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 Feb 2015

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RWANDA: U.S. AMBASSADOR BARKS-RUGGLES SEEK OUT PEACE-MAKERS-- DON'T IGNORE KAGAME'S DESPOTISM 

DR THEOGENE RUD...FEBRUARY 04,2015 
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Ambassador Erica Barks-Ruggles

[Open Letter: Response To U.S. Ambassador To Rwanda's Message] 

Ambassador Erica Barks-Ruggles

The United States Embassy in Rwanda

2657 Avenue de la Gendarmerie (Kacyiru)

P.O. Box 28

Kigali, RWANDA

 




Your Excellency,

I read your letter to the Rwandan people in the RPF-owned and Rwandan intelligence-controlled newspaper, The New Timesof 4th February, 2015. For such a beginning in distant place plagued with demons of death and destruction in its past and present, you must be feeling both excited and challenged.

In responding your hopeful letter, I only wish the Rwandan people to whom you address the letter shared in your very optimistic estimates, notwithstanding their smiles and wishes. Nothing that I say in my response to your letter should be misunderstood to mean that I do not wish you a fruitful tour of the land of thousand hills. Like many in your country and mine, I do wish you a fruitful and memorable endeavor during your three-year tour of Rwanda.

From the start let me say that I am not surprised that you should have chosen The New Times as the vehicle for you message. It is the most favored vehicle for the Kigali regime, and you must have endeared yourself to President Kagame and his small band of supporters who maintain the regime. They have used this platform to lie about, insult, and intimidate opponents, be they Rwandans or non-Rwandans. Consider yourself very privileged that you enjoy a right that many in Rwanda would consider far beyond their reach.

I am not surprised by the content of your letter either. You confirm and reiterate the pro-Kagame policies of the U.S. Government for the last twenty years. It is not my duty to question the rationale of the United States Government to spend over 1 billion U.S. dollars over the last ten years, and 180 million U.S. dollars this year alone, in its tax payers' money in covert or overt aid to a brutal and dictatorial regime.

However, as a Rwandan citizen, I would like to disagree with you respectfully, publicly and strongly on three points; namely, 1) strengthening democratic institutions and good governance, 2) a commitment to acknowledge ALL lives tragically lost, and urging ALL to tolerance and respect, and 3) improving regional security.

First, there are no democratic institutions in Rwanda, and the country is in a deep and worsening governance crisis. If Rwandans were free to tell you the truth, they would tell you their predicament. They would tell you that President Kagame runs Rwanda as an absolute and cruel ruler, tolerating no dissent from any quarter. That is why many of real or perceived opponents-political or military-are in jail on trumped charges. Institutions, while maintaining a façade of democracy, function only when they abide by President Kagame's will. Political space is closed to non-RPF Rwandans. There is no freedom of speech or assembly.

The problem of refugees remains unresolved as Rwandans continue to languish in refugee camps, jungles, and exile across Africa and the world. The U.S. Government, in its 2013 Rwanda Human Rights Report, made its evaluation public:

The most important human rights problems in the country remained the government's targeting of political opponents and human rights advocates for harassment, arrest, and abuse; disregard for the rule of law among security forces and the judiciary; restrictions on civil liberties; and support of a rebel group in the neighboring Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Other major human rights problems included arbitrary or unlawful killings both inside and outside of the country, disappearances, torture, harsh conditions in prisons and detention centers, arbitrary arrest, prolonged pretrial detention, and government infringement on citizens' privacy rights. The government restricted freedoms of speech, press, assembly, and association.

In 2011, Ambassador Susan Rice, whom you know very well, then U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations, on a visit to Rwanda had this to describe the state of affairs in Rwanda:

I believe as well that friends should speak frankly to friends. Rwanda's economic vitality has moved the country forward.  Social progress has been substantial.  Yet, the political culture in Rwanda remains comparatively closed. Press restrictions persist. Civil society activists, journalists, and political opponents of the government often fear organizing peacefully and speaking out. Some have been harassed.  Some have been intimidated by late-night callers. Some have simply disappeared.

While the U.S. Government knows the truth, its political, financial and diplomatic capital has not been to invest in stopping and reversing this abominable state of affairs.

Second, the U.S.Government has, since 1994, acknowledged genocide against Tutsi and helped the Government of Rwanda nationally and internationally to bring the perpetrators to account, but totally failed to acknowledge the crimes against humanity, war crimes, and possibly acts of genocide against Hutu committed by President Kagame and those under his command. By failing to acknowledge these crimes, and actively shielding President Kagame and some in his regime from accountability, the U.S Government has immensely contributed to the deepening inter- and intra-ethnic polarization that sooner than later will lead to another catastrophic implosion.

Third, rather than help to improve the regional security situation, the U.S. Government has committed sins of commission and omission which have fueled President Kagame's continuing aggression in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The privileged relationship between President Kagame's regime and the U.S. Government has put priority on war-making rather than promotion of peace, as evidenced lately by the stampede championed by the U.S. to find a quick military solution against FDLR and Hutu refugees in DRC.

I hope you genuinely addressed your letter to all Rwandans. If you did, you will have thought carefully and seriously about Rwanda's problems, those inherited from past regimes, and new ones created or made worse by the regime that welcomed you in Kigali. It is in this context that I must say that the U.S Government policies and actions have been and remain a source of bad influence in Rwanda and the Great Lakes region. This is dangerous.

As a diplomat, you are keenly aware that not all problems can be solved by more money, sheer brute force, or powerful allies. The most important contribution that you may offer to all Rwandans is not a simply an invitation to a conversation with you, important as it for your effectiveness and success, but a dialogue amongst Rwandans across the multiple divides hidden from your eyes.

You have come to Rwanda in times of silent peril. The choices before you are rather limited. Will you be a bridge to encourage all Rwandans to find peace and prosperity through a tough dialogue? Will you continue the well-trodden yet dangerous course of the status quo that once again leads to violent conflict, death and destruction, and thus become another American diplomat to announce bad news to the world?

You are a descendant of generations of bold and imaginative Americans who founded and united your nation, at perilous moments, steering it to great heights when they were barefoot and rode horses. They sacrificed much for freedom and unity, which one would hope President Obama and Secretary Kerry sent you to promote in Rwanda.

In the 21st Century Rwanda, there are Rwandans who equally seek freedom, peace, healing and shared prosperity for their country, even when, like your ancestors, they may have to offer nothing else except their blood, tears and toil to achieve that.

Therefore, boldly ask good questions and you may find answers. Seek the builders of a peaceful Rwanda and you will find them. Knock on unlikely doors, and who knows, that is where you might find enduring and faithful partners. Be not deceived by the looks and uniform answers.

Perhaps you may find a trusted friend in Rwanda who will decipher for you this Kinyarwanda proverb:

Indyarya ihimwa nindyamiriziMurakaza neza, Madamu Ambasaderi.Amahoro!

 

Dr. Theogene Rudasingwa, Washington D.C.Dr. Rudasingwa is a former Rwanda ambassador to the U.S. in Kagame's government and his former chief of staff

ngombwa@gmail.com

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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.