A Candle For Remembering

A Candle For Remembering
May this memorial candle lights up the historical past of our beloved Country: Rwanda, We love U so much. If Tears could build a stairway. And memories were a lane. I would walk right up to heaven. To bring you home again. No farewell words were spoken. No time to say goodbye. You were gone before I knew it And. Only Paul Kagame knows why. My heart still aches with sadness. And secret tears still flow. What It meant to lose you. No one will ever know.

Rwanda: Cartographie des crimes

Rwanda: cartographie des crimes du livre "In Praise of Blood, the crimes of the RPF" de Judi Rever Kagame devra être livré aux Rwandais pour répondre à ses crimes: la meilleure option de réconciliation nationale entre les Hutus et les Tutsis.

Let us remember Our People

Let us remember our people, it is our right

You can't stop thinking

Don't you know Rwandans are talkin' 'bout a revolution It sounds like a whisper The majority Hutus and interior Tutsi are gonna rise up And get their share SurViVors are gonna rise up And take what's theirs. We're the survivors, yes: the Hutu survivors! Yes, we're the survivors, like Daniel out of the lions' den (Hutu survivors) Survivors, survivors! Get up, stand up, stand up for your rights et up, stand up, don't give up the fight “I’m never gonna hold you like I did / Or say I love you to the kids / You’re never gonna see it in my eyes / It’s not gonna hurt me when you cry / I’m not gonna miss you.” The situation is undeniably hurtful but we can'stop thinking we’re heartbroken over the loss of our beloved ones. "You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom". Malcolm X

Welcome to Home Truths

The year is 1994, the Fruitful year and the Start of a long epoch of the Rwandan RPF bloody dictatorship. Rwanda and DRC have become a unique arena and fertile ground for wars and lies. Tutsi RPF members deny Rights and Justice to the Hutu majority, to Interior Tutsis, to Congolese people, publicly claim the status of victim as the only SurViVors while millions of Hutu, interior Tutsi and Congolese people were butchered. Please make RPF criminals a Day One priority. Allow voices of the REAL victims to be heard.

Everybody Hurts

“Everybody Hurts” is one of the rare songs on this list that actually offers catharsis. It’s beautifully simple: you’re sad, but you’re not alone because “everybody hurts, everybody cries.” You’re human, in other words, and we all have our moments. So take R.E.M.’s advice, “take comfort in your friends,” blast this song, have yourself a good cry, and then move on. You’ll feel better, I promise.—Bonnie Stiernberg

KAGAME - GENOCIDAIRE

Paul Kagame admits ordering...

Paul Kagame admits ordering the 1994 assassination of President Juvenal Habyarimana of Rwanda.

Why did Kagame this to me?

Why did Kagame this to me?
Can't forget. He murdered my mother. What should be my reaction? FYI: the number of orphans in Rwanda has skyrocketed since the 1990's Kagame's invasion. Much higher numbers of orphans had and have no other option but joining FDLR fighters who are identified as children that have Lost their Parents in Kagame's Wars inside and outside of Rwanda.If someone killed your child/spouse/parent(s) would you seek justice or revenge? Deep insight: What would you do to the person who snuffed the life of someone I love beyond reason? Forgiving would bring me no solace. If you take what really matters to me, I will show you what really matters. NITUTIRWANAHO TUZASHIRA. IGIHE KIRAGEZE.If democracy is to sell one's motherland(Africa), for some zionits support, then I prefer the person who is ready to give all his live for his motherland. Viva President Putin!!!

RPF committed the unspeakable

RPF committed the unspeakable
The perverted RPF committed the UNSPEAKABLE.Two orphans, both against the Nazi world. Point is the fact that their parents' murder Kagame & his RPF held no shock in the Western world. Up to now, the Rwandan Hitler Kagame and his death squads still enjoy impunity inside and outside of Rwanda. What goes through someone's mind as they know RPF murdered their parents? A delayed punishment is actually an encouragement to crime, In Praise of the ongoing Bloodshed in Rwanda. “I always think I am a pro-peace person but if someone harmed someone near and dear to me, I don't think I could be so peaceful. I would like to believe that to seek justice could save millions of people living the African Great Lakes Region - I would devote myself to bringing the 'perp' along to a non-happy ending but would that be enough? You'd have to be in the situation I suppose before you could actually know how you would feel or what you would do”. Jean-Christophe Nizeyimana, Libre Penseur

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Hutu Children & their Mums

Hutu Children & their Mums
Look at them ! How they are scared to death. Many Rwandan Hutu and Tutsi, Foreign human rights advocates, jounalists and and lawyers are now on Death Row Waiting to be murdered by Kagame and his RPF death squads. Be the last to know.

Rwanda-rebranding

Rwanda-rebranding-Targeting dissidents inside and abroad, despite war crimes and repression Rwanda has “A well primed PR machine”, and that this has been key in “persuading the key members of the international community that it has an exemplary constitution emphasizing democracy, power-sharing, and human rights which it fully respects”. It concluded: “The truth is, however, the opposite. What you see is not what you get: A FAÇADE” Rwanda has hired several PR firms to work on deflecting criticism, and rebranding the country.
A WELL PRIMED PR MACHINE
PORTLAND COMMUNICATIONS, FRIENDS OF RWANDA, GPLUS, BTP ADVISERS
AND BTP MARK PURSEY, THE HOLMES REPORT AND BRITISH FIRM RACEPOINT GROUP

HAVE ALWAYS WORKING ON THE REBRANDING OF RWANDA AND WHITEWASHING OF KAGAME’S CRIMES
Targeting dissidents abroad One of the more worrying aspects of Racepoint’s objectives was to “Educate and correct the ill informed and factually incorrect information perpetuated by certain groups of expatriates and NGOs,” including, presumably, the critiques of the crackdown on dissent among political opponents overseas. This should be seen in the context of accusations that Rwanda has plotted to kill dissidents abroad. A recent investigation by the Globe and Mail claims, “Rwandan exiles in both South Africa and Belgium – speaking in clandestine meetings in secure locations because of their fears of attack – gave detailed accounts of being recruited to assassinate critics of President Kagame….

Ways To Get Rid of Kagame

How to proceed for revolution in Rwanda:
  1. The people should overthrow the Rwandan dictator (often put in place by foreign agencies) and throw him, along with his henchmen and family, out of the country – e.g., the Shah of Iran, Marcos of Philippines.Compaore of Burkina Faso
  2. Rwandans organize a violent revolution and have the dictator killed – e.g., Ceaucescu in Romania.
  3. Foreign powers (till then maintaining the dictator) force the dictator to exile without armed intervention – e.g. Mátyás Rákosi of Hungary was exiled by the Soviets to Kirgizia in 1970 to “seek medical attention”.
  4. Foreign powers march in and remove the dictator (whom they either instated or helped earlier) – e.g. Saddam Hussein of Iraq or Manuel Noriega of Panama.
  5. The dictator kills himself in an act of desperation – e.g., Hitler in 1945.
  6. The dictator is assassinated by people near him – e.g., Julius Caesar of Rome in 44 AD was stabbed by 60-70 people (only one wound was fatal though).
  7. Organise strikes and unrest to paralyze the country and convince even the army not to support the dictaor – e.g., Jorge Ubico y Castañeda was ousted in Guatemala in 1944 and Guatemala became democratic, Recedntly in Burkina Faso with the dictator Blaise Compaoré.

Almighty God :Justice for US

Almighty God :Justice for US
Hutu children's daily bread: Intimidation, Slavery, Sex abuses led by RPF criminals and Kagame, DMI: Every single day, there are more assassinations, imprisonment, brainwashing & disappearances. Do they have any chance to end this awful life?

