[Since 1994, the world witnesses the horrifying 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 hand, 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=>ASIF]



"As a key partner, we are very happy to be working with the Rwandan Defense Force as they seek to improve their capacity to do various peacekeeping missions as well as contribute in other ways to bringing peace to this region. And what we’re doing as a part of this visit is demonstrating to our Rwandan friends that we indeed are a committed partner… And by so doing, that stability is felt around the world…" (General William E. Ward, U.S. Africa Command/AFRICOM/Press conference, Kigali, Rwanda, 22 April 2010)

Rwandan Defense Minister Gen. James Kabarebe (R)—indicted for war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide in Central Africa—speaks to US AFRICOM chief General William Ward, on a recent visit in Rwanda, July 2010. (Photo credit AFRICOM.)
 The U.S. "War on Terror" destabilizes popular governments, communities, and indigenous societies all over the globe. This has occurred more than anywhere else in the Great Lakes region of Africa, where people face absolute terrorism and grotesque atrocities–the complete destruction of everything they know–a.k.a. genocide.
But genocide in Congo is off the agenda, in keeping with the prerogatives of private profit, western big business, white supremacy, and the politics of genocide.[0]

The U.S. has for years intervened in the region–U.S. multinational Union Carbide, for example, was in control of the SOMIKIVU mines in the Congo’s Kivu provinces in the early 1960′s–but through an expanding military partnership with key agents in Central Africa since 1980, the U.S. interventions have produced an unprecedented loss of life facilitated by direct U.S. government polices, covert military operations and guerrilla warfare, all cloaked in euphemisms of "peacekeeping, " "humanitarianism" and "development. "
Now Rwanda and Uganda (Ethiopia right behind them) have become the Pentagon’s primary bases of operations in Africa, from which scores of millions of dollars of military hardware and Pentagon-trained African proxy warriors are routed into Congo and Burundi, but also far beyond these to the Pentagon’s theaters of operation in Sudan, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia–even to Afghanistan, Iraq, and Haiti.

MASSIVE UNPRECEDENTED SILENCE


The United States has a long history of supporting brutal regimes. The western mass media system provides cover stories and blankets the truth with propaganda campaigns–a business area formally known as "perception management"–devised by corporate nationalist foundation think tanks like the Center for American Progress, the Atlantic Council and the Council on Foreign Relations.
General Augusto Pinochet came to power in a coup d’etat on the other September 11 in 1973. The United States backed Pinochet’s reign of terror in Chile and other perpetrators of mass atrocities in Guatemala, Nicaragua, Peru, Honduras, Bolivia, and El Salvador. In the 1980′s mainstream western photographers images of decapitated and dismembered bodies strewn across the verdant land were rarely published by the establishment press. "Disappearing" as a terror tactic became routine–a product of western military ‘training’ from the School of the Americas. The people on the ground resisted, even as entire generations of families and whole communities were obliterated. Perpetrators were known but rarely held accountable; General Augusto Pinochet died in 2006, with 300 Chilean charges and several international war crimes charges against him.

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by the Africa Faith and Justice Network, Friends of the Congo, Hotel Rwanda/Rusesabagina Foundation, International Humanitarian Law Institute of Minnesota, Institute for Policy Studies, Mobilization for Justice and Peace in Congo, African SurVivors International and Pro Justitia.



President Obama said, in his 2009 speech in Accra, Ghana, that America should support strong institutions and not strong men. However, in the case of Rwanda, this has been no more than rhetoric. Rwandans, like most Africans, cheered Obama’s election, hoping that it might signal a new, more peaceful and cooperative relationship between the U.S. and Africa, but Obama has expanded AFRICOM, the U.S. Africa Command, and now he remains silent as Rwanda’s strongman, President Paul Kagame, prepares a sham presidential election to retain his brutal grip on power.
On Aug. 3, in Washington D.C., we, Africa advocates, will gather at the National Press Club to call on President Obama and the U.S. State Department not to recognize the legitimacy of Rwanda’s upcoming Aug. 9 election results and to stop militarizing Africa and supporting repressive regimes.
“The U.S. policy has been to support strongmen,” says Maurice Carney, executive director of Friends of the Congo. “And at the head of the class is Paul Kagame, who has received military support, weapons, training and intelligence and as a result has been able to invade Rwanda's neighbor, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and sustain proxy militia fighting there to rob the Congolese people of their natural resources. He has contributed to the death of over 6 million people in Congo and to the destabilization of Africa’s whole Great Lakes region.”



