[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]


Open Letter to:


United Nations Security Council
UN Headquarters
First Avenue at 46th Street
New York, NY 10017
United States of America

RE :
Call on UN Security Council to Urgently Intervene in the Rwandan Political Crisis and the Immediate Release of Ms. Victoire INGABIRE, Bernard NTAGANDA and all political prisoners.


Your Excellencies,

The Permanent Consultative Council of Opposition Parties in Rwanda which brings together, the United Democratic Forces (FDU–Inkingi), the Democratic Green Party of Rwanda and the Social Party IMBERAKURI strongly calls for an urgent intervention of the United Nations Security Council in the Rwandan Political crisis.
The Rwandan Opposition is convinced that your urgent intervention will help defuse the current political crisis in the country and help achieve sustainable peace in the Great Lakes Region of Africa.

Excellencies, as you may be aware, all the three genuine opposition political parties that have challenged the RPF Led Rwandan Government have undergone serious and dangerous trials both in 2009 and 2010. They were all blocked from participating in the recently concluded Presidential elections, which the incumbent run with stooge candidates and later awarded himself 93%.

The Government refused to register the Democratic Green Party of Rwanda after a whole year of risky peaceful struggle that was started on 14th August 2009. Its Vice President Andre KAGWA RWISEREKA was assassinated and found decapitated on 14th July 2010, till now those killers have not faced justice and there are no signs of on-going investigations despite the fact that the UN Secretary General, EU, Government of France
and Government of Canada called for investigations.


The Government of Rwanda also refused to register the United Democratic Forces-FDU Inkingi and many of its members have been imprisoned or released on bail. On 14th October 2010, Ms. Victoire INGABIRE UMUHOZA, FDU Inkingi Leader was arrested and incarcerated in KICUKIRO police custody on politically motivated charges of forming a not-yet known terrorist organization (Coalition of Democratic Forces - CDF as an alleged military wing of FDU-Inkingi). The conditions of her detention are cruel and inhumane: she is day and night in handcuffs and denied any sleeping item.
To have sustainable peace in Rwanda, there is a strong need of creating political space that enables a peaceful process of transfer and competition for power. We call for a Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission and a Rwandan National Dialogue.

It is quite sad that the present government has failed on many of the promises it pledged.
We have more political leaders in exile today than ever before: three former Prime Ministers, two former Speakers of Parliament, three former Ministers of Foreign Affairs, one Minister of Defence, one Minister of Justice, one Minister of Home Affairs assassinated in Nairobi, Members of Parliament (one was assassinated in Nairobi), ambassadors, military officers including (Lt.Gen. Kayumba Nyamwasa who survived an assassination attempt on 19th June 2010 in Johannesburg, South Africa), etc.
Many ordinary people are fleeing their country at a time when prominent members of the political elite are fleeing for their lives. We fear therefore that the present management of the political system has the potential to lead to another cycle of violence. This must be stopped immediately; UN Security council can prevent this. It should not be like the 1994 Genocide.

In this respect, the members of the Permanent Consultative Council of Opposition Parties in Rwanda, decided to take part in a peaceful democratisation process of the country. We are determined to help break the cycle of fear, mistrust and impunity in Rwanda.

The Rwandan Opposition has been subjected to verbal and physical intimidation and abuse. The legal framework has been used against us to stop United Democratic Forces (FDU–Inkingi), the Democratic Green Party of Rwanda from registering our political parties and exercising our political rights. The Democratic Green Party of Rwanda’s founding convention on 30th October 2009 was sabotaged violently, by people suspected to be connected to security organs and others to be working for the Government.
An independent press has almost completely disappeared. In July 2010, Mr. Jean-Léonard RUGAMBAGE, a journalist and critic of the government, was murdered.

The papers that are critical of government have been forced to close down (UMUSESO and UMUVUGIZI Newspapers) and their owners forced to flee the country, because their lives were in danger. Both are now operating online from exile. The Government has recently lifted the suspension on these papers, but the present Media Law and National Media Council are legal tools used by the Government to control free media in the country. The Media Law need serious revision. Journalists are jailed on charges related to their freedom of expression. Other media houses exercise self-censorship in order to survive. Two Editors of UMURABYO Newspaper (Ms.Agnes UWIMANA NKUSI and Ms.Saidat MUKAKIBIBI) are in Prison. Civil society organisations are forced to take the official Government line in order to operate.



