Rwanda in eastern CongoA new sphere of influence?Rebel allies of Rwanda are making rapid inroadsAug 4th 2012 | GOMA | from the print edition  REBELS in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo have moved to within 25km (16 miles) of Goma, the capital of North Kivu province, and are threatening to take it if the Congolese government refuses to negotiate. Most of the rebels once fought for the National Congress for the Defence of the People, a Congolese movement known by its French initials, CNDP, that was previously backed by Rwanda. Most of its members are Tutsis, as are the key people in Rwanda's government. Under the terms of a peace deal signed on March 23rd 2009, they were integrated into Congo's army. But in April, complaining that the terms of the deal had been flouted, they mutinied, calling themselves the M23, a reference to the date of the deal. A UN "group of experts" on Congo subsequently published copious evidence that the M23, like the CNDP before it, enjoyed the support of Rwanda, whose president, Paul Kagame, strenuously denies any such thing. The M23 is ostensibly led by Sultani Makenga, who is loyal to a former CNDP leader, Laurent Nkunda. The UN panel, however, says the rebel group's actions are orchestrated by Bosco Ntaganda, who ousted Mr Nkunda as the CNDP's leader before signing the peace deal in 2009. Mr Ntaganda is wanted by the International Criminal Court in The Hague for war crimes, so the M23 is at pains publicly to distance itself from him. In any event, the M23 has made rapid advances against a demoralised, ill-disciplined and undersupplied Congolese army. In early July it seized Bunagana, a strategic town on the border with Uganda. It also took Rutshuru, Kiwanja and Rumangabo and is poised to grab the army post at Kibumba, half an hour's drive from Goma, which is now plainly in its sights. The M23 may also have infiltrated towns in Masisi district, the CNDP's heartland during the previous rebellion. A Congolese army regiment in Kitchanga, a trading hub where M23 leaders own a lot of property, consists mainly of former CNDP men. It has not yet joined the M23 mutiny but nor have its commanders sought to arrest M23 people or to seize arms said to be hidden in the town. If Kitchanga and the neighbouring towns of Mweso and Kilolirwe fall to the M23, the rebels would easily be able to take Goma. The UN's 17,000-strong stabilisation force in Congo has some troops at hand but seems loth to serve as a buffer between the rump of the Congolese army and the rebels. Should the M23 take Goma or even threaten to do so, Congo's government may feel obliged to negotiate. If the M23 then struck a deal involving special privileges, Rwanda would acquire, through its unofficial alliance with the M23, a wider sphere of influence in an area rich in minerals. That, say many people on the ground, is just what it wants. from the print edition | Middle East and Africa |
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
The economic achievements of Rwanda are praised by foreigners, the West who has been supporting Kagame in his dictatorship and war crimes. Rwanda needs democracy so that all Rwandan can have a say on these economic achievements by presenting alternative ideas and programmes. So far, it not possible to challenge these achievements trough democratic dialogue of alternative ideas. Most Western people have no other choices than praising Kagame because criticising by criticising Kagame, you may not travel to Rwanda anymore. This is the evidence of Rwandan dictatorship regime. All people fear to criticise Kagame. Everybody fear to say what Kagme does not want to hear.
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