Losing DR Congo and it's army opting to train interahamwe like youth to fight for them

DR Congo and it's armed forces the FARDC have decided to start recruiting and training youth in Eastern DRC to fight in the war they themselves have lost miserably at the battle front against well trained, disciplined and fighters with a cause the mighty M23.

The DR Congo leadership and their disorganized armed forces who of course have been taken over by terrorist armed groups like FDLR, RUD Urunana, Mayi mayi Nyatura and others have learnt nothing and forgotten nothing since the start of the fighting.

 Instead of swallowing the humble pie and dissociating themselves from terrorist groups and sitting at the negotiation table with genuine Congolese citizens fighting for their rights and finding a peaceful end to the conflict; they're still blaming neighbors and continuing to spread hateful propaganda against Rwandofones.

This will not end well with them because the more they refuse to accept defeat and look at the bigger picture, the more the M23 liberation forces will continue to gain territory and military equipment from the fleeing government forces. 


Therefore trying to recruit and train civilians in big numbers is not going to help, may be if the armed forces are thinking of using these civilians as human shields but that too won't help because they (civilians) are being trained to fight against M23 and they will be treated as combatants the moment they go to the battle front. They won't be treated with kid's gloves, they will be fought just like their trainers (FARDC) and they will suffer the same fate as any fighters at the battle front.

The other sad thing is that the DR Congo leadership is crying foul to who ever cares to listen yet it continues to be the aggressor against M23 which unless attacked keeps peaceful in its areas under its control. Just recently it launched careless air raids in M23 controlled areas killing and injuring innocent civilians and when M23 hit back so hard capturing more territory and military hardware they went into overdrive misinforming the international community that M23 is attacking them from all fronts.

The DR Congo's government should own up to their problems and humbly talk peace with M23 before it's to late.

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