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.

3 Dec 2012

A racist bastard called J. Peter Pham wants an M23-ruled ethnocratic state set up in North Kivu


A racist bastard called J. Peter Pham wants an M23-ruled ethnocratic state set up in North Kivu

(PHOTO: Dr. J. Peter Pham, Director of the Michael S. Ansari Africa 
Center, Atlantic Council) 

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I got this very short impassioned and tearful email today sent from 
Washington at 0:47 EST by the mother of my daughter Elikia: 

"http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/01/opinion/to-save-congo-let-it-fall-apart.html 

How to fight this crap???" 

The link was to the op-ed titled "To Save Congo, Let It Fall Apart," a 
"crap" penned by one racist bastard, name of J. Peter Pham, and 
published on the New York Times of November 30. 

I call "racist bastard" any scholar from the US--there are only 
American scholars or researchers influenced by this kind of 
"sectarian" American scholarship to come up with this kind of 
crap--regardless of race--who'd concoct the political theory of 
splitting the Congo all the while denying any agency to the Congolese 
people. 

This absurd theory and the racist bastards peddling it rear their ugly 
heads every time there's a crisis in the Congo. 

Before J. Peter Pham, there was a tandem of racist bastards called 
Jeffrey Herbst and Greg Mills who, in 2009, were advocating to 
Secretary Hillary Clinton, in their crappy ForeignPolicy.com article, 
the annihilation of the Congolese nation. 

(See my post of October 11, 2009 on those two scholarly punks here: 
alexengwete.blogspot.com/2009/10/two-racist-scholars-mercenaries-as.html?m=1

And before Jeffrey Herbst and Greg Mills, I am told, there was the 
unlikely racist bastard called Susan Rice, who, during her tenure as 
Under Secretary for African Affairs in the Clinton administration, was 
also pushing for the fractioning of the Congo into micro-states. 

That's why I'm crossing my fingers these days for Sen. John McCain 
who, I wish, will succeed in his crusade to block Susan Rice as 
Secretary Clinton replacement. 

This goes a long way to show that those racist bastards have a 
vestigial genealogy of sorts. 

These racist bastards are all prolific postmodern theorists of 
so-called "failed states" with little grasp of the anthropological 
realities on the ground. 

A quick look at the pile of crap left by J. Peter Pham in his New York 
Times op-ed shows that these racist bastards often take leave of their 
senses when it comes to offering realistic solutions to the Congo. 

J. Peter Pham advocates for instance "breaking up a chronically failed 
state [DRC] into smaller organic units whose members share broad 
agreement or at least have common interests in personal and community 
security." 

Well, this brings to mind, as I pointed out in my post of October 2009 
referenced above, the "smaller organic units" the apartheid regime 
developed in South Africa, the infamous so-called "Bantustans." 

Maybe J. Peter Pham doesn't know that the DRC holds more than 400 
ethnic groups--large and small--which, if his theory were to be 
implemented, would yield more than 400 ethnic "organic units" or 
ethnocratic "républiquettes" or the weest and weirdest republics of 
the world! 

Welcome to the pre-colonial villages-states of the Congo Basin so 
well-researched by historian Jan Vansina! 

I do hope J. Peter Pham has made provosions for their mutual 
diplomatic recognition and their recognition by the United Nations or 
is this genius dreaming of creating instead 400 tiny rogue states. 

What's more, no one knows who would be doing the actual "breaking up" 
on the ground. Maybe J. Peter Pham has in mind the "international 
community" or the UN, with him as chief expert in "breaking up" a 
nation? 

In my October 2009 post denouncing Jeffrey Herbst and Greg Mills, I 
pointed to another essential characteristic of these racist bastards, 
including their latest avatar, J. Peter Pham: unrestrained, pernicious 
hubris in the form of what anthropologist Johannes Fabian calls 
"denial of coevalness" to the Congolese. 

I concluded that 2009 post by making this observation: 

"In his book Time and the Other, Fabian theorized that 
anthropologists, if not careful, could be prone to 'a split of 
temporalities,' imagining the primitive others as caught in temporal 
limbo, denying them 'coevalness.' Our two scholars-mercenaries show 
the same symptoms of this 'denial of coevalness.' 

"Congolese are primitives. They can't be agents of their own history. 
They don't count. 

"They are dough we could knead at will. Let's carve out the Congo into 
several tiny states, like the villages-states of yore. Let's fragment 
the place into Bantustans! ... 

"Underneath the thin veneer of the scholarship of these intellectual 
mercenaries festers a virulent racism. Not unlike the racism of 
Leopold II. A racism so metastasized that those suffering from it are 
unaware of their condition…" 

Let's turn back to J. Peter Pham, who goes on to write: 

"Others have dismissed the M23 leaders as 'warlords.' But warlords, 
even if they do not acquire power through democratic means, tend to 
provide some sort of political framework, often based on kinship ties 
or ethnic solidarity, that is seen as legitimate. 

"They also tend to provide some basic 
security — which is more than the 
questionably legitimate Kabila 
government in Kinshasa provides for 
most Congolese." 

If you still didn't take seriously my calling these scholars "racist 
bastards," that's the moment in J. Peter Pham's text that racism bares 
itself naked in all its frightening ugliness. 

But if you still continue to hold this impostor as a trailblazer in 
political science, I suggest you read the piece by New York Times 
reporter Jeffrey Gettleman titled "Dire Scene in Congolese City as 
Rebels Begin to Leave" published December 1. 

The heart-rendering article is uncannily hyperlinked to the crap left 
by J. Peter Pham. 

(See:www.nytimes.com/2012/12/01/world/africa/alarming-picture-as-rebels-prepare-to-leave-goma.html?ref=opinion

Gettleman writes: 

"Human rights groups said that the M23 rebels who captured Goma last 
week were now going on an assassination campaign as they prepared to 
leave, creating a vortex of crime and confusion." 

Adding: 

"Residents said that at least 10 people in Goma had been assassinated 
in the past 10 days, with many more disappearances. 

"After one magistrate was struck in the face with a machete and nearly 
killed last week, United Nations peacekeepers evacuated more than 20
other magistrates. 

" 'We've confirmed several cases of targeted killings by the M23 in 
and around Goma,' said Ms. [Ida] Sawyer, the Human Rights Watch 
researcher. 

"She said the victims included 'those who refused to join the M23 or 
act as informants, individuals deemed uncooperative during looting 
incidents, and other suspected 'enemies.' " 

Maybe J. Peter Pham was suggesting all along that North Kivu be set up 
as an M23-ruled ethnocratic micro-state that would purge itself 
through ethnic cleansing of the kind documented by Human Rights Watch. 

Let's give J. Peter Pham some benefit of the doubt. 

He might have been too busy adding yet one crappier essay to the more 
than "300 [crappy] essays" he's been authoring over the years to take 
notice of yet another Letter written by UN Group of Experts Steve 
Hege that documents the direct military intervention of Rwanda in the 
assault on Goma--thereby debunking J. Peter Pham's stupid theory of 
M23 as an "organic unit" indigenous to North Kivu. 

Quoting again from Jeffrey Gettleman's article: 

"[A] new letter to a United Nations Security Council committee said 
that the Rwandan Army had crossed the border into Congo and had helped 
the fighters capture Goma in the first place. 

"Rwandan troops 'openly entered into Goma through one of the two 
official border crossings,' said the letter, which was written by 
Steve Hege, the coordinator of a United Nations investigative panel, 
and was leaked by a third party." 

In other words, J. Peter Pham should stop bloviating about places and 
people he doesn't know the first thing about. 

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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.