http://www.salem-news.com/articles/july082012/victoire-ingabire-an.php?fb_action_ids=3839856528127&fb_action_types=og.recommends&fb_source=aggregation&fb_aggregation_id=246965925417366How to Support the Release of Victoire Ingabire and Why this MattersAmbrose Nzeyimana for Salem-News.comWhile the Rwandan president Paul Kagame is destabilising its neighbouring country, Democratic Republic of Congo, inside Rwanda, he is detaining tens of his political opponents, including Victoire Ingabire, chairperson of FDU-Inkingi.
(LONDON) - It's not every day we search around and find a cause worth supporting because of the significant impact that our contribution can make in our own life and that of sometime millions others.
The name of Victoire Ingabire might sound unfamiliar. If for some it might be the first time to come across it, let's help them to make the connections. On June 27th, 2012 a UN group of experts submitted an addendum S/2012/348/Add.1 to their report S/2012/348 transmitted some days before to the UN Security Council regarding the situation of the Democratic Republic of Congo. The experts document in their reports the involvement of Paul Kagame's Rwandan government in active support of rebel groups, particularly to M23, in destabilizing the fragile peace which has been very sporadic in Eastern Congo for almost two decades. With extensive evidence at hand, the experts confirm the violation of paragraph 1 of Security Council resolution 1807 (2008) on arms embargo and sanctions regime committed by the Rwandan government. These violations consist of the provision of material and financial support to armed groups operating in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, including the recently established M23. The arms embargo and sanctions regimes violations include the following: • Direct assistance in the creation of M23 through the transport of weapons and soldiers through Rwandan territory • Recruitment of Rwandan youth and demobilized ex-combatants as well as Congolese refugees for M23 • Provision of weapons and ammunition to M23 • Mobilization and lobbying of Congolese political and financial leaders for the benefit of M23 • Direct Rwandan Defence Forces (RDF) interventions into Congolese territory to reinforce M23 • Support to several other armed groups as well as Forces armées de la République démocratique du Congo (FARDC) mutinies in the eastern Congo • Violation of the assets freeze and travel ban through supporting sanctioned individuals. While the Rwandan president Paul Kagame is destabilising its neighbouring country, Democratic Republic of Congo, inside Rwanda, he is detaining tens of his political opponents, including Victoire Ingabire, chairperson of FDU-Inkingi. But who is Victoire Ingabire? Mrs. Victoire Ingabire is a 43-year-old mother of three. She had a very good job in the Netherlands, where she had been studying during the 1994 genocide. In 2009, she resigned to return to Rwanda and participate in the presidential election which was scheduled for August 9th, 2010. She was back in Rwanda on January 17, 2010, after 16 years in exile. She was recognized by all as the main leader of the Rwandan non-violent political opposition. Her FDU-Inkingi political party has been refused registration until today. Instead, as her chairperson, she has been imprisoned since October 14th, 2010 on false allegations of supporting a terrorist group, genocide ideology, and divisionism. How can people support her release from prison? On June 29th, 2012 Victoire Ingabire was supposed to receive her verdict from the High Court in Kigali, but the hearing was postponed. Almost 20 months have passed since her incarceration. The Rwandan president Paul Kagame is determined to keep her in prison as he has done for other political leaders such as Bernard Ntaganda, or Deo Mushayigi. This is what you can do to support the release of all these political prisoners. Below are five actions you can take to help the Rwandan people who want change from the authoritarian regime of Paul Kagame: 2. Write and talk to your faith and other opinion leaders from your community about the crimes that the Rwandan government led by Paul Kagame is committing inside the country and in neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo while receiving millions of dollars, pounds sterling and euros from your government 3. Contact your local Human Rights Watch office and request the release of all the Rwandan political prisoners. Contact information can be found at http://www.hrw.org/en/contact- 4. Contact Amnesty International Secretariat and let them know of ongoing injustice in Rwanda and crimes being committed in Eastern Congo by the Rwandan authorities. Contact information can be found at http://www.amnesty.org/en/ 5. Contact any other organizations you can think of such as media, human rights organizations, international aid groups, embassies. Why does this matter? There are lives of families like yours which are being wasted by letting Paul Kagame to carry on with his oppressive and criminal policies in Rwanda and DRC, and particularly keeping in prison Victoire Ingabire and other political opponents. Millions of $ and £ and Euros of Western aid are being used to oppress Rwandans, foment rebellions in Eastern Congo, and kill Congolese people by the Rwandan government. This is happening while Britain, U.S. and other major developed countries are experiencing high levels of unemployment and welfare budgets.
And this increased governments' spending is expanding national deficits at unsustainable limits. We have had the Rwandan genocide in 1994 which took away the lives of almost one million of Rwandans. In 2007, the International Rescue Committee estimated that wars of invasion in the neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo initiated by Rwanda, Uganda and Burundi had directly and indirectly provoked the death of 5.7 millions of Congolese and Rwandan refugees. Since then, there has not been any lasting peace in Eastern Congo but a constant insecurity intentionally maintained by Rwanda and Uganda to facilitate illegal exploitation of DRC minerals. The world is witnessing an ongoing institutionalised genocide by the Rwandan government enabled by external funding from donor countries. By supporting the release of the political prisoner Victoire Ingabire, and putting pressure on the Rwandan president to end his criminal policies in his country and the region, you will have made a big difference in your own life and that of millions others. Source: www.therisingcontinent. Submitted by: Jennifer Fierberg, MSW About the Author: Ambrose Nzeyimana, coordinator of Organizing for Africa, is a Pan-Africanist and human rights activist. He can be reached at organisingforafrica@gmail.com. His website is The Rising Continent: Lions on the Move. |
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
How to Support the Release of Victoire Ingabire and Why this Matters
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
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
No comments:
Post a Comment
Note: only a member of this blog may post a comment.