Killing Hutus on daily basis

Killing Hutus on daily basis
RPF targeted killings, very often in public areas. Killing Hutus on daily basis by Kagame's murderers and the RPF infamous death squads known as the "UNKNOWN WRONGDOERS"

RPF Trade Mark: Akandoya

RPF Trade Mark: Akandoya
Rape, torture and assassination and unslaving of hutu women. Genderside: Rape has always been used by kagame's RPF as a Weapon of War, the killings of Hutu women with the help of Local Defense Forces, DMI and the RPF military

The Torture in Rwanda flourishes

The Torture in Rwanda flourishes
How torture flourishes across Rwanda despite extensive global monitoring

Fighting For Our Freedom?

Fighting For Our Freedom?
We need Freedom, Liberation of our fatherland, Human rights respect, Mutual respect between the Hutu majority and the Tutsi minority

KAGAME VS JUSTICE

Monday, May 28, 2012











Rwanda :



Les autorités engageaient de plus en plus souvent des poursuites contre des détracteurs des politiques gouvernementales. Le nombre de détentions illégales a augmenté. Bien que des projets de réforme législative aient été évoqués, la liberté d’expression restait soumise à des restrictions. Des membres de l’opposition politique et des journalistes arrêtés dans le contexte des élections de 2010 ont été injustement condamnés pour des motifs à caractère politique.

Contexte

En janvier, le bilan du Rwanda en matière de droits humains a été examiné dans le cadre de l’Examen périodique universel des Nations unies. Le gouvernement a accepté la majorité des recommandations formulées, y compris celles demandant une modification des lois existantes dans le but de protéger la liberté d’expression. Il a en revanche rejeté les recommandations concernant l’ouverture d’enquêtes sur les cas d’arrestation et de détention arbitraire, y compris les possibles disparitions forcées, alléguant que les arrestations illégales avaient été exceptionnelles et que les fonctionnaires responsables avaient été amenés à rendre compte de leurs actes.
Les problèmes de sécurité se sont aggravés en 2011, à la suite notamment d’attaques à la grenade survenues en 2010, de divisions au sein du Front patriotique rwandais (FPR, au pouvoir) et du mécontentement des sympathisants de Laurent Nkunda, ancien dirigeant du Congrès national pour la défense du peuple (CNDP).

Le gouvernement a coorganisé à Kigali, la capitale, une réunion visant à inciter d’autres pays d’Afrique à suivre l’exemple du Rwanda et à abolir la peine de mort.

Les donateurs continuaient de soutenir le gouvernement rwandais, au nom de son développement économique. En privé, certains se disaient toutefois inquiets des violations des droits humains perpétrées dans le pays.

Liberté d’expression

Des modifications de la législation étaient en suspens, mais des restrictions sévères pesaient toujours sur la liberté d’expression. Un nombre croissant de personnes ont été condamnées pour des actes considérés comme des menaces à la sûreté nationale, tels que la critique à l’égard des politiques gouvernementales.

Lois réprimant l’« idéologie du génocide » et le « sectarisme »

Bien qu’il ait promis de réviser la loi sur l’« idéologie du génocide », le gouvernement a continué de recourir à des dispositions législatives générales et rédigées en termes vagues qui réprimaient l’« idéologie du génocide » et le « sectarisme » (plus connu sous le terme de « divisionnisme »). Ces textes interdisent les discours de haine mais érigent aussi en infraction pénale toute critique du gouvernement. L’année s’est achevée sans que les autorités aient examiné un quelconque projet de modification de la loi réprimant l’« idéologie du génocide ». Le gouvernement s’était pourtant engagé, pour la première fois en avril 2010, à procéder à la révision des dispositions existantes.

  • Bernard Ntaganda, président du Parti social idéal (PS-Imberakuri), a été condamné à quatre ans d’emprisonnement en février. Il a été reconnu coupable de « divisionnisme » – pour des discours publics prononcés à l’approche des élections de 2010, dans lesquels il dénonçait les politiques gouvernementales –, d’atteinte à la sûreté de l’État et de tentative d’organisation d’une « manifestation non autorisée ». Les poursuites engagées contre Bernard Ntaganda pour atteinte à la sûreté de l’État et « divisionnisme » s’appuyaient uniquement sur ses discours critiquant certaines actions du gouvernement.
  • Le procès de Victoire Ingabire, présidente des Forces démocratiques unifiées (FDU-Inkingi), s’est ouvert en septembre. Elle était inculpée d’actes de terrorisme, de formation d’un groupe armé, d’« idéologie du génocide », de « sectarisme » et de propagation délibérée de rumeurs dans le but de monter l’opinion publique contre le pouvoir en place. Les accusations relatives à l’« idéologie du génocide » se fondaient notamment sur le fait qu’elle avait publiquement demandé l’ouverture de poursuites pénales pour les crimes de guerre commis par le FPR (voir Justice). Les violations des normes en matière d’équité des procès – notamment le fait que l’accusation ait été autorisée à présenter des éléments de preuve antérieurs aux lois au titre desquelles Victoire Ingabire était inculpée – soulevaient des inquiétudes.

    Journalistes
Plusieurs lois visant à accroître la liberté des médias étaient en instance devant le Parlement à la fin de l’année. Les organisations de défense des droits humains espéraient que les projets de modification de la loi relative aux médias et de la loi sur le Haut Conseil des médias, ainsi que le projet de loi sur l’accès à l’information, permettraient de diminuer l’emprise de l’État sur les médias. La diffamation devait toutefois demeurer une infraction pénale. Au cours des années précédentes, les autorités avaient recouru à la loi contre la diffamation pour réduire au silence des journalistes et fermer des médias.

Des organes de presse privés qui avaient été fermés en 2010 n’avaient toujours pas repris leurs activités ; leurs rédacteurs en chef, de même que d’autres journalistes indépendants, vivaient toujours en exil.


Agnès Nkusi Uwimana, rédactrice en chef du journal populaire indépendant de langue kinyarwanda Umurabyo, et sa rédactrice en chef adjointe, Saidati Mukakibibi, ont été condamnées le 5 février respectivement à 17 et sept ans d’emprisonnement pour des articles d’opinion publiés en 2010 durant la période préélectorale. Agnès Nkusi Uwimana a été déclarée coupable de menace à la sûreté de l’État, d’« idéologie du génocide », de « divisionnisme » et de diffamation, et Saidati Mukakibibi de menace à la sûreté de l’État. L’examen de leur appel a été reporté à 2012.
  • Malgré les lacunes de l’enquête initiale, le ministère public n’a pas rouvert d’information sur l’assassinat, en juin 2010, du journaliste Jean-Léonard Rugambage. En septembre, l’un des deux individus reconnus coupables du meurtre a été acquitté en appel et l’autre a vu sa peine de réclusion à perpétuité commuée en 10 années d’emprisonnement.

    Défenseurs des droits humains
Comme les années précédentes, des défenseurs des droits humains ont été victimes de manœuvres d’intimidation et de harcèlement – arrestations, menaces, tracasseries administratives et accusations d’abus d’ordre financier.

Joseph Sanane et Epimack Kwokwo, président et secrétaire exécutif par intérim de la Ligue des droits de la personne dans la région des Grands Lacs (LDGL), ont été arrêtés le 19 août. Ils étaient accusés d’avoir aidé le secrétaire exécutif de l’organisation, Pascal Nyilibakwe, à quitter le Rwanda en 2010. Ce dernier avait reçu des menaces à maintes reprises. Epimack Kwokwo a été libéré après plusieurs heures de détention et Joseph Sanane le lendemain de son arrestation.
Liberté d’association

Des responsables de l’opposition politique ont été condamnés pour tentative d’organisation de manifestations « non autorisées » ou de participation à celles-ci. De simples membres de partis d’opposition ont également été interpellés. Les autorités rwandaises ont menacé et intimidé des responsables politiques de l’opposition présents dans des pays voisins, en Afrique du Sud et dans des États européens.

