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Kiongozi wa Jamhuri ya Kidemokrasia ya Kongo amepeleka mashambulizi yake ya kejeli dhidi ya mwenzake wa Rwanda katika ngazi nyingine kwa kumfananisha na Adolf Hitler.
Félix Tshisekedi alisema Paul Kagame alikuwa na tabia kama Hitler, na akaongeza: "Naahidi ataishia kama Hitler".
Bw Tshisekedi ambaye anafanya kampeni za kuchaguliwa tena, alikuwa akihutubia mkutano wa hadhara Bukavu, karibu na mpaka wa Rwanda.
Mara nyingi amekuwa akiishutumu Rwanda kwa kuwaunga mkono waasi mashariki mwa nchi yake, jambo ambalo imekuwa ikikanusha.
Msemaji wa serikali ya Rwanda alielezea matamshi ya rais wa Kongo kama "tishio kubwa na la wazi".
Huku kura zikiwa zimesalia chini ya wiki mbili, Bw Tshisekedi anajaribu kushinda kuungwa mkono kwa muhula wa pili. Licha ya majaribio ya kuzima ghasia hizo ambazo zimejumuisha mikataba ya kusitisha mapigano na kuwepo kwa wanajeshi wa kikanda na Umoja wa Mataifa ambao sasa wanaondoka, hali ya ukosefu wa usalama bado imetanda mashariki mwa nchi hiyo.
Msururu wa makundi yenye silaha yamesababisha ghasia, wakiwemo waasi wa M23 wanaoongozwa na Watutsi, ambao Bw Tshisekedi amesema wanaungwa mkono na Rwanda.
Kundi la wataalamu wa Umoja wa Mataifa lilitoa angalizo sawa katika ripoti iliyotolewa mapema mwaka huu na Marekani ikiunga mkono matokeo yake.
Kundi la M23 limekuwa likiteka eneo la Kongo na kuwalazimisha mamia kwa maelfu ya watu kukimbia makazi yao.
Akizungumza Ijumaa usiku, Bw Tshisekedi aliwaambia wafuasi wake kwamba atamwambia Bw Kagame kwamba "kwa kuwa alitaka kuishi kama Adolf Hitler kwa kuwa na malengo ya kujitanua, ninaahidi ataishia kama Adolf Hitler.
"Hata hivyo, [amekutana] na mechi yake, mtu ambaye amedhamiria kumzuia na kulinda nchi yake."
Hitler, aliyehusika na vifo vya mamilioni ya watu, kutia ndani Wayahudi milioni sita katika Maangamizi makubwa ya Kiyahudi, aliishia kujiua katika chumba kimoja cha kulala katika mji mkuu wa Ujerumani, Berlin, mwaka wa 1945.
Jitihada zake za kupanua eneo la Ujerumani zilisababisha Vita vya Kidunia vya pili.
Bw Tshisekedi hapo awali amemtaja kiongozi huyo wa Rwanda kuwa "adui wa Jamhuri ya Kidemokrasia ya Kongo". Katika mahojiano na BBC mwaka jana, alisema uhusiano wao ulikuwa "wa baridi kwa kukosa neno bora. Ni yeye ambaye kwa bahati mbaya aliamua kushambulia Jamhuri ya Kidemokrasia ya Kongo".
Bw Kagame amekuwa akipuuzilia mbali mazungumzo kama hayo hapo awali, akimshutumu Tshisekedi kwa kuwa "mchochezi wa vita" na badala yake alilenga kundi lingine la waasi mashariki mwa DR Congo - FDLR inayoongozwa na Wahutu - ambayo Rwanda inaona kama tishio.
Katika ujumbe wake kwenye X, ambayo zamani ilikuwa Twitter, akijibu matamshi ya Hitler, msemaji wa serikali ya Rwanda Yolande Makolo alisema "ni tishio kubwa na la wazi kutoka kwa rais wa DRC, katika hali ambayo FDLR ina silaha zaidi kuliko hapo awali".
Bw Kagame amekuwa mwanasiasa mkuu nchini Rwanda tangu mwisho wa mauaji ya halaiki ya 1994, ambapo takriban watu 800,000 waliuawa na Wahutu wenye msimamo mkali wakiwalenga Watutsi walio wachache.
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DR Congo President Tshisekedi compares Rwanda counterpart Kagame to Hitler
The Democratic Republic of Congo's leader has taken his rhetorical attacks on his Rwandan counterpart to another level by comparing him to Adolf Hitler.
Félix Tshisekedi said Paul Kagame was behaving like Hitler, and added: "I promise he will end up like Hitler".
Mr Tshisekedi who is campaigning for re-election, was addressing a rally in Bukavu, close to the Rwandan border.
He has often accused Rwanda of backing rebels in the east of his country, which it has always denied.
The spokesperson for Rwanda's government described the Congolese president's comments as "a loud and clear threat".
With the vote less than two weeks away, Mr Tshisekedi is trying to win backing for a second term. Despite attempts to quell the violence, which has included ceasefire deals and the presence of regional and UN troops, who are now leaving, insecurity is still rife in the east of the country.
A multiplicity of armed groups have caused mayhem, including Tutsi-led M23 rebels, who Mr Tshisekedi has said are supported by Rwanda.
A UN group of experts made a similar observation in a report released earlier this year with the US backing its findings.
The M23 has been seizing Congolese territory forcing hundreds of thousands of people to flee their homes.
Speaking on Friday night, Mr Tshisekedi said to supporters that he would tell Mr Kagame that "since he wanted to behave like Adolf Hitler by having expansionist aims, I promise he will end up like Adolf Hitler.
"However, he [has] met his match, someone who is determined to stop him and protect his country."
Hitler, responsible for the deaths of millions, including six million Jewish people in the Holocaust, ended up taking his own life in a bunker in the German capital, Berlin, in 1945.
His efforts to expand German territory led to World War Two.
Mr Tshisekedi has previously described the Rwandan leader as "the enemy of the Democratic Republic of Congo". In a BBC interview last year, he said their relationship was "cold for lack of a better word. It is he who unfortunately decided to attack the Democratic Republic of Congo".
Mr Kagame has always dismissed such talk in the past, accused Mr Tshisekedi of being a "war monger" and instead focussed on another rebel group in the east of DR Congo - the Hutu-led FDLR - which Rwanda sees as a threat.
In her message on X, formerly Twitter, responding to the Hitler remarks, Rwandan government spokesperson Yolande Makolo said it was "a loud and clear threat by the DRC president, in a context where the FDLR is more armed than ever".
Mr Kagame has been the dominant political figure in Rwanda since the end of the 1994 genocide, in which about 800,000 people were slaughtered by ethnic Hutu extremists targeting the Tutsi minority.
Source: BBC
