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.
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.

















What a master piece on the actual regional situation.
While your article is well intentioned, some of the arguments you use are just playing into the hands and narratives of some western media and genocide deniers. For example how is the downing of Habyarimana’s plane related to killing 1 million Tutsis in Rwanda? Killing and massacring Tutsis in Rwanda had started long before that plane was shot. Starting in 1959 through the 60s, 70s, 80s and the climax being the 1994 Genocide of Tutsis massevely. Does Genocide occur in each and every case when a Presidential plane short down where it happens? Genocide is not a single factor theory or incident. Its planned, taught and “glamourised over a period of time. I can qoute cases in Africa and outside Africa where presidents were shot not Genocide took place. Samora Machel was shot in plane and killed did it cause a Genocide in his country? Robert Kennedy though popular was shot and killed in Dallas USA did it cause a Genocide?
Also the attack on Goma is so different from the shooting down of Habyarimanas plane in many ways.
1. Politically in violates the ceasefire and for Bagosora to shot down Habyarimanas plane they had disagreed ideologically when Habyara signed the Arusha Accord
2. Militarily Habyarima was shot down by his own soldiers, brothers and countrymen. The drones attacking Goma citizens are manned by foreign machineries and paid by the Kinshasa government to kill it’s own citizens
3. In humanitarian and diplomatic terms if the humanitarian worker killed were to be Kenyan,Tanzanian or Burundian, Ghanaian you wouldn’t have heard such levels of condemnation. Some human/humanitarian workers are more than others. I think you understand what I mean. Your heading is right but some the examples you use negate your good intentions.