|
News and Information about Africa issues and problems, Human Rights Abuses, Unpunished War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity in Africa, UK's Policy in Africa and UK-Africa Politics and Foreign Relations, e.g. UK's Proxy Wars in Africa: The Case of Rwanda and D.R. Congo.
Pages
▼
6 Mar 2011
Fw: *DHR* Forget Gaddafi. Blair's NEW best friend is a despot guilty of even bloodier slaughter
London’s Gaddafi-funded university: business as usual in the UK
London's Gaddafi-funded university: business as usual in the UK This is not unusual in the UK higher learning institutions. In addition to Tony Blair, the London School of Economics is connected to undemocratic regimes where there are fragrant human rights abuses. Such countries include Rwanda and many other countries in Asia and the Middle East. This is why teaching about international issues in most UK universities focus on Asia and the Middle East. This is corruption that has been going for many years among UK universities. Most UK Universities have been awarding Honoris Causa Doctorates to dictators and other individuals on the basis of the money they give to these universities. Most people believe that the Gaddafi's son may have bought his degrees from the London School of Economics without passing his exams and dissertations. In the UK, with money everything is possible! More at: |
1 Mar 2011
UK foreign aid re-focused. But, this isn't enough!
It is good news that UK has now re-focused their foreign aid to poorer countries. UK must acknowledge the negative impacts of their foreign aid to developing countries: Over the last decade, UK has campaigned for promoting the budget support which has contributed to fuel wars and ethnic violence in the African Great lakes Region starting from Tanzania, Uganda, and Rwanda to Democratic Republic of Congo. UK foreign aid has been used to buy weapons to fight these wars. UK does not recognise the political opposition voices based in the UK and in aid recipient countries. UK aid budget support is used to run foreign governments, the military apparatus and the Parliament whose members are not chosen on the basis of democratic principles. UK has been campaigning for the removal of foreign aid conditionalities and the current revolt and un unrest in several countries is the result of this UK policy. Where the condition of human rights have been clearly specify in memorandums of cooperation between UK and aid recipients, UK deliberately ignore human rights abuses and continue to pump money to governments that are expected to respect all terms and conditions of the foreign aid provided. This is the case in Rwanda. UK foreign aid benefit local elite than the poorer in many countries where the Head of the Government is paid a salary and benefits five time than the UK Prime Minister. UK has been providing aid based on competition with other nations rather than on the basis of the real needs of aid recipients and the UK funding capabilities. More at: |
UN Mapping report on Crimes in D.R.Congo; Capitol Hill Advocacy objectives
UN Mapping report on Crimes in D.R.Congo; Capitol Hill Advocacy objectives
Posted on February 27, 2011
In an interview with Ann Garrison of KPFA radio on the upcoming congressional briefing on March 2, AFJN Policy Analyst, Bahati Jacques said: "Our goal is to rally U.S. support for justice for the crimes committed by the Rwandan, Ugandan, and Burundian armies and their Congolese collaborators in the war against Congo in 1996 to 2003. Also we want the U.S. to take a clear stand on this issue, supporting the UN Mapping Report recommendations to set up an investigation to determine whether the targeted and massive killing of Congolese, Burundian, and Rwandan Hutu were a genocide." Listen or read the full interview here
(http://afjn.org/focus-campaigns/promote-peace-d-r-congo/71-policy-objectives/935-un-mapping-report-on-crimes-in-drcongo-capitol-hill-advocacy-objectives.html)
Posted on February 27, 2011
In an interview with Ann Garrison of KPFA radio on the upcoming congressional briefing on March 2, AFJN Policy Analyst, Bahati Jacques said: "Our goal is to rally U.S. support for justice for the crimes committed by the Rwandan, Ugandan, and Burundian armies and their Congolese collaborators in the war against Congo in 1996 to 2003. Also we want the U.S. to take a clear stand on this issue, supporting the UN Mapping Report recommendations to set up an investigation to determine whether the targeted and massive killing of Congolese, Burundian, and Rwandan Hutu were a genocide." Listen or read the full interview here
(http://afjn.org/focus-campaigns/promote-peace-d-r-congo/71-policy-objectives/935-un-mapping-report-on-crimes-in-drcongo-capitol-hill-advocacy-objectives.html)
Kagame is worse than Ghadafi
Actually, Kagame is worse than Ghadafi; his anger for absolute power
is rather terrible. In this article below, I talk about that ego and
how he tries to achieve that through dirty mwars on his genuine
critics.....
