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.

9 Dec 2014

Fwd: No. 27463: Ugandan Communities Resist Oil and Gas Extraction in Bunyoro Kingdom -- Resource Extraction



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Title: Ugandan Communities Resist Oil and Gas Extraction in Bunyoro Kingdom
Author: Yes to Life: No to Mining
Category: Resource Extraction
Date: 12/8/2014
Source: Yes to Life: No to Mining
Source Website: http://www.yestolifenotomining.org/

African Charter Article# 21: All peoples shall freely dispose of their wealth and natural resources for their exclusive interest, eliminating all forms of foreign economic exploitation.

Summary & Comment: "The emergence of oil mining as a real threat in Bunyoro region has elicited a strong response from a diverse and growing coalition of communities, civil society organisations, traditional institutions, lawyers, academics and policy makers, together saying 'No to Mining.'" JJ


http://www.yestolifenotomining.org/uganda-bunyoro-kingdom/

The Bunyoro region, mid-western Uganda, is celebrated for its rich biodiversity, abundance of water, food growing areas, and places of ecological, cultural and spiritual importance known locally asIhangiro, or Sacred Natural Sites and Territories. It is home to several national parks and the critical Lake Albert water system that provides water not only for communities and ecosystems in Uganda, but also for neighbouring countries Sudan, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Rwanda.

A connection to local ecosystems runs deeply through the people of Bunyoro's spiritual beliefs and customary governance systems. These prohibit activities such as 'development', mining and other extractive activities in the Ihangiro or Sacred Natural Sites and Territories. For generations this has ensured that these ecosystems have been protected. Today, however, the Ihangiro, ecosystems and their custodians face an unprecedented assault upon their vitality.

Uganda's Ministry of Energy and Minerals estimates that 3.5 billion barrels of oil and gas[1] lie beneath Bunyoro and the wider Albertine Graben region. The discovery of this oil field in 2006 has attracted multinational corporations including Tullow , Total, and the Chinese National Offshore Oil Company (CNOOC) to the region like moths to a flame. Following an agreement with the Ugandan Government in 2012, these companies have been granted access in principle to operate oil mining activities in the Albertine region of Uganda, though only CNOOC has a production license so far.

Exploration activities, such as the drilling of oil wells and associated noise and vibrations, are already disturbing breeding grounds and migratory patterns of wildlife and fish in Lake Albert.[2] Fishing, a major source of livelihood and food sovereignty, has since significantly declined in the area and community livelihoods and traditions are being disrupted. For example, fishing communities near oil wells in Kaiso and Sebagoro have had their access to Nsonga Ijumika Sacred Natural Site in the Kaiso area cut off, undermining their ability to carry out cultural and spiritual practices inherent to their identity.

Commercial extraction of oil and gas is expected to start by 2017[3]and threatens to increase destructive, widespread and long-term impacts on communities and ecosystems, especially Sacred Natural Sites and Territories, food sovereignty and water systems.[4]

Women are likely to be disproportionately affected by mining. The disruption of their close dependence on the local ecosystems that provide food and materials for the household and their central role in the protection of Sacred Natural Sites will undermine both their status and livelihoods.

Yes to Life, No to Mining - Story of Resistance

The emergence of oil mining as a real threat in Bunyoro region has elicited a strong response from a diverse and growing coalition of communities, civil society organisations, traditional institutions, lawyers, academics and policy makers. Supported by the National Association for Professional Environmentalists (NAPE), they are resolutely saying 'No to Mining'.

Within this, a Coalition of Custodians of Sacred Natural Sites has formed to lead on specific initiatives to protect Sacred Natural Sites and numerous other avenues are being pursued to strengthen the Yes to Life, No to Mining message in Uganda.

NAPE are supporting communities to revive and practice unwritten law - the laws of the Earth (Earth Law) reflected in communities' customary governance systems.[5] Through community dialogues and exchanges, communities are remembering and rebuilding governance systems that respect the laws of the Earth. The more connected communities are to their place and customs, the stronger they are able in being to resist threats such as mining.

''You cannot protect people's rights without protecting Nature's rights. Human rights and Nature's rights go hand in hand..Earth Law should be the basis of all laws. They are not written in books, but in peoples' hearts." Frank Muramuzi, NAPE

To strengthen this work, a vocal alliance of advocates and lawyers is working with communities alongside NAPE to establish local Earth Law precedents, such as the rights of Lake Albert to exist, to a healthy habitat, to fulfil its role in the evolutionary process, and not to be polluted by mining and development activities. Such a precedent would be the first of its kind in Africa, contributing to a growing body of law globally that recognises Earth Law.[6]

NAPE are also raising public awareness of the threat of mining and highlighting the important role that communities and civil society play in preventing it.

In collaboration with international partner The Gaia Foundation, NAPE has conducted Participatory Video training with communities in the Bunyoro region. Equipped with cameras and know-how, the communities have developed a film that voices their concerns about the future impacts of mining and the forced relocations and injustices that have already occurred to facilitate mining.[7] Using social media the video has been shared across the world and is being used for internal advocacy by NAPE.

A Community Green Radio,[8] based in Hoima district in Uganda`s oil region and started by NAPE, provides a regular forum for oil affected communities and the coalition to discuss their concerns, strengthening solidarity and amplifying their voices to government and other stakeholders.

In addition, NAPE and The Gaia Foundation recently launched a Report: Mining and its impacts on Water, Food Sovereignty and Sacred Natural Sites and Territories [9] . Advocating for the recognition and protection of watersheds, food sovereignty areas, and Sacred Natural Sites and Territories as interconnected No Go Areas for mining and extractive activities, the launch of the report was widely covered in the Ugandan national media. It is being used by the coalition and international allies to educate policy and law makers on the true costs of oil and illuminate the policy and legal opportunities that exist to take a different, life affirming path, before the oil begins to flow.

The Coalition is growing in unity, strength, and confidence to say NO to mining.

Follow the 'Bunyoro' tag for updates and information as the situation in Uganda unfolds

[1] The Albertine Rift region has an estimated 3.5 billion barrels of oil and gas deposits; http://www.petroleum.go.ug/page.php?k=curnews&id=56

[2] See also a Report by Uganda's National Environment Management Authority; NEMA (2012) 'The Environmental Monitoring Plan for the Albertine Graben 2012-2017'; available at:http://www.nemaug.org/Reports/Albertine_graben_monitoring_plan_2012_2017.pdf

[3] See the President of Uganda's State of the Nation address:http://www.statehouse.go.ug/media/presidential-statements/2014/06/05/state-nation-address-he-yoweri-kaguta-museveni-president-re

[4] See the NAPE Uganda's recent report: http://www.gaiafoundation.org/news/new-report-mining-and-its-impacts-on-water-food-sovereignty-and-sacred-natural-sites-and

[5] Listen to interviews on Ugandan UBC Television ;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UX7RJagOP0w&list=UU_ha2gucnnsCzxxUxCEzQRA&index=2 and TOP Television; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8MN8FzO9Y0&list=UU_ha2gucnnsCzxxUxCEzQRA&index=1

[6] See Earth Law precedents: http://www.gaiafoundation.org/earth-law-precedents

[7] See http://youtu.be/mbgV40fEKfg

[8] Frequency 89.0 FM. See http://nape.or.ug/nape-starts-a-community-radio-community-green-radio-in-hoima-2/

[9] See http://nape.or.ug/mining-and-its-impacts-report/





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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.
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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.