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I, Pacifique Sukisa-Makasi, leader of the Revolution Congolaise (RC) and on behalf of the RC would like to share with you valued compatriots my thoughts and suggestions about the armed struggle that has cost many human lives, that has caused horrendous suffering and destruction in our country because of bad governance, social injustice and intolerance of diversity.

I hope that every Democratic Republic of Congo citizen shall make an effort to understand that making our beloved country peaceful, stable and prosperous is every DRC citizen's responsibility.

Without fear or favor and because I believe that a good number of the DRC citizens has gained the very needed maturity to tolerate the views of others, I am going to honestly share with you my thoughts which I believe shall contribute on making our country peaceful, stable and prosperous.

On behalf of the Revolution Congolaise (RC) of which I am a founding member and its current leader, I have spent the past many years searching for answers to the persistent social, economic and political misery in our country despite its immense natural and human resources. To try and contribute on avoiding the repeat of political inhuman decisions, I have identified that in most cases we are the main cause of our social, economic and political negative situation. The main objective of this message is to share with you beloved compatriots what I am convinced to be the main causes of our social, economic and political misery:

1. Internal causes

I have no doubt that many of you will agree with me that we are the main cause of our social, economic and political problems.

For example:

We have no respect to our country's constitution that should have been our guidance to good governance, social justice and prosperity. We are a nation in a fight against itself.

It is part of our country's constitution, article 10, that the Congolese nationality is either of origin, or by individual acquisition. Any person belonging to an ethnic group of which the members and the territory are constituent to that which became the Congo (presently the Democratic Republic of the Congo) at independence is Congolese of origin.

• However, soon after our country's independence, some sons and daughters of the DRC were cruelly driven out of the country which they knew as home, simply because of their skin color.
• In the nineteen nineties other sons and daughters of the DRC were ordered to leave the DRC that they knew as their only home, simply because their parents originated from a neighboring country.
• Unfortunately, most of us in exile today, have no identification documents, making many of us illegitimate DRC citizens.
• Then we have our deeply rooted diversity intolerance. We seem to forget that our country is a country with many races, tribes, genders, provinces, religions, political belongings and other beliefs and that we can only be a true nation if and only if we tolerate one another despite of these differences. We also tend to forget that our country is surrounded by 9 other countries, meaning that whether we like it or not, our country has members of its legitimate citizens who originally came from its neighboring countries. For those who think that we do not need the International community, we should not forget that our country is not a planet on its own but is and I believe that it shall always be part of our planet earth or our interdependent world. Therefore, those who truly love our country and all its citizens have to understand that we need and shall always need the international community for our country to become peaceful, stable and prosperous. In today's world only unwise leaders can expect to improve their social, economic and political situations in isolation. In short we need to understand the need to create a safe environment for international businesses. We need to understand that our natural and human resources can only be effectively useful to the people of DRC if and only if we become true citizens of our interdependent world. We also have to understand that like any investor, small, medium or big, invests for him or her to extract a reasonable profit out of his or her investment. We simply have to choose who our international partners are and we have to do business based on the universal principles if we need our business deals to benefit our nation as a whole and not only a few individuals.

The International community has been important to us in the past, it is important to us today and shall always be important to us and without an honest and formal partnership with the international community, I am afraid to say that our country might never change from a human slaughtering field to the very needed peaceful, stable and prosperous Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) where to live in harmony, a DRC to visit without fear, a DRC where the honest and the hard worker shall invest and prosper.

For examples:

• Our independence was not an effort of DRC citizens alone but an effort of the International community too.
• Mobutu was not willing to accept a multiparty political system in Zaire until some members of the International community put him under pressure.
• The 10^th July 1999 ceasefire accord in Lusaka that ended the six African countries involvement in war in our country was an effort of both the DRC citizens and the international community.
• The 31^st January 2012 Ambassadorial Forum - DRC presidential elections and its aftermath was an effort of both the DRC citizens and the International community.
• The 27^th March 2012 Regional Response to the post-election situation in the DRC was an effort of both the DRC citizens and the International community.
• The 24th February 2013 Peace, Security and Cooperation Framework for the. Democratic Republic of Congo and the Region was an effort of both the DRC citizens and the International community.
• The 28th March 2013 UN Force Intervention Brigade  was an effort of both the DRC citizens and the International community,
• For many decades now, our country has been relying on grants and loans from the International Community.
• The other important example is that we might, against our conscience choose to be ungrateful but the truth in conscience is that for the past several decades many countries across the Globe have willingly and simply based on humanitarian ground have decided to host us. From these countries members of the broader International community, our children and ourselves have access to safety, drinking water, electricity, food, clothing, freedom of expression, modern education and other necessary skills, work, business... The list is long.

