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.

15 Jan 2015

[AfricaRealities.com] Victoire Ingabire: A symbol of African humanity upheld in a prison called Rwanda

 


Victoire Ingabire, Rwandan politician woman incarcerated on October 14th, 2010 for daring to challenge Paul Kagame in presidential elections.

Victoire Ingabire, Rwandan politician woman incarcerated on October 14th, 2010 for daring to challenge Paul Kagame in presidential elections.

"We should celebrate our African heroes while they are still alive." BK Kumbi

Victoire Ingabire has redefined the concept of courage in African psyche. It will anymore be an exclusively manly characteristic.

On January 17th, 2015 five years will have passed. It was effectively on a similar day of 2010 that she landed at the International Airport of Kigali (previously called Aeroport International Gregoire Kayibanda in honor of the first Hutu president of Rwanda).

To remind the reader not familiar with the personality in question, Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza is a Rwandan woman politician who after living in The Netherlands for 16 years out of her country decided to return and present her candidacy to compete in the presidential elections of August 9th, 2010.

I remember that prior to these elections the Rwandan president Paul Kagame was highly regarded by western mainstream media as the postcard African leader at the time. According to his supporters he had managed to tremendously turnaround a country which had experienced a horrible genocide in 1994 and almost miraculous managed to put it on a path of incredible economic recovery.

Such image of the Rwandan president was however being painted expensively. Several UK and US PR companies like BTP Advisers or Racepoint were receiving enormous amounts of money from the country's coffers to portray Paul Kagame and Rwanda more than they were worth. Bell Pottinger, Portland PR, Hill and Knowlton, and other public relations firms operate in this sector.

Understandably, the first concerned was the president who was behind that image-laundering. But in parallel western countries and their multinationals found most comfortable working with a president with clean record and representing a success story that would be a convenient cover for their plundering of Congolese mineral resources. Vctoire Ingabire might even have been victim of opposing such DRC exploitation by foreigners.

In the process of Kagame's image pampering, critical issues of internal interest to Rwanda including oppression of populations, imprisonment, injustice, dispossession of property, misery in rural areas, lack of democracy, corruption at the highest level of the administration, significant unemployment of the youth, and discrimination against Hutus in the education system, have been brushed out to show instead a false image of the Rwandan president and the country.

Time and time again, UN experts, human rights organisations such as Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative, just to name a few, have reported on his indescribable human abuse record over the years and this has almost ended in deaf ears. The most other recent testimony of his crimes was the BBC documentary: Rwanda Untold Story. And Victoire Ingabire has been representative of Kagame's millions other victims whose experiences are not told.

Imprisoned African women politicians 

In 2011 I did some research to find out other important African women who had been imprisoned across the continent in similar circumstances, meaning for example seeking to become president of their respective countries and had ended up instead in prison.

At the time I had found Ms Birtukan Mideska, Ethiopian woman lawyer who was also imprisoned then released on October 6th, 2010, after two years of imprisonment. Her Rwandan peer Victoire Ingabire would be imprisoned in the same month on October 14th, 2010.

Across Africa where society is very patriarchal and girls have generally less rights than boys traditionally, cases of women aspiring to become presidents and actually attempting to be by presenting officially their intentions are rare. The contradiction about Rwanda where the regime boosts of being the only country in the world with a majority of women in parliament is that it is also the unique African place where a woman has been imprisoned for trying to become president.

What does she represents for Africans?

For Friends of Victoire, a campaign organisation set up for her release from prison and that of other Rwandan political prisoners, she is considered as a "woman Mandela." And for the majority of her compatriots, she embodies real reconciliation among all Rwandans inclusively.

There are those African politicians that arouse respect and admiration. This is the case of the Rwandan opposition leader, now imprisoned by the criminal power of Kagame, Madame Victoire Ingabire. A courageous woman who faces alone and unarmed, one of the ferocious, if not the greatest criminal against humanity in office. Look at the entire spectrum of the Congolese political class, and you will not find any of her calibre. I commit myself to advocate that a street in my country DRC be named after that great lady.
Patrick Mbeko, Canadian Congolese-born writer and geopolitical analyst

We need woman like her to become role models of courage to all African and Arab women.
Naïma Rajhi, Tunis

When I look at this woman , I am almost like reading in her eyes the suffering of the Congolese women martyred , too, by the same tyrant…She fights for the entire Great Lakes region for the six million Congolese victims of crimes and rapes … her name will join those of other illustrious [AFRICANS] that …   we learn with pride …Respects to this woman  whose struggle  and horrible imprisonment mainstream media is silent about media! With Dr. Mukwege , she is one of those people  most deserving the Nobel Prize , if such prize still makes ​​sense.
Damien Mavambu, France

The day Victoire set foot back in Rwanda, she became a heroine . If we do not understand that this woman is the hope for Africa, if we do not understand that we as a people , as  Congolese, Rwandans, Ugandans , we must support this woman and ask this criminal  [Paul Kagame] to release her, it is because we do not understand the essence of the heart of Africa  that beats in the body of this woman. We should celebrate our African heroes when they are still alive .
BK Kumbi,  Congolese historian and activist

I admire that tranquil strength that lies in her. It is true that it is sometimes very harsh along that path that leads us from darkness to light. Keep up the good spirit. Victory of the light is yours soon, Victoire.
Kin Alkdv

Across the world

Ann Garrison, an American journalist who won an international Award for advocating for Victoire Ingabire has this to say about her:

"I first became aware of Victoire when I saw demonstrations amongst the Rwandan Diaspora in Europe. She was then under house arrest in Rwanda and they were lined up in Brussels, holding her picture and chanting "Victoire! Victoire! Victoire!"

"As a journalist, I maintained my distance for some time, making my way through all the available information and asking myself, "Who is Victoire?" I knew American radicals who were suspicious of her. They imagined that she was the Pentagon and State Department's chosen successor to Paul Kagame."

"I still don't know just why they imagined that, though it seemed perhaps because she hadn't been arrested, or rather, had only been placed under house arrest, forbidden to leave Kigali, Rwanda's capital, to speak to the majority Rwandan population, rural peasant farmers, whom she hoped to represent. Her political party was not allowed to register and she was not allowed to run in Rwanda's 2010 presidential election."

Five years in the life of a newborn is a period of great development and transformation. From learning to speak, walk then to being able to express clearly some issues the child might have and others that they understand somehow well. From the time Victoire Ingabire landed in Rwanda, RPF and the country's political landscape have completed changed, pushing the president Paul Kagame towards his final exit from office soon.

Someone claimed that to become a hero/leader for your people one does not have to pass through prison. True in a sense, but leadership that gets you imprisoned makes you a true and better leader, because your sense and understanding of humanity is thoroughly tested in the process.

That Victoire Ingabire will be soon released and enjoy with Rwandans her freedom before Paul Kagame leaves office in 2017 (end of his only allowed second term), this is a wish shared by many in her country and across the world. To our African hero, keep up inspiring present and future generations by your example of courage and humanity.



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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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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.