A Candle For Remembering
May this memorial candle lights up the historical past of our beloved Country: Rwanda, We love U so much. If Tears could build a stairway. And memories were a lane. I would walk right up to heaven. To bring you home again. No farewell words were spoken. No time to say goodbye. You were gone before I knew it And. Only Paul Kagame knows why. My heart still aches with sadness. And secret tears still flow. What It meant to lose you. No one will ever know.
Why did Kagame this to me?
Can't forget. He murdered my mother. What should be my reaction? FYI: the number of orphans in Rwanda has skyrocketed since the 1990's Kagame's invasion. Much higher numbers of orphans had and have no other option but joining FDLR fighters who are identified as children that have Lost their Parents in Kagame's Wars inside and outside of Rwanda.If someone killed your child/spouse/parent(s) would you seek justice or revenge? Deep insight: What would you do to the person who snuffed the life of someone I love beyond reason? Forgiving would bring me no solace. If you take what really matters to me, I will show you what really matters. NITUTIRWANAHO TUZASHIRA. IGIHE KIRAGEZE.If democracy is to sell one's motherland(Africa), for some zionits support, then I prefer the person who is ready to give all his live for his motherland. Viva President Putin!!!
RPF committed the unspeakable
The perverted RPF committed the UNSPEAKABLE.Two orphans, both against the Nazi world. Point is the fact that their parents' murder Kagame & his RPF held no shock in the Western world. Up to now, the Rwandan Hitler Kagame and his death squads still enjoy impunity inside and outside of Rwanda. What goes through someone's mind as they know RPF murdered their parents? A delayed punishment is actually an encouragement to crime, In Praise of the ongoing Bloodshed in Rwanda. “I always think I am a pro-peace person but if someone harmed someone near and dear to me, I don't think I could be so peaceful. I would like to believe that to seek justice could save millions of people living the African Great Lakes Region - I would devote myself to bringing the 'perp' along to a non-happy ending but would that be enough? You'd have to be in the situation I suppose before you could actually know how you would feel or what you would do”. Jean-Christophe Nizeyimana, Libre Penseur
Hutu Children & their Mums
Look at them ! How they are scared to death. Many Rwandan Hutu and Tutsi, Foreign human rights advocates, jounalists and and lawyers are now on Death Row Waiting to be murdered by Kagame and his RPF death squads. Be the last to know.
Almighty God :Justice for US
Hutu children's daily bread: Intimidation, Slavery, Sex abuses led by RPF criminals and Kagame, DMI: Every single day, there are more assassinations, imprisonment, brainwashing & disappearances. Do they have any chance to end this awful life?
Killing Hutus on daily basis
RPF targeted killings, very often in public areas. Killing Hutus on daily basis by Kagame's murderers and the RPF infamous death squads known as the "UNKNOWN WRONGDOERS"
RPF Trade Mark: Akandoya
Rape, torture and assassination and unslaving of hutu women. Genderside: Rape has always been used by kagame's RPF as a Weapon of War, the killings of Hutu women with the help of Local Defense Forces, DMI and the RPF military
The Torture in Rwanda flourishes
How torture flourishes across Rwanda despite extensive global monitoring
Fighting For Our Freedom?
We need Freedom, Liberation of our fatherland, Human rights respect, Mutual respect between the Hutu majority and the Tutsi minority
Friday, July 3, 2009
“Everyone is a human being and deserves the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” – Frank Copley
*
*
Who is inspiring the architects of the Rwanda Sterelization Law?
*
*
I. Introduction
Who is Horst Schumann?
Dr. Horst Schumann (1906-1983) was a SS doctor. Originally, he worked at Auschwitz in Dr. Viktor Brack's T4 axiom.
Originally, he worked at Auschwitz in Dr. Viktor Brack's T4 axiom. Dr. Brack had asked to be placed in charge of the sterilization program, however, Himmler chose Schumann for the position instead. Later Schumann conducted experiments at Birkenbau.
Schumann was a part of the sterilization program for both men and women at Auschwitz and Birkenbau (13). He conducted various unethical research on women, including injections such as formalin, novacain, progynon, and prolusion (9). The injections were supposed to sterilize Jewish women and gypsy women.
The substances would cause infections and scarring of the fallopian tubes which wo
uld prevent both fertilization and implantation of eggs in the uterus. Many of the women actually died from pelvic inflammation of their uterus and ruptured fallopian tubes during these experiments.
Schumann's sterilization of men also stemmed around injections, castration and x-rays or intentional radiation of men's penises, scrotums and testes.
Schumann never published any of his research like other Nazi doctors did after the war. Instead, the documentation for most of his research disappeared and the Allied forces were only able to find out the names of the experiments, how many people Schumann got for each experiment, and what each experiment was supposed to be for. Schumann and another doctor escaped to ano
ther area of Germany and they took on fake aliases as refugees.
They used a refugee credit to start up a medical practice under their aliases. When they were discovered, Schumann fled to Africa and all we know is what Schumann claimed himself. Schumann claimed that from 1950-1955 that he was a ship's doctor. In 1955, Schumann went to Sudan where he claimed to have studied "sleeping sickness." For some reason, Schumann fled Sudan or his alias was discovered where he fled to Nigeria and then on to Ghana. In 1966, the government of Ghana handed Schumann back to the German government.
Clearly, it is a curiosity which anyone would want to know. What were Schumann's aliases in Africa? (so that someone can track him down) And is there any patient of Schumann in Africa that is still alive?
Should the Africans (Sudanese, Nigerians, Ghanaian’s and Rwandans) trust Schumann's needles, considering that he was a Nazi doctor and killed most of his patients using his needles? Should anyone trust the needles of a man that chooses to poison 575 people by injections in the heart?