2. External causes

I am well aware of external elements that have contributed on making our country socially, economically and politically miserable but they are international matters which require international solutions. Therefore, I suggest that we deal with the internal causes first and with the external causes we need an honest partnership with the sub-regions that our country belongs to, the African Union, the United Nations and the broader international community. I believe that such a partnership shall pave a way to rebuilding good relations with our neighbors. Relationship which shall make it possible for every concerned country to enjoy the other country's neighborhood, to do business with each other while each country shall be respecting its neighbor’s sovereignty based on universal principles.

3. My suggestion

As we all know, the armed struggle in our country has cost many human lives, caused horrendous suffering and destruction. I believe that what is needed now is for all actors, starting by us present here, to set aside our differences, to mobilize and to organize the compatriots toward a resistance movement in the interest of all the people of DRC. We are financially and militarily powerless but because:

- Like Dr. King, “I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in
reality and that right temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.”

- Like President Obama, I believe that "Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time and that we are the ones we've been waiting for and we are the change that we seek."

I suggest that  like Dr. King, like Ghandi and Like Mandela, we unite and together resist dictatorial governments that oppress us than protecting us, dictatorial governments rooted on injustice, dictatorial government that deny us the rights to Democracy; right to a fair and to free elections; right to a legitimate, competent and responsible government with strong institutions among others the Independent Electoral Commission, the judiciary institutions, strong / disciplined army, police and security forces, rather than strong individuals.

Because:

- I agree with Nelson Mandela, that: peace is the key to stability and prosperity and that, "If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner".

- I agree with Clinton that “We all do better when we work together and that our differences do matter, but our common humanity matters more.”

- I agree with Johnson that 'Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.' and,

because I agree with Jesus that we should , “Do to others as we would have them do to us.

I suggest that the result of our nonviolent revolution be the new beginning to a new DRC. A DRC where both the former oppressor and the former oppressed shall work together despite of our differences in order to build a nation out of our deeply divided societies. To build a peaceful, stable and prosperous DRC that both the sons and daughters of the former oppressors and of the former oppressed shall call home with dignity.

By doing so, like Nelson Mandela, like Abraham Lincoln, we shall hold our country together. Together, we shall promote good governance based on democracy and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights’ principles and strong State Institutions rather than strong individuals with self-centered vision. We shall build a DRC where to peacefully live, a DRC to visit without fear, a DRC where the hard worker and the honest shall invest and prosper. Like in a mature democracy, today’s members of government shall not be driven out of the DRC or cruelly punished but shall be our political opponents. Together, we shall build a DRC that shall formally and effectively contribute on making the sub-regions it belongs to, Africa and our interdependent world, better places.

Valued compatriots, positive change is possible and has to take place in our country.

May God bless the DRC,

May God bless the DRC citizen,

May God bless the International community for its effort to contribute on making our country a better place.

Pacifique Sukisa-Makasi, on behalf of the Revolution Congolaise, rc,

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Isn’t it time that we (sons and daughters of the Democratic Republic of Congo) join other world’s citizens who are committed to finding durable and lasting solutions to the known problems in our country?

Dear valued compatriots,

The struggle for justice and peace in our country (the Democratic Republic of Congo) has cost many human lives, caused horrendous suffering and destruction. What is needed now is for all actors to set aside their differences and hold a national dialogue or whatever shall be the best way; focus on putting the interest of all of us (the Democratic Republic of Congo’s people) first and without discrimination.

Whether we decide to be good people or to be bad people, we will always have some people on our side and we will have others against us. I fail to understand if this is natural or a man-made tradition.

However, I have been blessed, in the past nearly two years, to meet with many of my compatriots, based in different parts of the world, including those in our mother land (the Democratic Republic of Congo); some of them members of the current governing body, some of them members of the formal opposition, some of them members of the informal opposition and others neutral. Some of them are moderate, some of them are extremists, others do not know what they really want but in the end most of us seem to share a vision that is to see our country becoming a socially and economically better country. Therefore, I have a feeling that the time to move our country forward as a united nation has come but I believe that it will be important that we follow wise footprints, among others, to name a few:

·       Lyndon B. Johnson: “Yesterday is not ours to recover but tomorrow is ours to win or to lose”

·        Martin Luther King, Jr: I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.

