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.

21 Apr 2013

Rwanda: Ms. Ingabire’s defense to the Supreme Court: serious mistakes of the High Court are the basis of the denial of justice to their client


Rwanda: Ms. Ingabire's defense to the Supreme Court: serious mistakes of the High Court are the basis of the denial of justice to their client

APRIL 19, 2013  
Press release 18th April 2013
The defence lawyers of Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza show serious flaws in the trial process including the violation of the constitution and demand her full acquittal.
Mrs Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza continued her submission in the Supreme Court on Thursday 18 th April 2013, demonstrating how her sentence was based on matters that were not brought before the High Court during her trial.
In her appeal Mrs Ingabire, political prisoner since 2010, continued her argumentation against the sentence passed by the High Court on the charge of genocide denial (negationism/revisionism). She condemned the judge of the High Court for passing a sentence based on sentiments rather than solid evidence. The judgement was based on the reports that Mrs Victoire Ingabire had submitted to the Court including UN documents. The documents analysed the root causes of genocide against Tutsi, war crimes and crimes against humanity. The judge purported that Mrs Victoire Ingabire had distorted the content of those reports.
Mrs Victoire Ingabire told the court that the judge's position to only acknowledge the crime of genocide and ignore other crimes such as war crimes and crimes against humanity, which are recognised by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda in Arusha, can only be based on sentiments than facts. This is highly regrettable, she pointed out. She added that there were many other independent reports that have been written about the issue of war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Rwanda.
Mrs Victoire Ingabire told the court that some legal provisions had been trampled on including the violation of article 17 of the National constitution which stipulates that "criminal liability is personal". To illustrate this point she said that no one would understand how she would be sentenced on the basis of crimes allegedly committed by someone else for example FDLR and other people who are said to have sent money to FDLR. The High Court was keen to accuse her of sending money without any shred of evidence, at least showing her name on the money transfer forms. Mrs Victoire Ingabire once again showed contradictions in the decision of the judge of the High Court particularly in places where the judge claims, without any shred of evidence that there was a plan,other through an electoral process, to change the regime.
Mrs Victoire Ingabire concluded her plea by asking the Supreme Court to give her justice denied to her by the High Court.
The plea of Mrs Victoire Ingabire which ended at 12:30 was followed by the submission by her lawyer Mr Gatera Gashabana. Mr Gatera pointed out that his client never had a fair trial in the High Court. He highlighted the fact that during court hearings and before the Prosecution, the most basic of tenet of fair trial that "someone is innocent until proven guilty" was never applied. The biased conduct of the judge who, at times played the role of the Prosecution, became so exasperating that his client was forced to abandon the whole process on the 16th of April 2012. It became very clear to Victoire that she could not expect to get a fair trial in that Court.
Mr Gatera also gave examples that highlighted that partiality of the judge of the High Court. For instance defence lawyers were harassed to the point that they were searched like any suspect something that does not happen to the staff of the Prosecution. This is in contravention of the legal practice that the staff of the prosecution and of the defence enjoy the same rights particularly the right not to be searched during the execution of their work. Mr Gatera pointed out to the court that during the process of the trial at the High Court, the defence had drawn the attention of the Supreme Court the legal provision regarding the non reactivity of criminal laws and lack of authority of the High Court to try Mrs Ingabire for some crimes that she client was accused of. The High Court did not respond to this request from the defence team. The decision was not communicated in Court as expected. It was the spokesperson of the Courts and Tribunals who gave directives to the High Court through the media. The defence was shocked when the High court resumed, only seeing that the High Court was acting in line with the directives that were published in the papers quoting the spokesperson of Courts and Tribunals. This was a clear indication of lack of independence of the judge.
Mr Gatera pointed out that the partiality reached its paroxysm when the judge swore at the defence lawyers and threatened to end their mandate to represent Mrs Victoire Ingabire. This was again demonstrated when the defence witness was harassed and the judge simply ignored it. Such behaviour is clear testimony of lack of equal opportunity and of equal treatment of the prosecution and the defence.
Mr Gatera again pointed out the partiality of the High Court was again demonstrated when his client was sentenced on the basis of matters which were not brought before the court. This done simply because the prosecution was unable to make its case on the initial six charges that had been accused of. He highlighted the fact that the new charges of negationism/revisionism (genocide denial) and high treason did not appear anywhere in the charge sheet. His client was never interrogated about these charges by either the prosecution or the criminal investigation department. According to Gatera this is quite evident that the judge used powers that are not provided for in the Rwandan law.
Court hearings will resume on Monday 22nd April 2013.
 
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Boniface TWAGIRIMANA
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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.