan Elsner of Reuters, an exchange which in Kinzer's words has become "an instant classic in the history of [Orwellian] doublespeak" :

- Elsner: "How would you describe the events taking place in Rwanda?
- Shelly: "Based on evidence we have seen from observations of the ground, we have every reason to believe that acts of genocide have been committed in Rwanda."
- Elsner: "What's the difference between 'acts of genocide' and 'genocide'?"
- Shelly: "As you know there is a legal definition of this. There's been a lot of discussion about how this definition applies under the definition of genocide contained in the 1948 Convention. If you're looking at that figure determination about genocide, clearly not all of the killings that have taken place in Rwanda, are killings that you might apply that label."
- Elsner: "How many acts of genocide does it take to make genocide?"
- Shelly: "Alan, that's just not a question I'm prepared to answer"
- Elsner: "Well, is it true that you have specific guidance not to use the word 'genocide' in isolation, but always to preface it with these words: 'acts of'?"
- Shelly: I have guidance which, which, to which I, which I try to use as best I can, I am not, I have, there are formulations that we are using, that we are trying to be consistent in our use of. I don't have an absolute categorical prescription against something, but I have definitions, I have phraseology which has been carefully examined and arrived at as best we can apply to exactly the situation and the actions which have been taking place."

It is quite extraordinary that "phraseology" can determine whether 1M non-white lives matter, particularly as we are witnessing how the same genocide ideology, targeting the same minority group, is met with the same international bystander attitude, 30 years later, right across the border in DRC.

[FC Bayern @FCBayernEN]

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[#FARDCKillingCongolese @AkiGarment]

@PwaniTribune This was in the 90’s he was speaking to Rwanda Patriotic Forces.

[Stephanie Nyombayire @PressSecRwanda]

What not to miss from President Kagame interview with Jeune Afrique:

1.If we were to simply wait for others to solve our problems, the cost would be much higher for our country. These problems emerged thirty years ago due to the tragic history that occurred in our country at the hands of all those who were associated with it in one way or another, including those who today blame Rwanda for being involved in the east of the DRC. That’s why I publicly said that we would not need anyone’s permission to do what we have to do, if such a threat materialized again.

2.Tshisekedi is capable of anything, especially since he seems unable to understand the implications of what he says as the president of the DRC. For me, this is a problem in itself, and a very serious problem that I must deal with.

3.South Africa is wrong, and from what I know, this is not like them. Given its history, its relations with other countries, why should it get involved in this? I do not understand how South Africa, knowingly agrees to fight alongside the FDLR, Genocidaires who have murdered our people. I also do not understand how South Africa could go to DRC to fight against people who are fighting to defend their rights. The M23 and those it represents are deprived of their rights to citizenship and nationality. Yet they are Congolese, Tshisekedi does not even deny it. They are openly persecuted and are victims of hate speech.

https://t.co/ZmO6nCLiQ1 reality, we still have primitive policies based on ethnicity. And this is exactly what brings Tshisekedi, Ndayishimiye, and the FDLR together. At the time of Tshisekedi’s inauguration [on January 20], Ndayishimiye met with young people in Kinshasa. He spoke to them about how the youth of Africa, from Burundi, the DRC, should join those from Rwanda to overthrow the government. What he was talking about, what he wanted to resurrect, was the Hutu/Tutsi politics, the wars, and conflicts. If we have, in our time, leaders who still think in these terms, it’s a real problem.

https://t.co/L8H1Crr9UH

[Tristan Ngamije @TristanNgamije]

“DeRwandalization” is not a policy; it’s a death sentence for the Tutsi in DRC.

Orchestrated by Tshisekedi's regime and fueled by figures like Otto Bahizi and General Mayanga, it's a clear call for ethnic cleansing.

The International Community must not turn a blind eye to this. Stand against this injustice and protect the innocent.

[Les Misérables @Dachronica]

Genocide against the Tutsi was a systematized plan of extermination.This was on the 28th of January 1993 one year and 3 months before April 1994 .

On France 2, Jean Carbonare sorrowfully,and imploringly urging the world to not abandon Rwanda,urging his own country to stop supporting a government that was exterminating tutsi minority, as he revealed the extent of genocidal pogroms perpetrated in Rwanda since 1990 including Bigogwe Massacres.

He then returned from international fact-finding mission organized by La Fédération internationale des ligues des droits de l'homme (FIDH) where they have witnessed how Tutsi were maimed and gruesomely massacred,en masse,throughout the country,per the order of government.