·       Nelson Mandela: During my lifetime I have dedicated myself to this struggle of the African people. I have fought against white domination and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to see realised. But if needs be, my lord, it is an ideal for which I am ready to die. 

·       Abraham Lincoln: “Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate -- we cannot consecrate -- we cannot hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”

·       Bill Clinton: “We all do better when we work together. Our differences do matter, but our common humanity matters more.” 

·       Bill Clinton: “I learned a lot from the stories my uncle, aunts and grandparents told me: that no one is perfect but most people are good; that people can’t be judged by their worst or weakest moments; that harsh judgements can make hypocrites of us all; that a lot of life is just showing up and hanging on; that laughter is often the best, and sometimes the only response to pain. Perhaps most important, I learned that everyone has a story – of dreams and nightmares, hope and heartache, love and loss, courage and fear, sacrifice and selfishness. All my life I’ve been interested in other people’s stories. I wanted to know them, understand them, feel them. When I grew up into politics, I always felt the main point of my work was to people a chance to have better stories.

·       Nelson Mandela:  "If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner."

·       B. Obama: "Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek."

·       Barack Obama: "If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress."

·   Desmond Tutu: The ones that are held in high regard are not militarily powerful, nor even economically prosperous. They have a commitment to try and make the world a better place."  

What I am trying to say is that if “peace, stability and prosperity” and “good governance” are truly included in our vision for our country and its people based on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and Democracy’s principles in particular, then we will have the courage to conquer fear and to resist all bad influences which cause us, blindly join individuals or group of people who promote diversity intolerance.

Like Nelson Mandela said: We can’t expect ourselves to become saints but rather sinners who keep on trying.

On my point of view, this time should be a special time for us Democratic Republic of Congo people to think again and I hope that we will understand that one vital truth is that we cannot all think alike or always agree on everything. I am trying to say that our diversity will continue whether we like it or not but we have important things we willingly or unwillingly share and which we should protect at all cost, among others, our unconditionally shared Democratic Republic of Congo’s nationality that we need in order to successfully contribute on building a very needed peaceful, stable and prosperous Democratic Republic of Congo, in a potential better Africa and an effective Interdependent World.

It is important that we energetically contribute on changing our country from a human slaughtering land and other inhuman activities to a land where to we shall live in harmony, a land to fearlessly visit, where the hard worker and the honest shall invest and prosper.

Sincerely,

On behalf of the Revolution Congolaise.rc team,

Pacifique Sukisa-Makasi, president.

Thank You!

Thank you!

We are by this message expressing our sincere thanks to our valued compatriots, the United Nations Intervention Brigade in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Southern African Development Community (SADC), the African Union (AU), the United Nations (UN) at large and other members of the broader International Community for contributing on the promotion of the “Peace, Security and Cooperation Framework for DRC and the region” - http://www.peaceau.org/uploads/scanned-on-24022013-125543.pdf that is evidently paving a way towards a peaceful, stable and prosperous Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) where to live in harmony, where to visit, where to invest and to prosper.

We have always believed and continue to believe that without Peace and stability, we cannot hope for a legitimate, competent and responsible governments aiming to promote:

a.      The Universal Declaration of Human Rights and Democracy in particular;

b.     Fair and free elections;

c.      Strong institutions, among others, the Independent Electoral Commission, the judiciary institutions, strong/disciplined army, police, security forces...

d.     Prosperity based on the Universal Businesses’ Standards;

e.      A formally effective membership to the Sub regions, region which our country belongs to and to our Interdependent World, at large.

I, on behalf of the Revolution Congolaise.rc make an appeal to my compatriots:

1.     to strengthen our needed unity and to make an effort to transcend our persistent tribal, linguistic and regional rivalry and work towards one and united Democratic Republic of Congo in order to build a new society and together, find an effectively viable and durable solution to the major problems of governance, social justice and cohesion confronting our country and its people.

2.     to understand the need for us to sincerely work in partnership with the Southern African Development Community (SADC), the African Union (AU), the United Nations (UN) at large and other members of the broader International Community as they remain committed to positively changing the face of our country, from a human slaughtering and other human rights’ abuses field to a better place where to live in harmony, a place to visit, a place to invest and prosper.

Pacifique Sukisa-Makasi.