The Rockefellers monopolized American medicine in the 1920s. They, along with I.G. Farben, Germany's leading industrial organization, held the monopoly on the world's chemical and pharmaceutical industries. The Rockefellers and I.G. Farben worked together before World War II and during World War II. For all practical purposes, the Rockefellers and I.G. Farben were the Third Reich.
To give certain dysgenic groups in our population their choice of segregation [concentration camps] or sterilization", advocated the founder of Planned Parenthood, Margaret Sanger in April 1932 ("A Plan For Peace", Birth Control Review; see 'appendix' for this full unabridged seminal article).
Which country pioneered forced sterilization in the 20th century, Germany or the United States of America? The German program began in January 1934, but the U.S. state of Indiana passed a forced sterilization law (for mental defectives) in 1907 (when Adolf Hitler was 18 years old).
Before the German program began, at least seventeen U.S. states (including California) had 'forced sterilization' laws. Before 1930 there were 200-600 forced sterilizations per year (in the U.S.A.) but in the 1930s the rate jumped to 2,000-4,000 per year.
Who 'Inspired' the architects of the German Sterilization law?
"The leaders in the German sterilization movement state repeatedly that their legislation was formulated after careful study of the California experiment as reported by Mr. Gosney and Dr. [Paul] Popenoe. It would have been impossible, they say, to understake such a venture involving some 1 million people without drawing heavily upon previous experience elsewhere."
Who is Dr. Paul Popenoe? He was a leader in the U.S. eugenics movement and wrote (1933) the article 'Eugenic Sterilization' in the journal (BCR) that Margaret Sanger started. How many Americans did Dr. Popenoe estimate should be subjected to sterilization? Between five million and ten million Americans. "The situation [in the U.S.A] will grow worse instead of better if steps are not taken to control the reproduction of mentally handicapped. Eugenic sterilization represents one such step that is practicable, humanitarian, and certain in its results."
Who is Ernst Rudin?
Ernst Rudin was director of the foremost German eugenics research institute (Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Genealogy, in Munich, Germany). "On June 2, 1933, [German] Reich Interior Minister Wilhelm Frick announced the formation of an Expert Committee on Questions of Population and Racial Policy .... to plan the course of Nazi racial policy. The committee brought together the elite of Nazi racial theory: Alfred Ploetz, ..... Ernst Rudin, director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Genealogy in Munich;...."
On July 14, 1933 this committee's recommendations were made law, the sterilization law ("Law for the Prevention of Genetically Diseased Offspring"); the start date for exercising the law was 1 Jan 1934. What was Ernst Rudin's opinion of Adolf Hitler and eugenics ('racial hygiene')?
***
II. Rwanda is being urged to drop a draft law which (OFFICIALLY) would forcibly sterilise people who are mentally disabled.
*
Who is Horst Schumann?
Dr. Horst Schumann (1906-1983) was a SS doctor. Originally, he worked at Auschwitz in Dr. Viktor Brack's T4 axiom.
Originally, he worked at Auschwitz in Dr. Viktor Brack's T4 axiom. Dr. Brack had asked to be placed in charge of the sterilization program, however, Himmler chose Schumann for the position instead. Later Schumann conducted experiments at Birkenbau.
Schumann was a part of the sterilization program for both men and women at Auschwitz and Birkenbau (13). He conducted various unethical research on women, including injections such as formalin, novacain, progynon, and prolusion (9). The injections were supposed to sterilize Jewish women and gypsy women.
The substances would cause infections and scarring of the fallopian tubes which wo
uld prevent both fertilization and implantation of eggs in the uterus. Many of the women actually died from pelvic inflammation of their uterus and ruptured fallopian tubes during these experiments.Schumann's sterilization of men also stemmed around injections, castration and x-rays or intentional radiation of men's penises, scrotums and testes.
Schumann never published any of his research like other Nazi doctors did after the war. Instead, the documentation for most of his research disappeared and the Allied forces were only able to find out the names of the experiments, how many people Schumann got for each experiment, and what each experiment was supposed to be for. Schumann and another doctor escaped to ano
ther area of Germany and they took on fake aliases as refugees.They used a refugee credit to start up a medical practice under their aliases. When they were discovered, Schumann fled to Africa and all we know is what Schumann claimed himself. Schumann claimed that from 1950-1955 that he was a ship's doctor. In 1955, Schumann went to Sudan where he claimed to have studied "sleeping sickness." For some reason, Schumann fled Sudan or his alias was discovered where he fled to Nigeria and then on to Ghana. In 1966, the government of Ghana handed Schumann back to the German government.
Clearly, it is a curiosity which anyone would want to know. What were Schumann's aliases in Africa? (so that someone can track him down) And is there any patient of Schumann in Africa that is still alive?
Should the Africans (Sudanese, Nigerians, Ghanaian’s and Rwandans) trust Schumann's needles, considering that he was a Nazi doctor and killed most of his patients using his needles? Should anyone trust the needles of a man that chooses to poison 575 people by injections in the heart?
The Rockefellers monopolized American medicine in the 1920s. They, along with I.G. Farben, Germany's leading industrial organization, held the monopoly on the world's chemical and pharmaceutical industries. The Rockefellers and I.G. Farben worked together before World War II and during World War II. For all practical purposes, the Rockefellers and I.G. Farben were the Third Reich.
To give certain dysgenic groups in our population their choice of segregation [concentration camps] or sterilization", advocated the founder of Planned Parenthood, Margaret Sanger in April 1932 ("A Plan For Peace", Birth Control Review; see 'appendix' for this full unabridged seminal article).
Which country pioneered forced sterilization in the 20th century, Germany or the United States of America? The German program began in January 1934, but the U.S. state of Indiana passed a forced sterilization law (for mental defectives) in 1907 (when Adolf Hitler was 18 years old).
Before the German program began, at least seventeen U.S. states (including California) had 'forced sterilization' laws. Before 1930 there were 200-600 forced sterilizations per year (in the U.S.A.) but in the 1930s the rate jumped to 2,000-4,000 per year.
