Whereas the fundamental cause of Africosis (African general crisis) is not the multitude of its consequences or results (such as: lack of democracy, ethnic conflicts, colonial borders, corruption, nepotism, lack of "free" market,..), it is, rather, Ubuhake, a Bantu Hutu word describing a socio-politico-economic structure of equal redistribution of all State powers and all State resources between, on the one hand, an indigenous minority proto-hegemonie naturally allied of globalism/neo-imperialism (representing less than 0.03% of the entire population) BUT possessing everything,AND, on the other hand, a marginalized indigenous majority population (representing over 99.07% of the entire population) who are powerless, voiceless, homeless and defenseless.


 
Africans are in serious times.

Time has come when they have to decide instead of their doctators. It is up to the PEOPLE to decide who their leaders should be.

Demostrations in Paris

Congolese demonstrations in Paris

Demonstrations in Paris

 The real problem is that Congolese people are to blame more than they want to admit. 
Do American Outraged against U.S. Support of Dictatorships particularly in Rwanda?

  U.S. government has been the prime partner and enabler of this brutal and broody dictatorship for the entire decade under which Rwandans have suffered.
 In fact, it's actually worse than that. Believe it or not, U.S. government has support RPF Rwandan torturers to exterminate the Hutu´s. It is all a sham, one that enables U.S. officials to deceitfully express shock over the Kagame´s torture, acquire the information or confession with torture, and then secretly thank their RPF, DMI partners for employing their torture expertise on their behalf. The torture deal was a testament to the U.S. government's partnerships with Paul Kagame the African Great Lakes dictator.
 


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

As soon as voting ended at 5:00 pm, a meticulous counting process began after a dramatic day of polling that ended in bloodshed and left many others behind bars on election-related offences.

In some areas in Eastern Uganda, polls closed behind schedule amid chaos, confusion and isolated instances of violence. With very many people still wedged in lengthy queues, at various polling stations particularly in urban centers, polling officials were left with no choice but to extend the deadline to 7am.

Dr Kizza Besigye

In Soronko district, Police Commander Gerald Manta was by press time admitted in Mbale regional hospital where he was reportedly fighting for his life after opposition supporters attacked him in chaotic scenes that ensued over allegations of ballot stuffing.

Earlier, in Budadiri West, the incumbent MP, Mr Nandala Mafabi (FDC), was also attacked in a scuffle that left Julius Odeke, a journalist working with The Razor newspaper shot in the knee allegedly by the bodyguards for the Minister in charge of the Presidency, Ms Beatrice Wabudeya. Ms Wabudeya is contesting against Mr Mafabi.

Electoral Commission Chairman, Eng. Badru Kiggundu whose competence to deliver a free and fair poll has been under scrutiny for the last several months that preceded the elections was quick to say “sorry for election hiccups”, claiming that Uganda is a growing democracy.

[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 Hutu's), 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]

Dr. Theogene Rudasingwa

Dr. Theogene Rudasingwa
15th February, 2011
Fellow Citizens, Ladies and Gentlemen,

Last night as I thought about what to tell you today, it was humbling to me to think about the long journey that our nation has taken for many centuries. I remembered those who have led this nation before me. Ndahiro Ruyange. Ndoba. Samembe. Nsoro Samukondo. Ruganzu Bwimba. Cyilima Rugwe. Kigeri Mukobanya. Mibambwe Mutabaazi. Yuhi Gahima. Ndahiro Cyamatare. Ruganzu Ndori. Mutara Seemugeshi. Kigeli Nyamuheshera. Mibambwe Gisanura. Yuhi Mazimpaka. Karemera Rwaka. Cyilima Rujugira. Kigeli Ndabarasa. Mibambwe Seentaabyo. Yuhi Gahindiro. Mutara Rwogera. Kigeli Rwabugiri. Mibambwe Rutalindwa. Yuhi Musinga. Mutara Rudahigwa. Kigeli Ndahindurwa. Gregoire Kayibanda. Juvenal Habyarimana. Sindikubwabo. Pasteur Bizimungu.

As I contemplated the lives and fate of those before me, I realized that the only constant in our history has been change and this nation called Rwanda. I now realize that like them I came, and like them I will go, leaving behind this nation.Like you Rwandan people, each one of us leaders had abilities to do constructive things. Like all humans beings, we also make mistakes, some of them costly. Each had something positive to offer to this nation and her people and each one had flaws. Sometimes, the flaws outweighed the strengths and the nation suffered as a consequence. Colonial conquest was possible in Rwanda, as elsewhere, because we were weak compared to foreigners. They had guns, money, and ideas. It survived in Rwanda for long because we were a divided house. We have remained a divided house till today, and some of the consequences are the repeated violent conflicts, death destruction, and genocide. Because of repeated trauma we have inflicted on each other, we have become the sick nation, with a chronically sick people that desperately need healing at home and abroad.

I am very concerned about this nation as you all are, and as my predecessors were. Often we, your leaders, and the elite that has governed Rwanda, have decided to see a small part of Rwanda. A Rwanda of Bahutu or a Rwanda of Batutsi. Actually, we rarely think about Batwa. It seems difficult to us to imagine a whole Rwanda, of Bahutu, Batwa and Batutsi. We have tended to cater for our own interests by making sure that most power is in our hands. We live in today, hardly looking at the long term impact of our present actions. Our habit of seeing a small part of Rwanda, vesting absolute power in our hands, and to have short term interests, have caused much damage to this country, especially in recent years.

