OPEN LETTER TO THE FOREIGN POLICY TOP 100 GLOBAL THINKERS

Dear FP Top 100 Global Thinkers:

First, let me congratulate you on your nomination as the Foreign Policy Top 100 Global Thinkers. You’re part of a selected group of human beings who made it through that list. However, the world you live in is still plagued with dictators, such as those two gentlemen from Rwanda and Uganda, who’ve been causing misery to the Congolese people for the last 15 years and who’ve never learned to act as “Mensch”. Rather, they have chosen the most primitive and un-human lifestyle. To refresh your minds, I invite you to carefully read the following documents:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/794496.stm

http://www.nytimes.com/1999/08/16/world/rwanda-and-uganda-battling-to-control-key-city-in-congo.html

http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2012/11/28/f-vp-macinnes-rae-congo.html?cmp=rss

http://www.un.org/ga/search/view_doc.asp?symbol=S/2012/843

As a criminologist with international living experience in Africa, Europe, Latin America, and the United States, let me share with you just three of the things we do in law enforcement when dealing with hard-core criminals or chronic offenders like Messrs. Paul Kagame and Museveni.

(1) We pull the levers. In our law enforcement jargon, it means speaking straight to the criminals telling them that we know who they are and their modus operandi. Then, we use the powerful law enforcement tool of coercion. Simply put, we tell them that the civilized community of human beings is tired with their primitive lifestyles and if they continue on that path, they will face jail, prison, or even death. Finally, we ask them to quit that un-human modus operandi.

(2) We give them life options, such as learning the art of self-control. By the way, anyone who’s observed hard-core criminals will conclude that Hirschi and Gottfredson were right: low self-control goes hand in hand with criminal behavior. We teach them the importance of disassociating themselves with other criminals because criminal behavior is also learned behavior. Look at the universe of Messrs. Paul Kagame and Yoweri Museveni: they’ve been around criminals almost all of their lives! They even rose to power through the crime of seizing and confiscating political power by force.

(3) We expose their wickedness for the entire world to see. Sometimes, we even have them carry a sign to shame them! Thanks God, there’s now a thing called the Internet!  At this stage, we have enough intelligence to tell those criminals and their associates that we’ve gathered enough data on their financial transactions; we know where their money is; and we can freeze that money any time it pleases us to do so.

Global Thinkers, now the ball is on your side to use all your influence and access to law enforcement tools to stop those killings in Eastern Congo and give Congolese a break. They haven’t had any for over 100 years now!

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/11/26/the_fp_100_global_thinkers

FOR FOLLOW UP OF THIS POSTING, READ THE FOLLOWING ARTICLES PUBLISHED ON DECEMBER 18, 2012:

http://blogs.wsj.com/corruption-currents/2012/12/18/treasury-slaps-sanctions-on-more-m23-leaders/?KEYWORDS=congo (Wall Street Journal)

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/2012/12/19/obama-discusses-crisis-congo-with-kagame/cVzSWjLcGH2QR6SyS4aJRK/story.html (Boston Globe)

UNITED NATIONS SECURITY COUNCIL REPORT NOV. 12, 2012 (FULL REPORT)

The full report of the United Nations Security Council on recent atrocities in Eastern Congo by the dictators of Rwanda and Uganda and their associates is in the public domain and can be accessed at:

http://www.un.org/ga/search/view_doc.asp?symbol=S/2012/843

WHY DICTATORS PAUL KAGAME OF RWANDA AND YOWERI MUSEVENI OF UGANDA ARE A THREAT TO THE WORLD SECURITY?

Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair has no excuse whatsoever. He cannot tell the world that he didn't know that when taking the position of Advisor for Rwanda's dictator Paul Kagame, he was betraying the great British statesman Winston Churchill, who would never accept to be an advisor to Adolf Hitler. Africa has also its own Adolf Hitlers: Paul Kagame and Yoweri Museveni. If you are still not convinced, read the following articles:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/794496.stm

http://www.nytimes.com/1999/08/16/world/rwanda-and-uganda-battling-to-control-key-city-in-congo.html

http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2012/11/28/f-vp-macinnes-rae-congo.html?cmp=rss

At this point, the entire world has overwhelming evidence that Rwanda's Paul Kagame and Uganda's Yoweri Museveni are a threat to the world security.

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/11/27/the_fall_of_goma

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/11/26/the_fp_100_global_thinkers

HOW TO END A STUPID WAR IN A WEEK AND SAVE TAXPAYERS' MONEY: TAKE NOTE UNITED NATIONS!

I am a criminologist from the Democratic Republic of the Congo. I've traveled the world enough to see the best and the worst of human beings. The war in Eastern Congo illustrates the worst of human beings: it's all about stealing, looting, and killing mostly by the dictators of Rwanda and Uganda. I've called them and other African dictators of the same stripe "little devils in human shape"  and "little devils coated in human skin". This war , the most stupid of all conflicts, has cost taxpayers around the world several billions of dollars to maintain the largest and the most ineffective United Nations force in history and more than 4,000,000 Congolese have lost their lives so far.

