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
Saturday, September 29, 2018
By Brian Obara
[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]
Let us recall that the RPF started its methodical killings to eliminate the Hutu elite when it murdered Emmanuel Gapyisi and Félicien Gatabazi in the early 1990s.
By Brian Obara
Journalists for justice / 08 June 2018
Did Paul Kagame’s commandoes who had infiltrated the Hutu militia fuel and escalate the genocide in Rwanda? And did the United Nations bury evidence of the involvement of Kagame’s forces in the genocide?
Like a nugget of gold panned from a muddy river, Rwanda has emerged as a shining model of post-conflict success. Much of the praise for this has been heaped on President Paul Kagame. The praise has been of the “gushing” variety. Former US President Bill Clinton has called the Rwandan President “one of the greatest leaders of our time” while former British Prime Minister Tony Blair singled him out as a “visionary leader”. His presidential peers on the continent agree. They elected Kagame chairperson of the African Union (AU) in January.
For journalist and author Judi Rever, the rise and rise of Paul Kagame has been perplexing to witness. Rever was reporting in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) in the immediate aftermath of the Rwanda genocide and spoke to many survivors and army defectors who gave her first-hand accounts that were at odds with the official version which cast Kagame and his troops as the “saviours” of Rwanda.
Fast forward to 2018 and after years of careful research and interviews with former RPF officers, Rever is out with a new book “In Praise of Blood: The Crimes of the Rwandan Patriotic Front”, which attempts to piece together a complete picture of what really happened before, during and after the Rwanda genocide. The verdict? The world has been sold a lie.
According to Rever’s telling, officers of the Rwanda Patriotic Front (RPF), under Kagame’s orders, knowingly triggered all-out violence on April 6, 1994 in Rwanda by shooting down the plane of President Juvenal Habyarimana and also carried out thousands of killings in a bi-directional genocide that resulted in the deaths of almost a million people.
Rever says these facts should have come out at the UN-backed International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) but they didn’t because of a cover-up involving powerful players on the global stage and prosecutors not keen to ruffle feathers:
“Basically the ICTR protected Kagame and the RPF all along. That was a decision that they made from very early on. Carla del Ponte was the Prosecutor of the ICTR before Hassan Bubacar Jallow came in. She declared that she would issue indictments in 2001, 2002 and by 2003 when she pushed further on this subject, because they had actually assembled a fair amount of prima facie evidence to start indicting RPF commanders, she was removed. She was removed at the behest of the United States, which wielded a fair amount of influence over the tribunal,” says Rever.
This is the first of a two-part interview with Rever about her book. The second part of the interview is available here.In this interview, Rever tells why she wrote In Praise of Blood, who she thinks shot down President Juvenal Habyarimana’s plane and explains the Bill Clinton and Tony Blair’s mutual admiration for President Paul Kagame:
Q: What motivated you to write this book?
Rever: I began the book as a personal quest to find out what really happened during the 1994 genocide. There were many things I did not understand about the violence. For example, I didn’t know how it broke out, how it unfolded and who did what and to whom. I began to question what happened while I was in the Congo three years later in 1997 as a reporter interviewing Hutu survivors of RPF atrocities in the Congolese jungle. Many of the survivors of those atrocities told me that their families had been slaughtered by the RPF in 1994, which is why they fled to Zaire that year in the first place and stayed.
What I was able to witness in the Congo first-hand and from my interviews with refugees in the jungle was that the RPF under Kagame was not a force for good or for
Q: What will readers learn from reading your book?
Rever: I would like readers to take away a few essential elements, namely that the West has politically and militarily supported an army that has inflicted enormous suffering on Rwandan and Congolese people. That's number one. Number two, is we only understand half the story of what happened during the 1994 genocide and by burying the truth of the other half the world has bought into a lie. Number three, Kagame and his commanders actually ignited the genocide against Tutsis by killing the former Hutu president Juvenal Habyarimana. Kagame’s army also fuelled the genocide against Tutsis by ordering commandos to infiltrate Hutu militias during the genocide and helped kill Tutsis. Finally, what I say in my book is that Kagame’s troops committed genocide against Hutus in 1994 and in the years after.
Q: What evidence has informed your very strong opinions about Paul Kagame’s involvement and how the 1994 genocide started?
Rever: Where I first came on to this was a confidential report of the United Nations (UN). It’s a summary report and it was issued by something called the Special Investigations Unit. The Special Investigations Unit was a clandestine unit set up by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) to gather evidence of RPF crimes in 1994. That report was tabled in October 2003. I had heard rumblings of this but that's the first time I had seen some names of commandos, or as they called them “technicians”, who had actually infiltrated the Hutu militia. It was important enough in terms of testimony that the investigators realized that they wanted to put it in their report to the ICTR prosecutor Hassan Jallow who, at the end of 2003, was just taking up his post.
