The dictator Kagame at UN

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

Why has the UN ignored its own report about the massacres of Hutu refugees in DRC ?

The UN has ignored its own reports, NGOs and media reports about the massacres of hundreds of thousands of Hutu in DRC Congo (estimated to be more than 400,000) by Kagame when he attacked Hutu refugee camps in Eastern DRC in 1996. This barbaric killings and human rights violations were perpetrated by Kagame’s RPF with the approval of UK and USA and with sympathetic understanding and knowledge of UNHCR and international NGOs which were operating in the refugees camps. According to the UN, NGO and media reports between 1993 and 2003 women and girls were raped. Men slaughtered. Refugees killed with machetes and sticks. The attacks of refugees also prevented humanitarian organisations to help many other refugees and were forced to die from cholera and other diseases. Other refugees who tried to return to Rwanda where killed on their way by RFI and did not reach their homes. No media, no UNHCR, no NGO were there to witness these massacres. When Kagame plans to kill, he makes sure no NGO and no media are prevent. Kagame always kills at night.

12 Jun 2012

Fw: *DHR* Time for U.S., U.K. to Change Rwanda Policy

 
 
http://enoughproject.org/blogs/u-turn-time-us-uk-change-rwanda-policy 

U-Turn: Time for U.S., U.K. to Change Rwanda Policy

Posted by Enough Team on Jun 06, 2012
   
GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo andWASHINGTON, D.C. -- Evidence is mounting that Rwanda is supporting the new rebellion in eastern Congo, the M23, with recruits, weapons, and ammunition. Following interviews with 23 recent alleged Rwandan recruits and several other eyewitnesses, Human Rights Watch reported on Monday in intricate, horrifying detail how Rwanda has been allegedly recruiting, abducting, and helping train between 200-300 of its own nationals to fight with the M23 since February. Children had been pulled out of movie theaters, and defectors had their heads bashed in with hammers, according to the report.
The previous week, U.N. officials stated that their interviews with 11 other Rwandan recruits revealed that 500 Rwandans had been recruited to join the Rwandan army and then taken by Rwanda military officers overnight to eastern Congo to train with the M23 rebels, following a BBC story on the internal report. This follows an extensive U.N. report in December 2011, which alleges that significant amounts of conflict minerals from eastern Congo were likely being smuggled to Rwanda, and ICC-wanted war criminal and possible M23 leader Bosco Ntaganda traveled repeatedly to Rwanda in 2011.
The United States and United Kingdom have been Rwanda's most prominent allies over the past 18 years yet have not commented on the scandal since it broke last week. Together, the two countries are by far the largest donors to Rwanda, providing an estimated $344 million in annual aid, in addition to ongoing military training and assistance, as well as allying with Rwanda on security and other international issues.
The U.N., U.S., and U.K. should immediately make public their understanding of the role of Rwanda in the conflict in eastern Congo and the extent of their bilateral and multilateral relations with that country.
Given the wealth of evidence provided for grave human rights abuses linked to the Rwandan military in eastern Congo, the U.S. and U.K. governments should ensure that a transparent international investigation is launched into the allegations of Rwandan involvement in the conflict in eastern Congo. While this is ongoing, the U.S. and U.K. should immediately suspend bilateral and multilateral budget support payments to the Rwandan government, and look closely at other aid categories that might be suspended as well depending upon the outcome of the investigation.
If these continued allegations are proven true, it means that beyond the brazen breach of Congolese national sovereignty, Rwanda is also in violation of several international laws and agreements, including a U.N. arms embargo on Congo, the crime of aggression through fomenting conflict in a neighboring country, and the forced recruitment of child soldiers. The U.S. and U.K. must send a clear signal to Rwanda that manipulation of security and political structures in eastern Congo will not be accepted nor ignored. The U.S. and U.K. will have to immediately reassess the nature of their policies and relationships with Rwanda to ensure that, by extension, they are not being willingly complicit in supporting these violations of international law. 
A recent U.N. investigation found that Rwandan recruits were crossing into Congolese soil with arms and ammunition as early as February of this year. The internal U.N. report has been kept strictly confidential, but a U.N. source told Enough that the allegations were accurate, and that 24 Rwandan nationals are currently at the U.N. transit camp for demobilized combatants in Goma. The U.N. has strictly forbidden access to these individuals, apparently because of Rwandan government pressure. According to sources within the U.N. and the Congolese army, the fighters were trained in Rwanda, as the BBC reported. Human Rights Watch published similar evidence on June 4, reinforcing allegations that Rwanda is arming and staffing the mutiny. New recruits have brought Kalashnikov assault rifles, machine guns, and anti-aircraft artillery to Runyoni, in Rutshuru territory, the main base of the rebellion. Intelligence and military officials, who wished to remain anonymous, confirmed to the Enough Project the recruitment start date of early February.
Some of the Rwandan nationals were forcefully recruited, according to both the U.N. source Enough spoke to and HRW. HRW also found that some recruits are children under the age of 18.
The U.N. bases its allegations on statements from 11 Rwandan recruits who turned themselves in for demobilization. "They were recruited with the pretext to join the Rwandan army, and not to fight in a rebellion on foreign territory," the U.N. source said. As of last week, at least 14 Rwandan nationals had turned themselves over to the U.N. and are in the U.N. transit camp in Goma. No outside investigators are allowed to speak to the surrenders out of fear that the incident could become a diplomatic nightmare. "They said they were recruited in a village called Mundede, that they received training in handling weapons and that they were sent to the DRC to join M23," said Hiroute Guebre-Selassie, head of the U.N. mission in Congo, MONUSCO.
The Rwandan government has vehemently denied any involvement with the rebel group. Its foreign minister, Louise Mushikiwabo, called the allegations "categorically false and dangerous." U.N. Special Representative to Congo Roger Meece has reportedly been invited by Rwandan President Paul Kagame to account for the allegations. A joint commission by both countries has been established to investigate the allegations, but U.N. sources told the Enough Project that Rwanda is pushing its Congolese counterparts on the commission to misrepresent the surrendered fighters as people of "Congolese Kinyarwanda speaking backgrounds" rather than Rwandan nationals.
As more evidence of the close collaboration between the mutineers and the Rwandan government surfaces, the CNDP political wing—whose former members largely make up the new M23 group—has now declared its opposition to the Congolese president who they helped to reelect in last year's elections through voter fraud and violence. The CNDP disavowed the presidential majority on June 2, making the same complaints as the M23 when it publicly established its agenda a few weeks ago. The CNDP political leadership has distanced itself from the M23, in an attempt to ensure it will not be blamed for violating the Congolese constitution's provision that prohibits political parties from having military forces. However, the similar grievances articulated by both point to a close association between the CNDP-affiliated politicians and rebels that is difficult to ignore.
Photo: A soldier in eastern Congo (AP)
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-“The enemies of Freedom do not argue ; they shout and they shoot.”

