Utter Balderdash!

 

A comment on Rwanda’s 30-year assault on Congo – the crimes, the criminals and the cover-up by Judi Rever

    Conspiracy advocate Judi Rever describes violence that has plagued eastern Congo for the past thirty years. She accuses Rwandan President Paul Kagame of being behind it all. Furthermore, she alleges that the conflict, especially the deaths of hundreds of thousands (her figure) of Rwandan Hutu refugees, were the result of intentional American policy.  Specifically, that the U.S. government aided and abetted Rwandan and Ugandan forces and their local proxies in order to murder the Hutus, depose Mobutu and secure mineral rights to the region.  Her allegations in that regard are simply spurious.

    Woven within her bag of lies are some facts including accurate quotations from me and other American ambassadors. Even though she quotes us, Rever blithely dismisses our statements as fabrications designed to cover-up American involvement.  Rever especially impugns the reputation of Robert Houdek, accusing him of being a CIA mastermind, but who in reality as a State Department retiree, headed up the USAID team in Kisangani and liaised with UNHCR in the successful effort to repatriate thousands of refugees to Rwanda.

    No student or observer of the region, including American diplomats, doubt that violence, some of it horrific, occurs there.  Rever names some of the African cast responsible. Yet, she returns to the allegation that somehow the U.S. is responsible.  This sentiment is both patronizing and racist because it infers that Africans are not competent to wage their own wars or pursue their own interests. They must rely on the U.S. for direction.

    Don’t honor this garbage by buying this book.