Letter to the Rwandan Minister of Internal Security
His Excellence Mr. Sheikh Mussa Fazil HARERIMANA April 20, 2009
Minister of Internal Security Nº:008/HJ/PK/2009
P.O. BOX 446 Kigali-Rwanda
His Excellency,
I am writing on behalf of the Organization for Peace, Justice and Development in
Rwanda (OPJDR), Inc. to express concern about the arrests and lack of
due process regarding the following people: Augustin Buzizi, Protais Dusabimana, and Lucien Nyangwabona.
Augustin Buzizi, 63 years old and a retired teacher was arrested on April 12, 2009 for
harboring genocide ideology accusations. On the eve of the commemoration of the
genocide, a number of Rwandan citizens residing in the cell of Gatsilima of the sector of
Kiyombe, district of Nyagatare, Northern Province were arrested for unspecified charges.
Buzizi wrote a letter to Rwandan authorities including Domitille Mukantaganzwa, the
Executive Secretary of Gacaca Courts to inform them of the abuses committed by local
authorities against these citizens.
On April 12, 2009 the authorities of the sector of Kiyombe held a public meeting in the
cell of Gitenga where Buzizi lives to commemorate the genocide. The meeting was also
attended by the representatives of the Rwanda Defense Forces (RDF). Local authorities
invited Buzizi to give his own testimony regarding the genocide. In his testimony, Buzizi
stated that ethnic groups in Rwanda and their peaceful coexistence are historical realities.
He added that European colonization introduced ethnic divisions and that those ethnic
divisions still exist today. He remarked that the different political regimes including the
post genocide government did not do much to minimize or abolish ethnic divisions. He
concluded that if French troops had not intervened in Rwanda, Tutsis would have wiped
out Hutus.
After this meeting Buzizi was immediately arrested by local authorities and taken to the
prison of Rukomo.The director of the High School of Cyondo who was present at the meeting spoke to
defend Buzizi’s views. He was also arrested.
Protais Dusabimana, son of Tatien Bwabuhe, was arrested in Umutara about two years
ago. Since then, he has been in the prison of Ntsinda without charges.
Lucien Nyangwabona, son of Rwamulinda was arrested two years ago. Nyangwabona is
from Rushaki, Northern Province and worked for the Rwandan customs in Kibungo until
OPJDR is non-profit and apolitical. Its mission is to promote the respect of human rights and
Cultural, educational, and economic development in the Great Lakes Region of Africa.
his arrest. Sources close to him suggest that his supervisor ordered him to sign documents
he was unauthorized to sign so he could get rid of him and replace him with a Tutsi. The
next day after signing those documents, he was arrested and his job was given to a Tutsi.
He has spent over two years in jail at the prison of Rwamagana.
Our organization recommends that you conduct an independent investigation into the
three cases mentioned above. Credible reports gathered by our organization indicate that
recently a score of people have been arbitrary arrested in the cell of Gatsilima and their
whereabouts remain unknown. We call on you to investigate those cases as well and
make public your findings to ensure that their rights are respected.
Sincerely,
Pascal Kalinganire
Coordinator General
Copies:
Honorable Mr. Kenneth Roth
Executive Director of Human Rights Watch
350 Fifth Avenue, 34th Floor
New York, NY 10118-3299
USA
Tel: 1-(212) 290-4700
Fax: +1-212-736-1300
Email: hrwnyc@hrw.org
Honorable Mrs. Irene Khan
Secretary General of Amnesty International
1 Easton Street
London, United Kingdom
WC1X0DW, UK
Tel.: +44-20-74135500
Fax : +44-20-79561157
Honorable Mr. Gareth Evans
President and Chief Executive
International Crisis Group
149 Avenue Louise
Level 24
B-1050 Brussels
Tel: +32-2-502 90 38
Fax: +32-2-502 50 38
The dictator Kagame at UN
Dictators like Kagame who have changed their national constitutions to remain indefinitely on power should not be involved in UN high level and global activities including chairing UN meetings
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Thousands of Hutu murdered by Kagame inside Rwanda, e.g. Kibeho massacres
Kagame killed 200,000 Hutus from all regions of the country, the elderly and children who were left by their relatives, the disabled were burned alive. Other thousands of people were killed in several camps of displaced persons including Kibeho camp. All these war crimes remain unpunished.The British news reporters were accompanying Kagame’s fighters on day-by-day basis and witnessed these massacres, but they never reported on this.
