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Keith Harmon Snow is a war correspondent and
former UN genocide investigator, who was
one of the voices in this 02/12/2014 KPFK report.
Someone offered to trade him this surface-to-air missile
launcher for his camera in DR Congo. He tried
shouldering it for this picture but then declined.

The 18-year war and conflict in the Democratic Republic of the
Congo is the most lethal since World War II, costing more
millions of lives than anyone can at this point know. The only
scientific estimate was 5.4 million during 10 of those eighteen
years. It began when US allies Uganda, Rwanda, and Burundi
invaded DR Congo in 1996, overthrew Mobutu Sese
Seko and thus established U.S. military dominance in that
resource rich country. The Rwandan Genocide and the story of
the brutally autocratic, U.S. allied Rwandan regime that
ensued are an essential part of this story.

Soldiers in DR Congo, 2009, the year that a bizarre
"peace agreement" was signed, on March 23. The
agreement was a de facto concession of Congolese
territory to Rwanda and Uganda's CNDP militia.
Three years later it gave rise to the Rwandan and
Ugandan CNDP's return as the March 23, or M23
movement.

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Rwandan political prisoner Victoire Ingabire has been
imprisoned for 15 years in Rwanda, for the speech
crime of disagreeing with the official, legally
enforced history of the Rwanadan Genocide. In 2010,
the year she was arrested and imprisoned, she attempted
to run for president against General Paul Kagame. General
Kagame has used his false, legallyenforced history
of the Rwandan Genocide as an excuse
for war and resource plunder the Democratic Republic
of the Congo since 1996. Every time his soldiers cross the
the Rwanda/Congo border, or his faux Congolese militia start
another war in DR Congo, he says they're hunting down
the perpetrators of the Rwandan Genocide, even though he himself
is the greatest individual perpetrator of all. And he has done so
with the blessing of the U.S. and the "international community,"
since 1996. Whether that blessing ended with the defeat of M23
in 2013 remains to be seen.

Professor Ed Herman, co-author of Manufacturing Consent and The Politics of Genocide, calls the misinformation about the Rwandan Genocide and Congo Wars the greatest triumph of the propaganda system in recent decades. For more, see Rwanda and the New Scramble for Africa, from Tragedy to Useful Imperial Fiction, by Baraka Books Publisher Robin Philpot, and/or Accidental Genocide by International Criminal Defense Lawyer and Law Professor Peter Erlinder. For briefer information (LOL), see San Francisco Bay View, 03.24.2014, Rwanda's Ambassador to bring legally enforced history to Sonoma State University.

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