  • La police britannique a informé en mai deux militants rwandais de l’opposition de menaces imminentes pesant sur leur vie et émanant du gouvernement rwandais.
Prisonniers d’opinion

L’ancien ministre Charles Ntakirutinka demeurait incarcéré à la prison centrale de Kigali, où il purgeait une peine de dix années d’emprisonnement. À l’issue d’un procès inique, il avait été reconnu coupable d’incitation à la désobéissance civile et d’association de malfaiteurs.

Justice

Poursuivant ses efforts pour obtenir le transfert ou l’extradition des personnes soupçonnées de génocide, le gouvernement a modifié la législation de façon à ce que les individus déclarés coupables ne soient pas condamnés à la peine de réclusion criminelle à perpétuité. Introduite récemment dans la législation, cette peine assortie de modalités spéciales peut constituer pour les détenus un maintien prolongé à l’isolement quand leurs proches ne peuvent ou ne souhaitent pas leur rendre visite. Les prisonniers concernés n’ont le droit de communiquer avec un avocat qu’en présence d’un gardien, ce qui constitue une atteinte aux droits de la défense durant la procédure d’appel. Cette nouvelle peine n’était pas mise en application en raison de l’absence de cellules individuelles.

Aucune ONG indépendante n’a été autorisée à accéder aux établissements pénitentiaires pour surveiller les conditions carcérales ou interroger des détenus en privé, malgré les demandes formulées en ce sens.

Après plusieurs reports, les procès pour génocide devant les tribunaux gacaca – qui ne respectaient pas les normes internationales en matière d’équité des procès – devaient s’achever à la fin de 2011. Quelques demandes de révision étaient encore en attente à la fin de l’année. Aucun projet de loi établissant les procédures d’enquête et de poursuite devant les juridictions ordinaires pour les futures accusations de participation au génocide de 1994 n’avait encore été présenté au Parlement.

Détentions illégales et disparitions forcées

De très nombreux jeunes gens arrêtés en 2010 et 2011 ont été détenus dans des centres militaires, notamment au camp Kami, ainsi que dans des centres illégaux, dont ceux de « Chez Gacinya » et de Gikondo, souvent durant plusieurs mois. Ils ont été privés de soins médicaux, n’ont pas été autorisés à contacter un avocat et n’ont pas pu contester devant les tribunaux les décisions les concernant. La police n’a pas donné d’informations aux proches de certains d’entre eux qui s’étaient officiellement enquis de leur sort. Certains détenus ont été transférés vers des prisons ordinaires après avoir été inculpés de menace à la sûreté de l’État. D’autres ont été remis en liberté à la condition qu’ils gardent le silence.

Les autorités n’ont pas fourni d’informations sur la disparition forcée de Robert Ndengeye Urayeneza. On pense que cet homme, vu pour la dernière fois en mars 2010, est détenu par l’armée rwandaise.

Justice internationale


Tribunal pénal international pour le Rwanda

Le Tribunal pénal international pour le Rwanda (TPIR) a rendu de nombreux jugements au cours de l’année. Neuf accusés demeuraient toutefois en fuite. Le mandat du TPIR devait s’achever en 2012.

En décembre, la Chambre d’appel du TPIR a confirmé le renvoi au Rwanda de l’affaire Jean Uwinkindi. Dans sa décision, elle mentionnait l’intention exprimée par le Rwanda d’adopter une loi autorisant des juges étrangers à siéger dans les affaires transférées. Il s’agirait du premier accusé dans une affaire de génocide à être renvoyé ou extradé vers le Rwanda pour y être jugé.

Compétence universelle

Des personnes soupçonnées de participation au génocide ont été poursuivies en justice en Allemagne, en Espagne et en Finlande. L’Afrique du Sud ne s’était pas encore prononcée sur la demande d’extradition déposée par la France et l’Espagne à l’encontre de Kayumba Nyamwasa, un Rwandais soupçonné de crimes contre l’humanité au Rwanda qui a obtenu l’asile en Afrique du Sud en 2010. La demande d’extradition présentée par le Rwanda a été rejetée par les autorités sud-africaines.

  • Dans un arrêt rendu en octobre, la Cour européenne des droits de l’homme a considéré que Sylvère Ahorugeze pouvait être extradé par la Suède vers le Rwanda. Cet homme avait été remis en liberté par les autorités de Stockholm en raison de la durée de sa détention provisoire. L’incapacité à mettre en place de véritables garanties pour que Sylvère Ahorugeze soit effectivement jugé constituait un déni de justice pour les victimes du génocide rwandais.
  • La Norvège s’est prononcée en faveur de l’extradition de Charles Bandora. Un appel était en cours.
Impunité pour les crimes de guerre et les crimes contre l’humanité

Aucune investigation et aucune poursuite n’ont été engagées concernant les crimes de guerre et les crimes contre l’humanité qui auraient été commis par l’Armée patriotique rwandaise en 1994 au Rwanda, ni concernant les violations flagrantes des droits humains perpétrées par les forces armées rwandaises en République démocratique du Congo qui ont été recensées dans le rapport du projet Mapping établi par les Nations unies.
Réfugiés et demandeurs d’asile

Le Haut-Commissariat des Nations unies pour les réfugiés (HCR) a recommandé l’invocation au 31 décembre 2011 de la clause de cessation pour les réfugiés rwandais, ce qui signifie que ces derniers pourraient perdre leur statut. Dans un certain nombre de pays, les réfugiés rwandais n’avaient pas pu à la fin de l’année être entendus individuellement afin de faire valoir d’éventuels motifs personnels expliquant qu’ils continuent à craindre d’être persécutés. La clause devait être effective au 1er juillet 2012.
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Sarah Jackson

Researcher - Rwanda and Burundi
Amnesty International's International Secretariat
Africa Regional Office
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As International centers its work on the twin concepts of freedom of self-determination and freedom from tyranny. These ideals include the belief that all human beings have the rights to speak freely, to associate with those of like mind, and to leave and enter their countries. Individuals in a free society must be accorded equal treatment and due process under law, and must have the opportunity to participate in the governments of their countries;

As International’s ideals likewise find expression in the conviction that all human beings have the right to be free from arbitrary detainment or exile and from interference and coercion in matters of conscience. ASI does not support nor condone violence.

The Truth can be buried and stomped into the ground where none can see, yet eventually it will, like a seed, break through the surface once again far more potent than ever, and Nothing can stop it. Truth can be suppressed for a "time", yet It cannot be destroyed. ==> Wolverine
Sunday, May 13, 2012









MAY 11, 2012


PRESIDENT PAUL KAGAME IS TO BLAME FOR THE HUMANITARIAN CRISIS IN EASTERN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO(DRC)

On behalf of the Rwanda National Congress (RNC), let me take this opportunity to bring to your kind attention concerns regarding the deepening humanitarian and security crisis in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). It has been reported by the United Nations Office for Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs that there have more than 300,000 internally displaced people in North and South Kivu in the first quarter of this year alone. In the last few days, escalation of fighting has led to more internally displaced people, and refugees fleeing to Rwanda and Uganda. Many millions, including women and children have died, displaced and raped in eastern DRC since 1994.
In the May 3, 2012, statement the U.N. Security Council expressed concerns over recent attacks by armed groups in eastern DRC, in particular the former elements of CNDP under General Bosco Ntaganda, against the Congolese armed forces and called for immediate cessation of the rebellion. The U.N. Security Council statement further called for “ all crimes, including crimes against women and children, to be expeditiously investigated and the need for all the perpetrators of those crimes, in particular Ntaganda, to be brought to justice.”
THE CONTEXT

You might recall that the 1990- 1994 war and genocide in Rwanda resulted in millions of Rwandan refugees in the region, mostly in DRC, including thousands of Rwanda government military forces (FAR) and militia (interahamwe). The Government of Rwanda attacked the refugee camps in Congo in October, 1996 under the pretext of a ‘Abanyamurenge rebellion’. The war culminated in the overthrow of President Mobutu in May, 1997.
Thereafter, Laurent Desire Kabila succeeded Mobutu as President with the help of the Rwandan Armed forces. The alliance between Paul Kagame and Laurent Desire Kabila could not last more than two years and both countries were again involved in war in August 1998.

