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.

25 Nov 2015

[AfricaRealities.com] Rwanda: Victoire Ingabire adopts 3 years old inmate Cynthia

 

Rwanda: Victoire Ingabire adopts 3 years old inmate Cynthia
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Victoire Ingabire adopts 3 years old inmate Cynthia

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In her notes recently published by the Editions Scribe under the French title 'Entre les 4 murs de 1930', (Between the 4 walls of 1930 – my translation) the Rwandan political prisoner Victoire Ingabire tells among many other moving facts a touching story of her 3 years inmate Cynthia. She explains the circumstances that make her decide to adopt her despite her own carceral conditions.

Men don't cry. That is what we are taught when we are growing up as young lads. Be tough, boy, never show weakness (as if showing sensibility was a weakness). The last time I failed that principle of manhood was when my elder sister Stephanie Ndayambaje died in the same 1930 prison on September 3rd, 2013. I don't remember if I cried or screamed. But the truth is I couldn't hold it back.

Reading the notes of Victoire Ingabire, especially the story of Cynthia, I failed again my peer men. Her humanity is so unsettling that not being touched would be almost troubling for a normal person. Recently I read from the French writer Jean-Luc Seigle that 'En vieillissant les hommes pleurent' (While getting old men cry – my translation).

Maybe I am living more and more on the spell of the writer's talent of storyteller. Who knows! But I do apologize for not being a man enough not to keep those tears inside. Why should I apologize anyway! Isn't claimed these days that men and women are equals? Nobody seems to hold unique privileges anymore.

Before I get to the story of Cynthia, let me remind the reader that Victoire Ingabire is in prison since October 14th, 2010 for having challenged the Rwandan president Paul Kagame to become the new leader of Rwanda. Nothing less, nothing more.

As someone who has closely followed that Rwandan politician's story from the very beginning, I can categorically confirm that any other explanation of her imprisonment from the Kagame's government is pure fabrication by the prosecutor.

It is on a normal cold evening in Leeds – England. The time is 18:59 on a Sunday of an English autumn, where people haven't started yet covering themselves much into warm clothing. The younger ones are even still only wearing maximum one or two layer of outfits.

I am waiting for my train to get me back to London. It is scheduled to leave the city centre at 20:45. I have spent the day with other Friends of Victoire. Among other things, those who could afford £20 (I pledged to pay the amount as soon as possible) got hold of a copy of the notes of Victoire Ingabire.

Taking a cup of latte in the station hall, I have more than an hour to start flipping through my copy. In the table of contents of the book, I am immediately attracted to the section about inmates of young age. It is on pages 260-264.

In my many readings about incarceral conditions around the world, I don't recall having noted anywhere where children are so deprived of their normal childhood than in the Rwandan prison system.

The French title of the subheading in question reads: 'Une prison avec beaucoup d'enfants en bas-age' – or in English (A prison with many toddlers).

This is the translation of the whole section:

"There is one thing that has puzzled me the first time I went to mass inside the prison. I was surprised by the number of prisoners, including mothers with their little children. I couldn't hold my tears seeing them. I couldn't imagine how these toddlers lived in the narrow prison's spaces. I ended up getting some explanation. During the day, children aged between two and three years old are looked after in a nursery built 400 meters from the location where their mums are incarcerated.

At least there, they have some free space outside the prison environment. Children stay there between eight and eleven hours from Monday to Thursday. They get two meals a day, consisting of rice and beans for lunch, molded maize preparation (kaunga), vegetable and beans for dinner. In the morning they get a sort of porridge the same as their mums. Children older than three years return automatically to live with their extended families outside of prison. On Sunday when I come back from mass, I often stand in front of a kind of balcony of my cell waiting for the guard to open for me. From there I greet other inmates who are returning to the main halls where they are kept and spend most of their days. That is how I came to know Cynthia that I consider to be my fourth child. That charming little creature used each time to make a lot of gestures with her hand greeting me saying, "Hello Auntie." One day she escaped from her mum's hand and run towards me. One guard tried to stop her but she managed to pass through his legs, quickly climbed the stairs and came to warmly hug me. I picked her with the same passion she had come with. We were like in a scene of reunion between a mother and her child. Everything happened so quickly that neither my closest guard nor the prison's supervisors had the time to act preemptly. I told them that nobody had the right to stop a child from greeting an adult. I ask them to allow me to give her some bread and they agreed to that favor. From then on, my balcony has become the meeting point between me and Cynthia, this has almost been happening every Sunday. Each time she passed by, she automatically climbed the stairs; I invited her to come into my cell, I gave her some bread and fruits, and she returned to her mum. One Sunday morning she asked the guard if she could come and see me before going to mass. The guard agreed to her request. Suddenly the electricity went off and we found ourselves, me and my guest, in the dark of my cell (painted with black without any light filtering in from outside – my emphasis). She started crying and begged me to get out. Unfortunately there was not much I could do instantly because the door to my cell had been locked from outside. She cried loudly, so loudly that I banged strongly on my door to alert the guard. The door was then opened, that was also the time to go to mass. Since that day, either it is with me or only to come and pick her bread, Cynthia always asked the guard:

Aren't you going to close the door again? I don't want to be stuck inside. It is too dark.

