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.

27 May 2020

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Rwanda: "Victoire Ingabire Should Be Arrested at Least, Killed at Best"

Rwanda:

The life of the woman who leads Rwanda's most prominent opposition to Paul Kagame's dictatorship is being publicly threatened in the wake of the killing of many of her supporters.

"I call on its donors to press Rwandan authorities to open political space and help us establish the rule of law in our country."

On May 26, I interviewed opposition leader Victoire Ingabire. Our exchanges were transmitted electronically between my home in the San Francisco Bay Area and hers in Kigali, the capital of Rwanda...

Ann Garrison: Victoire, I received a press release from your supporters in Europe which said that someone called a TV channel there in Kigali—Channel 250—to say that you should be "arrested at least and killed at best." This doesn't sound good.

Victoire Ingabire: Yes, I heard this message on "My 250 TV." My lawyer is preparing a complaint, but I have meanwhile informed the Rwandan Investigation Bureau.

AG: That's the same investigation bureau that keeps calling you in for questioning, right? Sometimes leaving you to sit in a chair in a room all day by yourself?

VI: Yes, but it is their job to protect all the people of Rwanda.

AG: There has been another murder. Nine armed men killed Pastor Theoneste Bapfakurera when they mistook him for shopkeeper Theophile Ntirutwa, a member of your opposition party. Tell us about that.

VI: Yes, on Monday, May, 11, 2020, nine armed men attacked the shop of Theophile Ntirutwa, a member of my political party. They stabbed to death a customer, Theoneste Bapfakurera, and tied up other customers who were in the shop. Theophile had time to hide under the counter when the attackers pushed people into his shop. He immediately called me and I gave him the police number to call for help.

He told me that attackers arrived in the neighborhood and asked an elderly man to bring them to where his sister lived. Once there, they asked his sister to bring them to his shop. The people in this neighborhood said that the assailants asked them to switch off the lights. So when they entered Theophile's shop, they asked, "Who is Theo?" and Pastor Theoneste answered that he was. Then they killed him and left the shop believing they had accomplished their mission even though they had killed another Theo.

AG: So many of your party members have been murdered or disappeared since your release from prison in September 2018 that I can't remember them all. So, rather than go back through previous reports, I'll ask you to tell me their names and what happened to them again.

VI: Yes, you are right. Since my release many members of my former party, United Democratic Forces of Rwanda (FDU-Inkingi) were killed, as were members of my new party, Development and Liberty for All-Umirinzi. Remember that I left FDU-INKINGi to create the new party De velopment  and Liberty for All- Umurinzi, not because of disagreements with FDU, but because FDU is largely a party of exiles and refugees outside Rwanda, and Rwandans living here need their own party..

There were also killings and disappearances of members of FDU, in 2016, two years before I was released. That year Jean Damascène Habarugira's throat was cut.

Also in 2016, Illuminée Iragena went missing and has never been found.

"I left FDU-INKINGi because FDU is largely a party of exiles and refugees outside Rwanda, and Rwandans living here need their own party."

It became worse after my release on September 15, 2018. On October 8, 2018, our FDU Vice President Boniface Twagirimana went missing. He had been in prison in Muhanga, and authorities reported that he had escaped, but we never saw or heard from him again.

On March 3, 2019, my assistant Anselme Mutuyimana  was killed and his body dropped in the forest of Gishwati.

On July 15, 2019, Eugene Ndereyimana, our representative in the east of our country, disappeared and has never been found.. He was on his way to meet new members of our party DALFA-Umurumzi 50 kilometers away from his home.

In the evening of September 24, 2019, when Syldion Dusabumuremyi was preparing to close his canteen in the Shyogwe Hospital, he was stabbed by two men who arrived and then disappeared on a motorbike.

None of these cases have been resolved. The Rwanda Investigation Bureau still lists them as pending.

AG: Has violence against dissenters gotten worse since your release, or is it just that it was not being reported when you were in prison, between October 2010 to September 2018?

VI: It got worse after my release, but dissidents were murdered or disappeared back in 2010 when three candidates, including myself, attempted to register our parties and run against Paul Kagame in that year's presidential election. 

