The dictator Kagame at UN

The dictator Kagame at UN
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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.

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Congolese to UN: Let our army advance against Rwanda’s M23 | San Francisco Bay View


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Congolese to UN: Let our army advance against Rwanda's M23

July 24, 2013
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by Ann Garrison

AfrobeatRadio broadcast on WBAI, New York City, July 20, 2013

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WBAI AfrobeatRadio/Ann Garrison: On Wednesday, July 17, Nick Long reported for the Voice of America that the Congolese army's recent successes at driving the M23 militia from their positions in eastern Congo have caused euphoria amongst Congolese, particularly in Goma, the capital city of North Kivu Province on Congo's border with Rwanda. Here's that Voice of America radio report:

Col. Mamadou NGÇÖDala Moustafa by Reuters video
Col. Mamadou N'Dala Moustafa, commander of the Congolese army in North Kivu Province, has become hugely popular for his success at forcing Rwanda's M23 troops from their positions. – Photo: Screenshot from Reuters video
"This was a government army position at mid-afternoon Wednesday, just after the M23 had started targeting some nearby tanks.

"'You men get forward,' the sergeant is shouting. 'Where are you retreating for? Get in front of the tanks.'

"For a moment, there was a brief panic as mortar bombs started falling, causing some casualties in this commando platoon.

"'Take that man and get him out of here,' an officer shouts, pointing to a soldier who has just been hit.

"But the incoming fire seemed to be heavily outweighed by the army's outgoing fire with tanks, artillery and helicopter gunships that pounded the rebel positions.

"After an hour or more of shelling on both sides, the commandos moved forward following the tanks.

"An intelligence officer said the unit had advanced 300 meters by mid-afternoon. That rate of progress may speed up if, as United Nations sources report, the rebels are running low on ammunition.

"The M23 is outmanned as well as outgunned, having only around 2,000 combatants against an army that on paper numbers 100,000. Although the army faces many other armed groups, few of them support M23.

"A civilian, Jules Akili, who traveled through the M23 zone on Wednesday before crossing over to the government side, told VOA he saw hardly any M23 soldiers.

"He says he traveled from Rutshuru Centre, a distance of about 40 kilometers, and saw only five M23 soldiers along the route, which was guarded by M23 police.

"The Congolese army's recent successes have prompted euphoric scenes in Goma, with civilians waving leafy branches staging victory runs on the outskirts of town.

Congolese march to support Col. Mamadou NGÇÖDala Moustafa in Goma 0713 by Lucha RD Congo video
Congolese citizens of Goma march in support of Col. Mamadou N'Dala Moustafa. – Photo: Screenshot from Lucha RD Congo video
"Tens of thousands of people displaced by fighting who are living in camps around Goma are hoping the army can defeat all the rebels so they can return to their homes.

"These women at a displaced peoples camp say they would be very happy to see their villages liberated from the rebels and are hopeful the army can do it.

"A Congolese journalist told VOA five government soldiers were badly wounded on Wednesday, and a local journalist also was hurt.

"On Tuesday, the government said 120 rebels had been killed in the fighting since Sunday, a claim that could not be independently verified

"A United Nations source Wednesday evening said the army had pushed back an M23 counter attack and was still advancing."

WBAI/AfrobeatRadio: And that was Nick Long, reporting from Goma for the Voice of America. Our only disagreement, here at AfrobeatRadio, is that we do not describe the M23 militia as rebels. The 2012 U.N. Group of Experts on the Democratic Republic of the Congo's report documented that M23 is commanded by top officials of the Rwandan Army, who answer to Rwandan President Paul Kagame, and we consider a militia with the top of its command structure in a neighboring country to be invaders and occupiers, not rebels.

Congolese troops advance toward M23 outside Goma 0716 by Kenny Katombe, Reuters, web
Congolese troops head past villagers toward the front line where they are engaging M23 just outside Goma. – Photo: Kenny Katombe, Reuters
The past 13 years of U.N. investigations and other human rights reports have identified the M23 militia and its predecessor, the CNDP militia, as Rwandan and Ugandan allied forces with minerals smuggling networks that sustain the war in eastern Congo, which have operated with the blessing of the international community, including donor nations, the IMF and World Bank, and the U.N. Security Council.

