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, October 27, 2013
[Since 1994, the world witnesses the horrifying Tutsi minority (14%) ethnic domination, the Tutsi minority ethnic rule with an iron hand, 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, and the brutal suppression of the rights of the majority of the Rwandan people (85% are Hutus)and mass arrests of Hutus by the RPF criminal organization =>AS International]
(Reuters) - The Congolese army said...
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RDC : la Monusco « extrêmement préoccupée » par la reprise des combats au Nord-Kivu
Nord-Kivu: après Kibumba, les FARDC récupèrent la localité de Kiwanja
Les combats qui ont repris entre les FARDC et les M23 & Alliés ce vendredi 25 octobre 2013 à 4h00 du matin à Kanyamahoro non loin de Kibumba et qui se sont intensifiés toute la journée et la nuit ont continué ce samedi et se sont généralisés sur plusieurs fronts en zone rebelle. Rappelons que dans la zone de Kibumba, trois fronts avaient été ouverts : Kanyamahoro, Butebo et Trois Antennes.
En fin de journée, les FARDC avaient pris le contrôle de la position M23 des Trois Antennes de Kibumba, vers 21h, le front de Butebo, au Nord-Est de Kibati a observé une accalmie relative tandis que celui de Kanyamahoro continuait et que les FARDC repoussaient les M23 & Alliés vers Ruhunda (où se trouvait jadis le marché ayant lieu tous les lundis et jeudis) à Buhumba.
SITUATION A KIBUMBA
Tôt ce matin,
nos sources ont indiqué que d’importants renforts avaient été infiltrés
vers le front de Butebo par les villages rwandais de Kanyesheja, Munege
et Giko. Vers 6h, des combats acharnés avaient lieu dans cette zone
frontalière avec le rwanda avant de baisser d’intensité vers 11h. Les
M23 & Alliés y auraient perdu de nombreux hommes et abandonné
d’importantes quantités d’armes. Joint au téléphone, le porte-parole
militaire a rassuré ce matin en ces termes : « de ce côté, soyez calmes,
le terrain est trop miné et nos éléments les y attendent de pieds
fermes. Ils ne s’en sortiront pas. Nous savons que c’est la frontière et
que là tout est possible. Nous avons donc pris toutes les dispositions, laissez-les venir, ils vont subir la puissance de feu des FARDC ». L’on pense que ce que prédisait le Col Olivier AMULI s’est concrétisé car les rescapés ont pris le large et seraient rentrés d’où ils étaient venus à l’aube.
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Ces éléments M23 & alliés qui s’étaient retranchés sur la colline Nyundo y ont résisté de 11h jusqu’à 15h30, heure à la quelle les FARDC les y ont délogés et s’y sont installées dans un concert des tirs de joie sous. Les éléments M23 ont détalé et se sont dirigés vers la frontière rwandaise.
Pendant ce temps, les 4 armes d’artillerie lourde qui étaient à Kabuye et Kabuhanga ont été retirés et tractées vers le Rwanda, rapportent nos sources. Les habitants qui suivaient ces événements à partir des collines surplombant la zone de combats, dans les villages de Gitotoma et Hehu, ont applaudi et nous ont appelé pour nous faire vivre en direct sur leurs téléphones leur joie et les tirs joyeux des FARDC nouvellement positionnées sur le sommet de la colline Nyundo. Les FARDC ont alors progressé vers le bureau du territoire de Nyiragongo et au Centre de Santé de Référence Afya Kibumba où elles sont arrivées vers 16h locales sans trop résistance. Sur leur route, un constat : le village Nyundo et le petit centre Ruhunda dans la localité Rwibiranga ont été vidés de leur population.
