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.

2 Oct 2010

Identify the Congo killers and bring them to justice

The Rwandan government's attempt to discredit the report into atrocities in
DR Congo makes one wonder what it has got to hide by
Reed Brody
Published in:
The Guardian (UK)
October 1, 2010
Refugees carrying all their remaining possessions arrive at Kibumba camp,
Goma, after crossing the border out of Rwanda.
© 1994 Tom Stoddart/Getty Images
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DR Congo: UN Report Exposes Grave Crimes
Today, the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
is publishing a vitally important report cataloguing the atrocities
committed in the Democratic Republic of Congo between 1993 and 2003. Those
who go through its 500-plus pages cannot fail to be touched by reading of
the horrors the Congolese people have suffered and continue to suffer.
While many of the massacres have been documented previously, this is the
first report to comprehensively analyse and compile these horrendous
attacks, perpetrated by a variety of armed actors over the course of a
decade. The report is a powerful reminder of the gravity of the crimes
committed in Congo and of the shocking absence of justice. I know because I
was there.
In 1997, I was deputy chief of an investigative team sent by UN
secretary-general Kofi Annan to investigate crimes committed in Congo from
1993 to 1997. The worst period was from late 1996 to 1997, when forces
supporting Laurent-Desiré Kabila, father of the current Congolese president,
attacked Rwandan Hutu refugees as the elder Kabila swept to power with the
support of Rwanda. We received detailed reports of mass slaughter, but our
attempts to reach massacre sites were repeatedly thwarted by travel bans,
"spontaneous" demonstrations and the arrest of one of our investigators.
Although we were stuck for months in Kinshasa, the capital, we were
nevertheless able to conclude that some of the attacks revealed "the intent
to eliminate those Rwandan Hutus who remained" in Congo.
The UN report published today supports our preliminary findings and
documents horrific crimes by many other actors in Congo. Fortunately, this
time the UN team had full access to the massacre sites and to witnesses. The
key question now, as it was when our team delivered its report in 1998, is
whether the international community has the political will to take the next
step: identifying the killers and bringing them to justice.
In 1998, our team called on the UN to seek justice for the crimes we
documented, and Annan told the security council that "those guilty of
violations must be brought to book." The council effectively buried our
report, however, signaling to all of those competing to control the eastern
part of this resource-rich country that there were no holds barred. As the
new report documents, a multiplicity of government armies, rag-tag rebel
groups and brutal ethnic militias took that signal as a green light to
continue to kill, rape and plunder.
Although the new report does not attribute individual responsibility, it
does make clear that many of the soldiers who committed the 1996-7
atrocities were under the effective command of Rwandan army officers and
that their overall commander was Colonel James Kabarebe, a Rwandan who had
become the interim chief of staff of the Congolese armed forces. He was
promoted to chief of staff of the Rwandan army several years later, and
today is Rwanda's defence minister.
This conclusion is no surprise. Although the United States denied our team
crucial intelligence regarding the structure and movement of Rwandan troops,
witnesses consistently told us that officers speaking the Rwandan language
were present during the killing of unarmed refugees. Even at the time,
Rwanda's strongman - now its president, Paul Kagame - boasted that his
government planned and led the military campaign, telling the Washington
Post that his objectives were to "dismantle" the Hutu refugee camps in Zaire
(as the Congo was then called), "destroy the structure" of the Hutu militia
units and "deal with" the Hutu extremists.
What were his exact orders? We are not sure, but as the new report notes,
the campaign's final massacres, in Mbandaka and Wendji, over 2,000
kilometres west of Rwanda, "were the final stage in the hunt for Hutu
refugees that had begun in eastern Zaire, in North and South Kivu, in
October 1996". It adds that the deaths of "several tens of thousands", many
of whom were killed after the refugee camps had been dismantled, "cannot be
attributed to the hazards of war or seen as equating to collateral damage".
It found that "the majority of the victims were children, women, elderly
people and the sick, who posed no threat to the attacking forces".
The Rwandan government has attempted to discredit the report and to pressure
Ban Ki-moon to stop its publication, threatening to pull out of its UN
peacekeeping commitments in Darfur and elsewhere. By seeking to quash
publication of the report, the Rwandan government is raising further
questions about what it may be trying to hide. Kagame's forces played a
crucial role in ending the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, but this does not
absolve them of scrutiny for crimes they may have committed in the years
that followed, both in Rwanda and Congo.
Indeed, the Rwandan government's reaction can only hinder efforts to find a
lasting solution to the continuing conflict in Congo. As Annan noted in
1998, one of the root causes of the region's conflicts is "a vicious cycle
of violations of human rights and revenge, fuelled by impunity. This cycle
has to be brought to an end if lasting peace and stability are to be
restored to the region." Twelve years later, it is time to heed these words
by identifying and bringing to justice the individuals responsible for these
atrocities.
http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2010/10/01/identify-congo-killers-and-bring-them-
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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.