Thursday, May 21, 2020

Eastern DRC's security still in a danger especially in KIVU and ITURI

On the security level, the DRC is still in a tragic situation. As we have been monitoring new tensions DRC has with Zambia at the common border level,the confusion in minembwe, various chaos in the Kivu and ITURI, it is a confusing security situation in the eastern part of the country.
Indeed, reflecting the fact that though the CSG has been constantly denounced for years, the Congo Study Group through the voice of its Director, researcher Jason Stearns, said he had " received reports from the different  focal points that we have on the ground and our interlocutors in civil society who notified a presence of the Rwandan military ". This presence is a violation of international law and is done with the tactic agreement of Mr. Felix Tshisekedi who seems to have given a white card informally to the Kigali regime to carry out his various projects on Congolese soil. If these recent incursions are in addition to a long list of violations that began in the 1990 s (see report mapping), they must not avoid the issue of Congolese army infiltration. Interviewed by RFI on 17 April 2020, a member of the civil society of North Kivu noted: "They are Rwandans in the night and present themselves as FARDC units the during daylight".
These facts are all the more serious as they take place in the context of increasing tensions between Burundi and Rwanda on one side and Uganda and Rwanda on the other. This is how the DRC is once again at risk of being the theatre of power wars that does not concern it. This fear was shared in a report by the International Crisis Group. It's President, Martin Fayulu, also expressed his fear in a tweet where he says: " The DRC must no longer be the playground of some surrounding countries.
Those who feel threatened must hold talks with their rebels at home. The blood of the Congolese can no longer continue to flow because of imported conflicts. We have the right to peace." On April 24, a deadly attack carried out by foreign elements in Virunga Park confirmed these fears. Until the DRC is led by responsible, legitimately elected patriots who are not bound by opaque and cloudy commitments, there will be no outcome of the security crisis in the eastern part of the country.

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