Last night I was thinking about how many people have died or fled the country from 1959 to 2011 as a result of conflict and state inspired violence. Innocent Bahutu, Batwa, Batutsi have become victims of state violence, human rights abuses, civil war, or genocide. I thought about life in refugee camps and the jungles through which ordinary people, including myself, had to move through. Mushiha. Kigamba. Ngara. Nyakivara,.Cyangwari, Nshungezi,. Gahunge. Goma, and others.

I thought about the humiliation of statelessness, and the lost dreams and opportunities. I recalled the loss of life in the civil war that pitted RPF against the regime of the late President Habyarimana. Each side in the conflict lost many lives of young Rwandans. Each side believed they had a patriotic duty to defend a nation or a cause they loved. In the opening stages of the civil war RPF lost the charismatic General Fred Rwigyema. In the final stages Rwanda lost its President General Juvenal Habyarimana in circumstances that we as a nation are still to come to terms with. For this level of sacrifice, what do we owe Rwandans? Can we stop the trauma we inflict on each other? Can Rwandans heal? Can we Bahutu, Batwa and Batutsi imagine and create a common future in peace, rule of law, freedom, democracy, and shared prosperity?
I was almost tempted to give a speech talking about RPF’s victories from 1990 to 2011, and especially since 1994. As I reviewed the speech written by my advisers, I recognized its usual arrogant tone and deceptions. Some of RPFs victories are facts. So are the facts about victories of my predecessors. It is not my intention to repeat them here. You have heard them from me, RPF, and by other government officials. What bothers me is that we have become an organization that has become insensitive to the damage we have caused to the Rwandan people.

If there is one failure that stands out since 1959 up to now, it is the inability to place the sanctity of human life, and basic freedoms, at the center of everything we do as a nation. On behalf of RPF members and the Rwanda Government, I apologize to the Rwandan people where RPF under my leadership have caused additional trauma to the Rwandan people. On their behalf I ask for your forgiveness. Today I would like to propose a one-point program. Today I am announcing a program for freedom, on which all other national endeavors must be anchored, and against which actions must be prioritized, and performance measured. There must be freedom, first, or nothing else.

In this regard, I am proposing the following measures, which I hope will change the course of our nation in the next several years.
First, with regard to Rwandese Patriotic Front (RPF)/Rwandese Patriotic Army (RPA, now Rwanda Defense Forces, RDF): As RPF Chairman, I am ordering,

1) A full and independent investigation on party finances since 1990
2) A report on all RPA deaths, and lessons learned, from October 1990 to 2011
3) I further propose commissioning a committee to come up with proposals on how RPF can re-dedicate itself to freedom, internal democracy, and innovations to champion democracy in Rwanda
4) An investigation of the RPA human rights abuses in Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo, including the Mapping Report,
5) An immediate international investigation into the death of Presidents Juvenal Habyarimana and Cyprian Ntaryamira,
6) The creation, out of RPF finances, of RPF Widows and Orphans Fund to support the welfare of widows and orphans of RPF’s fallen comrades
7) creation, out of RPF finances, of RPF Scholarship Fund, to get RPF cadres into education, training and employment opportunities and 8) creation of a Small and Medium Enterprises Fund from RPF finances, to support growth of small businesses.

Second, I propose creation of a Coalition Transitional Government to undertake the necessary reforms prior to holding genuinely free and fair Presidential and Parliamentary elections within the next 36 months. I am inviting all credible opposition leaders in and outside Rwanda to unconditional talks, leading to the creation of the coalition transitional government, the full opening of the political space, freedom for the media and civil society, the repatriation of all refugees, and the re-integration of armed groups and demobilized soldiers into RDF and civilian life.

Third, I propose a comprehensive national dialogue, with local and international chapters, that goes beyond justice to talk about our society’s struggle for healing. Among other things, the national dialogue will attempt to construct a national “balance sheet” from 1959-2011. Among other things, it will produce a candid general assessment of how many people Rwanda has lost from state-inspired terror, civil war, genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity. These chronicles will be published as a National Black Book. This will be a basis of having a National Day of Remembrance, Forgiveness and Healing. When we celebrate this day for the first time, we’ll release all prisoners in Rwanda, and institute discussions with the international community to free even those who are being tried (or have been convicted) by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. There will be a day in our history when all Rwandans are free. The national dialogue will have the freedom to recommend a way forward on other substantive challenges facing the country. Such issues will include a “History of Rwanda Project,” to produce a harmonized approach to writing and teaching history in Rwanda’s institutions of learning, and a “Constitution Project”, to recommend revisions that are commensurate with this new agenda for freedom, reconciliation and healing.

 Fourth, with effect from today, I am disbanding all the informal security networks and ordering immediate cessation of harassment of opponents at home and abroad. I am also instructing forthwith that the Rwanda Defense Forces, the National Security Service and the Directorate of Military Intelligence be brought under full Cabinet/Parliamentary oversight.

 Fifth, I am ordering the immediate release of all political prisoners.

Sixth, I am initiating a special bill, The Rwanda Defense Forces Integration, Education, Training and Employment Bill, to put every man and woman of the RDF into school, training and employment programs. Through this bill every barracks should function as a school. All schools must be expanded to accommodate educational and training needs for soldiers and former combatants, including Ex-FAR, FDLR and other armed groups operating out of eastern DRC. In connection with this, and under the auspices of the coalition government and help of the international community, Rwandan armed groups will be integrated into a new reformed RDF that reflects the character of the Rwandan nation.

