Another major war is looming - and western support for Rwanda is fuelling it | Dino Mahtani

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

50% : After a national peace deal in 2002 that integrated Congolese Tutsi officers and politicians into military and political institutions under the watch of the world's biggest UN peacekeeping mission, some of them again rebelled in 2004 and 2008 as they pushed for more military privileges and access to power and local resources.
49% : Only when the evidence unearthed by UN security council investigators of Rwandan involvement in DRC became overwhelming in 2012, did the UK, EU and US finally temporarily halt some aid to the country.
49% : The rebellion escalated in 2021 after a series of stalled talks between M23 representatives and the Congolese government concerning the possible reintegration of some M23 members into state institutions.
49% : Western officials need to now use all their remaining leverage to demand the M23 withdraw and force political negotiations that can settle the political and material underpinnings of the repeated cycle of rebellions.
41% : He has long argued his interventions in DRC are driven by his mission to safeguard his ethnic Tutsi group, which has at times been the butt of pogroms and political persecution in eastern Congo and from which M23 draws its leadership, against Hutus involved in the genocide who fled there.

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