The Hague - Politicians in The Hague are shocked by the search for the Rwandan politician Victoire Ingabire, Monday, Zevenhuizen. PvdA and Christen Unie demand more clarification from Opstelten, Minister of Justice.

"It raises many questions," said PvdA MP and justice spokesperson Jerome Récourt. "How is it that Justice obediently performs a search at the request of Rwanda, while the Netherlands has serious doubts about the fairness of Ingabire´s judicial process? Justice and foreign Affairs have not clearly communicated. "

" Netherlands indeed treat legal requests from abroad. But this case is very sensitive here. We would not cooperate in the Netherlands to political persecution, "said Récourt.
Ingabire, the leader of the Rwandan opposition UDF party, is trapped in the Rwandan capital Kigali, pending her trial. Justice in Rwanda suspects her of terrorism and seeks to prove.

After the genocide of 1994 she left with her husband and children to the Netherlands, where she built up a new life. The house of the family in Zevenhuizen, near Rotterdam, was searched Monday by the Dutch police.

Joel Voordewind, MP of the Christian Union, is outraged. "Why should the Dutch government of Rwanda execute orders, while the same government is used to suspend direct budget support to Rwanda because of concerns about human rights?"
Rwanda and the Netherlands have no extradition treaty, but together they may provide assistance. "A request for search may be a variant of assistance," said the Dutch international criminal lawyer and expert Gert-Jan Knoops. "For each request permission  from the Minister of Justice is a must."

CDA MP Coskun Cortuz is against such politically related lawsuits. Yet he is reluctant in this case. "Any request from Rwanda or China can be an excuse not to investigate. Even though the defendant might awfully abused. You know - just as I - what exactly is behind this search''.


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[Since 1994, the world witnesses the horrifying reality : the Tutsi minority (14%) ethnic domination, the Tutsi minority ethnic rule, 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 with an iron hand, and the brutal suppression of the rights of the majority of the Rwandan people (85% are Hutus), mass-arrests and mass-murder by the RPF criminal organization.

So long as justice and accountability for RPF past and current crimes are ignored and delayed, Peace and Stability will remain illusive and impossible in Rwanda=>ASIF]





A UN report released last month put into doubt the notion that Kagame alone stopped Rwanda’s Hutu-led genocide. It accuses Kagame’s forces of vengeful massacres against the Hutu population in Eastern Congo in 1996. The report documented 617 of the worst human rights violations by Rwandan and Ugandan troops against those who had fled the genocide. “Many of the attacks were directed against civilians consisting primarily of women and children”.

Rwanda’s Foreign Minister Louise Mushikiwabo called the report “an attempt to rewrite history”, as Kigali tried to paint this as an attempt to promote the double genocide theory. The government was so desperate to get the report quashed, it even threatened to pull out Rwandan troops from delicate U.N. peacekeeping operations in Sudan. However, the report’s sheer thoroughness makes any criticism hard to sustain. More than 1,200 individual witnesses were interviewed and over 1,500 documents were collected and analysed. This report is no matter of opinion, it’s a matter of fact.

Kagame’s government has enjoyed years as the global aid community’s darling in a troubled region for good reason. Average incomes have more than doubled from $242 in 1999 to $520 in 2010. Kagame as also been a champion for gender equality in the region and Rwanda now boasts the highest share of women in government in the world. Even Transparency International, a Berlin-based anti-corruption monitor, applauds its anti-corruption efforts and rates it as the cleanest country in east Africa. The compliments, however, end here.
Killings and arrests were but a few scandals which emerged in the lead up to August’s Presidential elections. Diplomats were dismayed. Why rig an election when you’re set to win? Firstly, years of struggle in the bush as leader of the RPF means Kagame sees himself as a national hero who would find defeat at the polls too humiliating to consider. Furthermore, weak institutions mean power is concentrated in the executive so all those in positions of power stand to lose if an opponent wins office. This means not only the President but the entire state relies on a Kagame victory, so democracy is undermined by everyone from everywhere.

Defenders of the current regime would argue that his recent slide towards dictatorship is necessary pragmatism. The government faces real constant threats from Hutu extremist groups in the Congo. Grenade attacks in Kigali earlier this year were seen as a sign that rebel forces were ready to attack. The recent arrest of FDLR leader Callixte Mbarushimana by the ICC proves that the groups are facing a crackdown by The Hague so the threat has diminished.


Kagame may also fear attacks from within, as the peace he has brokered among Rwanda’s warring tribes after the tragedy of 1994 remains fragile. His strategy for reconciliation involves eliminating tribal identities and replacing them with a new national identity. The government fears Hutu political opponents, such as Victoire Ingabire, could undermine this with inflammatory comments.

