There is a new UN Report on the conflict is The Congo between the early 90's and now. They are accusing the Rwandan government of genocide or, as Bill Clinton and Madelyn Albright would say, "Acts of genocide" in Congo.
Personally I have almost no respect for the UN and how they conduct their business. I will read the report when I can get my hands on it but unless they are seeking to have Kofi Annan tried as an active accomplice in the genocide I will continue to presume it's just more of the same self-serving corrupt garbage that the UN spins in these reports.
Kofi Annan was the head of Peacekeeping in the UN at the time of the genocide and he conspired with the French to keep the details of what was going on out of the hands of the international media. He has the blood of tens of thousands on his hands.
After the RPA, the Tutsi led rebel army that over through the genocide Hutu government (which was backed by France in the form of money, arms and possibly as many as thousands of French special forces on the ground) there was a stream of Hutu extremist refugees into Congo, especially Goma. Despite the fact that it is against the UN's own rules to set up refugee camps on international borders they poured up to a billion dollars into Gome and enriched the Hutu extremists again in the process. The Hutu's then attacked Rwanda again, killing tens of thousands of Tutsi's and moderate Hutu's over the following months. The UN did almost nothing about this(the French and Chinese continued to sell them arms). Eventually the Rwandans invaded and, in one particular case, slaughtered the Hutu inhabitants of a refugee camp. Considering what had happened it was not surprising; imagine if, in 1945, thousands of well armed Jews got access to a camp where the SS guards who ran the concentration camps were living with their families.
Once Rwanda invaded the Congo (or Zaire as it was then)the country collapsed into a quagmire and Rwanda, Uganda and Tanzania all backed different factions to a lesser or greater extent in order to reap the rewards of one of the most mineral rich countries on Earth.
If the UN had not screwed up so badly in Rwanda literally millions of lives would have been saved. The French are still leading the charge in attempting to blacken the name of the Tutsi government in Rwanda in general and Paul Kagame in particular (the man General Norman Schwarzkopf described as the greatest practitioner of manoeuvre warfare on the modern age) and the UN have their own reasons for going along with it.
For more information on the Genocide:
Shake Hands with the Devil is good but this is far better.
Personally I have almost no respect for the UN and how they conduct their business. I will read the report when I can get my hands on it but unless they are seeking to have Kofi Annan tried as an active accomplice in the genocide I will continue to presume it's just more of the same self-serving corrupt garbage that the UN spins in these reports.
Kofi Annan was the head of Peacekeeping in the UN at the time of the genocide and he conspired with the French to keep the details of what was going on out of the hands of the international media. He has the blood of tens of thousands on his hands.
After the RPA, the Tutsi led rebel army that over through the genocide Hutu government (which was backed by France in the form of money, arms and possibly as many as thousands of French special forces on the ground) there was a stream of Hutu extremist refugees into Congo, especially Goma. Despite the fact that it is against the UN's own rules to set up refugee camps on international borders they poured up to a billion dollars into Gome and enriched the Hutu extremists again in the process. The Hutu's then attacked Rwanda again, killing tens of thousands of Tutsi's and moderate Hutu's over the following months. The UN did almost nothing about this(the French and Chinese continued to sell them arms). Eventually the Rwandans invaded and, in one particular case, slaughtered the Hutu inhabitants of a refugee camp. Considering what had happened it was not surprising; imagine if, in 1945, thousands of well armed Jews got access to a camp where the SS guards who ran the concentration camps were living with their families.
Once Rwanda invaded the Congo (or Zaire as it was then)the country collapsed into a quagmire and Rwanda, Uganda and Tanzania all backed different factions to a lesser or greater extent in order to reap the rewards of one of the most mineral rich countries on Earth.
If the UN had not screwed up so badly in Rwanda literally millions of lives would have been saved. The French are still leading the charge in attempting to blacken the name of the Tutsi government in Rwanda in general and Paul Kagame in particular (the man General Norman Schwarzkopf described as the greatest practitioner of manoeuvre warfare on the modern age) and the UN have their own reasons for going along with it.
For more information on the Genocide:
Shake Hands with the Devil is good but this is far better.