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.

6 Dec 2014

[AfricaRealities] Michaëlle Jean heading a Francophonie in transition

 

Michaëlle Jean heading a Francophonie in transition

There was bristling about Michaëlle Jean taking over of the Francophonie, but some are optimistic she will make it a 'mini-United Nations' and an economic bloc.

Secretary general of La Francophonie Abdou Diouf celebrates the election of his successor, Canada's Michaëlle Jean, during the Francophonie Summit in Dakar, Senegal.
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Secretary general of La Francophonie Abdou Diouf celebrates the election of his successor, Canada's Michaëlle Jean, during the Francophonie Summit in Dakar, Senegal.
By:  Quebec Bureau, Published on Sat Dec 06 2014
MONTREAL―She started as a journalist and became a stand-in for the Queen. Now former governor general Michaëlle Jean is packing boxes for her latest move up the diplomatic ladder into lavish digs as the chosen representative of the world's French-speaking nations.
The jet-set life and sumptuous five-story Parisian offices a stroll from the Eiffel Tower that she will command as secretary general of La Francophonie may be a throwback to her vice-regal digs at Rideau Hall, the GG's Ottawa residence. But behind the glamour and photo ops, Jean, 57, is stepping into an imposing position that will have her tackling wars, disease and desperate poverty when she officially takes the post in January.
It's a role that has so far been filled by political and diplomatic giants. When Boutros Boutros-Ghali was named secretary general in 1998, he had already run the United Nations for two terms, served as foreign minister of Egypt and helped broker a peace deal between his country and Israel in 1979. His successor, whom Jean is replacing, was Abdou Diouf, a towering sage of a man whose previous post had been as Senegal's president. Many feel he will be impossible to replace.
Both were also men from the African continent, whose countries make up a majority of the Francophonie membership. Born in Haiti, raised in Quebec, educated in Europe and having served as the symbol of British legacy in Canada, Jean is many things. But she does not hail from Africa, and that is just one reason for the bristling in some corners of an organization that has traditionally been bankrolled by the rich northern countries (including $38 million in 2013-14 from Canada, the second largest donor after France) and fronted by the poorer south.
The succession blueprint built around Burkina Faso president Blaise Compaoré was scrapped in October when he was run out of his country after trying to change his country's constitution and extend his mandate past 2015.
African countries couldn't rally around any of Jean's four other opponents ― all Africans ― and that allowed Prime Minister Stephen Harper to push Canada's candidate to victory in the final hours of last week's Francophonie summit in Dakar.
Guinea's president, Alpha Condé, was one of the few to speak frankly about the decision, saying it was "embarrassing" the African leaders couldn't come together, but that he had his hopes about Jean.
"She could be Canadian and end up doing much more for Africa," he said.
Doubts persist. In reports citing anonymous malcontents, there were complaints that Jean would use her new post only as a trampoline for the next role, given her rapid rise from journalist to head of state to UNICEF ambassador and University of Ottawa chancellor. When she deigned to answer a question in English at her post-election news conference, a French politician grumbled about his fears of a "North American Francophonie for the next four years."
Yet others see Jean, who declined the Star's interview requests, as just the person to lead a group hoping to break out of its traditional anglophobic fallback positions, build on its ambitions of being what French President François Hollande called "a mini-United Nations" and venture into a new sphere, that of an economic bloc.
Abdou Diouf definitely saw something there when he cited "the quality of your relations with British authorities" in asking Jean to serve as the Francophonie's language hawk for the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.
The report she submitted touted her success in tough negotiations and the ability to rally people to her cause. She wrote of badgering the International Olympic Committee and the cost-conscious organizers of the 2012 London Olympics to ensure French appeared in signs, speeches and sporting programs but noted (or boasted) that the "francophile" Queen Elizabeth II was no obstacle.
"Our discussions always took place in French, cordial and warm," Jean wrote.
As secretary general of the Francophonie, Jean will have to do the bidding of its 80 members and observer states, which is no easy task when those nations are as varied as Vietnam, Costa Rica and Switzerland. But she is also lord and master of a hundreds-strong diplomatic corps.
She is its ultimate head of human resources and its chief spokesperson. The organization even has its own administrative justice system and appeal court for errant staffers. Jean also heads a cultural and educational network that includes TV5, the international French-language broadcaster, and a network of dozens of university professors who carry out funded research on issues dear to the Francophonie.
"She will have to return to a 90-hour work week," says Jean-Louis Roy, a Montreal-based researcher and former journalist who served from 1990 to 1998 as secretary general in the Agence Intergouvernementale de la Francophonie, a precursor to today's organization. "She will also, of course, have to travel.
"More than that, she will have to bring together and keep together the best elements of all those countries, those who want to adjust to the changing world in which we live. She will have to meet a lot of people and discuss with them and propose things to them. It's not an ordinary job."
On top of the revolving door of diplomats and politicians at the Francophonie's Paris headquarters on the left bank of the Seine, Abdou Diouf hit four of the five continents over the past year, met the Pope in Rome, weighed in on the civil war in the Central African Republic and plotted co-operation with the head of the Commonwealth in London, among other official duties.
Jean will have a similar schedule. She'll have drivers and assistants, but will also be guided in her activities by a budget scare several years ago that exposed shoddy bookkeeping, spiralling costs and a Francophonie on the edge of financial ruin. Now equipped with an annual budget of more than $100 million ― one that member states are being asked to increase ― she is tasked with handling the Francophonie's transformation from language vanguard and political player to agent of economic growth.
That will be a challenge given that development in former French colonies has tended to lag behind that of English-speaking African nations, notes Philippe Hugon, director of the Paris-based think tank Institute de Relations Internationales et Strategiques inan analysis of the challenges Jean faces.
Her campaign stressed her intention to work on reducing the chasm between the Francophonie's rich and poor countries without getting tied down by too many details. But Jean will also be expected to pitch her own ideas about how to reach the goals set out for the organization, says Roy.
"She's not just a servant."
Canada reportedly bankrolled her winning campaign and now it's sending her off into the world. But it's not entirely altruistic, Roy notes. Success abroad will inevitably buff the Harper government's sometimes tarnished foreign policy reputation, particularly in Africa and the Arab world.
"She will have to be quite present in the francophone countries but she will also be at the World Bank, the United Nations, the International Monetary Fund, the European Union and the ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations)," Roy says. "She's does not report to the Canadian government, but . . . all her interlocutors in the world will know that she is Canadian."

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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.