The genocide that the Congolese people have suffered for more than twenty years has never stopped: 10 years after the Mapping Report, there is talk of 12 million deaths in the Congo. To the ethnic clashes over the land is added systemic corruption, as demonstrated by the Congo Hold-up investigation. More than twenty years of violence that took place under the unarmed eyes of the UN.
A war has been going on in Congo for years, which sees the regular armies of six countries fighting on the Congolese territory for a very simple reason: the control of the rich deposits of diamonds, gold and coltan of the Eastern Congo.
Cleptocracy is also added to the conflict: Radio France Internationale, together with De Standard, Le Soir, Der Spiegel, Bloomberg, Bbc Africa Eye with the joint Congo Hold-up investigation (1) revealed how 138 million dollars were taken from the coffers between 2013 and 2018 have become a kind of "Kabila tax" (named after the country's former president, Joseph Kabila) with the complicity of a commercial bank and a company-screen. The transport and ports company, the funds for road maintenance and the mining company Gecamines are involved in the deal. Once again, an investigation reveals the bad governance, the kleptocratic system and the country.
Congo Hold-Up, the largest leak from the African continent to date, reveals how the commercial bank BGFIBank has been used to plunder the Democratic Republic of Congo’s public funds and natural resources, largely for the enrichment of former President Joseph Kabila’s inner circle.
Every week there are reports of mass killings in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, just do a quick google search:
https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/rebel-attacks-eastern-congo-kill-more-than-60-2022-03-15/
The number of victims becomes apocalyptic if the mapping report (2) is taken into account: ten years after its publication, the violence perpetrated against the population has not ceased and the number of unarmed victims has more than doubled: over 12 million Congolese murdered.
The report offers an overall picture of the most serious crimes committed in the DRC between 1993 and 2003. 550 pages describing violence, abuse, mass rape, exploitation of children, kidnappings, murders, 617 cases of serious violations of human rights and international humanitarian rights and 700 massacres, classified as war crimes, crimes against humanity and some as crimes of genocide. Despite this detailed documentation, those responsible, whose names are known, are still free to continue and perpetrate abuses against the population forced, by the continuation of the violence, to seek refuge elsewhere.
But not only that, in the Democratic Republic of Congo there is a mass killing of the population, a real genocide, with the occupation of the lands and the replacement of the natives with elements of Tutsi ethnicity from Rwanda and Uganda. The Nande and Fuliro peoples in eastern Congo, the Luba de Kamuena Nsapu in the center, the Kongo of Bundu dia Kongo in the west are victims of genocide: mass graves, murders, kidnappings, poisonings. The Nande population has suffered an unstoppable decimation for crimes perpetrated against it, to the point of totaling the death of 95 percent of the community.
All these crimes take place under the eyes of a super witness, the UN, through its mission for peace in Congo.
(1): https://congoholdup.com/en/
(2): https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/Documents/Countries/CD/DRC_MAPPING_REPORT_FINAL_EN.pdf