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 May 2014

[AfricaWatch] Re: *DHR* Rwanda: President Kagame and his enemies

 

"Might it not occur to French that the reason the United States is very friendly toward Rwanda - amid the substantive disagreements and criticisms that occur between any two nations - is because they are amazed that in a continent marked by war, starvation, and corruption Rwanda has the fastest growing economy, the highest immunization rates, a celebrated war on corruption and, as any visitor can witness, is a model for racial harmony and integration?", Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, The Huffington Post.

Given the fact that Kagame's criminal record is well known worldwide, his sole arm of defense is this so-called Rwanda's economic prosperity, which is a myth in all aspects.

Indeed, poverty is widespread and has become endemic in today's Rwanda, the apparent economic growth which does not translate into in higher buying power for the Rwandan people is mostly due to massive international aids, the looting of the DRC and to many unjustified taxes and fees the Rwandan people have to pay on a regular basis. That's why with the defeat of M23 in DRC last year and the suspension of some foreign aids to Rwanda, the touted Rwanda's economic prosperity is crumbling. The education and healthcare systems which should reflect such so-called economic growth have been paralyzed for so long and would need an urgent complete overhaul.   
The Rwandan opposition and the civil society should now aim at dismantling such a myth that surrounds Rwanda's economy, Rwanda's security and Rwanda's bn  reconciliation. When the opposition reaches such a target, the Emperors which has are already naked will have no choices except for stepping down.
 
For your info, please read:
Rwanda: The Emperors have no clothes. They stand naked in front of the word being exposed for crimes against humanity.


From: Agnès Murebwayire <agnesmurebwayire@yahoo.fr>
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Subject: *DHR* Rwanda: President Kagame and his enemies

 


Rabbi Shmuley Boteach - huffingtonpost.com

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rabbi-shmuley-boteach/president-kagame-of-rwand_b_5225558.html

No sooner had I returned from the twentieth anniversary commemorations of the Rwandan genocide in Kigali than I saw Howard French's assault on the man universally credited with stopping the mass killings, President Paul Kagame. I would have welcomed discussing French's allegations against Kagame directly but could not find him among the hundreds of international dignitaries and heads of State who set aside time in their busy schedules to pay their respects by traveling across the world to honor the dead.

In his Wall Street Journal op-ed ("How Rwanda's Paul Kagame Exploits U.S. Guilt", 19 April 2014) French re-roasts old chestnuts against the Rwandan leader bringing us an unoriginal rehash of all the Monday-morning quarterbacks convinced they could have done a much better job of bringing Rwanda back from the brink after the fastest mass murder in history, claiming the lives of 10,000 people each day, 400 per hour, and 7 each minute.

The genocide of the Tutsi in Rwanda was not tribal violence. Less so was it a civil war. Rather, it was an orchestrated project by extremists in power who were motivated by a deeply racist ideology. The Hutu may have been willing instruments of the genocide but they were tools in the hands of a Rwandan government who wished to see all complicit so that none could be tried.

I am mystified by French's efforts to obscure these truths and, as Jew who has watched the growing trend of holocaust denial, I am even more troubled. When I was in Kigali I told President Kagame that if he was not careful in ten years time the world would say there was no genocide but merely ethnic strife. He responded, "Ten years? It's happening already today." As outrageous as it would be to describe the Armenian, Cambodian, Jewish, or Bosnian genocides as occurring without agency, the Rwandan genocide is no different. There were good guys and really, really evil guys. Kagame is the acknowledged hero of the plot.

French contends that American guilt over its inaction to stop the genocide causes our government today to overlook alleged crimes of the Kagame government. That may be so, although you would be hard-pressed to make the case that the Obama Administration refuses to, say, call for an international indictment against Bashar Al-Assad for gassing children because the United States still feels guilty that it did not stop his father from crushing 30,000 people to death in Hama.

Might it not occur to French that the reason the United States is very friendly toward Rwanda - amid the substantive disagreements and criticisms that occur between any two nations - is because they are amazed that in a continent marked by war, starvation, and corruption Rwanda has the fastest growing economy, the highest immunization rates, a celebrated war on corruption and, as any visitor can witness, is a model for racial harmony and integration?

While traveling through Rwanda I was amazed to see the entire country shut down at 2pm each day during the annual genocide remembrance week, to sit outdoors in groups of a few hundred to talk through ethnic differences and foster reconciliation so that such violence never repeats itself. I have never seen anything of its kind, not even in Israel or the United States.