Who 'Inspired' the architects of the German Sterilization law?
"The leaders in the German sterilization movement state repeatedly that their legislation was formulated after careful study of the California experiment as reported by Mr. Gosney and Dr. [Paul] Popenoe. It would have been impossible, they say, to understake such a venture involving some 1 million people without drawing heavily upon previous experience elsewhere."
Who is Dr. Paul Popenoe? He was a leader in the U.S. eugenics movement and wrote (1933) the article 'Eugenic Sterilization' in the journal (BCR) that Margaret Sanger started. How many Americans did Dr. Popenoe estimate should be subjected to sterilization? Between five million and ten million Americans. "The situation [in the U.S.A] will grow worse instead of better if steps are not taken to control the reproduction of mentally handicapped. Eugenic sterilization represents one such step that is practicable, humanitarian, and certain in its results."
Who is Ernst Rudin?
Ernst Rudin was director of the foremost German eugenics research institute (Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Genealogy, in Munich, Germany). "On June 2, 1933, [German] Reich Interior Minister Wilhelm Frick announced the formation of an Expert Committee on Questions of Population and Racial Policy .... to plan the course of Nazi racial policy. The committee brought together the elite of Nazi racial theory: Alfred Ploetz, ..... Ernst Rudin, director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Genealogy in Munich;...."
On July 14, 1933 this committee's recommendations were made law, the sterilization law ("Law for the Prevention of Genetically Diseased Offspring"); the start date for exercising the law was 1 Jan 1934. What was Ernst Rudin's opinion of Adolf Hitler and eugenics ('racial hygiene')?
***
II. Rwanda is being urged to drop a draft law which (OFFICIALLY) would forcibly sterilise people who are mentally disabled.
*
It is a well-known fact that Tutsi extremists group like RPF promote these types of ideas all over the country as a part of the culture of death from the false family planning and population growth reduction to their extermination.
During the past two decades of the RPF Nazi era in Rwanda, eugenics prompted the sterilization of several hundred thousand Hutus in the anti Hutu majority programmes of euthanasia and ultimately, of course, to the Imidugudu, eugenics laws, IDPS, Refugees in the Congo and death camps (Kibeho). The whole intention is to reduce the majority population in Rwanda blamed to be the cause of the overcrowded population on a very small land.
Fury at Rwanda sterilisation bill
The Rwandan Parliament is currently discussing a draft law which would "require the sterilization of all individuals with intellectual disabilities."
Human Rights Watch said the proposed law was a gross violation of human rights.
This bill "undermines reproductive health goals and undo decades of work to ensure respect for reproductive rights," said Joe Amon, the health and human rights director at Human Rights Watch.
The Human Rights Watch has urged the Rwandan government to remove this provision from the bill.
(March 2006) The latest Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) of the Republic of Rwanda was conducted in 2005. This 2005 survey shows that the national policy to reduce population growth, while not yet seeing a reduction in fertility rates, has resulted in the increased use of family planning. In addition, the widespread awareness of HIV suggests that the country is having some success in addressing that significant threat to public health.
In May 2008, Rwanda ratified the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. The convention upholds the rights of persons with disabilities, including intellectual disabilities, to equal rights.
This new law under discussion in the Rwandan Parliament would go against the above mentioned convention.
Furthermore, forced sterilization is considered a crime against humanity by the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.
© SurViVors Editions
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
During the past two decades of the RPF Nazi era in Rwanda, eugenics prompted the sterilization of several hundred thousand Hutus in the anti Hutu majority programmes of euthanasia and ultimately, of course, to the Imidugudu, eugenics laws, IDPS, Refugees in the Congo and death camps (Kibeho). The whole intention is to reduce the majority population in Rwanda blamed to be the cause of the overcrowded population on a very small land.
Fury at Rwanda sterilisation bill
The Rwandan Parliament is currently discussing a draft law which would "require the sterilization of all individuals with intellectual disabilities."
Human Rights Watch said the proposed law was a gross violation of human rights.
This bill "undermines reproductive health goals and undo decades of work to ensure respect for reproductive rights," said Joe Amon, the health and human rights director at Human Rights Watch.
The Human Rights Watch has urged the Rwandan government to remove this provision from the bill.
(March 2006) The latest Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) of the Republic of Rwanda was conducted in 2005. This 2005 survey shows that the national policy to reduce population growth, while not yet seeing a reduction in fertility rates, has resulted in the increased use of family planning. In addition, the widespread awareness of HIV suggests that the country is having some success in addressing that significant threat to public health.
In May 2008, Rwanda ratified the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. The convention upholds the rights of persons with disabilities, including intellectual disabilities, to equal rights.
This new law under discussion in the Rwandan Parliament would go against the above mentioned convention.
Furthermore, forced sterilization is considered a crime against humanity by the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.
© SurViVors Editions
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
Thursday, July 2, 2009
NDLR: There was NO CIVIL WAR IN RWANDA BUT INVASION BY OUTSIDERS AND TERRORISTS. Who's the brain behind the Rwanda genocide Look at him here above =>
***
3,700,000,000 Frw only for Ugandan fighters.
What about Somalis, Burundians, Ethiopians, Erythreans, Tanzanians, AlQaeda, and other mercenaries?
Whose the bill? RPF/A or Rwandans?
To get an idea of the scope of the war, it is very easy to get information and details in Addis Ababa, where you will find people who were hired to fight for the RPF.
They will tell you that the U.S. Embassy in Ethiopia recruited foreign fighters (including al Shabaab militia, World-Wide Jihad and Al
Qaeda) for the RPF. These soldiers came from Somalia, Eritrea, Ethiopia, and South Sudan to fight against the Rwandan Government.
