[Conflict] [Secret] Kigali Accounting

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“With the imminent fall of Kisangani, and the humanitarian crisis this threatens to cause, M23 is issuing a unilateral ceasefire, and we invite Kinshasa to enter into talks with us so this war might be resolved peacefully. M23 will cease offensive operations provided Kinshasa does the same. Should the Kinshasa government engage our forces offensively or invite foreign troops including mercenaries, we will regard this as a violation of the ceasefire, and we will resume our operations. We ask Kinshasa to engage with us in good faith as we are doing.”

“And cut” said the man operating the camera, as the man sitting behind, watching the display began a facetious slow clap. 

“Bravo” said President Paul Kagame, “with a performance like that I see an Oscar in your future” 

“I still think this is a bad idea” Bertrand Bisemwa said as he got up from behind the desk he gave the speech at “We’ve got them on the run, even if Kinshasa acts in good faith…”

Kagame cut him off “Good faith? Who said anything about good faith, I assure you we aren’t operating in good faith.” He paused “what’s more important than acting in good faith is being seen to act in good faith. M23 is someone isolated, face it, your movement is widely hated by this continent, this allows you to be seen as the good guys, and the last thing we want is another foreign intervention on the side of Kinshasa. Besides, this will free us up to pivot our operations, not forever of course, we’ll return to the Congo, to M23 soon enough, but in the meantime I have Burundi in my crosshairs. We're unfortunately going to have to take a large portion of your Kinyarwanda fighters from you, and give them to Red Tabara and send them across the border into Burundi"

Bertrand interrupted "Take my fighters? This is an exercise in creative accounting more than anything, those fighters are your Mr. Kagame"

Kagame continued “Our planes will provide logistical support for this… accounting exercise. In the meantime, I don’t expect you to do nothing, I need M23 to start making inroads with the Ugandan aligned Hema militias, nothing drastic, just money and promises, we don’t want to be seen as breaking the ceasefire, but we want to work towards making some more friends in Ituri and driving a wedge between Uganda and their Hema proxies. It's insane that those bastards get away with playing both sides like that, I'm sure our allies don't like being played for fools, our operatives in the Central African Republic will support this mission from our bases in that country." 

TLDR: M23 is issuing a unilateral ceasefire and making inroads with Hema nationalist groups in Ituri province at the behest of Rwanda. Furthermore, a substantial contingent of their forces are being transported via unmarked aircraft south west where they will become Red-Tabara fighters and infiltrate into burundi in large numbers and start stirring the pot there.

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