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.

6 May 2014

[RwandaLibre] Catholic Springtime: Twenty Years After Genocide, Church Helps Rwanda Heal

 

Twenty Years After Genocide, Church Helps Rwanda Heal

Posted by Thomas J. Neal, Ph.D.

Originally at: http://www.ncregister.com/daily-news/twenty-years-after-genocide-church-helps-rwanda-heal#ixzz2yNjMIFxt

by MICHELLE BAUMAN/CNA/EWTN NEW

KIGALI, Rwanda -- Boniface Hakizimana lives in a rural area of Southern
Rwanda. He lives peacefully with the widow next door, Viviane
N'Habimana. They help each other and support each other when
difficulties arise.

At first glance, this arrangement might not appear extraordinary.
However, this harmonious relationship is anything but typical, because
Hakizimana is responsible for the murder of N'Habimana's husband 20
years ago.

April 7, 2014, marks the 20th anniversary of the start of the Rwandan
genocide. The causes of the violence were complex -- fueled by decades
of ethnic tension dating back to Belgian colonialism and fostered
through hate-filled propaganda broadcast by political extremists.

In the spring of 1994, the tension erupted into frenzied bloodshed, as
members of the Hutu ethnic majority took up machetes and turned on
their minority Tutsi neighbors, butchering relatives, friends,
classmates and colleagues based on the color of their skin and the
width of their noses. It is estimated that up to 1 million people were
slaughtered in just 100 days, while the outside world largely looked
the other way.

The result was a country left in shambles, the very social fabric of
the nation destroyed. The last 20 years in Rwanda has been the story
of a people pursuing a nearly impossible task: picking themselves back
up, rebuilding their lives and learning how to forge the bonds of
trust and forgiveness.

Hakizimana admits that he killed people, including N'Habimana's
husband, during the genocide. While serving a 10-year prison sentence
for his role in the violence, the Gospel message touched his
conscience, and he found a desire to be reconciled.

Upon being released from prison, however, he was shocked to discover
that his wife and N'Habimana were already "living in peace and
harmony," despite the fact that he had killed the neighboring woman's
husband. The two women had both found themselves alone after the
genocide -- one woman's husband dead and the other's imprisoned -- and
they had learned to support and care for each other.

Even more surprising, N'Habimana had been contributing part of the
retribution money she received after the genocide in order to ensure
that her husband's killer had been adequately fed while he was in
prison. Overwhelmed by this act of mercy, Hakizimana apologized for
his crime, and N'Habimana forgave him.

Seeking Peace

Hakizimana and N'Habimana are just two of many individuals who have
found peace through a reconciliation program run through a partnership
of the local Church and government. The program united perpetrators
and victims, bringing them together to talk and listen to one another
and to learn how to seek and grant forgiveness.

For many of the survivors, this has not been an easy process.

"After the genocide, I hated everybody in the community," confessed
one woman. Another said that she was so traumatized at first that she
was incapable of seeing those around her as human. Other survivors
said they had their faith shaken and found themselves struggling to
pray, questioning how a good God could allow such evil.

But those who have gradually learned to open their hearts -- often with
the help of a friend or neighbor or through the outreach of a priest
or nun -- have developed the capacity for reconciliation and healing.

Perpetrators say that apologizing and receiving forgiveness has lifted
a burden from their hearts and allowed them to rest, while victims say
that granting forgiveness allows them to heal and move forward with
their lives.

They emphasize that forgiveness does not mean forgetting what
happened. But in the words of one survivor, "We forgive because we
know that God also forgives."

Participants in the reconciliation program say that their neighbors
who have chosen not to seek or grant forgiveness still live in anger
and bitterness. Some say they have been approached by other people who
see the peace they have achieved in their lives and want to know how
to attain it for themselves as well.

This reconciliation model, instituted largely through the Catholic
Church, is now being examined as a possible template for other
conflicts, and peace-building efforts are now taking place on a
regional level, seeking to promote a culture of peace across borders.

The Church and the Genocide

Members of the Church were not exempt from the hatred and violence
that enveloped the small African country in the spring of 1994; clergy
members were included in the ranks of both perpetrators and victims.
In some cases, Hutu priests, bishops and religious helped to hide and
protect Tutsis. In other cases, they took up arms against them,
ushering them into church buildings with false promises of security
and then trapping and betraying them, facilitating their massacre.

