The Democratic Liberation Forces of Rwanda, FDLR in acronym, learned with bitterness and indignation of the lies spread by the spokeswoman of the Rwandan government Mrs. Yolande Makolo and relayed by the Bwiza newspaper working for Kigali, on May 09, 2023. The false report states that more than 200 cows were shot on May 2, 2023, by Rwandophone people, including the FDLR, on the Tongo – Karengera road, in the Rutshuru territory, DRC.
The FDLR categorically denies its involvement in this cowardly and ignominious crime deliberately organized by the Rwanda Defence Force (RDF), which has given itself the name M23 in its umpteenth invasion of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The shootings were perpetrated by the RDF in the area they captured and which they continue to occupy, which is no longer under the jurisdiction of Minister Patrick Muyaya, the spokesman for the Congolese government. The media outburst and the crocodile tears of Yolande Makolo, the peddler of lies, constitute war propaganda aimed at discrediting the FDLR and finding a pretext not to leave the already captured and overly bereaved areas.
The FDLR inform the public that due to the RDF’s failure to defeat the FDLR militarily for 23 years and its obstinate refusal to engage in a frank and sincere dialogue with them, the RPF has opted for a strategy of smearing the FDLR’s image and misleading the public on our real status and objectives, thus creating its main pretext to plunge the African Great Lakes region, particularly the DRC, into grief. The assassination of the Italian ambassador on February 23, 2021, the Paul Kagame regime’s doctored conversation claimed to have been held between the FDLR and General Mugabo on January 27, 2023, the anti-Tutsi ideologization of Masisi, the shootings of cows in Kalengera, etc., are some of the most obvious examples of how the RPF’s regime is built on lies.
It is true that the RPF terrorist regime is facing strong military and diplomatic resistance to this umpteenth invasion of the DRC, and that it is deeply hurt inside. It is true that its dream or illusion to expand Rwanda to Kitona and to see all Rwandophones in the Great Lakes region of Africa become subjects of Kagame is shattered.
It is also true that the establishment of a state of siege in North Kivu and the awakening of the conscience of Congolese citizens are currently having a negative impact on Kigali’s mining industry, which is being compensated for by the looting of livestock in the areas occupied by the RPF.
But it is also true that solving the problem of all Rwandan refugees can lead to sustainable peace and development in Rwanda and the region.
The FDLR call on the International Community and the Democratic Republic of Congo to use their power to ensure that human and property rights as well as the rights of Rwandan Hutu refugees are respected in the areas captured and occupied by the RDF, where the blood of people and their livestock continue to flow without a savior.
Done on May 11, 2023
CURE NGOMA
Information commissionner and FDLR spokesperson
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