Seventh, I am ordering cessation and review of all unpopular policies that the RPF government has undertaken, including:
a) A policy on French as a language of instruction in Rwanda
b) A policy on scholarships in the institutions of higher learning
c) A policy on vasectomies for Rwandan men as a family planning tool and
d) A policy on housing for the Batwa.

Seventh, I am asking the entire government to review and come up with innovative policies that will help us tackle the problem of poverty and hunger in an equitable and sustainable way. While we have been praised by foreigners on social and economic development, the truth is that our economic growth is confined to the small urban elite. Too many of our people are still poor and hungry. This is not acceptable.

Eighth, it might sound a bitter pill to swallow for me and my fellow partisans in RPF, but I am forced to declare the last elections of 2010 null and void. I am concerned that having rigged the 2003 elections, as well as the last one, the RPF is setting a corrupting effect on its cadres and RDF’s officers and men. I apologize for the deception, and the waste of time and resources that have gone into the elections of 2003 and 2010. I am sure that all of you citizens agree with me that it is better to admit mistakes, so as not to repeat them, rather than to continue on a path of deception that will inevitably lead to civil war and more bloodshed.
We are in need of a fresh start. Let this be the day we re-dedicate ourselves to trying new and bold things. Free and fair elections, under the new coalition of transitional government, must take place no later than 36 months from its formation.

 Ninth, I would like to assure all our neighbors that from now on Rwanda is genuinely interested in good neighborliness, and will stop policies which in the past have destabilized the region.
Tenth, I am announcing today that I will not stand in the next elections. I leave it to you and history to judge my performance while in power.

Make no mistake about this; the task before us is a Rwandan task. Only Rwandans can build Rwanda for the benefit of Rwandans. However, we need the help of our elders, our neighbors, our African brothers and sisters, and the rest of the international community. In this regard, to face these difficult tasks before us, I will be seeking the advice of my fellow Rwandan leaders currently in exile and those within the country.
In the next few weeks, I will be requesting my colleagues President Museveni of Uganda, President Kikwete of Tanzania, President Kibaki of Kenya, President Kabira of the DRC, President Pierre Nkurunziza and President Zuma of South Africa to an urgent summit to discuss how best these proposals can be supported by the region, the African Union and the international community. I will also be reaching out for advice from eminent personalities like former Presidents Arap Moi, Benjamin Mkapa, Al-Hassan Mwinyi, Pierre Buyoya and former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, former U.S. President Bill Clinton and former British Prime Minister, Tony Blair. I am also counting on the support of my allies, the United Kingdom and United States to support this peace process towards Rwanda's freedom and democratization.

I realize that the proposals I have highlighted are ambitious and difficult. However, this is not the first time we have faced a challenge of this magnitude. We have to count on our own imagination, hard work, and collective will to enable freedom to thrive in our country. Rwanda can only break away from its dangerous habits of violence, coercion; politics of exclusion, mistrust, and fear if its citizens embrace freedom, with all its rights and obligations. I know that freedom is what every one of us needs to live a full life. This is what the blood of departed Rwandans, the aspirations of the present generation, and the future generations demand from us. We cannot afford to offer them anything less. We cannot wait for another seven years.
Will you join me in implementing these proposals to make freedom and healing a reality?
Thank you very much and may God bless you.

 © Dr. Theogene Rudasingwa

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

Door buitenlandredacteur Esther Bootsma

 
 [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]


 

De man van de Rwandese Victoire Ingabire uit Zevenhuizen hoopt dat staatssecretaris Knapen van Buitenlandse Zaken vandaag op bezoek in Rwanda pleit voor haar vrijlating uit de gevangenis.

Na zestien jaar asiel in Nederland zit Ingabire sinds oktober vorig jaar in een zwaarbewaakte gevangenis in Rwanda. Ze was naar Rwanda gegaan om mee te doen aan presidentsverkiezingen, maar het liep anders. Ze werd gearresteerd op verdenking van haat zaaien en steun aan Hutu-extremisten.

In een kerk in Waddinxveen laat haar man Lin Muyizere foto's zien. "Kijk, hier heeft Victoire nog haar prachtige haar. En nu moet ze rondlopen met een kale kop", zegt hij, terwijl hij een korrelige foto toont van zijn vrouw in een roze gevangenishemd. "En dan te bedenken dat ze zo van mooie kleren houdt en er altijd netjes uitziet. Ik heb nog nieuwe kleding gekocht, maar het heeft geen zin die nu op te sturen."
Mandela of terrorist

Muyizere heeft zijn vrouw niet meer gesproken sinds ze in de cel zit. Via haar partijleden hoort hij dat haar gezondheid goed is. "Maar ze is wel heel bang. Zoveel oppositieleden en critici in Rwanda zijn vermoord of vergiftigd. Vrienden brengen elke dag eten naar de gevangenis, zodat niemand gif door haar eten kan mengen."

