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Rwanda a great Nation with great People!

[James.N @PeterMucy]

#It's about...... !

[Ishimwe Heritier @HeritierRW]

"It's about our existence and nobody in this world, is the one responsible for us. I can only do so much but within my means I will do everything that can be done to make sure that that story of #FDLR and genocide doesn’t visit us again." ~President Paul #Kagame

[James.N @PeterMucy]

@SadateMunyakazi 15

[African @ali_naka]

“Beautiful speeches were being delivered in different parts of the World, the signs were there […] the world watched.” PLO Lumumba #Kwibuka32

[Ellen Kampire @ellen_kampire_]

I will be posting this video until the majority of youth grasp the intentionality of their leadership.

Help me spread: @Nyac_juru_jesse @harerimana_tito @byukavuba @CAGUWA_2

[Bojana Coulibaly, Ph.D. @CoulibalyBojana]

At #Kwibuka32 in Ottawa on April 7, I warned that in #DRC the same ideology that fueled the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi persists, as genocidal forces are tolerated while Rwanda & threatened Tutsi communities in DRC are blamed for defending themselves.

[James.N @PeterMucy]

Sir, spare your time and question: why would Rwandan troops happen to be in DRC? I am sure you have the answer: "FDLR" and "it's persistent ideology", which threatened Rwanda's territory. should the priority be:" Withdrawing, lifting defensive measures or FDLR Neutralization"?

[U.S. Senior Advisor for Arab and African Affairs @US_SrAdvisorAF]

I reiterated at the UN Security Council our call for the lifting of defensive measures and the immediate withdrawal of Rwandan troops from the territory of the DRC, as well as full respect for DRC’s sovereignty, territorial integrity, and political independence. I also underscored the need for the DRC government to neutralize the FDLR in areas under its control, as these steps are essential to addressing the security concerns that have fueled mistrust and instability in the region.

[James.N @PeterMucy]

@dr_dash250 Total liberation should be the paramount objective 🎯, the rest/other games/deals shall follow after.... Everything is in place, later they will run for you not u 4them.

Becoming deafs to the external distracts, until the objectives' achieved, MUST be a decisive approach.

[James.N @PeterMucy]

@dr_dash250 M23 shouldn't expect anything good from the opposite side, the way they're navigating in the criss has to be revised, they're labelled as "rebels", what else do they wait than destructs? Only advancing irrespective of who says A &B, then politics shall follow after not 4this time

[James.N @PeterMucy]

@CityofKigali Haba hari uburyo bwo kubyikorera bwashyizweho nkuburyo bwo gufasha abagorwa no kugera kuma site ?

Murakoze.

[James.N @PeterMucy]

Why aren't you talking the withdraw for Burundian Forces? Aren't they fueling the regional conflicts? What is the role of Mercenaires in the DRC? Are they there tenting for photography? How do you define territorial integrity?Centuries aren't the same as before @prevotmaxime

[Belgium in the EU @BelgiuminEU]

❝ Belgium is sensitive to the tragedy unfolding in 🇨🇩. European commitment needs to be much more assertive and comprehensive in supporting populations who have suffered the tragic horrors of this conflict for far too long. ❞

➖ 🇧🇪 Foreign minister @prevotmaxime at today’s #FAC

[James.N @PeterMucy]

Mwaramutseho @reg_rwanda
Mukagari ka Kinyaga, Akakaza, Bumbogo, Gasabo twahuye n'ikibazo cyo kubura umuriro mubice byaho kuva n'ijoro kugeza n'ubu.

Mudufashe iribura ry'umuriro ryabaye rimaze umwanya munini.

Murakoze

[Albert Rudatsimburwa 🇷🇼 @albcontact]

