Dell'articolo che segue segnalo:
1) l'importanza che viene data alle accuse rivolte da parte ribelli di Nkunda al governo congolese in relazione ad una presunta alleanza con l'Angola (come se un governo minacciato dovesse chiedere loro il permesso)
2) il fatto che un' entrata in campo dell'Angola possa essere considerata una provocazione da parte di Nkunda (come se ci si dovesse preoccupare di non provocare un delinquente)
3) il fatto che Nkunda abbia sospeso il fuoco nei giorni scorsi (come se fosse un brav'uomo: perché non si dice chi l'ha aperto, il fuoco?)
4) Poiché i morti sono tutte vittime: perché si fa il numero dei morti tutsi e non quello dei morti congolesi? Il mondo intero sa che lo sterminio tutsi è il drappo con il quale Kagame e Nkunda giustificano le loro azioni, infangando, per primi loro, i loro stessi morti.
5) Non un cenno al ruolo dell'Inghiliterra.
6) Appena accennata l'alleaza Nkunda-Kagame, lasciata passare quasi come "diceria" del governo congolese
7) Quasi tutto l'articolo è sbilanciato sul ruolo dell'Angola, su quello che potrebbe accadere se l'Angola entrasse in gioco, rievocando la guerra africana 1998-2003.
8) Si parla dei rapporti economici angolano-congolesi ma non delle rapine ruandesi sui territori dell'Est RDC
Insomma viva la stampa: bisognerebbe fare un corso di geopolitica dei Grandi Laghi per potersi difendere da un'operazione del genere. Che non fa che confermare, indirettamente, il ruolo dell'Inghilterra in questo scacchiere.
Angolan troops 'reinforcing Congo army against rebels'
The Congo army has received military help from Angola in a bid to contain the violence that has blighted the country, says the UN
Mark Tran
Friday November 7 2008
Angolan troops are supporting Congolese soldiers against rebels outside Goma, UN officials said today amid fears of a spreading of the regional war that has blighted the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
A UN official and a Uruguayan officer in the UN peacekeeping force were reported as saying that an unspecified number of Angolans arrived four days ago. Congo asked Angola for political and military support late last month after a renegade Tutsi general, Laurent Nkunda, and his well-trained troops, began advancing on Goma.
For days now, the Congolese rebels have accused Angola and Zimbabwe of mobilising troops to fight in Congo, in what could be a repeat of the 1998-2003 war that sucked in armies from several African states.
At one point, Rwanda, Burundi and Uganda fought against the armies of Congo, Zimbabwe, Chad, Angola and Namibia, partly over Congo's rich resources of oil, copper diamonds and cobalt. An estimated four million people died in that conflict.
As diplomats met to try and defuse the crisis, witnesses saw a column of Congolese army troops heading north towards front-line positions occupied by Nkunda's rebels, who had suspended an offensive on Goma last week. A Uruguayan UN commander said the troops reinforcing the government lines were Angolans, but this could not be confirmed, Reuters reported.
Angola has one of the largest armies in sub-Saharan Africa and backed the Congolese government in the 1998-2003 war in exchange for oil. But this time round, the Angolan government said it would not interfere directly to avoid a worsening of the crisis.
"The direct and indirect interference by third parties will only worsen the conflict," Angola's foreign ministry said in a statement.
If Angola intervenes to support the Congolese government, the move will be seen as a provocation by neighbouring Rwanda, which is widely believed to support Nkunda's rebels.
In the latest clashes, fighting between rebels and government troops broke out near a refugee camp that sent thousands of civilians fleeing in panic. Congolese and UN military officers said the two sides exchanged machine gun, mortar and rocket-propelled grenade fire near Kibati in North Kivu province, where 250,000 people have fled recent fighting.
Thousands of refugees streamed back along the road towards North Kivu's provincial capital Goma, four miles to the south. The fighting occurred as Ban Ki-moon, the UN secretary general, met African leaders at a summit in Nairobi, Kenya to try to end the fighting.
The roots of the present conflict lie in the 1994 Rwandan genocide, after which Hutu militias who took part in the slaughter of 800,000 Tutsis fled to eastern Congo. Nkunda says he is fighting the government because of its failure to protect ethnic Tutsis in eastern Congo from the Hutus. The government describes Nkunda as a warlord and a stooge for Rwanda.
Humanitarian groups have urged countries to send reinforcements for Monuc, the UN peacekeeping mission in Congo, to help protect civilians caught up in the fighting.
"UN peacekeepers need to do more to protect civilians, who desperately need their help," Anneke van Woudenberg, a senior researcher in the Africa division of Human Rights Watch, said. "More troops and resources are urgently needed to shore up the blue helmets, and the EU is well placed to move quickly."
The UN has 17,000 peacekeepers in Congo – its largest peacekeeping mission in the world – but it is stretched to breaking point. Besides having to deal with the fighting in eastern Congo, Monuc also has to deal with armed groups attacking civilians in Ituri and in the Dungu area of Province Orientale in the northeast, where the Lord's Resistance Army last month attacked and kidnapped civilians, forcing tens of thousands to flee.
EU ambassadors met last month in Brussels to consider the UN's request for an EU force, but made no commitment to help. Diplomats said they preferred to see Monuc use its existing troops more efficiently before deciding whether an EU force was needed.
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