The FDLR Pretext: How Kagame Redefines an Entire People as an Enemy to Justify Rwanda's War in the Congo
The FDLR Pretext: How Kagame Redefines an Entire People as an Enemy to Justify Rwanda's War in the Congo INVESTIGATIVE ANALYSIS | EASTERN DRC | GREAT LAKES SECURITY Paul Kagame's government has collapsed a critical distinction: in Kigali's strategic calculus, every Congolese Hutu — whether serving in the national army, sheltering in a refugee camp, or bearing arms as a Wazalendo self-defence fighter — is designated FDLR. This deliberate conflation is not a misreading of intelligence. It is the ideological engine driving Rwanda's military campaign in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. Published by The African Rights Campaign | London, United Kingdom | 2025 Introduction: A War Built on a Fiction There is a central lie at the heart of Rwanda's military intervention in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and it is this: that the Forces Democratiques de Liberation du Rwanda — the FDLR — constitutes ...