Read more at San Francisco Bay View, http://sfbayview.com/2010/africa-advocates-to-obama-dont-recognize-kagames-election/

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 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 hand, 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=>ASIF]

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Yesterday, Lydia, doing undergraduate research in Rwanda wrote on her blog:

"His picture is EVERYWHERE – on bumper-stickers, framed on the walls of offices and classrooms, printed on pins, t-shirts, mugs, etc"

The same day we read at Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza's facebook page:

"W'll tie you up and shoot you".
Burundi : Government cancels work of Human Rights Watch Researcher.


Kavumbagu, editor of the online news service Net Press, is believed to have been arrested for a July 12 article in which he criticized Burundi's security forces and questioned their ability to defend the country against attack. The article was in response to the July 11 bombings in Kampala, Uganda and threats from the Somali insurgent group al-Shabaab to target Burundi because of the presence of Burundian troops in the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM).

"Kavumbagu's arrest is a big step backward for freedom of expression in Burundi," said Rona Peligal, Africa director at Human Rights Watch. "His continued detention and prosecution will have a chilling effect, sending a message that no criticism of the security forces is tolerated. The charges should be dropped immediately."

In the article, Kavumbagu wrote that, "the anxiety has been palpable in Bujumbura and all those who have heard about [the bombings] yesterday in Kampala were convinced that if the al-Shabaab militants wanted to try ‘something' in our country, they would succeed with disconcerting ease, [given that] our defense and security forces shine in their capacity to pillage and kill their compatriots rather than defend our country.
The authorities charged Kavumbagu with treason under article 570 of Burundi's criminal code, which penalizes "any Burundian who, in times of war... knowingly participates in an attempt to demoralize the Army or the Nation, with the object of weakening national defense." The penalty for treason is life in prison.

Hundreds of thousands of Rwandans are imprisoned, thousands of Rwandans are murdered and the Hutu majority live in fear for the CRIME of demanding democratic rights in Rwanda.

 Democratic governments, international organizations, and nongovernmental organizations  poorly respond to the build-up of the bloody dictatorship in Rwanda. 

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Foreign threat :Machiavelli in action.

1. Great Britain - Stay away from Rwandans, GB backs the crual dictator in Rwanda because Kagame will help British interests in the short term
2. The biased British media's reporting on Rwanda
3. Bill Clinton/Tony Blair's continually interfering in the Rwandan political process,this inevitably will end in trouble 
4.  Stop selling arms to Kagame and to RPF government, doing so you're creating the very conditions of consumming Kagame's unfinished Rwandan genocide.
5. I am in Captivity due to Kagame's protection by US and UK

General Kagame still plays an important political and military role to the detriment of the Civil and Human Rights of millions of oppressed Rwandans.

 [Since 1994, the world witnesses the horrifying 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 hand, 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=>ASIF]
Africans all over the world claimed the remark was directly squarely at their own specific dictator; but really, it was meant to any usurper and unaccountable ruler on the continent.

Did this message send a cold chill in the spines of the African Hitler: General Paul Kagame?


US says Rwanda restricting freedoms ahead of poll

"We have urged the Government of Rwanda and all regional and international partners to work together to achieve free, fair, and peaceful elections that the people of Rwanda deserve," Carson went on.
"We appreciate, in the context of the most tragic event in recent history -the genocide - the need for security, stability, and reconciliation is critical. But long-term stability is best promoted by democratic governance and respect for human rights," Carson said.

Q : UNHCR - A Corrupt Organization ?

Behind closed doors meetings in Kigali or somewhere else : Corruption. And according to many reliable sources, the culture of corruption within that UN organization extends actually to every aspect of public life.We've been hammered that Rwanda is a safe country, meaning that those who flee the country have no reason to fear for their lives! Anyway we encounter 

Two fundamental dimensions of corruption in UNHCR:

1.  Whether the individual or the organization is the beneficiary of the corrupt activity and
2. Whether the corrupt behavior is undertaken by an individual actor or by two or more actors.

