The Black Agenda by Ford Glen;

Author:Ford, Glen;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Bisac Code 1: POL000000
ISBN: 6954811
Publisher: OR Books
Published: 2021-06-15T00:00:00+00:00

RWANDA’S FORMULA FOR SUCCESS: MURDER YOUR NEIGHBORS AND STEAL THEIR WEALTH

In the years since 1996, at least six million people have died in the Democratic Republic of Congo as a direct result of an invasion by two U.S. client states: Rwanda and Uganda. It is the greatest slaughter since World War II, yet only a small fraction of the American public is even aware that the genocide occurred. The public remains ignorant of the ongoing crime— in which the United States is fully complicit—because the U.S. corporate media have successfully covered up the murder of millions of Congolese. More than that, organs like the New York Times act as PR agents for the perpetrators of the genocide, especially Rwanda—as exemplified by a puff piece that appeared in the Times this week titled “Rwanda Reaches for New Economic Model.”

The article boosts Rwanda as an African economic success story, a country that is growing at 8 percent a year, even though it has “no oil, natural gas or other major natural resources” and no real industry. The Times takes us on a tour of Rwanda’s fledgling little commodity and stock exchanges and quotes a government minister bragging that the country’s development plan is to jump directly from an agricultural base to an information economy, “leapfrogging” over the industrial stage of development altogether.

In fact, the relative prosperity of the minority Tutsi political and business elite is built on the bones of six million dead Congolese and the natural resources looted from their country. Rwanda’s so-called “New Economic Model” is simply pillaging and massacre, theft and murder on a huge scale, in concert with multinational corporations and under the protection of the United States.

A U.N. panel of experts confirmed in 2001 that both Rwanda and Uganda were building up their own economies by looting eastern Congo’s mineral resources—coltan, diamonds, copper, cobalt, and gold—and hauling away timber from Congo’s forests. The investigators found that Rwandan and Ugandan militaries had appropriated Congo’s wealth for themselves to such an extent that Uganda became a significant diamond exporter, even though it previously produced no diamonds at all. Ugandan gold exports increased fifty-fold between 1994 and 2000. Rwanda increased its gold production ten to seventeen times between 1995 and 2000. Rwanda’s exports of coltan doubled and quadrupled, as did its production of cassiterite, another exotic mineral.

The U.N. report found Rwandan President Paul Kagame and Ugandan strongman Yoweri Museveni to be accomplices in the systematic looting of Congo, just as a later U.N. panel deemed both countries liable for genocidal acts against the Congolese people. Kagame and Museveni have built their economies on the extermination of their neighbors. Yet, the New York Times calls both countries African success stories. This week’s puff piece notes the twentieth anniversary of the so-called Rwandan genocide of 1994—the cause, extent, and nature of which is in great factual dispute— while making no mention of the much larger loss of life right next door in Congo, which is the source of the Rwandan elite’s prosperity.

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