EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW PART 2 – DRC–Great Lakes: Christine Coleman denounces Kigali’s militarized ideology as the root of repeated peace failures
After recalling, in the first part of our interview, the vivid memory of the massacres that struck her community and praising the Congolese people for their hospitality toward Rwandan refugees, Reverend Christine Coleman today delves deeper into her analysis of the Great Lakes crisis.
President of the Rwandan Movement for Democracy (MRD), she strongly condemns the militarized ideology of the Kigali regime and the repeated failures of peace initiatives that never confronted the root causes of the conflict. For this survivor of the 1994–1996 tragedies in Rwanda, and later in refugee camps in Goma and along the road to Bukavu where she lost two brothers to Kigali’s squads, only a combination of justice, democratic change in Rwanda, regional cooperation, and targeted sanctions against perpetrators can pave the way to genuinely lasting peace.
In this second part, she delivers a clear message to the international community: the role of the United States, Qatar, and global leaders like Donald Trump can be decisive, but the moral and historical responsibility lies first with the people themselves.
Several peace initiatives have been attempted without lasting success. Why have they failed, and what do you propose for enduring peace?
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