#ebuteli

#DRC #Ebuteli #M23 "If Rwanda did not back that group, our dysfunctional army would have KILLED ALL OF THEM!" (Mrs. Valériane N. Vogel) ➡️This was uttered yesterday by Valériane Ndena V. in an X Space on DRC, with 17,000 auditors, where she expressed her regret that the Congolese army has not "killed" all the #M23, and by extension, the Congolese Tutsi minority they protect. ➡️Valériane Vogel, is known for her Tutsiphobic rhetoric on X, where she openly promotes the #FDLR -Interahamwe ideology. ➡️ She is also known for being the wife of Christoph Vogel (Christoph N. Vogel), former UN expert, who for the last 15 years, has been the principal source of information on Congo, along with his collaborator Jason Stearns. Their contributions are used by diplomats, politicians, academics, and the media. ➡️ Christoph Vogel's close link to Valériane Vogel who openly promotes anti-Tutsi hate ideology questions the credibility of Christoph Vogel's "expertise" and research ethics on the conflict in DRC. ➡️ Vogel & Stearns are the co-founders of Groupe d’étude sur le Congo, Ebuteli & Baromètre sécuritaire du Kivu (created in partnership with Human Rights Watch). These research institutes, based in the United States & Kinshasa, have played a considerable role in the manipulation of information leading to the politics of divisionism and genocide ideology, promoted by the current Tshisekedi administration. ➡️ In their contributions, they have pushed for a distorted analysis of the DRC conflict, which they have been fueling by promoting numerous conspiracy theories, then recycled by the UN in their reports, for over a decade: 1) The DOUBLE-GENOCIDE theory is consistently alluded through rhetorical manipulation by Vogel & Stearns so as to blur the line between victim and perpetrator. ➡️They have been accusing the RPF & the Rwandan president Paul Kagame, who have stopped the genocide & implemented a system of governance based on unity and reconciliation, of having committed and continuing to commit "a genocide against the Hutu in Congo". ➡️Vogel & Stearns by promoting the double-genocide theory depict the region as a place of perpetual violence, where "Hutu" kill "Tutsi", and "Tutsi" kill "Hutu", and where Africans are unable to govern themselves, requiring constant intervention of western political institutions and NGOs. 2) The theory which argues that "#FDLR DO NOT EXIST" and is "a pretext for Rwanda to invade & destabilize Congo". ➡️ Christoph Vogel promotes this theory in his article: "How to avoid false narratives around DR Congo's M23 conflict" (2023) published in The New Humanitarian, in which he declares that "FDLR is now a shadow of its former self". ➡️This theory denies that FDLR represents a security threat for Rwanda and ignores that the Congolese president has publicly threatened to "help #FDLR change the regime in Rwanda", has integrated its forces into its national army, espoused its ideology, in its war against the same Tutsi community which FDLR has pledged to exterminate, both in Congo & Rwanda. 3) The theory that claims that "#M23 ARE RWANDANS" (not Congolese), as Vogel argues in his paper "Non, le conflit en RDC n’est pas qu’une histoire de 'minerais de sang'", published in Jeune Afrique (February 2025). ➡️This theory promotes the idea that #M23 have invaded Congo. It denies their fundamental right to live in their country. It also presents the Congolese Tutsi as "foreign" to Congo. This ideology has pushed a million Congolese Tutsi to exile in Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, and around the world. They have been victim of ethnic cleansing in eastern Congo for over the last 30 years. 4) The theory of "RWANDAN AGRESSION" and "VIOLATION OF CONGO'S TERRITORIAL INTEGRITY". While Christoph Vogel in his paper "debunks" the theory that he has been previously promoting, i.e., that Rwanda loots "blood minerals" in Congo, he now argues that #M23, which he considers to be a "Rwandan rebel group", is in Congo for financial gain through its "occupation". ➡️ Vogel's contributions, like the ones of Stearns, thus manipulate, exploit & politicize anti-Tutsi xenophobia, and therefore cannot be credible sources on the conflict in DRC.