Foreign
Affairs 101 Quiz 1: What do Paul Kagame, Yoweri Museveni, and Joseph Kabila
have in common? They’re all former armed rebels turned statesmen and dictators! It is that vicious
pattern of rebels turning into statesmen that must be terminated in the Great
Lakes region and Central Africa! This is the most urgent public safety concern to be addressed.
Foreign
Affairs 101 Quiz 2: What do M23 and other DRC rebel leaders seek? Answer: statesmanship.
Foreign
Affairs 101 Quiz 3: What do Rwanda’s Paul Kagame and Uganda”s Yoweri Museveni
seek through their DRC proxies, a.k.a rebels? Continue to plunder Congo’s natural resources (coltan, diamonds, gold, tin, coffee, tea, timber, etc.) and kill any Congolese who oppose them.
Foreign
Affairs 101 Quiz 4: How about a power-sharing agreement between Joseph Kabila
and M23? We’ve seen that before; it means bringing more criminals in uniform to
Kinshasa remotely controlled by Rwanda and Uganda, a public safety issue! They would
add to the existing bands of criminals, mostly thieves, already in Kinshasa!
On December 15, 2012,
I wrote on this blog:
“Imagine telling the
cops to walk their beats and not to intervene as long as the criminals do not
endanger people's lives. This equates to giving the green light or carte
blanche to criminals to commit all types of crimes and walk free as long
as they do not cause any wound to the civilian population. It is like telling
them that they can steal, loot, enslave, rape, and do all unimaginable
atrocities provided they do not cause any wound to their victims!
Unfortunately, this has been the mandate the United Nations gave to its largest
mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo! In the DRC, those criminals
are the Rwanda-and-Uganda backed rebels whose atrocities have been well documented
and publicized enough in recent months throughout the world.
As a criminologist and
law enforcement expert, I strongly believe that any United Nations military or
paramilitary force must be tasked with enforcing international law through the
use of all tools to force belligerent groups to comply with civilized codes of
conduct. Therefore, I urge the United Nations to strengthen its 19,000 troops
in the Congo so that they can respond with fire any time criminals in uniform,
also known as rebels and their foreign backers, violate decent norms of conduct
(…)"
Foreign Affairs 101
Quiz 5: What has the United Nations come up with on January 25, 2013?
Answer
from Reuters: “U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will recommend to
the U.N. Security Council that a peace enforcement unit be deployed in eastern
Democratic Republic of Congo to take on the M23 rebels and other armed groups,
a senior U.N. official said on Friday.
The intervention unit of a few thousand troops
would aim to prevent armed groups from expanding territory in the resource-rich
region by overpowering and disarming them. The unit would be contained within
the existing U.N. force, known as MONUSCO.
"It is not simply peacekeeping, this
is peace enforcement. It's a much more robust stance," said the official,
who declined to be named. "It will be a deterrent against the armed
groups..."
NOW IT SEEMS THAT WORLD AFFAIRS KEY PLAYERS HAVE GOTTEN THE MESSAGE!
