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Ms @HarianaVeras,
You stated that you "stand firmly by [your] professional integrity as a journalist committed to truth, accuracy, and ethical reporting". Those are indeed noble values and principles that should guide every journalist.
However, "professional integrity" should not be just proclaimed by the journalist him/herself; it should be demonstrated by the quality of the regular reporting and the daily work of the journalist.
If we put aside the frequent visits to Kinshasa and Bujumbura, the gifts you publicly received and accepted from President Tshisekedi or the holding of a microphone of the DRC State TV in Washington or in New York, one should look at your reporting of the conflict in eastern DRC over the past years to check if you are indeed a journalist with "professional integrity".
FIRST, you have never ever, in any of your reportings and interviews, mentioned the acronym "F.D.L.R", let alone condemning the collaboration of this genocidal militia with the Congolese army FARDC or denouncing its ethnic crimes in eastern DRC.
Here, there are two options: either you have never heard about the FDLR, in which case we should question your "professionalism", or your are aware of its existence and its crimes but chose not to report about it, in which case we should question your "integrity".
SECOND, you have completely ignored, in all your reportings, the ongoing persecution of the Congolese Tutsi, including the Banyamulenge. Their villages are regularly targeted by airstrikes by FARDC's attack drones and fighter jets; 300 hundred homes of Congolese Tutsi in a specific village in Masisi territory were burned downed by Kinshasa-backed militias in October 2023; the Banyamulenge were victims of a blockade in Minembwe by the Burundian army, preventing them from accessing markets; and individual Congolese Tutsi (including FARDC officers) were lynched, burned alive and even cannibalised in broad daylight.
Yet, you always look the other way and never reported about any of these many cases of persecution of women, men and children, just because on how they were born. Question: are the Congolese Tutsi not among the African people you are supposed to "advocate" for in Washington? Are they not human beings enough to warrant your precious attention?
THIRD, as a woman and RTNC reporter, why did you keep silent in December 2025 when General Sylvain Ekenge, the then Spokesperson of the Congolese Army, disparaged Congolese Tutsi women on RTNC, warning his male compatriots to never marry them, as they are "evil"?
Not only did you refuse to condemn this despicable slur against women on RTNC, but you even doubled down by wielding a RTNC microphone at The White House, as if you were defiantly endorsing the hate speech of the DRC State television.
FOURTH, as you gave two interviews to President Tshisekedi and one to President Ndayishimiye of Burundi, why did you, as a "professional" journalist, forget to ask them basic questions about their public threats to bomb Kigali and to overthrow the Government of Rwanda? Can you claim that you never heard about those threats, which went viral on social media, or did you conclude that those threats were justified, not worth reporting?
FIFTH, why the "professional" journalist and "expert" on Congo that you are, never reported on the use of foreign mercenaries by President Tshisekedi, who were deployed in violation of a OAU/AU Resolution of 1977 and a UN Convention of 1989?
More generally, how come do we never hear, in your reportings, questions and interviews, even the slightest criticism against the DRC Government and President Tshisekedi, using available reports by the UN and other international organisations?
If this grossly biased and one-sided reporting can be described as "professional integrity" by "a journalist committed to truth, accuracy, and ethical reporting", I guess we should urgently rethink about the definition of journalism.