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.

18 Jan 2013

Tony Blair widens his web via the stock markets

 

Tony Blair widens his web via the stock markets

Tony Blair has set up his own stock market trading desk at his Mayfair headquarters.

Stock market trading desk installed at Tony Blair's headquarters
Tony Blair, pictured with wife Cherie, has set up a trading desk led by a former Barclays banker Photo: EDDIE MULHOLLAND

8:30AM GMT 13 Jan 2013

His investment unit, headed by a former senior banker at Barclays, reflects the former prime minister's growing business empire, worth tens of millions of pounds.
Five members of his staff are registered with the Financial Services Authority and trading screens have been installed at Mr Blair's offices, in Grosvenor Square in central London.
Mr Blair has established a complex web of companies, designed, according to accountants, to hide just how much money he makes and from where his money comes.
He has denied being "super rich", but having built up a property portfolio of several homes and two multimillion-pound businesses, it is expected that he will enter the rich-lists for the first time this year with a fortune of somewhere between £35 million and £60 million.
Details of his trading desk have been pieced together by The Sunday Telegraph, which has conducted a series of investigations into Mr Blair's finances since he left office in 2007.
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  • The investigation shows:
    * A trading desk is now operating at his London headquarters;
    * Five employees at one of his companies, Firerush Ventures, have obtained licences from the FSA;
    * The team is led by David Lyon, formerly managing director at Barclays Capital;
    * The FSA licences give Mr Blair's staff the power to advise clients and invest money on their behalf.
    A posting on LinkedIn, the professional networking website, discloses details of Mr Blair's operation. It was written by an IT consultant called Matt Walsh, who worked for Mr Blair for just over a year until May 2011.
    Mr Walsh gave a full description of his duties. He wrote: "Supporting all functions of IT at a highly sensitive site in Mayfair. This was for a [sic] Tony Blair's private office and charities which is over 100 local and remote users."
    Mr Walsh listed all the IT systems he oversaw during his time with Mr Blair, including two types of trading systems. One of his duties, he explained, was providing "Reuters 3000 Xtra and Bloomberg support for small trading team".
    Reuters 3000 Xtra is an electronic trading platform typically used by professional traders and analysts in trading rooms. The system gives traders real-time information on stock market prices as well as on commodities, bonds and other financial data. It also has a trading function. Bloomberg is a separate terminal which can also be used by traders.
    A second IT consultant, Scott Macpherson, posted on his LinkedIn profile that he worked for Mr Blair between October 2009 and May 2011. Both men appear to have been brought in by Exceed IT, a company in north London.
    The details listed by Mr Macpherson of his work at Mr Blair's headquarters, described as "TBO", included helping to set up additional offices from where Mr Blair or his Africa Governance Initiative operate around the world, including Yale University in the US, where the former prime minister has held a lecturing post.
    On his profile, Mr Macpherson said his duties included: "Planning and implementation of satellite sites, primarily consulting on and implementing sites in Kuwait, Sierra Leone, Toronto, Liberia, Yale NY, Rwanda as well as other locations." Like Mr Walsh, he said he provided "Bloomberg support for small trading team".
    The disclosure of the existence of the trading desk suggests that Mr Blair may be making more money than has been realised.
    Mr Blair has two separate trading arms, Firerush Ventures and Windrush Ventures, which consist of a series of limited companies, limited partnerships and limited liability partnerships.
    The latest accounts show that one of those companies, Windrush Ventures Ltd, had an income of more than £16million and profits of £3.6million for the year ending March 31 2012. Profits more than trebled in that time and turnover was up £4million on the previous year's accounts.
    Windrush Ventures paid total tax of just over £900,000 with more than £12.5million written off as administrative expenses. The group's wage bill is £2.3million, meaning that more than £10million of expenses is unexplained in the annual accounts. Firerush Ventures made a profit last year of £68,000.
    Mr Blair has invested heavily in his team, having hired Mr Lyon at the end of the summer. Mr Lyon was a managing director at Barclays in the debt capital markets financial institutions group. He had spent 15 years at Barclays and was likely, with bonuses, to have been earning a sizeable sum.
    A spokesman for Mr Blair said: "David Lyon has been appointed to grow and develop Tony Blair's business activities. These commercial interests provide important funding for his charitable work."
    Mr Lyon is listed at Companies House as a director of Firerush Ventures Ltd, which channels the money from Mr Blair's lucrative business consultancy, Tony Blair Associates. Mr Lyon was registered by Firerush with the FSA in November, allowing him to advise clients on their investments and to handle their money.
    He is registered with "a CF30 customer function" which covers several activities including "advising on investments", "dealing, as principal or as agent, and arranging deals in investments" and "acting in the capacity of an investment manager".
    Four other employees are registered by Firerush with the FSA: Varun Chandra, an Oxford graduate who previously worked for Lehman Brothers; Prashant Francis, a former employee at JP Morgan, the investment bank; Catherine Rimmer, a former Downing Street aide and now Mr Blair's strategic director; and Jason Searancke, a director of Firerush and Windrush who previously worked for KPMG, the auditing firm.
    The total scale of Mr Blair's earnings is unclear, with values on his wealth put at anywhere up to £60million.
    He has lucrative consultancies with JP Morgan and the global insurance company Zurich International while he also earns as much as £200,000 a time for public speaking.
    Windrush Ventures channels money for the Government Advisory Practice, a consultancy set up by Mr Blair to provide advice to national and regional governments. The consultancy has signed multimillion-pound deals in Kuwait, Brazil and Kazakhstan, and teams are deployed around the world.
    The accounts of Windrush Ventures show how Mr Blair's business is booming. The company has 29 staff, with a wage bill of £2.05million, working out at an average salary of almost £71,000.
    Firerush administers the funding for Tony Blair Associates, which advises companies and sovereign wealth funds, among them Mubadala, an Abu Dhabi wealth fund. According to its latest accounts, available from last week at Companies House, Firerush had about £1.3 million in the bank as of last April.
    Mr Blair is said to have earned as much as a million dollars (£620,000) for just a few hours' work, brokering negotiations in a mining deal involving the conglomerate Glencore and the Qatari ruling family.
    According to reports, he was brought into the negotiations by Michael Klein, a New York financier, who advised on the deal. It is suggested that Mr Blair and Mr Klein are in talks about a "commercial alliance" which, if true, would raise Mr Blair's earnings potential even further.
    Mr Blair's friendships with world leaders and other figures of influence would be a good fit with Mr Klein's contacts in global finance.
    A spokesman for Mr Blair said: "There is no 'trading team'. One of the businesses is FSA-regulated and those staff registered carry out their work within FSA permissions.
    "Tony Blair and Michael Klein have worked on a couple of things together and may do so again in the future — they are not in talks about merging."
    A statement on one of Mr Blair's various websites explains that financial statements for Firerush and Windrush, published last week, "do not represent his earnings or the earnings of his business and are not referable to them". The statement went on: "The profit of the Windrush Group (£3.6million) is money that is being held in the company for re-investment in expanding the business. There is a total of £909,000 payable in corporation tax on the group profit.
    "As a smaller company Firerush only publishes abbreviated accounts. It again is a company that is solely for the costs of the business. The £68,000 therefore represents the surplus on the running costs; on which corporation tax is paid. The money made by Mr Blair and the employees from Firerush business is subject to full personal income tax; and is not published in these accounts. Mr Blair continues to be a UK taxpayer and pays full personal tax on all his earnings worldwide."

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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.