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 Oct 2015

[AfricaRealities.com] Who's stealing Rwandan minerals? Coltan worth US$2m stolen in Dar

 


Who's stealing Rwandan minerals? Coltan worth US$2m stolen in Dar

By: KENNETH AGUTAMBA
  • PUBLISHED: October 19, 2015
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Workers at Mineral Supply Africa Company load containers of minerals on to trucks. (Timothy Kisambira)

"When the cargo arrived in China and the sealed containers were opened, they found concrete cement bricks inside rather than drums containing the Coltan mineral," David Bensusan, Chief Executive of Mineral Supply Africa (MSA) told The New Times last week.

MSA and another mineral export firm, Trading Services Logistics (TSL) are victims of the latest wave of mysterious thefts of Rwandan minerals at the port of Dar es Salaam, in Tanzania.

In an interview at his office last Thursday, Bensusan said he lost one container with 24 tonnes of Coltan worth about US$1million (Rwf730million), meant to be delivered to a buyer in China.

A source with TSL, said by phone, yesterday, that they lost two containers, each with at least 12 tonnes of Coltan, both, worth over US$1million destined for customers in Japan and Belgium.

In all cases, the containers arrived well, and were received by their respective buyers; however, on opening, they were found to be containing bogus material, to be specific, bricks. No one knows where, when and how the minerals were replaced with bricks; it remains a mystery.

Both MSA and TSL received news of their misfortune at sea, about eight days ago, on Saturday last week just as officials from the Dar es Salaam Port were leaving Kigali after a three day promotional tour in Rwanda.

An international alert has since been issued, by the Tantalum-Niobium International Study Centre (TIC) warning its members to be on the lookout for the stolen Rwandan minerals.

TIC is an international association with a membership of over 90 firms worldwide involved in aspects of mineral processing and supply and its alert was published last week by an online publication, 'Metal Pages' which focuses on news in the mining industry.

"Industry participants are being asked to promptly inform TIC if they encounter or see difficulties with similar shipments from Dar es Salaam or are offered Coltan at below the prevailing market prices by unknown traders or suppliers," read the alert.

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A worker puts together minerals at MSA. (T.Kisambira)

Who's stealing Rwandan minerals?

The theft, last month, of Rwandan minerals is not the first and probably not the last, a prospect that has left the 240 members of the Rwanda Mining Association (RMA) worried.

Jean-Malic Kalima is RMA president. Speaking last week, from his office in Kigali, he told The New Times that his members want the government to work closely with its Tanzanian counterparts to find the culprits behind the thefts and stop them.

"Who is stealing our minerals? We want to know and stop them," said Kalima.

No one knows the culprits, at the moment but there is consensus among RMA members that all previous thefts have taken place at the Port of Dar es Salaam and they want Tanzanian authorities to take responsibility and put an end to the practice.

The theft, last month, follows another case, four months ago, of two containers stolen in June, this year.

In a letter dated June 19, 2015, a copy of which The New Times has, RMA wrote to the Ministry of Trade and Industry informing the Minister about the theft of two containers belonging to TSL that were destined for buyers in Japan and China.

The container headed to Japan, according to the letter, contained ten tonnes of Coltan and was marked as shipment number TSL/RW/0000125; it was worth over US$457000.

Meanwhile the second container headed to China contained 15 tonnes of Coltan worth over US$633,000 and was marked as shipment number TSL/RW/0000132. Both buyers in Japan and China found concrete bricks on opening their respective packages.

In April 2014, MSA also lost another container with minerals worth over Rwf540 million; in all incidents, the minerals were never recovered.

The stolen mineral exports are shipped in Maersk containers and in October last year, Rwanda's Minister of East African Community, Valentine Rugwabiza met the firm's Group Executive, Senior Vice President Lars Reno Jakobsen to address the mysterious thefts.

"Our people are losing millions of dollars in theft at the port of Dar es Salaam, especially goods in the Maersk containers; I wish to know how we can solve this problem," Minister Rugwabiza asked Jakobsen, then, putting him on the spot for solution.

In response, Jakobsen pledged that his firm would do anything in its power to upgrade the tracking system to the level of the product inside the container; instead of only tracking the container.