Kagame’s fears are more likely to be realized if he carries on oppressing freedom of speech. Violence may return if he maintains his crackdown on the press. Rebellion is probable unless he allows the prosecution of Tutsis as well as Hutus at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. The President needs to understand that however noble his aims may be, his methods are misguided.

Britain and America have the power to set things right. Kagame was trained at the US Army College at Fort Leavenworth in Kansas in 1990 and has remained loyal ever since. As Rwanda’s biggest donors, the US and UK provide around $220m of funding each year, which the government budget relies on. Rwanda has also recently joined the commonwealth and switched the country’s entire education system from French to English. Most telling is a recent decision to establish a cricket board. The past 16 years of Kagame’s rule can be seen as an appeasement of Anglo-American desires for the greater benefit of both parties. This year things must change.
Kagame is no longer respecting the ideals he set out to protect in 1994 and in so doing risks all his achievements in reconciling the nation after the genocide. Viable opponents must be found to enable a competitive election to decide Kagame’s successor. Not so many years ago, Mugabe walked down the path to disgrace. We must prevent Kagame from following in his footsteps.


© The Oxford Student

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ICG plots the war in Rwanda and in the Congo as well as repeatedly event in our database. Looking at the rare occasions the ICG intervened to the increasing violence, we found out they have many causal antecedents : The unconditional support of the bloody dictator Paul Kagame and their support of him in serial assassinations and mass-murder. It is nothing new for FDLR who are mired by the ICG. African SurVivors International urges the world community to make clear the political and diplomatic policy towards Paul Kagame and towards Rwanda.


The primary goals of the African SurViVors International organization is to bring back peace in African Great Lakes Region and in Rwanda in particular. African SurViVors International is indebted to various some Human Rights organizations, other charity organizations and individuals around the world that have aided Rwandans to inform the world about the cruelty of the bloody dictator and leader of the Rwandan military junta.

ICG ties with Kagame's backers,  found linked to RPF criminals.

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An examination of key measures of violence reveals a troublesome correlation between the number of ICG Press releases in favor of violence in Democratic Republic of The Congo and Rwanda and homicides, war crimes, mass-rape and genocide committed by Paul Kagame and his RPF army (RDF) and Kagame proxy armies in Congo. Instead of denouncing RPF crimes, instead of insistsing on the dialogue between Rwandans and restoration for democratic institutions in Rwanda, the International Crisis Group calls on violence and mass-murder of those that refuse it and wants to leave in peace in their country of origin. As aid to RPF and Kagame’s government increases in the name of eradicating AIDS, there is a corresponding increase in the number of assassinations, disappearances, mass-rape, war crimes and genocide in both Rwanda and DRC.
The correlation between ICG statements and or press releases, the fueling of wars in the region by a declaration of war by Paul Kagame using the TCG puppet or backers tell us that the world should insists on the neutrality of NGOS if they are. If necessary, the NGO’s representatives should be brought to justice for such plotting against peace and nations. Looking at the wars crimes statistics make clear that ICG plots violence and its statements cause violence and in many cases ICG’s role is to make sure that violence is not stopped.


The ICG writings, statements and propaganda in favor of Kagame’s jihad do raise a question about whether the flow of such support to the Kagame, RPF and Kagame military junta has helped fuel Kagame violence and hinders efforts to restore peace and justice in Rwanda. Recent assassinations inside Rwanda of journalists and political opponents.


Prior to the Kagame’s jihad in Congo , ICG directed nearly all propaganda to worship and praise Kagame’s action in Congo within Kimya I and II. Kagame’s terror campaign launched against Hutu women and children since 1993 up to 2003, the last date known to be the last press release of ICG during the genocide in Congo against Hutus disrupt the main Kagame backing sources.

To bring back peace in the African Great Region will require making the security Council US and EU community and NGOs players responsible for their actions to the international community, since ICG ties with the RPF criminals doesn’t help to resolve the issue of violence in that region rather to fuel the flames inside and outside Rwanda and in Democratic Rep. of Congo in particular.

Dec 1996 The Alliance of Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Congo-Congo (ADFL) controlled most of eastern Congo. It is made up of four political forces with a history of opposition to Mobutu's government as well as the Banyamulenge. It was reported that the Banyamulenge were outnumbered six-to-one by other Congoan ethnic groups in the alliance. Besides being opposed by Congoan government forces, the rebel alliance is also opposed by Congoan militias, the Bangilima and Mai-Mai who have long been opposed to the presence of all Banyarwanda in Congo.


The Rwandan Patriotic Army, which took over Rwanda after the 1994 genocide, and the Ugandan army were reportedly backing the rebels. (Reuters, 12/3/96).





