http://m.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/un-investigation-implicates-rwanda-in-backing-rebels/article5580664/?service=mobile&post_id=100000333970481_115112018652324#_=_AFRICAUN investigation implicates Rwanda in backing rebels
JOHANNESBURG — THE GLOBE AND MAILLast updated Friday, Nov. 23 2012, 1:06 AM ESTDisplaced families flee renewed fighting between the Congolese Revolutionary Army (CRA) and Congolese army in Mugunga, near Goma November 22, 2012. Congolese troops were fighting back on Thursday against rebels who rejected calls from African leaders to quit the eastern city of Goma, captured earlier this week. Thousands of people fled the area of clashes around the town of Sake, as M23 rebel fighters rushed from Goma to reinforce their positions there against a counter-offensive by the army. Locals said the prisoners escaped as the Congolese Revolutionary Army overran the town on Monday. (REUTERS)The satellite photos were damning. In the dense forest, under the shadow of a volcano, a well-trodden trail can be clearly seen from the sky, leading directly from a Rwandan military base across the border to a headquarters of Congo's M23 rebel militia.The 15-kilometre trail, up to four metres wide, was used to transport military supplies and recruits from the Rwandan military to the rebels who dramatically captured the key city of Goma in eastern Congo this week, United Nations investigators say.The satellite images are among dozens of pieces of evidence gathered by UN investigators revealing how Rwanda violated an arms embargo to give direct help to the M23 rebel militia in the Democratic Republic of Congo, allowing the rebels to seize a huge swath of the mineral-rich region and severely weaken Congo's national government, which the rebels have vowed to topple."There are no economic or migratory activities which would otherwise explain the existence of such trails," a team of UN experts noted dryly in a report on their investigation."If they are not frequently used, the dense forest would cover these trails in a little over a month," it noted.Rwanda's crucial support for the M23 rebels is the latest chapter in a long and bloody history between Rwanda and Congo. Since the late 1990s, its tough and battle-hardened military has played a key role in supporting a series of Congolese rebel groups, allowing it to gain strong influence and economic power in the eastern regions of one of Africa's biggest and most war-torn countries.Its aid to the rebels, ranging from troop reinforcements and weapon supplies to financial and logistical support, is pivotal in explaining the stunning advances of the M23 rebel group in recent months.The rebels, with an estimated 3,000 fighters in their ranks, are far from a typical ragtag militia. Wearing crisp, new camouflage uniforms, and armed with sophisticated equipment such as night-vision gear and 120-millimetre mortars, the rebels swept into Goma this week, overwhelming the city's defences, humiliating the Congolese army and pushing aside the UN peacekeeping force in the strategic city.The rebels are now surging southward, toward Bukavu, another strategic city and the capital of South Kivu province. On Thursday, they were advancing steadily on a road to the south, forcing Congo's army into retreat. By capturing Bukavu and Goma, the rebels would be in a strong position to dominate most of eastern Congo.Rwanda has denied the UN allegations. But there is a growing international consensus that the conclusions of the UN investigators are correct. In a key breakthrough on the issue, the British government announced on Thursday that it accepted the accuracy of the UN report and it threatened to cut off future aid to Rwanda as a result."We judge the overall body of evidence of Rwandan involvement with M23 in the DRC to be credible and compelling," said a statement by British Foreign Secretary William Hague."We will be studying the implications of this report in full, but these allegations will necessarily be a key factor in future aid decisions to the government of Rwanda."The 204-page report of the UN investigators was presented on Wednesday to the UN Security Council, which is wrestling with how to respond to the rebel capture of Goma. The United States, a close ally of the Rwandan government, has vetoed any attempt to name Rwanda specifically as the key supporter of the rebels, but that stand might now be changing, according to some reports.The UN investigators also found evidence that the rebels had received military help from Uganda, which – like Rwanda – has a history of interfering in eastern Congo. But the biggest assistance to the rebels has come from Rwanda, the report said. It said the rebels are unofficially under the command of Rwanda's Defence Minister, General James Kabarebe, along with an indicted war-crimes fugitive, General Bosco Ntaganda – known as "The Terminator."The evidence cited in the UN report is detailed and exhaustive. It includes radio intercepts of communications between Rwandan and rebel commanders, scores of interviews with former M23 rebel fighters (including 26 Rwandans), photos of grenades used in Goma that are routinely used in the Rwandan army but not used by Congo's army, and captured Rwandan identity documents from Rwandans who were conducting intelligence operations with the rebels in Congo."Rwandan officials have provided military support to M23 through permanent troop reinforcements and clandestine support through special forces units," the report said.The investigators also found that M23 rebels have been recruited in Rwandan villages, while former members of other militias have joined the rebellion by travelling through Rwandan territory, and funds for the rebels have been collected by members of Rwanda's ruling party."Officers of the Rwandan armed forces have also furnished the rebels with weapons, facilitated the evacuation of casualties to Rwanda and shared communication equipment with M23," the report said.
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
23 Nov 2012
Rwanda's support to M23: Satellite photos were damning==UN
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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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