African SurVivors International's primary focus is on why UNHCR personnel fails to become securely attached to UN norms and laws, and on the part played in this failure by certain key features of corruption:

• The inability to distinguish between organizational and personal ends
• Poweful Western countries administrations' interests
• Corrupt key UN players within the UNHCR
• Rejection of morality

The reality: The dramatic history of UNHCR representatives' secret meetings with Dictators Yoweri Museveni and Paul Kagame came to life : Deportation of Rwandan refugees using UNHCR distribution of Food and Refugee status cards. Are we about the corrupt depravity of Antonio Guterres? The problem goes deeper than just the corrupt official that runs the world Humanitarian Organization.
Unless integrity, efficiency and transparency are the corner stones of the UN organizations, nothing can be accomplished and only corruption flourish. That is exactly what is happening with the UNHCR aid embezzlement . The UN is one of the most corrupt organizations on the face of the Earth, allowing genocides and forcing countries to give crazed mass murders major government posts all in the name of achieving peace (Sierra Leone, Rwanda, Democratic Republic of the Congo,etc).

A: The UNHCR is an organization of corrupt individuals.



End Alliance with Corrupt Dictator - Following the forcibly UNHCR repatriation since October 1996-1997 and later 1998 with Rwandan refugees in Democratic Republic of the Congo, about 2,500 Rwandans seeking asylum have been herded onto trucks at gunpoint and driven across the border to Rwanda in what the United Nations has "called an illegal operation" to repatriate refugees.

CHRI condemns the recent wave of killings and suppression of press freedoms in the run up to the Presidential election on the 9 August 2010. In the last two months Jean-Léonard Rugambage, a journalist working for the banned newspaper Umuvugizi, and Andre Kagwa Rwisereka, the vice president of the Democratic Green Party of Rwanda, have been brutally murdered. There are allegations of RPF and security service involvement in a number of different incidents. Mr Frank Habineza, Green Party candidate for President, has complained that he has been subject to harassment and surveillance.
Lieutenant –General Nyamwasa, the former army chief of staff who is currently living in exile in Johannesburg, was the subject of an assassination attempt on 19 June 2010. The involvement of Rwandan security agents is strongly suspected and two of the individuals originally arrested by the South African police have now been released. Dominique Makeli, a former Rwandan journalist currently living in exile in Kampala, was the subject of an attempted abduction on the 28 June 2010 allegedly by Rwandan agents.

Paul Kagame : A criminal Liar

[Since 1994, the world witnesses the horrifying 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 hand, 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 crimesare ignored and delayed, Peace and Stability will remain illusive and impossible in Rwanda=>ASIF]








Rwanda's opposition parties on Thursday called for an independent international investigation into the murder of André Kagwa Rwisereka, the vice-president of the Democratic Green party. Rwisereka was found dead near his abandoned car on Wednesday. Party leader Frank Habineza said he had been repeatedly stabbed and that he had been nearly decapitated. => professional murderers

By the CNN Wire Staff

 STORY HIGHLIGHTS

• Vice president of the opposition party found dead a day after he went missing
• Opposition leader says they had received death threats
• President has denied accusations of threatening opposition
• Rwanda is holding elections next month

(CNN) -- A human rights group Wednesday urged the Rwandan government to let independent experts conduct an autopsy on an opposition leader killed weeks before the election.

Andre Kagwa Rwisereka, vice president of the opposition Democratic Green Party, was found dead after he went missing on his way to a meeting in the capital, Kigali.

We are scared.
We are also sad about the demise of our colleague

His body was found in a wetland area, with the head nearly severed, according to party president Frank Habineza.
Habineza said he and Rwisereka, whose service was held Tuesday, had received death threats since February.
"We are very threatened as a party and as individuals," he said. "We are scared. We are also sad about the demise of our colleague."


Related articles:

1.  Independent probe into Rwanda murder demanded
2. Independent probe of Rwanda politician's death urged
3. Rwanda minister denies government role in attacks
4. Rwanda: Allow Independent Autopsy of Opposition Politician
5. Rwanda/Kenya: Inquiry into assassination of Rwandese opposition leader in exile urgently needed 

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 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 hand, 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=>ASIF]




(New York) - The government of Rwanda should allow independent foreign experts to carry out an autopsy on the body of André Kagwa Rwisereka, vice president of the opposition Democratic Green Party, Human Rights Watch said today.