Haar aanhangers noemen haar de vrouwelijke Mandela, maar de Rwandese regering noemt haar een terrorist. Sinds de genocide in 1994 is het in Rwanda verboden om openlijk over Hutu's en Tutsi's te spreken. Maar dat deed Ingabire juist wel. Sterker nog: ze vroeg openlijk aandacht voor de Hutu-slachtoffers van het huidige bewind van Tutsi-president Kagame.De gangbare kennis over de genocide in Rwanda is dat Hutu-extremisten 800.000 mensen vermoordden, vooral Tutsi's. Minder bekend is dat de 'slachtoffers' ook daders waren; het Tutsi-leger vermoordde zelf na de genocide tienduizenden Hutu's (vanaf 1990 t/m 1994, honderd duizenden Hutu's werden vermoorden. Na de Genocide, massmoord van 3 miljoen Hutu's in Kibeho en Kongo=> ASI): militieleden én burgers. Omdat Ingabire hier onderzoek naar eist, wordt ze beschuldigd van haat zaaien, 'divisionisme' en het propageren van de theorie van de 'dubbele genocide'.
Daarnaast wordt ze verdacht van samenwerking met Rwandese Hutu-rebellen (FDLR) die zich schuilhouden in het buurland Congo. Ze zou hen financieren en een gewapende tak willen oprichten van haar partij. De Rwandese openbaar aanklager heeft verschillende namen bekendgemaakt van prominente Hutu-strijders waarmee Ingabire contact had. Ook in een VN-rapport wordt haar naam in verband gebracht met FDLR-rebellen.

"Erg!", zegt haar man over deze beschuldigingen. Volgens hem zijn alle bewijzen volstrekt gefabriceerd. "Victoire wil juist verzoening en dialoog in Rwanda tot stand brengen. Daarom heeft ze inderdaad deze mensen ontmoet, op uitnodiging van de Congolese president Kabila. Die vroeg haar hulp om de problemen op te lossen die deze mensen in Congo veroorzaken."

Op zoek naar harde bewijzen zoals banktransacties vroeg Rwanda de Nederlandse justitie om huiszoeking te doen in de rijtjeswoning van Ingabire in Zevenhuizen. "Met twaalf man kwamen ze lomp binnenvallen", zegt haar man. "Onze zoon van negen was doodsbang."

De huiszoeking leidde tot ophef in de Tweede Kamer. PvdA, Christen-Unie en SP vinden dat Nederland geen gehoor had moeten geven aan dit verzoek van een bewind dat mensenrechten schendt. Er is nog steeds een juridisch steekspel gaande of Nederland de in beslag genomen documenten aan Rwanda zal overdragen.

Lin Muyizere heeft de vurige hoop dat staatssecretaris Knapen bij dit bezoek zijn best doet om Victoire vrij te krijgen. Maar hij vreest het ergste. "De Nederlandse ambassade heeft heel weinig voor haar gedaan", zegt hij. De ambassadeur in Rwanda beroept zich erop dat Ingabire geen Nederlands paspoort heeft en dat hij zich niet kan mengen in interne aangelegenheden. Maar Muyizere vindt dat een zwak excuus.

"Nederland is een belangrijke donor van Rwanda en er zitten veel Nederlandse bedrijven, zoals Heineken en Draka. De ambassadeur wil gewoon dat zijn projecten slagen. Hij vindt zijn goede contacten en het bedrijfsleven belangrijker dan de mensenrechten."

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

NL Staatsecretaris Ben ]knapen Ontwikkelingssamenwerking

[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]


Binneland
 
 
DEN HAAG/KIGALI - Staatssecretaris Ben Knapen voor Ontwikkelingssamenwerking heeft dinsdag in een gesprek met president Paul Kagame van Rwanda aangedrongen op een eerlijk en open proces voor Victoire Ingabire. Deze oppositieleidster, die zestien jaar in Nederland woonde, is vorig jaar na terugkeer naar haar thuisland opgepakt en vastgezet.

Ms Ingabire Victoire Ingabire The Would-Be President of Rwanda

Knapen is dinsdag en woensdag in Rwanda, maar het was niet zeker of hij met Kagame zelf kon spreken. De president heeft nog eens benadrukt dat de rechterlijke macht in zijn land onafhankelijk is en dat die ervoor moet zorgen dat processen eerlijk verlopen, zo liet Knapen telefonisch vanuit de hoofdstad Kigali weten. Hij kwalificeerde het gesprek als openhartig. Vanwege de onafhankelijkheid heeft Knapen zich niet tot in detail met de beschuldigingen tegen haar kunnen bemoeien, zei hij. Wel heeft de bewindsman zijn zorgen uitgesproken over de politieke ruimte voor de oppositie en over de vrijheid van meningsuiting en persvrijheid in het Afrikaanse land. Kagame liet tegenover Knapen blijken dat hij deze zorgen serieus neemt, zei hij.


Volgens de advocaat van Ingabire wordt zij ervan beschuldigd de regering in Rwanda omver te willen werpen. Maar dat zijn politieke verzinsels, stelde hij eerder. Ingabire heeft niet de Nederlandse nationaliteit en dat maakt het lastiger voor het kabinet om voor haar belangen op te komen, zei Knapen eerder.

De staatssecretaris had ook complimenten voor de president in petto, over economische vooruitgang, de bestrijding van de armoede, de verbetering van het investeringsklimaat en de aanpak van corruptie. Nederland draagt in Rwanda financieel bij aan projecten op het gebied van onder meer landbouw, infrastructuur en de justitiële sector.



Eerder dinsdag bezocht Knapen in buurland de Democratische Republiek Congo (DRC) het vrouwencentrum van Justine Masika, die in 2008 de Nederlandse Mensenrechtentulp kreeg. Nederland is een belangrijke donor van het centrum, waar slachtoffers van massale verkrachtingen en ander geweld in dat gebied worden opgevangen. Knapen is niet van plan die bijdrage te korten.