Here are simple ideas that will help save millions of lives and billions of dollars to taxpayers:

(1) There is an international market for stolen goods from the Congo, and it's very easy to destroy that market. Just go to point 2 below:

(2) Disturb the supply chain. Legislation has proved to be one the most ineffective way to stop the flow of stolen goods from the Congo to international markets. How do you disturb or blockade the supply chain of stolen goods from Eastern Congo? Go to point 3

(3) The landlocked nations of Rwanda and Uganda that sponsor those stupid wars in the Congo can only export the stolen goods through the ports of Mombasa in Kenya and Dar es Salaam in Tanzania. They will never try the port of Mogadishu in Somalia: there are thousands of pirates out there!!! So, what? Go to point 4.

(4) Instead of spending billions of dollars on an ineffective force that couldn't stop the rebels, The United Nations must work with the governments of Kenya and Tanzania to make sure that from now on no truck carrying stolen goods from the Congo enters Kenya or Tanzania. This is very very easy. There are very good inspection and verification companies in the world; speak with them!  It is very easy to track and certify minerals from the mines to the buyer. Likewise, we can track a bag of coffee or tea from a farm to the final consumer. We've done this in Latin America where I spent two decades. We can tell from which farm a banana bought at Walmart comes from. This is no rocket science, unless you're a Martian of course! Unfortunately, there are tons of Martians at the United Nations who still don't get it! A no-certification = no-entry = no-export  model will lead to the end of that stupid war in Eastern Congo. Another lesson I learned from Latin America is to implement an aerial smuggling interdiction program aimed at preventing suspect planes from landing and taking off from Eastern Congo. You only need radars and a few airplanes to deter criminal activity by air. Go to point 5

(5) In a short period of time, we will witness the fall of those tyrants, yes, those little devils coated in human skin and the birth of a Dictatorship-Free Zone (DFZ) in East and Central Africa. This is what millions of Africans have been yearning for for decades. Now it's time to act.

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/11/27/the_fall_of_goma

THE OTHER SIDE OF THE CONGOLESE

The Congolese are a resilient people, and if resilience means strength, we're indeed dealing with one of the strongest people on earth. This is the people whose invisible hand shaped the history of the world as we know it today. This is a people whose invisible hand ended World War II in Asia by providing the United States with the uranium used to manufacture the first atomic bomb detonated over Hiroshima. Of the Congo, General Leslie M. Groves, the head of the Manhattan Project, said: "Without Congo's uranium, the Allies might have not been first with the atomic bomb". This is also the people who starved Hitler and the Wehrmacht  of the industrial diamonds Germany needed to keep alive its industrial-military complex. Every WWII historian would agree with me that WWII was first won on the industrial field, then on the battlefront, and the Congo played a crucial role in the collapse of the Third Reich. Congo supplied 76% of all industrial diamonds in the world and was the only place on earth Hitler could get diamonds from!  Even D-Day was set based on the intelligence the Allies had gathered on Germany's stockpile of industrial diamonds.

Congo shaping the world did not end with World War II. It continues even today as most cell phones and other electronic gadgets still bear the invisible label "Congo inside", a signature for Congo's Coltan. Congo's wealth has also attracted a new generation of African thieves from Rwanda and Uganda with connections with invisible middlemen around the world. The African thieves' roles is to fund militias and rebels in Eastern Congo, loot as much and as fast as they can everything; minerals, rare earths, coffee, tea, cocoa, timber, etc. In the process, they've caused the death of over 4,000,000 people in the last 15 years. 

Congo has also become a key piece in China's national security interests, and  as the only world power with enough cash in hand, they have embarked in an unprecedented campaign to win the minds and souls of the Congolese, just as the European did to colonize Africa: you simply have to build strategic alliances and shower African chiefs with gifts, and the country is all yours.  This time the alliance is with the central government in Kinshasa.

History repeating itself, with the United Nations watching thousands of thieves dressed in rebel uniforms crossing the border from Rwanda and Uganda into the Congo and loading trucks with minerals back to Rwanda and Uganda. The United Nations sees planes landing in Eastern Congo every day and being loaded with stolen goods from the Congo. Yes, there is a highly lucrative international market for stolen goods from the Congo. The thieves do not escape the logic of robbery: because thieves despise work, they end up selling stolen goods at a ridiculous price to middlemen, the one who actually make huge profits. 