Kagame’s ego and the dirty war against Kayumba, Karegeya
Last month, The New times, Kigali’s main pro-government daily quoted
The Executive Secretary International Conference on the Great Lakes
Region (ICGLR), Ambassador Liberata Mulamula as seeking regional
cooperation of governments in a bid to have former RDF Generals, Gen.
Nyamwasa Kayumba and Col. Patrick Karegeya arrested and extradited to
Rwanda’. The official expressed that such, if achieved would be a
positive development as regards regional stability.
Such a statement was not a surprise from the Lady, whose husband, a
Tanzanian Engineer, George Mulamula is a proud beneficiary of Kagame’s
regime as an employee in Kigali-not to be personal, just to get to
facts. Yes, he has been employed by the government of Rwanda, serving
in various offices.
First, he was an ICT lecturer at Kigali Institute of Science and
Technology (KIST), then to Rwanda Information and Technology Authority
(RITA), and an advisor in the ministry of Infrastructure in Kigali.
From there, he moved to the President’s office and then to the
National University of Rwanda as an ICT expert. He did consultancy
work with Rwanda Investment and Export Promotion Agency (RIEPA),
before being appointed the Principal Deputy CEO of Rwanda Development
Board (RDB). He now works with the ministry of Trade and Commerce.
The motivation of Amb. Mulamula, can be traced there in. She
basically, wants to use the regional office to do the donkeys work for
her husband’s patron Kagame and his regime in persecuting the critics
of the regime- a clear signal of conflict of interests.
Kagame’s big role in regional instability
Amb. Mulamula knows about everything that has been going on in the
region pertaining instability especially in the DRC, and the big role
played by Kagame as he tries to consolidate his power in Kigali and
the region. She certainly, as Col. Patrick Karegeya mentioned while
responding to the official in question, how Kagame has ‘created,
dismantled and recreated armed rebel groups in the Democratic Republic
of Congo to ‘satisfy his ego and demonstrate his power’ , but,
Mulamula still has the impudence to underline the exiled generals as
the major threat to regional security. How?
Col. Patrick Karegeya mentioned the CNDP, which Kagame created, armed,
and later disbanded at will as an example, and it is one, many have
first information about. There are several others. Kagame, not his
critics are to blame for regional instability; it’s a fact raised in
Col. Karegeya’s response, and indeed is one, that majority of citizens
in the great lakes region will tell.
Criminalizing dissent
It is true, and with-in the good understanding of Lady Mulamula, that,
the charges leveled against the two exiled generals and their
colleagues, Rudasingwa and Gahima were political rather than issues of
security. The four were subjected to the charges following their
public criticism of Kagame in a highly publicized document, Rwanda
Briefing as well as in many press interviews. Instead of looking at
the issues of human rights and freedoms that should be guaranteed to
Kagame’s critics, Mulamula uses the regional office to assert that
criticizing Kagame is a crime that deserves regional attention. What a
shame?
In response to Mulamula’s call, Col. Patrick Karegeya said thus;
“We would affirm once again that we are not in any way connected to
any armed groups operating in the DRC. The fact that we are not
involved in carrying out criminal activities against the Rwandan state
can be verified with the Government of the state that has granted us
asylum. We are trained lawyers and long serving military officers who
have a demonstrated record of opposition to the support of armed
groups that have caused so much human suffering among the people of
the DRC and the region at large.”
Hunting victims
In fact, the two generals are victims of Kagame’s ‘terrorism’. In
february last year, shortly after he fled from Rwanda, Gen. Kayumba
was a target of an assassination plot widely believed to have been
planned by Kagame’s secret agents in Johannesburg, South Africa, a
country whose government granted the two officers asylum, another
confirmation that they cannot be viewed as terrorists in any form. Col
Karegeya as if he had to, labored to remind Mulamila about this as he
noted;
“It is inconceivable that a person of your stature and
responsibilities could recommend that individuals against whom
President Paul Kagame’s government has carried out multiple
assassination attempts be returned to Rwanda to serve sentences
imposed after sham trials in absentia. We regret that the Rwandan
Government has manipulated its partners in the CEPGL to agree to the
use of the common institutions of the states of our region as
instruments of repression and persecution.”
