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.

23 Jun 2015

[AfricaRealities.com] Rwanda: Kibeho Massacre, 20th anniversary

 

On April 22, 1995, 4000 to 8000 Rwandan Hutu people, maybe more, were massacred at the Kibeho Camp for Internally Displaced Persons in Southwestern Rwanda. No one has ever been prosecuted, even though there were many witnesses and detailed photodocumentation by at least two photographers.
 
Transcript: 
Flashpoints Host Dennis Bernstein:  In Berkeley, I'm Dennis Bernstein. You're listening to Flashpoints on Pacifica Radio. Between four and eight thousand internally displaced persons, refugeesUN troops carry a victim away on a stretcher. Most troops were combat medics and they were too outnumbered to have stopped the massacre. Photo: George Gittoesinside Rwanda's borders, were massacred at Kibeho IDP camp in Southwestern Rwanda twenty year ago. This is one of many crimes of Paul Kagame's army, for which no one has ever been charged or prosecuted. Independent reporter Ann Garrison has this remembrance. 
 
KPFA/Ann Garrison: The Holocaust and the Rwandan Genocide are intertwined in US interventionist ideology.  According to this ideology, the US, with NATO and/or its other military partners, must intervene to stop the next Holocaust or "the next Rwanda" - in Libya, Sudan, Syria, Iraq, or wherever else they feel morally compelled to "stop genocide."  And, Rwandan President Paul Kagame has been given license to "hunt down Hutu genocidaires" in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, in 20 years of war that have cost more than six million lives, as vast quantities of eastern Congo's mineral wealth were smuggled out through Rwanda and Uganda.   
 
But, what really happened in Rwanda?  Who killed who, how, when, and for what purpose?  The Hollywood morality play Hotel Rwanda told us that extremist Hutus killed a million Tutsis in 100 days until General Paul Kagame's Tutsi army stopped the genocide in 1994.  
 
Today, however, marks the 20th anniversary of the Kibeho Massacre of April 22, 1995, when Kagame's army murdered eight thousand or more unarmed Hutu refugees in a camp in Southwestern Rwanda, and the UN Security Council made sure that no one was ever prosecuted.  
 
The Kibeho massacre is one of many committed by the the Rwandan Patriotic Army in Rwanda and DR Congo, but it is one of the most shocking because it was witnessed by UN Peacekeepers from Australia, Zambia, and the UK, and well documented by at least two photographers, but no one was ever prosecuted for the crime.  In his book about the massacre, Australian combat medic Terry Pickard wrote,  "We could only hope the RPA [Rwandan Patriotic Army] would let us leave after what we had just witnessed. They had just murdered thousands of unarmed, starving, thirsty, and helpless men, women, and children. Even babies had not been spared. Some of those who had survived the lethal onslaught of 50 caliber machineguns, AK47 rifles, rocket-propelled grenades and mortars were ruthlessly hunted down and bayoneted to death where they lay injured."
George Gittoes in LE DELUGE, a documentary film in progress. www.thedelugefilm.comIn The Deluge, a documentary film in progress, Australian photographer George Gittoes describes a young girl who shepherded her sisters and her mother to safety before she died, even though she herself was already riddled with bullets.  

 
George Gittoes: There was this girl, like she was just riddled with bullet wounds, like she was just . . . shouldn't have been walking. It was like Bonnie and Clyde's car, she was just all shot up.. And she came over to me and like a ghost, she just put her hand out to me and she said, "Don't you go anywhere." Well I wasn't going anywhere because, like, I would have just been cut in half by bullets myself. And then she went and got her older sisters and I think her mother. It was an older woman. And then, like a little gaggle of geese, she brought them back through all the dead, all the bullets and she kept on getting hit by more bullets, but none of them did. And then she just settled them around me, and she said, "Now you get them out of here." And she . . . she put her head down on my chest, and she was all hot, and then within a few seconds, she was cold. And she died. And that was, in my whole life, the bravest, the bravest thing I've ever seen. And that girl hadn't done anything. She couldn't possibly have been part of any genocidal massacre.
 
KPFA: Today, Gittoes sent a note in response to several questions, which read.  
 
"No one knows how many were killed. I would personally estimate much more than anyone else has. The RPA fired mortars and rockets and machine guns into those fleeing down the hill towards the river. Many died in the river. I have photos of this. These were never accounted for - it was brutal murder."
 
KPFA: The Australian medics counted 4100 bodies, with a mechanical counting device until they were ordered to stop, and said that they thought they had counted about half.
 
In 2010, Rwandan exile and British citizen Rene Mugenzi organized a commemorative event with Amnesty International, other human rights organizations and UN peacekeepers who had witnessed the Kibeho Massacre.  
 
Rene Mugenzi: In April 2010, we organized the event to commemorate victims and to raise awareness about the killings that happened and the justice that should be done. And at that event, we invited human rights organizations and also some former UN peacekeepers who were present during the massacres. Those peacekeepers include a British soldier, an Australian, and a Zambian. 
 
KPFA: And one of them had taken photographs of the massacre? 

Mugenzi: Yes, one of them had shown us pictures which showed what happened. You know, how the RPF came and prepared and shot those people. And those pictures had never been shown publicly before. 

KPFA: And now, after that, the BBC reported that President Kagame, Rwanda's President Kagame, had sent assassins into London to kill you and your friend Jonathan Musonera.

Mugenzi: Yes. 

KPFA: And have you been threatened since? 

Mugenzi: We haven't because the UK government has warned the Rwandan government not to try to do those terrible acts on British soil. So since then we haven't received any threats from anyone.
 
KPFA: A long list of enemies of the Rwandan government have either been assassinated or disappeared, including President Kagame's former intelligence chief, Patrick Karegeya, who was strangled in a Johannesburg, South Africa hotel on New Year's Day in 2014. The Rwandan government's enemies include all those who describe the Rwandan Genocide and its aftermath in any way differing from their official account.  
 
For Pacifica, I'm Ann Garrison. 
 
Flashpoints/Mike Biggs: And, that wraps it up for another edition of Flashpoints.   

 
There are more voices of witnesses to the Kibeho Massacre in "Le Deluge," a film in progress about the Rwandan massacres 
and their aftermath in the Great Lakes Region of Africa, including the ensuing 20 years of war in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. 
For more information about the film, see www.thedelugefilm.com.



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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.