First, then Vice President Paul Kagame expected to control the new government of DRC and believed President Kabila would always solicit political direction from Rwanda. To ensure this, Rwanda deployed LTC James Kabarebe (now General) as Chief of Staff of the Congolese Army to keep President Kabila on the leash. This was detested by Kabila and his followers which resulted in friction and conflict in the Congolese Army.
Second, then Vice President Kagame demanded mineral concessions to be granted to Rwanda as compensation for expenses of the war and as a personal reward for installing President Kabila in power. This did not happen and Paul Kagame hatched a plan to remove President Kabila through a coup d’etat, which failed. President Kabila retaliated by expelling LTC James Kabarebe together with all Rwandan troops in DRC, precipitating the all-out war into which several African countries, notably Zimbabwe and Angola, were sucked. President Laurent Kabila was assassinated, and succeeded by his son, Joseph Kabila.

Third, a reason had to be found to begin a war and the EX-FAR was a perfect excuse, although at the same time the war was waged under the pretext of a mutiny by the Congolese army, with President Kabila being accused of allying himself with the EX-FAR. At first, Rwanda concealed its involvement. As the conflict intensified and drew many African countries, Rwanda’s deceptions had reached a limit and had to create a proxy politico-military organization. Thus was RCD born. The war ended in a stalemate, and a negotiated political settlement led to the establishment of a broad-based government that included all fighting forces. However, against all advice, Paul Kagame dissuaded some political and military elements of the RCD from joining the new broad-based government in Kinshasa. Out of these former RCD elements, a new proxy force, CNDP, was established under the leadership of General Laurent Nkunda.

CNDP, GENERAL LAURENT NKUNDA AND GENERAL BOSCO NTAGANDA

The justification for creation of the CNDP was to fight the FDLR and “protect the Tutsi community in Kivu.” However, the true objective was to keep the government of DRC weak through endless war. Like many millions of Congolose who have died due to the unending conflict and its consenquences, the Congolese Tutsi have been both tools and victims of President Kagame’s policies and actions in DRC. Furthermore, the proxy forces facilitated resource plunder by President Kagame’s ruling RPF companies and associates. At a personal level, President Paul Kagame became the focal diplomatic contact about the security situation in DRC. While he precipitated this horrendous humanitarian situation and should have been held to account, he has on the contrary been viewed in many capitals as the solution and indispensable interlocutor for the realization of security in DRC and the Great Lakes region.

In 2009, Gen Laurent Nkunda was “arrested” (President Kagame said on BBC that he is his guest) and was replaced by Gen Bosco Ntaganda by the government of Rwanda. Gen Bosco Ntaganda was integrated in CNDP after the war in Ituri in DRC and was helped by the government of Rwanda to depose Gen Nkunda.



It is well known that Gen Bosco Ntaganda is a Rwandese from Masisi, and should have had no interest in the “Ituri wars” between the Balendu and Bahema in Kivu. The Ugandan rebels of ADF were allegedly operating among the Ituri tribes and Rwanda sought to exploit the situation by arming Thomas Lubanga and seconded Bosco Ntaganda as his military Commander. Thomas Lubanga has been convicted by the ICC and Bosco Ntaganda is being hunted by the ICC. It is only fair that President Paul Kagame on whose behest these two individuals committed war crimes should be part of the indictment.

EMERGING SCENARIOS

After the conviction of Thomas Lubanga in the ICC, international pressure has mounted on President Kabila to arrest Gen Ntaganda. For President Kabila, it is a perfect opportunity to dispense with an officer in his Army who takes orders from another country, Rwanda in this case. The problem however, is that President Kabila does not control the CNDP because, as Rwanda’s proxy force, they have never been fully integrated in the Congolese Army and he cannot transfer any of them from Kivu. The government of Rwanda would do whatever it takes to make sure that Gen Ntaganda is not arrested because of the information that implicates President Kagame he would divulge at the ICC.

Some of the likely scenarios include the following:

1. The government of Rwanda will arm and help Gen Ntaganda fight the Congolese government forces until President Kabila realizes that he will have to negotiate a peaceful settlement.


2. If international pressure continues for the arrest of Gen Ntaganda, the government of Rwanda will offer to assist ( already doing so), by sending its Special Forces or use elements within CNDP to kill Gen. Ntaganda to make sure he is not taken to the ICC.


3. As the war rages on and the international community needs assistance, President Kagame will, as usual, reposition himself as the regional leader and savior for resolving this stalemate, in the “interest of regional stability.” As political crisis looms large in Rwanda and the Kivus, he will use the opportunity to conceal and deny his own misdemeanors while dictating his own terms of any new arrangements.


4. Like in 2009, under the ‘Amani Leo’, this situation may provide a perfect opportunity for another deployment of Rwanda government forces into the DRC


5. A wild card triggers a worst-case scenario, in which full-fledged civil wars erupt in Rwanda ( as mounting domestic pressures lead to implosion) and DRC, with grave consequences for the whole fragile region, thus perpetuating the cycle of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity.

IMPLICATIONS

Due to President Paul Kagame’s policies in Rwanda and the DRC, the Tutsi community of DRC are frequently singled out and blamed to a larger extent by other tribes for atrocities in DRC since 1996. The Rwandan community in DRC (Hutu and Tutsi) in general has been drawn into a conflict among themselves and against all other tribes who view them as proxies of a foreign government. Since 1996, the proxy wars in DRC especially in both North and South Kivu have resulted in millions of deaths, displacement and refugees, which occasionally President Kagame deceptively justifies as “collateral damage” for hunting down FDLR, whose numbers have in any case diminished over the years.

The endless conflicts in DRC have resulted in uncontrolled proliferation of arms from the governments to militias over whom they have a lose control. Some of these militias have been involved in massive rape of women and deaths of children.
Most importantly, as we all have witnessed during the last two decades, crisis in any one country poses great risk to the whole Great Lakes region. Crisis in the Great Lakes region has before escalated to a “continental” war when several African countries intervened in the 1998-2002 Congo war. Already there are several millions who have died in this region due to genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity, other gross abuses of human rights, and the consequences of humanitarian catastrophe. Clearly, the current escalating situation in the Great Lakes region has serious implications for international peace and security.