Accurate chronology of reminding mass-slaughters of Hutus in DRC Dec 17, 1996 Mobutu flew home to Congo after undergoing treatment for cancer in France. He appointed a new armed forces chief and reshuffled his cabinet in order to launch a counter-offensive against the rebels.
Jan 20, 1997 The government launched an offensive against Kabila's forces even as they advanced on mineral-rich Shaba region.

Mar 7, 1997 Hundreds of soldiers seized opposition strongholds in Kinshasa after dispersing opposition militias trying to gather for a march against Mobutu. The Secretary-General of UDPS, Adrien Phongo, was beaten and arrested.
Mar 15, 1997 Kisangani, Congo's third largest city, falls to rebel troops.

Mar 23, 1997 Human rights organizations report that Hutu refugees are being massacred in the East by Kabila's forces. Kabila troops are dominated by Tutsis from Rwanda and he is receiving military and other support from Angola, Rwanda, and Uganda.

Apr 2, 1997 Etienne Tshisekedi is named Prime Minister after Kengo wa Dondo is forced out of office. Tshisekedi names his own government and offers to negotiate with Kabila. The offer is refused and Mobutu sacks Tshisekedi after a week.

Apr 5, 1997 The town of Mbuji-Mayi in Kasai Province falls to rebel forces. It is the diamond mining center of Congo and home of opposition leader Etienne Tshisekedi, a Baluba. Laurent Kabila is also a Baluba, but from neighboring Shaba Province. Both Shaba and Kasai have been operating as de facto autonomous states in recent years.

Apr 8, 1997 Mobutu declares a state of emergency over all of Congo. Tshisekedi's supporters clashed with security forces for two days when it became apparent that he would be dropped as Prime Minister.

Apr 9, 1997 Rebels capture Lubumbashi, the capital of Shaba province. It is the second-largest city in Congo in a region rich in minerals. General Likulia Bolong is named Prime Minister replacing Etienne Tshisekedi.

Apr 14, 1997 Tshisekedi supporters in Kinshasa close down the capital for two days in protest over Tshisekedi's ouster as Prime Minister.

Apr 27, 1997 Kabila gives the United Nations 60 days to repatriate hundreds of thousands of Hutus, many of whose whereabouts are unknown having fled into the interior of Congo with the advance of Kabila's rebels. Relief agencies begin airlifting Hutu refugees back to Rwanda shortly after Kabila makes his announcement.

May 1997 Soldiers put down a peaceful demonstration in Uvira, 90 miles south of Bukavu, South Kivu's capital. Some 20 protesters were killed.



May 13, 1997 A night-time curfew was declared in Kinshasa.

May 16, 1997 After it has become apparent that he has no choice but to give up power, Mobutu left Kinshasa for his northern palace at Gbadolite after which he is expected to leave Congo. South Africa had been attempting to mediate between Kabila and Mobutu, but after several attempts, it was clear that Kabila held the upper hand and Mobutu had no leverage over the take-over of his country.

May 17, 1997 Kabila declared himself president and took office on the 29th. He also changed the name of Congo to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), also known as Congo-Kinshasa.

May 23, 1997 Kabila announced some members of his transitional government. The post of Prime Minister, which opposition leaders had hoped would go to Etienne Tshisekedi who has extensive popular support in Kinshasa and Kasai Province, was abolished. Tshisekedi was excluded from Kabila's government.

Jul 8, 1997 Reports have surfaced that in the first weeks of the rebellion begun in October 1996, more than 9000 people, mostly civilians, were killed. There were systematic killings of Hutu refugees in Mbandaka, Kisingani, Goma, and Bukavu. A Senior Tutsi official in Congo's Interior Ministry said that Rwandan and Congolese Tutsi troops were given a free hand to go after Hutu refugees so long as they also contributed to the overthrow of Mobutu. Rebel officers who opposed this policy were reportedly killed. Western diplomats said Kabila did not participate in much of the planning or execution of the rebellion.

Jul 12, 1997 A United Nations report into the massacres of Rwandan refugees in Congo during the rebellion stated they were so massive and systematic that they can be considered crimes against humanity and possibly genocide. Investigators, who have been hampered in their investigation efforts by Kabila's government, said they received reports on 134 alleged massacres committed by Kabila's ADFL and Banyamulenge militias.

Aug 1997 The Democratic Resistance Alliance was established in eastern DRC with the stated aim of "liberating" the area. The new movement is made up largely of Bembe and is led by Celestin Anzaluni Bemba, a local politician known for his anti-Tutsi sentiments. It is reportedly based in Tanzania. Non-Banyarwandan ethnic groups in eastern Congo have resented the privileged position the Congolese Tutsis played in the rebellion that ousted Mobutu and want all Banyamulenge out of the country. (U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, Integrated Regional Information Network (IRIN), 9/10/97)

Aug 10 - 20, 1997 A DRC journalist said that troops, either Tutsis from the DRC or Rwanda, raided Masisi and killed up to 200 people in retaliation for an attack on Tutsi soldiers by Mai-Mai guerrillas. Athorities in the area confirmed 48 people were killed, but other sources put the number of dead at up to 200.