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David Bensusan, Chief Executive of Mineral Supply Africa. (Sam Ngendahimana)

Rwanda demands investigation

The latest thefts have left MSA's Bensusan a worried man because he has three containers still on the waters enroute to Asia; "It's possible they could be laden with the bogus weight of bricks not minerals."

Bensusan also has another two containers awaiting shipment at the port of Dar es Salaam; on Friday, he flagged off another container from Kigali to the Dar es Salaam; the three containers are to be shipped off this week.

Ten days ago, Paul Wallace, chief executive of Tanzania International Container Terminal Services (TICTS) led a delegation to Rwanda on what was described as a 'promotional tour' during which they would meet and interact with Rwanda's business community.

However, the real reason for the visit was for TICTS, which handles 80 per cent of the traffic at Dar port, to face members of the Rwandan private sector who had plenty of issues they needed resolved.

The Rwanda government through its embassy in Tanzania played a behind the curtains role in getting the port delegation to visit Kigali during which they interacted with Rwanda's private sector at a business lunch.

Safety at the port was high on the agenda with the June theft of TSL containers providing the case in point on the occasion.

"We must resolve this issue once and for all and I believe an investigation at the port can help us establish the source of the problem," a tough speaking Minister Rugwabiza said during the TICTs business lunch in Kigali.

In response, TICTS CEO Paul Wallace welcomed the investigation and assured the Minister that Rwandan authorities would receive their full support to help collectively put an end to the thefts.

Also in attendance was an official of the Rwanda National Police who was part of efforts to investigate previous thefts; he called for full cooperation from the Tanzanian government authorities if the thefts are to be stamped out.

Double jeopardy

But of immediate concern to RMA members is how to thwart the negative effects of the thefts to the mining sector; association president Kalima described the situation as 'double jeopardy' for Rwanda's mining sector.

"The sector is getting a beating from two fronts; the global market prices for minerals have declined in recent months and now we have safety challenges that make us unattractive to buyers overseas," observed Kalima.

Here's what he means; previously, it would cost Rwanda's mineral exporters between US$3500 and US$4000 to ship a container from Kigali but the risks have pushed that cost sky-high.

"We are now paying US$9000 for a container; this could sour with the latest spate of robberies," said MSA's Bensusan whose company exported over 50 percent of Rwandan minerals, in 2014.

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Workers at Mineral Supply Africa weigh minerals before they are exported. (T.Kisambira)

The new costs are on account of extra safety precautions put in place to protect the minerals from theft, including private armed guards and sophisticated tracking technology.

But to MSA's Bensusan, there's no problem between Kigali and Rusumo; the real challenge is on the Tanzanian side, to be specific, at the port.

"We have pictorial evidence that the stolen minerals were intact when they arrived at the port," Bensusan told The New Times last week and shared some of the pictures taken after the cargo had arrived at Dar.

Insurance snub

As would be expected, all the stolen minerals had been insured by their exporters and after a few months of haggling and carrying out own investigations, the insurance firms will compensate both TSL and MSA.

"The challenge is that after they have paid, they won't accept to underwrite any more of our cargo because the risk of being stolen, to them, will be almost certain," said Kalima.

But there's another problem- the buyers. Previously, they would place a firm order for the supplies and pay up to 90 percent of the value of the material, upfront with the balance payable on delivery of the commodity.

However, both Bensusan and Kalima said buyers are now demanding that they pay 100 percent of the value after safe delivery of the minerals.

"That will hurt our cash flows because it means we have to foot all costs relating to sourcing, processing and supplying of the minerals, we are already limping," Bensusan said.

But Rwanda needs its mining sector up and running not limping because until tourism took over recently, mining was the country's leading earner of foreign exchange and it also directly and indirectly employs hundreds of thousands of Rwandans, including women in rural areas.

Rwanda contributes close to 30 percent of the global Coltan trade, a mineral used in electronic engineering for mobile phones and video-game consoles.

Before the global commodity price depression set it, Rwanda was projecting to earn up to US$400 million this year, up, from approximately $150 million in 2013.

On Thursday last week, the mining sector's leadership and select government officials met to discuss a way forward on the matter.

This week is poised to be a busy one as they engage their Tanzanian counterparts for a solution, before the country goes to polls to elect a new president.

editorial@newtimes.co.rw



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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.”

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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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Kagame political ambitions triggered the genocide.

Kagame political ambitions triggered the genocide.
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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.
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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
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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.