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.

22 Dec 2014

[AfricaRealities] Rwanda, the nation that most divides opinion: 7 striking facts from its big political week

 


"Umushyikirano" is a cross between a political beauty parade, and public flogging. Emotions ran high over the BBC's 'Rwanda: The Untold Story'.

Kagame opens the Umushikirano. BELOW UN Economic Commission for Africa Executive Secretary Carlos Lopes speaks at the National Dialogue, Rwanda female UN peacekeepers.

ON December 18 and 19, Rwanda held its 12th annual National Dialogue, or more popularly "Umushyikirano" as it's called in the Kinyarwanda language.

Perhaps the best way to explain Umushyikirano is that it's a strange cross between a political beauty parade, and a public flogging – the government reports to the country how it has performed on the things it promised to do; and the people write in during the dialogue (mostly via Twitter and Facebook), or call in through a videoconference link from satellite stations around the country, to complain, praise, and denounce - in trademark African plain-speak  - what they see as failures.

President Paul Kagame chairs the proceedings. There is free lunch, a cocktail for the Rwandans who return from the Diaspora to attend, music and dance, and fervent chants hailing the president.

Anger over "genocide trivialisation"

The Umushyikirano 2014 had its emotional moments, especially on the last day. This was partly because this one came on the 20th anniversary year of the 1994 genocide in which nearly one million people, most of them Tutsi, were killed. But perhaps what most made the emotions raw, was the October BBC documentary "Rwanda: The Untold Story".

It is nearly two months since it aired, and the rage against it for "genocide denial" and "genocide trivialisation" is still running high. The BBC Kinyarwanda Service was suspended in the furore that followed. At the close of the Umushikyrano,Kagame tore into it, denouncing those he said felt superior and therefore trampled the history and pain of other peoples without a care.

As the proceedings ended, there was a small celebratory jig. Some of the leaders formed a circle, and did the shuffle. Kagame joined in to much applause, but he didn't get down, remaining straight-backed, putting in only a suppressed twitch of the shoulders.

Then, finally, a photo book, "Rwanda: A remarkable turnaround of a nation" was formally published and distributed at the end of the event, with a preface by Kagame and a foreword by former British prime minister Tony Blair. Some of the photographs are quite striking.

The Umushyikirano is open to diplomats and the local and international media, but on Saturday, the ruling Rwanda Patriotic Front (RPF) gathered in congress behind closed doors, locking out foreigners and non-members of their political clan. It is said that here is where the gloves come off and Kagame hands out tough love, and members let it all hang out.

Beyond the disagreements

For various reasons, Rwanda is probably the African country that divides opinion on the continent and internationally most. Few can remain neutral when it is discussed. To some, the post-genocide turnaround it has achieved, the "effectiveness" of its leaders, and its order in a chaotic continent is a "miracle". To its critics, it is a repressive rule that hides its undemocratic ways behind the façade of rosy statistics and the international acclaims of its fanatic supporters.

However, if Umushyikirano does anything, it provides telling insights into how Rwandan leaders and society see themselves; the things they are proud of; and, in an anecdotal sense, the kind of future they dream of.

These following 7 facts that were offered at various points during the dialogue, in different ways, summed up the challenges the country still faces, and the things where it feels it has won bragging rights:

1. Ten years ago the poverty level in Rwanda was 60%. That has now reduced to 45%. An improvement, but still not good enough.

2. Over 6 million land titles have been distributed/collected in Rwanda. But the more striking number is that 8.7 million titles have been prepared, and over 90% of the land  in the country has been surveyed and titled and the records can be accessed in a digital registry. With a population of 11 million, more land titles have been issued than there are adult Rwandans. In this regard Rwanda is by far the African record holder, and one of the leading countries in the world in this regard.

3. Post-genocide issues dominated the last day of Umushyikirano. There were questions about the UN's International Criminal Tribunal  for Rwanda (ICTR) that finally wound up this month after 20 years.

Between 1994-2014 the ICTR tried 95 individuals for their role in the genocide, and handed out 61 convictions at a cost of $2 billion.

On the other hand traditional genocide courts in Rwanda (called Gacaca) between 2001 and 2012 (about half the time) tried 1.95 million genocide suspects and convicted 65% of them – at a cost of less than 1% of the ICTR.

It was reported at the Umushyikirano that the Gacaca courts produced 60 million pages of documents!

4. Nearly 98% of all Rwandans have health insurance, the highest in Africa.

5. Rwanda contributes the highest percentage of troops per national capita to UN peacekeeping missions.  It is the third highest contributor of female police officers to UN peacekeeing in the world, and the second highest African contributor of female police officers.

6. "Rwanda: A remarkable turnaround of a country" says that after the 1994 genocide there were only 2 lawyers left in the country.  Today the Judiciary employs over 600 judicial officers. The number of qualified lawyers rose from 2 in 1994, to 2,500 in 2012.

7. It also says that more than 200,000 laptops have been distributed under Rwanda's One Laptop Per Child Project (OLPC) to over 407 schools, and 10,000 teachers have been trained. This, it notes, makes Rwanda the third largest deployment of school laptops in the world after Peru and Uruguay.

-Later in the week, "PERFECT IMPERFECTIONS: REVISITING RWANDA AND 'THE KIGALI CONSENSUS'" by Charles Onyango-Obbo




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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.