Was Rwanda saviour a stooge of big business?

Another thing for the 1,000 EU soldiers to think about as they deploy in the Congo to supervise that country's election and general transition to further development after a brutal five-year civil war that ended in 2003.
Hotel Rwanda is a moving film about THAT genocide that ends with a kind of Killing Fields scene, hero, heroine and children all reunited in a refugee camp safely behind rebel lines. At least the British directors didn't have the tastelessness to put Imagine on the soundtrack.
But in fact that movie, which builds on a generation of western journalists "work" on the genocide, has now become part of a cover-up, that conceals western involvement in a much larger slaughter in the Congo.
The structure of The Rwanda Genocide as mediated is of a regretfully vicious-mass killing of the arrogant former colonial collaborators, the thin nosed, pale skinned Tutsis, by the more bantu Hutus when ethnic tensions exploded when the ethnic Hutu president died in a plane crash in April 1994. The west did nothing - but Tutsi rebels who had once fled to Uganda a generation before came back in force, drove the Hutu mass killers away - across the border to the Congo - and made peace. The wise but young rebel leader Paul Kagame, trained at the US staff command college at Fort Leavenworth, then became president, and things have been pretty quiet in the region since. So goes the standard narrative.
In fact the Rwanda Genocide, which everyone knows about because a number of US journalists have written books about it, has served to obscure the much worse slaughter that happened in DRC subsequently, when up to four million people died - a genocide hardly anyone knows about.
The Rwanda genocide provided an alibi for Kagame who, after being lionised by the press became a US friend to invade Congo under the pretext of rooting out remaining genocidists - for the real purpose of securing US mineral resource and business interests in the mineral rich Congo basin. In the course of this large numbers of Congolese have been slaughtered.
Phillip Gourevitch, a staffer at the New Yorker, won the national book award for Rwanda: We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families. And Samantha Power, once a correspondent with US News and World Report, leveraged her writings on the Rwanda genocide in 1994 into a lucrative tenure at the Harvard School of Government; Kagame gave both writers access to the battlefields during the crisis, with a tight management that was not apparent at the time. Continued good contacts can be demonstrated by the fact that Powers has invited her African friend to lecture at her school; while Gourevitch has written laudatory profiles on Kagamel along with Laurent Kabilka or the DRC, as a new breed of leader.

Kagame invaded then Zaire in 1998, a country where George Bush the elder - who has interests in the mining corporation Barrack Gold - is just one senior figure in a interlocking network of senior American politicians, executives, and businessmen with extensive interests in having Congo's mineral deposits safeguarded. Just to give a flavour: recently Kagame spoke at the James Baker institute in Washington; their he met his patron, George Bush Sr; one of the Baker institutes chief advisor id the director of Total Fina, with extensive interests in the Congo. Bush Sr is a good friend of Bill Clinton, who allowed the kingpin of the African mercenary organisation Sandline Maurice Templesman to host a Corporate Council for Africa on board air force one: Templesman knows every warlord in anglophone africa, and the ACC’s members include alliburton (Dick Cheney); Lazare Kaplan; Chevron-Texaco (Condoleeza Rice); Exxon-Mobil; Asea Brown Baveri (Donald Rumsfeld); Cargill; Archer Daniels Midland; Jean Raymond Bouelle Companies; defence giants McDermott, Sikorsky, Northrup Grumman, GE, Raytheon, Boeing and SAIC (Science Applications International Corporation) and SAIC.
In return for Kagame’s rebels providing security of supply to these mega corporations of Congo’s minerals including coltan - used in the mobile phones - and cobalt, used in extensively in the space industry, payment in Congolese diamonds are transferred or sale in Brussels and Antwerp.
Meanwhile, every day, displaced Congolese die outside the copper-cobalt mines of Lumumbashi for lack of basic medical supplies. Can we look forward to a book by Gourevitch detailing his old mate Kagame's less than heroic activities In the Congo, and the full story behind his various US sponsorships? Somehow I doubt It.