© De Telegraaf

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 never told anybody to lie, not a single time; never”.
 
“My resignation has nothing to do with my private life”, another way of minimizing Kagame´s success, Said Joe to BBC.

It´s not about fame,  prostitution, money, power, and infidelity. It´s all about corruption.

Min. Joe Habineza victim of Kagame recycling  Since DMI is involved, he became the solution to Kagame´s garbage problem.

The silence must be broken. We have been told Rwanda is not among corrupt countries. The reality is horrible. e.g. Kagame buys their silence... 

 “They will abduct you; they will torture you for hours; they will kill you, and then dismember you. And your family will be destroyed.” A blackmail that followed the publication of the infamous pictures discrediting the Youth and Culture minister. Amayere ya RPF ni menshi.
 

RPF smear campaign to bury what could end up being significant facts of the RPF corrupt regime particularly during the ongoing turmoil in the Arab world and after the publication of the UN Mapping Report.


There is no doubt that RPF SS police today is at the political service of  General Paul Kagame to infiltrate all services to by their silence. They won't denounce it because they are proven again and again that they are minded bigot.
There is no denying that the RPF government threatens unspecified consequences if some of the well-informed ministers and other personalities dare to speak out on RPF and Kagame crimes and impunity. In addition to obvious ethical questions raised about the even seen plot against the Hutu minister with the intention of politically crippling or incapacitating Joe Habineza or blackmail him into silence. Kagame is believed to do the same with outsiders who were involved in assassinations and apparently accidental deaths and mass-murder of Hutu ethnic members in exchange  

When one looks at what is happening, one wonders what type if people are governing Rwanda as they show up Kagame and RPF ever incomparable criminal records. Looking at all the facts, there is no good reason whatsoever for justifying Tony Blair´s good will to serve as volunteering adviser to the Top Rwandan criminal.

ONE of the cornerstones of any healthy democracy is a robust freedom of speech. This does not only mean rights to individuals freedom should be legally codified. It also means we must develop and nurture a public space that is conducive to a flourishing freedom of speech. 

The best response to these thuggish threats is to simply to tell the truth and denounce impunity and human rights abuses. To look into the matter, Paul Kagame has been using him in different occasions as a Hutu working shoulder to shoulder with the Tutsi extremist now President of Rwanda. And we can’t understand why Tony Blair is still serving as Kagame adviser with that very serious corruption, assassinations of journalists  and Hutu intellectuals, political opponents, and the mass-murder of Hutu ethnic members which are the well-known cases hanging over his head if and only if Justice is happened to be independent.
Here next are some pattern examples:

"You are right to say that “Mr. Kagame will one day leave power but his legacy will remain” and you are quite right that “It’s an insult to Rwandans to say that after Paul Kagame, Rwanda will no longer exist”. The sooner that day comes the better for Rwandans and for him.
There are definitely some positive things he would have done but also a legacy of bad memories: we will have the debt to pay for plundering Congo resources, enemies created on our borders and in particular Congo where our invasions are partly responsible for the death of around 6 million Congolese, economic disparities in the country and entrenched ethnic divisions.

You are also completely right in asserting that: “People should know that resilience is characteristic of Rwandans”, that “We are a people with passion and determination”. Those qualities will make that day come true and I sincerely pray every day that it comes through the means used by my heroes Gandhi and Martin Luther King.


I am worried by your final statement that “(Paul Kagame) will never hand over the leadership of Rwanda to people who have no vision for their country, who want to use violence as a shortcut to power, who are not connected to Rwandans.”


This conclusion confirms what is said all along that we are dealing with a dictatorship: it will be Kagame and not people to decide who succeeds him. And this reminds me of the following Rwandan anecdotal.


When young men asked a young lady “why are you always rude young lady?”, she answered: “how I am rude you bloody fools?”Bati wa mukobwa we ko ushira isoni? Ati nshira isoni nte mwa buhungu mwe?" Innocent Nsengiyumva  

“Failed to keep Kagame conditions, Joe Habineza has to find himself behind bars whether it’s Christmas or not.”, that is only the beginning of the long story of Joe Habineza´s forfeiture.


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

Alison L. Des Forges, second from left, before a panel discussion in New York City in 2005.

 Among her victims there is Jean-Paul Akayesu, the first to be condemned to life sentence... conspirators thought that doing so would be the beginning of the "death" of the Truth. The reality however,is that you can't hide from the truth, because the truth is all there is.
 
"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."

In recent weeks, a more sinister development has been how Kagame's political opponents have featured disproportionately as victims of violent crimes.

 Rwanda, the biggest concentration camp (26,338 km²) in the world after Auschwitz and Kibeho.

Kagame is not only a mass-murder but also a serial killer....the exiled former Rwandan general Faustin Kayumba Nyamwasa, once an ally of Kagame, was shot in Pretoria in South Africa in a botched assassination attempt. Then, Jean Leonard Rugambage, an editor on the banned paper Umuvugizi, was murdered outside his Kigali home, Kagame has ordered his killing machine beheading dead and cutting into pieces the Rwandan Greens Vice president, etc. 


