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.

25 Nov 2014

[AfricaRealities] Fw: *DHR* DR Congo: The worst place in the world to be a woman

 


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Subject: *DHR* DR Congo: The worst place in the world to be a woman

 

Democratic Republic of Congo: The worst place in the world to be a woman

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Rwandan Militia hiding out in Congo mountains

Rwandan Militia hiding out in Congo mountains
IN 2014, there is still a place in the world where rape against women is so common that the perpetrators are not pursued by the authorities.
The victims of sexual violence are considered worthless after the act, and the abusers can carry on with their lives without consequence.
It is the most dangerous place on Earth to be a woman today, where it is more risky to be a female than it is to be a soldier.
This is the reality of life in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
Released for the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, Caritas Australia's report highlights the scourge of rape and sexual violence in the central African nation, which has a long and bloody history of war.
It is a country of more than 67 million people, 87 per cent of whom live on less than $1.45 a day.
But the report reveals another shocking statistic that makes the reality of life in the DRC unthinkable: An estimated 48 women are raped in the country every hour.
The document, entitled "Fearless Voices", is a litany of horrors: Girls forced into prostitution, women pack raped by soldiers, abused mothers forced to recover alone.
Caritas Australia's Lulu Mitshabu, who fled the DRC 24 years ago, interviewed women from the war-torn North Kivu province, who gave first-hand accounts their experiences.
"Over 50 women were interviewed and they all said the same thing: that violence perpetrated against women is on the increase," she said.
WOMEN SHARE THEIR STORIES
Caritas Australia has established listening houses in the Democratic Republic of Congo to
Caritas Australia has established listening houses in the Democratic Republic of Congo to allow victims of rape to share their stories. Source: Supplied
One story that stuck with Mrs Mitshabu was that of an orphaned 11-year-old girl who was raped by a neighbour when she was living with her grandmother. Another neighbour helped to cover up the crime, by cleaning the girl and convincing others that she had fallen from a tree.
"This perpetrator was just walking the streets with no fear at all," she said.
After Caritas encouraged authorities investigate, the grandmother was targeted.
"The family of this man came and terrorised the grandmother and tried to force her to withdraw her complaint," Mrs Mitshabu said. "So many people live with that fear."
The grandmother was forced to leave her community but Caritas has since helped her gain skills in making baskets, and the granddaughter has received counselling and is back at school.
In May 2013, Mrs Mitshabu met a young woman who had been abducted and forced into prostitution.
"For more than a month, she was raped by her abductors and forced to cook and care for them," she said.
"She eventually escaped, pregnant, with no family and with no support.
"Her perpetrators were never charged; they remain free to commit the same atrocities in a country that tolerates prolific sexual abuse."
In some cases where a woman has been raped, the family will negotiate with the perpetrator to marry her.
"So they pay them to marry this young girl who has no choice and no say in it because, once she has been raped, she is worthless," he said.
"There is no punishment or consequences. It's becoming like a norm. This is a crime you can get away with easily."
SO, WHY IS IT SUCH A PROBLEM IN THE DRC?
The most dangerous place on Earth to be a woman is the Democratic Republic of Congo.
The most dangerous place on Earth to be a woman is the Democratic Republic of Congo. Source:ThinkStock
Mrs Mitshabu linked the sexual violence to the battle to control the country's extensive natural wealth.
The nation is rich in agricultural products, and in valuable minerals, such as gold, cobalt and copper, many of which are used in products we buy in Australia, such as mobile phones and other electronic gadgets.
She said the culture of violence against women was part of this battle for resources.
"By destroying the women, we are destroying the whole family. If the woman is raped, she doesn't have any value anymore. They will be chased out of their home. And the husband will move out because he needs to hide his face," she said.
This destroys families and tears communities apart, which allows others to take control of the sought-after land.
"It's a way to control people and control resources."
LULU'S MITSHABU'S STORY
Lulu Mitshabu meets rape survivor Vumiliya outside the city of Goma.
Lulu Mitshabu meets rape survivor Vumiliya outside the city of Goma. Source: Supplied
Mrs Mitshabu has her own horror story of fleeing the DRC with little more than her young children and the clothes on her back.
She escaped in 1990 when the country was known as Zaire and controlled by a dictatorship.
She was persecuted for working for a women's rights organisation, and one day the police captured her husband in an effort to silence her.
"I got in so much trouble for speaking out that I had to flee my country to protect my life," she said.
Pregnant and with her six- and four-year-old daughters with her, Mrs Mitshabu made the split-second decision to flee to Zambia because she knew that if she went home, her life would be over.
"So I just left. I had no money, I just headed to the nearest exit," she said.
"I lost contact with any members of my family because I knew that if I kept in touch (the authorities) would find me."
She spent months in a refugee camp agonising over the fate of her husband. With every intake of new asylum seekers, she hoped he would be among them.
Now living a
Now living a "wonderful" life in Australia … Caritas Australia program co-ordinator Lulu Mitshabu.Source: Supplied
"Every day we waited and every day we were disappointed. I was expecting him to die, but one day my husband appeared," Mrs Mitshabu said.
"He had been tortured and humiliated but, by miracle of God, he was saved."
A chance meeting with the first secretary of the Australian High Commissioner to Zambia at church led to the family being granted refugee status in Australia in 1991.
She has since made it her mission to defend the rights of women.
"I made the promise to myself that if God has made this opportunity for me to live democratically and safe in Australia, I will work to help other women around the world … I will speak for them and I will give them a voice," she said.
And it's a commitment she has made good on, returning to the Democratic Republic of Congo in her work for Caritas Australia.
Mrs Mitshabu now lives with her husband and six daughters in Canberra.
WHAT CAN WE DO?
Today's report calls for an end to systemic rape and violence perpetrated against women in the DRC's culture of silence, impunity and corruption.
The report recommends that the Australian Government:
● Publicly condemn sexual violence and violations of human rights in Congolese communities
● Bolster the global effort to disarm the country
● Ensure that Australian mining companies operating in the country are transparent and accountable in their ventures to ensure the people can harness the country's resources for development.
Mrs Mitshabu said violence against women was a "global pandemic".
"It's time that it stopped (because) it prevents women from living a dignified life and impedes them from meeting their full potential," she said.
"When women's bodies are a battleground and rape is used as a weapon of war, it is time for action."
Read more at the Caritas Australia website.


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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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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.