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
Wednesday, March 19, 2014
Today, I
published a short opinion piece on the AfricanArguments.org website about
Rwanda's recent Twitter-gate, linking it to broader patterns of disinformation
in postgenocide Rwanda. The link is here.
The
original text follows:
As Rwanda
prepares to mark the twentieth anniversary of the 1994 genocide, it has found
itself in an unprecedented diplomatic crisis. The ruling Rwandan Patriotic
Front has all but claimed responsibility for the murder of its former spy chief
Patrick Karegeya in Johannesburg in January. More recently, the South African
government has accused Rwandan diplomats of a third bungled attempt on the life
of the country’s former army chief Kayumba Nyamwasa. The State Department
scolded the government of President Paul Kagame for the attempt. The South
African government then expelled three Rwandan diplomats, and is considering
ending formal diplomatic ties with Rwanda.
Foreign
journalists reporting on the attack on Nyamwasa raised the ire of President
Kagame. On March 7, Radio France International journalist Sonia Rolley was
subject to misogynistic harassment from the account of @RichardGoldston.
American freelancer Steve Terrill came to Rolley’s defense, resulting in a
series of mocking tweets from the account of Rwanda president @PaulKagame
himself, not the @RichardGoldston to which Terrill (@steveinafrica) had
directed his Tweets. A week later, on March 15, Terrill was denied entry into
Rwanda. The denial appearspolitically-motivated as Terrill broke the story that
someone in the office of the Rwandan president also had access to the
@RichardGoldston account. The @RichardGoldston account trolled Twitter for any
sign of criticism of Kagame or the RPF, and regularly harassed and demeaned
Twitter users that criticized the government.
On March 8,
the official Twitter account of the Office of the Rwandan President
(@UrugwiroVillage) tweeted that the @RichardGoldston account had been deleted
and the staff member responsible for the account had been “reprimanded’.
Rwanda’s Twitter-gate raise questions about the central role of RPF
Twitter-trolls in calling out foreign journalists who seek it hold it to
account for its excesses at home and abroad. President Kagame’s reactionary
tweets provide insight into the political reality behind his government’s
carefully crafted narrative that Rwanda is a nation rehabilitated from the ruin
of the 1994 genocide. Twitter-gate is also illustrative of the harassment and
intimidation that critics of the RPF regime regularly experience.
Twitter-gate
is the first crack in the armor of the RPF’s longstanding disinformation
campaign that has relied on exchange students, public relations firms,
commemorative events, and a whole host of other techniques to craft an
idealized and often invented version of what Rwanda was like before the onset
of colonialism and what it has become since the 1994 genocide. Since 2009, the
RPF has worked with American and British PR specialists whose primary task is
to drown out the voices of foreign critics and bury evidence of the RPF’s human
rights abuses under rosy language about political stability, economic growth,
and the stated intention of helping the poor. In January, Rwanda launched the
Kwibuka20 campaign, from inside Kagame’s office of course, for the same
instrumental reason: to substitute the trope of genocide for the trope of
authoritarianism in narratives about Rwanda.
The
disinformation strategy is simple: ensure maximum international sympathy and
donor dollars and a minimum of international inquiry into the government’s
denial of liberties and human rights abuses. The Kagame-led regime has a
penchant for U.S. visits and visitors, and until recently successive U.S.
administrations turned a blind eye to massive human rights violations for which
the Kagame-led regime, according to the United Nations, is responsible in the
Democratic Republic of the Congo. Americans in particular have been taken in by
the rhetoric of reconstruction, development, and reconciliation that invariably
accompanies most public events in the country.
The RPF
frames itself for Western audiences as the political party best able to move
Rwanda is moving towards a Western-style democracy because it has regularly
held presidential and parliamentary elections. The RPF handily won the most
recent round of parliamentary elections, in September 2013, with 76% of the
vote. In theory, it was contending with nine other parties. In practice,
Rwanda’s nearly six million voters had little choice on the ballot. A total of
98% of the votes went to the RPF and its four coalition parties. The continued
dominance of the RPF in the electoral realm projects a semblance of political
pluralism while masking the fact that all parties are expected to acquiesce to
the ruling party. Two actual opposition parties have been banned and their
leaders jailed.
Another
pillar of Rwanda’s disinformation campaign is that the government promotes
gender-equality. 64% percent of parliamentarians in Rwanda’s lower house are
women, but this number masks reality. Although women are very visible in Rwanda
politics, their ability to shape the future of women, ironically, is
circumscribed. Rwanda's parliament has limited influence. Parliamentarians—be
they male or female—actually have little power to legislate on behalf of their
constituents. They have little room to develop policy or even to debate openly;
space for free and open political expression is limited. Put differently, an
assessment of political realities shows that women parliamentarians in Rwanda
are mere accessories of power; they do not actually wield any of it.
Though the
genocide has not repeated itself, growing socio-political and economic
inequalities—notably the exclusion of youth—under an increasingly authoritarian
and repressive government have meant that post-genocide Rwanda is still deeply
entangled in its violent past. Rwandans deserve better from their American
friends. Rwanda’s Twitter-gate also reminds us that, on this 20th anniversary
of the Rwandan genocide, we should not allow our generally rosy perception of
Rwanda as a stable and free country under the visionary leadership of President
Kagame to mask long-standing political tensions, unresolved resentments, and
the rise of an authoritarian regime.
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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