Through the vigorous but useless RPF propaganda war against the Truth on Rwanda, no one doubts that RPF criminal masterminds and RPF philosophers are crossing most of Rwandans who continue to pay a horrible price for it. While President Kagame has made public his hidden agendas, he's in particular showing up that he has more regrets for not having finished the job. We all thus agree that Kagame, his allies and accomplices efforts are nothing but  a reminder of the spilled milk.
For many years, great Alison Des Forges of the U.S.-based Human Rights Watch was misled and manipulated by Kagame allies and accomplices. To get more insight about that, get informed about her statements before she died.

Pattern: Patrick Karuretwa and Stephanie Nyombayire, the well-known Tutsi extremists have recently  misused the US Harvard Law School to hide the Truth on the Rwandan and Congolese mass-murder plan, to misinform and disinform the world community about Kagame war crimes, crimes against humanity and crimes of genocide in both Rwandan and Democratic Republic of the Congo. Both Tutsi extremists know the impact to misuse the Harvard Law School. To make easier misinformation, distortion, lies and the vilification, stereotyping and demonization of  the HUTU.

Reason and Truth will prevail, they always do.  




Kagame Admits He Murdered Them. Does the World community need other convincing testimonies? The Answer is No.
 Kagame statements were free of evidence of coercion or trickery.
 

The success of RPF ideology known now as the Rwandan Nazi-ism cannot be separable from the effectiveness of RPF, allies and accomplices propaganda machine. the reason why the current UN Ba Kimoon remains hostage of Kagame motivating beliefs namely: to remain on power no matter how big are consequences of RPF barbarity and cruelties base indeed on a grand scale.

Rwandans, Hutu and Tutsi ethnic members(who both directly experience RPF/RDF/DMI and LDF horrors), US and British including Western famous scholars shame the same point of view that the Tutsi rebels,their allies and accomplices made their major decisions in a highly institutionalized manner.



The Tutsi extremists led by Major Paul Kagame expected their challenge to provoke genocidal retaliation but viewed this as an acceptable cost of achieving their goal of attaining power in Rwanda.
We should not be surprised about the alarming situation: the extremists are in government and are implementing Kagame genocidal policies.

 Rwandans got abandoned at the beginning of RPF invasion, during 1993- 2003 Rwandan and Congolese genocides. 

African SurViVors are still wonder about the UN and Ban Kimoon s' motives in particular on his silence about the urgency of  creating the International Tribunal for RPF criminals on Rwandan and Congolese crimes according to the existing and new findings about Kagame plan as the mastermind of the Rwandan and Congolese genocides. While eye-witnesses provide strong testimonies against Kagame, the sweet US and GB criminal mercenary, Harvard Institute discredits itself by supporting the criminal our planet has ever hosted. 
GENEVA / DRC MAPPING REPORT
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights releases a 550-page report listing 617 of the most serious violations of human rights and international humanitarian law over a 10-year period by both state and non-state actors in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. UNTV / FILE.

Most of the findings on  Paul Kagame, the Rwandan master-mind's hidden agenda tell us to reject and invert the entirety of the scholarly literature based on Kagame's scenario of the Rwandan 1994 horrors. Following all major human-rights investigations accomplished by the fully respectable worldwide organization Amnesty International, the immense wealth of Rwandan survivors and of many scholars' testimonies, we can't help but tell the Hard core Truth and be fascinated by it. 


President Paul Kagame Threatened US Marines If They Stopped Genocide


Alison L. Des Forges, a human rights activist  and Human Rights Watch Director, African Division, was among the passengers killed Thursday when Continental Airlines Flight 3407 crashed near Buffalo. She was 66 and lived in Buffalo.

 Dr. Des Forges was also an authority on human rights violations in Burundi and the Democratic Republic of Congo, formerly Zaire.

While a central focus of her work was documenting the crimes of the Hutu-led government that organized the three-month-long genocide, Dr. Des Forges later leveled strong criticism of the Rwandan Patriotic Front, the Tutsi-led rebel movement headed by Paul Kagame, the still Rwandan president. His government has been in power since the genocide.

Dr. Des Forges was among critics who accused the Kagame government of massacring thousands of Rwandan civilians in 1994, of killing civilians and refugees in the eastern Congo in 1996 and 1997, and of making repeated military interventions in the Congo. The government barred her from entering the country last year.
Alison B. Liebhafsky was born Aug. 20, 1942, in Schenectady, N.Y., the daughter of Herman A. Liebhafsky, a chemist, and Sybil Small. She graduated from Radcliffe College in 1964 and received a master’s degree in 1966 and a doctorate in 1972, both in history, from Yale.


Why if we say the truth we will be scolded and they won't believe us? Honesty should be the best policy. Watch next : 


May her soul rest in peace 

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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

 By Sarah Jackson
Researcher - Rwanda and Burundi










 

 Rwandan opposition politician jailed for exercising rights

 London - Amnesty International has called for the unconditional release of Rwandan opposition leader Bernard Ntaganda jailed today on politically motivated charges.

Bernard Ntaganda, president of the Ideal Social Party (PS-Imberakuri) party, was sentenced to 4 years imprisonment after being found guilty of breaching state security, of “divisionism” for holding public speeches criticizing government policies ahead of last year’s elections, and attempting to plan an “unauthorized” demonstration.

Ntaganda had been arrested at dawn on 24 June 2010 - the first day that presidential candidates could register for the elections – and remanded in pre-trial detention.

Restrictions on freedom of association and expression prevented new opposition parties from contesting the August 2010 presidential elections.