Obviously, there is no need to say that the 1990-1994 war was a civil war as it was described before and after the RPF seized power. Even today there are Somalis living in Rwanda with full Rwandan citizenship and still others who were disappointed and left for Europe. That is why, at the end of the day, the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) said Paul Kagame was linked to Al-Qaeda without giving more detailed information. Many of those guys fighting with the RPF were actually terrorists, but that label was not used with those countries at that time because it was before September the eleventh, 2001!
***
Wednesday, 01 July 2009 14:11
A group of men claiming to be former members of the Rwandese Patriotic Front (RPF) which helped to overthrow the government of Juvenal Habyarimana in 1994 are demanding payment of their salaries and compensation. The former fighters want a total of seven billion shillings accumulated over the past 13 years.
On Monday 50 of the former RPF officers held a meeting at Kasana Football Ground in Masaka town to discuss their demands. They said they were giving the Rwandan government two weeks to clear their arrears or they would seek legal redress.
Aquino Matega, a retired sergeant in the RPF who now serves as the representative of the claimants, says he is personally demanding for 12 million shillings. He claims that his leg was wounded by a landmine during the 1994 push to Kigali and he has never been compensated by the Rwandan government.
The claim for compensation is based on an agreement allegedly made with the Rwandan government and a group of 600 former officers in 1996. The soldiers were reportedly told to return to their countries of origin with the agreement that they would be paid for the efforts in the war.
The contract signed by Colonel Sam Kanyemera Kaka, the former Rwandan Army Chief of Staff and the non-Rwandan citizen fighters entitled them to a pay of between 300,000 shillings and 740,000 shillings depending on their rank. Payment was to be effected from September 1996.
In total 235 Ugandans who claim to have fought in the Rwandese Patriotic Front between 1990 and 1995 claim that they have never been paid.
Ibrahim Kaliisa, one of the former fighters, says he and his colleagues still have identity cards and documents recognizing them as Rwandan soldiers. He says he wants six million shillings in compensation because he played a central role in the Virunga Forest battle in 1993. He claims that he killed 20 government soldiers during that battle.
A Rwandan Embassy official who identified herself as Regina Chantal called the RPF claimants greedy and impatient. She said the issue is still pending a decision in Rwanda and the former fighter should wait for an official answer.
Major John Karangwa, an official from the Rwandan Ministry of Defense, in a phone interview from Kigali, said he is aware of the demands of the RPF claimants. He said he regrets the delays and confirms that his government is working closely with the Rwandan Embassy in Uganda to compensate the soldiers.
Foreign Minister Sam Kuteesa, who has been a reference point for many of the fighters, said he is also aware of the demands. He urged the former fighters to remain calm.
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
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
By MUJYANAMA
June 10, 2009
Fifteen (15) years after the Rwandan genocide of 1994 and nineteen (19) years after the Rwandan civil war of 1990, a non-negligible portion of the Rwandan population does neither have a place to live in their home country nor rights in many western power's foreign policies.
In January and February 2009, a joint military operation “Umoja wetu” between the Rwandan army (RDF) and the Congolese army (FARDC) was launched in the Province of North Kivu (DRC) with the specific mission of tracking down Rwandan Hutu refugees, some of which have joined the FDLR rebellion.
The official goal for "Umoja wetu" operation was to disarm these combatants and force them to return home in Rwanda. Sin
ce the operation “Umoja wetu” has failed, attentions are now turned to the Province of South Kivu where a similar military operation, “Kimya II” is underway with the same specific mission of tracking down Rwandan Hutu refugees who just await their voluntary repatriation in dignity and tranquility.
Meanwile, the Congolese people continue to pay for a political deadlock whose solutions are not military but political.
Mujyanama, a citizen of Rwanda, contributed the following pertinent analysis of the endless crisis in the African Great Lakes region and proposed some solutions.
IN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO (DRC)
After “Umoja wetu” in North Kivu, “Kimya II" in South Kivu
In North Kivu, during the operation “Umoja wetu” (our unity), which was launched on January 20, 2009 and officially ended on February 25, 2009, there was no fightings between the FDLR combatants and the Rwando-Congolese coalition soldiers.
The FDLR were good at ambushing the coalition soldiers in order to delay their inward progress and has fought only once in February at Katoyi in Masisi territory, when they suddenly became surrounded by the coalition soldiers. There were many dead and wounded among the Rwandan troops and very little among the FDLR combatants.
Even though the Rwandan authorities have stated that the operation “Umoja wetu” was a succes in 80%, the FDLR are still there. The FDLR have moved further inward in the forest. They are now scattered in several groups and very few of them have returned home in Rwanda.
Currently, a similar operation, prepared by the arrival of many more Rwandan troops, called “Kimya II” (Silence), is underway in South Kivu.
Officially, the operation Kimya II is only conducted by the Congolese (FARDC) soldiers with a logistical support from UN (MONUC) peacekeepers.
However, local Congolese populations have deeply expressed their worries to see among these troops a strong presence of Rwandan (RDF) soldiers, newly arrived, and therefore other than the CNDP soldiers.
As far as the FDLR are concerned, they are determined to defend themselves if they are attacked. However they constantly ask the Congolese soldiers the following questions:
“We have already married your sisters. How can you attack your brothers-in- law, your sisters, your nephews?” We have been welcomed in this country by Laurent Desire Kabila, we fought with you against the RCD, a Rwandan proxy rebellion. We have even saved the life of your current President from the hands of the RPF soldiers in Pweto. How is it possible that you now mistakenly consider us your enemies?”
Long before “Kimya II” operation began, the Congolese population suffered from extensive exactions of the FARDC soldiers: the burning of houses, rapes, and some of the massacres that are officially attributed to the FDLR on a regular basis.
Indeed, for many of the alleged FDLR massacres, strong evidence has proven otherwise.
There are some Congolese soldiers that are poorly paid. There are other Congolese soldiers that are corrupted by the Kigali regime. There also are some Rwandan (RDF) soldiers who have already infiltrated the FARDC. There are several groups of bandits, etc.
