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, August 22, 2010
No one thought that Paul Kagame was going to lose the elections in Rwanda last week; indeed, no one expected there to be fully democratic elections in Rwanda. So why all the hype surrounding the event? If there were no expectations when he first came into power, there is no standard for judging him. If there are still none for his third term, it means he can exercise free rein over Rwanda.
The real question is this: what has Kagame done that was not expected of him as a president of a poor landlocked African country, with no resources? This man did not take power under a democracy, he took power at gunpoint. He's been a leading figure during the past two decades, having led the 1990 invasion, taken power in 1994 and now received carte blanche to rule until at least 2017.
By any account, Kagame has done a very good job in Rwanda, considering what he inherited. He turned Rwanda into a powerful brand: the tiny African nation with voracious ambitions. More than ever, capital is pouring into the country and financial reports are tailored to reassure the international community of donors and investors that their money is being well used.
But what does the economy stand for when 50% of the children are malnourished? Who does the annual economic growth of 8.3% and $500m of foreign investment benefit when 60% of the country lives below the poverty level on just $0.43 daily? There has been a lot of press about Kigali's remarkably clean streets, the ban on plastic bags and that walking barefoot in the capital had become illegal, all to the government's account. But this is a whitewash. Who said we needed a president to clean the streets under which 800,000 people are buried?
Certainly there have been benefits to Kagame's rule in Rwanda, but what has it cost us? Is the price equal to the good that he has done in Rwanda? Humanitarian disasters of biblical magnitude have hit the Great Lakes region: it is estimated that nearly 6 million people died as a consequence of the genocide. One million Rwandans are still living in refugee camps just outside Rwandan borders, while another million are spread around the world.
The reality is that there is enormous resentment brewing in the country. Only 12% of the population has access to electricity. While the country is blessed with fertile soil, food insecurity remains a significant threat in Rwanda. Some 90% of Rwandans subsist on agriculture, and feel bitter about the government's plans to push horticulture, call centres, and mining services forward on their empty stomachs.
In a country where land is the most important form of private property, farmers are forced to grow crops imposed by the government and sell them to get money to buy the food they need. They can no longer reap a harvest for their own family. Their plots are looted and they end up resettled in so-called "communal villages" (imidugudu), which is hard to cope with when Kigali is full of luxurious housing projects.
The justice system suffers from a deficiency of credibility, a poison that gradually but dreadfully threatens the country. Gacaca community courts and the ICTR have failed the expectations of Rwandans and the increasingly reluctant funder, the international community. Rwanda has the third highest incarceration rate in the world, behind the United States and Russia. Intellectuals are dead, jailed or in exile. The education system is ruined. A disruptive switch to English as the language of instruction, low morale and lousy salaries have teachers at the end of their tethers. Inevitably, Rwanda's professional community has become terrifyingly incompetent.
There is no such thing as a future for Rwandans under these conditions. Kagame's former allies talk openly about bringing him down. Terror attacks haven't come to an end with his reappointment. Westerners seem to have suddenly exposed the evil in their protege. And recent developments indicate that some governments are starting to disassociate themselves from Rwanda's president. None of these scenarios herald better times for the people of Rwanda.
But now he has acquired power, legitimately, can we expect there to be a balance between the costs and the benefits, in his third term of office? We can hope for peace in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo and the entire Great Lakes region. We can hope that refugees will stop being forcefully deported to Rwanda and exiles will be free to return to their beloved country.
It will mean that people will feel comfortable to live and prosper under the regime. We hope that he will open up and allow people to speak freely, heal together and walk towards a common future. And we hope that by 2017, then veteran president Paul Kagame will graciously leave the stage with all honours due to his rank, enjoy his retirement, set up a few charities and write his memoirs, while offering his 23 years of governing experience as guidance to his successor.
© The Guardian
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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
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