We are convinced that the only solution in the growing social and political tension in Rwanda depend more on the resolution of the internal political problems, this is why we request you to urgently intervene in the Rwandan Political crisis.
In particular, we request you to impress upon the President of Rwanda to immediately release all political prisoners: Ms. Victoire INGABIRE UMUHOZA, Maître Bernard NTAGANDA, Mr. Deo MUSHAYIDI, Mr.Charles NTAKIRUTINKA, Ms.Seraphine MUKAMANA, Mr.Andrew MUGANWA plus many others and also allow political parties that are critical of the regime ( the Democratic Green Party of Rwanda and FDU-Inkingi) to register and exercise their full political rights and let the legally recognised leader of Social Party Imberakuri, Maître Bernard NTAGANDA, manage his party without Government interference.

Yours Sincerely,


Mr. Frank HABINEZA
Founding President, Democratic Green Party of Rwanda

Mr. Sylvain SIBOMANA
Secretary General, United Democratic Forces, FDU INKINGI

Mr. Theobald MUTARAMBIRWA
Secretary General, Social Party Imberakuri

Ingabire is the head of the United Democratic Forces, a party formed in exile but not registered. On April 21 she was also arrested on counts of denying the 1994 genocide and collaborating with a terrorist organisation. She was released on bail a day later.

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Police say she is implicated in an investigation into the activities of an ex-commander of a Hutu militia group.


Ms Ingabire returned from exile in January to challenge President Kagame but she was barred from standing in the August election. Ms Ingabire has spent 5 months under house arrest since April 2010. Since Ms Ingabire returned from exile in January to challenge President Kagame, she was barred from standing in the August presidential election as RPF and Paul Kagame know she has all support of the majority of Rwandans.

Three months ago, Ms. Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza has always been subjected to constant threats and humiliation; she got the shock of her life after being released from detention on bail. After arriving at her home, she reportedly found her house ransacked by Rwandan state security personnel. Her personal documents and other items including computers and telephones were missing. Mrs. Ingabire s passport was also confiscated by police. It was reported that there was tight security deployed at her home located in the Gacukiro, a Kigali suburb inhabited mainly by the upper class of Rwanda.


African SurViVors International is calling on the Security Council, the UN and the world community to draw their attention and especially the attention of the United States, Great Britain, Germany, Belgium, and Netherlands from the intolerable conditions that the RPF regime has created for the Rwandan people. Taking into consideration of what is going on in Rwanda, there is no denying that the opposition leaders and all Rwandans are legally deprived of the right to elementary rights. The freedom of speech and freedom of the press are indispensable tenets of democracy. The RPF regime and government are decided to repress the Rwandan Opposition leaders, the civil society and massively violate human rights against Rwandans.


African SurViVors International organization expresses its deepest concern about the appalling health conditions of Me Ntaganda Bernard the founding president of the PS Imberakuli detained since 3 months in retaliation to his political activities.

Her second detention, and that several political prisoners throughout the country including hundreds of thousands prisoners mainly from the Hutu ethnic group wrongly accused of genocide and genocide ideology , contravenes international human rights law and casts a long shadow over reconciliation in the country. African SurViVors International urges the RPF military junta and Kagame’s government to release all political prisoners immediately and unconditionally, and respect the human rights of Rwandans’ people.


As we call on the perpetrators for Ms Ingabire Umuhoza Victoire immediate-unconditional release, she has made clear her commitment to working with all parties to achieve national reconciliation. It is high time the regime released her and accepted her offer of dialogue instead of fabricating charges of terrorism while linking her to inexistent terrorist organizations.
ASI foundation reminds the UN Security Council, the European Union and world community in particular that, after the crimes of Rwandan and the genocide in Congo, there is more than a human tragedy, a tragic waste of talent, vision and leadership for a country that desperately needs all three.
Since 1990, the Rwandan people have suffered enough. A genuine transition to civilian and accountable government is long overdue. African SurViVors International is committed to making sure the European Union plays a part in helping Rwandans to achieve this so that Rwanda can be part of countries thriving democracies.

