http://therisingcontinent.wordpress.com/2012/10/07/rwanda-kagame-not-listening-nor-listened-to/#more-3000Rwanda: Kagame not listening, nor listened to Paul Kagame speaking in Parliament on 4 October 2012 in Kigali – Rwanda. I intentionally and normally avoid listening to him as much as I can. Instead whenever I can, I get out protesting against his dictatorial regime and repressive policies. He may have a number of followers, but I am not one of them. I have my own reasons, and they have theirs. This week I was scrolling through twitter, as I do regularly. Paul Kagame, Rwandan president, was announced to speak at the Rwandan parliament. I found myself drawn to the virtual waiting list of his talking in front of many dignitaries. Probably I had forgotten how he addresses the public. In recent days I had been editing a story of a survivor. He was then 18 eighteen years old when the Rwandan tragedy struck. Kagame's hordes of soldiers had killed all his relatives and friends. This was in the forests of Congo back in 1996 and 1998. The 1994 genocide was already some years in the past. But its aftermath appeared as dramatic as it was, if not more. The death toll, and still counting, has reached almost 8 millions of lives. The young man survived imaginable and unimaginable circumstances. Death spared him. He was taken for dead among bodies destined for burial. In all probability, fate wanted him to be able to tell the world what he went through. In 1999, from 347 forcibly returned Rwandan refugees from Franceville (Gabon), only 17 remained still alive after weeks of torture and starvation. This is one story out of million others that will be never told. Because their storytellers couldn't be as lucky as the young man in the hands of Kagame's killing machine. But what is the Rwandan president saying today, the leader who slaughtered his compatriots, Congolese and others in a number which will be never exactly known? Let's not forget the millions of citizens he keeps captive in Rwanda, fearing him more than an atrocious animal can be feared, or the hundreds of thousands of Congolese raped women that his affiliated militias victimise to create persistent instability in Eastern Congo. The chaos he has created enabled him and his external supporters to plunder for years Congolese minerals. And he is claiming that when they pass through his country he does not stop them. At least on this point he acknowledges to be their accomplice. The Rwandan president explains, "History has taught us that we need to continue building our capacity for home-grown solutions to the problems of our country." And one of such solutions has been the Gacaca justice system. Except for the administrators of that system, I don't see any positive it brought for the millions of Rwandans who became its victims, thanks to its implementation. But if we agree that its purpose was to create and justify the existence of a second class category of citizens among Rwandans, then it has been a laudable success. Paul Kagame indicates in his speech that, "International justice, just like so many other things we have seen in the recent past, is used to define and determine how Africans should live their lives." As long as that International justice, like the International Criminal Tribunal Court, or other external institutions serve the Rwandan president's interests, they are not reprehensible in his eyes. To become trustworthy on the subject, he should not apply double standards when the same institutions or powerful countries come after him because of their own interests. Referring to DRC, he declares that, "Those who took Rwandophones to the Congo should be the ones accountable for these problems. " I don't think he is really mentioning that to demonstrate that he cares for those populations of Rwandan descent who for historical reasons ended up settling in that country. It's only a diversion. He has been destabilising DRC for economic reasons nothing else tangible. The same way for example NATO and its allies destroyed Libya in 2011. Though in this later case, there were more motivations to their action, particularly stopping Qaddafi in being an obstacle to their plunder of Africa. Have you ever heard a bully in a classroom telling their classmates to stand up against bullies? That is what Paul Kagame seems to picture when he says, "We Rwandans are better off standing up to this boorish attitude. The attitude of the bullies must be challenged. That is what some of us live for." He forgets how boorish he is and or perceived, or he might simply be in denial of the main characteristic of his personality. During the same speech he points out that, "People who have power, and have a lot of it for that matter, should also be wise. …When the powerful get angry, it's not justified. But many times the powerless have a lot of justifications to be angry." In the Rwandan context, can what he is saying here be applied? Or is he again referring to a situation where double standards are permitted? "But the weak, the poor, the powerless have a different potential that they should use correctly to get out of this kind of position we find ourselves in every time. … The power of refusing injustice." I find that here the Rwandan president, though he was referring to his own situation against the international community, has provided how those suffering from his injustices and oppression should behave towards him: by refusing his repression. It is surprising that when these external countries and institutions were standing behind him to commit all the crimes alleged against him today, the Rwandan president was never complaining. Despite changed and changing circumstances, I don't think Paul Kagame has changed at all. A political leader who is not listening anymore, if he ever did, or nobody is listening to, for many reasons, isn't it time for them to leave office without being pushed? If he ever cared for Rwandans, he would peacefully resign. Please click here, to read the entire speech of Paul Kagame, Rwandan president, that he pronounced on 4 October 2012 in parliament at the occasion of receiving oaths from 3 top public servants and launching the judiciary year 2012. |
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
11 Oct 2012
Rwanda: Kagame not listening, nor listened to
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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.
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’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.
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.
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
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.
Paul Kagame' actvities as former rebel
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