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.

29 Oct 2013

CONGO'S ARMY DRIVES RWANDA'S M23 MILITIA FROM NORTH KIVU AND VIRUNGA


CONGO'S ARMY DRIVES RWANDA'S M23 MILITIA FROM NORTH KIVU AND VIRUNGA

ANN GARRISONOCTOBER 29,2013
The Congolese army has retaken the towns of Rutshuru, Kiwanja, Kibumba, Bihumbo, and Rumangabo, from Rwanda's M23 militia, since fighting broke out again last week in the Democratic Republic of the Congo's North Kivu Province. Martin Kobler, the UN Secretary-General's Special Representative in the DRC, told the press that M23 is "all but finished as a military threat," but like US Envoy Russ Feingold, he said that now all the parties should go back to Kampala to negotiate. Feingold also warned that "other parties" could get involved, engulfing the region in cross border war, and though he didn't say so, he obviously meant that Rwandan President Paul Kagame might send the Rwandan Defense Force openly across the border, and that more of the nine nations bordering Congo might then do the same, as they did, openly between 1996 - 2003, in the First and Second Congo Wars, aka the African World War. There are so many resource riches in such abundance in Congo - oil and minerals, timber, water, cropland, fish - that it's never possible to describe it as one conflict. It's always many, involving many actors, and including many foreign nations, troops, and corporations. 
The Congolese army's victories this week have taken place in and near Virunga National Park, a World Heritage site on Congo's border with Rwanda and Uganda. Virunga is also the site of a global battle between environmentalists and a UK-based oil and gas company, SOCO International, which has managed to purchase the oil exploitation rights in the area from the Congolese government, despite Congolese law against selling it. In 2010, Congolese President Joseph Kabila, by presidential decree, granted SOCO International the right to explore for oil and gas in Block Five in Virunga, which includes a part of Lake Edward. 
More than half a million people worldwide have signed a petition asking that neither SOCO International nor anyone else explore or drill for oil in Virunga, but SOCO has declared its intention to proceed nevertheless. Some analysts have suggested that the largest oil reserves on the African continent may lie beneath this irreplaceable world heritage site, home to rhinoceri, elephants, endangered Mountain Gorillas, and the endangered Okapi unique to this part of the world.  
Congolese people also live in and near the park and they fear that the oil exploitation will destroy the farming and fishing by which they sustain themselves and their families. Here are what several of them said in "Fear of OIl," a short film produced the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN)/National Committee of the Netherlands: 
Congolese man: I do not know of any benefit we can expect from oil exploitation. Let's say that oil is discovered here. Crops from fields farmed by people living around here will never grow. It will be the end of the poorest people. 
Congolese woman: I depend on farming. I am a widow. I have six children. If oil is exploited, won't this activity have an impact on our fields? Those are the questions we are asking ourselves, but we are neither agronomists nor researchers. And if it has an impact on our fields, then they will have killed us, the people, because most of the people live off the field. If we are suffering, it is because of the oil. And we know very well that the people at the origin of our suffering are in America and the UK.  They are the ones who are benefitting from the North Kivu oil.   
Congolese woman: Talking about my life, I live with all of my twelve children. I have never married. I live as a prostitute. However, all my twelve children are schooled and they each earned their diploma. We live wholly from the lake [Lake Edward] - fishing - and agriculture. But if I had lived elsewhere with no lake, no agriculture, I would not have managed to raise them.
My fear is about oil because I think that its exploitation will affect the fish.  And fish are our life here. So the thing that we benefit from here in this small area are those fish. Because cassava production has fared badly. There are insects destroying cassava in such a way that when you remove the plant, no tuber comes out of it. Bananas are now developing a disease which means we can't expect crops from them anymore. On top of all that, if you have oil exploitation, the fish will die. And people will fall sick. That is what I fear. 
Congolese man: We fear a lot that once this oil exploitation starts, they will forbid us from fishing. There will be water pollution. People will leave. Agriculture will fail. So we fear for our livelihoods, our survival.
Congolese man: Oil exploitation was done in Moanda. There was a serious aftermath. Men abandoned their homes, because of the crisis which came with this exploitation. There was dryness of grass. The trees, crops and plants were also victims of this exploitation. Of course the fish as well. So the Moanda population continue to live under panic because of this oil exploitation. We are the inhabitants of this place. We were born here. So we do not know where we will go when they start this exploitation. 
Many are reported to have fled the fighting between the Congolese Army and Rwanda's M23, and the website of Virunga National Park now says, in bold red letters, "TOURISM IN VIRUNGA IS SUSPENDED DUE TO INSTABILITY IN THE REGION." There are no reports that this week's fighting has to do with SOCO International or the struggle over Virunga's oil, but where there's oil and mineral wealth on the African continent, and especially in the hugely rich Democratic Republic of the Congo, African people are often at war with one another, while foreign corporations extract enormous wealth amidst chronic instability.  Oil and mining researchers from both the Benchmarks Foundation and Southern Africa Resource Watch, and multiple UN Group of Experts reports, have pointed to foreign arms, financing, and resource interests behind the fighting.  
It's heartening to see pictures of Congolese people rushing into the streets to welcome their victorious troops and hugely popular Operations Commander, Colonel Mamadou Moustapha Ndala. And it's heartening to read that Kuba Honoré, a traditional chief in the Goma area, said his people were so convinced that M23 has been driven out that they have begun returning from displaced-persons camps and even planting beans and sweet potatoes again. But, it would be so much more so to see the Congolese people somehow liberate themselves from SOCO International and other foreign predators now preparing to drill in Virunga, destroy the natural world that sustains life there, and make off with the vast resource wealth of the cash poorest people on earth.  
To see two short films about oil exploitation in Virunga, made by IUNC/Committee of the Netherlands, click these hyperlinks: The Promise of Oil, and The Fear of Oil.
- See more at: http://www.blackstarnews.com/global-politics/africa/congos-army-drives-rwandas-m23-militia-from-north-kivu-and-virunga.html#sthash.bC56fqnQ.dpuf

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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.

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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.

-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.