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Tshisekedi working tirelessly to support anti-Rwanda negative forces
Congolese President Félix
Tshisekedi left no stone unturned in bringing
together anti-Rwanda negative forces in his grand plan for supporting ‘regime
change’ in Kigali.
On different occasions,
the Congolese head of state has met with self-proclaimed Rwandan government opponents
and promised to give them a hand as much as he can.
Related: DRC army supplying arms to FDLR: HRW
Report
While
addressing thousands of Congolese youth in December 2022,
Tshisekedi claimed that it
is useless to look at Rwanda as an enemy; adding that it is the ‘Rwandan regime’ led by President Paul Kagame, which
is the enemy of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
“Rwandans
are our brothers and sisters. And, moreover, they need our help, because they
are muzzled, to free them. They need our solidarity to rid us and rid Africa of
these kinds of retrograde leaders who bring back the methods of the 60s and
70s," Tshisekedi said.
Related: DRC: Tshisekedi heavily arming FDLR,
preparing for war
Five months later, Tshisekedi received Rwanda’s former
Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Eugene-Richard Gasana, in DRC’s
Presidential Palace.
Gasana who was fired from his UN post in 2016 was
granted permanent US residency in 2018. From the US, he joined anti-Rwanda
government subversive groups including the RNC terror group.
On May 22, Gasana and Tshisekedi discussed about uniting
Rwandan negative groups to overthrow the Rwandan government.
Upon returning to New York, Gasana hurriedly gathered self-exiled
Rwandans in the US and founded the Platform for Rwandans’ Common Good, a
political movement aimed at collaborating with Tshisekedi to overthrow
President Kagame.
On the occasion of the 78th session of the
United Nations General Assembly, in New York, Tshisekedi again did not miss the
opportunity to discuss broadly with Gasana about how their plan is progressing.
The Congolese President met with Gasana and his
colleagues even before addressing the Assembly. Tshisekedi’s priority during
his September trip to the US was to meet anti-Rwanda negative forces.
The latest efforts by Tshisekedi are in addition to a
long lasting collaboration between his regime and FDLR, a Rwandan terror group
made up of remnants of the perpetrators of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi.
In early August, the Congolese
national army, FARDC, supplied FDLR with tons of ammunitions.
Instead
of addressing the FDLR presence in eastern DRC, Kinshasa
continues to incorporate the militia into the national army as well as
supply them with arms and others means.
Presidential candidate Corneille Nangaa has confirmed
that the Republican Guard of the DRC has recruited FDLR elements in Kinshasa
and Lubumbashi.
The FDLR uses the opportunity to accumulate more heavy
weapons for their plans to destabilize Rwanda; as its sole mission is to
forcefully return to Rwanda, grab power, and finish its unfinished job which is
massacring the Tutsi.
In October 2022, Human Rights Watch reported that Tshisekedi’s
army supplied arms and ammunitions to the FDLR, and used the terrorist group
with other militia groups to fight M23 rebels.
Col Salomon Tokolonga’s 3411th regiment, “provided more than a dozen boxes of
ammunition to FDLR fighters in Kazaroho, one of their strongholds in the
Virunga National Park, on July 21, while two months earlier, dozens of FDLR and
CMC/FDP fighters reportedly took part in a large counteroffensive with
government soldiers in the area around Rumangabo and Rugari,” HRW’s report
noted.
An FDLR fighter told HRW that he witnessed four transfers of ammunition.
“It’s the government [troops] that would always provide us with ammunition,” he said. “They also gave us uniforms and boots.”