“The first reason is that they killed the President…. The second one is that they have attacked, and the third because they were planning to exterminate the Hutus….
The country would be inhabited by the Ugandans.”
– Radio Television Libre des Milles Collines, Kigali

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In 1994, a French Falcon plane carrying Juvennal Habyarimana, President of Rwanda and the newly chosen President of Burundi, Cyrien Ntaryamira was brought down in Kigali. The effect of the killing of these prominent Hutus for the Lake region was inflammatory.
Over the next few months, afraid of a Tutsi takeover of the government, Hutu extremists decimated over a million Rwanda Tutsis. In response, the Tutsi Patriotic Front fought their way to Kigali and took over the government. A spill over of Hutus refugees across the borders to the Congo opened the vast Congo DR to the various machinations of interventionist forces.
On one hand, was the Rwandan Patriotic Front in hot pursuit of their enemies, joined by Museveni’s Uganda. The other parties in the conflict included Zimbabwe, Namibia and Chad. Like Uganda, the most powerful military interventions on the side of the second group, was Angola.
The diamonds of the Congo, and her rare solid minerals are spoils that attracted imperial Belgium and over the years continue to stoke the enending bloodshed  in the Congo.
In the Ugandan native tongue of Lunyankole, Museveni is a Whiteman. Traveling all night in a bus from Nairobi to Entebe, it is safe to say that the Ugandan countrysides nestles no white population. The nation of Uganda known as the “Pearl of Africa” is presently the story of the didynamous Yoweri Museveni, leader of the outside force that toppled the Idi Amin dictatorship. An erstwhile guerilla fighter of the Maoist persuasion, he fought on the side of the Frelimo during the Mozambique war of independence. Later, he participated in the civilian government of Milton Obote only to overthrow it. He is known to have intervened in the Rwandan civil war. The discipline and the firepower displayed by the Rwandan Patriotic Front in crushing the standing Rwandan Army is in character with that of Museveni’s National Resistance Army which operated during Uganda’s civil war. Recently, he won another term as the President of Uganda. Folks, this man has been on that seat since 1986.
Tall like Museveni and originally pastoral, the Tutsis are the cousins of Museveni’s tribe in Uganda. Secondly, after suffering decades of genocide, the Tutsis educated elite and soldiers in the “Uganda Diaspora’ rebuffed the French culture, overrunning Kigali in 1993. The RPF in 1995 exacerbated the conflict by conducting government business in English in a Francophone country.
With the RPF safely in control in Rwanda, Museveni moved north to crush the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA). Beaten in mid-eighties into a rag-tag force, this unit is the remnant of the former followers of the “Messenger.” It was in 1984 that Alice Lakwena, 27, taught her followers never to fear bullets. She preached to them to smear their bodies with oil, admonishing that bullets would turn back whenever they are fired upon. At the same time, she taught her followers to carry stones, adding that those stones would explode like grenades when thrown at the enemies. The result was slaughter as; the rebel priestess marched about 400 miles from her northern Gullu district down the south.
The disintegration of the Holy Spirit Movement leaves Museveni facing an array of lesser rebellions in the North. Enjoying some relative peace in the North and down the Rwandan borders, Museveni was a principal amongst interventionist forces that finally dislodged Mobutu in the Congo.
With nine countries around the edge, and the restoration of the Somali diehards suicide Jihadists in the North, the boiling Lake region is therefore heading for another collision with the grand designs of an emerging East African actor whose earlier alliance with the RPF presented him with a tempting libertraum from the Nile to the Lakes. But this region is known for its treachery and intrigues. The recent reported clashes and bloodbath in the Congolesse capital indicate that the war is unending.
Alliances are contrived on the exigency of fighting a common enemy. Once that enemy is eliminated, these unforgiving peoples that border the luxuriant vegetation of the Equatorial Rivers must return to their ancient animosities, war and fratricide. Museveni sitting in command of a well tested military force, has the experience, the guile and the western support to fill the power vacuum vacated by Mobutu in the Lake region.