AG: I have received press releases about these political assassinations from your party there in Kigali and from the United Democratic Forces of Rwanda, an opposition party in exile that you also belong to. Are members of other opposition parties, like the Partí Social Imberakuri led by formerly imprisoned attorney Bernard Ntaganda, being killed as well?

VI: Yes. André Rwisereka, Vice President of the Democratic Green Party of Rwanda , was found with his throat slit by the banks of a river in 2010. His wallet, car keys, and car were left at the scene of the crime.

Also that year, Aimable Rusangwa, secretary to attorney Bernard Ntaganda, founder and president of the socialist party, Partí Social Imberakuri (PS-I mberakuri ) , was murdered.

Shyirambere Dominique and Nigirente James, both members of PS-Imberakuri have been missing for years, Shyirambere since 2012, Nigirente since 2015.

And in mid-February this year, authorities told us that our dear friend Kizito Mihigo, Rwandan gospel singer and reconciliation activist, had killed himself in prison. That was after they arrested him trying to cross our southern border into Burundi. Very few believe that Kizito committed suicide.

So long as Rwanda is not democratic, the repression and violence against dissidents and opposition parties will continue...

AG: The violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo's Kivu Provinces, particularly Beni Territory and Virunga National Park, has been worsening again at the same time that this violence has occurred in Rwanda. Sources I find credible believe that Rwandan troops—whatever sort of "rebels" they may call themselves in DRC—are responsible. Is there anything you'd like to say about the violence in the Kivus?

VI: I find it deplorable that more than two decades of war and horrific human rights abuse have been tolerated in eastern DRC, most of all in the Kivu Provinces bordering Rwanda and Uganda. Everyone knows who is and is not involved in this violence, but because of the interests of a few people, no one comes to rescue the people.

"More than two decades of war and horrific human rights abuse have been tolerated in eastern DRC."

Whenever the opportunity arises, I condemn this violence, and I ask the UN Security Council to assume its responsibility and put an end to it. Enough is enough. Since 1998 I have never ceased to speak out about the impunity that is the cause of ongoing violence and instability in DRC and the rest of the African Great Lakes Region.

AG: For years the Rwandan government, various NGOs, and international media have blamed the violence in the Kivus on the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR), the militia protecting Hutu refugees of the 1994 genocide who remain in DRC. I thought this had begun to change, but at the end of April, the Virunga National Park press office blamed the massacre of 12 park rangers and five civilians on the FDLR, who then issued a statement denying that and accusing Rwandan government forces instead. I asked the press office for their evidence that the FDLR were responsible and they promised to respond several times but never did. Is there anything you'd like to say about that?

VI: No, nothing.

AG: According to the FDU press release, ruling party officials have compared you to Ebola, "having sucked genocidal ideology from her [your] mum's breasts." The release also says that General James Kabarebe, former Army Chief of Staff and now special security advisor to President Kagame, made an inflammatory speech on November 13, 2019, in which he said, "I hate her because I see one million victims in one person with genocidal ideology. She is awfully bad. I think that if you want to hit her, you may need to use the most lethal weapon. We have to be sure that she is dead." Is there anything you'd like to say about that hideous statement?

VI: General Kabarebe did not say anything like that regarding me, or, If he did, I did not hear it, so I cannot comment on it.

AG: Is there anything else you'd like to say?

VI: I want to repeat my appeal to the UN Security Council to do something regarding the instability in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). But I also call for African solidarity. Yesterday we were celebrating 57 years of independence in Africa, but what sort of independence is this when a war goes on and on in DRC, costing millions of lives, because other African nations invaded, and no one does anything to stop it? Where are the Pan-Africanists?

Regarding Rwanda, I call on its donors to press Rwandan authorities to open political space and help us establish the rule of law in our country. The largest bilateral donors are the US and the UK, but the World Bank, the Fund for Global Health, and the EU are ahead of them in that order.

AG: Thank you, Victoire.

VI: Thank you, Ann.

Ann Garrison is an independent journalist based in the San Francisco Bay Area. In 2014, she received the Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza Democracy and Peace Prize   for her reporting on conflict in the African Great Lakes region. Please support her work on Patreon . She can be reached at ann-at-anngarrison.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.