African SurVivors International is also inviting people around the world to post the illegal arrest messages for Ms. Ingabire Umuhoza Victoire on its Facebook wall.


African SurViVors International has received alarming information about the health condition of Mr. Bernard Ntaganda detained in Kigali prison.
Mr. Bernard Ntaganda is suffering a serious deterioration of his health due to the poor conditions of detention and the ill-treatments he has been subjected to in prison. However, his family and PS Imberakuli leadership and members reported to BBC that his health continues to deteriorate and notably reported that he had lost weight, he feels constantly tired and has difficulty to walk.
African SurViVors International further recalls that a number of Rwandan political leaders remain arbitrarily detained because of their legitimate political activities.


African SurViVors International is calling for immediate and unconditional release of Ms. Ingabire Umuhoza Victoire together with all detained political leaders and journalists.
African SurViVors International joins in the vehement condemnation of Ms.Victoire Ingabire abduction in the highest terms, we are very much saddened by the fact that, the condemnation of the oppression, murder and intimidation of the political opponents inside Rwanda has remained inefficient to protect and preserve the safety of the citizenry whether Hutus or Tutsis. The abduction of Ms. Ingabire Victoire is a classic example of this, as it happens at the very heart of Western supporters and backers of the dictator Kagame where democracy and freedom are supposed to be fully respected.
The people of Rwanda are experiencing difficult times domestically: Criminals and genocidaire on power, the RPF military junta, a despotic state which  is – through constant and organized repression – sending to prison all the proponents of freedom and democracy. In this particular case, Ms. Ingabire Umuhoza Victoire has been arbitrary arrested before yesterday on the pretext that she is organizing acts of terrorism aimed to destabilize the country. However, all Rwandans and the world observers remain convinced that Ms. Ingabire Umuhoza Victoire is arbitrarily detained because of her legitimate political and human rights activities.

More recently, Me Ntaganda Berndard has been accused for the same baseless charges. We have recieved reliable and alarming information that she does not receive appropriate medical care, as the Rwandan prison serves bad, insufficient food and salted water to the detainee.


African SurViVors International is extremely worrying about daily intimidations by the police and RPF and government agents against its members. To make more pressure on the West, the RPF regime and President Kagame have made internal conditions very difficult for the opposition leadership and members together with the proponents of freedom and human rights throughout the country.


The European Union, for its part, by approving a fund for the recent August 2010 elections in Rwanda, which has in fact being largely spent on RPF and Paul Kagame’s campaign, has made it easy for the RPF junta to make pressure, torture, send to prison and refuse to investigate assassinations of journalist and the VP of the Rwandan Greens, crimes that are done with total impunity.


We believe that RPF creation of the permanent enemy inside and outside Rwanda, the imprisonment of Ms Ingabire Umuhoza Victoire, the oppression of the Rwandan people, the physical and moral torture of the political opponents (FDU, Rwandan Greens, PS Imberakuli) and journalists will fuel, widespread and prolong tensions between Rwandans.
At the same time, even speaking about “the coup d’état” , the terrorist acts in Rwanda make things extremely difficult for us as the opponents of the current RPF regime and of course much more difficult for all of those human rights and pro-democracy activists in and outside Rwanda. No single Rwandan from all ethnic groups wants to see what happened to Rwanda in the February 28th 1993, April 6th 1994, 1995 Kibeho extermination of Hutus,1996 up to 1998 extermination of Rwandan and Congolese Hutu repeated.

We want Justice, democracy and peace for Rwanda and for all Rwandans... In order to help the process of democratization in this country, the western countries should best help by promoting dialogue between all parties in the conflict and pave the way for the creation of a truly stability in Rwanda through reconciliation. The impunity and repression should not be the basis of economic development in any country nor in Rwanda.


The opposition leaders are facing more deplorable conditions with every passing day. We do hope that the world community and all the forums that defend democracy and human rights will be unflinching in their support for such a regime quest for freedom and democracy.

The Rwandan people are entitled to freedom, democracy, reconciliation and human rights respect.

Therefore, we demand the immediate release of the FDU-Inkingi chairperson whose detention has only served to show the RPF’s intolerance of real democratic debate. It is prime time for the Kagame and RPF government to show leadership and to end the climate of fear, intimidation assassinations and imprisonment, which still surround the work of the opposition and of all Rwandans who differently think otherwise about the current socio-political situation in Rwanda.
Thank you for your attention to this pressing issue. We trust that you and appreciate its importance and that you will help to do what is right. The rest of world is watching.