Rwisereka was last seen late in the evening of July 12, 2010. His body was found near the southern town of Butare on July 14. His head had been severed, and witnesses described unusual marks on several parts of his body.






Kenneth Roth, executive director
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Events leading up to Rwisereka's death indicate that the murder may have been politically motivated. He had long told close friends and colleagues that he feared being killed as a result of his opposition to the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF), the country's ruling party. In recent weeks, Rwisereka had seemed increasingly concerned about his safety.
In late June, the former Green Party secretary general, Charles Kabanda, visited Rwisereka at the Sombrero Club, the bar run by Rwisereka in Butare, and tried to convince him to leave the Green Party. Rwisereka had told people close to him that Kabanda, who left the Green Party earlier in the year, had told him that the RPF would never allow Rwisereka to leave the "family" - referring to the RPF - and questioned what would happen to members of the Green Party. Rwisereka told people close to him that he interpreted this as a threat.

Rwisereka, like Kabanda and many other Green Party members, was formerly a member of the RPF. In previous months, other members of the Green Party had come under pressure to abandon their party activities by individuals believed to be close to the RPF or the government.

The police initially stated to the media that Rwisereka had been the victim of a robbery, and that people who had seen him on the night he disappeared claimed that he was carrying a large sum of money. However, further investigations by Human Rights Watch and others revealed that he had left some money with a relative on the evening of July 14, but had been carrying little money and no valuables at the time of his death.

The police subsequently changed their explanation, alleging a financial dispute between Rwisereka and Thomas Ntivuguruzwa, the last person to see Rwisereka before his disappearance. Ntivuguruzwa, whom the police are treating as the prime suspect, has been arrested and remains in custody.
"The conflicting police statements and discrepancies between the police version and those provided by sources close to the victim are creating doubt and confusion about the circumstances of Rwisereka's death," Roth said. "A thorough independent investigation would confirm or dispel these different explanations."

Kagame has legitimated : Murder and imprisonment of journalists, Murder and imprisonment of opposition leaders, Press muzzlement, mounting Fear among Rwandans, etc

 The international community should carefully listen to the way Paul Kagame expresses himself in public, it gives important information on his political method. He often speaks in riddles which need solving.




On the day (words gain their specific meaning through context and timing) that the assassinated vice-president of Rwandan Greens, André Kagwa Rwisereka, was burried, Paul Kagame did not express his regret or extended his condolences as did Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza. No, he made this widely published and ambiguous statement:

"My job has not been to create an opposition, my job is to create the environment where legitimate things can happen."

The ambiguity of this statement is intentional. The statement can be interpreted in a lot of ways and can mean a lot of things. We have seen this same strategy employed when he talked about "those leaving the country are like human waste" a couple of months ago. He made a statement in public that could mean that he intended to kill Kayumba Nyamwasa (and the former General's wife clearly understood it that way) but it could also mean something else. The third example where Paul Kagame talks in riddles is from the interview where Stephen Sackur grills him on the attack in april 1994 against the former Presidents of Rwanda and Burundi:

"Stephen Sackur: But you didn’t have a right to shoot down his plane and to assassinate him

President Paul Kagame: Well I had a right to fight for my rights!
Stephen Sackur: But do you believe you had a right to assassinate him?

Buhendwa Eluga, a blogging Congolese Professor of Political Science in Rwanda has just been arrested (without anyone knowing his current whereabouts). Idesbald Byabuze Katabaruka, a visiting Congolese Law professor, was arrested february 2007 in Rwanda and released on 21 March, expelled from the country and then declared "persona non grata". The Rwandan authorities charged Mr Idesbald Byabuze Katabaruka with "threatening state security" and for having committed "offences of discrimination and sectarianism".




Koffi Olomide, another Congolese, who has just been hired by the Kagame campaign, has this famous quote:



"Lokuta eyaka na ascenseur, kasi vérité eye na escailer mpe ekomi"



Often quoted when Congolese speak of Paul Kagame's crimes and which can be translated as "Lies take the elevator, but truth takes the stairs".



