M23 rebels
 M23 rebels  (PMC)   | |
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 Leader of the M23 rebels Sultani Makenga | |
| The varying incarnations of "rebels" in eastern Congo have all and always been backed by Yoweri Museveni (Uganda) and Paul Kagame (Rwanda), in turn backed by the USA, UK and Israel. |
The M23 rebels (or the March 23 Movement) came together in 2012 when nearly 300 soldiers – the majority of them former members of the National Congress for the Defence of the People (CNDP) – turned against the DRC government, citing poor conditions in the army and the government's unwillingness to implement the 23 March 2009 peace deal.
In February 2025, the Democratic Republic of Congo was in turmoil - fighters from the notorious M23 rebel group were surging through the eastern DRC, battling the national army and capturing key places as they went.[1]
Background
Tensions escalated as ex-CNDP soldiers, accused of exploiting their military positions to monopolise mineral trafficking in eastern DRC, resisted governmental efforts to redeploy them outside their entrenched power bases. This perceived violation of the 2009 accord precipitated a mutiny in April 2012, led by Colonel Sultani Makenga.
General Bosco Ntaganda, infamously known as "The Terminator", emerged as a key figure linked to M23's formation. Indicted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for war crimes and crimes against humanity, Ntaganda reportedly collaborated with Makenga to unite mutinous factions, as highlighted in a 2012 United Nations report. The report also detailed extensive military, financial, and political support for M23 from high-ranking Rwandan officials, including direct assistance from Rwandan Defence Force, recruitment efforts on Rwandan soil, logistical support, and direct involvement in M23 operations in the DRC. Human Rights Watch accused the group of committing widespread war crimes, including summary executions, rape, and forced recruitment, asserting that some Rwandan authorities could be complicit due to their continued support for M23 activities.
In response to the mutiny, Congolese President Joseph Kabila called for Ntaganda's arrest on 11 April 2012, but the rebellion culminated in the formal establishment of the March 23 Movement on 6 May 2012, named after the date of the original peace agreement.[2]
Trojan Horse
In Novembef 2013, Keith Harmon-Snow reported:
- The western propaganda system is again trotting out the refrain that "rebels in Congo have been defeated." The latest so-called "rebels" — the M23 forces — are actually Rwandan government troops, not rebels.
- Reports now appearing in the western mainstream media are that the "M23 rebels" have "surrendered in Uganda", or "turned themselves in" in Rwanda. This is nonsense, since these are the Rwandan Defence Force, most of them formerly National Congress for the Defence of the People, formerly Ugandan People's Defence Forces (UPDF), formerly National Resistance Army/Movement (NRA/M) troops. (This is especially true of commanders, e.g.: James Kabarebe, Laurent Nkundabatware, and many others). The varying incarnations of "rebels" in eastern Congo have all and always been backed by Yoweri Museveni (Uganda) and Paul Kagame (Rwanda), in turn backed by the USA, UK and Israel.
- M23 is the same: another predominantly Tutsi army serving the Tutsi/Hema elites — not the people of Uganda or the people of Rwanda/Burundi and the bain of innocent men, women and children wherever they go.
- Meanwhile, in Kinshasa, Hippolyte Kanambe (alias Joseph Kabila) is showing his consistent treasonous betrayal of the people of Congo by calling for the M23 rebels to be included in the political process. How and why would the president of Congo be inviting "defeated" guerrillas who have committed war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide in Congo (1996-2013), Rwanda (1990-1995) and Uganda (1980-1985) to participate in the political process?
- Hippolyte Kanambe is another tutsi elite (his uncle is James Kabarebe) and his goal as Trojan Horse is to further integrate/infiltrate Rwandan guerrillas and politicians into the Congo. Remember that Kanambe accompanied Laurent Desire Kabila on the US-backed invasion of Zaire and he was there, under the direct tutelage of Colonel James Kabarebe, when the hundreds of thousands of innocent Rwandan Hutu refugees were obliterated in one of the most — if not THE MOST — systematic cold-blooded genocides of modern times.[3]
Related Document
| Title | Type | Publication date | Author(s) | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Document:M23 and the unseen high-tech genocide | report | 8 November 2013 | Keith Harmon-Snow | Exposé of the criminal deceptions of Western NGOs and their sponsored African elites in the exploitation of African mineral resources |