Their misdeeds continue to tarnish the FDLR image so that the “Kimya II” operation can continue to receive support from the International Community.
Concerning lootings, one should keep in mind that Rwandan refugees in DRC were used to grow their own crops, had their own livestock and were used to sell their products at several local markets. Now that these refugees are forced to be on a constant run, they are left without any means of survival.
Military operations with hidden goals
Is it possible that the Rwandan (RDF) soldiers, perpetrators of several massacres of Congolese poeple in Kasika, Makobola, Katogota during the invasion war in 1998 can now bring peace to DRC?
Has anyone forgot that on November 6, 2008, more than four hundreds (400) Congolese aged between 14 and 40 were massacred by the Rwandan soldiers led by Laurent Nkunda in Kiwanja, North Kivu?
Obviously, military operations in the eastern provinces of DRC have hidden goals that the Congolese will surely discover in the future.
Under the umbrella of “Umoja wetu” operation, several thousands of Rwandan soldiers entered the Congo. When the operation officially ended in February 2009, only a very small number of these soldiers returned home in Rwanda while thousands joined the CNDP rebels and have been integrated into the FARDC.
A number of witnesses have reported several nocturnal entries of Rwandan soldiers in Bukavu, by the border or across the Kivu Lake. These soldiers soon after their entries take their lead in the forest.
Last year, President Kagame, speaking to the Rwandan youth, Tutsis and Hutus included, who had failed the final exams for their degrees that year, told them:
“Do not get discouraged. The end of school education does not mean the end of life! I will give you some job.”
Soon after the speech, these young man and women have been invited to join the Rwandan army (RDF). They underwent military trainings provided by the American instructors. Upon completion of these accelerated trainings, the young people were immediately sent to the Congo. one group encompassing some Presidential Guards of Paul Kagame, went deeper into the forest. Another group remained in Bukavu.
Their specific mission could not be clearer: kill as many people as possible and put the blame on the FDLR rebels. These slodiers all speak native languages of North and South Kivu.
Thus continues the sinister plan aimed at strengthening the Rwandan military and political presence within all Congolese institutions in order to install the Hima hegemony in this country.
Owing to the fact that many Congolese are prone to corruption, it is much easier to conquer them. Thus, the Machiavellian plan aimed at annexing the eastern Congo to Rwanda inexorably stays on the right path towards its realization.
IN RWANDA
The fate of Hutus repatriated to Rwanda
Most of the Rwandan refugees who have been “voluntarly” repatriated from DRC during the operations “Umoja wetu” and “Kimya II”, are women, children, and the elderly. Usually, it is the UNHCR that transports them to Rwanda. Once in Rwanda, they spend a few days in a transit camp and are then sent to their home villages with an insertion kit.
When these people leave the transit camp, the camp authorities call the RPF agents in the village of destination for theses returnees. The camp authorities ask the RPF agents whether they are willing to accept the returnee's arrival. If the answer is no, the police officer will immediately proceed by arresting these returnees and put them in prison, accusing them of having participated in the Rwandan genocide of 1994.
Some of these returnees manage to make it to their home land. However, since for many of their houses have been destroyed, most of these returnees end up living in "small houses" that the government has built along the roadsides.
Women refugees returning to Rwanda from DRC are subject to extensive harassments and intimidations mostly owing to the fact that in Rwanda there is a saying that "he who kills a snake must also kill that snake’s youngsters".
For instance, in the former Commune of Cyimbogo, the RPF soldiers have recently falsely accused and unjustly imprisoned two young men, Niyibizi, son of Rwanzegushira, and Kaze, son of Nyandwi.
Following this unfortunate incident, a representative of Ibuka gave a speech that frightened local populations:
“In the past, the Tutsis have dominated the Hutus, so must also be it until this very day!”
Concerning the FDLR fighters who decided to return home, their fate is still uncertain: some of them ended up in prison.
Demobilized RPF soldiers and demobilized FDLR rebels have different ID cards. On the ID cards of the latter it is written that: “He distanced himself from the rebels”.
This is why some of these repatriated refugees are returning to the Congo.
The Gacaca courts still pose problems
In Rwandan prisons, prisoners are mercilessly packed up. The prisoners are massively dying in prison on a daily basis. Families of prisoners are no longer allowed to bring food to their imprisoned relatives. People continue to be unjustly arrested. The “gacaca courts”, traditional tribunals, that judge Hutus accused of genocide, are supposedly aimed at bringing about Truth and Reconciliation in Rwanda.
In reality the Gacaca courts have become instruments of repression for Tutsi
revenge against the Hutus with the financial and moral support from the International Community.
The Gacaca Courts were supposed to end in late 2007, but their mandate has been prolonged up to June 2009. They still deal with allegations of property damage during genocide.
Through the Gacaca courts many Hutus have been expropriated but on top of that corrupted genocide Tutsi survivors are now in process of appealing several court rulings so that the acquitted Hutus can once again be imprisoned.
The Gacaca courts absolutely seek to convict those Hutus who have been already released from prison. Specifically, Hutu elites are the main targeted. These are Hutus who worked for the former regime. These Hutus have always lived in Rwanda without being harassed. Some of them have been even working for the RPF.
In Rwanda anyone who thinks, anyone who can share his/her thoughts, becomes a danger to the public. These people are targeted by the Rwandan authorities who usually manage to silence them and set them aside.
The Rwandan President Paul Kagame knows very well that the majority of the people who are routinely arrested in Rwanda on genocide charges are innocent.
In order to hold on power, the Rwandan authorities rely on arbitrary massive imprisonments of innocent people.
Recently, the Director of Human Rights Watch (HRW) in New York wrote a letter to the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), based in Arusha, Tanzania, and asked him to also address the crimes committed by the RPF soldiers.
The Rwandan Minister of Justice ironically responded by saying that it would be a tautology, because the RPF criminals, have been already prosecuted in Rwanda.
