Victoire Ingabire, a story linked to Mallorca

A few weeks ago, Victoire called me, a few days before Paul Kagame kidnapped her again. Although the The African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights ruled in his favor and condemned his imprisonment., this dark character with demonic facial features, which reveal his true inner self (he has even closed 7,000 churches and mosques), he kidnapped her again, for fear of a free Victoire, since the period of his previous and prolonged sentence was about to expire.

We spoke for half an hour. I had learned of Pedro Sampol's death and wanted us to share our grief over his passing and our gratitude toward such a special person. Being a close friend of both has made me feel like a sort of supporting actor in events that will surely one day be historic (when the deception and silence surrounding the bloody plundering of the immense strategic resources of the former Zaire, now the Democratic Republic of the Congo, are a thing of the past). Victoire reminds me too much of that Mahatma Gandhi who was not yet what he is now: one of the greatest symbols of peace, someone whom Albert Einstein considered the only true master of his time.

And if anyone thinks that the tragedy of Rwanda and Zaire/Congo is not comparable to the epic of Gandhi's India, I think they are mistaken. History will have the last word. When time tears away the opaque and heavy veil of silence and lies surrounding this tragedy, the day the incredible plundering of strategic raw materials from the Democratic Republic of the Congo is finally revealed, the shocking number of millions of deaths and hundreds of thousands of deaths will be brought to the attention of Jon Sobrino, the survivor of the Jesuit massacre in El Salvador: "The greatest sin of our world has a name: Africa."

Our conversation ended with Victoire's words: "Don't worry about me: if I'm killed, God will raise up another leader who will lead Rwanda toward liberation." Integrity and clarity (I don't know how to describe such lucidity: transpersonal, spiritual...?) are a common denominator between this exceptional Rwandan woman and this Mallorcan man. When, at the gates of the Montuïri cemetery, Pedro's family asked me, as such a close friend of theirs, to say a few words before the official speeches, I couldn't think of a better way to end my brief intervention than these: "But he never gave in to the lies of power. That's why so many of us love him so much."

Along those same lines, I'll finally mention one more anecdote about Victoire. A very revealing and highly topical anecdote these days, when, in Washington, under the auspices of Donald Trump, the supposedly great peacemaker, peace agreements have just been signed between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The only thing that remains clear is that The United States will continue to be the great plunderer of the extraordinary natural resources of eastern DR Congo.

The same bloody plunder that began under Bill Clinton's mandate, which our foundation denounced from the beginning (with the help of Pere Sampol and the Mallorcan Fund for Solidarity and Cooperation) and which has recently been denounced again in this documentary by Nicoletta Fagiolo (whose images and witnesses have caused YouTube to break its contract with www.l-hora.org), where Pere Sampol once again plays a key role. Our accusation, which a few years ago led to extremely serious accusations that I and our foundation were the financiers of the "Hutu genocidal terrorists" of the FDLR, who are still being framed today as responsible for the violence raging in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

We're not talking about trivial matters: these implausible accusations against the FDLR justify the largest mission in the history of the UN, composed of some 20,000 members. As can be seen in Nicoletta Fagiolo's documentary, mentioned above, this mission is what made the plundering of the Democratic Republic of the Congo possible. Meanwhile, the real criminals are hiding: Paul Kagame's M23.. It was a conspiracy against us, directed by the State Department (with the goal of deactivating the forty arrest warrants we had obtained), a conspiracy exposed by Julian Assange, who came to our aid.

This is the final anecdote I've mentioned: during one of her stays at our foundation, Victoire confessed to me that a very high-ranking official in the United States administration had offered her decisive power in the Rwandan government if she collaborated with them in the annexation of the river. Unable to contain my curiosity, I asked her: "And what did you answer?" She concluded: "I told him that I could never betray the brotherly people of the DR Congo."