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.

14 Jul 2014

[AfricaWatch] Rwanda - 750,000 people will face stressed food insecurity from August to Sept 2014

 


Current Situation

  • Season B harvests: Season B harvests were below-average across Rwanda due to erratic seasonal rainfall, poor distribution, and dry spells in April and May and below-average cumulative rainfall across the country. Dry spells beginning in mid-April intensified in May when most field crops were at grain filling stages. For example, in Bugesera, March to May cumulative rainfall was nearly 30 percent below average (Figure 1). Season B harvests typically mark the end of the April to June minor lean season and stocks from own production generally last until September when Season C harvests begin. This season's poor harvests will not replenish household food stocks as they usually do across all livelihood zones. In the Eastern Congo-Nile Highland Subsistence Farming Zone, Bugesera Cassava Zone, and the Eastern Semi-Arid Agro-Pastoral Zone, greater production deficits are expected due to crop disease and pests like maize neclotic and caterpillars. Season B harvests in these areas are expected to be more than 40 percent below-average. Reduced groundwater resources were also reported in Bugesera Cassava Zone.
  • Season C Cultivation: Rainfall deficits from April to June are expected to delay Season C planting which depends on irrigation from marshland areas. Drier than normal marshland conditions are expected to limit germination of legumes and vegetables, the main crops cultivated in Season C. Field reports from Muhanga District indicate crop watering system failure as local  dams are dry. Reductions in area planted for Season C are expected.
  • Labor wage: Due to poor seasonal performance in Burundi, an influx of Burundian laborers seeking on and off-farm employment during the harvest period in eastern and southern parts of country has led to increased competition for labor opportunities. Demand for agricultural labor has declined because of below-average Season B harvests and reduced Season C planting. The increase of labor supply has lowered wages in Kirehe, Bugesera, Ngoma, Nyaruguru, and Gisagara districts. Poor laborers have begun to seek in-kind payment because cash wages are not sufficient to cover household food needs. The increased supply of local and migrant labor is expected to diminish in-kind payment quantities, which is likely to impact household food access. Local populations from Bugesera district have begun to migrate towards Nyagatare and Rwamagana districts in search of better labor opportunities.  
  • Food consumption: Household food consumption improved due to recent beans and sorghum harvests in eastern and northern parts of the country. Other crops like bananas, cassava and sweet potatoes are also available. However, expected production deficits of between 20 to 50 percent across the country have increased market dependence, especially for poor households with limited landholdings.
  • Food Prices: Food prices varied in May depending on the commodity. Cassava flour prices were stable in most markets and remain consistent with the two-year average. Bean prices increased in Kayenzi, Bugarama, and Rwagitima and decreased in Kimironko. Whole maize prices increased by between 8 and 19 percent Rwagitima, Kayenzi, Bugarama and Kimironko and decreased by 18 percent in Gakenke from April to May. Staple food prices including grains, roots and tubers are expected to decline seasonably with the start of the June-to-July harvest. However, prices are likely to decrease only in the short-term due to production deficits.
  • Water resources: Water availability deteriorated for livestock and human consumption across most of the country. Reports in Kigali and rural areas indicate reduced water resources following rainfall deficits from April to June, especially in Bugesera and in Nyagatare Districts. 

Updated Assumptions

The current situation has changed some of the assumptions used to develop FEWS NET's most likely scenario for April to September 2014. A full discussion of the scenario is available in the April to September 2014 Food Security Outlook.

  • Rainfall: Season B rainfall was forecasted to be near normal across the country and FEWS NET assumed normal Season B production. However, from April to June, rainfall deficits and poor temporal distribution were observed.  Current medium-term forecast suggest enhanced drying conditions over Eastern Africa during June to September which is likely to affect the start of Season A 2015. Reduced area planted is likely for Season C due to decreased water supply in marshlands which are used to irrigate legumes and vegetables.
  • Food stocks: Given reduced household food stocks from own production, increased market dependence and decreased labor demand from two consecutive below-average harvests, atypical labor migration towards Uganda is expected from July to September.
  • Food prices: As a result of Season B production deficits, food prices are not expected to decline as they normally do in the post-harvest period.  This will likely affect the purchasing power of poor households, especially in Eastern Semi-arid Agropastoral, Bugesera Cassava and Eastern Congo Nile Highland Subsistence Farming livelihood zones. Cross-border staple food inflows are not likely to stabilize prices because East African trading partners have also experienced production deficits. 

Projected outlook through September 2014

During the July to August harvest and post-harvest period, most households will depend on own production and market purchase for food. However, due to below-average production in the Eastern Semi-arid Agro-pastoral, Bugesera Cassava and Eastern Congo Nile Highland Subsistence Farming livelihood zones, household food stocks are expected to deplete by late July, two months earlier than normal. Poor households are expected to increase hunting and gathering to cover food needs. Increased internal migration towards the Eastern Plateau Banana Zone and external migration to Uganda in search of labor opportunities is also expected As a result, FEWS NET estimates that about 750,000 people will face Stressed (IPC Phase 2) food insecurity from August to September.

About this Update

This monthly report covers current conditions as well as changes to the projected outlook for food insecurity in this country. It updates FEWS NET's quarterly Food Security Outlook. Learn more about our work here.

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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.