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.

28 Oct 2012

The Intrinsically Defective 'Rwandan Despot Leader-Brand' The Uganda Journalist, Mwenda is Struggling to Market

http://www.salem-news.com/articles/may112012/rwandan-despot-ckkmk.php

The Intrinsically Defective 'Rwandan Despot Leader-Brand' The Uganda Journalist, Mwenda is Struggling to Market

Submitted and edited by: Jennifer Fierberg, MSW; Salem-News.com.

Mwenda
Mwenda

(NEW YORK ) - The Rwandan tyrannical ruler, General Paul Kagame, is known for his excessive and brutal control of the media for his warfare. 

Charles KM Kambanda, PhD

The former rebel leader will stop at nothing to grab 'international recognition' thanks to his complex and exorbitant public-relations and lobbyists network. General Kagame considers it a favor to Rwandans for his government to perform the basic functions of government.

The General's public-relations team and lobbyists must find a Western university to decorate their principal with an honorary doctorate, for as minor a government function as repairing a 25km road. One of General Kagame's public-relations agents is Andrew Mwenda, a prominent and respected Ugandan journalist. It is well-documented that General Kagame cuts Mwenda's pay-checks from Rwandan government "classified" expenditures. There are various disturbing phenomena in the Kagame-Mwenda illegal and unethical transaction. First, it defeats all principles of public finance management for an individual journalist like Mr. Mwenda to receive from public coffers huge amount of money under the guise of a 'classified' expenditure. Second, it borders insanity for a journalist of Mr. Mwenda's caliber to justify even the most obvious corrupt, immoral and unethical conduct of General Kagame, including the alleged Hollywood-like decapitating of the General's critics in Kigali, other parts of the country and some neighboring countries. Mr. Mwenda forgets that General Kagame has often made adoptive admission to these wicked assassinations.

Unsubstantiated attack on international human rights organization

Rwanda's Paul Kagame

In his most recent piece entitled "Rwanda's Brand Problem", Mwenda argues that international human rights organizations, some media house and some foreign academics exploits what he calls "Rwanda's positive brand to build their own." Mwenda does not address his mind to the international human rights organizations' concerns over Kagame's style of government. Most international human rights organizations' issues with Kagame's regime include: violation human rights and freedoms, militarizing and personalizing public institutions, suppressing the media, personalizing public finance and other resources. General Kagame is accused of destabilizing society, killing people and stealing the Congo's natural resources through his proxy warlords. Kagame's critics accuse him of maintaining a Tutsi minority dominated army, national police, security organs and government. The United Nations Mapping Report accuses General Kagame of war crimes, crimes against humanity and possibly genocide. A French Court has General Kagame's arrest warrants sealed for war crimes, mass murder, crimes against humanity and terrorism. A Spanish Court issued international arrest warrants for similar crimes committed by the General's top aides. General Kagame's Spanish international arrest warrant is pending his exist from presidency. General Kagame's court case in the US is pending for the same reason.

Andrew Mwenda argues that international human rights organizations, some media houses and some foreign academics exploits what he calls Rwanda's positive brand to build their own because "… many visitors to Rwanda are impressed by what they see. Physical observations – clean and well paved streets, manicured flowers, working street lights, mowed lawns, functional hospitals and schools and well-constructed pedestrian sidewalks strike a visitor's eye. However, these visual observations tell of something profound about post genocide Rwanda – the construction of a functional state and one which has a strong commitment to serving the public good". First, the Ugandan journalist appears to have a very limited view of "functions of a State". The entire litany of what the Ugandan journalist equates with 'functions of the State' is actually proper functions of private persons in a nation-state. Second, it is evident that Mwenda's response to the human rights organizations' concerns is fallacious. It is not logical to liken physical infrastructure with respect for human rights. Third, Mr. Mwenda does not inform his audience that most of the new Plazas in Kigali city belong to General Kagame and his personal business empire. Mwenda does not tell his readers that most of the "new" buildings are in the sea of dreadfully poverty stricken Kigali town neighborhoods. For well known reasons, Mwenda does not inform his readers that some of the General's "excellent" buildings in Kigali city stand on grabbed land. Fourth, Mwenda does not inform the public that in the suburbs of Kigali city, Kagame's security organs engage in a systematic selection of who should be allowed to set-foot in the "clean city". Whenever a poor, untidy-looking Rwandan attempts to set-foot into Kagame's 'clean city', jail is inevitable. It is public knowledge that over 40% of Rwanda's children suffer malnutrition related diseases yet Mr. Mwenda shows no concern for their plight. Further, close to 65% of Rwandans are said to leave under abject poverty living on less than one USD per day. Mwenda must have forgotten that Libya and Egypt had better cities and, certainly, more physical infrastructure under their respective previous dictators.

Mwenda's fallacious argument

Mwenda argues that the international human rights organizations, journalist-defense associations (Reporters without Borders) and sections of the regional and international press are ignorant of what happens in Rwanda because "many of these people have never visited Rwanda or have done so only occasionally".

This argument is invalid. First, Mwenda seeks to limit knowledge to physical space. In this century of advanced information technology, space is no limit to what people can know about places. Secondly, Mwenda appears to think that participant observation is the only data collection method. Third, Mwenda's argument is faulty because he gives an impression that knowledge about what happens in Rwanda is limited to inhabitants of, or people who live in, Rwanda. Mwenda's argument, at this level, fails on the basic principles of epistemology, logic, common sense and decency.

