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!
