This 'crime' requires Rwanda, which is suspected of aiding the rebels, to be penalized, sanctioned, and accused of a variety of things, including installing defensive measures along its border with the Democratic Republic of the Congo!

 It is not only extremely unsettling and hypocritical, but it is also the outright protection and emboldening of a regime that has been ruling over chaos and state failure for years. The international community's intermittent outbursts about the "worsening humanitarian crisis" in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo coincide with the kleptocrats in Kinshasa stepping up their mineral diplomacy and blackmail campaigns against Rwanda in Western capitals, touting cash and inking deals with lobbyists (some refer to them as highly-connected corruption agents).

Conflicts in politics, and later in the military, are seldom sudden; rather, they are the consequence of repeated failures by the ruling class to address long-simmering tensions and grievances among the populace.

 The current issue in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo has also not just occurred.  Everyone who would have truly cared could see all the symptoms and indications of a coming implosion.  The fact that President Felix Tshisekedi has previously recognized that the M23 are Congolese citizens with legitimate complaints that need to be addressed is documented.

 However, he has now changed his mind about this without facing any repercussions.

It is mind-boggling that the now-"alarmed partners" in Brussels, London, or Washington have never questioned, much less sanctioned, DR Congo for wholesale ethnic cleansing of a portion of its population, the Kinyarwanda-speaking Congolese Tutsis, which even the UN admitted with its own shortcomings.  However, considering the genocide that took place in Rwanda thirty years ago and the involvement of the same "partners," I am not surprised by this as a Rwandan.

 For those seeking true long-term and sustainable peace in the Great Lakes Region, geopolitical shifts, Kinshasa's financial bonanza to lobbyists to blackmail Rwanda in western capitals to conceal its leadership deficiencies, and the bullying targeting Rwanda through bilateral and development aid suspension, calling for our diplomats is counterproductive and pointless.

There was utter silence when presidents Tshisekedi and Evariste Ndayishimiye of Burundi officially announced their intention to assault and topple the Rwandan government.

 No one was interested in asking South Africa's Maj. Gen. Monwabisi Dyakopu, the SAMIDRC Force Commander, who was speaking to the Tanzanian contingent that had joined the organization, who said, "SAMIDRC is an offensive mission, we must eliminate the enemy – the M23 – first, then we shall tell you who the next enemy is."  Silence fell.

There hasn't been a single voice condemning this act of grave aggression since a coalition of US- and UN-sanctioned genocidal militias, the FDLR, the Burundian forces, the FARDC, the Wazalendo, and the SAMIDRC fired heavy artillery and missiles into Rwanda a few days later, killing 16 innocent civilians and wounding dozens more.

 The genocidal FDLR and other militias are being rearmed, consolidated, and promised much higher pay increases by Tshisekedi as a result of ongoing Western meddling. This will allow them to intensify attacks on civilians, like the recent state-sponsored terror attack at a rally in Bukavu that drew tens of thousands of people.

For obvious reasons, no one has denounced this attack.

 Tshisekedi is busy warmongering and pounding his chest while the African Union and the combined EAC-SADC leaders are urging the Kinshasa dictatorship to engage in discussion with the M23 and other organizations that have legitimate concerns.

 When M23 briefly controlled Goma in 2012, we witnessed the same dishonest and deceptive uproar from the international community in the form of sanctions and other threats.

This short-term strategy will not work today, just as it did back then.  Everyone will benefit if Tshisekedi's handlers encourage him—or even compel him—to accept the dialogue that the continent and its regional blocs are proposing sooner rather than later.

 In addition to being illogical, our Western allies' constant mudslinging of Rwanda at the whim of the kleptocrats in Kinshasa is also cheap and disrespectful.