The Defeat of the Rwandan-backed M23 Rebels is a First Step To Peace in the DRC

Maurice Carney: Activists and independent media played a key role in pushing the US to demand Rwanda stop supporting the M23 rebels

[Bazompora]

How quickly the self-proclaimed popular "(Banya)mulenge" rebellion loses its acclaimed support, once the oh-so-denied lion share of Rwanda is suppressed!
But I wouldn't expect any less than this being the Egypt scenario again by the US and the UK: unleash the beast, put the leash on, unleash the beast again. As if they'd ever give the Congolese a chance to establish stock exchange over the El Dorado of Congolese resources - vast enough to turn the poorest into the richest.

[RevolutionarySM]

The DRC is the biggest failed state in the world. I feel so sorry for the people who are forced to live there. First they were slaughtered by a criminal Belgian king, then a colony of Belgium until 1960. After only five years of freedom, the CIA put Mobutu into power who ruled as a kleptomaniac until he was removed from power in 1997. Since then the ''Democratic'' Republic of Congo is ruled not by the people, but by former rebels who did nothing to help the poor!

[theoppening]

Finally, this bloodshed kind of ends, on the other hand congo needs a transition from the current way of government to democracy under the UN.

[virtuvianTrace]

It was the CIA that deposed Patrice Lumumba, haled as the DRC's first democratically elected leader. Lumumba's cardinal sin against U.S. interests in the region was that he pledged to govern based on the interest of the Congolese people, thus the CIA then directed by Allan Dulles conspired to overthrow him in coup d'etat; justifying their crimes as ridding the nation of a communist sympathizer. These malignancies still persist today, and have castrated the Congolese psyche ever since!

[Mojo]

Completely one-sided and biased piece. The interviewee is hostile towards Rwanda and the Tutsi people. The interviewee constantly mentions how Rwanda/Uganda "invaded" Congo in ;96 & '98. What he conveniently fails to mention that Mabuto/Zaire supported the Hutu Genocidal Regime in the Rwandan Civil War, and that Zaire/Congo protected & still protects the Hutu murderers. The interviewee fails to mention that the wife of the Tanzanian President is the cousin of the former Hutu dictator of Rwanda!