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.

16 Jun 2014

[RwandaLibre] Human Rights Watch - 4 days ago: Letter to Rwandan Justice Minister on the Assessment of Human Rights Watch's Work

 

Letter to Rwandan Justice Minister on the "Assessment" of Human Rights
Watch's Work

Human Rights Watch - 4 days ago
JUNE 12, 2014


Dear Minister,

I write in response to the ministry of justice's "assessment" of Human
Rights Watch's work in Rwanda, which was first made known to us
through publication in The New Times on June 2, 2014, and was then
conveyed to me and to our Rwanda researcher on June 3 in a
substantially similar document.

Human Rights Watch is deeply concerned by the ministry's gross
misrepresentations of our work and the disparaging and unfounded
comments against our staff, aired to the Rwandan press. This letter
answers the most serious contentions raised, seeks a withdrawal of
these misinformed accusations, and reiterates our commitment to
working constructively with the Rwandan government.

Accusations of political bias and collaboration with FDLR

Human Rights Watch categorically rejects all accusations of
collaboration with the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda
(Forces démocratiques de libération du Rwanda, FDLR) or of political
bias. Human Rights Watch has never attempted to "sanitise and/or
legitimize" the FDLR, nor have we ever been their "campaign
mouthpiece." The public record of Human Rights Watch's work on the
Great Lakes region shows that these allegations are entirely baseless.

The FDLR includes people who participated in the genocide in Rwanda in
1994 and others who have committed, and continue to commit, horrific
human rights abuses in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. As the
Rwandan government is aware, Human Rights Watch has documented and
denounced the FDLR's abuses in detailed reports and press releases,[1]
repeatedly called for those responsible to be brought to justice, and
testified in court about their crimes.

Human Rights Watch works to uphold the rights of all Rwandans, as
enshrined in Rwandan and international law. Some of the cases we have
researched in Rwanda recently involve people accused of being members
or collaborators of the FDLR. The fact that Human Rights Watch
reported on their unlawful detention or disappearance does not mean
that we are partisan or sympathetic to their views. People do not lose
their basic human rights even if their views are abhorrent or they are
criminals, and Human Rights Watch stands up for the universal human
rights of all people, all over the world.

Far from engaging in what the ministry of justice terms a "deliberate,
sustained and politically motivated propaganda campaign against the
Government of Rwanda," Human Rights Watch has no political motivation
and does not conduct propaganda against the Rwandan government or any
other government. Our role is to research and expose human rights
abuses and seek lawful ways of bringing these abuses to an end,
regardless of the identity of the perpetrators or the victims.

Human Rights Watch has worked on Rwanda for more than 20 years, and we
have documented in great detail the 1994 genocide and the events that
led up to it, particularly in "Leave None to Tell the Story: Genocide
in Rwanda," a 800-page book on the genocide published by Human Rights
Watch and the International Federation of Human Rights in 1999. Human
Rights Watch staff also testified about crimes committed during the
genocide before the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda.[2]

We are therefore sensitive to the context of events in Rwanda.
However, the rights Human Rights Watch promotes are universal. We have
a responsibility to apply the same rigorous methodology and
objectivity in all the countries where we work in order to ensure
fairness, balance, and consistency.

We believe that the ministry of justice's ill-informed allegations
regarding Human Rights Watch's support of the FDLR and political bias
are unfounded and derogatory. We therefore ask the ministry to
publicly retract them.

Disparaging allegations against Human Rights Watch staff

For the same reason, we object to the ministry's disparaging,
personalized comments about Human Rights Watch's current and former
researchers and ask you to retract these too. Our researchers working
in and on Rwanda uphold the organization's high standards and
methodology. We stand by their work and their personal integrity,
which the ministry's comments have impugned. Attempts to personalize
disagreements between Human Rights Watch and the Rwandan government in
this way will not deter Human Rights Watch from pursuing its work.

Inaccurate information

We wish to draw your attention to some inaccuracies and factual points
in the ministry's comments, in the spirit of our Memorandum of
Understanding.