Learning probably from Cynthia, most of the mums who every Sunday pass in front of my cell have adopted the little girl's greeting: " Hello auntie or have a nice Sunday auntie." Cynthia was not only charming, she was also very sharp. She was aware of most of the things which went on in the prison halls reserved to women. She knew those who drank alcohol in hiding, those who sold tobacco clandestinely, food and other accessories such as soap, thread, needles and so on. One Saturday, I was outside having fresh air when the door of the hall reserved to women got opened. Cynthia saw me at my balcony then came running and shouting loudly: 'Auntie, auntie, you know…' She didn't get the time to finish her sentence but came to find refuge in my arms because the female guard wanted to get hold of her. I asked my guard and the female supervisor who was after the child to allow me to stay a moment with her. Both agreed. I then asked Cynthia where was her mum? She told me that she had gone to pray in another church. That meant that she was not in the main hall for women because, on Saturdays, it was reserved to worshipers of the adventist of the 7th day church.

But I know mum didn't go to pray, she went instead to meet Emmy dad.

Who is Emmy's dad? Asking her as intrigued by her intuition.

But it is mum's boyfriend. It is him who gave me these bracelets.

The toddler wore effectively nice bracelets made of wood, small crafts made by prisoners. I looked at her artefacts while paying attention to what she was telling me.

You know auntie, mum has brought a letter she wrote to her boyfriend.

How can such toddler could be aware of all those stories? The female supervisor beside me explained me that often those women spoke of everything in the presence of children without caring about what not to say. While we were in the middle of the subject, a prison staff named Nkaka passed by. This staff had put in isolation an old woman because she smoke and sold tobacco inside prison. The woman's name was Salome. Then Cynthia started crying suddenly.

Nkaka, Nkaka…

The young man looked back, then Cynthia begged him.

- Please, free grandma Salome. Why do you isolate her when others do it?

The toddler asked me to put her down. She run and got Nkaka by the trousers asking his to free the grandma instantly.

- You put her in isolation since yesterday. Don't you find that it is time to get her out?

Nkaka, without knowing what not to do declared that this was like this since the day before; Cynthia had not stopped from requesting the release of the old lady from her isolation. Her insistence got some result. The one that Cynthia calls lovingly grandma was released. The lady thus continued looking after her protege, each time the mum was busy chatting, washing up clothes, having her bath or simply when she went in the common hall for women. One day I was out discussing with my lawyers when I heard a friendly voice behind me. It was Cynthia who was coming running towards me before jumping into my arms. I also saw her mum who was getting of a vehicle. She wanted to come and talk to me but the guard was blocking her. Then I pleaded with the guard to let her greet me and eventually take her child. Cynthia's mother told me that both just came from Kigali University Hospital and that the toddler spent there three days because of diarrhea and vomiting. Then, coming close to me, the mum whispered to me that she wanted me to adopt Cynthia. I thought I didn't get of course what she was saying and asked her clearly.

What?

I am giving you Cynthia because I don't know what to do with her. Presently she is three years old, age at which they can get out of this prison environment. His father has abandoned us and is married to another woman. I was pregnant when I got imprisoned. My husband never came to see his child. He lives not far from my mum and I have asked her several time to pressure him to visit her daughter, but he has never showed up. Therefore, will that man who didn't want to know anything about his child, ever care about her? Talking of my mum, she is an old lady who does not have any more energy left. She is not capable of looking after a three years old. Our family is poor and we don't have the resources to pay a carer. I beg you, help me.

I was still holding Cynthia who, very confidently, continued to nestle against my chest. Without any hesitation, I replied that I was going to help her. The next day, I asked Flora (one of Victoire's party's staff who visited her regularly, particularly bringing her food) to tell my husband that I had a child of three years who was obliged to leave prison and that she didn't have anywhere to go. I explained to Flora that there existed a prison procedure for that. Children imprisoned with their mums were usually taken up by their families once they reached three. In the absence of close relatives, social services of the prison had responsibilities to find where to place the child. Normally, it would be an orphanage. But since the Rwandan government has closed all orphanage centres in the whole country and children who are in centres (like prisons) must be placed with families. Since that closure, the government seeks benefactors to adopt these children. It is a difficult policy to implement given the fact that most of Rwandan families are also deprived. In my case, I could perhaps do something to help. Flora sent the message and three weeks later, I had the reply. My husband was going to do everything so our dear Cynthia could leave the country. My daughter Raissa who always dreamed of having a little sister is very excited, and her sister Cynthia too."

The notes of Victoire Ingabire relate to the period running from 2010 to 2013. It would be interesting to know the outcome of her decision to adopt Cynthia. Did she manage to get her sent to her family in exile or did the Rwandan government obstruct that benevolent action on her part? Probably by talking to her family, more clarification could be obtained.

The first edition of Victoire Ingabire's notes has apparently been sold out and the publisher is working hard to respond quickly to the increasing demand of more copies from the general public.
Ambrose Nzeyimana





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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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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.
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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.
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.

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-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.