The principal key root causes that lead to the Rwandan genocide of 1994 that affected all Rwandan ethnic groups were:

1)The majority Hutu community’s fear of the return of the discriminatory monarchy system that was practiced by the minority Tutsi community against the enslaved majority Hutu community for about 500 years

2)The Hutu community’s fear of Kagame’s guerrilla that committed massacres in the North of the country and other parts of the countries including assassinations of Rwandan politicians.

3) The Rwandan people felt abandoned by the international community ( who was believed to support Kagame’s guerrilla) and then decided to defend themselves with whatever means they had against the advance of Kagame’ guerrilla supported by Ugandan, Tanzanian and Ethiopian armies and other Western powers.

-“The enemies of Freedom do not argue ; they shout and they shoot.”

-“The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish.”

-“The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.”

-“I have loved justice and hated iniquity: therefore I die in exile.”

The Rwanda war of 1990-1994 had multiple dimensions.

The Rwanda war of 1990-1994 had multiple dimensions. Among Kagame’s rebels who were fighting against the Rwandan government, there were foreigners, mainly Ugandan fighters who were hired to kill and rape innocent Rwandan people in Rwanda and refugees in DRC.

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SUMMARY : THE TRAGIC CONSEQUENCES OF THE BRITISH BUDGET SUPPORT AND GEO-STRATEGIC AMBITIONS

United Kingdom's Proxy Wars in Africa: The Case of Rwanda and DR Congo:

The Rwandan genocide and 6,000,000 Congolese and Hutu refugees killed are the culminating point of a long UK’s battle to expand their influence to the African Great Lakes Region. UK supported Kagame’s guerrilla war by providing military support and money. The UK refused to intervene in Rwanda during the genocide to allow Kagame to take power by military means that triggered the genocide. Kagame’s fighters and their families were on the Ugandan payroll paid by UK budget support.


· 4 Heads of State assassinated in the francophone African Great Lakes Region.
· 2,000,000 people died in Hutu and Tutsi genocides in Rwanda, Burundi and RD.Congo.
· 600,000 Hutu refugees killed in R.D.Congo, Uganda, Central African Republic and Rep of Congo.
· 6,000,000 Congolese dead.
· 8,000,000 internal displaced people in Rwanda, Burundi and DR. Congo.
· 500,000 permanent Rwandan and Burundian Hutu refugees, and Congolese refugees around the world.
· English language expansion to Rwanda to replace the French language.
· 20,000 Kagame’s fighters paid salaries from the British Budget Support from 1986 to present.
· £500,000 of British taxpayer’s money paid, so far, to Kagame and his cronies through the budget support, SWAPs, Tutsi-dominated parliament, consultancy, British and Tutsi-owned NGOs.
· Kagame has paid back the British aid received to invade Rwanda and to strengthen his political power by joining the East African Community together with Burundi, joining the Commonwealth, imposing the English Language to Rwandans to replace the French language; helping the British to establish businesses and to access to jobs in Rwanda, and to exploit minerals in D.R.Congo.



Thousands of Hutu murdered by Kagame inside Rwanda, e.g. Kibeho massacres

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.

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25,000 Hutu bodies floated down River Akagera into Lake Victoria in Uganda.

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  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.

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.

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

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.

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This blog reports the crimes that remain unpunished and the impunity that has generated a continuous cycle of massacres in many parts of Africa. In many cases, the perpetrators of the crimes seem to have acted in the knowledge that they would not be held to account for their actions.

The need to fight this impunity has become even clearer with the massacres and genocide in many parts of Africa and beyond.

The blog also addresses issues such as Rwanda War Crimes, Rwandan Refugee massacres in Dr Congo, genocide, African leaders’ war crimes and crimes against humanity, Africa war criminals, Africa crimes against humanity, Africa Justice.

-The British relentless and long running battle to become the sole player and gain new grounds of influence in the francophone African Great Lakes Region has led to the expulsion of other traditional players from the region, or strained diplomatic relations between the countries of the region and their traditional friends. These new tensions are even encouraged by the British using a variety of political and economic manoeuvres.

-General Kagame has been echoing the British advice that Rwanda does not need any loan or aid from Rwandan traditional development partners, meaning that British aid is enough to solve all Rwandan problems.

-The British obsession for the English Language expansion has become a tyranny that has led to genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity, dictatorial regimes, human rights violations, mass killings, destruction of families, communities and cultures, permanent refugees and displaced persons in the African Great Lakes region.


- Rwanda, a country that is run by a corrupt clique of minority-tutsi is governed with institutional discrmination, human rights violations, dictatorship, authoritarianism and autocracy, as everybody would expect.