International Community has a sinister agenda

Editor,I wish to react to the story, ‘Foreign minister rallies int’l support for ICGLR efforts on DR Congo’ (The New Times, November, 24). No serious observer has ever believed (as opposed to claims) that either Rwanda or Uganda is involved in this episode of Congolese mayhem. But it serves the interests of a wide range of parties and the reason is obvious: to push the narrative that M23 is nothing more than a tool of the DRC’s two eastern neighbours. The UN, because it gives them cover for their manifest failure; the HRW, the Heges and their coalition of anti-Rwanda axis; and the dysfunctional DRC government because it helps divert attention from their responsibility in the mess that is their country. Finally, western governments that are frightened by their ersatz human rights industry, many of whose members are powerful political actors in their countries, ironically with funding from those same governments. A veritable old mess, with Rwanda in the cross-hairs. Even then, we have faced infinitely worse.Mwene Kalinda, Kigali

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International Community has a sinister agenda