Stay silent otherwise die or become slaves
People who have parents or children abroad, particularly refugees in Congo, are persecuted, in order to force their family members in exile to return home.
The RPF agents with the specific duty of identifying those families require the “nyumbakumi”, local leaders controlling just ten (10) households, to directly report to these agents if there are any opponents among the ten families under their control.
The list of opponents is transmitted to the military leadership. At night, RPF spying agents spend sometimes near the residential homes of these alleged opponents, listening to their conversations or their phone calls.
If they notice that they were talking about their exiled relatives or talking with them on phone, they arrest them. The alleged opponents who dare to leave their homes after 8:00PM will be severely beaten up.
Selected by the President of Ibuka, the “Intore” (the chosen ones), have a fundamental task of constantly terrorizing the population in preparation of the 2010 presidential elections and specifically to submit the names of the people who have family relatives in the Congo and to monitor their movements and conversations.
They are supposed to provide daily reports on what they heard behind closed doors. Other spying agents cross the Kivu Lake at night to Bukavu in order to capture some information about the FDLR.
In each cell (also called Akagari), there is a leader responsible of death squad.. The main duty of this leader is to physically eliminate opponents.
On May 7, 2009 in Cyato Sector, a meeting took place. The meeting was chaired by a representative of Ibuka. To the meeting, only Tutsis born to a Tutsi father and a Tutsi mother were invited. There were more than two hundreds people including the leaders of Ibuka and the leaders of death squads in each Sector.
Here is an excerpt of their concluding remarks:
"All those Hutus you know to harbor bad ideologies, and those believed to be physically strong, must have a file of participation in genocide and get arrested. Those who have lands or money, they should quickly be imprisoned before the elections take place.
We will start by arresting two persons in each sector, the following week we will arrest four, within a month, eight, and so on, until all of them have been arrested. They have to work for us in land managements, field works on our hills, or build our houses.
The Hutus are physically strong. If we do not imprison them they won’t be able to work for us as Tigists (from the French acronym TIG: Travaux d'Interets Generaux or Works of General Interests). The Gacaca courts must be reinstated, so that the Hutus who have never been imprisoned be arrested and that those who have been released be imprisoned again."
A population impoverished and intimidated
Bullying looms throughout Rwanda. Every Rwandan is afraid to express his/her opinion on any situation even within close friends.
In April 2009, during a visit to Byumba, President Kagame said that:
“whoever is unable to follow his instructions, has to leave the country, and that he who diverts public funds will be imprisoned”.
Paradoxically, it is the smal group of people that run the country that are incredibly accumulating wealth beyond any measure.
In schools, during break times, the Tutsi students associate themselves according to their social classes. Their whispers usually worry the Hutu students. Such associations of ethnic character among students in Rwanda are surely not aimed at fostering justice and reconciliation.
Although the institution of the “mutual healthcare” system guarantees primary health cares, the gap between rich and poor people is widening on a daily basis.
In Kigali-City the small houses belonging to the Hutus i.e the poor people, have been destroyed to make way to make room for the villas, and these Hutu people had to leave the city towards rural areas with a meager compensation.
No small venders are allowed to sell goods on the roadsides, and many small shops are going out of business because of too high taxes. Peasants have been forced to cut down their banana plantations under false allegations that bananana consumption may cause malnutrition. Instead, it is through banana plantations that the ordinary Rwandan family gets some cash.
Even among the Tutsis, the Banyamulenge from DRC, those of Burundi origin, and those who have always lived in the country, briefly all those who do not belong to the English speaking group that came from Uganda, are increasingly getting marginalized. Any one who wants to do the right thing is threatened and pushed aside.
A regime that enjoys international support
Despite the unspeakable levels of social injustice in Rwanda, the International Community continues to use the double standards, two sets of rules and continues to support the Kigali regime.
There are numerous signs:
-During all those years of civil war since October 1, 1990 too much blood has been shed from one side to the other: why then labeling some people as victims and the other ones as perpetrators, instead of promoting a process of genuine investigation of the facts in truth and justice, so that all Rwandan children can rebuild their country together?
-Why didn’t we see any follow up about the two arrest warrants issued, one by the French Judge Bruguiere against nine senior leaders of the RPF, and the other one by the Spanish judge Merelles against forty officers including high ranking official close to Paul Kagamé?
-While the RPF-Inkotanyi used child soldiers during their conquest war in Rwanda, why up to date no international institution has expressed any concern about this issue?
-Why the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), whose mandate is to investigate all crimes committed in Rwanda and neighboring counties from January 1, 1994 until December 31, 1994, has only prosecuted the Hutus?
-Why the USA has long supported the rebel Laurent Nkunda affiliated to Rwanda, whose soldires in two years of war in North Kivu, has killed so many people and has displaced nearly two million people?
-Upon the publication last December, of the UN report on the Rwandan aggression in the Congo through Nkunda's forces, the Netherlands and Sweden have suspended budgetary aid to Rwanda. Why didn’t other donors do the same?
-The December 2008 agreement between the Congolese President, Joseph Kabila and the Rwandan President, Paul Kagame has made it possible to arrest Nkunda so that the FDLR track down in North Kivu can begin in January 2009.
-The International Community supports these military operations and refuses to listen to the voice of helpless Hutu refugees in DRC: they are hunting them down. Are they all killers? What about the children born in the DRC in exile, the young people born in Rwanda but who were children in 1994, women, elderly and many adult people, who were also victims of the Rwanda civil war?
Conclusion
It is not understandable that one wants to repatriate the Hutu refugees by force, while some of those returnees are now returning back to DRC. One cannot force someone to go home: it is a crime and history will prove it. Rwandan Hutu refugees in Congo would really love to return home, but they cannot be forced to do so, when there is not guarantee for their security and dignity in Rwanda.
