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 Mar 2014

[RwandaLibre] Tale of another african hero turned villain

 

Tale of another African hero turned villain

Saturday, 22 March 2014 12:33
Written by Rams Mabote

Rwanda, which lies few degrees south of the equator, is the world's
149th largest country. Landlocked and located in Central/Eastern
Africa, the country is bordered by Uganda, Tanzania, Burundi and the
Democratic Republic of the Congo.

For all intents and purposes, Kagame is yet another favourite son of
Africa who has fallen by the wayside, thanks to power - absolute power
that is.

Kagame rose to power on the back of one of modern African history's
worst and most memorable disaster, the 1994 Rwandan genocide.

In 1990 a civil war broke between the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RFP)
and the government of then president Juvénal Habyarimana. Even though
there was a ceasefire in 1992, this ended in April 1994 when
Habyarimana's plane was shot down, killing him.

Within a few hours of the shooting down of that incident, the genocide
began. Over a period of just about 100 days, between 500,000 and a
million Tutsi people were mowed down by the ruling Hutu tribe, of
which the government ranks were made up.

The international world, under the leadership of the United Nations,
then led by Africa's own Kofi Annan, is remembered for having stood by
and watched as brother killed brother in the bloody war that not only
destroyed Rwanda, but left families broken apart and millions fleeing
their own homes into neighbouring countries.

The Hollywood movie Hotel Rwanda captures this sad chapter very well.

By mid-July in 1994, the RFP - under the command of Kagame - had
regrouped, fought back and taken control of the country. In a reversal
of roles, millions of Hutus fled their country to neighbouring
countries, as the victorious Tutsis made their way back home.

At this time, the scrawny, lanky and bespectacled Kagame had been
appointed vice president and minister of defence under new president
Pasteur Bizumungu.

For the first six years of RFP's rule, retributive killings against
Hutus took place, but it could not be proved whether these were
sanctioned by government or even instigated by Kagame's army.

In 2000, while the country was battling with burying its ugly and
painful past, Bizumungu resigned and Kagame took over from him. This
did not come as a surprise as Bizumungu was always viewed as a
ceremonial leader, while Kagame, with all his military might, was the
real force behind the throne.

Realising that revenge and retribution was not working, at the turn of
the 21st century, government then introduced Gacaca, a village court
system based on traditional Rwandan justice.

Although the Gacaca process, which allowed for faster processing of
cases, lacked many safeguards and principles of international criminal
law, it was hailed as a more humane and civil resolution of the
impasse.

The Gacaca would be hailed as Rwanda's own version of the Truth and
Reconciliation Commission, which was instituted in South Africa by
former president Nelson Mandela shortly after assuming office as the
first black president.

For this, Kagame would win praise and adoration from the modern world
for rising above the politics of revenge, but choosing reconciliation
and healing, which would lead to the country focusing on rebuilding
and reconstruction after nearly 40 per cent of its people died during
the genocide.

By now Kagame was the darling of Africa and the world. He was seen as
a modern leader who would lift his country from the morass of poverty
and destruction to the next level. And for the next decade or so, this
seemed the case.

Between 2006 and 2011 the poverty rate reduced from 57 per cent to 45
per cent, and child mortality rates dropped from 180 per 1000 live
births in 2000 to 111 per 1000 in 2009.

A draft constitution was released in 2003 and was overwhelmingly
accepted, with 93 per cent of the voters in favour. The constitution
provided for a two-house parliament, an elected president serving
seven-year terms, and multi-party politics. The constitution also
sought to prevent Hutu or Tutsi hegemony over political power. Article
54 states that "political organizations are prohibited from basing
themselves on race, ethnic group, tribe, clan, region, sex, religion
or any other division which may give rise to discrimination".

No doubt, Rwanda had put the past behind. But had it?

On the contrary. Kagame used the constitution to create a one-party
state because Article 54 made it difficult for any adversaries to
organise themselves against him because any other party was likely to
fall foul of the constitutions.

From then it has been downhill. Once the darling of the continent and
a rising world politician, Kagame forced many into exile, hounded and
imprisoned many opponents, curtailed media freedom and ruled by
decree.

In recent times, Rwanda has been accused of hunting, hounding and even
killing opponents who have fled into other countries, including South
Africa. Kagame has never denied such accusations, only opting to
repeat that Rwanda would always defend her sovereignty.

Under Kagame, Rwanda remains a contradiction in terms. It is hailed as
one of fastest growing economies in Africa, a country where it is
relatively easy to do business and where international tourism is on
the rise.

Yet Rwanda is no doubt a clear one-man country under the benevolent
dictatorship of Kagame who was re-elected in 2010 for another
seven-year term.

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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.