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.

1 Dec 2013

Rwanda: Gen Kayonga spoke out before his detention


Behind the Presidential Curtains: Gen Kayonga spoke out before his detention

By: Noble Marara

Gen Kayonga with Gen Kabarebe

Towards the end of M23 war against the FIB, SADC, and FRDC the Rwandan President Paul Kagame consulted his top generals with the idea to seek advice of attacking and helping out the M23 in order to fight the enemy tirelessly and not withdraw. Among those attended the meeting was Gen James Kabarebe, Gen Charles Kayonga, Gen Kamanzi Mushyo and Gen Jack Nziza. Most of all the generals, advised the President to hold fire due to the anxiety of knowing what the outcome may be. They believed that the FIB soldiers as well as other forces involved might end up attacking Rwanda, of which most people thought was inevitable.

After the meeting, the President decided to send more Special Forces in DRC even though some disagreements had been observed during the meeting. However only Gen Jack Nziza was aware of this plan, Surprisingly: while in another senior officers meeting Gen. Kayonga suggested that the soldiers, in operations such Special Forces who were fighting alongside the M23, should have their monthly payments increased. This enraged Gen James Kabarebe and he told him to shut up, of which Gen Kayonga did not like and he immediately told Gen Kabarebe that he did not know what he was talking about. The anger and animosity between these two generals is not new because they have served the same positions in the army since joining the military. They were always promoted at the same time and appeared to live in a love/hate relationship all the time.

After a few days, Gen Kayonga reported to the President that he had found an anonymous letter in his office, which detailed that all RDF forces are tired of wars. In Kinyarwanda the letter stated that there was no reason for going back to DRC and no one was willing to fight in the war. In conclusion, according to our intelligence staff, the letter advised the president that if he continues to attack DRC, his government would lose even the little they have. (Meaning the RPF government being overthrown)

President Paul Kagame immediately instructed Gen Kayonga and Gen Jack Nziza to investigate, and detain all the suspects of whom he thought were the planners of the above incident. Gen Charles Kayonga reported that he had failed to trace the authors of the letter. Unfortunately, Gen Nziza also reported to have failed to find the people behind the letter but suggested that after reviewing on how Gen Kayonga handled the situation he may have been part of the plan. It was immediately ordered that Gen Patrick Nyamvumba should replace him and Gen Charles Kayonga was put on house arrest. Also arrested after that was the head of the Republican Guard, unit Brigadier Gen Johnson Hodari just for being Gen Charles Kayonga's closest friend. Brig Gen Hodari, who was endorsed by Gen Kayonga to become Kagame's head of protection, had remained loyal to Gen Charles Kayonga of whom they served together while in Bravo mobile task force. Brig Gen Hodari was accused to have used the government vehicles in his personal deals, they were both later detained but for Gen Charles Kayonga he is no longer under house arrest instead his whereabouts are unknown.

Prior to his detention, he had confided to a close friend that he always wanted to do the best for the soldiers but his bosses do not listen.

He reported that the South African soldiers had weapons that the RDF do not have. Gen Kayonga said that the RDF use to buy ammunitions from South Africa until their relationship became sour, ''they know all our ammunitions and so they are prepared to wipe us out if we continue to interfere in DRC issues." Gen Kayonga highlighted that the FIB was shelling super quick rockets, delayed rockets, using BMS, new tanks not like their old tanks, "and with our soldiers meant to be assisting the M23 were dying like flies, would I have just kept quiet?  The South Africans are more equipped with ammunitions to an extent of exporting weapons to the UK and USA now days, but we still believed that we could force them out with an AK47?"

"We promised the M23 that we will meet the ammunition needed to combat the enemy but when time came, the drones were on top of us and nothing could be done. Surprisingly, when Gen Nziza made that promise he knew that the drones were going to be sent in the area''.

Gen Kayonga pointed out that the final war against M23 was planned by the South Africans for eight weeks and was finished in just six days that shows our weaknesses. Still our top commanders have no idea how dangerous this was especially after losing more than a thousand troops of just RDF in just six days.

Lt. Gen. Kayonga, a grandson to Bushogoro who originated from commune Rukara Karubamba, was born in 1962 to his mother Verediana Nyirasoni and his father Kayonga, attended Kajaho Primary school, then Kitabi Seminary in Mbarara District Uganda and later attended Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda where he received a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Education.

Gen Kayonga Charles was encouraged by his sister, a nun from Vatican Rome, who had always wished for the young Kayonga to become a catholic priest, however after obtaining free education from the catholic seminary in Kitabi, contrarily to the sister's ideas the young Kayonga, joined the army in late 1987. He trained in basic military skills in Luzira Uganda, attended cadet course in Jinja and was commissioned in Sept 1989.

Gen Kayonga also attended US Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.

The General had held various military appointments and his career highlights include the fact that he served in various capacities and rose in rank from Platoon Command to Battalion Commander, during the 1990-1994 liberation war.

Gen Charles Kayonga was criticised by fellow junior officers at the beginning of the 1990 RPF attack on Rwanda, this was after he mistakenly withdrew himself from the frontline on top of the hill in Kivuye. He reported that he had been injured on frontline, walked away and left his platoon on extended line. He was later discovered lying among the injured troops when he had not been injured.

His former comrade Gen James Kabarebe, who was then serving among Kagame's entourage. spoke to Kagame about Gen Kayonga's transfer to come to the high command and work alongside Kagame as his body guards till 1993.

Gen Kayonga and Gen Kabarebe were both known as cowards for their desertions from the battlefield and were elevated over the rest of the RPA rank and file by their boss Kagame. Gen Kabarebe himself had deserted from NRA bush war in 1983 and sneaked back to continue with his studies while the rest were struggling on frontline.

It was so funny and sometimes annoying to the mainstream RPA fighters to see how Kagame had favoured these two men and worse-still is to see how posed as being the most bravery of all. Gen Kayonga had given himself a title ofRuniga-ababisha, literally translated in Kinyarwanda as the one who strangles the enemies, a title that actually did not much his personality.

Gen James Kabarebe saved Kayonga who was terrified of going back to war, and sneaked him into the High Command Unit (HCU) where he stayed posing till 1993.  From 1993 through 1994, he was the Commanding Officer of the 3rd Battalion that was popularly referred to as the "600 Bn." This contingent was responsible for security of the Rwanda Patriotic Front (RPF) Politicians in Kigali as part of the implementation of the Arusha Peace Accords.

Among the top commanders that helped Gen Kayonga build his profile in the RPA were Maj Kwikiriza and Col Jacob Tumwine who fought incessantly to chase the enemy out of Kigali.

He later commanded the Bravo Mobile Force during the campaign against Genocide, during the 1996-1998 counter insurgency operations; he was as an Infantry Brigade Commander, Commanding Officer of the Mechanised Battalion as well as Task Force Commander. After that Gen Kayonga was sent in USA on a military course but refused to come back in his country after he found out that he was likely to be imprisoned due to a corruption scandal. He was accused of stealing the cows in Gishwati and killing the owners of those cows, having been among the few people who planned and executed the former president Juvenal Habyalimana.

Kagame had to drop all charges and Gen Kayonga was begged to return to his country. Upon his return in 2000 to 2002, was rewarded to serve as the Defence and Military Advisor to President Paul Kagame. Later in 2002, General Kayonga served as the Army Chief of Staff land forces, under CDF Gen James Kabarebe.

Lt. Gen. Charles Kayonga is married to Caroline Rwivanga and the couple has three children. Since he was relieved of CDF duties he spent a few months under house arrest, and later the sources held indicate that his current whereabouts are unknown.

Edited by: Jennifer Fierberg

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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.