Adopted and signed in Amsterdam this 16th October 2010


Very sincerely,

Jean-Christophe Nizeyimana
Founding Chairperson
African SurViVors International
Email : contactsurvivors@yahoo.com
Tel.: +31684030562



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

They also refused to register the United Democratic Forces-FDU Inkingi and many of its members have been imprisoned or released on bail.


The Social Party Imberakuri had managed to get registered in July 2009, but was later broken up into several factions, one of them now in the Government’s Political Parties Forum. Its Founding President, Maitre Bernard NTAGANDA is in prison since 24th June 2010, he is reported to be in a very critical healthy situation at King Faycal Hospital after Kigali Central Hospital was unable to treat him.
URGENT CALL FOR ACTION:

• We urgently call for the immediate release of Ms. Victoire INGABIRE UMUHOZA with no further conditions.


• We demand an immediate release from Prison of Mr. Bernard NTAGANDA, who was detained since 24th June 2010 and is now facing serious health conditions, which may claim his life.


Issued at Kigali, 15th October 2010

Ubu, agashya muri ubwo bwicanyi ni uko mu cyegeranyo cyashyizwe ahagaragara ku itariki ya 1 z’Ukwakira 2010, LONI yerekanye uburyo perezida Kagame n’abasirikari be bakoresheje bica Abanyarwanda b’impunzi z’abahutu barenze ibihumbi 200.000 bari mu makambi ya Congo. Babishe umugenda, bakoresheje ubugome bwabo busanzwe, busa n’ubwo bakoresheje mu Rwanda : bararashwe, baratemwe, bamenwe imitwe (n’iy’ abana) bakubiswe udufuni cyanga inyundo. Abandi imibiri yabo yaratwitswe bagisamba, abandi bakavanwamo amara maze imirambo yabo ikajugunywa mu migezi, abenshi bajugunywe mu byobo (bimeze nk’ingarani) barenzwaho ubutaka. Abenshi muri bo uduhanga twabo n’amagufa yabo biranamye, binyanyagiye nk’amabuye muri ayo mashyamba ya Congo . Dutegereje ko Kagame, ubumuntu bwamuzamo, we, n’abamushyigikiye bakemeza ku mugaragaro ko abo Banyarwanda bishwe ako kageni bakorerwa imihango y’ikiriyo, bakibukwa, bagashyingurwa mu cyubahiro.

Igihe Perezida Paul Kagame na Ministrikazi we, Louise Mushikiwabo, bavuzaga induru ndede, bakangata ko bazavana ingabo zabo muri Darfour (Soudan), bagiraga ngo batere Loni ubwoba, kugira ngo (nkuko yari isanzwe ibikora) idashyira ahagaragara icyo icyegeranyo cyerekana ko Paul Kagame yakoze jenoside. Ubwo barasakuje cyane ko ngo Kagame n’ingabo ze bahagaritse jenoside, ko byonyine bisa n’aho byabahaye uruhusa rwo kwica abahutu igihe bashakiye.
LONI yasanze urwo ruhushya ( permis, cyanga licence) rwo kwica abahutu rushaje. Bateye imbabazi biratinda, ariko ntibyabuza LONI kwitandukanya na bo, yerekana amarorerwa n’amahano yakorewe abahutu muri Congo , ubu hashize iminsi 10 isi yose imenye ko Paul Kagame ari umwicanyi. Ariko si bariya bahutu b’impumzi yishe gusa, hari abandi LONI izi kandi nabo bagomba gutangazwa kugira ngo niba Kagame agomba kuregwa, aregerwe rimwe, acirwe urubanza rimwe, afungwe rimwe, kandi afungirwe ahantu hamwe. Niba kandi asabye imbabazi, abikorere rimwe, nabwo aziherwe rimwe.