Aug 13, 1997 35,000 refugees in Tanzania's Lugufu camp are divided between supporters and opponents of returning to the DRC. The Babembe are the majority in the camp which was set up in February. Most are refusing to return to their homes because they fought against Kabila's rebellion. Ethnic tensions between the Bembe and Banyamulenge continues in eastern Congo.

Aug 27, 1997 The World Food Program has given seeds to farmers in the Kivu regions stating that the food supply situation was still critical in the area. The WFP estimated the remaining Rwandan refugees in Congo at more than 20,000 and added that 190,000 Congolese were internally displaced. The United Nations continued to list 200,000 Rwandan Hutu refugees as missing in the eastern region of Congo.

Sep 5, 1997 The Association for the Defense of Human Rights in the DRC said about 2000 civilians were massacred in July when Kabila's forces and Rwandan troops avenged attacks by Mai-Mai guerrillas. The Mai-Mai had killed 162 troops in the Masisi area. The Mai-Mai are from the Hunde, Nyanga, Tembo and Kumu ethnic groups and have been fighting against the presence of Tutsis in both North and South Kivu.

Kabila's government has set up a commission of inquiry to which aims to end the political and ethnic troubles in the region. The Masisi area has long been the scene of conflict between the Banyarwanda and "autochtones" or "native" Congolese (Congolese). In 1993, approximately 14,000 Banyarwanda were killed in ethnic violence, and after the influx of Rwandan refugees into the region in mid-1994, ethnic Tutsis became the main targets of ethnic violence in Masisi and eastern Congo in general.

(U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, Integrated Regional Information Network (IRIN), 9/10/97)
Sep 7, 1997 Mobutu Sese Seko died of cancer in exile in Morocco.

Sep 18, 1997 More than 100 people were believed to have been killed in renewed violence in the Masisi area. Congolese Tutsis were the main victims. An organization called MAGRIVI, the Mutual Association of the Agriculturalists of the Virunga, was blamed for the deaths. The alliance, made up of Hutu farmers and Mai-Mai militias targeted Tutsi residents and military personnel.

The human rights organization Azadho said that since July, more than 2000 people have been killed in Kivu. Last week, 7-8000 Tutsi civilians fled Masisi saying that Hutu rebels made daily attacks against them. The Interahamwe have been based in Masisi. In South Kivu, a similar movement has formed within the Babende ethnic group.

It is led by Charles Simba, a one-time ally of Kabila, and has been harassing and ambushing Kabila's Tutsi forces. The Council for National Resistance and Liberation accused Rwandan Tutsis of massacring over 2000 Congolese, mainly Bemba, in the region between Fizi and Kalemia in early September.

Spokesman Henri Njila also stated that many groups in the east, including Babembe, Bafulero, Wanynaga, Bahunde, Bashi and Hutu, have begun to rebel against Kabila. Both Rwandan Hutus and people from other ethnic groups suspected of being sympathetic to Hutus have been killed in massacres in the east.

Sep 22, 1997 Authorities in Kivu said it is now under control of government security forces. Press sources said about 100 Mai-Mai fighters were executed a few kilometers from Goma. Since July, there have been clashes in the area between Mai-Main militiamen and Kabila's forces. Major roads linkind Bukavu to the rest of the world have frequently been ambushed and insecurity in reigned in the area in recent months. The Mai-Mai have been waging a rebellion against what they see is foreign domination by Tutsis.

Sep 23, 1997 Ethnic rivalries flared in the east after the recall of Tutsi soldiers to Rwanda. After their departure, about 7000 ethnic Tutsis in the DRC felt they had lost their protection and fled to Goma. Three thousand fled to the Mudende refugee camp in northwestern Rwanda joining 7500 Masisi Tutsis already there. Non-Tutsi Congolese in the east are increasingly resentful of the improved status of the Tutsis. Tensions are so high in the region that there are rumors of a Rwandan invasion.

Sep 26, 1997 More than 800 former Rwandan army troops and members of the Interahamwe have surrendered to military authorities in the DRC. They had fought alongside governmental troops during the ADFL rebellion. There were no plans to repatriate them to Rwanda.

Oct 3, 1997 About 3000 Mai-Mai militiamen have surrendered to the North Kivu authorities. They will be integrated into the new national armed forces currently undergoing reconstruction. The DRC closed the frontier with Rwanda and said it was expelling all refugees. Interior Minister Mwenze Kongolo confirmed that the UNHCR would suspend its work in the east following the repatriation of all refugees.