Contrairement à ce que certaines radios ont affirmé ce matin, le chef-lieu du territoire de Nyiragongo n’a été libéré que ce samedi, 26 octobre 2013 que vers 16h10. Il ne fallait pas confondre ce chef-lieu avec la petite bourgade de Kibumba où se trouve le marché des légumes sur la route Goma-Rutshuru avant d’entrer dans le parc qui sépare Kibumba de Rugari (Mwaro). Cette petite cité s’appelle Kingarame (« Ku Mboga »). Les témoins rapportent que de nombreux M23 & Alliés et, malheureusement, leurs familles auraient péri sur la colline appelée « Bya Karenge », dans la ferme de feu le chef coutumier Makombe.
Ce soir, tous les rescapés M23 & alliés se dirigent clandestinement vers Gasizi, derrière les collines Hehu, au pied du volcan Mikeno où ils tenteraient de se regrouper pour aller l’on ne sait dans quelle direction. Les FARDC sont en direction de Kabuhanga où ils prendront position face aux éléments « officiels » de la RDF postés sur le territoire rwandais. En ce moment, des chars des FARDC contrôlent la route Goma-Kibumba (Kingarame) et les FARDC ont libéré totalement tout le groupement de Buhumba et quasiment 98% du territoire de Nyiragongo.
SITUATION A KIWANJA-KAUNGA-MABENGA
Les rumeurs qui circulaient hier soir dans la cité de Kiwanja sur une éventuelle avancée des FARDC de Rwindi vers Kiwanja en passant par le pont Mabenga se sont confirmées ce matin. De violents combats ont en effet eu lieu toute la journée durant sur cet axe. Alors que la cité de Kiwanja s’était réveillée dans un calme relatif, malgré la tension perceptible, et que les élèves avaient pris le chemin de l’école, la situation a vite dégénéré. Les bombardements que l’on entendait au loin, vers Mabenga, se sont intensifiés et des crépitements des tirs à l’arme automatique se sont approchés dangereusement de la cité.
Et le sauve qui
peut s’en est suivi. Les quelques rares rebelles encore visibles dans
la cité ont commencé à dire, pour calmer la population, que ce sont les
M23 qui venaient d’infliger une lourde défaite aux FARDC alors qu’il
n’en était rien. Pendant que la guerre faisait rage à Mabenga et Kaunga
entre les M23 et leurs alliés (que nos sources qualifient de mercenaires
ougandais et des soldats RDF), les jeunes d’un groupe armé Mai-Mai
anti-M23 ont attaqué les quelques positions M23 dégarnies dans la cité
de Kiwanja et à Rutshuru-Centre. En ce moment, les FARDC sont en
progression vers Kiwanja tandis que les M23 & alliés pris entre deux
feux ne savent plus où aller. Décidément la zone M23 est en ébullition
de toutes parts. Malheureusement, ce soir depuis 17h30, aucun de nos correspondants à Kiwanja n’est joignable par téléphone. Le réseau Airtel a vu son signal coupé dans la zone de Rutshuru depuis 11h, heure locale. Le réseau Tigo qui passait encore semble également avoir des problèmes. Nous attendons avoir plus de précision dans la nuit.
En attendant, l’on signale des combats dans les environs du Camp de Rumangabo, autour de Katale et Rubare en territoire de Rutshuru. Les heures du M23 seraient-elles comptées ? En tout cas pour le porte-parole des FARDC, le Colonnel Olivier AMULI, les M23 n’ont d’autre choix que de « déposer les armes ». Signalons en passant que le Gouverneur et le Vice-Gouverneur de Province du Nord-Kivu, Julien PALUKU et Feller LUTAITSHIRWA, s’est rendu dans la plaine de Kibumba (Kibaya) se rendre compte lui-même du travail abattu par les FARDC.
