When looters are asked to keep peace

Editor,Allow me to respond to a story that appeared in The New Times, August, 6, titled “Regional leaders in Kampala for Congo talks”. I sometimes wonder whether our leaders in Africa do realise that it’s not easy to use looters to protect what they intend to loot. It is a well known fact that MONUSCO which is supposed to disarm rebels and militias do it during daytime but at night, gives the arms back to the same rebels to dig them valuable resources. The same group which was set up to protect civilians turned around and raped young girls and it’s a pity that the so-called UN experts on the Congo have never even bothered to investigate these claims.Honestly, I doubt the will of UN to solve DRC crisis. How could the world body set up a committee composed of people who are totally ignorant of the true historical background of the region or harbor a biased viewpoint, and brand them experts? Powerful states gathered in Berlin in 1885 and shared countries in Africa amongst themselves. I am sure they will always want to come back now that more natural resources have been discovered in most of African countries.History is repeating itself. The west used the ‘divide-and-rule’ approach to partition Africa, by not only separating a brother from a brother, but also pitting them against each other. That’s the same thing we are seeing in the Great Lakes region at the moment.We need to keep the west out of the efforts to address these issues. Their intentions are evil. We saw it in 1994. They turned a blind eye when a genocide was going on in Rwanda in broad-day light. It is so sad.SsemanasUSA

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When looters are asked to keep peace