Genocide ideology, Western mercenaries, and the duplicity of the international community: The unholy trinity!

Add Comment Posted by Gatete Ruhumuliza Nyiringabo March 11, 2026

Kinshasa is doing the bidding of the West

Today’s drone attacks in Goma that killed innocent civilians, including French aid worker Karine Buisset, will be treated by Western media and Western governments as “friendly fire” and not elicit any international condemnation, except from the government of Rwanda.

This umpteenth attack, though a violation of a standing ceasefire signed between Kinshasa and the M23 in Doha, Qatar, isn’t different from the assassination of Italian Ambassador to the Congo Luca Attanasio, his bodyguard, and driver on February 22, 2021, by the FDLR, a militia roaming Eastern Congo, formed by genocide perpetrators from Rwanda and allied to the Kinshasa regime.

Goma’s bombing isn’t different from the shooting down of Rwanda’s president, Juvenal Habyarimana’s plane and the killing of his European pilots on April 6th, 1994, igniting the genocide against the Tutsi, and the ensuing assassination, in cold blood, of Belgian blue helmets a day later on April 7th, 1994. The French controllers who manned the airport tours at the Kanombe airport and saw what happened, were killed immediately after by the same Hutu extremists.

The entertained ambiguity behind authors of these assassinations, the silence of the international community, and the double standards undermining those fighting for their right to live are due to one reason: All those crimes were committed by the same people, with the same ideology, that was chosen for Rwanda a long time ago.