A Goma, la situation reste calme et la vie poursuit son cours normal. La joie est perceptible sur les visages des gomatraciennes et gomatraciens qui caressent déjà le rêve de se rendre dès la semaine prochaine à Kibumba et Rutshusu tandis qu’un douanier rencontré cet après-midi espère regagner son poste d’attache dans les tous prochains jours à Bunagana quand l’on en parlera plus des M23 dans le coin. Pour tout le monde, pas question de revenir à Kampala pour des négociations qualifiées d’INUTILE, comme le recommande Kobler… Il est temps que les déplacés rentrent dans leurs villages…
Par Thomas Kabuya
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, October 20, 2013
[Since 1994, the world witnesses the horrifying Tutsi minority (14%) ethnic domination, the Tutsi minority ethnic rule with an iron hand, 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, and the brutal suppression of the rights of the majority of the Rwandan people (85% are Hutus)and mass arrests of Hutus by the RPF criminal organization =>AS International]
Jennifer Fierberg, MSW Salem-News.com
Dr. Theogene Rudasingwa testifies in Spain
Dr. Theogene Rudasingwa
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(WASHINGTON DC) - In a brief statement on social media
today, Dr. Theogene Rudasingwa, founding member of the Rwanda National
Congress, made the following statement:
PRESIDENT PAUL KAGAME RESPONSIBLE FOR THE KILLING OF NINE SPANISH CITIZENS
Today, 14/10/2013, I appeared before the Spanish
Investigative Judge Andreu Merelles to testify that President Paul
Kagame is responsible for the death of nine Spanish citizens.
Dr. Theogene Rudasingwa
Madrid, Spain
Dr. Rudasingwa testified in three specific areas before
Judge Andreu Merelles covering the downing of former President
Habyarimana’s plane in April 1994 killing two sitting heads of state as
well as the French crew aboard the plane. Further, he testified about
Tri-star Investments and the case of the nine Spanish nationals who were
killed by the RPF/RPA in Rwanda.
The Spanish newspaper, El Pais, reported in Spanish
that, “according to legal sources, the information contributed by
Rudasingwa was "very important" for the murders of the four Spanish
monks in October 1996. He also cited the names of several of the
military processed by Judge Andreu and who are under international
search warrants, such as James Kabarebe, current Rwandan defense
minister, Karake Karenzi and Jack Nziza.”
Dr. Rudasingwa testified about the company Tri-Star
Investment, founded by himself, and he stated that this is the main tool
for money laundering and abuse of natural resources in Rwanda.”
Gerald Gahima
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Dr. Gerald Gahima spoke exclusively to this reporter
about today’s development and his role in this case before the Spanish
courts in the past. Dr. Gahima stated that he represented General
Kayumba Nyamwasa and met with the judge who wanted to question him about
the Rwanda Briefing and other issues.
He stated that, “The judge wants to speak with Kayumba
Nyamwasa as well but due to inter-country agreements that has not been
possible” but stated that General Nyamwasa is willing to speak with him.
This reporter asked Dr. Gahima if he believes that the qualification of
genocide and crimes against humanity can be applied to this case. He
replied that the case is broad and covers the entire military from 1990
to the RPF wars in the Congo.
Such a case would take a lot time and vast research
effort in order to thoroughly investigate, as well as large amounts of
resources in order to be properly prosecuted. He emphasized that this
case is too broad in scope and therefore appears to be an overwhelming
task.
When I specifically asked Dr. Gahima what he knows
about those killings of the Spanish nationals, when it happened and who
was involved he was unable to reply due to his ongoing involvement in
this case.
When I specifically asked Dr. Gahima what he knows
about those killings of the Spanish nationals, when it happened and who
was involved he was unable to reply due to his ongoing involvement in
this case.
In his specific role of Attorney General in Rwanda from
1999-2003 I questioned why he never prosecuted those crimes while in
this top position in the Rwandan Government. He replied that, “As soon
as we got into Rwanda the law was changed. The RPF could not
investigate itself and then hold its own members accountable. This is
not a credible system of accountability for any country, including
Rwanda.”
Dr. Gahima stated, “I am personally critical of the
case. Its starting point is that the RPF struggle was a criminal
enterprise from the very beginning. I definitely do not subscribe to
that view.
When I asked him for more details on this statement he
replied, “While there are Spanish victims of RPF abuses who deserve
justice, the scope of the case as a whole is in my opinion too sweeping
for the case to be a credible judicial process. Over the years, the
case has become a dumping ground for real and imagined grievances of
opponents of the RPA / RPF.”