DRC
The Truth They Don’t Want Told: Rwanda, Congo, and the Thirty-Year Lie of War
For three decades, the world has been told that Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have been locked in a cycle of war. That formulation is repeated so often it is accepted as fact: “thirty years of war.” But it is a dangerous distortion. What the region has endured is not thirty years of war between equals, but thirty years of denial — denial that genocidal forces defeated in Rwanda in 1994 were allowed to survive, regroup, and thrive under international cover in Congo. Denial that United Nations peacekeepers and international experts, mandated to protect civilians and tell the truth, instead became complicit in perpetuating instability. Denial that successive Congolese governments have collaborated with these forces while Western institutions inverted reality to portray the victims as perpetrators. This is ultimately part of the Denial of the Genocide Against the Tutsi in Rwanda 1994 and the same time a support for those who committed the genocide and their western supporting powers.
This narrative inversion — turning the perpetrators of genocide into victims, and Rwanda into the aggressor — has been so persistent that it now structures international debates at the UN Security Council and the Human Rights Council. The most recent sessions in New York and Geneva showcased the same pattern: Félix Tshisekedi’s government, which has integrated genocidal militias and even contracted foreign mercenaries, was spared scrutiny, while Rwanda was once again presented as the destabilizing actor. Such distortions are not just insulting; they are dangerous. They perpetuate impunity, embolden genocidal forces, and condemn millions of Congolese to continued suffering.
1994: The Crime the World Saw but Chose Not to Stop
The truth begins in 1994, when Rwanda descended into the fastest genocide of the twentieth century. The United Nations Security Council was not blindsided. It had reports on its desk from the commander of the UN peacekeeping force in Rwanda. It knew about hate speech broadcast by extremist radio stations. It knew about militias arming and training openly. Yet when the presidential plane was shot down on April 6th and the genocide machinery was unleashed, the Council dithered. For one hundred days, more than a million Tutsi were hunted down and slaughtered while the so-called international community watched.
When the genocide was halted by the Rwandan Patriotic Front, the perpetrators were not dismantled. Instead, they were escorted into Zaire, under French military cover, and given sanctuary by Mobutu’s regime. It was a stunning betrayal: would the Allies after World War II have tolerated a Nazi army regrouping in Switzerland or Austria, rearming, and launching cross-border raids? The question answers itself. What was unthinkable in Europe was tolerated in Africa.
Thirty Years of Denial
The remnants of the genocidal regime reconstituted themselves into new armed groups, most prominently the FDLR. They launched raids into Rwanda, destabilized eastern Congo, and embedded themselves into local conflicts. Rwanda and other African states were drawn into wars to neutralize them, yet the international community consistently refused to recognize the root cause. Instead, it adopted the lazy shorthand of “thirty years of war between Rwanda and Congo,” erasing the agency of the genocidal forces and the complicity of their enablers.
The refusal to confront this truth has consequences. It allows the myth to persist that instability in eastern Congo is a Rwandan export rather than the direct result of harboring genocidal actors. It permits Congolese leaders, from Laurent Kabila to Félix Tshisekedi, to use the FDLR as a political tool, while scapegoating Rwanda whenever domestic failures come under pressure. And it encourages Western chancelleries and UN officials to absolve themselves of responsibility by blaming the most convenient target.
MONUSCO: A Mission that Multiplied Armed Groups
Since 1999, the United Nations has deployed its largest-ever peacekeeping mission, MONUC — later renamed MONUSCO — in the DRC. Its track record is damning. When the mission began, there were just four armed groups active in Congo. Today, there are more than 200. When Tshisekedi began his presidency, there were 28. This explosion of armed groups happened under MONUSCO’s watch.
Even more damning is its relationship to the very forces it was meant to neutralize. MONUSCO never dismantled the FDLR. At times, it even cooperated with them. Atrocities in Ituri province continue to unfold despite MONUSCO’s heavy presence. And yet, year after year, the Security Council mandates “UN Experts” to report on the situation. These reports, opaque in recruitment and methodology, have consistently deflected blame away from MONUSCO and the Congolese government, while shifting suspicion onto Rwanda. Far from being impartial, they have helped to construct and entrench the false narrative of Rwanda as aggressor.
Tshisekedi’s Calculated Escalation
Félix Tshisekedi has not only inherited this machinery of denial; he has actively deepened it. His government has integrated the FDLR into the Congolese army, multiplied local militias known as Mai-Mai (later rebranded as “Wazalendo” to dodge international criticism), and even hired foreign mercenaries. Romania, a NATO member, sent a contingent that was captured during the fall of Goma. The United States, through Erik Prince — founder of the notorious Blackwater — has supplied another. Neither the UN, nor the EU, nor the African Union, which formally banned mercenaries in Africa in 1977, has spoken a word of condemnation.
The hypocrisy is staggering. Rwanda is scrutinized for defensive actions aimed at protecting its borders from genocidal militias, while the Congolese government is given carte blanche to collaborate with those militias and employ Western mercenaries. This is not neutrality; it is complicity.
The Manipulation of Numbers and Memory
The distortion goes beyond politics into the realm of memory itself. The oft-repeated claim of “millions dead in Congo” is traced back to the UN’s infamous “Mapping Report” covering 1993–2003. That document was so riddled with methodological flaws that it reads less like professional research than a political pamphlet. Its purpose was transparent: to inflate numbers in ways that incriminate Rwanda, while erasing the structural causes of death in Congo — state collapse, corruption, and the harboring of armed groups.
Yes, thousands have perished in Congo — from direct violence, from displacement, from preventable disease. But to inflate these figures into the millions without context, and to assign blame selectively, is not just bad scholarship. It is a moral crime. It erases the real victims, most of all the Congolese Banyarwanda, who have been displaced and targeted for over thirty years. And it allows those responsible — Congolese politicians, UN officials, and their international enablers — to wash their hands of accountability.
Geneva, New York, and the Inversion of Truth
All of these threads converge in the present. At the UN Security Council’s latest session on the DRC, and at the Human Rights Council in Geneva, the script was repeated once more. Tshisekedi’s government organized side events and interventions designed to paint Rwanda as the aggressor, while UN officials played along. The FDLR’s role was minimized. MONUSCO’s failures were ignored. The use of mercenaries was never mentioned. Instead, the narrative inversion was complete: Rwanda, the country that stopped a genocide and has spent thirty years defending its borders from its remnants, was presented as the destabilizer.
It is a shameful spectacle. But it is also a revealing one. The international system is not neutral. It protects its own failures. It prefers denial to accountability. And in doing so, it ensures that the cycle of violence continues.
The Urgency of Truth
Thirty years on, the question is no longer whether the world failed Rwanda in 1994. That is beyond dispute. The real question is why the world has continued to fail the Great Lakes region for three decades afterward — by denying the root causes of instability, by shielding the perpetrators, and by inverting the roles of victim and aggressor.
It is time to say it plainly: this has not been thirty years of war. It has been thirty years of denial. Denial that has protected genocidal actors. Denial that has enabled Congolese governments to weaponize militias. Denial that has allowed UN peacekeepers and “experts” to preside over the multiplication of armed groups. And denial that has permitted Western chancelleries to avoid their own complicity by pointing the finger at Rwanda.
Breaking that denial is not only about Rwanda. It is about justice for the Congolese civilians trapped in cycles of violence, abandoned by their own state, and failed by the international community. It is about accountability for institutions that claim moral authority while practicing selective blindness. And it is about finally affirming that African lives, African history, and African truths cannot be endlessly distorted without consequence.
If the world truly cares about peace in the Great Lakes, it must abandon the thirty-year lie and confront the truth it has avoided for too long. Until then, every new resolution in New York and every new declaration in Geneva will be nothing more than a continuation of the denial that has condemned the region to endless suffering.