However, survivor Gaspard Mukwiye, who was 19 years old at the time of
the genocide, warns against placing blame on the Church as a whole.

"It's not good to generalize," he emphasized, noting that the killing
was not done in the Church's name, even though some priests and
bishops were involved.

"I don't blame the Church as an institution," he said. "I blame people
individually."

In the past two decades, the Catholic Church has been a major factor
in rebuilding the country.

Deogratias Nzabonimpa, director of administration and finance for the
National Unity and Reconciliation Commission of Rwanda, explained that
"the churches have played a big role" in promoting healing and
forgiveness among the people.

A strongly religious country, nearly 100% of Rwandans attend religious
services weekly. The majority of the country -- roughly 57% -- is
Catholic, and another 37% identify as Protestant or Seventh-Day
Adventist. A devotion to the Divine Mercy of Jesus is widespread, and
the image of Divine Mercy is displayed prominently in many churches,
office buildings and homes. Many Rwandans cite their faith as a reason
to pursue reconciliation and forgiveness after the genocide.

In addition, it was the Catholic Church that suggested the revival of
the Gacaca court system after the genocide. These communal courts had
been an element of traditional Rwandan culture, but the Church
suggested transforming them to help process the tens of thousands of
criminal cases that arose following the genocide.

With the nation's justice system heavily overburdened, it would have
taken more than a century for the cases to be heard in the
conventional court system. The Gacaca courts utilized public trials in
the community with well-respected elders serving as judges. They
helped to facilitate justice for both victims and perpetrators in the
wake of the violence.

Cooperation Bears Fruit

Catholic Relief Services, the official overseas humanitarian agency of
the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, has played a critical role in
helping with peace-building efforts in the country. Following the
genocide, the organization worked closely with the local Church and
government to implement reconciliation programs and structures -- many
at the parish level -- and train some 40,000 leaders in conflict
resolution and peace efforts.

Present in the country for more than 50 years, Catholic Relief
Services has worked in recent years to focus on overall quality of
life improvement. At the community level, the agency teaches
bio-intensive agricultural techniques to help rural Rwandans improve
their production, diversify income and fight malnutrition.

Such programs bring together perpetrators and victims, encouraging
cooperation, communication and solidarity and further working to heal
wounds and bring about reconciliation.

"CRS is a child of the Church," said Father Celestin Hakizimana,
general secretary of the Rwandan bishops' conference. "In some ways,
CRS is here as a sister Church to represent the Church in America."

Father Hakizimana described the current relationship between Church
and state in Rwanda as generally good. Efforts are ongoing to repair
relationships that were damaged during the genocide, and the Church is
dealing with modern challenges, including a recent law to legalize
abortion, which the bishops vocally opposed.

Although obstacles do exist, the Church in Rwanda is strong, Father
Hakizimana said. With the help of Catholic Relief Services, the
national bishops' conference has improved its structure and
organization, and many dioceses are working with the international
agency to strengthen their efficiency, professionalism and financial
management capabilities.

In addition, Father Hakizimana explained that he knows the Church is
growing, "because every Sunday, there are baptisms."

As of October 2013, the seminaries in the small country were filled to
capacity, with 530 men studying in major seminaries. Church leaders
have been forced to limit the number of applicants, while one facility
is being expanded. As Rwanda works to rebuild, the local Church grows
as well.

Looking to the Future

Two decades after being ravaged by unimaginable violence, the small
African country now looks to the future with hope. While wounds from
the past remain, the people have taken important steps toward healing.

"Forgiveness is a process," stressed Bishop Smaragde Mbonyintege of Kabgayi.

Reconciliation is not as simple as merely asking for forgiveness and
receiving it immediately, he explained, adding that it would be
unrealistic to expect all the nation's wounds to be healed in 20
years.

"The people have scars on their hearts," he said. "To rebuild a person
who has been destroyed is not as easy as rebuilding a house that has
been destroyed."

Pope Francis addressed a message of hope and reconciliation to Rwanda
on April 6, during his Sunday Angelus remarks in St. Peter's Square.

"I want to express my paternal closeness to the Rwandan people,
encouraging them to continue, with determination and hope, the process
of reconciliation that has already manifested its fruit," said the
Pope.

"To everyone I say: Don't be afraid! Build your society on the rock of
the Gospel, in love and in harmony, because only like this can you
build lasting peace!"

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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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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.
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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.