Your Excellency Alpha Oumar Konare

President of the African Union Commission

in Addis Abeba

Your Excellency,

I am writing following your recent report at the African Union Summit in which you claimed that allegations that Rwanda was supporting DR Congo insurgents Mutebutsi and Nkunda were not justified.

I am a British and I know quite well that the government of my country and the government of USA are among those helping blindly the current Rwandan government on the sole ground that the international community failed to prevent the genocide in Rwanda in 1994. But, after the horrible catastrophe involving death of over 3 million innocent people in the Congo due to wars instigated to a great extent by Rwanda and other countries and groups to pillage natural resources there, despite some concerns over their security, it is time to avoid considering the Rwanda genocide as a licence to exterminate innocent people, including children and women in another country like the DR Congo.

That is why, as part of the British civil society we are monitoring the situation in Rwanda and DRC and were very well informed on how Rwanda was infiltrating his soldiers in the DRC under the umbrella of the congolese former rebel group of CRD-Goma. We've got sound elements of proof of how Mutebusi and Nkunda were supplied in equipment by Rwanda and how Rwanda was supporting them during their recent attack on the city of Bukavu where they raped hundreds of women like me (at the sole difference that these women are black and Congolese, while I am white and British!).!

When, your Excellency, you issued your report denying Rwandan support to Nkunda and Mutebutsi, my organisation and myselfI were amazed and felt a shame over the African Union. But I immediately understood that your deputy, Mr Mazimpaka, is from Rwanda and maybe in the African Union, it is difficult to keep distance from personal influences. But this would be really a shame for such a continental organisation.

Now, your excellency, the UN-appointed panel of experts that was investigating this case has released its report Friday 16 July 2004. I hope you have read carefully the report. Conclusions are clear, confirming what my organisation and other people knew very well: Rwanda has supplied weapons, trained and backed Nkunda and Mutebutsi, facilitated from Cyangugu the recruitment of combatants who were paid  100 USD/person, etc. during their killing-mission in Bukavu and Rwanda still has soldiers in the DRC.  These experts have better means of investigation as they are linked to the UN Mission which is on the ground and knows better he situation despite the Rwandan expertise to hide, deny and cheat people and the international community all the time since 1996, 1998 and now when it comes to destabilising the DR Congo and killing millions of people, many more than those who died in Rwanda, killed by Rwandan themselves !

Due to this evidence brought by the UN, your Excellency, I think sincerely, for the sake of civilisation, fairness and professionalism at the African Union, it would be important that your apologise publicly to the Congolese people, otherwise the question of how credible your commission is will be extensively raised among the African civil society, an objective to which we would be determined to contribute to.

Yours sincerely,

Dr Susan Hubbard

International Liaison Director

Microsolutions U.K.

 July 30th, 2004