From Volume 7, Issue 49 of EIR Online, Published Dec. 2, 2008
Africa News Digest

Malloch-Brown Continues Congo Destabilization

Nov. 26 (EIRNS)—The British Minister for Africa, Asia and the United Nations, Lord Mark Malloch-Brown, on his Nov. 17-20 visit to the Democratic Republic of Congo (D.R.C.) and neighboring Rwanda, blamed the D.R.C. government of and military for what he termed the "prospect of ethnic conflagration on a very large scale going beyond the Congo into neighbouring countries," if peace were not restored. But after a meeting with Rwandan President Paul Kagame, Malloch-Brown refused to hold former Gen. Laurent Nkunda, who triggered the latest unrest when he broke a ceasefire in August, as uniquely responsible for the crisis. Nkunda was an associate of Kagame in 1994, and has doubled the amount of territory he is holding in the eastern D.R.C. province of North Kivu, since he broke the ceasefire.

Malloch-Brown's actions, on behalf of the London-based globalized financial system, are putting in place a large-scale destabilization in central Africa, prior to the inauguration of the next U.S. administration.

The real story about how this humanitarian crisis, in which as many as 250,000 residents have reportedly been forced to flee their homes, and others civilians have been summarily executed, is now coming to light. Citing government sources, the Kenyan daily East African, reported Nov. 24 that the integration of former rebel forces into the D.R.C. army, following a 2002 agreement that led to a government of national unity, brought former friends of Nkunda into the D.R.C. army. The paper reported that most of the Congo army forces deployed to stop Nkunda's advances were formerly soldiers of a rebel operation, backed by Uganda and Rwanda, which was launched in 1998 in an attempt to overthrow the present Congo President's father, who was then President.

The sources told the East African that some these Congo army commanders have been leaking information about the army's position and strength, to Nkunda. In an effort to rectify this situation, Congo President Joseph Kabila this past week appointed Gen. Didier Etuymba as the new Chief of the General Staff. This reshuffle came after the Congo prime minister toured eastern Congo. He discovered a major misappropriation of funds meant for the army. This factor, plus little training, and the leaked information to Nkunda about the Congo military effort, gave Nkunda a big advantage.

Playing into Malloch-Brown's crisis scenario, UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon said the human rights situation in eastern D.R.C. was a "cause for concern," and blamed the Congo army, and pro-government militias, as well as Nkunda's force for "mass killings, torture, abductions, forced recruitment of children, forced displacement and destruction of [refugee] camps, forced labor, and other crimes." The UN report placed most of the blame for abuses on government forces.

However, since so many of the Congo army's personnel were associated with Nkunda in the past, and have been corrupted into selling minerals they have mined, as Nkunda has, the violence that Malloch-Brown and Ban are blaming on the D.R.C. is a classic inside-outside operation that is not controlled by the D.R.C. government, but the financial cartel that wants to destabilize the region.

The D.R.C.'s only hope, reports the East African, is that France wants the UN Security Council to double the number of troops to be sent there, as a buffer between the protagonists, and cites sources who say that France has been urging Angola to deploy troops to eastern Congo to prevent Nkunda from overthrowing the government, which Nkunda has announced as one of his goals.

Crisis in Congo Worsens

Nov. 28 (EIRNS)—New fighting has driven more people into neighboring Uganda (the refugee total in Uganda is 15,000 since rebel Laurent Nkunda broke a ceasefire agreement three months ago), and has been accompanied by reports of massacres. The London press reports that 250,000 have been driven from their homes by the violence, and George Soros has instigated a call for EU military intervention (see below).

The UN has warned that more massacres are possible, in a situation which Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has termed "nearly hopeless." The European press is reporting "new convulsions" and warning that the war could spread outside the D.R.C.

Soros Calls on U.K. To Approve EU Troops To Congo

Nov. 28 (EIRNS)—Billionaire British agent George Soros issued an open letter today calling on British Prime Minister Gordon Brown to approve an invasion of the Democratic Republic of Congo (D.R.C.) by troops of the European Union. The Soros letter is co-signed by 18 other public figures.

The letter replays the recent public statements by Baron Malloch-Brown and the United Nations, calling for British troops to invade the D.R.C., as a "solution" to the humanitarian disaster caused by British-inspired rebel troops tearing up the region. Lord Malloch-Brown is a long-time political partner of Soros, and a former executive of Soros's financial and political agencies.