Oct 14, 1997 Fighting continued in eastern DRC and neighboring regions of Rwanda and Burundi between Tutsis and Hutus. In the DRC, there is also fighting between Banyamulenge and Bantu groups. Since Kabila's victory, the Banyamulenge have become more and more dominant in local administrations and in the army causing resentment from other ethnic groups.
Fighting in western Rwanda, including an attack mounted against the border town of Gisenyi by 1000 rebels based in the DRC, has increased. More than 4000 people, many of them civilians, have been killed in the past five months. In the Masis area of eastern Congo, Mai-Mai militias continue to fight Kabila's Tutsi soldiers, and in the Fizi area a Babende rebel group led by Charles Simba, a one-time ally of Kabila's, continues to ambush Tutsi soldiers.
Oct 29, 1997 The United Nations team attempting to investigate the alleged massacres of Hutu refugees during the civil war and Kabila's government came to an agreement about how to proceed with the investigations. Details of the agreement included that the government will guarantee to the best of its ability the team's security; the U.N. Mission would cover all areas it deemed necessary to help it conduct its investigation; the report would be limited to "global statements of facts" related to allegations of human rights abuses; the team undertakes not to interfere in the DRC's internal affairs; and the time period of the mandate is 1 March 1993-31 December 1997. The mission is to be completed by 28 February 1997.

Oct 30, 1997 Rwandan Vice President and Defense Minister Paul Kagame has refuted allegations that the Rwandan army took part in the massacre of refugees in the DRC. He stated that all casaulties were a result of the war and not deliberate killing sprees.






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Nederland volgt de rechtszaak tegen de Rwandese oppositieleidster Ingabire op de voet. Dat heeft minister Rosenthal van Buitenlandse Zaken geantwoord op vragen van GroenLinks.



Rosenthal is bezorgd over de toestand in Rwanda. Omdat Ingabire Rwandese is, "kan Nederland niet veel voor haar doen".  

[Haar man en drie kinderen zijn Nederlanders en blijven in Nederland.=> ASIF] 
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'Nederland moet wel opkomen voor Ingabire'

DEN HAAG (ANP) - Nederland moet wel degelijk Rwanda aanspreken op de arrestatie van oppositieleidster Victoire Ingabire, die zestien jaar in Nederland woonde. Dat zei haar advocaat Jan Hofdijk dinsdag.

Ingabire zit sinds 16 oktober in de cel, na een aanklacht dat zij de regering omver zou willen werpen. De Nederlandse ambassade in Rwanda kan officieel niks doen voor de gearresteerde presidentskandidate, zei ambassadeur Frans Makken maandag.

'Nederland helpt Rwanda met het opbouwen van een rechtssysteem en gevangenissen. Dan moeten wij toch zeker Rwanda kunnen aanspreken over deze politieke gevangene', zegt Hofdijk. Volgens hem is de aanklacht compleet verzonnen.
Nederland is de grootste buitenlandse investeerder in Rwanda. Bedrijven als Heineken, Draka en Rabobank zijn er actief. Luchtvaartmaatschappij KLM vliegt sinds zondag vijf keer in de week naar Rwanda.
Voorbeeldfunctie


Advocaat Hofdijk meent dat Nederland daarom een voorbeeldfunctie heeft in Rwanda. 'Veel andere diplomaten kijken er naar de opstelling van Nederland. Maar Nederland speelt er een perfide rol. Het zegt zelfs dat het land veilig genoeg is om mensen naar terug te sturen, wat veel andere regeringen in Europa ontkennen.'

Oppositie
 De etnische Hutu Ingabire (43) was in januari teruggekeerd naar Rwanda om mee te doen aan de presidentsverkiezingen van augustus. Daar kreeg ze echter geen toestemming voor. De zittende Tutsi-president Paul Kagame won zonder noemenswaardige oppositie met 93 procent van de stemmen.
© rnw.nl
Related articleVolgens Hofdijk vreest Victoire Ingabire dat ze vergiftigd wordt in de gevangenis, wat in Rwanda vrij gebruikelijk zou zijn. Hofdijk is vooral uit op een eerlijke rechtsgang. Het gaat hem niet zozeer om terugkeer van Victoire Ingabire naar haar gezin in Zevenhuizen. Zijzelf wil vooral actief blijven in Rwanda.
Genocynisme



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

[Since 1994, the world witnesses the horrifying reality : the Tutsi minority (14%) ethnic domination, the Tutsi minority ethnic rule, 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 with an iron hand, and the brutal suppression of the rights of the majority of the Rwandan people (85% are Hutus), mass-arrests and mass-murder by the RPF criminal organization.
So long as justice and accountability for RPF past and current crimes are ignored and delayed, Peace and Stability will remain illusive and impossible in Rwanda=>ASIF]








