Rwandan president opts out of DR Congo summit | |
Rwandan leader is not expected in Ugandan capital, as regional leaders meet to discuss the DR Congo crisis. Last Modified: 24 Nov 2012 14:03 | |
 The UN estimate that 140,000 people in and around Goma have been displaced in recent fighting [EPA] | |
Rwandan President Paul Kagame will not attend the summit in Uganda seeking a solution to the conflict in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. "Kagame is not coming," James Mugume, a senior official in the Ugandan foreign ministry, saying the president would be represented by Rwandan Foreign Minister Louise Mushikiwabo at the summit on Saturday. Mugume gave no indication as to why Kagame, whose government the United Nations accuses of backing DR Congo's M23 rebels, a claim Kigali rejects had decided not to attend. Sources in Brazzaville and Kigali said the Republic of Congo's President Denis Sassou Nguesso would fly into the Rwandan capital Saturday afternoon for talks with Kagame. Members of Sassou's delegation had already arrived Friday in Kigali. Meanwhile DR Congo President Joseph Kabila arrived late morning at Munyonyo resort on the outskirts of Kampala, where the summit will be held. Ugandan officials had earlier said that both Kagame and Kabila would attend and that without them the summit would be "meaningless". President Mwai Kibaki of Kenya and Tanzania's Jakaya Kikwete were also in Kampala for the summit, along with host Yoweri Museveni of Uganda, Mugume said. A delegation from the M23 rebels was also in Kampala, but not at the summit venue, and was expected to hold separate talks with Museveni later in the day. Kabila and Kagame met on Tuesday and Wednesday, hours after the rebels seized the regional capital of Goma, issuing a joint statement with Museveni calling for the M23 to stop its offensive and pull out of the key eastern city. The International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR) has held multiple summits in recent months on the conflict in eastern DR Congo, but none resulted in a significant breakthrough. Refugee concerns The summit comes as the United Nations has expressed shock at the sight of thousands of civilians fleeing a rebel advance in the eastern DR Congo and appealed for access to help those caught up in the violence. Thousands of civilians are fleeing the town of Sake, which was taken over by the M23 rebels battling government troops threaten to overrun Goma. Al Jazeera's Nanazine Mosheri, reporting from Sake, said the town of Sake is currently calm. "The M23 has Sake very much firmly under their control, the aim now is to take the surrounding the areas under their control, The fact that there is no fighting today (Saturday) maybe because people are waiting for the talks in Kampala." The rebels' advance comes days after they took Goma, the biggest city in North Kivu province, and have vowed to expand their territorial control and even seize the capital, Kinshasa, although the city is 1,574km away. The fighting has sparked fears of a wider conflict erupting in the chronically unstable region, and the rebels have largely ignored calls made in a joint communique by the presidents of DR Congo, Rwanda and Uganda to pull out of Goma. The UN estimate that 140,000 people in and around Goma have been displaced in recent fighting. Aid officials said the fighting has made camps for people displaced by earlier conflicts inaccessible, with food and medicines running short.
A spokesman for the UN peacekeeping force in the country, known under the acronym MONUSCO, described the situation in eastern DR Congo as "alarming". "The M23 are now present in Sake, with reports indicating that they may be on the move toward Masisi territory, which is their stronghold," Kieran Dwyer said in a statement. MONUSCO has airlifted dozens of local leaders and rights activists who feared for their lives out of rebel territory, Dwyer said,The UN has an estimated 6,700 troops in North Kivu backing up government forces under a Security Council mandate to protect civilians. They have been criticised for not directly confronting the M23. The UN mission was also verifying reports of civilians wounded or killed due to the recent fighting in Goma and Sake, he added. "There are also reports of targeted killings and health personnel being abducted by the M23. Reports of recruitment and abduction of children by the group continue," he said. M23 military leader Bosco Ntaganda is wanted for war crimes by the International Criminal Court. Rwanda role Meanwhile, in Kinshasa, protesters accused the rebels of abuses including the rape of pregnant women. Hundreds of women, clad in black, marched on the UN mission's headquarters, carrying banners calling for peace and criticising the country's small but militarily powerful neighbour. "No to Rwanda!" read one. The M23 fighters are widely thought to be backed by neighbouring Rwanda. The UN Security Council has expressed "concern at reports indicating that external support continues to be provided to the M23, including through troop reinforcement, tactical advice and the supply of equipment". The council did not name Rwanda whose experts have previously accused it of backing the rebels, who share the same Tutsi ethnicity with Rwandan President Paul Kagame but are Congolese. The rebellion was launched eight months ago by mutinous troops accusing the government of failing to stick to a 2009 deal with fighters to end a previous conflict. The rebels take their name - M23 - after that peace agreement which was signed on March 23, 2009. http://www.aljazeera.com/news/africa/2012/11/20121124101115598428.html | |
Source: Al Jazeera And Agencies | |
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
24 Nov 2012
Rwandan president opts out of DR Congo summit
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.