At the center of endless conflict and humanitarian crisis in DRC and the Great Lakes is lack of accountability and the impunity it fosters. For example, In the United Nations Human Rights Commission Mapping Report on DRC of October, 2010, the Government of Rwanda under President Kagame is implicated in war crimes, crimes against humanity, and even “possible acts of genocide.” The crimes have been investigated but the perpetrators are yet to be brought to account. Why would the U.N. Security Council seek accountability from Thomas Lubanga General Bosco Ntaganda alone, and fall silent on President Paul Kagame and his other accomplices, who have created the conditions and organization that sustain the crimes?
Furthermore, President Kagame seeks to draw attention away from his human rights abuses in Rwanda by diverting the international community and media to focus on DRC. Since 1994, the Rwandan armed forces have been kept at war both in DRC and recently in peace keeping missions. This facilitates President Kagame to blackmail and manipulate domestic and international opinion that the country is at war. Depicting himself as indispensable to Rwanda’s and regional security, he uses the pretext of war to close avenues for peaceful reform and to brand his critics as accomplices, terrorists or sympathizers of rebels.

RECOMMENDATIONS

The events unfolding in eastern DRC have the potential to trigger massive violence and humanitarian tragedy of catastrophic proportions. The greatest danger, recent history shows, is that the international community may be silent, indifferent, act in an unfair or timid fashion, or rather too late.

The international community must engage President Paul Kagame and other stakeholders candidly and forcefully to halt the current escalation and work towards sustainable peace and security. Since President Paul Kagame’s policies and actions in DRC are conditioned by his domestic requirements in Rwanda, the international community should insist that the government in Rwanda immediately and unconditional release all political prisoners, end persecution (including arbitrary arrests and detentions, torture, involuntary disappearances and extra-judicial killings) of government opponents and critics and their relatives, engage in comprehensive and unconditional dialogue with the opposition to resolve the political and security impasse engulfing Rwanda and the Great Lakes region, and stop proxy wars in eastern DRC. The international community should be even and act fairly by using international mechanisms to ensure that all those who have committed crimes, including President Kagame himself, are held accountable and brought to justice.

Dr. Theogene Rudasingwa
Co-ordinator
Rwanda National Congress (RNC)
Contact: ngombwa@gmail.com


The Truth can be buried and stomped into the ground where none can see, yet eventually it will, like a seed, break through the surface once again far more potent than ever, and Nothing can stop it. Truth can be suppressed for a "time", yet It cannot be destroyed. ==> Wolverine
 



Since 1994, the world witnesses the horrifying reality : the Tutsi minority (14%) ethnic domination, the Tutsi minority ethnic rule, tyranny and corruption in Rwanda. The current government has been characterized by the total impunity of RPF criminals, the Tutsi economic monopoly, the Tutsi militaristic domination with an iron fist, and the brutal suppression of the rights of the majority of the Rwandan people (85% are Hutus), mass-arrests and mass-murder by the RPF criminal organization.

So long as justice and accountability for RPF past and current crimes are ignored and delayed, Peace and Stability will remain illusive and impossible in Rwanda=>As International]



Kigali, 12 May 2012
We are saddened by the death of Sadiki Mutabazi in Kigali hospital after setting himself alight in a protest against violence by security staff.

FDU-Inkingi is deeply saddened by the passing of Sadiki Mutabazi and takes this opportunity to express its sincere condolences to his family. He died of severe burns resulting from a self immolation after the regime security personnel confiscated his belongings and beat him publicly in Gisenyi (Rubavu District).

In our 08 May 2012 press release , we underlined how this young boy in a desperate move decided to terminate his life after this public humiliation. In unprecedented protest, he poured gasoline over his body and set himself ablaze like the public self immolation of Mohammed Bouazizi in Tunisia that triggered the Arab spring.
We call upon the government of Rwanda to hand over his remains and provide support for a honorable burial. The RPF-led government needs to inform the public about urgent measures taken if any to investigate and bring to book those involved in Sadiki Mutabazi ordeal and to subsequently sanction security hierarchy in the area.
As International is an international nonpartisan charity organization devoted to defending human rights. It’s an organization working to promote democracy and national reconciliation, inside countries of the African Great lakes Region.


As International centers its work on the twin concepts of freedom of self-determination and freedom from tyranny. These ideals include the belief that all human beings have the rights to speak freely, to associate with those of like mind, and to leave and enter their countries. Individuals in a free society must be accorded equal treatment and due process under law, and must have the opportunity to participate in the governments of their countries;
As International’s ideals likewise find expression in the conviction that all human beings have the right to be free from arbitrary detainment or exile and from interference and coercion in matters of conscience. ASI does not support nor condone violence.

The Truth can be buried and stomped into the ground where none can see, yet eventually it will, like a seed, break through the surface once again far more potent than ever, and Nothing can stop it. Truth can be suppressed for a "time", yet It cannot be destroyed. ==> Wolverine
Tuesday, May 1, 2012








 Proudly request the honor of your presence




 
 
Rwandan and Congolese Americans team up with Oskaloosa community at large to protest President Paul Kagame’s commencement address and his Doctoral Honoris Causa award in Humane Letters at William Penn University, Oskaloosa, Iowa.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contacts:

Theophile Murayi, FDU-Inkingi/USA: 443-980-4676


Providence Rubingisa, RNC-Ihuliro/USA: 630-401-4719


Celestin Muhindura, IDD/USA: 682-203-7948
What:


This rally is a protest against President Kagame’s war crimes and crimes against humanity in the African Great Lakes Region and beyond and his repression of human and civil rights of the Rwandan people, a record incompatible with a Doctoral Honoris Causa award in humane Letters by an American University on American soil.





Where:



The rally will be held at:


William Penn University


201 Trueblood Avenue


Oskaloosa, IA 52577


When:


Saturday, May 12, 2012.


From 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM Central time.

Please join us in our effort to honor the spirit of William Penn University founding fathers, the members of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) known for philanthropy and social justice.


Such core values don’t fare very well with the human and civil rights repression and the crimes against humanity President Kagame is accused of.

As International is an international nonpartisan charity organization devoted to defending human rights. It’s an organization working to promote democracy and national reconciliation, inside countries of the African Great lakes Region.


As International centers its work on the twin concepts of freedom of self-determination and freedom from tyranny. These ideals include the belief that all human beings have the rights to speak freely, to associate with those of like mind, and to leave and enter their countries. Individuals in a free society must be accorded equal treatment and due process under law, and must have the opportunity to participate in the governments of their countries;


As International’s ideals likewise find expression in the conviction that all human beings have the right to be free from arbitrary detainment or exile and from interference and coercion in matters of conscience. ASI does not support nor condone violence.


The Truth can be buried and stomped into the ground where none can see, yet eventually it will, like a seed, break through the surface once again far more potent than ever, and Nothing can stop it. Truth can be suppressed for a "time", yet It cannot be destroyed. ==> Wolverine
Wednesday, April 25, 2012







[Since 1994, the world witnesses the horrifying reality : the Tutsi minority (14%) ethnic domination, the Tutsi minority ethnic rule, tyranny and corruption in Rwanda. The current government has been characterized by the total impunity of RPF criminals, the Tutsi economic monopoly, the Tutsi militaristic domination with an iron fist, and the brutal suppression of the rights of the majority of the Rwandan people (85% are Hutus), mass-arrests and mass-murder by the RPF criminal organization.


So long as justice and accountability for RPF past and current crimes are ignored and delayed, Peace and Stability will remain illusive and impossible in Rwanda=>As International]




Théogène Rudasingwa, ancien bras droit du président rwandais Paul Kagame, a été entendu vendredi à Paris dans le cadre de la deuxième enquête française sur l’attentat du 6 avril 1994 contre l’avion du président Juvénal Habyarimana. Issu de l’ancienne diaspora tutsi comme l’homme fort de Kigali, Rudasingwa accuse le président Kagame, depuis son exil en 2005, d’être le principal responsable de cet attentat. Un attentat considéré comme l’élément déclencheur du génocide de 1994 qui a fait, selon l’ONU, près de 800.000 morts, essentiellement d’ethnie tutsi.