Rwanda's High Court in Kigali denied opposition leader Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza's bail appeal hearing and sent her back to solitary confinement in Kigali's infamous 1930 prison, where another opposition leader Bernard Ntaganda also remains incarcerated. Ingabire and Ntaganda both attempted to contest this year's presidential election against Rwandan President Paul Kagame, as did Democratic Green Party of Rwanda President Frank Habineza. Ingabire and Ntaganda both landed in prison instead, charged with terrorism and genocide related crimes. Habineza has been in Sweden with his family, since his party's vice president was found beheaded, his body dumped in the wetlands of a river in Southern Rwanda, though he still intends to return to Rwanda. KPFA's Ann Garrison has the story.



KPFA/Ann Garrison:
Rwandan and Congolese scholars and activists say that the Kagame regime imprisoned Ingabire to distract the international community from the UN Report released on October 1st, that documents the Rwandan army's war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocidal massacres of Hutu civilians in Rwanda's neighbor, the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Didas Gasana, Editor of the Newsline East Africa, speaking to KPFA from Kampala, Uganda, said that Kagame's repression and exclusion of the majority of the Rwandan population is turning the tiny African nation into a smoldering volcano that could erupt at any time. Charles Kambanda, a Rwandan American legal scholar, former member of Kagame's Rwandan Patriotic Front, and Gasana's former professor at Makerera University in Kampala, agrees. He spoke to KPFA from New York City:


Charles Kambanda:


Yes, indeed, what's happening in Rwanda under Kagame is a smoldering volcano that might erupt any time. He has pushed people too far against the wall, and the only possible action that people are likely to take is to fight back. What we have now in Rwanda, under Kagame, is that he is actually exterminating the people within and he's not stopping there. He's going for voices from outside Rwanda, to assassinate them. This is going too far, and eventually we are going to see people coming together and saying no, enough is enough, we have to fight back, because they have no other alternative but fight back. And my fear is that we risk having the worst situation, worse than what we saw in 1994, because, on the one hand, Kagame has armed his people; he has so many young men who are now armed. They are more or less like the former interahamwe. And these people who are excluded will also arm their youth, and we are going to have people killing others in millions, if we are not careful. A kind of history repeating itself.

KPFA/Ann Garrison:


Kambanda also says that Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza cannot possibly get a fair trial in Rwanda, no matter how skillful her lawyers are.

For Pacifica, KPFA Radio, I'm Ann Garrison.

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

“I can’t support the things that are happening in Rwanda right now. We support the development of a professional justice system in Rwanda, but at the same time opposition leader Victoire Ingabire is locked up!” Dhr Klaas Dijkhoff, MP for VVD and spokesperson



 A growing majority of Dutch political parties is calling upon the Netherlands to cut its aid to Rwanda, several MP’s have confirmed to Radio Netherlands. VVD, the biggest party in the Dutch lower House and a member of the ruling coalition, wants cut back on the amount of money that flows directly into the Rwandan national budget. Other parties want to continue the freeze on this direct budget support that has been in place since 2008.


By Sophie van Leeuwen and Ruben Koops

The damning UN report on Rwandan activity in east Congo and the arrest of Victoire Ingabire are examples of how Rwanda is suffering from a bad news cycle with no end in sight. Meanwhile the Dutch parliament is preparing for a final round of budget talks and representatives are doing the math. A political majority appears to be in favour of cutting back on Rwandan development aid and giving president Kagame’s government a strong warning at the same time.

Klaas Dijkhoff, MP for VVD and spokesperson on development aid for his party, considers the current political situation in Rwanda as worrisome. “I can’t support the things that are happening in Rwanda right now. We support the development of a professional justice system in Rwanda, but at the same time opposition leader Victoire Ingabire is locked up!”



Unfair
According to Dijkhoff, Ingabire is not receiving a fair trial in Rwanda. “They put her in jail, placed her under house arrest, released her and then locked her up again without any substantial evidence! When you ask me, it looks like a political trial.”

Joël Voordewind, who is an MP for the Christian Union uses even stronger language. “Right now, we support the construction of jails by directly funding the Rwandan justice department.” Voordewind says: “As we speak those jails are being used to lock up political prisoners, and I don’t want us to be responsible for these policies.” Voordewind calls upon the minister of foreign affairs to end the direct government support the Netherlands is giving to Rwanda, a proposition that is likely to gain broad support during the foreign ministry budget negotiations.

