Rwanda wrongly blamed for DRC mess

Editor, Rwanda’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Louise Mushikiwabo, last Saturday addressed a Kenyan business club dubbed MINDSPEAK where she clearly stated Rwanda’s position regarding the crisis in eastern DRC.I wish to tell the Minister that this is the real global space we are operating from. It is very unbalanced, insincere, and justice seems to be construed and tilted in favour of the powerful only.And the most unfortunate thing is that there is very little we can do to correct these ills. First of all, Africans are not united to fight these ills imposed on us by the powerful, collectively.For instance, the Holocaust against the Jews so many years back is still with us and condemned simply because the west care and love it to be like that. But the Genocide against the Tutsi that occurred just 18 years ago, means nothing to some people! It is sad.Emmanuel Ruta --------------------------------------Editor, Reading Minister of Foreign Affairs interview Rwanda was invited to help but now wrongly blamed” published in The NewTimes of July 26, one can rightly conclude that the international community has a hidden agenda in the region and DRC officials are too naive to uncover the conspiracy.Rwanda and DRC have been enjoying peace since 2009 and had revived diplomatic relations, conducted joint, operations against FDLR, Improved trade and regional integration.But all of a sudden, western countries started pressurising President Kabila to arrest Bosco Ntaganda without assessing what that arrest could mean given the fact that Gen. Ntaganda was central to the stability in Eastern DRC.I am not saying Ntaganda should not be arrested, but my point is that pursuing him should not cause suffering of innocent Congolese.Several Congolese people are now living in IDPs and others live as refugees in neighbouring countries. Can the west now say that they are caring about the Congolese people? I don’t think so. Michael South Sudan--------------------------------------------Editor,These double standards practiced by the powerful countries must stop. It’s just a remote control they are using without the respect of other people living in developing countries.I think it is high time people from Africa made their own decisions based on the reality on the ground. Wallace Kareeba

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Rwanda wrongly blamed for DRC mess