President Kagame Criticized by Stanford STAND - Patheos
Since I have been sharing regularly on the post-genocide
commemorations for the past several days, I feel compelled to share
that many are not card carrying members of the President Kagame fan
club. To underscore this, I wanted to share a recent editorial by the
STAND organization at Stanford University. STAND, a student-led
movement against genocide and mass atrocity, wrote recently in
objection to President Paul Kagame's recent appearance at the Graduate
School of Business as part of the Center for Global Business and the
Economy's Global Speaker Series. Among their remarks in this editorial
are the following:
There is, however, a darker side to President Kagame, and Stanford
should not praise his "promotion of human rights" when in fact
countless allegations of appalling human rights violations, both in
Rwanda and abroad, hang over the head of Kagame and his
administration.
In the years following the genocide, Rwanda was a driving force behind
two invasions of the neighboring Democratic Republic of the Congo,
which sparked a conflict in the Congo that continues to this day and
that has so far killed over five million people, displacing millions
more. A UN report released last year announced that, as had long been
suspected, Rwanda was providing significant support to the Congo-based
rebel group M23, which has posed a major threat to peace and stability
in the eastern Congo and contributed greatly to the ongoing
destabilization of the country.
On the domestic side, Kagame's administration has been accused by
numerous authorities, including Human Rights Watch and the U.S.
Department of State's annual human rights reports, of using political
imprisonments, arbitrary arrests, extrajudicial killings and more
against political opponents of the Rwandan Patriotic Front, Kagame's
party. A recent article in the Wall Street Journal entitled "How
Rwanda's Paul Kagame Exploits U.S. Guilt" details many of these
issues.
Read the entire editorial here. I'm actually grateful to see such
dialogue occurring on college campuses in the US. This means that our
students are tuned in to what occurred in Rwanda at a time when many
of them were most likely in preschool. Respectful conversation here
will hopefully help avoid future tragedies in Rwanda and around the
world.
Click here to read about STAND's protest of President Kagame and how
this was actually welcomed by event organizers at Stanford's Graduate
School of Business.
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