25,000 Hutu bodies floated down River Akagera into Lake Victoria in Uganda.
The British irrational, extremist, partisan,biased, one-sided media and politicians have disregarded Kagame war crimes e.g. the Kibeho camp massacres, massacres of innocents Hutu refugees in DR. Congo. The British media have been supporting Kagame since he invaded Rwanda by organising the propaganda against the French over the Rwandan genocide, suppressing the truth about the genocide and promoting the impunity of Kagame and his cronies in the African Great Lakes Region. For the British, Rwanda does not need democracy, Rwanda is the African Israel; and Kagame and his guerilla fighters are heroes.The extremist British news reporters including Fergal Keane, Chris Simpson, Chris McGreal, Mark Doyle, etc. continue to hate the Hutus communities and to polarise the Rwandan society.
Kagame political ambitions triggered the genocide.
Kagame’s guerrilla war was aimed at accessing to power at any cost. He rejected all attempts and advice that could stop his military adventures including the cease-fire, political negotiations and cohabitation, and UN peacekeeping interventions. He ignored all warnings that could have helped him to manage the war without tragic consequences. Either you supported Kagame’ s wars and you are now his friend, or you were against his wars and you are his enemy. Therefore, Kagame as the Rwandan strong man now, you have to apologise to him for having been against his war and condemned his war crimes, or accept to be labelled as having been involved in the genocide. All key Kagame’s fighters who committed war crimes and crimes against humanity are the ones who hold key positions in Rwandan army and government for the last 15 years. They continue to be supported and advised by the British including Tony Blair, Andrew Mitchell MP, and the British army senior officials.
Aid that kills: The British Budget Support financed Museveni and Kagame’s wars in Rwanda and DRC.
Genocide propaganda and fabrications are used by the so-called British scholars, news reporters and investigative journalists to promote their CVs and to get income out of the genocide through the selling of their books, providing testimonies against the French, access to consultancy contracts from the UN and Kagame, and participation in conferences and lectures in Rwanda, UK and internationally about genocide. Genocide propaganda has become a lucrative business for Kagame and the British. Anyone who condemned or did not support Kagame’s war is now in jail in Rwanda under the gacaca courts system suuported by British tax payer's money, or his/she is on arrest warrant if he/she managed to flee the Kagame’s regime. Others have fled the country and are still fleeing now. Many others Rwandans are being persecuted in their own country. Kagame is waiting indefinitely for the apologies from other players who warn him or who wanted to help to ensure that political negotiations take place between Kagame and the former government he was fighting against. Britain continues to supply foreign aid to Kagame and his cronies with media reports highlighting economic successes of Rwanda. Such reports are flawed and are aimed at misleading the British public to justify the use of British taxpayers’ money. Kagame and his cronies continue to milk British taxpayers’ money under the British budget support. This started from 1986 through the British budget support to Uganda until now.
Dictator Kagame: No remorse for his unwise actions and ambitions that led to the Rwandan genocide.
No apologies yet to the Rwandan people. The assassination of President Juvenal Habyarimana by Kagame was the only gateway for Kagame to access power in Rwanda. The British media, politicians, and the so-called British scholars took the role of obstructing the search for the truth and justice; and of denying this assassination on behalf of General Kagame. General Paul Kagame has been obliging the whole world to apologise for his mistakes and war crimes. The UK’s way to apologise has been pumping massive aid into Rwanda's crony government and parliement; and supporting Kagame though media campaigns.
Fanatical, partisan, suspicious, childish and fawning relations between UK and Kagame
Kagame receives the British massive aid through the budget support, British excessive consultancy, sector wide programmes, the Tutsi-dominated parliament, British and Tutsi-owned NGOs; for political, economic and English language expansion to Rwanda. The British aid to Rwanda is not for all Rwandans. It is for Kagame himself and his Tutsi cronies.
Paul Kagame' actvities as former rebel
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