Neither France nor The world did listen to him until it was beyond too late . The first video shows the exhumed victims of Bigogwe massacre during FIDH investigation in 1993 .

[Basketball Africa League @theBAL]

When you’re the first team in the #BAL4 to clinch a Playoff spot 🕺🗣️🇷🇼 #theBAL

[Mamy Kazadi 🇨🇩 @MamyKazadi]

Tout en plaidant en faveur du désarmement,n'oublions pas de condamner la colaboration des #FDLR avec le @fatshi13 @PatrickMuyaya @RDCongoMAE @TinaSalama2 @DeniseNYAKERUT,un partenariat qui menace la sécurité régionale
#DisarmFDLR
#TshisekediFDLR
#UNsecurityCouncil
#FreeCongo

[Albert Rudatsimburwa 🇷🇼 @albcontact]

#Congo 🇨🇩 dystopique et soûle de son sous-sol si riche
“Ici nous sommes au centre ville Kinshasa, devant vous c’est l’avenue Kasavubu.”
… la masse de saletés encombre la circulation …

“Kinshasa qu’on ne vous montre pas”
full vidéo

https://t.co/mni721vxZF comment vivre ds une telle saleté

[Faith Gatako @faith_gatako]

Justin Bitakwira, un proche de #Tshisekedi, a littéralement reproduit un discours de haine historique prononcé par le génocidaire condamné Léon Mugesera en 1992.

Ce discours diabolisait les Tutsis tout en incitant également les autres citoyens à les exterminer. @UNOSAPG

[#FARDCKillingCongolese @AkiGarment]

The #GanginKin has turned the entire #DRC into lawless country where cannibalism and impunity are daily activities. How is normal for a human to eat another? #FreeCongo #DisarmFDLR @AlJazeeraWorld @AlJazeera @BBCWorld @bbcgahuza @CNN @jumuiya @_AfricanUnion #genprev

[keza clarisse @ClarisseKeza]

#DisarmFDLR
#FreeCongo
#TshisekediFDLR
#UNSecurityCouncil

[#FARDCKillingCongolese @AkiGarment]

Lol… this is the impact the #GanginKin-s inability to govern.

[Robert Patrick Fati Gakwerere @RGakwerere]

Hey, #Dictator @PaulKagame, watch the impact of your mineral war in DR Congo. For over 2 decades, your continuous wars in DR Congo have caused genocide and all sorts of human rights atrocities, massive displacements and plundering nature resources at an industrial scale.

[#FARDCKillingCongolese @AkiGarment]

@Teddykimany @Benoit_M1 @zoomafrika1 The #GanginKin has turned the victims into villains. @Presidence_RDC over the years has encouraged hate speech in the #DRC now they cry foul. #FreeCongo #Justice for the Congolese #Tutsi and #Hema

[#FARDCKillingCongolese @AkiGarment]

@PresidencyZA has sent @SANDF_ZA to fight a long the #Wazalendo & @FARDC_off who do this to their own people. The #GanginKin must be happy. They are mocking South African freedom fighters by collaborating with #genocidalTshisekedi

[Zoom Afrika @zoomafrika1]

A touching video from Congo 🇨🇩 💔

[#FARDCKillingCongolese @AkiGarment]

The #GanginKin has failed to find a general that is able to fight in North Kivu. #FreeCongo of incompetent leaders and army generals.

[Mugenzi Félix @FelixMugenzi]

Quantième Général commandant des opérations au Nord Kivu?! Chaque mois, un nouveau commandant !!

Ils ne gagneront jamais cette guerre

seul le dialogue entre le M23 et Tshisekedi peut les sauver de l'humiliation

@BonheurMuamba4 @gateteviews

[#FARDCKillingCongolese @AkiGarment]

@BEndundo and the #GanginKin leadership of @fatshi13 & @PatrickMuyaya try to hide their discriminative practices through #propaganda but those they taught to discriminate, can’t help themselves but be discriminative. #FreeCong get rid of the #GanginKin

[MAISHA RDC @MaishaRdc]

#KINSHASA_ONU: Un militaire #FARDC arrêté par des civils soumis à une interrogation jugeant son apparence physique de ne pas être "Congolaise". Il s'agit une persécution des tutsis congolais qui poursuit son non chemin en toute impunité.(04/03/024) @volker_turk @UN_HRC @tdgch

[Ministry of National Unity and Civic Engagement @Unity_MemoryRw]

Le rôle du président Habyarimana dans la planification et l’exécution du génocide contre les Tutsis https://t.co/6hrATAuxm7

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