Member of Congress

United States of America

Dear Madam the Representative,

We have just read your letters addressed to the three presidents, respectively of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Angola and Uganda regarding the quasi tragic events unfold in the Democratic Republic of Congo. We sincerely thank you for your sympathy toward the people of DRCongo in these horrible and difficult moments of war. However, we feel that, you should have also written to the Vice-President of Rwanda Mr. Paul Kagame and to the President of Burundi Mr. Pierre Buyoya whom we profoundly believe are also majors artisans in this aggression war against the integrity and the international sovereignty of our country.

We encourage your demarche since you understand very well the veritable causes of this war. The inherent stake of this war it's the Kivu province for which a lot of speculations have been said and for which we believe her political future is being discussed in different diplomatical and political forums around the world. And the so-called Banyamulenge people are being used as tools in collusion with the governments of Rwanda, Uganda and Burundi for this purpose; obviously in compensation of some vital promises made to them if they succed in this mission. But, what we profoundly believe is that, the Kivu province cannot secede from the Democratic Republic of Congo without the will and conscent of it's genuine people.

The people of Kivu are naturally very friendly and fraternal, and its with these two qualities that they welcomed the Tutsi refugees since 1959 when they had really problems in their country Rwanda and accepted to live together with them. The problem then came when these Tutsi refugees started to change the history and the ethnography of the province to their advantage at the grande surprise of all the people of Kivu. The Banyamulenge as an ethnic entity never existed and does not exist in the Democratic Republic of Congo contrary to the confusion surrounding this misinformation on the realities, history and ethnography of of the Kivu province and its people. And, its for this reason that the people of Kivu as a whole stood up and denounced this collusion which sice then threatened the good stay and relationship between the Tutsi people and the rest of other ethnic groups in the Kivu province.

Madam the Representative,

For the people of the DRCongo and in particular for the people of Kivu, their suffering is linked to the American policies in the Great-Lacs region. Many press report and information cite very often the American presence to the side of rebels in the current war being fought in our country. One Reuters report quoted by NCN on September 02, 1998 stated that "Uganda military forces under the command and control of Kampala were responsible for shutting down power and water flow to Kinshasa from a facility in the DRCongo. That the American ambassador in {Zimbabwe} might have personally intervened with tge Government of Zimbabwe to seek safe exit passage for this Ugandan unit, after that unit had shut down power and water to Kinshasa, a city of six million people, means the Clinton administration of the United States may be an accomlice.

The same report pursuit that "U.S. ambassador McDonald has benn seeking the safe exit passage of the elite Ugandan unit on instructions from the U.S. Secretary of State since August 30 and the American ambassador has been shuttling bac and forth between the foreign and defence ministries.

For this, the congolese considers that the American Government has always been in a state of war against them for more than three decades.

Because its should be remembered that, its the American Gouvernment and it's CIA that organized and sponsored politically and financially the assassination of the first and last legitiately elected Prime minister P. Lumumba in 1961. They are the same who organized and sponsored the dictatorial regime of Mobutu formore than two decades to the detriment of the superior interests of the congolese people then zaireans.

If these report and information from Reuters are true, we would wish that the American Government be blamed and condemned by the Congress. And in your quality of a member of the Committee on International Relations, we please ask you to raise this issue with the Congress through your Committee. What we sincerely want is that the American Government should change it's attitudes and policies toward congolese people whom for long time wish to have friendly relationship with the American people so that we can build up a strong cooperation and good understanding for our mutual future.

We wish you a long and bright carrier as the representative of Fourth District in the State of Georgia.

Sincerely your

Amissi Rehani

The Secretary general

Kivu International Committee