Isn't it time for the world to show gratitude to the people of the Congo by giving them a break, a respire? Isn't it time to denounce the dictators of Rwanda and Uganda and expel these two countries from all international organizations? Now is the time and the world is watching every move!

 http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/11/20/africas_forever_war

A NEW GENERATION OF AFRICAN THIEVES

As long as there is an international market for stolen goods from the Congo, the Rwandan, Ugandan, and Congolese thieves will not stop plundering the riches of the Congo. What do they get in exchange? Peanuts, because the benefits mostly go to the middlemen, a truth farmers have learned for centuries. Also as long as there are (1) motivated offenders in the region, mostly the dictators of Rwanda, Uganda, and the Congo and (2) ineffective guardianship of Congo's riches (weak security forces, weak justice system, poor institutional capacity in the Congo,  poor justice system and weak institutional capacity in Rwanda and Uganda to prosecute dictators Kagame and Museveni and their friends), then Congo will remain an attractive target for those dictators and thieves whom I've coined "little devils in human shape". Let's put it straight: are we encouraging the Chinese to send troops into the Congo? Are we encouraging the Chinese to engrave a new script into Congolese mind that the West does not care about the Congo? Dictators, no matter the color of their skin, are a threat to world security. Their atrocities are reported live on the Internet, cable TV, and all types of communication tools readily available in this Digital Age. It is time for the international community to expel Rwanda and Uganda from all international organizations. Let them withdraw their troops from Somalia and Darfur; the world will always find good soldiers to fight extremists. let's put an end to Rwanda and Uganda blackmailing the international community. Let's build a Dictatorship Free Zone (DFZ) to replace the current dictators of Rwanda, Uganda, and the Congo. The time is now because the world is watching more than ever! 

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/11/20/that_other_war

WHICH COUNTRY IS LIKELY TO HAVE PURCHASED THE ORIGINAL DOMAIN?

According to Blogger.com's traffic statistics, between May 2008 and November 17, 2012, this site has been visited from the following countries:

1. United States (1834 times)

2. China (1472 times)

3. Ukraine (268 times)

4. Russia (126 times)

5. Germany (95 times)

6. Netherlands (68 times)

7. Israel (60 times)

8. Canada (31 times)

9. United Kingdom (31 times)

10. France (27 times)

11. Others (100 times)

It makes sense that the individual based in Australia who purchased the original domain linked to this blog in October 2012 from GODADDY.COM has some connections with China, a country I have publicly accused of conducting overt and covert operations in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.   

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J’ACCUSE…! CHINA'S OVERT AND COVERT OPERATIONS IN THE CONGO (Republished Nov 17, 2012)

That day was 1/11/11 and the Congolese parliament was debating eight amendments to the constitution including one that would eliminate the second round of presidential election. That same day January 11, 2011, Chinese Vice Premier Hui Liang Yu arrived in Kinshasa, DRC, on an official visit. Pure coincidence? No! The timing was undiplomatic, immoral, and with a clear intention to influence voting in the Congolese parliament that would favor Kabila’s reelection. Only those worshippers of naiveté would dare find diplomatic the undiplomatic show of force when China flew its own version of the stealth bomber on that same day January 11, 2011. Let’s not be naïve, there is a pattern here and an obsession with being number one no matter the cost, no matter if the price is insulting the conscience of 70 million Congolese. J’accuse…!

The story goes on. The next day, Congo’s senate approved the eight amendments, paving the way for Kabila to be reelected even with less than 20 % of votes in November 2011. Before he left the Congo on 1/12/11, Vice Premier Hui Liang Yu showered his Congolese hosts with a gift of USD 52 million “with no strings attached” and Congolese thieves held one of the biggest celebration parties in Kinshasa. Besides childishness, immaturity, irresponsibility, personal gain, and immorality, what else would you expect from African politicians? They sold millions of their own people as slaves for hundreds of years to European merchants, now they’re selling their own countries to the only bidder with enough cash in hands!

In the following weeks and months, the Congolese government secretly sold state mining assets to obscure investors for undisclosed amounts of money and far below their market value, causing the Congo to lose several billions of dollars. Mining and energy contracts were signed with several individuals, companies, and governments acting as screens to the cover ops. The official reason: raise enough money to hold elections in November 2011. The unofficial reasons: (1) perpetuate a kleptocratic and criminal state that would guarantee Kabila and his entourage zero likelihood to be arrested, indicted, tried, and sentenced, and (2) assist in the birth of a new colony at the heart of the African continent.

The most amateurish and ridiculous scenario accompanied Congo’s elections: stuffed ballots scattered among rice bags and rodents, broken custody chain from end to end, ballots left outside to suck the tropical rain, chaos, misery, hell... Days after the election day, the South African government continued flying stuffed and marked ballots into the Congo. The conspiracy was about to succeed, with hundreds of international observers watching in silence Kabila’s reelection. No need for a brainer. That’s the way Europeans colonized Africa and insulted African conscience where it hurts the most. You only need to win the hearts, minds, and souls of a few African tribal chiefs, shower them with gifts and promises, and the land is all yours!

Now that the overt and covert operations have triumphed in the Congo, the door is wide open to repeat it somewhere else on the Black continent. Not only have the Congolese been ripped off, but also anyone else who advocates for human rights and decency in international politics and businesses.  I call on the Chinese leadership to apologize to the Congolese people and refrain from any further interference in Congolese politics. Only a relationship with any country in the world based on mutual respect is in the best interest of the Congolese people. I fully disapprove all   China's overt and covert operations in the Congo. J’accuse…!