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Libreville, Sunday, August 11, 2024 (Infos Gabon) – This was the purpose of the meeting held on August 2, 2024 at the Tropicana Hotel to pay tribute to the twelve (12) million Congolese who were massacred in the east of the country and are the wealth of their land.
On the second anniversary of the genocide, Gabonese-Congolese joined their compatriots in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and around the world to pay tribute to the victims in the presence of Congolese diplomats and friends.
In Libreville, the event was organized around a conference debate organized by Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary François Luambo on the theme: “Rwanda’s aggression against the Democratic Republic of the Congo in the guilty eyes of the international community.
The day’s keynote speaker, Professor Felix Wata Bilebito, quoted the words of Head of State Felix Tshisekedi, putting the history of this devastating conflict in the right terms.
“All the misfortunes of the Congolese people can be traced back to August 2, 1998; in fact, this date marked the birth of the rebellion in eastern DRC, which subsequently reached its maximum scale and revealed its true face, the deadliest aggression in the history of the DRC, coming from neighbouring Rwanda through its M23 auxiliary forces,” he noted.
He made no secret that the risk of this massacre is economic. “It is the genetic cost realized by mass killings for economic gain; it is a war of occupation, looting and plundering of strategic minerals, especially the 3 Ts (coltan, tantalite, tungsten) and other natural resources of the Democratic Republic of Congo, which benefits a series of actors and businessmen who play the role of puppet masters, led by Rwandan, Western criminal groups,” the spokesman insisted.
Another speaker, Professor Ngandu Disashi, went in the same direction and hit the nail on the head. “Today, the whole country is in mourning. Twelve million Congolese have been killed because they are victims of the wealth of their land. The levers of the world economy are moving through our neighbours, grabbing the wealth of the Democratic Republic of Congo.”
It is not only this Libreville meeting that is sounding the alarm. If it is not civil society or football players, as was the case with the leopards at the last African Cup of Nations in Côte d’Ivoire, it is the government that is calling directly on the international community to resolve this situation that has been going on for too long.
Professor Ngandu Disashi insisted: “For years, our leaders have been pleading with concerned multinational companies at international conferences to deal directly with the Democratic Republic of Congo. To our surprise, this pattern remains unchanged. That is why we are calling on the Congolese to make their voices heard.”
In order to address the major challenges currently facing humanity, including combating global warming, energy transition and food self-sufficiency, the Democratic Republic of the Congo is developing all its resilience mechanisms and is committed to bringing peace to the world at all costs, because there can be no development without peace, the speaker recalled.
The Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Democratic Republic of the Congo to Gabon supports intervention and calls for a diplomatic solution to this conflict. “The problem of the Democratic Republic of the Congo has caused the death of 12 million people and this has plunged us into mourning and sadness. The Democratic Republic of the Congo does not want war. She wants to solve this problem through diplomatic means, trying to solve all problems,” explained François Luambo.
Let us remember from this meeting the importance of immortalizing the memory of the disappeared by calling for an end to the conflict. Hence the call for an international mobilization of “Stop” to protest the genetic costs that the Congolese people are still suffering today, but international opinion remains silent.
FIN/INFOSGABON/SM/2024
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