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.
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
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
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.
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
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
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
How torture flourishes across Rwanda despite extensive global monitoring
Fighting For Our Freedom?
We need Freedom, Liberation of our fatherland, Human rights respect, Mutual respect between the Hutu majority and the Tutsi minority
Sunday, July 4, 2010
July 4, 2010
When Blaise Gakwaya learned a fellow Rwandan in Manchester had been accused of participating in the country's 1994 genocide, he saw in the charges evidence of the long reach of a government he distrusts.
"You're going to tell me someone's been here for 10 years, then tell me she did something?" Gakwaya said. "Maybe tomorrow they will accuse me, too."
Beatrice Munyenyezi, a U.S. citizen who came to the country as a refugee in 1998, was arrested June 24 on charges she had lied on her immigration papers. In an affidavit, a special agent with Immigration and Customs Enforcement said Munyenyezi had denied crimes she had committed during the Rwandan genocide of spring and summer 1994.
The agent reported that in Rwanda he had found witnesses who saw Munyenyezi direct the murder and rape of numerous people, mostly members of the minority Tutsi ethnicity, in front of a hotel where she was living. One witness said Munyenyezi had ordered the witness gang-raped while Munyenyezi and her husband watched. Another described watching Munyenyezi kill a boy by hitting him in the head with a wooden club. She would have been 24 at the time.
Members of central New Hampshire's small Rwandan community have watched the case, and for some it has reinforced their suspicion of the government that has led Rwanda since the genocide. Acquaintances of Munyenyezi, like Gakwaya and his father, who was a government minister in Rwanda, are quick to say that anyone who committed a crime should be punished.
But they believe the charges against Munyenyezi were more likely motivated by her opposition to the Rwandan government, as seen at protests in Boston and Washington, D.C., as well as the fact of her Hutu ethnicity. They claim the government of Rwanda steered the investigation of the American agent so that he unknowingly interviewed people bribed to frame Munyenyezi.
"From the moment you land in Rwanda, there are so many people who look like they don't know you but who follow you every hour," said Theobald Gakwaya, a former Minister of Internal Affairs. "When you went there, your investigation is flawed and oriented for the issue the government wants."
Gakwaya, a Hutu, said he was hunted during the genocide because he opposed the Hutu Power call to kill Tutsis and was later imprisoned for criticizing the government.
Sixteen years after the genocide, the events and their aftermath remain a difficult topic for Rwandans, even in New Hampshire. When the 100 or so Rwandan people living in the Concord and Manchester area get together, both Hutus and Tutsis attend, said Augustin Ntabaganyimana, a Rwandan of both Hutu and Tutsi heritage who works with refugees at a social services agency in Concord. But people avoid speaking about the genocide, he said, because they have different views of what happened and why.
People who are Hutu sometimes say the government disregards killings of their own people before and after the genocide, while people who are Tutsi sometimes feel the prosecution for genocide lags.
"It doesn't really matter whether you are in Rwanda or abroad, you are connected to the events of 1994," Ntabaganyimana said. "People in the community still live that, because we are connected to people who have died in the genocide or the deaths that happened in the refugee camps in Congo, in Tanzania."
After losing nearly all her family to the genocide, Chantal Kayitesi moved to New Hampshire in 1999. Kayitesi, who now lives in Massachusetts, does not know Munyenyezi personally, and she said she does not know whether the accusations against the Manchester woman are true. But for Kayitesi, who lost her husband, a teacher named Joseph, when their son was only a few months old, along with her parents and two siblings, the prosecution of genocide is essential.
"By bringing people to justice, you tell a survivor, 'We are not ignoring your suffering,' " Kayitesi said. "And you are telling the world, you are telling Rwanda, that you can't just kill your neighbor. It's not acceptable to kill people in Rwanda or anywhere in the world, and we care."
Investigations by the United States are all the more important because political distance gives the results credibility, she said.
Kayitesi, the Gakwayas and others said the ethnic conflict between Tutsis and Hutus has been spurred by governments seeking to maintain their own power.
"It wasn't Hutu and Tutsi killing each other," Kayitesi said. "It was a government-sponsored genocide, when regular peasants who used to be our neighbors and our friends, our teammates and our colleagues, were manipulated by the government."
Jean-Marie Vianney Higiro, a brother of Munyenyezi, said today's Rwandan government continues to exploit that division. Like other Hutu residents interviewed, Higiro, a professor at Western New England College in Massachusetts, said the government ignores historic killings of Hutus and labels its opponents as deniers of genocide to stifle dissent. Human Rights Watch said a week ago that political repression was increasing in Rwanda in advance of the country's August presidential elections.
"When the Rwandan government wants to go after a person, they use the word genocide because it has resonance in Western cultures because of the Jewish Holocaust," Higiro said.
Higiro said his sister has been accused because of her family ties. He is the chairman of an opposition party based abroad, and he said the government of Rwanda has asked the United States to extradite him. Munyenyezi's husband and mother-in-law are imprisoned in Tanzania, where they are defendants at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda.
Higiro said he is sure the accusations against his sister were fabricated, and he dismissed the immigration agent's conclusion, in the affidavit, that Hutu extremists have spread throughout the world with the intention of returning home to kill every remaining Tutsi.
"That's exactly the propaganda of the Rwandan regime," Higiro said. "Once you criticize the current regime, once you say, 'Look, the way you tell the story of the genocide in Rwanda is distorted,' you are labeled a Hutu extremist who would like to go back and finish the genocide."
Higiro said that his political party is allied with a Tutsi party that also opposes the government, and he said both are fighting for an open political space.
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
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