The U.S. has for years intervened in the region--Union Carbide was in control of the SOMIKIVU mines in the Congo's Kivu provinces in the early 1960's. But through an expanding military partnership with key agents in Central Africa, U.S. interventions have produced an unprecedented loss of life facilitated by direct U.S. government polices, covert military operations and guerrilla warfare, all cloaked in euphemisms of "peacekeeping," "humanitarianism" and "development."

Now Rwanda and Uganda (Ethiopia right behind them) have become the Pentagon's primary bases of operations in Africa, from which scores of millions of dollars of military hardware and Pentagon-trained African proxy warriors are routed into Congo and Burundi, but also far beyond these to the Pentagon's theaters of operation in Sudan, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia--even to Afghanistan, Iraq, and Haiti.

The Rwanda Hit List:
Revisionism, Denial, and the Genocide Conspiracy

keith harmon snow
12 March 2010

My experience in the Great Lakes of Africa began in 1991. While traveling in southern Uganda I witnessed the shooting of an unarmed man by unknown assailants believed to be rebels of the Rwandan Patriotic Army/Front. Since then I have worked tirelessly to uncover the truth about the war in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and about 'genocide' in Rwanda.

I began researching and reporting on war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide in Rwanda in 1995 and reporting on events in Zaire (DRC) in 1996. In 2000, at the International Criminal Tribunal on Rwanda (ICTR) in Arusha, Tanzania I explored the case of Major Bernard Ntuyahaga, ex-Forces Armée Rwandaise, a celebrated Hutu 'genocide ringleader' who I personally met there.

Of course, I presumed the man guilty of 'conspiracy to commit genocide' prior to any trial, according to the prevailing climate of institutionalized suspicion and assumptions of guilt, a climate of hate manufactured by the western media, against all Hutu people, and certainly against all surviving officials of the former government under President Juvenal Habyarimana. Major Ntuyahaga committed genocide. We all knew it. Why bother with a trial?

Exit the Matrix
Enter the Abundance of Possibility

A Story About the Congo, A Story About Us

keith harmon snow
First published November 2004; republished for its relevance today.

In the future, which millions of people in Africa don't have, things will certainly be different, one way or another. These are the brutal realities, and they are shared from a place of deep compassion. The solution is simple: tune out, shut down, turn off, and stop the machines. Boycott the media. Exit the matrix. Reformat your life and reprogram your future to maximize joy and compassion. And then welcome your self to the abundance of possibilities. Love will self-replicate.  Go.

Death Toll in Congo Whitewashed Yet Again
A Brief Assessment of the Hidden Interests and White Obliviousness of the Human Security Report Project

keith harmon snow
January 22, 2010

The western media is suddenly awash with reports claiming that the human mortality figures for the Democratic Republic of Congo have been greatly exaggerated or overstated. Challenging the already problematic estimates produced by the International Rescue Committee--which were low and incomplete to begin with, never too high--is a Canadian-based think tank clearly covering up for western interests.

Au Rwanda « 800 000 » Tutsi Tués en Trois Mois
et en Rdcongo, on nous parle de 900 000 en dix ans. Quelle aberration!

Par Patrick Mbeko
January 25, 2010

Un rapport déposé mercredi au Conseil de sécurité des Nations par un groupe de chercheurs canadiens vient de revoir à la baisse le nombre des victimes du conflit qui sévit dans la partie Est de la RDC.

Selon ce rapport sur la Sécurité humaine élaboré à l'Université Simon-Fraser à Vancouver, les estimations publiées par la RDC sont au moins deux fois plus élevées que ce qu'elles devraient être. Selon l'International Rescue Committee(IRC), il y aurait jusqu'à ce jour plus de six millions de congolais tués en Rdcongo entre 1999 et 2004. Cette estimation, qui inclut les victimes de malnutrition et de maladies.

Congo Rebellion Expanding, United Nations and Media Silent

keith harmon snow
January 12, 2010

With Congolese rebellion forces now claiming that Belgian paratroopers and MONUC troops backing the DRC government have suffered casualties and that the DRC coalition has used internationally prohibited incendiary (napalm) weapons, and with civilians continuing to suffer and flee by the scores of thousands, the United Nations and western media remain silent about the new rebellion in Western Congo.

Are Belgian Paratroopers Fighting in Western Congo?

Photo: Guatemalan Special Forces working with MONUC in rural CONGO, keith harmon snow, DRC, 2007.

New Congo Uprising and Massacres Hidden by Media and United Nations
Rwandan Defense Forces Flown into Western Congo
Defeated; Kabila Regime Under Siege on Multiple Fronts

keith harmon snow
January 6, 2010

[This title is an updated version of the December 22 publication: "Belgian Paratroopers to Crush Rising Congo Rebellion?"]

With the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) engulfed in bloodshed and terrorism due to the secretive occupation and expansion by the Rwandan regime of Paul Kagame, Congo's President Joseph Kabila has reportedly requested an immediate emergency military intervention from Belgium to crush a growing rebellion sparked by resistance forces in the far Western Congo. But the United Nations Observers Mission in Congo (MONUC) has downplayed the new rebellion and hidden civilian casualties.

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The Crimes of Bongo:
Apartheid and Terror in Africa's Gardens of Eden

keith harmon snow
December 3, 2009 

The June death of Gabon's little 'Big Man'--President Al Hajji Omar Bongo Ondimba--inspired praise worldwide. Cameroon's President Biya saluted Bongo's wisdom while French President Sarkozy called Bongo the "great and loyal friend of France." Equatorial Guinea declared three days of national mourning and a 'saddened' U.S. President Obama lauded Bongo's role in 'shaping' U.S.-Gabon relations for 41 years and his dedication to nature conservation and conflict resolution. "At a continental level," bemoaned Zambia's President Banda, "he was a pan-Africanist who tirelessly and tenaciously worked for the unity of the African continent."

Behind the crocodile tears the news of Bongo's death saw police and troop reinforcements hitting the streets of Gabon--France's private Eden in Africa--as the old crocodile's teethy security apparatus clicked into lockdown. Who are the white secret service agents behind Bongo (See the ancient photo of Gabon's then new President, Albert-Bernard Bongo, circa 1965.) And then there's Halliburton, nuclear weapons, secret societies... Who was Omar Bongo really?