Editor,In my view, the issue shouldn’t be Steve Hege; he is too insignificant a person for us to waste our time on. The real question is: who is behind him? Who really pulled the strings to get him (and some of his equally suspicious colleagues in this group of so-called experts) appointed for this task?

I feel we are focusing so much on this minor figure and forgetting the master puppeteer(s) who are influential enough within the UN to get an avowed pro-FDLR partisan in this critical role of coordinating the Group of Experts (GoE) on the Congo. It shouldn’t be difficult to track back to those who had the influence to get him in this position.

But I am sure this is one of those occasions when those who induced the appointing authority to make this serious error (it is one only because Hege has been outed), will plead incompetence as it is better than the alternative: a coldly thought out plan to damage the reputation of a member State using their control of the UN bureaucracy.Whatever the case may be: incompetency or premeditation, heads should roll.Mwene Kalinda

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Editor,It’s a shame to the UN to ignore Hege’s bias and entrust him with such level of responsibility. We would like to see a UN report on Hege’s appointment.  In fact it’s a complicity of the UN to soil the good image of Rwanda. God bless Louise Mushikiwabo (Minister of Foreign Affairs) and Rwanda.Jeff Martins, France ----------------------------------Editor,We have discussed this specific Hege time and time again. But one very specific question Hege should kindly respond to (in respect to his statement that ‘FDLR is waiting for international opinion to sour on Rwanda’) is, was he reporting what he was told as a researcher? Was he waiting together with FDLR? Is it both? From his writings one can’t know which is which.(Response to Foreign Minister Louise Mushikiwabo’s statement to the UN Security Council on the Congo crisis, The New Times, August 30)Anne, UNR