[James.N @PeterMucy]

To remind you, none from elsewhere has the rights to determine/dictate who should exist and how he/she should be.... If no one can't stand for people's lives, themselves will be up and stand for at any cost, even last breath. 31 years are enough, people stood up for their lives

[James.N @PeterMucy]

Mr. Secretary, real Mediator don't seem to take side at time of mediations, May you as well alert the public #actions of Burundian forces partnering/Mingled with FDRL, FARDC, WAZALENDO, Mercenaires as per their concrete ideology is concerned?

[Secretary Marco Rubio @SecRubio]

Rwanda's actions in eastern DRC are a clear violation of the Washington Accords signed by President Trump, and the United States will take action to ensure promises made to the President are kept.

[James.N @PeterMucy]

Where is your stand in saving BANYAMULENGE's lives? targeted DRC civilians (Tutsi) deserves life or total extermination is preferred from your side? If they deserve life like others elsewhere, why aren't you pressing those who plans to wipe them (KINSHASA Government+🇧🇮)?

[James.N @PeterMucy]

@prevotmaxime Why don't you talk your help you have continued to provide to the Army that is killing it's citizens of which they should be protecting? Instead you point fingers to the neighbors yet you are the one fueling the escalation. Withdraw your involvement.

[James.N @PeterMucy]

@Larouss07 "Easy to figure out an emptying/vacant mindsets": Where will your benefits be even if Arsenal was to terminate the deal? though it isn't the case.

"Only drunkenness Loathing"

[Permanent Mission of Rwanda to The United Nations @RwandaUN]

“The latest report on the #DRC reflects troubling ommissions. #MONUSCO cooperates with the #DRC army knowing they are affiliated with the #FDLR.

This is a formal military cooperation between a UN and a government force that has a genocidal force within it. Is that not complicity?”

- Amb. @martin_ngoga at the 30th Sept #SecurityCouncil briefing on #MONUSCO.

📺Watch the full address + rebuttal:

[James.N @PeterMucy]

@dr_dash250 @GeneralNeva
Taking you back by then!
Recall those times(Give yourself a minute and see sincerelity in times

[James.N @PeterMucy]

@poliscoopmedia @PaulKagame 1. Himself
2. Man of Actions
3. Visionary
4. Merciful
5. Hard working
6. Wisdom
7. Fearlesly
8. Mentor and Coach
9. Listener
10. Aman who pays attention to small details.

#KagameStandsOut @PaulKagame

[Rwanda Broadcasting Agency (RBA) @rbarwanda]

“Rwanda-backed AFC/M23” has been used here extensively. I did not hear a single delegation talk about Kinshasa backed FDLR. Is it for lack of evidence? I know you have a working methodology in the Council where you adopt a language, but is there no objective criteria to adopt a language? Do you lack evidence? Even within your own reports, you acknowledge the DRC government backs the FDLR but why is it that you do not present it in that manner?"

Permanent Representative of Rwanda to the United Nations, Amb. Martin Ngoga
#RBANews