But, the government of Kigali was not done, really this month; they
paraded a former FDLR Combatant, one Bisengimana, who was forced to
allege that the exiled generals were planning to re-energize FDLR.
This yet was just another of Kagame’s tactics to tarnish the image of
his critics, attract sympathy from the international community, as he
continues to pursue his other policies of satisfying his personal gain
and establishing his authoritarian rule. Rwandans are familiar with
such actions and politics, Mulamula is familiar with it too, but, she
will go on and ask that the generals, not Kagame’s actions be the
center of focus.
Kagame’s ego and crackdown on critics
It’s worth noting here that while responding to the official, Col.
Karegeya on behalf of the two generals, reminded the Executive
Secretary of the regional conference, that, instead of pursuing
innocent critics of Kagame’s authoritarian rule, they ‘should be
demanding the unconditional release of the large number of political
prisoners now languishing in Rwanda’s official and unofficial
detention centres, including former minister and Social Democratic
Party leader Charles Ntakirutinka, FDU-Inkingi President Victoire
Ingabire, PS-Imberakuri Bernard Ntaganda, Deo Mushaidi and former
presidential candidate Dr Theoneste Niyitegeka.’
He also, urged the international community to continue to demand
justice for the politically motivated killings of Kagwa Rwisereka
(Vice President of the Democratic Green Party), journalists, Jean
Leonard Rugambage (Deputy Editor of the Umuvugizi newspaper) and Mr
John Rutayisire, who are just a few examples of ‘our compatriots who
have been assassinated by agents of the state for political reasons in
the recent past.’
That certainly, is the call majority of Rwandans under the bondage of
Kagame’s dictatorship would make at this point in time to the likes of
Mulamula and the international Community. These few examples of
Kagame’s crackdown on dissent emphasize his out and out violent and
bloody approaches to feeding his ego and quest for absolute power.
is rather terrible. In this article below, I talk about that ego and
how he tries to achieve that through dirty mwars on his genuine
critics.....
Kagame’s ego and the dirty war against Kayumba, Karegeya
Last month, The New times, Kigali’s main pro-government daily quoted
The Executive Secretary International Conference on the Great Lakes
Region (ICGLR), Ambassador Liberata Mulamula as seeking regional
cooperation of governments in a bid to have former RDF Generals, Gen.
Nyamwasa Kayumba and Col. Patrick Karegeya arrested and extradited to
Rwanda’. The official expressed that such, if achieved would be a
positive development as regards regional stability.
Such a statement was not a surprise from the Lady, whose husband, a
Tanzanian Engineer, George Mulamula is a proud beneficiary of Kagame’s
regime as an employee in Kigali-not to be personal, just to get to
facts. Yes, he has been employed by the government of Rwanda, serving
in various offices.
First, he was an ICT lecturer at Kigali Institute of Science and
Technology (KIST), then to Rwanda Information and Technology Authority
(RITA), and an advisor in the ministry of Infrastructure in Kigali.
From there, he moved to the President’s office and then to the
National University of Rwanda as an ICT expert. He did consultancy
work with Rwanda Investment and Export Promotion Agency (RIEPA),
before being appointed the Principal Deputy CEO of Rwanda Development
Board (RDB). He now works with the ministry of Trade and Commerce.
The motivation of Amb. Mulamula, can be traced there in. She
basically, wants to use the regional office to do the donkeys work for
her husband’s patron Kagame and his regime in persecuting the critics
of the regime- a clear signal of conflict of interests.
Kagame’s big role in regional instability
Amb. Mulamula knows about everything that has been going on in the
region pertaining instability especially in the DRC, and the big role
played by Kagame as he tries to consolidate his power in Kigali and
the region. She certainly, as Col. Patrick Karegeya mentioned while
responding to the official in question, how Kagame has ‘created,
dismantled and recreated armed rebel groups in the Democratic Republic
of Congo to ‘satisfy his ego and demonstrate his power’ , but,
Mulamula still has the impudence to underline the exiled generals as
the major threat to regional security. How?
Col. Patrick Karegeya mentioned the CNDP, which Kagame created, armed,
and later disbanded at will as an example, and it is one, many have
first information about. There are several others. Kagame, not his
critics are to blame for regional instability; it’s a fact raised in
Col. Karegeya’s response, and indeed is one, that majority of citizens
in the great lakes region will tell.