Par Clive Muhenga

"J’ai répondu aux questions des juges (Marc) Trévidic et (Nathalie) Poux la semaine dernière. J’ai dit tout ce que je sais de cet attentat ", a indiqué Rudasingwa l’ancien directeur de cabinet du président Kagame, à Radio Netherlands Worldwide, joint au téléphone aux Etats-Unis. Aujourd’hui membre très actif du Congrès national rwandais (Rwanda National Congress - RNC) qu’il a créé en exil avec d’autres anciens compagnons d’armes du chef de l’Etat, Rudasingwa fut également secrétaire général du Front patriotique rwandais (FPR) actuellement au pouvoir, puis ambassadeur du Rwanda aux Etats-Unis.


Menaces

"Plusieurs autres témoins rwandais sont prêts à être entendus. Mais il faudra que des mesures de protection soient prises pour eux parce que Kagame veut éliminer tous ceux qui détiennent des informations sur cet attentat", a poursuivi Rudasingwa. "Moi-même je suis conscient des menaces contre ma personne, mais il arrive des moments où l’on prend son courage à deux mais pour dire la vérité." L’ambassadrice rwandaise aux Pays-Bas, Immaculée Uwanyiligira, a réfuté l’année dernière toute allégation de menaces de la diaspora rwandaise.
Rudasingwa a expliqué à RNW avoir pris ce risque à cause de la "gravité de la question". "Les gens doivent dire la vérité, aussi longtemps que le mensonge et l’impunité règneront au Rwanda, il n’y aura pas de justice au Rwanda. Il faut la justice pour tous les Rwandais ", a déclaré Rudasingwa. "Il faut que l’auteur principal de cet attentat soit puni, dans l’intérêt de la justice, de l’unité et de la réconciliation des Rwandais. C’est Kagame qui a ordonné d’abattre l’avion, déclenchant ainsi le génocide. Il faut que les auteurs du génocide (des Tutsi) soient poursuivis et punis. Sans oublier Kagame qui l’a déclenché", a-t-il ajouté dans cet entretien téléphonique. Il a refusé d’aborder en détail son interrogatoire par les deux juges français.

L’enquête Habyarimana

Une enquête a été ouverte en France en 1998 suite aux plaintes des familles des membres d’équipages français décédés dans l’attentat. D’abord menée par le juge Jean-Louis Bruguière, qui avait conclu en 2006 à la responsabilité du FPR, l’instruction est désormais entre les mains de deux juges anti-terroristes, Nathalie Poux et Marc Trévidic. Les résultats d'une expertise balistique effectuée à leur demande in situ à Kigali, en septembre 2010, sont toujours attendus.

Le Bureau du Procureur auprès du Tribunal pénal international pour le Rwanda (TPIR) s’est toujours refusé à enquêter sur l’attentat du 6 avril 1994, affirmant qu’il ne rentrait pas dans son mandat, explication qui ne convainc pas les organisations internationales de défense des droits de l’homme comme Human Rights Watch et Amnesty International.
As International is an international nonpartisan charity organization devoted to defending human rights. It’s an organization working to promote democracy and national reconciliation, inside countries of the African Great lakes Region.


As Internationalcenters its work on the twin concepts of freedom of self-determination and freedom from tyranny. These ideals include the belief that all human beings have the rights to speak freely, to associate with those of like mind, and to leave and enter their countries. Individuals in a free society must be accorded equal treatment and due process under law, and must have the opportunity to participate in the governments of their countries;

As International ideals likewise find expression in the conviction that all human beings have the right to be free from arbitrary detainment or exile and from interference and coercion in matters of conscience. ASI does not support nor condone violence.


The Truth can be buried and stomped into the ground where none can see, yet eventually it will, like a seed, break through the surface once again far more potent than ever, and Nothing can stop it. Truth can be suppressed for a "time", yet It cannot be destroyed. ==> Wolverine
Wednesday, April 18, 2012

Are Rwanda’s courts ready to prosecute the country’s worst crimes? As opposition leader Victoire Ingabire announces she will boycott her terror trial after losing all hope of having a fair trial, some critics are saying it appears not.

By Josephine Uwineza, Hilversum

“I cannot carry on with this case," she told judges on Monday. "My trust in the judiciary has waned. I and my legal representatives will not report to this court any more."

“Ingabire’s decision to withdraw from the trial certainly doesn’t increase her chances of being acquitted,” says her British lawyer, Iain Edwards. “But she’s a grown woman, she’s an intelligent woman, she’s an independent woman and she has taken the decision that she has.”

Ms Ingabire Victoire
The Would be President of Rwanda
And now in Prison.
Western Governments should improve their

sincerity on democratic issues in Africa.
The Criminal Kagame is no way intimidated
He's even encouraged to assassinate

That woman who still believes in
DEMOCRATIC VALUES


Enough is Enough
At the same time that Ingabire—and even her lawyer—are boycotting her trial and accusing the judge of bias, the International Criminal Court for Rwanda (ICTR) is going ahead with its plan to transfer its first war crimes suspect to Rwanda’s courts: Pastor Jean Uwinkindi, charged with genocide, extermination and crimes against humanity during the 1994 genocide, will be sent to Kigali later this week.
ICTR judges had previously kept Uwikindi in Arusha, saying they couldn’t send him back until “a suitable monitoring mechanism is established to oversee his trial." In ruling that Uwikindi could be returned, court President Judge Khalida Rachid Khan instructed the registry to “urgently undertake discussions and negotiations” to put such a monitoring system in place. While ultimately the ACHPR (African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights) will monitor the domestic trials, for now, an interim monitor is doing the job.
Fair trial?
Courts worldwide—including those in Canada, Norway, Sweden and even the ECHR (European Court of Human Rights)—are also ruling that it is safe to send Rwandans back home for fair trials.
But Victoire Ingabire insists it is not.

During her trial in Kigali last month, she challenged judges to nullify the laws related to “divisionism” and “genocide ideology.” She argued they are too broad and being exploited by current President Paul Kagame’s government to limit the freedom of thought.


The ideology law is seen by many legal specialists and human rights organizations as “impossibly vague, broad and abstract,” according to a 2010 Amnesty International report.


But just last week, Rwandan Supreme Court judges rejected her plea on a technicality, saying “she had failed to secure a copy of the 2008 law on genocide, which was also supposed to be attached to her plea.”
Ingabire’s key witness, Michel Habimana, a Lt Colonel of the FDLR (Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda), told the court he has been intimidated by prosecutors’ threats and interrogated by unknown officials, casting further doubts, say legal experts, on the independence of the judiciary.

 
African SurViVors International (ASI) is an international nonpartisan charity organization devoted to defending human rights. It’s an organization working to promote democracy and national reconciliation, inside countries of the African Great lakes Region.

As International centers its work on the twin concepts of freedom of self-determination and freedom from tyranny. These ideals include the belief that all human beings have the rights to speak freely, to associate with those of like mind, and to leave and enter their countries. Individuals in a free society must be accorded equal treatment and due process under law, and must have the opportunity to participate in the governments of their countries;
As International’s ideals likewise find expression in the conviction that all human beings have the right to be free from arbitrary detainment or exile and from interference and coercion in matters of conscience. As Internatioal does not support nor condone violence.