Ntaganda’s prosecution for threatening state security and “divisionism” was based solely on his speeches criticizing government policies.

The prosecution had requested a 10 year jail sentence for these two charges and contended that “paint[ing] a negative image of state authority” could cause the population to rebel and create unrest.


“Today’s ruling once again criminalizes peaceful dissent”, said Amnesty International’s Africa Programme Director, Erwin van der Borght.

“The growing trend in Rwanda to convict individuals of threatening national security for criticizing government policies is deeply concerning and in violation of Rwanda’s obligations under international human rights law”.

Last week, two Rwandan journalists, Agnes Uwimana and Saidati Mukakibibi, were found guilty of threatening state security for opinion pieces critical of government policies published before last year’s elections. They were sentenced to 17 and 7 years respectively.

Vague and sweeping laws on “divisionism” and “genocide ideology” were introduced in Rwanda in the decade after the 1994 genocide.

....The laws prohibit hate speech, but are broadly drafted so that they criminalize expression that does not amount to hate speech, including legitimate criticism of the government.

The Rwandan government expressed a commitment in April 2010 to review the “genocide ideology” law, but it is unclear whether the “divisionism” law will also be revised.

Alice Muhirwa, Martin Ntavuka and Sylvain Sibomana of the United Democratic Forces-Inkingi (FDU-Inkingi) were found guilty of conspiring to participate in demonstrations on 24 June 2010 without authorization. They were fined 100,000 Rwandan francs.

The prosecution had requested a two month jail sentence.
Jean Baptiste Icyitonderwa of PS-Imberakuri was acquitted of conspiring to participate in the same demonstration without authorization.

Theobald Mutarambirwa of PS-Imberakuri and Theoneste Sibomana of FDU-Inkingi, also charged with conspiring to participate in demonstrations without authorization, will be tried separately.

The opposition politicians were arrested on 24 June 2010.

Some of the FDU-Inkingi members were arrested near the Ministry of Justice in the capital, Kigali, where they had gathered to request the registration of their party.

Some of the PS-Imberakuri members were arrested outside the US Embassy, where they had gone to enlist help following Ntaganda’s arrest.

Although the opposition members were convicted of conspiracy to participate in demonstrations without authorization, Amnesty International has found no evidence that they either resorted to, or intended to resort to, violence.

The government failed to put forward any legitimate justification for banning the demonstration.

Ntaganda had requested authorization to hold the demonstration.


The prosecution said the authorities had attempted to notify Bernard Ntaganda that the demonstration was banned, the day before it was due to take place.

But the defence said the demonstrators were unaware of the move.

Those arrested were later released on bail, after spending days in police detention and reportedly being subjected to ill-treatment such as being beaten and handcuffed to each other, even when they went to the toilet.

“Instead of jailing individuals for planning a demonstration, the government should have taken steps to allow for peaceful protest before the elections,” said Erwin van der Borght.

Background

Restrictions on freedom of association prevented new opposition parties from contesting the elections, which President Kagame won with 93 per cent of the vote.

PS-Imberakuri had secured registration, but was subsequently infiltrated by dissident members, who decided not to field a candidate.

Ntaganda was called before the Rwandan Senate in late 2009 to respond to “genocide ideology” accusations. In April 2010, the Senate’s political commission said they felt such accusations were well-founded.


ENDS
© Amnesty International

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

Door Anneke Verbraeken

Please let Victoire out and me in, mr Kagame!
 
In dit rubriek :

1. Iran executeert Nederlands-Iraanse Zahra Bahrami. 
2. In Rwanda spreekt Knapen met de ministers van Buitenlandse Zaken, Justitie en Landbouw
3. Van voetbalplaatjes tot ophanging van vrouw in Iran,Terwijl je wel onder je klompen kunt voelen dat dit een leugentje is om mevrouw te straffen. 
4. http://www.trouw.nl/opinie/commentaar/article3403743.ece/Ophanging_Bahrami_toont_Iraanse_regime_in_al_zijn_wreedheid_.htmlVolgens mensenrechtenorganisaties : Nederland te weinig zou hebben gedaan voor Zahra Bahrami.

Dr Theogène Rudasigwa

Rudasingwa vertelt dat hij Rwanda ontvluchtte omdat hij niet langer een dubbelleven wilde leiden. Als een van de topfunctionarissern in Rwanda moest hij liegen over bijvoorbeeld de aanwezigheid van troepen in Congo. "Ik was toen ambassadeur in de VS. Natuurlijk geloofden ze me niet. Maar dan zeiden we altijd: waar waren jullie in 1994. Wie zijn jullie om kritiek op ons te hebben?" Dezelfde reactie werd gegeven als Amnesty International of Human Rights Watch weer eens met een kritisch rapport naar buiten kwam.
In een openhartig interview met een Amerikaans radiostation vertelt voormalig chefstaf Theogene Rudasingwa over zijn dubbelleven als Rwandese vertrouweling van Kagame. Rudusingwa vocht nog zij aan zij met Kagame eind jaren tachting en begin jaren negentig. Onlangs werd hij veroordeelt tot 24 jaar gevangenisstraf. Rudasingwa woont tegenwoordig in de VS. Hij is mede-oprichter van een nieuwe politieke partij RNC, Rwanda National Congress afgelopen december.

