Editor,

RE: "ICGLR to consider report on alleged presence of FDLR in Burundi” (The New Times, August 9).

Isn’t ICGLR Executive Secretary, Professor Ntumba Luaba, the very same character who has a paper trail of his unabashed support for the FDLR killers, and trivialising the Genocide against the Tutsi? How truly credible can an organisation be on the genocidal FDLR, with such a person at its helm?

With such a character at its head, is there any winder the ICGLR has been so brazenly ineffectual in ensuring its own and UN Security Council resolutions to neutralise the FDLR and eliminate them from eastern DR Congo, which deadlines have come and deadlines have passed without any action ever being taken?

On its record (or rather the absence of any) what real use is the ICGLR, beyond being just another moribund African inter-state organisation that provides jobs to another set of highly-paid bureaucrats and issues yet more high-sounding but equally useless communiqués whose recommendations stand little real chance of ever being implemented?

Oh, Cry Our Forever Betrayed Africa!

Mwene Kalinda

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Dealing with FDLR is a curse. Some Burundians faced tough times in 1972 and subsequently sought refuge in Rwanda. In 1994, some of these refugees and their children joined hands with the Interahamwe militia to kill the innocent Tutsi.

Unfortunately, many of them went away with their crimes as they crossed over to their country without hindrances.

Now some members of CNDD-FDD and former Burundian refugees in Rwanda have invited their former friends and their supporters in killing the Tutsi to resume their unfinished business.

But they must be aware that their plans are unholy and will have terrible consequences, not only on Burundi but the region as a whole.

President Pierre Nkurunziza deny FDLR a foothold in his party and Burundi.

Butare