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THE TRUTH
MULENGE is a mountain surrounding the Mulenge Villages, situated in the Kigoma area, above the city UVIRA in the South Kivu Province, in the Eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Mulenge is Home to the famous Bafuliiru people with a Bafuliiru chiefdom, The Mulenge village is part of the villages in the Bafuliiru land known as IBUFULIIRU.
There has been some misconception regarding a group called Banyamulenge, this is a community of Tutsi refugees from Rwanda who fled to the DR Congo in 1959, and named themselves after the Mulenge Mountain in 1972 seeking personal identitify in the land.
Empowered militarily by the Kagame Regime in 1997 the the Tutsi group forced everyone to call them BANYAMULENGE, punishing and unaliving anyone who didn't comply. this is how this Banyamulenge name became a Tutsi identity in the DRC Congo, the Bafuliiru people continue to use peaceful means demanding the Congolese authority not to acknowledge this fraudulent identity of the Tutsi refugees in their land.
About MULENGE POST
KISWAHILI
MULENGE ni mlima unaozunguka Vijiji vya Mulenge, vilivyoko eneo la Kigoma, juu ya mji wa UVIRA katika Mkoa wa Kivu Kusini, mashariki mwa Jamhuri ya Kidemokrasia ya Kongo.
Mulenge ni nyumbani kwa Kabila Maarufu la bafuliiru, unao ongozwa na bafuliiru, kijiji cha Mulenge ni sehemu ya vijiji katika ardhi ya Bafuliiru inayojulikana kama IBUFULIIRU.
Kumekuwa na dhana potofu kuhusu kikundi kiitwacho Banyamulenge, hiki ni jamii ya wakimbizi wa Kitutsi kutoka Rwanda walikimbilia DRC mwaka 1959, na kujipatia jina kulingana na Mlima Mulenge mwaka 1972 wakitafuta utambulisho wa kibinafsi katika ardhi hiyo.
Kwa kuwezeshwa kijeshi na Utawala wa Kagame mwaka 1997, kikundi hicho cha Kitutsi kiliwalazimisha kila mtu kuwaita BANYAMULENGE, wakiadhibu na kuua yeyote asiyetii.
Hivi ndivyo jina hili la Banyamulenge lilivyokuwa utambulisho wa Kitutsi nchini DR Congo, huku watu wa Bafuliiru wakiendelea kutumia njia za amani kudai mamlaka ya Kongo wasitambue utambulisho huu wa kitapeli wa wakimbizi wa Kitutsi katika ardhi yao