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.

22 Feb 2014

A Reflection on the 20th Anniversary of the Rwandan Genocide


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A Reflection on the 20th Anniversary of 
the Rwandan Genocide
In This Issue
BBC Interview
British School of Brussels Raises Money for HRRF
"World In Motion" Interview
Netflix Rereleases Hotel Rwanda
BBC Interview
In January, I was honored to be a guest on my friend Shaka Ssali's show on BBC, Straight Talk Africa. Along with Representative Karen Bass (CA-D), we discussed the President's recent State of the Union and the administration's foreign policy approach to Africa. Click here to listen to the interview.

The British School of Brussels Raises Money for HRRF

For the last few months, students at the British School of Brussels have studied the Rwandan Genocide and made it their mission to raise money for the Hotel Rwanda Rusesabagina Foundation.

 

Last week, I attended the Charity RockShow at the British School of Brussels to benefit the Hotel Rwanda Rusesabagina Foundation. At the end of the rock show, the students of the British School of Brussels generously presented me with a check for the Foundation. 

 

Seeing the auditorium filled with so many young men and women committed to tolerance and justice gave me faith that we are making significant progress. I am excited for this relationship to grow." Watch excerpts from the Charity RockShow and Paul's interview at the school here.

 

Irish Newstalk's "World In Motion" Interview on African Politics
Last week I was a guest on esteemed Irish journalist Shona Murray's radio show "World in Motion" to discuss the current Rwandan regime's use of propaganda and the need for increased transparency and accountability. Listen to the interview in its entirety here starting at the 4:40 mark.
 
Hotel Rwanda 
Rereleased on Netflix
As the twentieth anniversary of the Rwandan Genocide approaches, Netflix has rereleased the Oscar-nominated film Hotel Rwanda. I encourage all of you who have not yet seen it or those of you who wish to revisit it to take the time to watch this sensitive portrayal of the Genocide.
 
February 20, 2014 
Dear Friend, 
 
This year marks the Twentieth Anniversary of the Rwandan Genocide that resulted in the death of more than 800,000 Rwandans. It is a fitting occasion to look back on the progress my fellow Rwandans have made and the healing that must still be done.  
 
It also reminds us of the fact that elements of this terrible tragedy are still with us and that the region is still in the grip of violence. While the Genocide was seen around the world, unfortunately most people believe the problems ended when the cameras went away. Instead, it led to a constant state of turmoil and unrest in the Great Lakes Region of Africa since that time. 

In many important ways, Rwanda bears no resemblance to twenty years ago. Women compose nearly half of the Rwandan government, we enjoy unprecedented economic stability and more Rwandans enjoy healthcare than ever before. Kigali is clean and orderly. Mass killings inside of the country have stopped. 

The ongoing issue is the high cost of this progress, including extreme political repression, continued violence, and a growing culture of fear. Only a small percentage of Rwandans enjoy the vast majority of the benefits. In fact, only 20% of the people get 80% of the healthcare. President Kagame's cronies are rewarded with beautiful houses and good jobs in Kigali, while the rest of the country slides into an orderly, disciplined poverty. The people are told what they can grow and who they can sell it to. And the local defense forces monitor their conversation and watch their movements. 

Rwandans, even in the diaspora, risk their lives and freedom if they criticize President Kagame. Victoire Ingabire is in prison because she ran for political office. Others have been killed for their bravery. Journalists who question the government's actions are never heard from again. Kagame has reached beyond Rwanda to South Africa, Europe and the United States to kill or threaten those who question his policies or actions.  

And in neighboring Congo, the Rwandan controlled M23 militia has killed and raped thousands while looting conflict minerals to pay for President Kagame's executive jets.

My fear is that President Kagame's grip on the nation is ever tightening and sending us back to violence. I and my fellow Rwandans need your help. Violence in Rwanda has been lying like a a dormant volcano. 

Rwanda can do better. Rwandans need to learn patterns of behavior that do not revert to killing each other every twenty years. We need to gather and discuss our past and how to create a future where Hutu and Tutsi and Twa, young and old, anglophones and francophones can all share peace and share power. We must  share the responsibility for building a new Rwanda on a solid foundation of peace.  If we hope to have a future with sustainable peace, we need to include all Rwandans not just the President's friends. 

My goal this year is to continue to educate the international community about how we can all help to create a sustainable peace. Even outside of Rwanda we are still in conflict. If we cannot work and talk and play together outside the country, how can we expect those still in Rwanda to heal without help? The Hotel Rwanda Rusesabagina Foundation will grow our talks about truth and reconciliation and hold more community meetings to further the peaceful dialogue among Rwandans and people who care about Rwanda's future. But I need your help to create dialogue among the Rwanda diaspora.  

Much like we've seen with Holocaust survivors, I have found that the Rwandans who survived Genocide can not really talk about it to the younger generation born after those horrible times. Our organization must help my fellow Rwandans dialogue with other survivor families.  We need to learn how to survive without perpetuating the hatred and violence. This year we are organizing several Diaspora Dialogues for Rwandans to talk to each other across generations about what happened and how to make Never Again for Rwanda mean Never Again for all communities.

For all this I need your help. Please join my Foundation in promoting dialogue and peace for all people.  After 20 years we are still trying to find our way forward. You can help. 

Peace,

Paul Rusesabagina
President 
Hotel Rwanda Rusesabagina Foundation
 
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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.