The Truth can be buried and stomped into the ground where none can see, yet eventually it will, like a seed, break through the surface once again far more potent than ever, and Nothing can stop it. Truth can be suppressed for a "time", yet It cannot be destroyed. ==> Wolverine

Monday, April 2, 2012




[Since 1994, the world witnesses the horrifying reality : the Tutsi minority (14%) ethnic domination, the Tutsi minority ethnic rule, tyranny and corruption in Rwanda. The current government has been characterized by the total impunity of RPF criminals, the Tutsi economic monopoly, the Tutsi militaristic domination with an iron fist, and the brutal suppression of the rights of the majority of the Rwandan people (85% are Hutus), mass-arrests and mass-murder by the RPF criminal organization.
So long as justice and accountability for RPF past and current crimes are ignored and delayed, Peace and Stability will remain illusive and impossible in Rwanda=>As International]




Kagame Hard Talk Video

“For Those Displaced men, women and children in the Kibeho death camp killed by RPF criminals, the Rwanda Nazis”
“For Those refugees made hundred thousands of miles fleeing the Rwanda Nazis but then butchered in the Congo by the then Rwanda Nazis”
“For Those Displaced men, women and children in the North western region of Rwanda and mass murdered by the Rwanda Nazis”
“For Those Hutu mothers and their children killed by the Rwanda Nazis”
“For Those teachers, young students, boys and girls killed by the Rwanda Nazis”
“For Those Hutu intellectuals, University employees and researchers, butchered by the Rwanda Nazis”
“For Those politicians, young students, boys and girls killed by the Rwanda Nazis”
“For those who suffered the terrors of RPF and Rwanda Nazism”
For those who suffered executions and massacres”

“For those who were exiled to Kibeho, Nyarutovu concentration camps”
“For those who perished in Ruhengeri, Byumba, Kibungo Gitarama and Gisenyi massacres and live buried in those prefectures common graves”
“For those who actually are subject to enslavement accross Rwanda by RPF evil people and criminals using TIG and Gacaca as a genocide weapon”
“ RPF weaponsbuilding and RPF propaganda campaigns still increase tensions
Between Hutus and Tutsis throughout the country”
As we did not forget ubwicanyi bwa FPR, and how the genocide
Became a weapon of the Rwanda Nazi propaganda
Rape and Aids are believed to have been used since 1990 as a weapon of War
Carried out by the Rwanda Nazis


Brothers and sisters, the horror remains in our minds
Kwicisha udufuni, kubamba abantu ku biti, gusekura impinja ba nyina bakazirya, Kurunda abahutukazi mu mazu,
Bakajugujyamo grenades haba muli Gitarama,
za Ruhengeri na Byumba,
Kurunda abagore n'abana mu birwa bya Cyohoha,
Bakaribwa n'imisundwe,
Gufatwa kungufu muli za gereza za communes na gendarmeries, abana balira muzindi cells,
Abandi bakicana babitegetswe
n'abagizi ba nabi ba RPF,usigaye akicwa urubozo na RPF soldier,
Kwica abagabo gusa(gendercide) ku musanze n'i Gitarama;
Abaphiriye mu manama, mu bukwe, ntiwareba!
Izo nzira karengane zose, haba mu Rwanda muli Congo
N'abandi bose bishwe na the RPF death squad,
Parents, brothers and sisters, wives and husbands,
For all mass-slaughtered refugees,
Abo bose,
They sent ripples of pain through our minds.
Memories of death and haunted fears,
And the chills begin to crawl slowly up our spines.

The shockwaves of RPF terror, then the wiping of tears,
For it was all too real once more.
We grieve for the innocent lives that were lost,
As our prayers begin to reach Heaven's door.

Take their hands Dear God we pray,
And let them know we truly cared.
Their lives will not have been lost in vain,
But we're thankful for the lives that were spared.

We share the emptiness they feel inside,
The pains of grief they bear.
The loss of direction, their questions of why,
With the smell of murder in the air.

Whether it be Byumba, Ruhengeri, Kibungo & Gitarama,
Or out on the open waves.

These beasts keep planting the seeds of fear,
While their leaders hide in those Rwanda caves.
Thinking nobody will find them
Even if arrest warrants are flying above them

You are in our hearts and our minds,
For the losses you have suffered today.
We'll continue the prayers to our Lord above,
That He'll hold your fears at bay.
For all those victims, no kubabikoze bose bica abandi,
kuli Kagame wiyibagiza ibyaha yakoze, na RPF members,

So that we can fully reconcile,

Do more than to remember, Organize yourselves
Have a united community against Kagame the Devil,
And one day we will be deliberated, the Evil combatants will be captured and sent to the bar of Justice and of course
We will remember our deliverance
And one day you will be hearing again your beloved hymn
With Faith and overwhelming emotions.

Never forget.
AS International is an international nonpartisan charity organization devoted to defending human rights. It's an organization working to promote democracy and national reconciliation, inside countries of the African Great lakes Region.

AS International centers its work on the twin concepts of freedom of self-determination and freedom from tyranny. These ideals include the belief that all human beings have the rights to speak freely, to associate with those of like mind, and to leave and enter their countries. Individuals in a free society must be accorded equal treatment and due process under law, and must have the opportunity to participate in the governments of their countries;

AS International’s ideals likewise find expression in the conviction that all human beings have the right to be free from arbitrary detainment or exile and from interference and coercion in matters of conscience. ASI does not support nor condone violence.



The Truth can be buried and stomped into the ground where none can see, yet eventually it will, like a seed, break through the surface once again far more potent than ever, and Nothing can stop it. Truth can be suppressed for a "time", yet It cannot be destroyed. ==> Wolverine
Friday, March 30, 2012


donderdag 29 maart 2012
door DeWereldMorgen Vertaaldesk, An Ansoms















Rwanda viert binnen enkele maanden zijn 50ste
onafhankelijkheidsverjaardag. Het autoritaire beleid van president
Paul Kagame pakt graag uit met indrukwekkende groeicijfers. Volgens
het Nationale Instituut voor Statistiek van Rwanda is de armoede er
met niet minder dan 12 procent gedaald. Het probleem is, zegt
UCL-onderzoekster An Ansoms, dat die cijfers niet overeenkomen met de
realiteit.

Maïskolven hangen te drogen aan de huizen in Rwanda
Volgens de laatste cijfers van het Nationale Instituut voor Statistiek
van Rwanda is de armoede in het land met een indrukwekkende 12 procent
gedaald in de laatste vijf jaar. Om tot deze conclusie te komen,
werden de cijfers van het EICV3 ('Enquête Intégrale sur les Conditions
de Vie des Ménages') vergeleken met de cijfers van het EICV1 uit
2000-2001 en het EICV2 van 2005-2006.

Daar waar in 2000-2001 59 procent van de bevolking onder de nationale
armoedegrens leefde, en in 2005-2006 nog 57 procent, was dat volgens
de laatste cijfers nog maar 45 procent. Volgens de Rwandese regering
een waar succesverhaal en een rechtstreeks bewijs dat haar economisch
groeimodel leidt tot een verbetering van de levensomstandigheden van
de Rwandese bevolking.

Zeer verwonderlijke resultaten, volgens An Ansoms van de Université
Catholique de Louvain (UCL), die sinds 2006 veldonderzoek verricht
betreffende de levensomstandigheden van plattelandsboeren in Rwanda.

Zij onderzoekt de impact van het landbouwbeleid in zes dorpen,
verspreid over drie verschillende districten. Hoewel de resultaten van
deze studies niet zonder meer kunnen geëxtrapoleerd worden naar heel
Rwanda, stelde zij tijdens haar laatste studie van 2011 vast dat de
problemen die zich in heel Rwanda voordoen en het leven van deze
boeren bemoeilijkt.

Een toelichting bij drie belangrijke problemen en knelpunten.