From there, I started asking some of the former senior officers of the RPF who I got to know and who I used as sources for my book and for a number of my articles. They confirmed in much more detail some of these stories of technicians actually infiltrating not only all the militias but the political parties as well to stir up chaos, to know who the Hutu opposition members were and also, of course, some of the commandos killed fellow Tutsis at roadblocks and encouraged and incited more massacres of Tutsis.
Q: Your book is titled, In Praise of Blood: The Crimes of the Rwandan Patriotic Front. What inspired the title?
Rever: We have seen billions of dollars of aid being poured into Kagame’s Rwanda even as his army and police have killed Rwandan citizens and as his army has invaded the
Congo and slaughtered Congolese and Rwandans next door and even as his agents have killed dissidents abroad. Despite these shocking violations of human rights and of international law, the international community has continued to support and praise the RPF and provide half the country's operating budget every year. For me and for many people, especially the victims, it's an Orwellian phenomenon.
Q: You mention victims. Are you in touch with people inside Rwanda or are these mostly people mostly who've left the country?
Rever: Mostly people have left the country. There was a first wave of officers who broke with the RPF and fled to Uganda around the year 2000. Then there have been people leaving the RPF ever since.
I have got to know a number of these people and interviewed them. There is a substantial network of sources out there. Of course there were people who fled earlier like Théoneste Lizinde and Seth Sendashonga who had been part of the RPF but both of those individuals were killed in Kenya. A number of them are still in Africa and some are in North America and many are in Europe.
Q: Your book upends a lot of narratives about the Rwandan genocide that most people considered “settled history”. You, for example, lay the responsibility for the shooting down of President Juvenal Habyarimana’s plane on Paul Kagame’s troops. What evidence have you found to support that claim?
Rever: I have some other elements, but the strongest evidence I have on the plane attack is from the confidential summary report tabled by ICTR investigators who were examining RPF crimes. That testimony in that report reinforces and essentially corroborates what Judge Jean-Louis Bruguière concluded in 2006. This report was tabled by the ICTR investigators in 2003 and and it was three years later that the Judge Bruguière concluded the same thing. The testimony in the ICTR document indicates that the RPF held a series of meetings to discuss assassinating Habyarimana, that they had already organized a missile team that had been trained in Uganda and that this team was able to use surface-to-air missiles. The names of the RPF commandos involved in the missile attack on Habyarimana’s plane are cited in the ICTR report. According to that testimony in the ICTR report, the commando team brought two missiles into an area of the capital named Masaka and proceeded to shoot down the plane on April 6, 1994.
Q: Why do you think the ICTR report was buried?
Hassan Jallow took her place and he allowed the Special Investigations Unit to continue investigating but it was clear that, as time went on, he wasn't interested in
Q: You have said that the Rwanda Patriotic Front (RPF) troops perpetrated a genocide against Hutus in Rwanda. What evidence have you found of this and why do you think there hasn’t been more written about it before?
Rever: I think the RPF mastered the art of propaganda warfare even before the 1994 genocide. They were basically very successful at waging a war on truth.
What Kagame has done is successfully cover up his troops’ record of mass murder of genocide.
To answer your question, the RPF’s crimes were largely hidden. The UN had some degree of knowledge of these things as they were happening. There were reports already in May that the RPF was slaughtering Hutus in the south-eastern end of the country but the UN did not act on it. The RPF got away with these crimes because the ICTR allowed it to.
Q: Leaders like Bill Clinton and Tony Blair have praised Paul Kagame for what he has achieved in Rwanda since taking over. Clinton, for example, has called him one of “the greatest leaders of our time.” What do you make of their effusive praise?
Rever: I think history will judge both of those men harshly. Bill Clinton and Tony Blair have been Kagame’s top kingmakers. They have both played key roles in constructing the myth of Kagame as a visionary leader who has resurrected Rwanda from the ashes. They have both enabled Kagame’s impunity by peddling this myth and and turning on
There's been so much bloodshed and destabilization in the Great Lakes region. Frankly, its been a catastrophe. The West’s geopolitical interests are a big part of why Kagame has so much support. Part of it is economic and part of it is very much
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This is the first of a two-part interview with Judi Rever about "In Praise of Blood". The second part of the interview on how "The ICC has given Africa’s most prolific genocidaire a free ride” is available here:
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