NL Staatssecretaris Prof. dr. H.P.M Ben Knapen

De voormalige hoge officier in het regeringsleger wordt genoemd in het VN-mappingrapport waarin het Rwandese leger en Kagame beschuldigd worden van genocide in Oost-Congo eind jaren negentig. Toch is hij niet bang dat hij zich voor een tribunaal moet verantwoorden: "Ik was toen niet in Congo, maar was ambassadeur in de VS. Toch vind ik dat deze gruwelijkheden onze gezamenlijke verantwoordelijkheid zijn. Ik ben daarom bereid om op alle vragen antwoord te geven." Volgens Rudasingwa was het algemeen binnen de RPF bekend wat er zich allemaal in het land en in Oost-Congo afspeelde.

Dat Rudasingwa nu veroordeelt is, past in een patroon, zegt hij. "Zodra een Hutu kritiek heeft op het regime, dan wordt hij door Kagame weggezet als genocidair, divisionist of terrorist.
 

Kijk naar de voormalig manager van Hotel Rwanda en naar oppositieleider Victoire Ingabire." Rudasingwa wijst ook naar de toenemende verdeeldheid binnen leger en RPF: "Kagame keert zich nu niet alleen meer tegen de kritische Hutu's, iedereen die kritiek op hem heeft beschouwt hij als zijn vijand. Kagame is machtscorrupt. Zijn 'gut-instinct is om te doden."

Rudasingwa beschuldigt Kagame van grootschalige corruptie: "Hij gebruikt staatsgelden voor zichzelf. Neem de twee privé-vliegtuigen. Die zijn vanuit de staatskas betaald."

Volgens Rudasingwa zijn er twee toekomstscenario's mogelijk. Als het Rwandese volk niets doet, als de internationale gemeenschap stil blijft, dan stevent het land volgens hem af op een nieuwe burgeroorlog. Het tweede toekomstscenario is een stuk positiever: daarin moeten alle Rwandezen samenwerken aan de democratie.
© buitenpostdewereld.org 






The hospitality of Rwanda has its limits. I cannot follow my secretary of state, Ben Knapen, who is visiting Congo and Rwanda next week. The regime doesn't want me: my visa was denied. Kagame who always speaks proudly of his country, the economic growth, democracy and freedom, doesn't want me. Officially no reason was given, but everybody knows I'm not welcome because I'm a journalist who writes not so jubilant about the regime. But most of all, access was denied, because I'm a friend of Victoire Ingabire.

The visit of our secretary of state could be important for Ingabire, who is in custody since October 14th. The Dutch government should ask for her release, because she remains in custody illegally since December 25th. That was the date the prosecutor should have asked for a prolonging of bail. That never happened. There were other irregularities during her time in prison so a fair trial is already out of the question.

The accusations which led to her arrest, are the accusations used for everybody who dares to criticize the regime. Former manager of hotel Rwanda, Paul Rusesebagina, leader of the socialist party Bernard Ntaganda, former Kagame-comrades Kayumba, Karegeya, Gahima en Rudasingwa, they all are accused of the same more or less: divisionism, genocide ideology, threat of state security, aid to or forming of a terrorist organization.

Ms Ingabire Victoire Umuhoza, the would-be President of Rwanda

Because the accusations are false, witnesses and evidence have to be manipulated. Alice and Sylvain, housemates of Victoire and secretary and treasurer of FDU-Inkingi, were pressured into giving false statements. They were also threatened if they didn't stop with their activities for the party. The lawyers of Victoire are now in the possession of her dossier. They are studying closely the 2086 pages! 

Victoires dossier doesn't include the documents found during the house search in Zevenhuizen. In this small Dutch village live the family of Victoire: husband and three children. The house search took place because Rwanda had asked for it. Timing was curious: just a week before, the ministry of Foreign Affairs decided to end budget support, because the lack of political space and press freedom. So there was a situation in which one ministry condemned the regime and another ministry obediently followed the orders of the same regime.

According to the secretary of state, Teeven, there are no obstacles to send the material, found during the house search, to Rwanda. But chances are, that those documents will be manipulated. If the Dutch government decide tot send the material to Kigali, I advise the government to make copies!

Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International and Eurac, the organization for EU NGO’s in the Great Lake Region, also acknowledge that a fair trial is practically not possible.

It is all a bit ironic, because the Dutch government donates a lot to improve the judicial system in Rwanda. But you can improve whatever you like, if the president tells his people one day before a bail hearing that 'this woman should remain in prison', you can't say Rwanda has an independent judicial system.
Let's hope Ben Knapen, our secretary of state, is courageous enough to give a clear signal. A comparison with the Dutch-Iranian woman hanged in Teheran is a comparison easy made. But contrary to Zahra Bahrami, Ingabire doesn't have the Dutch nationality. Therefore, our ministry of Foreign Affairs considers her case an internal Rwandan affair.

But it's not a case of nationality. In Rwanda you have a regime that consistently oppresses the opposition. In Rwanda is no freedom of press. In Rwanda, civil society cannot develop. In Rwanda the judicial system is used for political means. In Rwanda you have a regime that enriches itself, just like Tunisia and Egypt, at the cost of the Rwandan population.

Therefore, it's high time, the Dutch government, this time by its spokesman Ben Knapen, makes a clear statement. Knapen should insist in the release of all the political prisoners. Knapen should tell the president to release all journalists who perish in prison. Knapen should argue Ingabire doesn't belong in jail.

  And Knapen should make a statement the whole world can hear. The days of silent diplomacy are over.




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