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.

22 Nov 2012

M23's Top Commander Is Rwanda's Defense Minister And Group Also Backed By Uganda; Says Final UN Report

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M23's Top Commander Is Rwanda's Defense Minister And Group Also Backed By Uganda; Says Final UN Report
Black Star News Editorial
11-20-12
 
 
  UN Report says M23 chain of command leads through Rwanda's chief of military staff to Rwanda Defense Minister Gen. Kabarebe, shown here
     
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UN Report Says M23 Totally Controlled By Rwanda And Uganda 
 
The escalation of conflict in Congo by M23 may signal a panic by Rwanda over its failed bid to get the United Nations to alter the final version of a damning report over its control of the insurgents. 
 
Rwanda has total control of M23's chain of command and direction of military operations, according to the UN report. Both Uganda and Rwanda have been accused in other past UN reports of massive plunder of Congo's mineral and natural resource wealth.

Fighting flared up over this past weekend with M23 marching towards the Congo city of Goma, pushing back Congolese troops and forcing United Nations peacekeepers to use helicopter gunships to pummel insurgent positions. M23, so-called "rebels," is very much a conventional army and rained artillery fire to clear a path towards Goma, according to media reports. Why the suddenly escalation of fighting by M23, a violent fully-equipped army, which the United Nations in the group of experts' report says is actually under the total command of Rwanda's defense minister Gen. James Kabarebe. After an interim report by the UN group of experts earlier this summer accused Rwanda and Uganda of recruiting, backing, arming, training, and providing sanctuary for M23, both Kigali and Kampala denied the findings. The U.S. shortly after announced cut in some aid to Rwanda and an Obama administration official, Stephen Rapp, who heads the U.S. Office of Criminal
Justice, said Rwanda's President Paul Kagame could be exposed to war crimes charges. Uganda recently sent a senior government minister Dr. Ruhakana Rugunda to New York where he lobbied member countries of the UN Security council to alter the final version of the report which is due to be released shortly.
 
Rwanda also protested.

But after the UN group of experts met with senior Rwanda government officials and after Rwanda's written protest the group refused to budge. 
 
The group of experts says after it "took into consideration" Rwanda's "written response"  to the addendum of the earlier interim report "the Group has found no substantive element of its previous findings it wishes to alter." 
 
Indeed, a copy of the final version of the report reviewed by The Black Star Newsshows that the lobbying effort  by both Uganda and Rwanda failed. 
 
Uganda had threatened to pull out its troop from peacekeeping in Somalia. The U.S. foots the bill since Washington is concerned that war-torn Somalia could become a haven for al-Shabab, and other groups the U.S. says are affiliated with al-Qaeda. 
 
The flare-up in M23's Congo fighting could be Rwanda's own way of trying to blackmail the UN before the official release of the final report.  
 
Rwanda may want to show that it's the only country with the ability to stop the rampage. In return, Kigali may, cynically, hope to be embraced as "peacekeepers" by taming M23, an army that the UN says it actually controls, directs, and commands. 
 
According to the final version of the UN report, the chain of command of M23 passes through Bosco Ntaganda, the M23 titular leader, who has been indicted on war crimes charges, and ends with Rwanda's minister of Defense Gen. Kabarebe.Ntaganda receives "direct military orders from RDF Chief of Defense Staff General Charles Kayonga, who in turn acts on instructions from Minster of Defense General James Kabarebe" says the report. RDF is a reference to Rwanda Defense Forces.  The report says a Rwandan general, Emmanuel Ruvusha, manages military ground support for M23, while Permanent Secretary in the Defense Ministry, Gen. Jacques Nziza, provides strategic advice and oversees logistical support. The Black Star News sent a written inquiry to the United States Mission to the United Nations asking, in light of the flare-up of fighting by M23 and the UN report, whether Washington would call for sanctions on the Rwandan and Ugandan officials named in the
report. Kathleen Herrera, a spokesperson at the US Mission did not respond to the questions by publication deadline, after providing an email address where to submit the questions. 
 
According to the UN report Uganda has directed military operations by M23 and also provided heavy weapons to their fighters.  
 
M23 also openly recruits in several Ugandan cities, and refugee camps, accompanied by members of the Ugandan military, the Uganda People's Defense Force (UPDF), says the UN report. 
 
As recently as July, an M23 colonel, Innocent Kaina, traveled "from Bunangama to Kasese, Uganda, to recruit with the assistance of UPDF officers" according to the UN report. 
 
M23 leaders consult in Uganda with Gen. Salim Saleh, Uganda's Presidential Advisor on Military Affairs and brother of the president, Gen. Yoweri K. Museveni, and with Uganda's Inspector General of Police Gen. Kale Kayihura.  
 
The U.S. Mission to the UN also didn't respond to questions from The Black Star News whether the U.S. would also call for sanctions against Gen. Saleh and Gen. Kayihura. 

The report found that "General Saleh has been principally responsible for UPDF support to M23."
 
M23 operates so openly in Uganda that it rents two houses in Kampala, the capital and the UN group of experts actually visited one of the houses, according to the report. 
 
Ntaganda, wanted on war crimes charges, also travels to Uganda, in violation of a UN travel ban and purchased a house in Uganda, contravening an asset freeze, says the report. Ntaganda speaks regularly with top Uganda army commanders, says the UN report.

The report says the Ugandan training of M23 continued even after the interim report was published this past summer and that, as recently as September, Uganda was arming M23.  
 
According to the report Uganda and Rwanda also provide diplomatic and political advice to M23; and, Rwanda's Gen. Kabarebe even unilaterally nominated a "cabinet" for M23, including its political leader. 

Gen. Kabarebe's control is so total that when the "cabinet" met some of its members didn't even know about their nomination as ministers. 
 
The report says M23 fighters recruited in Rwanda who flee Congo and return home are captured by Rwandan soldiers and returned to Congo where they are either executed or subjected to "horrible" punishments. 
 
According to the report, child soldiers are sometimes sent to the frontline by M23 after only week's training.  
 
This past summer after the interim report was issued the U.S. cut some aid to Rwanda. The report says Rwanda's regular army troops still operate in Congo.
 
The Black Star News inquired whether the U.S. would continue any military assistance to Rwanda and Uganda in light of the attack on Goma by M23 and the final version of the United Nations report. 
 
The U.S. Mission to the UN did not respond by publication deadline. 
 
The reputation of the UN Security Council is at stake if the world body fails to make it clear that Rwanda and Uganda are responsible for the M23 triggered bloodshed in Congo.

The Rwanda and Uganda governments have received heavy U.S. and U.K. support through the years.

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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.