By Franca Giansoldati
Nigrizia Vatican City – Other than local banditry. Athanasius knew too much and had to be eliminated. According to Father Filippo Ivardi Ganapini, director of Nigrizia, the killing in Congo of the Italian ambassador, the carabiniere Iacovacci and the driver Baguna, which took place without an escort in a Wfp jeep, can be traced back to something much more complex and targeted to do with Rwanda’s control of a (Congolese) territory rich in minerals.
The missionary writes: “Rwandan sources, verified in detail and confirmed by several Congolese contacted, invite us to look beyond the border, towards Rwanda and go so far as to affirm that the Italian ambassador in the DR Congo was assassinated in the” Milan “operation, prepared in the Butotori marine garrison by Colonel Jean Claude Rusimbi , former soldier in the revolt led by Laurent Nkunda, warlord investigated by the international court for crimes against humanity, today one of the leaders of Rwandan intelligence in the military region of North Kivu ” .
Too many things in that ambush that took place on the Goma-Rutshuru road, one of the most dangerous in the country, do not return. Where the Congolese military magistrate (in charge of investigating the death of Attanasio) Williams Mulahya Hassan Hussein was also killed, and where the massacres continue: another 32 civilians killed in the last week alone.
The missionaries say that Athanasius was an upright man who was not satisfied with diplomatic work but who supported humanitarian and development projects linked to the missionary world and humanitarian organizations. « Luca was disliked because he wanted to get to the bottom of things, especially when it came to solidarity with the most suffering. He wanted to see first hand the destinations of the funds for humanitarian aid, often diverted to other purposes by NGOs and international organizations and above all he was in possession of uncomfortable information on the massacres in the area »writes Father Filippo .
His regular visits to the Panzi hospital to meet Dr. Mukwege – the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize winner who called for an International Criminal Court for the DR Congo – aroused suspicion at high levels. The monthly Nigrizia speculates that perhaps Attanasio was also killed for “fear that he would reveal what he discovered and see with his eyes something shady that closed his mouth as they did with Bishop Munzihirwa, the Canadian priests Simard and Pinard and with many others uncomfortable witnesses of truth? “
Moreover, in 2018 the American Michael Sharp and the Swedish Zaida Catalan, UN officials, were kidnapped and killed “for having discovered the mass killing of 40 police officers in the Kasai region. Almost no one has talked about it – Father Filippo still writes – not even in the US ».
The whole area of Goma, the capital of North Kivu, is in fact and illegally Rwandan territory. The current president Paul Kagame, is indicated by the missionaries as the long arm on the Congolese minerals, from the United States, England and Canada. A situation that facilitates the “geological scandal” of the Congo and the mining division. «Minerals in exchange for Kalashnikov: those who live in the area know very well how it works. The more chaos reigns, the better you steal. Almost ninety multinationals are involved in the extraction of cobalt, coltan, gold, diamonds, tin, gas. And there are countless informal sites where many minors dig with their hands. There is also oil to be extracted in that Virunga park, known for the last specimens of mountain gorillas, in which the rangers ran to the defense of Luca Attanasio after hearing the gunshots ».
The Congolese authorities immediately accused the FDLR of the massacre but according to Nigrizia the track does not seem the right one.
According to the sources of the Comboni missionaries when Jean Claude Rusimbi, a member of the Rwandan Patriotic Front (FPR, the party-state that governs Rwanda), “learned that the ambassador had learned a lot of information about these mass killings in the DR Congo and wanted to visit the suspicious sites (mass graves) where innocent victims had been buried, planned to eliminate it and sent Lieutenant “Didier” near Goma.The latter would have arrived on the spot on Sunday 21 February with 4 other soldiers trained as killers. Once the murder had been carried out, the killers would have returned to Rubavu in Rwanda through Kanyarucinya to report to those in charge. Above all at the head of the operation: Paul Kagame, president of Rwanda for over 25 years, and deus ex machina who controls the Great Lakes region on behalf of third parties ».
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Source: https://www.ilmessaggero.it/vaticano/attanasio_congo_farnesina_rwanda_carabinieri_ambasciatore_missionari_nigrizia-5813292.html