Two days after his report that the Congolese army seemed so close to driving M23 from North Kivu, Nick Long reported, this time for the Associated Press, that 200 demonstrators had marched toward the United Nations base in Goma carrying placards that read, "The U.N. is mocking us" and "Let our armed forces do their job," before being dispersed by police.

AfrobeatRadio spoke to Aimé Bomela, a native of eastern Congo now in Houston, who was born in Kisangani, speaks both Lingala and Swahili and remains in touch with extensive family and friends in Goma and elsewhere in eastern Congo. He said that Congolese people have every reason to believe that the U.N. has a history of preventing Congolese forces from repelling Rwandan and Ugandan invaders. He said the U.N. had intervened to prevent the M23's previous incarnation, the CNDP militia, in 2007:

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Congolese native Aimé Bomela came to the U.S. in 2011.
Aimé Bomela: So, here's the thing: We do not have any evidence that we can prove that the United Nations is preventing Congolese army to attack the M23. But, in 2007, I went to Botembo – it's between Beni and Lubero. I went to Botembo. I met with a soldier, a Congolese soldier. So he told me that when Laurent Nkunda's CNDP attacked Rumangabo Camp, the United Nations was saying, "Congolese army, you have to stop. You have to stop, so that we can make a negotiation between you and the CNDP."

And while the United Nations was preventing Congolese Army to attack Laurent Nkunda, in the same time, Laurent Nkunda didn't listen anything that United Nations was saying. And he came back to fight and he killed so many Congolese soldiers. And the Congolese soldier that talked to me told me that "We lost our friends. We lost our people. Many of us lost our lives."

That is telling us that sometimes, when the Congolese army wants to fight back, the only thing they hear from United Nations is "Please stop." So, that being said, the United Nations is trying to stop Congolese army to attack and fight back about what is going on right now."

WBAI AfrobeatRadio/Ann Garrison: AfrobeatRadio also spoke to Kambale Musavuli, Congolese native and mining researcher for Washington D.C.-based Friends of the Congo. Kambale was driving and on a cell phone, so we weren't able to record his voice well enough for the radio, but he told us that Friends of the Congo's on-the-ground sources in Goma, who did not want to risk being identified, confirmed that U.N. forces had actively blocked Congolese forces from advancing further on M23 positions.

Kambale also said to remind listeners that the U.N.'s history of stopping Congolese nationalist movements goes back as far as 1960 and '61, when they collaborated with Belgium and the U.S. in assassinating Patrice Lumumba, the hero of the country's struggle for independence from Belgium and its first prime minister.

For Pacifica, KPFA, and AfrobeatRadio, I'm Ann Garrison.

Oakland writer Ann Garrison writes for the San Francisco Bay View,Global Research, Colored Opinions, Black Star News and her own website, Ann Garrison, and produces for AfrobeatRadio on WBAI-NYC, KPFA Evening News and her own YouTube Channel,AnnieGetYourGang. She can be reached atann@afrobeatradio.com. If you want to see Ann Garrison's independent reporting continue, please contribute on her website atanngarrison.com.

Title Translation: Goma, capital of North Kivu Province, D.R. Congo: Marches in support of the Congolese army, the FARDC

Title translation: The on the ground advance of our valiant FARDC [Congolese army] against the M23

Translation of the message at the end: "Our thoughts and prayers are with our valiant FARDC [Congolese army] and with our brothers and sisters in Kivu. May God protect them."

 

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Good report, Hopefully they can reclaim the whole territory from Kagame's henchmen

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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

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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.

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· 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.
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Thousands of Hutu murdered by Kagame inside Rwanda, e.g. Kibeho massacres
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Dictator Kagame: No remorse for his unwise actions and ambitions that led to the Rwandan genocide.
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Fanatical, partisan, suspicious, childish and fawning relations between UK and Kagame
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-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.

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- 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.