Dr. Gahima stated that President Kagame has been “struck off” the case because he is a sitting head of state.
Some have said that the Spanish case is potentially
groundbreaking because it is focusing on crimes blamed on President
Kagame and his forces, something that a United Nations tribunal set up
in 1994 to prosecute war crimes in Rwanda yet did not do.
I asked Dr. Gahima if he agreed with this analysis, he
replied the following, “It is the first time that crimes alleged to be
committed by the RPF would be tried by an independent, outside justice
system. It is not credible that the RPF can investigate its own members.
Yet, this situation is not unique to Rwanda.
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"Therefore, it is not new to Rwanda that they do not
want to hold their own soldiers accountable in a court of law. This is
why the international criminal justice system is necessary in order to
provide an independent judicial review for such situations."
When I asked Dr. Gahima what he thought should happen
with this case at this point and if the Spanish courts should drop the
case or continue to pursue it; he replied the following, "I think they
should continue to prosecute it but, personally, I do not think there
has been an adequate investigation. Nor do I believe they have the moral
right to bring foreigners into their courts when they have not
prosecuted their own citizens for crimes committed in their own
countries.
"If you do not allow your own courts to deal with the
violence of your own past then what right do you have to deal with the
crimes committed by other nations? Spain and Portugal are young
democracies and democracy takes time to have a stronghold so I am not
surprised they have not dealt with the violence of their past.”
When asked what he believes this testimony will do for
the case at this point he replied, "Most of the war was not in the
military but it was on the diplomatic front."
Some are speculating that the actions of both Dr.
Gahima and Dr. Rudasingwa have been to secure General Kayumba Nyamwasa
being excused from this indictment.
Dr. Gahima replied to this that, "General Nyamwasa was
not in Rwanda during the time of these charges against him he was not in
Rwanda at the time the crimes were committed. Therefore, he could not
have been in command of the units to have committed the crimes for which
he is accused, including those in Congo."
He stated that this evidence is documented "in his passport and other official papers".
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, October 18, 2013
[Since 1994, the world witnesses the horrifying Tutsi minority (14%) ethnic domination, the Tutsi minority ethnic rule with an iron hand, 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, and the brutal suppression of the rights of the majority of the Rwandan people (85% are Hutus)and mass arrests of Hutus by the RPF criminal organization =>AS International]
Toronto
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It is simply too embarrassing for Paul Kagame to visit the West anymore,
as eager as the Rwandan president is to pose as a respected African
statesman. His visit to Toronto last month was stirring evidence of
this.
On September 28, the president slipped into Toronto the Good
to meet with members of the Rwandan diaspora and celebrate ‘Rwanda
Day’. The Canadian government had gone to great lengths to avoid
commenting on the private visit, except to say that if the leader did
set foot in the country, the RCMP and local police would be obliged to
provide security, since as head of state he qualified as an internationally protected person.
But it is hard to shield a man whose reputation precedes him.
By mid
morning on the Saturday in question, a few hundred Rwandan and Congolese
protesters were staking out the Sheraton Hotel on Queen Street, right
across from Nathan Philips Square where they suspected Kagame and his
delegation were staying. The protesters called for the president’s
arrest on war crimes charges, unleashing recordings of sirens and
shouting epithets with megaphones that the hotel was harboring a mass
killer inside, as red-faced staff and patrons looked on in disbelief.
Meanwhile, police officers – a few wearing goofy navy blue shorts and
others in trademark cargo pants -- escorted protesters out of the
hotel’s car park and onto the street.
Demonstrators held placards sprayed in paint the colour of blood, their posters displaying orphans, corpses and three progressive politicians languishing in Kigali jails: Victoire Ingabire, a Hutu mother and leader of the United Democratic Forces, Deo Mushayidi, a Tutsi opposition leader slapped with a life sentence, and Bernard Ntaganda, leader of the opposition PS Imberakuri, jailed on murky charges of ‘divisionism’. A good number of protesters were victims of lethal military campaigns carried out by Kagame’s Tutsi-led Rwandan Patriotic Army (RPA) since the early 1990s.