Andrew Mwenda seeks solace into frantic sophism

As if it would save his flawed arguments, Mwenda argues that "democracy and human rights are abstract issues where conjecture, prejudice and bias tend to work better. Thus, rumors, hearsay, idle gossip or out-of-context accusations can easily mislead an observer". This argument is disturbing in a number of aspects. First, even the least scientific relativist ought to be aware of the universal human rights and democratic principles. Human rights and democratic principles have gained universal acceptability and application. It appears Mwenda's confusion strategy to go sophist on this. Second, Mwenda is on record for attacking President Museveni of Uganda for human rights violation, corruption and nepotism among other serious breaches of democratic values. If Mwenda is convinced that human rights and democracy are abstract concepts, why does he accuse Museveni of violating human rights? Are human rights and democracy abstract only when it involves General Kagame?

Mwenda on the alleged General Kalama sponsored assassination plots

Kayumba Nyamwasa and Paul Kagame

Mr. Mwenda argues that Gen. Kagame is wrongly accused of assassinating his critics and real or perceived political opponents. Mr. Mwenda opinioned that: "for example, the death of a journalist or an alleged threat to assassinate an opposition politician in exile immediately prompts human rights groups to take on the issue and even without a whit of evidence accuse the Rwanda government of being the perpetrator". First, Mwenda is probably not aware that a Criminal Court in South African is yet to rule on an attempted murder of General Kayumba Nyamwasa, General Kagame's former Military Chief. In this case, all evidence point to General Kagame. In any case, prosecution educed a prima facie case against General Kagame's suicidal security agents.

Mr. Mwenda does not seem to know that the United Kingdom Police revealed a secret plan in which Kagame's suicidal security agents wanted to assassinate some critics of Kagame regime living in UK.

The Swedish government recently expelled a Rwandan diplomat for what the Swedish government termed 'getting involved in spying and harassing some Rwandan refugees in Sweden'. The Green Party Vice President was butchered in a Hollywood-like incident.

When the Green party and the family of the deceased mobilized resources to have the beheaded Green Party Vice President's body flown to a neutral country for postmortem, General Kagame's government said that would violate the country's Sovereignty! The list of broad-day assassination of Kagame's critics in Rwanda, Congo (DRC) and other countries is inexhaustible. The US envoy to the United Nations, while on official visit in Kagali, told General Kagame that the General's obstinate violation of human rights and freedoms were making Kagame a liability for all friends of Rwanda. On some occasions, General Kagame is confronted by foreign journalist to explain the suspected insane assassinations of the General's critics and journalists. General Kagame's demeanor and the comic responses to inquiries about his critics assassination is, by all standards, adoptive admission. While responding to the concern that he had been behind the attempted murder of his former right hand military boss in South Africa, General Kagame said, "My security or military agents never miss their victims when they shoot." Isn't this adoptive admission and admissible evidence by and sober court of law?


Mwenda's mission impossible

It is well documented that Mr Mwenda is on Kagame's payroll for marketing the General's intrinsically defective 'brand'. However, Mr. Mwenda folds his circus tent saying that "The Rwandan Government is good in many things. But it is shambolic in public relations. In almost all cases, human rights groups out-punch it, outmaneuver it and out-talk it leaving it bruised". Mr. Mwenda forgets that lobbyists and public-relations agents do not make miracles. The "brand" they are marketing must be reasonably good. General Kagame's domestic and international criminal record is beyond repair. It is only natural and prudent that Mr. Mwenda feels frustrated about marketing the 'Kagame defective brand', not-withstanding the pay-check this Ugandan journalist receives from the atrocious Rwandan tyrannical ruler. What is disturbing is that Mr. Mwenda does not resign his public-relations job for Kagame even when he knows his job adds no value to Rwanda people's welfare.

The Bill Clinton and Tony Blair mix

Mr. Mwenda like many of Rwanda's despot lobbyists constantly argue that the General is a great leader because he is advised by former US President (Bill Clinton) and the British ex-Prime Minister (Tony Blair). The fallacious nature of this argument is disquieting. Whether or not former President Bill Clinton and the British ex-Prime Minister Tony Blair are clean is not the primary concern. However, Mr. Mwenda like other exorbitant public relations agents and lobbyists for General Kagame never bother reminding their audience that the British ex-Prime Minister was also a close friend to former Libyan despot ruler. Is it a coincident that Former US President (Bill Clinton) and the British ex-Prime Minister (Tony Blair) sit on the advisory board of Teneo Holdings which was paid at least $625,000 to do public-relations and financial consulting work for Jon Corzine brokerage that went down the cliff amidst horrible scandals? Is being advised by the former US President and British ex-Prime Minister a guarantee that General Kagame is doing well? No matter how Mr. Mwenda paints the 'Rwanda Brand" no amount of coverage can erase the legacy of death that President Kagame will leave to the world.

By: Charles KM KAMBANDA, Dip.Phil., BA., LLB., MA.ETPM., MBA., MA.HRTs., LLM., PhD
Edited by: Jennifer Fierberg, MSW

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Submitted and edited by: Jennifer Fierberg, MSW; a correspondent, Assistant Editor, and Volunteer Coordinator for NGO News Africa through the volunteer project of the UN. and Salem-News.com. Jennifer is also the media co-coordinator and senior funding executive for The Africa Global Village (www.africaglobalvillage.com)

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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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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.