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.

5 Jun 2020

[africaforum] Fw: [fondationbanyarwanda] Félicien Kabuga, «génocidaire rwandais»? Entre divagation médiatique et réalité des faits.

 


Félicien Kabuga, «génocidaire rwandais»? Entre divagation médiatique et réalité des faits

Arrêté il y a quelques jours en France, l'homme d'affaires Félicien Kabuga est présenté dans la presse tantôt comme «l'argentier du génocide» rwandais, tantôt comme un membre influent de l'Akazu, la cellule qui aurait planifié ce génocide. Qu'en est-il dans les faits? Analyse pour Sputnik du chercheur et journaliste Patrick Mbeko.

«Un des principaux génocidaires rwandais arrêté par les gendarmes après 25 ans de cavale.» C'est par ces mots que le parquet général de Paris a annoncé l'interpellation, ce 16 mai 2020, du richissime homme d'affaires rwandais Félicien Kabuga, 84 ans, soupçonné d'avoir joué un rôle majeur dans le génocide de 1994 au Rwanda.

Le communiqué du parquet étonne aussi bien par sa forme que par son fond. Car Félicien Kabuga, qui est présenté sans une once de nuance comme un «génocidaire», n'a jamais été condamné pour quoi que ce soit. S'il est vrai que de graves allégations de participation au génocide pèsent sur lui, il n'en demeure pas moins qu'il jouit, comme tout suspect ou accusé, de la présomption d'innocence.

Le moins que l'on puisse dire, c'est que le parquet général de Paris a non seulement violé les droits élémentaires de Félicien Kabuga, mais il a aussi et surtout porté atteinte à l'un des principes fondamentaux du système de justice pénale français.

Dans la presse mainstream, l'homme d'affaires rwandais est présenté comme étant à la fois le «financier du génocide» et un membre important de l'Akazu, structure opaque liée à l'ancien chef de l'État rwandais (Juvénal Habyarimana) et qui aurait planifié le génocide. En outre, Félicien Kabuga serait, selon la plupart des grands médias et leurs «experts-maisons», l'un des «planificateurs» du génocide au Rwanda..

Les vérités du Tribunal pénal international pour le Rwanda (TPIR)

Le TPIR a été mis sur pied par le Conseil de sécurité des Nations unies le 8 novembre 1994 avec une mission précise: juger les responsables d'actes de génocide et d'autres violations graves du droit international humanitaire commis sur le territoire du Rwanda entre le 1er janvier et le 31 décembre 1994. L'autre mission confiée au tribunal était de «contribuer au processus de réconciliation nationale au Rwanda et au maintien de la paix dans la région».

Vingt ans après sa première mise en service en 1995 et des milliards de dollars plus tard, le TPIR a mis la clé sous la porte, le 31 décembre 2015. Sur les 93 individus mis en accusation, 61 ont été condamnés, 14 ont été acquittés et 10 renvoyés devant des juridictions nationales. Le tribunal a transmis plusieurs affaires au Mécanisme pour les tribunaux pénaux internationaux (MTPI), qui assure le suivi des dossiers. C'est cette structure qui a émis un mandat d'arrêt contre Félicien Kabuga et qui pourrait prochainement s'occuper de cette affaire, selon son procureur Serge Brammertz.

En dépit de son bilan, qui a été largement salué par la communauté internationale et les ONG, le TPIR n'a pas échappé à l'accusation de partialité, aussi bien dans le traitement de l'histoire du génocide que dans l'administration de la justice, en ne poursuivant que les vaincus, en l'occurrence les Hutus, tout en accordant le privilège d'impunité aux membres du Front patriotique rwandais (FPR) dirigé par l'actuel Président rwandais, Paul Kagame.

Mais aussi paradoxal que cela puisse paraître, c'est devant le même tribunal onusien que l'histoire officielle du génocide a subi des blessures mortelles. En effet, procès après procès, en dépit du soutien que le régime de Kigali lui a discrètement apporté, des moyens colossaux engagés et des efforts fournis, le procureur du TPIR n'a pas été capable de prouver que le génocide a été planifié par les dirigeants hutus déchus. Autrement dit, la preuve de la planification des massacres, cœur du projet génocidaire, n'a jamais été faite au terme de plusieurs années de procédures judiciaires qui ont vu défiler des centaines de témoins, des milliers de pièces à conviction et des pages de comptes rendus d'audience.

Toujours devant le TPIR, il a également été démontré que l'Akazu était une invention des opposants au président Habyarimana, que le fax du commandant de la Mission des Nations unies pour l'assistance au Rwanda (Minuar), le général Roméo Dallaire, alertant l'ONU qu'un génocide visant les Tutsis était en gestation est un faux, que la fameuse Radio télévision des mille collines (RTLM) n'avait pas été créée dans l'optique d'inciter au génocide... Bref, toute la superstructure de la «version orthodoxe» du génocide rwandais s'est effondrée comme un château de cartes devant le TPIR.

À la lumière des décisions rendues par le tribunal onusien, comment peut-on faire de Félicien Kabuga le «planificateur» d'un génocide, dont la planification n'a jamais été prouvée? Comment peut-on affirmer qu'il a appartenu à une structure nébuleuse (Akazu) qui n'a jamais existé?

Kabuga ou le symbole du vieux cliché de l'Africain barbare

L'arrestation de Félicien Kabuga n'a pas seulement donné lieu à des affirmations gratuites et infondées. Elle a aussi fait ressurgir les vieux clichés et stéréotypes d'autrefois que l'on croyait à tort révolus. Plusieurs médias occidentaux ont répété que l'homme d'affaires rwandais avait ordonné aux employés de sa société d'importer un nombre impressionnant de machettes au Rwanda en 1993, avant de les faire distribuer en avril 1994 aux milices hutues. En outre, il aurait importé ces machettes pour faire tuer des Tutsis.

L'argument est d'autant plus surprenant que Félicien Kabuga était avant tout un homme d'affaires, certes proche de l'ancien Président Juvénal Habyarimana, qui avait investi dans plusieurs secteurs, dont ceux liés à l'agriculture. Or au Rwanda, l'un des outils de prédilection des agriculteurs est la machette. Que cet outil ait été utilisé pendant le génocide signifierait-il qu'il a été commandé pour cela? C'est comme si on accusait de «crime contre l'humanité» un marchand d'armes caucasien de Los Angeles, dont le seul tort est d'avoir importé sur le territoire américain des armes qui ont servi à massacrer des Noirs américains!

En quoi le fait de commander un outil essentiel à l'activité agricole d'un pays constitue-t-il en soi une incitation au génocide?

La connaissance de l'Afrique en Occident se réfère à des conceptions vagues qui trahissent certains préjugés, et les conflits africains donnent lieu à la construction de récits médiatiques marqués par la récurrence de représentations dominantes et de stéréotypes. L'image de la machette, mainte fois relayée par les médias, pendant le génocide au Rwanda, renvoie les Africains en général et les Rwandais en particulier à «leurs» traditions et/ou à «leurs» traits socioculturels perçus comme violents par essence. Ici, la machette est le symbole de la sauvagerie paysanne exotique –hutue rwandaise– dont Félicien Kabuga serait l'un des promoteurs en chef. Ce qui est une hérésie...



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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.

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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.