The Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda agreed to a peaceful transaction that is supported by the United States, means stopping the years of deadly conflict and promote the development in the changing eastern region of the Congo.
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Nils Kinuani was sitting in the elementary school class in Bukava, a city in the Eastern Region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, when the chief commander of the rebels entered the room. “They chose a number of boys, but never chose me,” Kinuani said, telling him see how his friends stole M23 soldiers in 1997 after the Congo’s violence began. “Those boys who were chosen and taken out of the classes, their families never saw them (again) … They were taken to the army and they never returned home.”
Kinuani, who is now living in Maryland, is headed by a network of Congolese activists in a non -profit group called Action for Congo. Even after 15 years of life in the US, he still thinks about this terrible moment in the class as motivation for his constant activity.
“I always tell people that if I was chosen that day I will never be in the US,” Kinuani said Nation. “I don’t know how my life will be now.”
Conflict – one of deadly Humanitarian crises in the world. Ever since the first Congo war began in 1996, about 6 million people were killed in the most 105 millionwith millions more moved. Reports Rape used as weapons of war is playing. Conflicts roots are traced to Rwanda’s genocide of 1994, during which the hut militia killed over 800,000 ethnic Tutsi, except for the moderate houses and people TWA, and ethnic tensions in the region dates back to return to return to Belgian colonizationWhen the imperial power pointed out different levels of indigenous populations.
As part of the genocide in Rwanda, a government was created under the direction of Tutsi, and more than 2 million Hutu refugees spilled on the border, settling in the Eastern Congolese provinces of the North and South Kiva. Since then, insurgent groups supported by foreign formations, such as Rwanda, have fallen over power in the Congo Minerals.
Last year was especially brutal. M23 police supported by Rwanda Invested The strategic eastern capital of Goms in January, after which the city of Bukov in February. International Humanitarian Organizations and journalists They accused the police of carrying out huge war crimes, including public executions of civilians under the age of 15. Paul Kagama, President Rwanda, deny providing M23 support, but the UN has published evidence, on the contrary, charge Rwanda providing weapons and strategic M23 support. In the provinces of the North and Southern Courage M23 caused displaceD over one million and killed more than 7,000.
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In recent months, US President Donald Trump has demonstrated an increase in Congo’s rise from the wealth of rare earthen minerals of the region, such as cobalt and copper, key products that support the US technology industry. As depending on US International Labor Affairs BureauMore than 70 percent of the world cobalt was obtained from Congo. Other key minerals such as tin, tantalum and tungsten (often referred to as “mineral conflicts”), exist in large fields in the eastern region of the Congo and are crucial in electronic production.
Trump’s interest in the nation is relatively new. Only four months before the entry into the White House for the second term he told fans at the company’s stock Juna, WisconsinWhat migrants invaded into the United States “went from the Congo prison.”
He is now trying to create an economic support in the country. June 27 representatives of Rwanda and DRC signed A peaceful deal Washington calls for the end of financial support for non -governmental militias, providing territorial integrity for DRC and providing investors to the US Access to DRC mineral networks.
“Donald Trump approaches the table with a completely different approach to things, and it is transactional for it,” says Jason Sturs, founder of the Congo Research Group, a non -profit organization -oriented organization in the region. “I think he sees the opportunity to demonstrate his diplomacy. But, more importantly, he sees the opportunity for us to influence in the region, business and political capabilities.”
Many believe that the transaction closed their eyes to Rwanda’s invasion of the Congo, making her “deprived of justice and accountability,” Bibi NGE said.
Ndala fled Kinshas when she was 7, seeking asylum in Canada before coming to the United States in 2017. Now she lives in New York and works as an information work coordinator for Congo friends, a non -profit organization whose mission is to stand for a lasting peace in the region.
“If you think about your loved ones and your families and your friends who (in) the Eastern Congo, you feel that the state is essentially failing them because they are not going fairly,” Nandala said. “I want the American people to know that this is what it means directly.
Haethon-Dafin Nzovo was born and raised in the capital of Kinshas. His father was part of the opposition movement and an open critic of government corruption. Nzowo, who came to Oregon as an international student to study civil engineering, said his family living in Europe and the United States threatened with death as a result of open political beliefs.
“It seems to me that we are talking to the world now … that international law is no longer taken into account, that it does not matter who violates international law, it doesn’t matter who committed war crimes, what the people can be forgiven. Nation.
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July 19 M23 signed The transaction of ceasefire From Congo to Qatar, the agreement is considered as an extension of what the US has taken away in Washington in June. But less than a month after the signing of both countries, the reports began to further expand the M23 in the Congolese territory.
The Qatar’s transaction has no formal terms – and its uncertainty, according to Stuns, signal to many that the M23 would not follow the ceasefire or abandon the region. “Many people within the M23 believe that this transaction will take years and they will be left in control, which regulates a large part of the Eastern Congo for years to come.”
This opportunity becomes more likely after M23 announced its decision go From the peace deals from Doha on August 18, saying that the Congolese government failed to fulfill the previous ceasefire agreements. The Congolese government rejected these claims.
Having losing several family members, Kinuani hopes to increase the US conflict between politicians in Washington. “My family members were killed,” Kinuani said, “and there is no justice for them, for the family or for those who survived, the victims, as well as the accountability for the criminals of violence.”
For the Congolese diaspora in America, the provision of peace in the region is much more necessary than promoting economic prosperity for US investors. “We welcome the readiness of the US Presidential Administration Trump to end this conflict,” Kinuani said. “But the only way you can end the conflict and the stable peace is the decision of some root reasons. The peace agreement does not coincide with the business transaction.”
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