Pierre Gahindiro

[Olivier J.P. Nduhungirehe @onduhungirehe]

Dans son discours d'hier au corps diplomatique accrédité à Bujumbura, S.E @GeneralNeva a suggéré que les Forces de défense nationale du Burundi (FDNB) ont été déployées à l'est de la RDC pour "combattre les groupes armés étrangers".

Le problème est que cette affirmation ne résiste pas à la vérité, et aux faits facilement vérifiables sur le terrain.

En effet, si les FDNB avaient été déployées en RDC pour "combattre les groupes armés étrangers", pourquoi ne se sont-elles JAMAIS attaquées aux FDLR, qui est pourtant un groupe génocidaire étranger? Pire: pourquoi les forces burundaises collaborent-t-elles plutôt avec ces mêmes FDLR, étant motivées par une idéologie génocidaire qu'elles partagent?

Je rappelle ici que dans le cadre du cessez-le-feu négocié par l'EAC, le contingent des FDNB, qui était déployé dans la Force régionale de l'EAC (EACRF), avait "hérité" en 2023 de nombreuses localités du territoire de Masisi, précédemment détenues par le M23, qui avait d'ailleurs cédé à l'EACRF environ 80% des territoires qu'il détenait.

Ces localités du territoire de Masisi, cédées par le M23 à l'armée burundaise en 2023, incluaient le village de Nturo, principalement habité par des Congolais Tutsi.

Mais du 7 au 10 octobre 2023, les milices extrémistes Nyatura et Wazalendo, ainsi que les forces génocidaires FDLR, ont décidé d'attaquer ce village dans une opération terre brûlée. 300 maisons de Congolais Tutsi ont ainsi été brûlées et réduites en cendres, dans une épuration ethnique savamment organisée.

Selon le chef de ce village, les forces burundaises étaient stationnées, complices, sur une colline surplombant le village de Nturo, observant tranquillement la scène sur plusieurs heures, sans intervenir.

Les villageois rescapés de Nturo se sont réfugiés dans le village voisin de Bwiza, où ils ont rejoint plus de 17,000 déplacés, victimes d'attaques incessantes des FARDC et de ses nombreuses milices. Ces villageois n'ont été sauvés que par des combattants M23 venant de Rutshuru.

Ce village de Nturo, meurtri et martyrisé par les forces du mal, est aujourd'hui contrôlé par le M23, qui a permis aux villageois de reconstruire leurs maisons et de vivre en toute sécurité.

Je rappelle ici que ce crime contre l'humanité, commis par des milices génocidaires avec la complicité de l'armée burundaise, n'a été condamné ni par la @MONUSCO, ni par le Conseil de sécurité des Nations unies, ni par l'Union européenne, ni par aucune puissance occidentale.

Et ce sont ces mêmes puissances, qui s'arrogent le privilège de valeurs morales mais restent silencieuses face au mal, qui ont aujourd'hui le culot de revenir pour exiger que le M23, "soutenu par le Rwanda" comme ils disent, remettent encore une fois ces pauvres villageois sous le joug de leurs bourreaux.

Quant aux forces burundaises, elles se sont, à partir de cette date d'octobre 2023, engagées dans des combats plus ouverts contre le M23 et les Congolais Tutsi, profitant de l'expulsion de l'EACRF par le Président Tshisekedi, au profit d'une SAMIDRC plus offensive.

[Arthur Asiimwe @aasiimwe]

A small contribution for the US audience to understand the complex issues in the current internal DRC crisis.. via @WashInformer

To Fix Congo, Fix Its Leadership https://t.co/dSl4gqlKaD via @WashInformer

[Pierre Gahindiro @Pgahindiro]

Icyo kinyoma ni cya semuhanuka. Ibyo wanditse n'ibyo uhimbye ugamije gutera ubwoba. Ko u Rwanda wagaragaje ko urwanga, waruvuyeho ukareba ibikureba!

[John B. Simbaburanga @be_johns]

Biravugwa hirya no hino mu Rwanda hari abari kubikuza amafaranga bari barabikije amabanki, kubera ubwoba bwuko intambara ishobora kwaduka mu Rwanda bitunguranye. Ntimwirare ngo mwizere ko ibintu byifashe neza. Mukomeze mukurikiranire hafi ibiri kuba.