Ubundi ntibisanzwe ko LONI yatetesha perezida Paul Kagame, kuva yica perezida Habyarimana, dore hashize imyaka 16, yamurega ubwicanyi ndengakamere yakoreye muri Congo gusa. LONI yahishe ibyegeranyo bitatu bindi byerekeranye ubwicanyi Paul Kagame n’abasirikare be bakoreye Abanyarwanda. Turasaba LONI ko yashyiraho URUKIKO RWIHARIYE byose bikajya ahagaragara:

LONI yahishe icyegeranyo kw’iyicwa rya Perezida Habyarimana na mugenzi we perezida w’Uburundi, Cypriano Ntaryamira, cyari cyakozwe na “enqueteur” witwa Hourigan wakorera ga LONI, kandi niwe ubyivigira;

LONI yahishe icyegeranyo cyakozwe n’umugabo witwa Gersony w’umunyamerika, cyerekeye abantu bishwe na Kagame mugihe cya jenoside na nyuma y’aho gato, barenga ibihumbi mirongo. Ibi biravugwa n’ikinyamakuru gikomeye cyo muri Amerika, cyitwa The New York Times cyasohotse tariki ya 30 z’ukwa Nzeli, 2010.

LONI yaburijemo icyegeranyo cyerekana ubwicanyi bwa Kagame i Kibeho mu kwa kane 1995. Ni ngombwa ko LONI yakoresha indi ankete, ikerakana neza uruhare rwa Perezida Kagame muri buriya bwicanyi bwakorewe hagati mu gihugu LONI ibireba, ibishyigikiye, bigakorwa ku bwende bwa Kagame n’abasirikare be, gouvernement itabizi.

Byaba ibyo muri Congo , byaba iby’iyicwa rya perezida Habyarimana na mugenzi we perezida w’Uburundi, byaba iby’Abahutu bishwe muri jenoside y’abatutsi, na nyuma ya ho, byaba iby’abavanywe mu byabo n’intambara (les deplacés) biciwe Ikibeho, byose birahama Perezida Kagame. Kugira ngo azabivemo abe umwere biraruhije cyane, mbese bizamugora. Mbona n’inshuti ze z’abazungu ntacyo babikoraho. Nta Bill Clinton, Tony Blair, Clara Short, Baroness Chalker, Roger Winter, Donald Payne, Philip Gourevitch, Rick Warren, n’abandi benshi ntacyo babikoraho. Ahubwo bagiye kumwitaza, bamugendere kure . Ntabwo abazungu bajya bemera gusangira ibyaha n’Abanyafurika. Iyo biba bibaho, abazungu benshi b’Ababiligi n’Abanyamerika baba barapfanye na Mobutu Sese Seko wa Zaire, bashutse ngo niyice LUMUMBA, igihugu bakakinyunyuza, hanyuma bakaza kumuvanaho bakoresheje les fameux “Leaders de la nouvelle génération africaine”. Ubwo rero Kagame niyumvire ho.

Muri ibi bihe bikomereye umuyobozi w’igihugu cyacu, ni byiza ko twamugira inama ya kigabo. Jye iyo mbona ni uko yasaba Abanyarwanda imbabazi yarangiza akegura. Imbabazi akazihabwa, ndetse akabafasha gushyiraho uburyo bushya bwo kumvikana ku miyoborere mishya y’Urwanda.


Aramutse atabyemeye ni uko twese twafatanya, twese Abanyarwanda, tugasaba ko afatwa agacirwa imanza z’ubwicanyi yakoze, cyangwa yakoresheje mu Rwanda no muri Congo .

None se byakumvikana bite ko Slobodan Milosovic wo muri Serbia, waregwaga kuba yaricishije abantu ibihu bitandatu (6000) by’Abayislamu, mu mujyi wa Srebrenica ho muri Bosnia-Herzegovina, yafatwa agafungwa, uwitwa Charles Taylor wo muri Liberia agafatwa agafungwa, naho Kagame wakoze ibyaha by’ubwicanyi bw’imbaga y’Abanyarwanda, agakomeza kuzerera mu bihugu by’Uburayi na Amerika nk’aho ari umwere. Niba ateguye nafatwe.

Ese irya anketi ikorwa n’uriya mujuji w’Umufaransa, ko izashyirwa ahagaragara bitarenze ukwezi kwa gatatu 2011, yo izamusiga ubuhoro? Icyaha kizamuhama. None se azabigenza ate? Azakomeze ategeke ku ngufu? Nzabandora.

