The liberation of Goma by M23 has sent panic and paranoia within the international organizations whose business depends on sustained misery of innocent Congolese; those displaced by wars and atrocities authored by the Kinshasa regime.
A few days after the triumphant march in Goma by Sarambwe lions, the non-government organizations, whose many members had even sought refuge in the neighboring countries like Rwanda, started to fabricate lies, so as to keep their jobs in Goma.
One of the fabricated lies was that the city had “descended into the state of anarchy”, where violence and terror reigned supreme. Another was that people “were deprived of basic rights including potable water, electricity and other primary needs.”
Some organizations like Doctors Without Borders went as far as claiming that more than 3000 people have died in Goma. They even boldly warned about an impending humanitarian crisis – a narrative that later was picked by the UN and other European diplomats.
It is should be known that among the doctored number of people these organizations claim to have died, 2500 of them were FARDC soldiers and Wazalendo terrorists who died while fighting the M23. Hardly any civilians were caught in the crossfire. They fled to internally displaced people’s camps as soon as fighting erupted.
They went (and are still going) back to their homes as soon as M23 routed Tshisekedi’s coalition.
Another major false claim by the international organizations was that refugee camps like Kanyarucinya and Mugunga were “deliberately emptied by M23” – allegedly to cause more chaos.
The truth was that the internally displaced people that had been living in those camps (like every other refugee) all decided, voluntary, to leave the camps and go back to their liberated villages.
Behind this web of lies; all the propaganda by NGOs is a desperate effort to obfuscate the fact M23 has been able to restore life back to normal in Goma and surrounding areas. Businesses have resumed, people are moving freely, and the claims of water scarcity or power outages are nothing but overheated fictions.
The NGOs or “humanitarian organizations” are promoting all the lies about “crisis” or “disaster” for one reason: their cash cow – refugees or internally displaced persons, IDP’s – is no more!
It is on record that on the second day of the liberation of Goma, water and electricity companies had repaired damaged water pipes and transformers which initially were hit by flying rockets or shrapnel. Some of those infrastructures had even been vandalized by retreating FARDC whose soldiers were in total disarray as M23 advanced.
But now there is total calm; there is law and order in Goma, meaning there are no crises, no refugees running away to overcrowded, squalid, diseased camps.
Calamity! Absolute disaster, for the humanitarian industry! The end is staring them in the face!
No more fat budgets. No more big money (millions of dollars, euros, pounds) for humanitarian purposes.
And that’s why all these NGOs, UN bodies, and others (aided by their friends in international media with whom they share an agenda to paint the most draconian images of Africa) are spinning all these tall tales about “crises in Goma”, or “broken down services”, and so on.
Incredible!