Demonstrators held placards sprayed in paint the colour of blood, their posters displaying orphans, corpses and three progressive politicians languishing in Kigali jails: Victoire Ingabire, a Hutu mother and leader of the United Democratic Forces, Deo Mushayidi, a Tutsi opposition leader slapped with a life sentence, and Bernard Ntaganda, leader of the opposition PS Imberakuri, jailed on murky charges of ‘divisionism’. A good number of protesters were victims of lethal military campaigns carried out by Kagame’s Tutsi-led Rwandan Patriotic Army (RPA) since the early 1990s.
One man and his family narrowly survived the Kibeho
massacre in April 1995 when Rwandan soldiers shot into crowds at a
displacement camp. Shortly after returning to his native village in
Kigali rural, his wife and baby boy were slaughtered by Kagame’s troops,
he said, and dumped in their outhouse. Another man of mixed Tutsi and
Hutu ethnicity lost his parents and siblings in neighboring Democratic
Republic of Congo after being hunted by RPA soldiers across a territory
the size of Western Europe. Another man, small in stature, was orphaned
at the age of six after losing his family during the Congo chase in
1996-1997. Left to fend for himself in the dense equatorial jungle, he
ate whatever he could get his hands on and continued to run way from the
killers until taken in by a local Congolese family.
Their stories spilled out fast and furiously, amid the sirens that
blared in a normally restrained city known for its Victorian mores.
The demonstration, while vitriolic, could have been worse; relatively
few protesters actually showed up compared to the thousands that
organizers had hoped for. That’s because Kagame shrewdly kept the venue
under wraps all day. On its website, the Rwandan embassy in Ottawa urged
supporters to come to Toronto to celebrate Rwanda’s economic and social
progress since the genocide, but failed to disclose the location of the
meeting. In the end, scores of finely dressed and well coiffed Rwandans
were flown in and put up at the posh Westin Harbour Castle along the
shores of Lake Ontario while other Rwandan Canadians wishing to see
their leader in person were privately contacted and given transport to
the event.
By mid afternoon, social media had leaked information that the president
would be speaking at an arena at Downsview Park in a barren
neighborhood of northwestern Toronto where RCMP and Toronto police
maintained a heavy presence. Hardcore critics quickly converged on the
park, their faux blood dripping banners reading: ‘Kagame Kills Babies’
and ‘Kagame a murderer in the DRC.’ When the presidential car finally
arrived, the protesters chanted and threw eggs and stones, managing to
crack a window as the vehicle veered past the security barricade.
At the
same time a group of naked Quebecois feminists appeared out of nowhere
like fiery leprechauns, their white breasts painted with ‘Kagame Guilty
of Rape’ and ‘Rapist Go Fuck Yourself’ – a reference to a militia called
M23 that Rwanda has supported in the Congo whose members have raped,
killed and displaced thousands of civilians.
The entire scene was humiliating, especially for a head of state once
courted by western governments, diplomats and human rights activists. In
Toronto, Kagame appeared to be in survival mode.
Not that he doesn’t maintain a coterie of loyal fans: among them former
US President Bill Clinton, former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair, Bono,
Howard Buffet, Evangelical Pastor Rick Warren and Rabbi Shmuley Boteach.
And that’s because Kagame’s achievements, while far too historicized,
remain intact. He is rightly credited with routing Hutu extremists
responsible for a three-month killing spree whose primary targets were
the country’s minority Tutsi.
The Rwandan president has cleverly gambled on the West believing a
binary narrative of good versus evil in Rwanda. Others in the West who
know better – including officials in Washington and London -- chose a
cynical calculus after the genocide: that despite his dubious past,
Kagame was the best guarantor of stability in a sea of ethnic extremism.