Freeze

There has been more criticism regarding the Dutch aid to Rwanda. The Netherlands is an important donor country to Rwanda with a proposed aid budget of 44 million euros for 2011. The part that flows directly to the Rwandan government has been frozen since 2008, because of the alleged Rwandan involvement in violence in east Congo.

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

“For Us Rwandans, Surrender To Kagame Barbarism Is Out of Question”

To those whose ears refuse to hear,  Rwandan survivors will use our freedom rights to change the current situation in Rwanda. The majority of Rwandans keep asking why the support for a criminal, a serial killer and genocidaire. If they keep refusing to change their mind, the world will learn more about them as unabashed racists who openly decided to exterminate the Hutu whether in Rwanda or in Democratic Republic of the Congo.   A horrifying and sad reality for anyone : Allow these voiceless victims to be heard
The African Great Lakes region has become an area where the widespread, deliberate extermination of the Hutu is increasingly taking place without taking tough measures to stop the killer. “General” Paul Kagame is still out of discussions in the UN Security Souncil, in Washington, Ottawa, Brussels and London. 

 It is deplorable. It is unfortunate. It is immoral, it is a murder  that Kagame remains above on both National and International Laws.

Help Rwandans and Congolese people to stop the genocidaire “General” Paul Kagame. Rapes, assassinations, mass-murders, which are taking on daily basis place in Congo are the well-known signature of the Rwandan Evil Paul Kagame. Those who continue to fight for Kagame are those whoa re fabricating crimes committed by the Hutu killing himself. 

African SurViVors International Reiterate Our Demand for Their Unconditional Release. 

Seeking justice for the victims of RPF crimes 

Senor leaders and operatives of Kagame proxy armies in Congo fully  remain untouchable.
“General” Mutebusi, “General” Nkunda are in their temple in Rwanda. “General” Ntaganda Bosco is protected by the Rwandan puppet in Congo. Because ordinarily congolese and Rwandan people are voiceless, the evil is allowed to work shoulder to shoulder with the Interpol and countries which are supposed to protect by all means Human rights not only here in Europe and North America but also on the soil of the black continent.

The United States should urge the Security Council to hold an emergency on case of Mrs. Ingabire Victoire including the unconditional release of all political prisoners (all of them are prisoners of conscience and NOT TERRORISTS).
 

It is deplorable and unjustified. It is unfortunate. It is immoral, and a murder to throw into prison Mrs. Ingabire Umuhoza Victoire, a mother of three kids only because she believes in respect of Civil and Human Rights and Liberties as she has spent more than 16 years in The Netherlands - known as a Western country respecting elementary Human Rights. In Rwanda, no political party that is not subservient to the RPF has been accepted to register for August elections. In his monarchy nostalgic mind, Paul Kagame wants to eliminate those who are determined to peacefully challenge him. 

It is deplorable. It is unfortunate. It is immoral, and a murder to send into jail Mr Callixte Mbarushimana who has already survived Kagame and RPF fabrications on the genocide. FDLR has been prejudiced enough with the complicity of RPF backers and mining multinationals to justify Kagame's crusade genocidal wars in the Eastern region of Congo. They rape and kill and tell their victims they are from FDLR! We all know the RPF shameful tactics. An independent inquiry should be settled to find out and bring perpetrators to justice. We heard US secretary of State asking the same for Birma military leadership. We urge the US and British governments for creating special international inquiry seeking accountability of RPF leadership for the mass-rape and crimes against Congolese women. RPF has never left DRC. They use the FARDC umbrella to exterminate the Hutu in that region. Listen to their slogans and you will get to the point.  the Eastern of Congo where Kagame's proxy armies are carrying out ethnically targeted mass killings. We also know the previous attacks were carried out by the RDF and Kagame proxy militias targeting the Hutu and the Nande ethnic group members. The idea behind is to clean up the region and settle there the Tutsi land.  All criminals especially big fishes hiding in Rwanda but operating on the Congolese soil should be apprehended and brought to justice.

Paul Kagame whose proxy terrorist murder gangs continue to murder several  women and men refusing to tell investigators lies about the real mass-rape perpetrators. The Rwandan Tyrant has always used fake testimonies, rape, torture and retaliatory killings of women and men refusing to cooperate. 
 
It is deplorable. It is unfortunate. It is immoral, it is a murder to send Mr Callixte Mbarushimana into jail while REAL CRIMINALS ARE at LARGE AND PROTECTED BY THEIR SENIOR PAUL KAGAME and many of his co-criminals.