Their return that these war operations in North and South Kivu allege to aim at will be achieved not by violence, which is making new victims and displacing people, but by a democratic change in Rwanda. The only solution to restore peace in Rwanda is through an inclusive inter-Rwandan dialogue so that Rwandans at all society levels can discuss the future of their country, just as other people have done so, and build a country where everyone feels free and protected.
The International Community should abstain from supporting perpetuation of crimes against the Hutus worldwide and especially in the eastern provinces of DRC. The Hutu have been equally created by the same God as any other human beings and are therefore entitled to the right to life, the right to claim anything they are entitled to, the right to express themselves and right to receive assistance of any kind.
The International Community should put pressure on the Rwandan government, so that:
- An inclusive inter-Rwandan dialogue can take place, in order to build the country's future in peace;
- A general amnesty be given to all ex-FAR (the army of the previous regime) soldiers and even to every Rwandan so that altogether the Rwandan children can rebuild their country.
- A functioning multiparty system be installed in the country without delay on the eve of the 2010 presidential elections, and that these elections be transparent and free and democratic.
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
June 10, 2009
Fifteen (15) years after the Rwandan genocide of 1994 and nineteen (19) years after the Rwandan civil war of 1990, a non-negligible portion of the Rwandan population does neither have a place to live in their home country nor rights in many western power's foreign policies.
In January and February 2009, a joint military operation “Umoja wetu” between the Rwandan army (RDF) and the Congolese army (FARDC) was launched in the Province of North Kivu (DRC) with the specific mission of tracking down Rwandan Hutu refugees, some of which have joined the FDLR rebellion.
The official goal for "Umoja wetu" operation was to disarm these combatants and force them to return home in Rwanda. Sin
ce the operation “Umoja wetu” has failed, attentions are now turned to the Province of South Kivu where a similar military operation, “Kimya II” is underway with the same specific mission of tracking down Rwandan Hutu refugees who just await their voluntary repatriation in dignity and tranquility.Meanwile, the Congolese people continue to pay for a political deadlock whose solutions are not military but political.
Mujyanama, a citizen of Rwanda, contributed the following pertinent analysis of the endless crisis in the African Great Lakes region and proposed some solutions.
IN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO (DRC)
After “Umoja wetu” in North Kivu, “Kimya II" in South Kivu
In North Kivu, during the operation “Umoja wetu” (our unity), which was launched on January 20, 2009 and officially ended on February 25, 2009, there was no fightings between the FDLR combatants and the Rwando-Congolese coalition soldiers.
The FDLR were good at ambushing the coalition soldiers in order to delay their inward progress and has fought only once in February at Katoyi in Masisi territory, when they suddenly became surrounded by the coalition soldiers. There were many dead and wounded among the Rwandan troops and very little among the FDLR combatants.
Even though the Rwandan authorities have stated that the operation “Umoja wetu” was a succes in 80%, the FDLR are still there. The FDLR have moved further inward in the forest. They are now scattered in several groups and very few of them have returned home in Rwanda.
Currently, a similar operation, prepared by the arrival of many more Rwandan troops, called “Kimya II” (Silence), is underway in South Kivu.
Officially, the operation Kimya II is only conducted by the Congolese (FARDC) soldiers with a logistical support from UN (MONUC) peacekeepers.
However, local Congolese populations have deeply expressed their worries to see among these troops a strong presence of Rwandan (RDF) soldiers, newly arrived, and therefore other than the CNDP soldiers.
As far as the FDLR are concerned, they are determined to defend themselves if they are attacked. However they constantly ask the Congolese soldiers the following questions:
“We have already married your sisters. How can you attack your brothers-in- law, your sisters, your nephews?” We have been welcomed in this country by Laurent Desire Kabila, we fought with you against the RCD, a Rwandan proxy rebellion. We have even saved the life of your current President from the hands of the RPF soldiers in Pweto. How is it possible that you now mistakenly consider us your enemies?”
Long before “Kimya II” operation began, the Congolese population suffered from extensive exactions of the FARDC soldiers: the burning of houses, rapes, and some of the massacres that are officially attributed to the FDLR on a regular basis.
Indeed, for many of the alleged FDLR massacres, strong evidence has proven otherwise.
There are some Congolese soldiers that are poorly paid. There are other Congolese soldiers that are corrupted by the Kigali regime. There also are some Rwandan (RDF) soldiers who have already infiltrated the FARDC. There are several groups of bandits, etc.
Their misdeeds continue to tarnish the FDLR image so that the “Kimya II” operation can continue to receive support from the International Community.
Concerning lootings, one should keep in mind that Rwandan refugees in DRC were used to grow their own crops, had their own livestock and were used to sell their products at several local markets. Now that these refugees are forced to be on a constant run, they are left without any means of survival.
Military operations with hidden goals
Is it possible that the Rwandan (RDF) soldiers, perpetrators of several massacres of Congolese poeple in Kasika, Makobola, Katogota during the invasion war in 1998 can now bring peace to DRC?
Has anyone forgot that on November 6, 2008, more than four hundreds (400) Congolese aged between 14 and 40 were massacred by the Rwandan soldiers led by Laurent Nkunda in Kiwanja, North Kivu?
Obviously, military operations in the eastern provinces of DRC have hidden goals that the Congolese will surely discover in the future.
Under the umbrella of “Umoja wetu” operation, several thousands of Rwandan soldiers entered the Congo. When the operation officially ended in February 2009, only a very small number of these soldiers returned home in Rwanda while thousands joined the CNDP rebels and have been integrated into the FARDC.
A number of witnesses have reported several nocturnal entries of Rwandan soldiers in Bukavu, by the border or across the Kivu Lake. These soldiers soon after their entries take their lead in the forest.
Last year, President Kagame, speaking to the Rwandan youth, Tutsis and Hutus included, who had failed the final exams for their degrees that year, told them:
“Do not get discouraged. The end of school education does not mean the end of life! I will give you some job.”