With regard to the individual cases of disappearances, unlawful
detentions, and other human rights abuses, we stand by our findings
and are prepared to discuss with you personally any questions you may
have.

The ministry's "assessment" misrepresents some of our statements on
the case of Joel Mutabazi. Human Rights Watch did not assert that
Mutabazi was tortured and forced to confess to crimes following his
forcible return from Uganda in October 2013. The only references to
torture in Human Rights Watch publications on this case relate to the
period of Mutabazi's detention in military custody in Rwanda in 2010.
However, we expressed concern about his well-being in November 2013,
given the police's refusal at that stage to disclose his whereabouts.
We maintain that Mutabazi's abduction and forcible return from Uganda
to Rwanda was illegal and constituted a serious human rights
violation; indeed, Ugandan authorities confirmed that the abduction
and forcible return had not followed established legal procedures.

With respect to the ministry's allegation that FDLR members were
instructed to "immediately inform HRW should they be suspected and/or
arrested" and that an FDLR commander supplied the email address of a
Human Rights Watch staff member, we have no knowledge or independent
verification of this. However, it is not uncommon for groups of all
kinds – including some like the FDLR who have been responsible for
numerous crimes – to have contact details of international
organizations, and it is easy for anyone to obtain these. The fact
that some FDLR members might have had a Human Rights Watch email
address or asked their members to contact Human Rights Watch does not
demonstrate support from Human Rights Watch to the FDLR any more than
if FDLR members were to have contact information of government
officials or of a humanitarian organization, for example.

Finally, with respect to the allegation that our researcher was
"assisted and facilitated by one Bahame Innocent" when investigating
events in Rubavu, none of our staff has any record of meeting anyone
by that name. We would appreciate it if you could inform us who this
individual is and why his name is associated with us.

Human Rights Watch's observance of the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU).

As explained in recent correspondence and meetings with your ministry,
we believe we have upheld our commitments in the MoU and have engaged
in a dialogue with your ministry in good faith. Indeed, over many
years, successive Human Rights Watch researchers in Rwanda have always
sought out dialogue with the ministry of justice and other government
officials. As the ministry has acknowledged, our researcher presented
information to you on a number of cases, both in writing and in
person, and sought your response before the publication of Human
Rights Watch documents – including, most recently, on the
disappearances described in our press release of May 16. We referred
to your and other officials' responses explicitly in that press
release.

Press releases, by their nature, are produced and published quickly,
because they are usually responses to urgent situations, and it is
therefore inappropriate to delay them for long periods while we wait
for a response. Disappearances are particularly urgent as people's
lives and safety may be at risk.

The overall aim of our MoU is "to work jointly and severally to
achieve broad protection of human rights in Rwanda." Despite our
recent disagreements, we still abide by the spirit of this agreement
and are sincerely committed to working alongside the ministry of
justice to protect and promote human rights in Rwanda.

We therefore intend to maintain an open dialogue. For our part, we
remain committed to sharing information and discussing human rights
concerns with you and other government officials in Rwanda.

Yours sincerely,

Daniel Bekele

Executive Director, Africa Division

[1] See, for example, Human Rights Watch report "'You Will be
Punished': Attacks on Civilians in Eastern Congo",
http://www.hrw.org/reports/2009/12/13/you-will-be-punished, and our
latest report of June 10, 2014, "Democratic Republic of Congo: Ending
Impunity for Sexual Violence", http://www.hrw.org/node/126204.

[2] To mark the 20th anniversary of the Rwandan genocide, Human Rights
Watch published a briefing paper, "Justice After Genocide: 20 Years
On", http://www.hrw.org/news/2014/03/28/rwanda-justice-after-genocide-20-years.
For other Human Rights Watch publications relating to the Rwandan
genocide, please see https://www.hrw.org/node/124219.

http://www.google.ca/gwt/x?gl=CA&wsc=yh&source=s&u=http://www.hrw.org/news/2014/06/12/letter-rwandan-justice-minister-assessment-human-rights-watchs-work&hl=en-CA&ei=QlifU8KjOI6ssgf_sICQDg

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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.