I am convinced the US State Department has tried to seize the momentum surrounding the movie "Earth Made Of Glass" to feed the US public with lies and halftruths concerning the role of current Rwandan President Paul Kagame before, during and after the Rwandan genocide!



Wikipedia says:



"Propaganda is a form of communication that is aimed at influencing the attitude of a community toward some cause or position.

As opposed to impartially providing information, propaganda in its most basic sense, presents information primarily to influence an audience. Propaganda often presents facts selectively (thus possibly lying by omission) to encourage a particular synthesis, or uses loaded messages to produce an emotional rather than rational response to the information presented. The desired result is a change of the attitude toward the subject in the target audience to further a political agenda. Propaganda can be used as a form of political warfare.[1]

When you go to the website of the film "Earth made of glass" you get a quote by Tony Blair claiming it's a "truly inspirational film". In light of Tony Blair's strong and uncritical support of Paul Kagame this immediately makes alarm bells go off.



Deborah Scranton borrowed the title from Emerson who wrote:



“Commit a crime and the earth is made of glass. Commit a crime and it seems as though a coat of snow fell on the ground, such as reveals in the woods the track of every partridge and fox and squirrel and mole. You cannot recall the spoken word. You cannot wipe out a foot track. You cannot draw up the ladder so as to leave no inlet or clue"

The title thus refers to the main and monumental claim of the documentary which is: "the French government's hidden complicity in the genocide." As the Tribeca Review writes:



"Filmmaker Deborah Scranton's documentary prominently adopts the view of Kagame's 2008 report into what she calls "the French government's hidden complicity'' in the genocide. "

Deborah Scranton claims:



The film "Earth Made Of Glass" grew out of a chance dinner conversation two years ago with Paul Kagame, who she said had "inspired within me and my whole crew an incredible vision of a path to peace that I think the world could take a lesson from.''

Allthough the title implies that this documentary reveals French government's hidden complicity in Rwanda's genocide, this movie in reality perfectly fits the definition of propaganda. The release of the movie just months ahead of the Rwandan elections is obviously aiming to influence US public opinion concerning Rwandan's current Leader. It indeed portrays Paul Kagame as the hero and France as the villains.



Which is, as Deborah Scranton should know, a heavily contested, controversial and problematic version of history based only on a report written by Kagame's regime (a very narrow basis ) which saw the light after Paul Kagame himself was implicated by the French anti-terrorist judge Jean-Louis Bruguiere in the terrorist attack in 1994 (which killed the former presidents of Rwanda and Burundi and several French citizens). The "Bruguiere report" is not a political report, it is a rich document which shows the nature of the RPF, I invite you to read it (it's available in English). By ignoring the Bruguiere report and by also ignoring the strong case by a Spanish judge against Paul Kagame (his responsability for large-scale indiscriminate killings in Rwanda and Congo), Deborah Scranton has created a dangerous weapon (sofar I don't think it has been very effective) for political warfare which US policy planners at the State department were eager to use.



Jared Cohen, member of the Policy Planning Staff at the State Department, tried to start a #rememberrwanda campaign on twitter. He wrote on twitter for several days " How fast can we get to 800,00 tweets of #RememberRwanda, " and even contacted head of twitter Jack Dorsey in order to win him over for this campaign (he had previously contacted Jack Dorsey during the Iran protests on twitter). Jared Cohen linked this campaign to Paul Kagame by having dinner with him in New York during the Tribeca Festival (and twittering about it).



Jared Cohen's well-timed "rememberrwanda" campaign was aiming to feed the US public with the "Earth Made Of Glass" propaganda. I doubt strongly that Deborah Scranton's meeting with Kagame was coincidental (as she claims). I am convinced Jared Cohen's "campaign" (which miserably failed) was NOT coincidental but planned ahead to use the "Earth made of glas" momentum to influence public perception of Paul Kagame in the US. Deborah Scranton's claims that she made a documentary about the Rwandan genocide turned her in reality into Paul Kagame's "Leni Riefenstahl". "Manipulating the memory of the genocide" in order to oppress alternative political viewpoints does not just take place in Rwanda, but also abroad.


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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