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.

13 Apr 2014

[RwandaLibre] HRW - JUSTICE FOR RWANDA LEAVES MIXED LEGACY

 

13.04.14 - RWANDA/GENOCIDE - JUSTICE FOR RWANDA LEAVES MIXED LEGACY,
SAYS HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH RESEARCHER


Lausanne, April 13, 2014 (FH) - Twenty years after the genocide, how
do human rights activists see the process of justice and
reconciliation for Rwanda? Interview with Carina Tertsakian, senior
researcher on Rwanda at Human Rights Watch (HRW).

Hirondelle: Twenty years after the genocide, how do you assess the
work of the ICTR?

Tertsakian: The ICTR was only ever expected to try a small number of
people: primarily those who played a leading role in the genocide. To
some extent, it has succeeded in doing this. It has tried 75 people
and convicted 49, including several prominent individuals, such as
former Prime Minister Jean Kambanda, former army Chief of Staff
General Augustin Bizimungu, and former Ministry of Defence Chief of
Staff Colonel Théoneste Bagosora.
The ICTR has fulfilled its mandate to a certain extent with regard to
key figures behind Rwanda's genocide.
The ICTR also set an important precedent in the first-ever prosecution
of rape as genocide in the case of former bourgmestre (mayor)
Jean-Paul Akayesu.

Hirondelle: Has the ICTR helped reconcile the Rwandan society?

Tertsakian: It has not fulfilled the part of its mandate relating to
war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by the RPF. RPF
troops killed tens of thousands of civilians when they took over the
country in 1994. These killings were not equivalent or comparable to
the genocide but many of them constituted war crimes and crimes
against humanity. These crimes clearly fell within the ICTR's
mandate, but the ICTR has not prosecuted a single RPF case.

As a result, this has created a sentiment among some Rwandans and
international legal observers that the ICTR provided only one-sided or
victor's justice. This may have reduced its effectiveness in
contributing to reconciliation.

Hirondelle: What about the trials before Rwandan courts, especially
the gacacas? Have those village courts helped bring reconciliation to
Rwanda?

Tertsakian: On the basis of our field research and trial observation,
Human Rights Watch concludes that gacaca left a mixed legacy. Gacaca's
positive achievements included the courts' swift work in processing a
huge number of cases (almost 2 million, according to Rwandan
government statistics); the participation of local communities; and
the opportunity for some genocide survivors to learn what had happened
to their relatives. Gacaca might also have helped some survivors find
a way of living peacefully alongside perpetrators. However, many
gacaca hearings resulted in unfair trials. Many of the accused were
not able to effectively defend themselves; there were numerous
instances of intimidation and corruption of defence witnesses, judges
and other parties; and flawed decision-making due to inadequate
training for judges.

The expectation that gacaca could deliver national-level
reconciliation in a matter of a few years was unrealistic. But
gacaca's potential for contributing to reconciliation was hindered by
difficulties in revealing the truth, as some participants lied or
remained silent due to intimidation, corruption, personal ties, or
fear of repercussions.

In addition, gacaca did not deliver on its promises of reparations for
genocide survivors: survivors received no compensation from the state,
and little restitution and often overly formulaic apologies from
confessed or convicted perpetrators. While gacaca may have served as a
first step to help some Rwandans on the long path to reconciliation,
it did not manage to dispel distrust between many perpetrators and
survivors of the genocide.

Hirondelle: What do you think of the way procedures are being
conducted in the cases referred to Rwanda by other countries and the
ICTR?

Tertsakian: In 2011, the ICTR decided to transfer its first genocide
case to Rwanda: Jean Uwinkindi. Uwinkindi was sent back to Rwanda in
2012. Court hearings in his case have begun at the High Court in
Kigali, but have not progressed beyond procedural matters so far. The
same applies to the case of Bernard Munyagishari, sent back to Rwanda
by the ICTR in 2013. It is therefore too early to comment on the
standard of their trials in Rwanda.

Hirondelle: Some countries in the West are still refusing to extradite
genocide suspects to Rwanda but are also not bringing them before
their own courts. Isn't this encouraging impunity?

Tertsakian: The trend has shifted. Until around 2011, most countries
were unwilling to extradite genocide suspects to Rwanda, initially
because of the death penalty, then, after Rwanda abolished the death
penalty in 2007, because of the risk of unfair trials. However, in
the last two or three years, an increasing number of countries, such
as Sweden and Norway, have been willing to extradite genocide suspects
to Rwanda. Extradition proceedings are currently underway in several
countries, including the UK.

The turning point came when the ICTR decided to transfer its first
case to Rwanda in 2011 (Uwinkindi). Courts in several countries
subsequently used the ICTR's decision as the basis for their own
agreement to extradite suspects to Rwanda.

In addition, there have been a number of trials of Rwandan genocide
suspects before the domestic courts of Western countries – for example
in Belgium, Switzerland, Germany, Canada, Finland, Norway, Sweden, the
Netherlands, and France. In some cases, for example in the United
States, Rwandan genocide suspects were charged and tried on
immigration-related offenses for concealing their alleged role during
the genocide.

One of the important recent cases was the first trial of a Rwandan
genocide suspect in France – a country that had backed the former
government of Rwanda and supported and trained some of the forces
which went on to commit genocide. On March 14, 2014, a court in Paris
found Pascal Simbikangwa, an intelligence chief under the Habyarimana
government, guilty of genocide and complicity in crimes against
humanity and sentenced him to 25 years in prison. Just one month
earlier, on February 18, 2014, a court in Germany sentenced former
mayor Onesphore Rwabukombe to 14 years' imprisonment for aiding and
abetting genocide.

These cases of domestic prosecutions under the principle of universal
jurisdiction are important milestones in the demonstration of
international commitment to ensuring that perpetrators of the genocide
are held accountable, wherever they are found.
AH/JC

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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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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.