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.

11 Aug 2012

Kagame's dictatorship and fear against freedom of expression and privacy:

Kagame's dictatorship  and fear against the freedom of expression and privacy:
The dictator and war criminal Paul Kagame of Rwanda  is now at the end of his reign. He fears everything including telephone calls and email messages between Rwandan citizens.
The Rwanda's funders should stop  providing money to a  regime headed by Kagame , a war criminal and dictator. Any recent  suspended  foreign aid  should resume on conditions that all political opponents are released from prison and that  the freedom of assembly is allowed and political parties are free to operate  in Rwanda.
This is a call to British Politicians who are the main supplier of foreign aid and arms to the Rwandan government. While  the UK is  an advanced developed country, all UK political parties are still debating alternatives for further developing the country and tackling the current economic downturn. But, in Rwandan, the British politicians and media believe that development has been reached and that democracy is not necessary in Rwanda as an ingredient for economic development. They believe that  one man ( Kagame) and his party ( Rwandan Patriotic Front-RPF), which  triggered Rwandan genocide and massacred  hundreds of thousands of civilians in Rwanda and DR Congo  are  doing the job and  that political opponents to Kagame  should remain in jails , exiled politicians should stay in Britain and that no opponent  political party to RPF  should be allowed to operate in Rwanda.
Africans should fight against foreign aid that serves the interests of  the West and that  contributes to legitimise dictatorship and human rights abuses. 



Subject: *DHR* Rwanda steps up fear for communication into its citizens

 

