G20 Africa Partnership Conference: Some Questions, also concerning Paul Kagame

On the 12^th of May in connection with the G20 meeting in Hamburg there was the G20 Africa Partnership Conference taking place in Berlin. A whole number of African Presidents attending, a lot was talked about partnership and development.

What Kind of Partnership?

Western soldiers roaming all over Africa, a whole number of them under the umbrella of US_AFRICOM (violating the spirit of African liberation and African_Unity) European soldiers as well, a lot of them French. The West is pretending to make Africa “safe”. Safe for what? There are many indications that they´re just trying to make Africa safe for Western plunder or, where their plunder isn´t yet actual, to destabilize and de-state as a preparation for more future plunder. Is that a “wicked” suspicion?

What about the financial colonialism of the French in Africa? That alone is a sound proof that “Colonialism_is_alive”. What happened when Gaddafi tried to bring an African gold currency on the way? Clinton_emails_reveal_the_true_motive for the “intervention” in Libya, where the French cooperated closely with the US. From the repercussions of the Libyan drama came turmoil in Mali, giving the French more chances. Make Africa “safe” from IS? One has to know West_created_the_Islamic_State for its own ends! Make Africa “safe for Democracy”? Maybe with uranium_coated_amunition? And to have a Democracy as rotten as in the US? Be sure, as long as the US Power Elite has the leading hand in the “West´s partnership with Africa” there will be no such thing as true Democracy created by them!

Paul Kagame, the “symbolic figure” of Western Partnership with Africa

The real symbol of that deadly partnership, which is in deed the new_scramble_for_Africa is the Rwandan President Kagame, who delivered a speech at the conference, more or less praising Neoliberalism. This man has been celebrated throughout the West and throughout the years since 1994 as the “savior of Rwanda and of the Tutsis”, which was rather less than “half_of_the_truth_but_a_whole_lie”. In reality Kagame and his RPF waged a murderous war of aggression (according to Nuremberg principles the utmost crime) against Rwanda, which he did from Uganda, with heavy support from the US and many Western countries. Following almost a million died in Rwanda, but many more, possibly over eight million people lost their lives in DR_Congo., in fact as many as have died during the time Congo was the “private” Colony of Belgian King Leopold II. This was tolerated based on the pretext that the Rwandan tragedy would have been an organized Genocide attempt by the Hutu majority against the Tutsi. With this deformed story the RPF legitimized the invasion of Congo (together with Uganda), pretending to get hold of the “genocidaires”. What was the real aim?

Proxy Colonialism, but Kagame might be Exchanged one Day

The aim of this (ongoing) invasion is the riches of DR Congo. Congo is full of Minerals. With the computer age the mineral Coltan has reached overall importance for mobile phones, computers and that like (of which the public should have more_knowledge). Already in 2002 the amount of stolen_goods_was_monumental, no matter that 2011 in a lousy little theater show Rwanda_repatriated_90_tons_of_Congolese-minerals having been “smuggled” into Rwanda. But in the end US_companies_are_exploiting_the_Congo. Actually DR Congo is on top of all deadly hells of this Earth, its fate somehow mirrored by West_Papua being plundered by Indonesia in favor of the West.

To broaden the power basis for his grip on Congo, Kagame even seems_meddling_in_neighbouring_Burundi. Obviously the aim was to create a situation, which could be presented to the world as reason for a Rwandan intervention in order to “save the Burundian Tutsi”, possibly even to unite the two countries under RPF leadership.  But the US Empire seems now not too much in favour of such developments, especially in the present situation of conflicts within the US Power Elite.

Anyway, it is more and more difficult for Kagame and his regime to hide the crimes and atrocities in Congo, partly reflected in the UN_Project_Mapping_on_DR_Congo, though a leaked_first_draft was later on softened (due to US pressure). Very delicate is that Kagame fights growing Western critics by the confession that he joined the West in corruption to plunder Congo in an interesting speech (at 6:26), really remarkable:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoxLZrodVfY

But, in the end even it will not be his crimes, not even because of a murder_possibly_commited_on_a_BBC_journalist in London by his murder_inc, for which the US Power Elite will drop him one day. It might be for his “arrogant” belief that the henchman can do without his master! The fact that a Canadian company helps to build a first_coltan_Processing_plant in Rwanda (paid_for_by_the_genocide_inCongo) doesn´t really mean it will please his US master. Also the Chinese involvement into the East-African_standard_gauge_network including Rwanda might also possibly make his master´s eyebrow raise. Mobutu wasn´t really rewarded for little flirts with China and North-Korea. But, if it comes to that point, the US Power Elite will have Kagame toppled with “love for Democracy” on their lips!

One thing is clear, Africa has long struggles_for_freedom_and_social_justice ahead! In these strugglesalso for genuine development and industrialization the natural allies will surely be other African countries and in general the BRICS states. The Western countries as dominated by the US and Neoliberalism with its “freetrade religion” would only be partners for eternal dependency and resource slavery!

Andreas Schlüter

Links:

https://www.blackagendareport.com/rwanda_enduring_lies

http://www.logos-verlag.de/cgi-bin/engbuchmid?isbn=4307&lng=deu&id=

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