Africa should rise up against UN-FDLR machinations

Editor, This is in reference to the story, “A two-decade UN-FDLR theatre continues” (The New Times, July 23). Africans will eventually pay for the inaction and indifference on FDLR. Godfathers of this genocidal force are using it for diamonds, gold and timber trade to mention but a few—forget about humanitarian, forget even peace enforcement line advanced by them. Shame on Africans who support this “western” cause! Generations to come will question this African betrayal. Today FDLR is baby-fed to silence those ready to fight against genocide ideology, and tomorrow it will be another part of Africa. Our inaction is tantamount to self denial as Africans. JK ************************ More importantly, lets pull those now empty slogans–“Never Again”—so beloved of the UN, and the more recent “Responsibility2Protect”, off their artificial breathing devices and face the reality that they are clinically dead. Their would-be “midwife/ doctor”, the UN itself, has killed them by jumping into bed with the authors of the kind of things those ritual expressions were coined to mobilize the world community against, FDLR génocidaires and their diehard allies and supporters. In view of their on-going links with these génocidaires, what other reaction, other than pure derision, should the UN expect when it again trots out those shibboleths in the service, yet again, of attempting to legitimize Big Power aggression against another hapless weak country? In allowing its force in the DRC to become so closely entwined with the FDLR, the UN itself is becoming increasingly stained with the historical crime for which those génocidaires ended up in the DRC in the first place. As that Kinyarwanda saying teaches us, “Iyo uziritse ihene yawe nziza hafi nimbi zose zihinduka mbi”. In other words, when you mix good and rotten fruits, they all quickly become equally rotten. Mwene Kalinda

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Africa should rise up against UN-FDLR machinations