Rwanda steps up fear for communication into its citizens

The recent Rwandan laws limiting the use of internet in the country and having to pay for receiving telephone calls have scaled up the level of oppression that Paul Kagame regime is inflicting to his citizens since the day his forces invaded Rwanda from Uganda back in October 1990.
As in Egypt of Mubarak, says Horace Campbell in the book titled African Awakening: the emerging revolutions  "the closing down of the internet and shutting down of cell-phone services and non-government media were only the more modern manifestations of a long tradition of repression that had placed conservative militarists at the top of the political ladder…"
Thus the measures that were voted and made public by the Rwandan minister of Interior this week are another worrying step that the Rwandan Patriotic Front government has taken to alienate itself against the population, particularly the users of new technologies in the country.  I reproduce hereafter the reaction of Jambonews under the name of Jean Mitari. The original text was in French. I took the freedom of translating it for English readers.  
On Tuesday, August 6, 2012, Mussa Fazil Harelimana, Rwandan Interior Minister, announced that Kigali had adopted a new law to monitor phone calls, e-mails and website visits made from Rwanda.
Divisionism or genocide ideology, were far the most significant arguments put forward by the RPF regime to discredit any form of criticism or opposition and restrict civil liberties. Presently, in a context of intense international pressure following the UN report accusing Rwanda of supporting the rebellion of the M23, the regime steps up one extra level in censuring information.
"From now on, it will be punishable in Rwanda to read information not approved by the authority and such offense [Editor: consultation of this type of information] will be regarded as complicity" [itegeko rizajya rinahana umuntu usoma inyandiko zitemewe na  Leta kandi iryo kosa rizafatwa nk'ubufatanyacyaha.], announced Interior Minister Mussa Fazil Harerimana in pro-government newspaper Kigali Today. The minister added that "the security services are from the publication of the law allowed to listen to all phone calls and read emails between private individuals, [editor: even without the authorization of the judiciary] and prosecute anyone who violates the law through their conversations. " What is surprising is that the law does not specify the type of offenses that the adoption of this new law is intended to address. On the question of whether this law will not affect  many innocent victims following the fact that people borrow and lend their computers and mobile phones, the minister said "it is for each concerned to ensure their communication devices are in the right hands."
Hence internet censorship has increased sensibly in Rwanda where it was found that in recent times, some sites especially those from opposition parties and most critical of the regime, are inaccessible, or are the subject of computer repeated attacks from government hackers.
With this new law establishing government's monitoring of what people write on the internet and exchange on the phone, Rwanda joins the club of Internet predators. On top of such list of countries are China and Iran, which are considered the most advanced in terms of Internet filtering and monitoring users. This new law is in addition to many other draconian laws adopted by the Rwandan government in recent years, and represents a serious threat to freedom of information, where citizens can not freely express themselves online, knowing that they are being listened to and their messages read. This law also violates Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Citizen of which Rwanda is somehow a signatory and which stipulates that "everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; which implies the right not to be intimidated for held opinions, search, receive and spread, without any limitation in terms of boundaries, information and ideas, using any media and regardless."
From around the world, in 2011, Reporters Without Borders has recorded almost 200 arrests of bloggers and net-citizens; with Rwanda adopting these laws  aimed at monitoring and filtering the Internet, the list of offenders will certainly increase.
Among accompanying measures to enforce these laws, Rwanda decided to charge all incoming calls from abroad, this starting from July 1st, 2012. This measure came into force, after all users of mobiles were requested to get them registered by the police. From now on anyone receiving a call from abroad will have to pay $0.35 [232.5 Rwf] per minute, explains the online pro-government outlet igihe.com. However, according to information received by Jambonews, it appears that such fee for incoming calls from abroad had been underestimated, and communication providers in Rwanda find the exact charge could rise up to $0.50 per minute. Before July 1st, all incoming calls either from abroad, national or local were completely free. [Ironically, that may be the worth of celebrating 50 years of Rwandan independence]
According to the 2011 UNDP report, 76.8% of Rwandans live on less than $1.25 a day, which means that from now on it will become more and more difficult for most people to answer any incoming call from abroad, knowing that for many citizens with several family members living outside the country, the only way to stay in contact is the telephone.
According to several observers, charging for incoming calls is a way for the Kigali regime of strengthening censorship by preventing citizens to have information from their relatives living abroad. After all the independent press was muzzled, many Rwandans inside received information on what is happening in and about their country, through their families settled outside where information circulates freely. Depriving further more economically and financially the basket of already poor families proves the regime's determination to censor information.
This intensification of censorship in Rwanda is adopted at a time when the country is affected by a negative image from the international community for its support of the M23 rebels who are committing atrocities in Eastern DRC.
Several Rwandan citizens living in Belgium and having families in Rwanda, particularly from Gisenyi have confirmed to Jambonews that the new fee on incoming calls from abroad was somehow related to the mutiny of the M23. According to these people, inhabitants of Gisenyi often witness trucks transporting injured or dead soldiers killed on the battle fields.
The decision of the Rwandan authorities to charge inexplicably phone calls to the outside and control activities taking place on the internet would be aimed at [among many other sinister objectives for the population] preventing that information about the repatriation of dead or injured does not leak to the outside.
It appears that the time may be approaching for the ultimate change that Rwandans of all walks of life and from all ethnic groups [Tutsis, Hutus, and Twas] have been longing for. For those desperate for it, the clock is certainly not ticking fast enough. Hassan El Ghayesh, also in African Awakening: The emerging revolutions, recalls the euphoria he experienced when the Egyptian youth ended 30 years of Hosni Mubarak's regime.
"My phone doesn't stop ringing for 30 minutes and I don't stop calling all those who had been at Tahrir with me for another hour. We made it! Congratulations, we made it! Most of Egypt is in the street celebrating. I can't remember the number of smiles and hugs exchanged. I do remember, though, how the older generation looked at us with absolute admiration and gratitude. We did something of which they never dreamed. The flame of youthful demonstrations hasn't been ignited since the early 1970s. And then all of a sudden, we hit so strongly that we shake the foundation of this regime. I will forever remember the first day, the first morning I wake up to the smell of freshly baked freedom, the first shower that rinses away all the corruption and stench of the former regime."
Such day of relief for Rwandans may not be too far. One can oppress a people for a certain period of time. Eighteen years of Kagame's rule have been exceedingly traumatic for the majority of Rwandans who have so far managed to survive his atrocities. It can take some time to remove the foundations of the system of oppression he has developed. But he cannot oppress all the people everlastingly.
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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.