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

Written Evidence Against UK Budget Support To Rwanda


International Development Committee - UK Aid to RwandaWritten evidence submitted by Ann Garrison

The Rwandan contingent became this angry when, after listening to them all day, I suggested that anyone evaluating the Rwanda Genocide and its aftermath in D.R. Congo, should also consider Radio Muhabura and sixteen years of UN human rights investigations beginning with the Gersony Report on Rwanda, produced in 1994, and leading to what was still the most recent report at the time: the UN Mapping Report on Human Rights Abuse in the Democratic Republic of the Congo 1993–2003. That report was leaked in August 2010 and made public in October 2010.
I'm sure that you have copies of these reports, and those produced between 1994 and 2010 and since, including those produced this year, which finally triggered this reconsideration of budget support to Rwanda.

Evidence Against UK Budget Support To Rwanda (Longer written statement explaining attached Sacramento State Police reports.)

1. As a journalist, I report and produce for the Pacifica Network's KPFA Radio-Northern California and remotely report and produce for a weekly hour on Africa—AfrobeatRadio—on Pacifica's New York City station, WBAI. I am also a regular contributor to Global Research, the Black Star News, the San Francisco Bay View Newspaper, and other publications, and I maintain my own website, anngarrison.com
2. For the past four years I have studied UN and other human rights investigations, histories, lawsuits, and news, and spoken to many African people and members of the African Diaspora to try to untangle the roots of the staggering bloodshed—millions of lives, maybe as many as 10 million or more—in Uganda, Rwanda, and most of all the Democratic Republic of Congo, as a consequence of armed conflicts of the past 20 to 30 years. I have put many African voices, who otherwise would not have been heard, on KPFA Radio in Northern California and WBAI Radio in New York City. Those voices included members of the Rwandan opposition parties who were not allowed to register their parties or stand for the presidency against Rwandan President Paul Kagame in 2010. They have also included Congolese in exile, many of whom don't dare return home.
3. In 2010, I spoke with all three Rwandan presidential candidates who appeared to be viable; others stood for the presidency as part of a charade in which Kagame won 93% of the vote. Two of those three viable presidential candidates, Bernard Ntaganda and Victoire Ingabire, are now in prison. Frank Habineza went into exile in Sweden for several years after the vice president of his party, the Democratic Green Party of Rwanda, was found by the banks of a river with his head cut off. Habineza has just returned to Rwanda, but he is being understandably circumspect in his public remarks.
4. During that 2010 election year, I reported that Rwandan President Paul Kagame's enemies were assassinated in Rwanda, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and in Tanzania and that there was an unsuccessful assassination attempt on his former general, Kayumba Nyamwasa, who was then in exile in South Africa.
5. I have not been to Rwanda or the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and the consensus among my friends is that I had better not even try getting anywhere near the border, because Rwandan President Kagame and his friends have made it clear they'd like to kill me. In 2011, Charles Ingabire, a Rwandan journalist in exile in Uganda, was gunned down in public in Kampala, after which Kagame said, as he usually does, that he cannot not be held responsible for every violent assault or robbery in his part of the world. President Kagame's state newspaper, The New Times, has denounced me repeatedly, as has a similarly self-righteous and delirious cartoon publication called The Exposer. My name has been added to long published lists of "Friends of Evil," aka, enemies of Rwanda.
6. I would like to submit in evidence the assault complaint that I filed with the Sacramento State University Campus Police after the conclusion of the November 2011 pseudo academic "Third International Genocide Conference," which was above all a shameless PR event for Rwandan President Paul Kagame, even though he decided not to come after a group of faculty protested both his appearance and the university president's plan to present him with a medal.
7. I sat and listened quietly almost all day, on one day of this conference. Near the very end of that day, in a breakout session, I asked whether the existence of Radio Muhabura prior to and during the Rwanda Genocide, the one available section of the 1994 Gersony Report, a long suppressed UN human rights investigation in Rwanda, 1994, and 12 more years of human rights reports documenting the Rwandan and Ugandan regime's atrocities and resource plunder in the Democratic Republic of Congo, should not also be considered in any evaluation of the Rwanda Genocide and its aftermath.
8. In the discussion that ensued, the Rwandan contingent, including Rwandan Ambassador to the U.S. James Kimonyo grew angrier and angrier and more and more shrill, until they surrounded me shouting and two of them actually laid hands on me. Then someone from the university intervened, saying, "Hey hey hey, you can't do that here."
9. I was badly shaken but not injured. I made an assault complaint and obtained a copy of the Sacramento State University Police report, so as to have it to offer it in argument against any similar event ever being staged at a California University campus. 
November 2012




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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.