To understand this international community’s attitude, one has to go back in history:
Pogroms targeting the Tutsi community began in 1959 in Rwanda. At the time, Belgian colonialists hired and armed a Congolese militia (Force Civile) to oversee and partake in killing Tutsi families, burning their houses, and looting their property.
The avant-garde Rwanda’s monarchists had joined fellow Africans in canvassing for independence across Africa. Their party was called the “Rwandan Nationalist Union” (UNAR). The “Nationalist” nature of the party is important to this story.
The UNAR party was led by King Kigeli V Ndahindurwa (1959-1962), who ascended to the throne after his brother, King Mutara III Rudahigwa (1931-1959), was assassinated on July 25, 1959, by the Belgians, while on a medical trip to neighboring Burundi. King Mutara III had himself acceded to the throne after his father, King Yuhi V Musinga (1896-1944), was exiled by the Catholic Church for refusing to be baptised in their religion.
By exiling King Yuhi V Musinga and assassinating his son King Mutara III, the Belgians thought the defiant Rwandan monarchy would be extinct, and with it, Rwanda’s independence struggle. They had given instructions that the King wasn’t to be succeeded to. They were wrong…
At the inhumation of King Mutara III, a prominent UNAR leader, Francois Rukeba, had clandestinely worked with the King’s praetorian guard to be armed with spears, bows, and arrows, and at his signal, they aimed their arrows at the Belgian colonialists, European priests, and their Congolese militiamen.
“No Rwandan King is inhumated before his successor is enthroned!”, Rukeba announced. Addressing the colonialists: “If I give a signal, my fighters will kill you all before your Congolese with their rifles have time to save you.” Turning to the Head of the Esoteric Council, in charge of enthroning Kings, he commanded: “Umwiru Mukuru Kayumba: do your job, show us our King!” The Congolese lowered their rifles, Umwiru Kayumba proceeded to designate the late King’s brother, Ndahindurwa, as the new King: Kigeli-the-Fifth (Kigeli V).
An open conflict had thus been declared with colonists, and anti-Tutsi pogroms ensued. Many Tutsi families and other Monarchists, fighting for Rwanda’s independence, fled into exile, including Rwanda’s King Kigeli V Ndahindurwa, Paul Kagame’s parents, and my own grandparents.
The King’s “Nationalist” party, this time led by Hutu Nationalist, the illustrious Francois Rukeba, was banned too, its most prominent members killed or exiled, and replaced by the “Parmehutu” party, led by a nondescript lackey of European Catholic bishop Perraudin.
Forgive me for mentioning Mzee Rukeba’s assigned ethnic group. I did, only to emphasise that while the nationalist party “UNAR” could be led by any illustrious Rwandan, the one chosen for Rwanda by the Belgians and the Catholic church was a “Hutu Party”.
Help us get rid of Tutsi.
The Parmehutu’s self-declared slogan, as could be read on 1959 banners in French, was: “We do not need independence, just help us get rid of Tutsi.’ The slogan is not dissimilar to Tshisekedi’s own plea to the Americans: “Take all my country’s minerals, just help me be rid of Tutsi”.
The church and colonialists obliged, fought the “Nationalists”, and gifted a sham independence to the “Hutu” party, to ensure the Tutsi had no place in Rwanda.
However, this did not deter the Nationalists’ independence ambitions. The Rwandan King Kigeli V joined his brother-in-arms Patrice Lumumba in Leopoldville, modern-day Kinshasa, to celebrate Congo’s independence on the 30th June 1960.
Those who were there recall: “During the independence ceremony in Leopoldville, the time arrived to raise the flag of the new Republic. No Congolese dared do it. The imposing, seven-foot-tall Rwandan King rose, marched towards the honor guard, lowered the Belgian flag, and in its place raised the Free Congo flag, in an act of ultimate defiance towards the ousted colonial master.” The Belgians made sure he never returned to Rwanda.
Anti-Tutsi pogroms continued in 1960, 1961, 1963, 1972-1973, 1990, 1992, and finally in 1994. At each time, no one in the international community condemned the massacres, not even the UN of the time: the League of Nations (LDN). Only an informal ‘Russell-Sartre Tribunal’, led by British and French philosophers Bertrand Russel and Jean Paul Sartre, denounced, for the first time, an ongoing Genocide against Tutsis, in 1964.
The peasants who were empowered by the Belgians and the catholic church to kill Tutsi in the fifties, sixties, and seventies and got rewarded for it, gave birth to the genocide perpetrators of the nineties, who, in turn, would give birth to modern-day genocide ideologists based partly in the West, peddling anti-Rwanda and anti-Tutsi hate on twitter and others roaming Congo’s forests, committing crimes that are later attributed to Rwanda or to the M23.
Which brings me to today’s drone attacks in Goma. Everybody knows that the drone strikes were conducted by “Blackwater”, an American mercenary outfit, working for Felix Tshisekedi, the Congolese president, and the new face of “Parmehutu ideology”, officially allied to the FDLR.
Habyarimana Juvenal’s plane was shot down by Hutu extremists with the technical support of French mercenaries, to ignite the genocide against the Tutsi. Immediately after, French mercenary Paul Barril appeared with what looked like the black box near the plane crash, and magically vanished with it, to this day.
The pattern is uncanny: Genocide ideology, Western mercenaries, and the international community’s duplicity: the unholy trinity!
Conclusion.

In his speech during the diplomatic dinner, given two days ago, President Kagame made one remark: “If I were asked to choose between protecting the safety of my country on the one hand, and doing nothing to avoid international condemnation on the other, I would choose the former without hesitation.”

The international community has chosen to side with those who want to exterminate the Tutsi in this region. In their pursuit, they will not side with nationalists: those who fight for every Rwandan, every Congolese, every Burundian, regardless of their “assigned” ethnicity, to live side by side. For that, they are willing to consider their own citizens killed in the process as collateral damage.

Their antidote, the Nationalists aren’t Tutsi, they aren’t Hutu, or the 500 Congolese tribes. Their aim isn’t for the Tutsi to rule in this region; in fact, a Tutsi and a Hutu have both ruled at one time the Rwandan Patriotic Front and RPF-led Rwandan State. The nationalists in Eastern DRC are called the M23. While they fight for Tutsi to live peacefully in Congo, the movement itself isn’t led by the Tutsi; never has it. All it wants is for all children of this region to live in peace on their ancestral land in Rwanda, Burundi, and Eastern DRC, and that is seen as an act of defiance towards big powers.
For nationalists of this region to prevail, therefore, they will have to upset the global order, a position they have grown accustomed to for over sixty years.
This piece is dedicated to the late Colonel Willy Ngoma, military spokesperson of M23, killed last month by a drone strike of the Congolese army, manned by American mercenaries of Blackwater.