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.

24 Apr 2014

[RwandaLibre] Why did Tufts give a platform to a dictator?

 

Op-Ed | Why did Tufts give a platform to a dictator?

By Alex Gladstein
Published: Thursday, April 24, 2014
Updated: Thursday, April 24, 2014

On Tuesday April 22, Tufts University gave a very warm welcome to
Rwandan President Paul Kagame. Fletcher Dean Stavridis and President
Monaco told a packed Cabot Auditorium audience that they were
"thrilled" and "honored" to have His Excellency on campus to discuss
Rwanda's road to recovery 20 years after the horrific Tutsi genocide.
On an official event webpage, Kagame was described as Rwanda's first
democratically-elected president, a United Nations leader and a
statesman setting his country on a course of "reconciliation, nation
building and socioeconomic development."

After a 20-minute lecture by Kagame, Tufts officials posed three
pre-selected questions, and he was able to answer four more from the
audience. It was, by any measure, a wonderful event for the Rwandan
leader, who had ample time to tout his achievements with regard to
economic growth, private investment, ethnic harmony and the
cleanliness, efficiency and stability of his country's cities. When
finished, he received a standing ovation, and Dean Stavridis thanked
him amid photo-ops for a "candid and wonderful" conversation. Tufts'
public relations office released a statement saying that the
university was "pleased that the event was well-attended and the
audience fully engaged."

The question is: how many of the organizers or audience members knew
that Paul Kagame is a murderous dictator? Before you turn away in
disbelief, consider the following facts.

Despite Tufts officials' claims, Kagame is no democrat. He won his
first election in 2003 with 95 percent of the vote, in a contest where
critics said the opposition was "virtually excluded from campaigning."
During his second election in 2010, Kagame jailed political rivals and
shuttered critical newspapers en route to winning 93 percent of the
vote. As The Guardian observed, "opposition groups have been excluded,
journalists have been intimidated and dissenting voices have been
silenced, sometimes violently." A former party official in exile was
shot in the stomach after voicing criticism of Kagame. Meanwhile, a
critical journalist was killed, and a deputy leader of an opposition
party was found beheaded. One opponent, Victoire Ingabire, was
arrested soon after launching her campaign. She is still in prison
today.

Once Rwanda's liberator, Kagame has spent two decades building a harsh
authoritarian regime, working hard to consolidate power and extinguish
dissenting voices. He operates a police state using the national army
and his political party, the Rwandan Patriotic Front. According to
Susan Thomson, a Rwanda expert at Colgate University, "The RPF
saturates every aspect of life in Rwanda ... they know everything: if
you've been drinking, if you've had an affair, if you've paid your
taxes." Reporters Without Borders calls Kagame a "predator of the
press," while Human Rights Watch has observed "a long-established
pattern of assassination and attempted assassination of Rwandan
government critics." Freedom House designates Rwanda with its lowest
freedom ranking, on par with Iran and Zimbabwe and worse than Burma
and Russia.

After taking power, Kagame orchestrated massacres of Hutus in Rwanda
and in neighboring countries. In a vivid recent report The Wall Street
Journal describes how, in the chaos after the 1994 genocide, Kagame's
army "conducted its own mass slaughters across Rwanda, rounding up
unarmed Hutu civilians by the thousands and machine-gunning them." In
1996, Kagame started a war with neighboring Zaire, now the Democratic
Republic of the Congo. The International Rescue Committee estimates
that more than five million people have died as a result of this
military campaign. I'll repeat: five million people.

Remember Tufts' official campus statement about Kagame being a U.N.
leader? Well, a U.N. investigation found that his army and allies
"killed tens of thousands of innocent refugees" in the Congolese
jungles, while pillaging a fortune in gold and other precious metals.
According to a 545-page report, "the majority of the victims were
children, women, elderly people and the sick, who were often
undernourished and posed no threat to the attacking forces." Columbia
University professor Howard French claims that Kagame's campaigns
against Rwandan and Congolese Hutu have killed as many as 300,000
people.

In 2012 the head of the U.S. war crimes office warned Kagame that he
could face prosecution at the International Criminal Court for arming
rebel groups in the Congo. Again, an official in the Obama
administration has suggested that Kagame has committed war crimes. The
U.N. has also presented detailed evidence that Kagame was financing
M23, a particularly notorious death squad founded by Bosco Ntaganda.
Nicknamed "The Terminator", Ntaganda is a warlord on trial in The
Hague, where witnesses testified that he personally used child
soldiers and ordered troops to rape and kill civilians.

Despite all of the widely-available evidence, President Kagame did not
have to face a single question at Tufts' April 22 event about human
rights, attacks on dissidents, massacres or his support for armed
groups. To the great disgrace of Tufts alumni, parents, donors and
current students, the administration chose to genuflect before a man
who should have been taken to task.

When Columbia University hosted Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the school as an
institution made it categorically clear that the Iranian leader was
there to be heard in the spirit of a lively debate that did not exist
inside the dictatorship of Iran, and the school's president sharply
challenged Ahmadinejad on the controversial human rights issues.
Despite the fact that Kagame stands accused of a much larger number of
deaths than Ahmadinejad, Tufts made no such statement. Instead, anyone
in the audience at Cabot would have had to figure out Kagame's crimes
on their own, given that pre-event materials portrayed him as a
democratic hero.

The burden for holding Kagame accountable was to be shouldered by two
students, both who had the courage to criticize a powerful world
leader, face to face. One, a Tufts undergraduate, challenged Kagame on
the Rwandan educational system, where teachers have been arrested for
not following the "official" government version of the genocide which
downplays the deaths of tens of thousands of Hutus. Another, a
Fletcher student, asked what Kagame had to say about rumors of him
running for a third term, which would violate the Rwandan
constitution. Kagame quickly brushed off the first accusation as a
media fabrication, and charmed the audience by laughing off the second
question, along with the moderators and everyone else in the room.

Of course, it is likely that Kagame would have never agreed to come to
Tufts if the agreement had included focused criticism on his human
rights abuses. In an attempt to bring big issues and big global
players to campus, Tufts officials instead made an intellectual
sacrifice and allowed a dictator to be whitewashed. The result was a
terrific opportunity for Kagame to gain international credibility at a
highly-respected institution in a format he knew he could control and
spin for a positive outcome.

Filip Reyntjens, a Rwanda expert and professor of African Law and
Politics at the University of Antwerp, has stated that "there is
overwhelming evidence of responsibility for war crimes and crimes
against humanity" against Kagame. In a 2013 interview, Reyntjens said
that Kagame's crimes "rank with those perpetrated by former Iraqi
president Saddam Hussein or Sudanese leader Omar al-Bashir." For all
his "vision and ambition," he said, Kagame is "probably the worst war
criminal in office today."

And yet, this man was presented to the Tufts student body as a role
model. For that, the president and trustees of Tufts owe the campus
community a detailed explanation.

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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.