Dear Mr. President Obama:

We are writing to you in response to the petition by Paul Kagame‘s media and other agents who are requesting that you “protect” them from some supposed slaughter from Congolese people, in response to some sermon by a Congolese religious bishop in exile in South Africa who has called upon the Congolese to fight the Rwandan Tutsis who make up the Rwandan militias, authors of the killing and the raping of Congolese in eastern Congo, militias such as the recent M23.

If anything, Mr. President, it is the other way around. It is the Congolese who need protection. As you know, no Congolese has killed any Rwandan Tutsi or Hutu either in the Congo or in Rwanda, and, as you also know, millions of Congolese have died already at the hands of Paul Kagame’s Rwandan militias and soldiers, beside the hundreds of thousands of Hutus, moderate Tutsis, and Congolese who were killed between 1996 and 1998 by Paul Kagame’s monoethnic army that invaded the Congo in 1996, as reported in the UN Security Council Mapping Report published, by your urging, on October 1, 2010.

In 1994, Paul Kagame triggered the first genocide that killed, in Rwanda, over 500.000 moderate Tutsis and Hutus when he ordered the shooting down of the plane carrying two African Presidents, Cyprien Ntariamira of Burundi and Juvenal Habyarimana of Rwanda, assassinating them, as the many investigations conducted since then have documented (i.e. the French investigation on the death of the French crew flying the plane) as well as the declarations made by former Paul Kagame’s close military and political officials who live now in exile (i.e. Dr. Theodore Rudasingwa, former Chief of Staff for President Paul Kagame and former Rwanda’s ambassador to the US, and now living in exile in Europe; and General Faustin Kayumba, a former top aide to President Paul Kagame) who say that they fear for their lives, since many of Kagame’s opponents have, indeed, ended up dead.

Mr. President, the Congo DR has about 450 different lingual groups where not one of them is either a minority or a majority. Plus, any search of colonial or pre-colonial historical documents show that there has never been a Tutsi or a Hutu lingual group in the Congo. These 2 lingual groups are found only in Rwanda, Burundi, and Uganda. Indeed, the Congo has served as a refuge for both Hutus and Tutsis beginning in the early 60’s as both these groups battled for power in both Rwanda and Burundi. The Congolese people have never discriminated against any of the Africans, from any other African countries, or any other human being who had come to live in the Congo, whether as a refugee, as in the case of Angolans, Rwandans, and Burundians, or as a migrant.

Just like in South Africa, Rwandans need to come together, in Rwanda, and reconcile with each other in their own country through “truth and reconciliation” meetings in order to bring peace between these two groups (Hutus and Tutsis) and leave the Congo alone. Kagame or any other Rwandan cannot reconcile in the Congo DR, because, as you know, Mr. President, the Congolese people did not invade or occupy Rwanda. It is the Congo that was invaded by Rwanda (and its partners). Any excuse being given by Paul Kagame as to why he intends to continue his occupation of eastern Congo is but a ploy for him and his army and militias to continue to slaughter, to gang rape, to mutilate, and to depopulate the Congolese territories so that he can re-populate them with Rwandans, thus insuring his continued exploitation of Congolese resources, as he has been doing already while fomenting the creations of different militias before and up to the recent M23.

Mr. President, as evidenced by your 2005-2006 Law 109-456, our country, as of 2012, has suffered a holocaust of over 8 million deaths. The many investigative reports have pointed to Paul Kagame, Yoweri Museveni, and “Joseph Kabila” as the “chiefs-responsible” for these atrocities, these war crimes, and these crimes against humanity. The latter, “Joseph Kabila”, whose real name is Hyppolite Kanambe, is a Trojan Horse introduced in the Congo by Paul Kagame in order to insure that his agenda, the balkanization of the DRC becomes reality. Evidence of this imposture has been brought to light by high level officials such as the former Belgian Foreign Affairs Minister, Karel de Gucht, by former RPF and RPA colleagues of his such as Rwandan General Laurent Nkunda, and by many Congolese who had known him during the invasion of the Congo in 1996-1997 when he led Rwandan army units and was known and called by both his men and the Congolese as “Commandant Hyppo” as in “Hyppolite”, his real first name.

Therefore, Mr. President, the Congolese people are urging you to dismiss the petition introduced by Paul Kagame’s cronies seeking protection from your administration when they are the ones slaughtering Congolese, gang raping Congolese women and little girls, and stealing the Congo’s resources.

Thank you Mr. President.

For the Congolese people,

CPRC-USA and CONGOCOALITION (The Coalition for Peace, Justice, and Democracy in the Congo-Zaire)