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 Mar 2013

USA: Professor and Rwandan refugee team up for film


Professor and Rwandan refugee team up for film

By Dylan Fahoome

Published: Monday, March 11, 2013

Updated: Monday, March 11, 2013

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Banners commemorating the 18th anniversary of the Rwandan genocide outside a Catholic church in Nyamata, Rwanda. "Stateless," a documentary produced by DePaul CDM Professor Scott Erlinder, brings light to a 'cessation clause' that could affect Rwandan refugees.

There's a phrase Scott Erlinder loves to use from President Kagame of Rwanda: "The way that you change things is you empty your neighbor's rain barrel with a spoon because they'll never notice it."

Erlinder, an assistant professor of cinematography and visual effects in the col­lege of computing and digital media at DePaul, has recently finished a film on the current state of affairs in Rwanda, with the goal to do precisely the opposite.

"We're trying to take all those spoons and put it back into the rain barrel so peo­ple can see what's going on," said Erlinder.

Erlinder was working on a film about Rwanda retelling what people already knew about the 1994 genocide and the re­cent refugee crisis when he first met Mu­tuyimana Manzi through Barbara Harrell-Bond, the founder of the Refugee Studies Center at Oxford University.

"She put me in touch with Manzi and he had been working with a group called the Refugee Law Project," said Erlinder.

Erlinder needed to videotape a confer­ence in Kampala along with interviews of Rwandan refugees for the film. Since he did not speak Kinyarwanda and knew Manzi could speak and work from his lo­cation in Uganda, a new partnership was born.

"I decided to rent him a camera to cover both of those things and that was sort of the start of our collaboration," said Erlinder.

Manzi and Erlinder began exchang­ing emails and worked together for about a year and a half until Erlinder was forced to pause and consider something serious. The Rwandan government had tried to as­sassinate Manzi because of his filming on three separate occasions.

"After the third incident I felt do I owe an obligation to this guy," said Erlinder. "I mean he's helped me. That happened in July of this year so in August my wife and I said we've got to get him out of there. It was obvious that if we left him in Uganda that something bad was going to happen."

Erlinder and his wife talked to Manzi and asked him if he could go to school any­where, what he would want to study.

"He said he wanted to write for a news­paper or something like that and I said, 'Well Manziyou realize what you've been doing is already being a journalist, in fact a video journalist,'" said Erlinder. "I saw a lot of talent in him."

Erlinder and his wife then tried to bring him back to the United States from Ugan­da, butErlinder says now he still doesn't even know how they made it happen.

Manzi did not have a passport because he was living as a refugee in Uganda. The only papers he had were from the UN Ref­ugee Agency, making it difficult to apply for visas as a technically 'stateless' person.

After much wrangling, Manzi managed to get an F-1 Student Visa and Erlinder se­cured him a scholarship to get started at DePaul's communication school.

"Until the day I was able to board the plane, until the day I was at O'Hare air­port, it wasn't really what was happen­ing," said Manzi, whose experience here as a 28-year-old undergraduate student Erlinder described as a being a 'tornado'.

"Sometimes I was thinking, 'I am dreaming… I am going to wake up,'" said Manzi.

Manzi's journey to Chicago was one that often seemed impossible.

"He thinks God himself didn't know for sure after his visa interview," said Priya Yavagal, an editor who collaborated with Erlinder on the film. "Until you actually saw him get out of O'Hare it was like we had no idea what's going on. It's like he had to be here. So he's here."

The film "Stateless," which was re­cently completed, is a short 47 minute doc­umentary that brings light to the 'cessation clause' pending before the U.N. that could affect Manzi and other Rwandan refugees.

The clause that could pass in an up­coming June 30 U.N. session requires agreement among African countries host­ing Rwandan expatriates. The cessation clause would remove refugee status for those who sought sanctuary between 1959 and 1998 in neighboring countries, declar­ing those who refuse to return to Rwanda after the invocation as "stateless people," according to the film's website.

But Erlinder has hope the cessation might fail again.

"They've tried to institute this clause four times and it's failed for one reason or another usually because the circumstances haven't proven to be what the UN says they should be," said Erlinder. "So they tried a different approach this time and refugees that were out of the country from 1959 to 1998… it's this first group but we feel it's sort of this nibbling approach – we'll get these people and it's a precedent to get the other ones to push the other ones back."

The film describes the state of Rwan­dan refugees currently as being in a 'hu­man limbo' without nationality, yet forced to live in impoverished conditions and camps in neighboring countries.

In 2010, the New York Times reported that about 1,700 Rwandans seeking asy­lum were driven to several trucks at gun­point and taken back into Rwanda against their will from Kampala, Uganda.

Manzi himself had fled to Uganda in 2006, and feels that Rwanda is under a re­gime and not a government.

"When you want the truth and justice in Rwanda, you are described as a geno­cide denier," said Manzi. "When you are fighting for democracy in Rwanda, they are going to frame you as someone [with] genocide ideology and someone threaten­ing national security."

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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.