The letter, issued through the British relief organization Oxfam, says that the "UN Special Representative to the D.R.C. has called for an interim force to deploy immediately to protect civilians and support the UN peacekeepers until reinforcements can arrive. It is increasingly clear that the EU is best placed—through its standing battle groups—to play this role and deploy now. We urge you to speedily agree to the temporary deployment of an EU force."

Several of the co-signers are serial signers of Soros propaganda. For example, a statement issued Oct. 12, 2008 by Soros called for an Israeli-Arab accord on water use based on the genocidal principles of the Club of Rome, accepting water as permanently scarce was co-signed by former Czech President Vaclav Havel, former South African President Frederik Willem De Klerk, former World Trade Organization director Mike Moore, South African cleric Desmond Tutu, and Jordanian Prince El Hassan bin Talal, all signers of the Nov. 28 call for an EU-led invasion.

Desmond Tutu is a member of the Soros group known as The Elders, whose executive director is the longtime Soros employee, Princess Mabel of the Netherlands.

The British-bred Prince El Hassan bin Talal was president of the Club of Rome from 1999 to 2007.

Other signers of the invasion call are:

Lloyd Axworthy, former Canadian foreign minister—notorious as a Soros-linked political hit man against South America;

Jorge Castañeda, former Mexican secretary of foreign affairs—notorious as a Soros agent;

Richard Goldstone, former Chief Prosecutor of the UN International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and for Rwanda. Soros pushed Goldstone for that post, and Soros's Open Society Institute financed the Court;

Mary Robinson, former President of Ireland and UN High Commissioner for Human Rights—a director of Al Gore's London hedge fund, Generation Investment Management;

Lord Bishop Michael Scott-Joynt, prelate of the British monarchy's Order of the Garter;

Richard Dowden, executive director of Queen Elizabeth's Royal African Society;

Tom Stoppard, British author;

Juan Mendez, president of the Soros-stooge International Center for Transitional Justice, with such directors as Richard Goldstone, Kati Marton (wife of Soros business partner Richard Holbrooke), and Samantha Power (an agent of Malloch Brown and George Soros in the U.S. Democratic Party); and

Lt.-Gen. Romo Dallaire (ret.), Canadian Senator and former Force Commander of the United Nations Assistance Mission to Rwanda; Jan Egeland, director of the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs, former UN Undersecretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator; Joschka Fisher, former German foreign minister and vice chancellor; Bishop Monsengwo Pasinya Laurent, head of the Catholic Church in Kinshasa, D.R.C.

Ban Ki-Moon Backs Soros on Sending EU Troops to Congo

Nov. 30 (EIRNS)—UN General Secretary Ban Ki-Moon has picked up on George Soro's "humanitarian" call to send an "interim" European military force to the Democratic Republic of Congo. On Nov. 27, Soros and others issued an open letter calling for the EU to send military troops until the United Nations can assemble the 3,000 additional "peacekeepers" the Security Council has approved (see above).

Belgium, which used to loot Congo directly, and France, last month proposed sending troops to North Kivu province, the key battleground of the Congo conflict, to support the humanitarian efforts of the UN Mission there. After that French proposal, a spokesman for Soros's International Crisis Group, Neil Campbell, said on Nov. 6 that the EU should commit troops, but they should not come from France. Campbell maintained that a French presence would antagonize Rwanda, which backs the anti-Congo rebels led by Laurent Nkunda, since France backed the previous Rwandan government, which is charged with genocide during the civil war in Rwanda. At the time the French proposal for intervention into the D.R.C. was made, President Nicolas Sarkozy pledged full support for D.R.C. President Joseph Kabila, while Malloch-Brown is blaming the Congo government and the rebels for the humanitarian crisis. France is now reportedly encouraging Angola to intervene, to pre-empt an EU intervention. Such a move would upstage Malloch-Brown's crisis scenario.

Other EU countries, including Germany, oppose the military support, and want to back humanitarian organizations and political mediation, instead.

AFP reports that the question of sending EU troops will be discussed this week at the ministerial level, at NATO headquarters in Brussels, as well as at the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe meeting in Helsinki.

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