We are about “General” Paul Kagame and RPF "civil and military leadership his backers, Laurent Nkunda, Bosco Ntaganda, “General” Kabarebe (the then Chief of Congolese military Staff ! for better coordinating the genocide), Ruberwa, Nyarugabo, Karaha (Karahamuheto), Ngezayo, Kamanzi, Inyumba Aloysia, Ibingira, Kayonga, Nziza, etc are FULLY enjoying impunity and surprisingly some of them are OFTEN invited to visit our countries here in Europe and North America.
They hold a high rank in the RPF military hierarchy and were promoted to “Generals” after mass-rape and mass-slaughters of Hutus in both Congo and Rwanda.
 
Please spread the word and tell the world what's going on. Congolese people and the Hutu, majority of Rwandans have the most basic of rights—the right to life—and should not be denied that on the grounds that they happened to be born Hutu they have to be exterminated.
Furthermore the double standards of the "Kagame wars and crimes" is staggering.  Should the illiterate “General” Ibingira be given the right to tell the world who gave him order to exterminate Kibeho internal displaced university students and teachers, women and children that hoped they would be protected by UN peacekeepers?
 Time and time again we hear tho old adage, "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it;" yet we willfully ignore the past each and every day! The very same reasons were used to justify slaver; "they aren't REALLY people," or "they are my property and I will with them as I please" were both common rationales for the terrible suffering that peoples in many parts were allowed to endure. The same is now true of the extermination of Hutus. 
What should be the lessons for those who are committed to defend freedom and Human Rights? To Give up and listen to the Evil, to the terrorist? The serial killer? The mass-murderer? 
Unconditional surrender for Rwandans to Kagame's crimes: Major obstacle to peace in Rwanda

The world community should think about the future of Rwandans as the moral right for them to defend themselves and fight (jus ad bellum) the criminal Rwandan military Junta. The remaining option of peacefully stopping the ongoing mass violations of human rights in Rwanda and in the Eastern region of Congo. 

In conclusion it is simply unbelievable how many people fail to see through the "right to choose" KUVUGISHUKULI and see this issue for what it really is!

© ASI Foundation


 

• Arbitrary or Unlawful Deprivation of Life

• Disappearances

• Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman, or Degrading Treatment or Punishment

• Arbitrary Arrest and/or Detention

• Denial of Fair Public Trial across the country

•  RPF Arbitrary Interference with Privacy, Family, Home or Correspondence, every movement is controlled by LDF,DMI, RDF and or CID.

• No Freedom of Speech and Press, Assembly, the situation is daily worsened by the fear of RPF Nazi

• No Freedom of Peaceful Assembly and Association has become ancient history.
  

  No Freedom of assembly since Paul Kagame seized power in 1994

• No Freedom of Movement within the Country, Foreign Travelers highly controlled by the totalitarian regime, and forcibly Repatriation of Hutu refugees (eye-witnesses of RPF crimes). 

• Their repatriation is aimed to assassinate all eye witnesses of Kagame and RPF crimes against the Hutu.

The RPF criminal regime promotes the Forced and or Compulsory Labor aimed to enslave million Hutus.
The Hutu child has no guarantee for not being exploited in the organized Hutu child labor. He knows no minimum Age for Employment.

Questions: Since we know Paul Kagame and his RPF are known to be CRIMINALS, so soon or later they will be brought to Justice, Do Rwandans have the right to fight such an illegal and terrorist regime? 
 
Rwandans are waiting for clear answers even though not all of these questions have clear answers. Rwandans day and night cry out for justice and cry out for peace. 

The goings-on veneration and adoration of the thuggish tyrant Paul Kagame should end as soon as possible. 

Do Rwandans have the right to defend themselves against such a criminal regime? The world community should help Rwandans to find an optimized solution.

How can a well-known criminal individual or regime sign an arrest warrant against survivors (possible eye-witnesses in the trial) of his or her crimes? Does the world has an idea about the records (cleansing and bloodsheds) of those murdered by the Junta Regime inside Rwanda before launching the genocidal war in Congo? 
 
 ASI Foundation strongly opposes efforts to single out Survivors fighters against the criminal and terrorist regime and jeopardizes Rwandans freedom fighters actions to topple the genocidaire regime.

The World community needs to listen to Rwandans that are crying out for help. 
 


To be back to the daily bread of the hated and hunted Hutus : There is no denying that Kagame is determined to create in Central Africa and in Rwandan in particular an apartheid regime.  The world probalby knows those dwellings “Imidugudu”settled for Hutu expropriations by RPF High ranking civil and military leadership: Kiyovu Nyarutarama have been already emptied from Hutu ethnic members without any compensation. in the coutryside, Hutus were chased away for large-scale farms: "amarancha". Hutus have no longer right to live in towns. Go and check it out. It's a matter of fact.  Does the world community realizes it helps (using the money of their taxpayers) the building up of the Rwandan apartheid under the rule of RPF genocidaires led by "General" Paul Kagame?



 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