President Paul Kagame’s
20 year reign of terror is characterized by a distorted
and deceptive narrative that: he saved Tutsi from genocide perpetrated by Hutu;
over- reliance on violence and war-making nationally and regionally; “Tutsification”
of the leadership of the military while eliminating real and potential
competitors; transformation of the ruling RPF into a rubber stamp to enforce
his will while eliminating real or perceived contenders to power;
usurping legislative, executive and judiciary powers; closure of
political space for political parties, civil society, independent media and
intellectual activity; personal control of a financial empire that is spread
across public and private sectors; and, a mindset of a serial killer and mass
murderer who relentlessly acts with impunity.
It is out of this anti-people, sectarian and
anti-democratic domestic policy that Kagame's dangerous foreign policy is
derived, characterized by belligerence, aggression, war-making and plunder in
the Great Lakes region; blackmail, grand deception and intimidation that preys
on international guilt from failure to prevent or stop the 1994 genocide; an
anti-African posture masquerading behind pan-Africanist language; and above
all, an immoral foreign policy, founded on the premise that opponents, whether
heads of state or ordinary citizens, must die or be jailed.
The Kagame doctrine is not simply wrong. It is
anti-Rwandan, militaristic. deceptive, predatory, belligerent, anti-African and
immoral. In short, it is dangerous for Rwanda, the Great Lakes region, Africa
and the international community.
This predatory and highly criminalized foreign policy
is executed through its embassies abroad: Burundi,
Ethiopia, Kenya, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Senegal, DRC, Nigeria,
Belgium, Germany, The Netherlands, United Kingdom, Sweden, Switzerland, France,
Canada, China, India, Japan, USA, United Nations, South Korea, Singapore,
Russia, Turkey,and multiple consulates.
Kagame and about a dozen Tutsi military officers, all
former refugees in Uganda, preside over this global criminal enterprise to
assassinate opponents. Over the last twenty years, agents of the criminalized
Rwandan state have struck terror in the Democratic Republic of Congo and
Rwanda, killing millions Congolese and Rwandans. His assassins have struck in
Kigali, Nairobi, Dar es Salaam, Kampala, Bujumbura, Maputo, Johannesburg, West
Africa, Kinshasa, London, Brussels, and Stockholm. Victims of this criminal
crusade include Heads of State, opposition politicians, human rights activists,
journalists and ordinary Rwandan citizens.
According to Kigali sources, confirmed by a number of
foreign security agencies, Kagame is poised for even more daring criminal moves
in the heart of the United States, Canada, and the rest of the world, as he
intensifies hiring assassins from far-flung areas of eastern Europe and the
Middle East.
To do that, he is directly or indirectly enabled by
money accumulated from the state treasury, his companies Crystal Ventures and
Horizon Group, and aid mainly from generous benefactors like the World Bank,
IMF, European Union, United States and United Kingdom governments. He is
enabled by the rich and powerful in the West, notably former U.S. President,
Bill Clinton, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, American Pastor Rick
Warren, Jewish Rabbi Shmuley Boteach and scores of western consultants making
money from Rwanda's, and the region's, open veins. In Africa, his principal
backer and co-accused in regional adventures is President Yoweri Museveni
of Uganda.
Rwanda's embassies abroad have become the staging
grounds for criminal activity. In addition to so-called military attaches and
secretaries, officially accredited as diplomats, there are many other agents
deployed informally to hunt down, intimidate, divide, corrupt, and assassinate
Rwandans. Non-Rwandans critical to Kigali's domestic and foreign policies have
occasionally been victims, and will increasingly be targeted according to
Kagame's new desperate directives.
Rwandans must get more united, mobilized and organized
to stop these murderous schemes once and for all, through a
regime change that must allow sustainable societal transformation to take
place.
The international community can no longer claim not to
know the depth and extent of criminal activities by Kagame's regime. The
international community may choose to remain silent, insensitive and frozen in
inertia as in the past.
Alternatively, we urge Africans and the rest of the
world community to support Rwanda's struggle for freedom, human rights,
democracy, justice for all-- genuine unity and reconciliation, healing, peace
and prosperity for all Rwandans and the Great Lakes region.
Dr. Theogene Rudasingwa
Washington DC, USA
[i] A medical doctor by training,
Theogene Rudasingwa was President Paul Kagame’s Chief of Staff, Rwanda’s
Ambassador to the United States, and Secretary General of Rwanda’s ruling
party, RPF. He is currently the Coordinator of Rwanda National Congress (RNC)
and the author of "Healing A Nation: A Testimony"
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