Why Rwanda's clockwork election is a bad day for democracy
British colonialists and their dogs and the British media reporters who have been swamping Rwanda are impressed by the appearance of the capital of Rwanda. They say that the capital is clean and has first class hotels.
British have been praising Kagame for economic achievements on the basis of what they see in the capital. As you are aware Western people, especially British people are interested more in where they will sleep. They do not care about hunger, diseases and malnutrition that characterise daily lives of most African people.
The British are happy that their foreign aid has been well used and that Kagame should have the salary three times higher than David Cameroon’s salary. They are happy that their foreign is used to maintain the Rwandan military personnel and unelected members of parliament.
For the British, this what they believe to be international development!
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By Mary Riddell Politics Last updated: August 9th, 2010
Rwanda's capital, Kigali, has been transformed since the genocide. Skyscrapers are sprouting up and the streets are swept daily (Photo: Corbis)
Today, Rwanda elects its president. Early reports from the capital, Kigali, suggest a high turn-out and oiled efficiency at polling stations. This comes as no surprise to anyone who has visited Rwanda. Give or take the gated communities of the Home Counties, there are few more orderly places on earth.
Citizens of the capital are required to turn up, on appointed days, to sweep streets on which no stray litter ever blows. Inspectors drop by to make sure that people have tidied their homes and made their beds. The smarter hotels sell home-made jam and pastries. None of this is likely to change under a new president – if only because the old one is 100 per cent certain to be re-elected.
Paul Kagame’s serious opponents have been barred from standing, leaving only puppet parties to seek his displacement. A political rival and a disobliging journalist have been found murdered in recent weeks, and some have sought to implicate the Kagame government, which denies any involvement.
These events and suspicions should alarm western leaders and, in particular, David Cameron. Britain gives Rwanda £55 million in aid money each year, and Kigali is the favourite destination of any minister in search of aid tourism. President Kagame’s residence is an oasis of westernised home comforts, with bougainvilleas blooming among watered lawns and Ivy-league educated aides in attendance.
When I visited him there last year, I asked him about the Rwandan citizens who have grown rich on the proceeds of minerals smuggled in from DR Congo, his dirt poor and war-ravaged neighbour, and he dismissed talk of minerals fuelling wars as “superficial.” No one asks too many questions of President Kagame, least of all the British ministers who describe his country as corruption-free.
The shadow of exploitation and suspicions of injustice and much worse hang over a regime whose flaws are always excused by the genocide suffered by the Rwandan people. While the terrible nature of the slaughter is not in doubt, Rwanda has since grown rich on genocide guilt.
Paul Kagame’s inevitable re-election is very far from being the worst thing that could befall his country. But the west, the British government included, has fallen into the trap of mistaking a functioning state for democracy. The two are not the same, and western leaders should dare to say so
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/maryriddell/100050118/why-rwandas-clockwork-election-is-a-bad-day-for-democracy/
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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