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zvaigzdelasas · 1 year ago

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ppl who are trying to do explainers abt current events in DRCongo are rly imo doing a massive disservice to ppls understandings without talking abt the regional context of DRCongo being where regional tensions have boiled over regularly - see Both Congo Wars - as well as putting M23 - as well as those wars - in the context of Rwandan/Burundian Genocides & the dispersion of Tutsi militias (see also: CNDP) in & around the Kivu regions since then - but also even Rwandan Hutu militias (see FDLR)

#i havent rly read enough m23 statements to rly have a good feel on their intentions #so not going to rly say whether or not genocidal is applicable #but there are also regional historical and geopolitical factors #idk rly dissatisfied w how a lot of conflicts get overly simplified like this #and reductive in just a template sorta way #like if u wanna say m23 is genocidal and if this is all just a hamfisted abstraction of israel #one might think theres a potent point to be made with rwandan/Tutsi genocide victims becoming genocidaires #the fact i havent seen a single person make that analogy rly highlights how surface level this all is #like even if idk if i agree w the analogy at least it betrays context awareness #also potent historical point of comparison in drcongo itself w european backing of the katanga crisis #had a post like 6 months ago w more contextualizing the conflict re: congo wars i should try and find it #like. if you wanna talk about complex politics congos much much more complex than israel-palestine

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