Landbouwbeleid gericht op productie voor de markt
Het huidige landbouwbeleid verplicht de Rwandese boeren ertoe
marktgericht te produceren. Dit houdt in dat in een bepaalde regio een
bepaald gewas (of een beperkt aantal gewassen) geteeld mogen worden en
in een andere regio een ander gewas. Hierdoor wordt de handel
gestimuleerd waarbij de verschillende gewassen 'uitgewisseld' worden.
Voor de kleinschalige landbouw (het overgrote deel van de
landbouwsector in Rwanda valt onder deze categorie) stelt dit echter
twee problemen.

Met een gemiddelde van acht gewassen kunnen tegenslagen opgevangen
worden als bijvoorbeeld door ziekte of slechte weersomstandigheden de
oogst van een gewas tegenvalt. Met een beperkt aantal gewassen valt
dit vangnet helaas weg.

Doordat de boeren aangewezen zijn op handel, moeten zij vaak een
beroep doen op tussenpersonen. Het zijn deze handelaars die het
sterkst staan in de onderhandelingen en met de winst gaan lopen. De
kleine boeren staan in een zwakke onderhandelingspositie.

Dit probleem zou moeten worden opgevangen door coöperaties, waar de
kleine boeren gezamenlijk actie kunnen ondernemen. In de praktijk is
er echter een gebrek aan transparantie in het beleid van de
coöperaties en de kleine boeren hebben er weinig zeggenschap (zie
verder).

Beleid van 'verdorpelijking' en hervestiging
Traditioneel wonen mensen in Rwanda niet in duidelijk te onderscheiden
dorpen, maar wonen zij verspreid over de heuvels. Als een jongeman de
overgang wil maken naar de volwassenheid, moet hij - volgens de
traditie - aan zijn vader een deel van het land vragen om zijn eigen
thuis te kunnen bouwen. Als hij dat wenst, kan hij dit indien nodig en
financieel mogelijk, verder uitbouwen. Een eigen huis hebben, is de
voorwaarde om als volwassene te kunnen doorgaan, te kunnen trouwen en
een eigen gezin te kunnen beginnen.

Dit patroon van verspreid wonen, strookt niet met de visie van de
overheid van hoe een moderne staat eruit moet zien. Het doel is de
plattelandsbevolking tegen 2020 te hervestigen in duidelijk
afgebakende nederzettingen en dorpen. De prijs van de grond in deze
'dorpen' is dikwijls zeer hoog. Daar komt nog bij dat de huizen moeten
worden gebouwd volgens bepaalde standaarden. Zo moet er bijvoorbeeld
een aparte keuken, toilet en stal zijn. Weerom erg kostelijk.
 
Het gevolg is dat veel jongemannen geen eigen huis kunnen bouwen. Dus
niet als volwassene beschouwd worden en ook niet kunnen trouwen.
Vooral in de armere families raken veel jonge mensen niet los van hun
status van 'onvolwassene'. Hiermee nauw verbonden, is de toename van
het aantal ongehuwde moeders, wat resulteert in sociale uitsluiting en
marginalisatie.

Bevolking gaat onder de vele verplichtingen gebukt
Zoals hierboven beschreven, moeten de Rwandese boeren aan vele eisen
tegemoetkomen. Hieronder enkele voorbeelden van de talloze
verplichtingen die de regering oplegt en van de mistoestanden die er
uit ontstaan.

- De huizen moeten worden gebouwd volgens bepaalde standaarden. De
koeien moeten in stallen gehouden worden en mogen niet los lopen te
grazen. Noch het huis zelf, noch de stal, mag een dakbedekking hebben
van bananenbladeren. De dakbedekking moet bestaan uit steeds duurder
wordende dakpannen. In één van de dorpen in de buurt van Kigali, waar
ik onderzoek doe, had het dorpshoofd beslist dat alle huizen die niet
gebouwd waren met bakstenen, moesten verdwijnen.

- De mensen moeten schoenen en 'deftige' kledij dragen als ze niet op
het land werken.

- Het land dat iemand bezit, moet worden geregistreerd, wat weerom
extra kosten betekent.

- Iedereen men een ziekteverzekering betalen. Sinds juni 2011 is het
bedrag verdrievoudigd van 1.000 Rwandese frank (zo'n 1,5 keer een
gemiddeld dagloon) naar 3.000 Rwandese frank.

- Ook met de coöperaties zijn er problemen. Allereerst de kost voor
het lidmaatschap. Zonder lidmaadschap geen toegang tot het vruchtbare
moerasland dat zij dikwijls al decennia lang bewerken. De leden worden
verplicht hun oogst aan de coöperatie over te dragen. Soms volgen
zelfs huiszoekingen tijdens de oogsttijd om vast te stellen dat mensen
geen deel van de oogst achterhouden.

Er is een geval bekend waar de leden minder geld terugkregen dan dat
ze in de coöperatie gestopt hadden. Alle winst bleef aan de handen van
de leiders van de coöperatie plakken. Voor het huwelijk van de baas
van de coöperatie moesten alle leden 5.000 Rwandese frank betalen als
'geschenk'.

- In een ander dorp werden de boeren verplicht hun koffie te verkopen
aan de nabijgelegen koffiefabriek. Deze is in handen van het Rwandese
ministerie van Defensie. Het is in dat dorp verboden koffiestruiken
uit te trekken. Ook hier is er sprake van huiszoekingen om er zeker
van te zijn dat de mensen geen koffie achterhouden om te gaan verkopen
op de lokale markt.

- Om een artisanaal baksteen- of tegelbedrijf te runnen, is een
speciale toelating nodig. Enkel moderne ovens zijn toegestaan. Voor
lokale investeerders is dit gewoon te duur. Om actief te zijn in de
kleinhandel is ook toelating nodig en moet belasting worden betalen.

Ook de lokale autoriteiten staan onder zware druk van de regering in Kigali
Onder het derde probleem vallen ook de verplichtingen voor de lokale
autoriteiten. Er is een heel systeem van 'prestatiecontracten'. Op
alle niveaus, van dorp tot district, moeten de autoriteiten aan
bepaalde door de regering vastgestelde doelstellingen voldoen.

Enkele voorbeelden:
- een bepaalde productietarget halen voor bepaalde gewassen;
- ervoor zorgen dat 90 procent van de bevolking hun ziekteverzekering betaalt;
- ervoor zorgen iedereen in een huis woont dat voldoet aan de standaardnormen.

Op zich lijkt het niet slecht dat de lokale autoriteiten deze
doelstellingen nastreven. Maar door angst voor een sanctie of ontslag,
worden de doelstellingen heel star en blindelings toegepast, zonder
rekening te houden met eventuele negatieve gevolgen voor de lokale
bevolking.

De frustratie groeit
Bij het onderzoek dat ik in 2007 deed, waren de reacties van de
geïnterviewden nog erg gereserveerd, vooral wat kritiek op het
overheidsbeleid betreft. In 2011 was dit helemaal anders. De
frustratie van de mensen was aanzienlijk toegenomen. De onderzoekers
kregen nu gedetailleerde informatie over de moeilijkheden waarmee de
kleinschalige landbouwers moeten zien te overleven, en de grote impact
die het overheidsbeleid heeft op hun levensomstandigheden.

Hoe deze verhalen te rijmen vallen met de optimistische evolutie in de
armoedecijfers van de Rwandese overheid blijft een mysterie.

An Ansoms

An Ansoms is als assistent hoogleraar verbonden aan de Université
Catholique de Louvain in Louvain-la-Neuve. Het oorspronkelijk artikel
verscheen onder de titel: 'The miracle versus the reality on the
ground. A short note in reaction to the new data of EICV3 (2010/11)'
(UCL, 15 maart 2012).

(vertaling uit het Engels door Marisa Abarca)

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