Except the calculus appears to have been dangerously wrong. How do we
know? Because a growing number of Hutus and RPA defectors are now
seeking to expose a fuller, if not grimmer account of what really
happened in Rwanda before and after Kagame's ascent to power.
What has emerged is an historical portrait of an army under Kagame’s
direction that engaged in mass killing of unarmed Hutu civilians,
before, during and after the genocide.
Victims and critics tell of his army displacing upwards of a million
people in northern Rwanda before the genocide, of carrying out a
campaign to bring war to the population, firing on displacement camps
and assassinating Hutu political opponents.
They also say that as soon as the genocide was unleashed in April 1994,
RPA death squads began highly organized ‘sweeping’ operations in the
northern and eastern prefectures of Byumba and Kibungo, hunting down
Hutu men, women and children in their homes, in swamps and on
plantations, killing them on the spot or calling them to meetings and
slaughtering them there. Two of Kagame’s senior officers, now generals
that have served as UN peacekeepers in high profile missions in Africa,
allegedly commanded these gruesome operations, the objective of which
was to exterminate as many Hutus as possible, according to ex RPA
soldiers.
In 1994, the United Nations conducted a partial investigation of these
war crimes, under a team led by a US consultant named Robert Gersony.
A UN cable released anonymously gives an account of Gersony’s findings: “In
a two-hour briefing, Gersony put forward evidence of what he described
as calculated, pre-planned, systematic atrocities and genocide against
Hutus by the RPA whose methodology and scale, he concluded, (30,000
massacres) could only have been part of a plan implemented as a policy
from the highest echelons of the government. In his view, these were not
individual cases of revenge and summary trials but a pre-planned,
systematic genocide against the Hutus. Gersony staked his 25-year
reputation on his conclusions which he recognized were diametrically
opposite to the assumptions made, so far, by the UN and the
international community.”
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| Kagame's future |
The United Nations chose to bury Gersony’s explosive report in an effort
to provide political cover for Kagame and his newly installed
government.
Estimates of those killed by the RPA during the genocide and thereafter
in areas such as Gitarama, Butare, Kibuye, Gikongoro, Cyangugu, Goma and
Ruhengeri are dramatically higher. Officers have spoken of Hutu male
recruits being rounded up, put into trucks and driven at night to
various killing grounds near the Gabiro Training barracks and elsewhere
in Akagera National Park, where they were dumped and burned, their ashes
mixed with soil or spread across the park’s lakes.
Estimates of hundred of thousands of Hutus killed by Kagame’s army in
this manner for years do not come from Hutus themselves, but from former
officers and soldiers of his own Tutsi-led army who could no longer
stomach the atrocities committed by their regime.
One senior officer
that was close to the Gabiro operations said he believed the crimes
amounted to genocide.
“This is going to come back. This is going to be generational,” the officer said with trepidation.
But all these crimes are history now, as Kagame scrambles to maintain
his flagging legitimacy abroad and his grip on power at home and in
eastern Congo, where his army first invaded in 1996, and militias he's
supported have stoked war ever since.
In 2003, Rwanda passed a controversial law that condemns individuals for
denying or grossly minimizing genocide, or attempting to justify
genocide or destroy evidence related to it. Individuals found guilty are
liable to a minimum of 10 years and a maximum of 20 in prison.
Ironically, as the scale of RPA operations during the 1990s becomes
clearer, it could be argued that the Rwandan president should at least
be tried for genocide denial, if nothing else. But of course the current
law forbids denying only the official genocide that we all know and recognize, the one perpetrated by Hutu extremists against Tutsis.
So for now, as long as Kagame stays at home and can control the levers
of judiciary, government and his army, he may have many years still
ahead.
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
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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SurViVors SPEAK OUT - Rights of Victims Seeking Justice and Compensation for the RPF Genocide. This is an Exciting Collaborative Project launched by The AS International Founder Jean-Christophe Nizeyimana, Economist and Human Rights Activist. Join US and Be the First to know about the Mastermind of the Rwandan Genocide Still At large and enjoing Impunity.