 Why is the M23 killing? Why no one is taking action? It's very simple. There is a culture of impunity when it comes to the crimes taking place in the Congo, particularly crimes committed by US allies, London and Uganda. M23 is a random proxy in the ERC. Just days after pledging to maintain a ceasefire, the M23 rebel group continues to clash with the federal forces in the mineral rich eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Reports are fighting emerged from the province of North Kewu on December 11th. M23 is widely acknowledged to be a proxy force of neighbouring Rwanda. This comes days after the Congolese army accused M23 and allied groups of killing 50 civilians in the village of Kishishi in North Kewu. On December 5th, the government updated the death toll to 300, including at least 17 children. M23 rejected these allegations claiming that just 8 people had been killed by stray bullets. This massacre is the latest in a long series of atrocities committed in the DRC for almost 30 years, estimated to have killed 6 million Congolese people. The M23 became dominant following its capture of Goma in 2012 and again with the resumption of its latest offensive in March. But it is possible to trace the group's trajectory throughout the preceding decades and with it, the enduring imperialist interests fueling the violence in the Congo. We know Rwanda, a U.S. airline on the so-called war on terror, including Uganda, they have invaded the Congo twice in 1996 and 1998 and up until today, they continue to support proxy rebel militias. Why? For access to the land, for access to mineral resources, some of these resources, the cobalt, the lithium, the cotton, these minerals is central to the Fourth Industrial Revolution. M23 is an acronym of the March 23 movement. It was formed by soldiers within the Congolese Army who were members of the former rebel group National Congress for the defense of the people. And it's important to know that the M23 is what we call them today. They were called the CNDP before. They committed a similar massacre in a town called Kiwanja before. These crimes documented by the Human Rights Watch, the United Nations, the United Nations High Commission for Human Rights, including the Congolese NGOs and human rights organizations on the ground, nothing has happened to them. So when they were called CNDP, they were not held accountable. Now they call M23. And before CNDP, they were called RCD. So M23 is the CNDP, is the RCD, is the AFDL. But what is that? What does that concretely mean? It simply means that it's the same rebel force for over two decades. They have changed their names, but they are the same rebel force, same commanders, same soldiers backed by Randa to serve Randa's interests in the Congo. And what is Randa's interests in the Congo? They want to take control of the land and different resources in the Congo. What is of particular note is the repeated attempt through various peace accords to integrate these rebel forces into the Congolese Army. Since the 1996 invasion of DRC, there have been many peace processes which have usually been led by Western countries. The U.S. has always heavily influenced these negotiations. In fact, since the DRC's independence, U.S. interference in the country has been apparent. In the assassination of Patrice Lumumba, support given to the brutal regime of Mubutus Seseco, the invasions of the 1990s and subsequent peace talks, and changes to the country's constitution in 2006 to allow Joseph Kabila to contest the election. The U.S. recognizing Kabila winning the election of 2011 before any other European country does that was they were betting on stability rather than democracy. Well, the Congolese people, we know we did not vote for Kabila in 2011. And three months after the presidential election, guess what happened? The M23 are uprising. At least 450,000 people have been displaced since March when fighting broke out between M23 and the Congolese forces. Rwanda has repeatedly denied backing M23. However, there is overwhelming evidence confirming these claims. The U.N. group of experts has documented, we've drawn videos, imagery, the Rwanda Defense Force fighting alongside the M23 rebel. So the Rwanda Defense Force is the Rwandan military fighting with rebels. In order for them to accept the ceasefire, do you know what Khuru Kenyatta had to do? He said in a press conference, Khuru Kenyatta had to call Rwandan president, Paul Kagame, for them to have a ceasefire. Not only that, on the fifth, if you look at the timeline of Secretary Blinken, the moment Secretary Blinken makes a call to Rwanda to Paul Kagame and publishes it on his Twitter timeline. And there is a press communicate from the State Department saying that the Secretary of State has spoken to the Rwandan president, asking them to stop interfering in DRC. What happened the following day? The M23 put out a statement saying that they are no longer fighting. So we are not clear who we are fighting. War for mineral wealth. In October 2010, the Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights published a report based on a mapping exercise documenting the most serious human rights violations in the DRC between March 1993 and June 2003. This inquiry was prompted by the discovery of three mass graves in North Kiwud in late 2005. The year report also explored the connection between the exploitation of the DRC's natural resources and the abuses being committed in the country. Resource exploitation had become heavily militarized with the first invasion of DRC in 1996 with a direct involvement of a growing number of foreign actors, including rebel groups and armies from neighboring countries. The report found ample evidence that Rwanda and Uganda were financing the military expenditure with the profits from natural resource exploitation in the DRC. You know that Congo has one of the largest in lithium deposits in the world. Congo is the number one producer of cobalt in the world. So as long as we have these minerals, we know for the foreseeable future, we will always have forces destabilizing the Congo. But the minerals are not the problem. It's capitalism that's the problem because Norway has oil. It's a resource-rich country. But you don't see what's happening in Congo happening in Norway. So it's clear about how capitalism sees Congo in the food, in the chain, in the production chain. We are seeing this as a place where resources are exploded. The will of the Congolese, what they aspire for, what they want, is always stopped by Western powers. Why? The day the Congo is in the hands of Congolese, the entire African continent is going to change. So as long as Congo is kept unstable with puppet leaders in a dysfunctional state, Africa will never advance. And Kwame Krumah knew that in Ghana, for the change we need in Congo, it will require the African people and the allies to unite for the freedom of the Congolese.