Criminalizing dissent
It is true, and with-in the good understanding of Lady Mulamula, that,
the charges leveled against the two exiled generals and their
colleagues, Rudasingwa and Gahima were political rather than issues of
security. The four were subjected to the charges following their
public criticism of Kagame in a highly publicized document, Rwanda
Briefing as well as in many press interviews. Instead of looking at
the issues of human rights and freedoms that should be guaranteed to
Kagame’s critics, Mulamula uses the regional office to assert that
criticizing Kagame is a crime that deserves regional attention. What a
shame?
In response to Mulamula’s call, Col. Patrick Karegeya said thus;
“We would affirm once again that we are not in any way connected to
any armed groups operating in the DRC. The fact that we are not
involved in carrying out criminal activities against the Rwandan state
can be verified with the Government of the state that has granted us
asylum. We are trained lawyers and long serving military officers who
have a demonstrated record of opposition to the support of armed
groups that have caused so much human suffering among the people of
the DRC and the region at large.”
Hunting victims
In fact, the two generals are victims of Kagame’s ‘terrorism’. In
february last year, shortly after he fled from Rwanda, Gen. Kayumba
was a target of an assassination plot widely believed to have been
planned by Kagame’s secret agents in Johannesburg, South Africa, a
country whose government granted the two officers asylum, another
confirmation that they cannot be viewed as terrorists in any form. Col
Karegeya as if he had to, labored to remind Mulamila about this as he
noted;
“It is inconceivable that a person of your stature and
responsibilities could recommend that individuals against whom
President Paul Kagame’s government has carried out multiple
assassination attempts be returned to Rwanda to serve sentences
imposed after sham trials in absentia. We regret that the Rwandan
Government has manipulated its partners in the CEPGL to agree to the
use of the common institutions of the states of our region as
instruments of repression and persecution.”
But, the government of Kigali was not done, really this month; they
paraded a former FDLR Combatant, one Bisengimana, who was forced to
allege that the exiled generals were planning to re-energize FDLR.
This yet was just another of Kagame’s tactics to tarnish the image of
his critics, attract sympathy from the international community, as he
continues to pursue his other policies of satisfying his personal gain
and establishing his authoritarian rule. Rwandans are familiar with
such actions and politics, Mulamula is familiar with it too, but, she
will go on and ask that the generals, not Kagame’s actions be the
center of focus.
Kagame’s ego and crackdown on critics
It’s worth noting here that while responding to the official, Col.
Karegeya on behalf of the two generals, reminded the Executive
Secretary of the regional conference, that, instead of pursuing
innocent critics of Kagame’s authoritarian rule, they ‘should be
demanding the unconditional release of the large number of political
prisoners now languishing in Rwanda’s official and unofficial
detention centres, including former minister and Social Democratic
Party leader Charles Ntakirutinka, FDU-Inkingi President Victoire
Ingabire, PS-Imberakuri Bernard Ntaganda, Deo Mushaidi and former
presidential candidate Dr Theoneste Niyitegeka.’
He also, urged the international community to continue to demand
justice for the politically motivated killings of Kagwa Rwisereka
(Vice President of the Democratic Green Party), journalists, Jean
Leonard Rugambage (Deputy Editor of the Umuvugizi newspaper) and Mr
John Rutayisire, who are just a few examples of ‘our compatriots who
have been assassinated by agents of the state for political reasons in
the recent past.’
That certainly, is the call majority of Rwandans under the bondage of
Kagame’s dictatorship would make at this point in time to the likes of
Mulamula and the international Community. These few examples of
Kagame’s crackdown on dissent emphasize his out and out violent and
bloody approaches to feeding his ego and quest for absolute power.
Rwandans ask UK Members of Parliament to follow through British prime minister’s new foreign policy on dictators
UN Mapping report on Crimes in D.R.Congo; Capitol Hill Advocacy objectives
Posted on February 27, 2011 In an interview with Ann Garrison of KPFA radio on the upcoming congressional briefing on March 2, AFJN Policy Analyst, Bahati Jacques said: "Our goal is to rally U.S. support for justice for the crimes committed by the Rwandan, Ugandan, and Burundian armies and their Congolese collaborators in the war against Congo in 1996 to 2003. Also we want the U.S. to take a clear stand on this issue, supporting the UN Mapping Report recommendations to set up an investigation to determine whether the targeted and massive killing of Congolese, Burundian, and Rwandan Hutu were a genocide." Listen or read the full interview here |