By Hotel Rwanda Rusesabagina Foundation in collaboration with
Emmanuel Hakizimana, Ph.D., Université du Québec à Montréal
And Brian Endless, Ph.D., Loyola University Chicago
April 5, 2009 – Chicago, Illinois
It has been fifteen years since the genocide that devastated Rwanda in 1994, and while the players and sides have changed, the politics sadly remain largely the same. Rwanda is enmeshed in another cycle of repression, with an elite that represents a clear minority
engaged in legal and extra-legal policies that impoverish the majority of the people in the country. In addition, this repression and violence flow across borders in the region, particularly into the neighbouring Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) as evidenced recently.
Unfortunately for all involved, while foreign aid is crucial for the development of Rwanda and to lift it out of poverty, this same foreign aid is actually perpetuating the crisis. The government rules by and for the elite Tutsis who came out of Uganda in 1994 and their small group of allies. However, aid that flows to that government has the perverse effect of enabling this group to keep control – even when that control actually stems from purposefully limiting the development of the vast majority of the people in the country.
http://www.hrrfound ation.org/ files/file/ RwandaTodayForei gnAid.pdf
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
Foreign trainings has enabled a groups of ethnic Tutsi mainly from Ouganda ( many wee members of Ougandan army, with ougandan passport) to build a terrorrising group ( we avoid the word terrorist) called FPR.
ReplyDelete- Foreign diplomatic and military support has enabled this group to attach Rwanda and terrorise the population for 4 years ( from 1990 to 1994);
- Foreign media has distorted what happened in Rwanda in 1994 and the world perception of the ethnics groups in Rwanda ( Tutsi = good and Hutu=Bad) even if the unfortunate massacre was trigerred by FPR shooting down a civialian aircraft and killing 2 elected africans presidents,
- Foreign "laws" and "justice" systems trial only african bantu ( from Bagasora to Jean Pierre Mbemba), blank cheque or even "honoris causa" diploma offered to Tutsi killers why the White person or the western corporate behind the tragedy is not even mentionned,
- Foreign intelligentisia has created a "intellectual terrorism" with consequence that if somebody trying to express his anger toward this big injustice again Black bantus, killed by the millions by Tustis, he will be protrayed as " hatred". The funny thing is no many westerners like Nazy Germans. When they say that, nobody accuses them of "hatred".
This is stupidity we have to challenge and will do.
- With foreign support, the same groups from Ouganda immediatly crossed the border of the Congo, to secure for the West the access to mineral rich Kivu where , as planned by Kansteiner and the likes ( Clinton, Madeleine Albrigh, Tony B'liar, Clarck Short, Louis Michel, Susan Rice, etc), Bantou population are being killed by the millions (6 millions congoleses).
Foreign Aid to Rwanda is more the wages paid to proxy army.
Foreign Aid to Rwanda has financed the deadliest war since world war 2,
Foreign Aid to Rwanda is the West litterally terrorising all Black africans using, very very sad to say, a small group of ethnic tutsi whose, survival in the future in Africa will depend of this Western supports,
Like Mobutu protected Western interest against the Communists in the 1960 an Congo became a strong state, ethnic tutsi in Kigali are prepared to protect their interest against China.
Africans do not count in this battle unless we stop crying and start by saying: NO, enough is enough. 8 millions deads on the sciage of the same ethnic group from Ouganda in 20 years, we have to stop this madness.
Africans, wake up, like Asia, like South America.
All over the world, we have seem strong regime defying the West politically, economically, intellectually, diplomatically, ... militarily.
And they have done so, very successfully.
The problem with the British is that they never feel any shame of what they do. For them, all they do is normal even when it is not convenient to others. Imagine that they do never include any person from the African Diaspora in their consultant teams they send to Africa. They only offer some of them short-term trips to Africa for unpaid voluntary work. The British are in competition with Africans to access to jobs in Africa and with African Diaspora to access to funding and jobs in the UK. For the British, this is normal and correct. Then they debate how UK can have a "Barack Obama". With this cancer of discrimination within the British society, there will be no "UK Barack Obama".
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately, these so-called British experts are only white British. They go to Africa as consultants and leave behind black Africans from the African Diaspora who know better than them about African problems and priorities. The white British believe that the black Africans from the Diaspora have no skills to the job while they attended the same universities in the UK. To solve this problem, UK have established volunteer schemes used to send black Africans to do unpaid volunteer work.
Consultants take much of UK foreign aid.
"Aid needs to help the poorest, not line the pockets of western consultants, " a report by ActionAid, a British group, say. They claim that too much aid continues to be identified, designed and managed by donors tied to their countries' own firms, and poorly coordinated.
CharityAid claims that more than 100 million pounds (more than $200 million) of Britain's 5-billion [pounds sterling] aid budget, was spent on consultants.
http://findarticles .com/p/articles/ mi_m0LVZ/ is_1_22/ai_ n27085732/
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