Help Prevent the US from Being a Safe Haven for War Criminals
Posted on October 26, 2012 By Jacques Bahati, Policy Analyst The United States government is seeking help from the general public and specifically from the African diaspora in an effort to ensure human rights violators and war criminals do not find a safe haven here. If you have information about any foreign government official, military, police, or members of an armed group that you believe perpetrated serious human rights violations or war crimes and has come to the US--please talk to US law enforcement. This information can help hold criminals accountable. This idea was at the core of the Africa Human Rights NGO Round Table that Africa Faith and Justice Network was invited to on October 10, 2012 by the US Department of Justice Human Rights and Special Prosecutions (HRSP). Every year, the US welcomes people from different nations across the globe. Some of them have been victims or know people who have been victims of all kinds of atrocities in their home country. It is possible for a victim of a crime to casually run into their attacker at a store, a place of worship, or on the street here in the US. In May 2011, the Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) received information from a Ethiopian-American who had recently encountered Mr. Kefelegn Alemu Worku, a former prison guard who took part in the "Red Terror" campaign in the 1970s during which men, women and children were tortured and executed. The Justice Department turned the encounter into an opportunity to serve long-overdue justice for the victim. This is one of many cases which you can read about here. The justice department works in collaboration with other US agencies, such as the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Department of Homeland Security's Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the Department of State. The US Congress enacted some statutes that enable law enforcement to prosecute criminal offences such as torture, war crimes, genocide and recruitment of child soldiers. A perpetuator can also be prosecuted by finding false statements or fraud in their immigration or naturalization files. Furthermore, if criminal prosecution is not possible in the US, the perpetrator's visa can be revoked or be denaturalized if the perpetrator had obtained US citizenship. In 2011, President Obama issued a proclamation expanding the authority of Homeland Security and the Department of State to deny visas to people accused of serious crimes and human rights violations. Thus, if you know of individuals who committed these crimes and are traveling the world and or plan to travel to the US you are encouraged to help stop him or her from entering the US by giving any information at your disposal to US law enforcement. They will investigate and put the individual on a no-entry list for the US. If the perpetrator is a US citizen and a former military or current or former contractor and committed crimes such as murder, manslaughter, assault and other violent crimes outside the US, the US Department of Justice can prosecute the perpetrator under the Military Extraterritorial Jurisdiction Act (MEJA) or the Special Maritime and Territorial Jurisdiction (SMTJ). This is the case of Steven D. Green and other soldiers who raped Qassim Al –Janabi, a 14-year old Iraqi girl. He was sentenced to five concurrent terms of life in prison. Contact information: - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement: Information for Victims of Crima: toll-free number at 1-866-872-4973 - U.S. Department of Justice Criminal Division: Call 1-800-813-5863 or e-mail hrsptips@usdoj.gov. You do not have to identify yourself when providing information. - Human Rights and Special Prosecutions Section: Teresa McHenry, Chief: 202-616-8385 Eli Rosenbaum, Director Human Rights Enforcement Strategy and Policy: 202-616-2512 William Ho-Gonzalez, Deputy Chief Immigration Crimes: 202-305-0654 Kathleen O'Connor, Deputy Chief Human Rights Violations: 202-305-4367 Matthew Stiglitz, Deputy Chief International Violent Crimes: 202-305-3646 Learn more: http://www.ice.gov/news/releases/1203/120330buffalo.htm http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2009/January/09-crm-021.html http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2010/July/10-crm-782.html http://www.justice.gov/criminal/icitap/pr/2009/10-06-09breuer-testimony.pdf |
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
4 Nov 2012
Help Prevent the US from Being a Safe Haven for War Criminals
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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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