[Pierre Gahindiro @Pgahindiro]

@Smith_JeffreyT Sorry Smith you are always wrong. You are just myopic. Because of your selfishness, you ignore the suffering of Congolese Tutsi and just peddle lies.

[Pierre Gahindiro @Pgahindiro]

@be_johns Uri muzasabwe! Ariko se iyo wanze u Rwanda n'abayobozi barwo, ubura n'ubwenge butekereza?

[Pierre Gahindiro @Pgahindiro]

@Sentletse That is dehumanization and it's one of the stages of genocide. You are no different from the Interahamwe and FDLR that killed Rwandans until stopped by him.

[Pierre Gahindiro @Pgahindiro]

@SamuelBaker_B @PaulKagame @RubavuDistrict Cisha make sha. Wanze aho ukomoka none uragenda ubwejagura. M23 irarwanira uburenganzira bwayo

[Bojana Coulibaly, Ph.D. @CoulibalyBojana]

I invite all the actors of the international community, to read & use in their advocacy for peace in the region, this well-documented report on the effects of institutional hate speech & on the ensuing most recent hate crimes against the Congolese Tutsi in DRC. ✍️@NARwanda.

[Pierre Gahindiro @Pgahindiro]

@Cidiachissungo Hi Chissungo, I think you should start encouraging people to embrace the leadership of President Chapo. A lot of noise has been heard, but Chapo is your President. Give him a benefit of doubt and you will be fine.

[Pierre Gahindiro @Pgahindiro]

@Cidiachissungo I think the reason why they are not coming is because of their security and safety. Over the last few weeks, some Mozambicans have behaved in a way that scares anyone.

[Pierre Gahindiro @Pgahindiro]

@DavidHimbara Jya umenya gusaza utanduranyije cyane. Wagize igihe cyawe , ugikoresha nabi none urimo kwanduranya. Sigaho

[Pierre Gahindiro @Pgahindiro]

You are just misguided, full of hatred and jealous. Sitting under a tree does not mean, it is a classroom. It is common for pupils to gather under a tree and play their chosen game. For you to claim it is a classroom, it shows how low you can go to undermine Rwanda.

[John B. Simbaburanga @be_johns]

RWANDA🇷🇼:
- The first photo is of a classroom beneath
that tree in Bugesera District in 2025.
- The second photo is of a very expensive
car, Kagame bought in 2024.

👉🏾What are your thoughts on that?

[John Dramani Mahama @JDMahama]

WATCH LIVE | Speech from HE John Dramani Mahama President-Elect, Republic of Ghana | WoezorTV https://t.co/a86JIZMNJn

[Olivier J.P. Nduhungirehe @onduhungirehe]

In my closing remarks at the 5th ministerial meeting under the #LuandaProcess, held in Angola on Saturday 12 octobre 2024, I laid down, on behalf of the government of Rwanda, three (3) key points that would be decisive in solving the conflict in eastern #DRCongo:

1️⃣ The #DRC, to take ownership of this crisis, stop scapegoating Rwanda in all official visits and international conferences, and find a lasting solution to the conflict. This should be done through a direct political dialogue with the #M23, addressing the root causes of the crisis, which include hate speech, historical marginalization, discrimination and persecution of the Congolese Tutsi;

2️⃣ The DRC, to neutralize, in good faith, the #FDLR génocidaires, who not only are embedded in the Congolese army, but are also spreading genocide ideology within the #FARDC coalition and in the whole region;

3️⃣ The African countries that provided troops to fight alongside the FARDC/FDLR coalition (#Burundi and #SAMIDRC contingents), as well as the European mercenaries, which were deployed in violation of the international law, to think twice about their presence in eastern DRC, which is fueling an already tense situation.

Should the DRC have the political will to take those important steps, this would significantly contribute to the resolution of the long-standing conflict in eastern DRC. And Rwanda is willing to support this process.

[Pierre Gahindiro @Pgahindiro]

@KenRoth @PaulKagame Roth, for many years, you have consistently demonstrated your hate for President Kagame. What is an election in your view? How many choices do you want? There are 3 candidates and Rwandans are free to choose and they know what is good for them.

[Bojana Coulibaly, Ph.D. @CoulibalyBojana]

It is clear from the statements made by @fredbauma90 on the @AJInsideStory podcast, that his "research center" @ebuteli, is far from "independent" as he claims it to be, & as echoed by @AJEnglish.