French is a downer, a profound cynic and pessimist whose prejudices against Kagame would deny him even this astonishing achievement. In a world filled with mass murderers like Bashar Assad and Kim Jong Un, who continues to starve his people to death, French eviscerates any pretension to objectivity when he says, quoting a Belgian scholar, that Kagame is "probably the worst war criminal in office today." But any objective observer of the country, who drives through the pristine and immaculate roads of Rwanda, will conclude that Kagame has exceeded any expectation the world would have had for a country who in 1994 had so many bodies in its rivers that the waters actually ceased to flow.

That is not to say the President is perfect. He most assuredly is not, words that I said to him in his presence and in front of 20,000 people in my nationally-televised address at the Rwanda 20th Commemoration. It is to say that before we hurl accusations against a man who witnessed the world's abandonment of his people to machetes and axes, we ought to be somewhat understanding of his aggressive security policies that ensure his people are never subject to extermination again. As Yogi Berra famously said, "Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get you."

Writers like French find it easy to condemn countries like Rwanda or Israel for taking the fight to their enemies rather than continuing to be sitting ducks. Would French really advise Kagame to leave the murderers who perpetrated the genocide right on his border in Congo? Would he tell Kagame to rely on international assurances and the United Nations to protect his people, the same UN that categorically refused to allow its commander, General Romeo Dallaire, to disarm the Hutu militias and who evacuated most of its peace-keepers just as soon as the genocide began.

I claim no expertise in the ongoing travails of Congo. But French loses all credibility when he lays all the country' suffering at Rwanda's door. Every lay person knows that Congo, well before Rwanda's incursion, was ruled by a ruthless dictator named Mobutu Sese Seko. We know this because he bankrolled the Muhammad Ali-George Foreman "Rumble in the Jungle" at a time when Congo was formerly known as Zaire. Mobuto was a violent autocrat who ran a kleptocracy, amassing vast personal wealth, and was seen as an archetypal African dictator. After the Tutsi genocide, the main body of perpetrators fled to, and were granted, sanctuary, in Congo.

Surely even the biggest critic would cut Kagame some slack when they imagine some two million Rwandan refugees still camped across the border under the command and control of the former genocidal government. Congo's government openly collaborated with the FDLR and other remnants of the forces responsible for the genocide. These forces are on the U.S. terror list and are held responsible by many for the epidemic of sexual assault in eastern Congo. But French has nothing negative to say about them.

Most venomous of all is French's assertion that Rwanda's incursions into Congo was the result of "Rwanda's pursuit of coldblooded ethnic revenge." Such unsubstantiated conjecture would turn the tables and make the man who stopped the genocide, Paul Kagame, into the only true génocidaire and reminds me of former Pink Floyd front man Roger Water's claim that Israel is now the Nazis.

French wishes his readers to believe that the current Rwandan government is just as guilty of "genocide" as its predecessor, making victims into villains. This unfortunate moral equivalence is something of which we Jews have learned all too well as Israel is regularly and falsely accused of being an apartheid state, even as it affords its 1.5 million Arab citizens equal rights to every Israeli and more rights than any Arab nation on earth.

French has no choice but to admit strong gains in all human development indicators in Rwanda under Kagame's leadership but cannot suppress his ultimate dismissal of these as irrelevant. But let us recall that the Kagame's renaissance in Rwanda - evident to any visitor to the country - is mostly benefiting the majority Hutu population. Rwanda's rise from Armageddon - including its reduction of international aid to just 40 percent of their budget, as French himself acknowledges - speaks for itself and cannot be debunked even by one-sided commentators like French.

Legitimate criticism of the Rwanda government is important and must be both aired and addressed. The US government is pressing President Kagame for greater press freedoms and greater political opposition. There are further troubling allegations of select opposition leaders and even journalists who have been murdered. Kagame's defenders argue that there is no evidence linking his government with these deaths.

I raised these subjects with President Kagame on more than one occasion. I told him that as the only man alive to have stopped a genocide he is a hero to me and countless millions the world over. He must remain so and make morality and democracy the cornerstone of his policies amid the legitimate need to protect his people against so many that wish them harm. A man whose country has suffered indiscriminate slaughter has a special responsibility to uphold human rights and stop all abuse.

But the US lecturing Kagame would no doubt carry more weight if Rwanda did not feel itself being subject to double standards, as the world's sole superpower pursues a policy of inaction in Syria, North Korea, and the Central African Republic where millions continue to die with barely an American objection.

Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, whom Newsweek and The Washington Post calls "the most famous Rabbi in America," is the winner of The London Times Preacher of the Year Award and is the recipient of the American Jewish Press Association's Highest Award for Excellence in Commentary. The international best-selling author of 30 books, in May he will publish "Kosher Lust: Love is Not the Answer."

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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.