> He said that the military should be trained with existing resources. He mentioned former members of the French Legion as an example.
> In May, Defense Minister Kabanda watched a flight demonstration of Sukhoi jets at the Congolese Air Force airfield in Kinshasa. On the tarmac, there were Eastern European men in uniforms with the insignia of the private **Bulgarian company “Agemira.”** Kabanda praised them for having repaired old combat helicopters in only 57 days.
> UN investigators confirmed that Agemira had stationed some 40 engineers and flight technicians at the airport in Goma to carry out repairs. Among them were Bulgarians, Georgians and Belarusians, who are familiar with Russian aircraft. In addition, Congo’s air force employs Georgian pilots to fly fighter jets.
> **Romanian mercenaries from Potra’s company now guard the Goma airport while Agemira technicians oversee aircraft maintenance.** Congo’s army wants to ensure that the strategically important tarmac, just a few dozen kilometers from the front line, will not fall into rebel hands, as it did during the last war in 2012. Back then, M23 fighters looted the army depots at the airport, including medium-range missiles from Russia.
> Spotlight on Romanian mercenary group
> Another picture, posted online on January 2 by Fiston Mahamba, a journalist with the fact-checking portal Congo Check, provided more concrete clues, says taz’s report. It shows a white, fairly mature-aged man with an AK-47 assault rifle standing between two soldiers on the road, presumably north of Goma. This is believed to be a photo of a seasoned mercenary from Romania named Horatiu Potra.
> He was a member of the French Foreign Legion in the 1990s and was known to be very active in Africa in the following decades. He trained the bodyguards of then-President Ange-Felix Patasse in the Central African Republic and taught insurgents in Chad how to fight.
> He also knows his way around Congo. In 2002, he contacted Congolese rebel leader Jean-Pierre Bemba, who helped Patasse in the neighboring Central African Republic, according to the taz article. The publication asked several international Wagner experts and UN investigators, but no one could confirm ties between Potra and Wagner.
> Potra, in turn, is the managing director of the Romanian mercenary group Asociatia RALF, based in Sibiu. Its website states that the company trains bodyguards for VIPs, protects “sensitive areas” such as mines, and trains special forces. The firm did not respond to email inquiries.
> An employee of Congo’s immigration authority stationed at the airport in Goma said that he stamped Romanian passports of the white military personnel on arrival.
Last time I checked, we were never part of an empire that used the racial system (British Empire, America, French Empire, German Reich).
In the Ottoman Empire we were part of the **Rum millet, not the white race**.
The **Rum millet** was instituted by Sultan Mehmet II who set himself to reorganise the state as the conscious heir of the East Roman Empire. The Orthodox congregation was included in a specific ethno-religious community under Graeco-Byzantine domination. Its name was derived from the former Eastern Roman (a.k.a. Byzantine) subjects of the Ottoman Empire, but all Orthodox Greeks, **Bulgarians**, Albanians, Aromanians, Megleno-Romanians and Serbs, as well as Georgians and Middle Eastern Christians, were considered part of the same millet in spite of their differences in ethnicity and language.
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> He said that the military should be trained with existing resources. He mentioned former members of the French Legion as an example.
> In May, Defense Minister Kabanda watched a flight demonstration of Sukhoi jets at the Congolese Air Force airfield in Kinshasa. On the tarmac, there were Eastern European men in uniforms with the insignia of the private **Bulgarian company “Agemira.”** Kabanda praised them for having repaired old combat helicopters in only 57 days.
> UN investigators confirmed that Agemira had stationed some 40 engineers and flight technicians at the airport in Goma to carry out repairs. Among them were Bulgarians, Georgians and Belarusians, who are familiar with Russian aircraft. In addition, Congo’s air force employs Georgian pilots to fly fighter jets.
> **Romanian mercenaries from Potra’s company now guard the Goma airport while Agemira technicians oversee aircraft maintenance.** Congo’s army wants to ensure that the strategically important tarmac, just a few dozen kilometers from the front line, will not fall into rebel hands, as it did during the last war in 2012. Back then, M23 fighters looted the army depots at the airport, including medium-range missiles from Russia.
> Spotlight on Romanian mercenary group
> Another picture, posted online on January 2 by Fiston Mahamba, a journalist with the fact-checking portal Congo Check, provided more concrete clues, says taz’s report. It shows a white, fairly mature-aged man with an AK-47 assault rifle standing between two soldiers on the road, presumably north of Goma. This is believed to be a photo of a seasoned mercenary from Romania named Horatiu Potra.
> He was a member of the French Foreign Legion in the 1990s and was known to be very active in Africa in the following decades. He trained the bodyguards of then-President Ange-Felix Patasse in the Central African Republic and taught insurgents in Chad how to fight.
> He also knows his way around Congo. In 2002, he contacted Congolese rebel leader Jean-Pierre Bemba, who helped Patasse in the neighboring Central African Republic, according to the taz article. The publication asked several international Wagner experts and UN investigators, but no one could confirm ties between Potra and Wagner.
> Potra, in turn, is the managing director of the Romanian mercenary group Asociatia RALF, based in Sibiu. Its website states that the company trains bodyguards for VIPs, protects “sensitive areas” such as mines, and trains special forces. The firm did not respond to email inquiries.
> An employee of Congo’s immigration authority stationed at the airport in Goma said that he stamped Romanian passports of the white military personnel on arrival.
Since when are Bulgarians and Romanians white?
How Race Was Invented [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7sxTnWeQ8s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7sxTnWeQ8s)
Last time I checked, we were never part of an empire that used the racial system (British Empire, America, French Empire, German Reich).
In the Ottoman Empire we were part of the **Rum millet, not the white race**.
The **Rum millet** was instituted by Sultan Mehmet II who set himself to reorganise the state as the conscious heir of the East Roman Empire. The Orthodox congregation was included in a specific ethno-religious community under Graeco-Byzantine domination. Its name was derived from the former Eastern Roman (a.k.a. Byzantine) subjects of the Ottoman Empire, but all Orthodox Greeks, **Bulgarians**, Albanians, Aromanians, Megleno-Romanians and Serbs, as well as Georgians and Middle Eastern Christians, were considered part of the same millet in spite of their differences in ethnicity and language.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rum_Millet](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rum_Millet)