Bikorewe i Burusseli, tariki ya 11 Ukwakira 2010

Fawusitini Twagiramungu

Wahoze ari Minsitiri w’Intebe mu Rwanda


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

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]



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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

Yesterday, I received a copy of the Rwandan governments response to the Draft UN Mapping Report on the DRC. It is divided into five sections, all of which warrant reaction. I'll just make a few points as the Report is perhaps better read as a statement of the extent to which the RPF is loosing international legitimacy.
Before going into some of the substance, I want to point out one consistent reaction from members of the Rwandan government. They do not deny that there its army killed civilians in the DRC, only that these killings do not constitute genocide. Indeed, the government's ineptitude at handling its reaction/response is uncharacteristic of its usual deft skill in "managing" bad press. It may be that so much negative yet accurate press has emerged in international sources the last year as the RPF cracks down on political opponents - both with its own party and outside challengers -- human rights activists, journalists and other segments of civil society that there are serious cracks within the party machine. Time will tell.

There is a great deal in the government's rhetoric, both formally through the UN, and statements from government representatives in the regional and international media, that the fractures and fissures within the ruling RPF are becoming more apparent. At the same time, we see the lengths to which Kigali will go to defend its version of how the genocide happened, how the RPF stopped it and the successes of post-genocide reconstruction and reconciliation processes.

I want to say too, that the RPFs emotive and excessive reaction to the UN Report seem to be the reaction of Kagame himself. Hi is known to be allergic to criticism while maintaining the moral authority of conviction (RPA were stopping genocide, not continuing it!) and insist ad nauseum that his army was only doing what it had to do because of the inaction of the international community. I think the RPF's reaction is also reflective of a government that is losing its grip on power, and had little legitimacy among most Rwandans. The RPF is a party of factions, and only a few are reaping the benefits of power at the moment. This is the most worrying trend....
The Executive Summary of the Report says that its findings are unacceptable to the RPF, and that the allegations of mass murders are the result of the UN manipulating the true facts of the role of the RPF in eastern DRC. In particular, the Response notes that the publication of the Mapping Report might reignite conflict in Rwanda and in the Region. I think if any one actor is going to reignite conflict in the Region, it is the RPF itself.
The RPF's reaction to the historical context, and what happened during the 1994 genocide, are unoriginal. Anyone who has read Pottier (2002), Re-imaging Rwanda, particularly its chapter on how the RPF manages it public relations machinery will agree. The government has made similar assertions in public fora with interested audiences. It appears that the RPF is worried about losing face "in the court of public opinion" (para 5, p. 7). Yet its allegation that the UN leaked the Report out of spite (what it calls asymmetry) is false as it was a reporter with Le Monde that leaked the Report.

In the section The 1994 Rwandan Genocide is equally reactionary. First, there is sufficient empirical evidence to show that the RPA did not stop the genocide as early as it could of (para. 6, p. 7). Instead, it made calculated military moves to assure that it took power in Kigali while Tutsi (and Hutu and Twa) died. Two excellent books, Sibomana's Hope for Rwanda (1999) and Umutesi's Surviving the Slaughter (2004) provide sufficient counter-evidence to the RPF assertion that it directed all of its resources to stopping the genocide. Indeed, anyone aware of how the RPF acted in bad faith during the Arusha Accords will scoff as this section of the Response.

The section Mass Participation in the Genocide downplays the role of the RPF in helping to create the conditions for genocide. I want to make one thing clear. I do not buy into claims that have been circulating recently that the RPF organised the genocide. Instead, I take the argument of Straus (2006) in his The Order of Genocide that the civil war between the RPA and the FAR provided the necessary context of fear and insecurity that made the possibility of genocide by neighbours against neighbours possible, and indeed likely (as we now know with hindsight). I disagree with the assertion of the RPF that mostly young men committed acts of genocide. This is not a new assertion as the government's justice policy follows a logic of maximal prosecution (prosecution of all Hutu men of a particular age). This claim is, in my opinion, revisionist as it neglects the different motivations for killing as well as the strength of network and kinship ties in deciding who lived or died (Fujii, 2009, Webs of Violence).

The Response goes on for another 15 pages in which the RPF defends and justifies its actions in the DRC. I will end simply with this, the RPF doth protest too much.

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