Choosing partisanship over research integrity, Bauma singles out M23, when he is fully aware that all the studies evaluate M23 as the least violent armed group, & is therefore not the root cause of insecurity & violence in Congo.

Bauma indeed:

1) fails to pinpoint that the Number One single actor of human rights abuses is the DRC national army FARDC, as shown in the latest @unjhro report;

2) he also fails to indicate that the Second main actor of violence, according to UNJHRO, is the Mai-Mai coalition (VDP/Wazalendo), which is DRC government-sponsored, alongside the genocidal group FDLR & its splinter group Nyatura, mercenaries & Burundian national army FDNB, according to the UN Group of experts;

3) he equally fails to point out that FARDC (& the DRC police PNC) + the Mai-Mai coalition, in addition to the Islamist terrorist group ADF, represent more than 90% of human rights violations in the country;

4) Bauma continues to use the alleged "Kishishe massacre" as the only "evidence" of "human rights abuses by M23",

- whereas the alleged "Kishishe massacre" has never been forensically investigated by any qualified independent body or individual, including the UN, which has only referred to a "PRELIMINARY investigation";

- whereas Fred Bauma, 2 weeks after the alleged massacre, without any on-site forensic evidence having been collected, & without ever setting foot in Kishishe, had declared, beyond the shadow of a doubt, that "131 civilians, including children and women, were massacred" in Kishishe ;

- whereas Ebuteli's own violence mapping datasets, the @KivuSecurity Tracker, evaluated that the alleged massacre had resulted in 40 casualties, and not 131 as claimed by Ebuteli's director Fred Bauma;

- whereas Bauma knows that the last report of the alleged "Kishishe massacre" was published by @amnesty which reported that 20 men (and not civilians) were killed. This infers that these men were most certainly members of armed militias & not the "women" and "children" that Bauma described in his article in @lemondefr;

5) to back his argument, Bauma references a so-called report by @hrw, which "concluded", 4 months after the alleged massacre, solely from phone interviews & satellite images (and NOT a forensic evidence collection), that at least 14 mass graves had been found in Kishishe. The said-report indeed refers to 14 mass graves containing 15 to 20 bodies each for a total of 131 alleged victims, which means something seems to be off with these numbers...

6) and most importantly, no mention by Fred Bauma & HRW was ever made of the fact that Kishishe is an FDLR-location, where the genocidal group had committed atrocities for more than 2 decades, & before the arrival of M23 in Kishishe. And thus without any forensic evaluation, it is impossible to know if the bodies had been in the graves for 4 month, 2 years, or 10 years.

In sum, the only "evidence" of "human rights abuses by M23", i.e., the "Kishishe massacre", is in fact the product of Fred Bauma's fantasy about an imagined "M23- Rwanda invasion", & is in his view, a valid justification for supporting war against M23 & Rwanda.

Whereas M23, as clearly argued by its spokesperson @LawrenceKanyuka, is not only a local rebel group made of Congolese fighters, but it has been seeking dialogue & national re-integration of those Congolese who are seen as second class citizens for "not being Congolese enough".

M23 has signed & honored peace agreements for over a decade, having had clear political demands, which means that, contrary to the claims made by Fred Bauma, only a political solution & dialogue can lead to sustainable peace.

https://t.co/tKRtR1yMyL

[Conspiracy Tracker Great Lakes @Conspiracygl]

The Weekly Great Lakes Conspi Review is now available.

◾️This week, the #DRC government has fully deployed a disinformation campaign.
◾️This adds to the breaching of the ceasefire by FARDC under EAC mediation.

https://t.co/KOVZMo9aue

[Conspiracy Tracker Great Lakes @Conspiracygl]

#Conspiracy #GreatLakes:
#MonuscoGate: Whitewashing #HateSpeech and the Killing of Peacekeepers

◼️ #Monusco has been funding hate organizations to cover up its inability to bring peace and to justify its continued presence in the DRC.

https://t.co/4sw7Xqltzv via @YouTube

[Rwanda Government Communications @RwandaOGS]

COMMENT ON UK COURT RULING ON THE UK-RWANDA MIGRATION AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PARTNERSHIP.

[Pierre Gahindiro @Pgahindiro]

@charleskambanda @PatrickMuyaya You are just misinformed. You know nothing about the history of Kinyarwanda speaking people in the region. Congolese Tutsi are Congolese not Rwandans and their country is DRC.