Soon after the speech, these young man and women have been invited to join the Rwandan army (RDF). They underwent military trainings provided by the American instructors. Upon completion of these accelerated trainings, the young people were immediately sent to the Congo. one group encompassing some Presidential Guards of Paul Kagame, went deeper into the forest. Another group remained in Bukavu.
Their specific mission could not be clearer: kill as many people as possible and put the blame on the FDLR rebels. These slodiers all speak native languages of North and South Kivu.
Thus continues the sinister plan aimed at strengthening the Rwandan military and political presence within all Congolese institutions in order to install the Hima hegemony in this country.
Owing to the fact that many Congolese are prone to corruption, it is much easier to conquer them. Thus, the Machiavellian plan aimed at annexing the eastern Congo to Rwanda inexorably stays on the right path towards its realization.
IN RWANDA
The fate of Hutus repatriated to Rwanda
Most of the Rwandan refugees who have been “voluntarly” repatriated from DRC during the operations “Umoja wetu” and “Kimya II”, are women, children, and the elderly. Usually, it is the UNHCR that transports them to Rwanda. Once in Rwanda, they spend a few days in a transit camp and are then sent to their home villages with an insertion kit.
When these people leave the transit camp, the camp authorities call the RPF agents in the village of destination for theses returnees. The camp authorities ask the RPF agents whether they are willing to accept the returnee's arrival. If the answer is no, the police officer will immediately proceed by arresting these returnees and put them in prison, accusing them of having participated in the Rwandan genocide of 1994.
Some of these returnees manage to make it to their home land. However, since for many of their houses have been destroyed, most of these returnees end up living in "small houses" that the government has built along the roadsides.
Women refugees returning to Rwanda from DRC are subject to extensive harassments and intimidations mostly owing to the fact that in Rwanda there is a saying that "he who kills a snake must also kill that snake’s youngsters".
For instance, in the former Commune of Cyimbogo, the RPF soldiers have recently falsely accused and unjustly imprisoned two young men, Niyibizi, son of Rwanzegushira, and Kaze, son of Nyandwi.
Following this unfortunate incident, a representative of Ibuka gave a speech that frightened local populations:
“In the past, the Tutsis have dominated the Hutus, so must also be it until this very day!”
Concerning the FDLR fighters who decided to return home, their fate is still uncertain: some of them ended up in prison.
Demobilized RPF soldiers and demobilized FDLR rebels have different ID cards. On the ID cards of the latter it is written that: “He distanced himself from the rebels”.
This is why some of these repatriated refugees are returning to the Congo.
The Gacaca courts still pose problems
In Rwandan prisons, prisoners are mercilessly packed up. The prisoners are massively dying in prison on a daily basis. Families of prisoners are no longer allowed to bring food to their imprisoned relatives. People continue to be unjustly arrested. The “gacaca courts”, traditional tribunals, that judge Hutus accused of genocide, are supposedly aimed at bringing about Truth and Reconciliation in Rwanda.
In reality the Gacaca courts have become instruments of repression for Tutsi
revenge against the Hutus with the financial and moral support from the International Community.The Gacaca Courts were supposed to end in late 2007, but their mandate has been prolonged up to June 2009. They still deal with allegations of property damage during genocide.
Through the Gacaca courts many Hutus have been expropriated but on top of that corrupted genocide Tutsi survivors are now in process of appealing several court rulings so that the acquitted Hutus can once again be imprisoned.
The Gacaca courts absolutely seek to convict those Hutus who have been already released from prison. Specifically, Hutu elites are the main targeted. These are Hutus who worked for the former regime. These Hutus have always lived in Rwanda without being harassed. Some of them have been even working for the RPF.
In Rwanda anyone who thinks, anyone who can share his/her thoughts, becomes a danger to the public. These people are targeted by the Rwandan authorities who usually manage to silence them and set them aside.
The Rwandan President Paul Kagame knows very well that the majority of the people who are routinely arrested in Rwanda on genocide charges are innocent.
In order to hold on power, the Rwandan authorities rely on arbitrary massive imprisonments of innocent people.
Recently, the Director of Human Rights Watch (HRW) in New York wrote a letter to the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), based in Arusha, Tanzania, and asked him to also address the crimes committed by the RPF soldiers.
The Rwandan Minister of Justice ironically responded by saying that it would be a tautology, because the RPF criminals, have been already prosecuted in Rwanda.
Stay silent otherwise die or become slaves
People who have parents or children abroad, particularly refugees in Congo, are persecuted, in order to force their family members in exile to return home.
The RPF agents with the specific duty of identifying those families require the “nyumbakumi”, local leaders controlling just ten (10) households, to directly report to these agents if there are any opponents among the ten families under their control.
The list of opponents is transmitted to the military leadership. At night, RPF spying agents spend sometimes near the residential homes of these alleged opponents, listening to their conversations or their phone calls.
If they notice that they were talking about their exiled relatives or talking with them on phone, they arrest them. The alleged opponents who dare to leave their homes after 8:00PM will be severely beaten up.
Selected by the President of Ibuka, the “Intore” (the chosen ones), have a fundamental task of constantly terrorizing the population in preparation of the 2010 presidential elections and specifically to submit the names of the people who have family relatives in the Congo and to monitor their movements and conversations.
They are supposed to provide daily reports on what they heard behind closed doors. Other spying agents cross the Kivu Lake at night to Bukavu in order to capture some information about the FDLR.
In each cell (also called Akagari), there is a leader responsible of death squad.. The main duty of this leader is to physically eliminate opponents.
On May 7, 2009 in Cyato Sector, a meeting took place. The meeting was chaired by a representative of Ibuka. To the meeting, only Tutsis born to a Tutsi father and a Tutsi mother were invited. There were more than two hundreds people including the leaders of Ibuka and the leaders of death squads in each Sector.
Here is an excerpt of their concluding remarks:
"All those Hutus you know to harbor bad ideologies, and those believed to be physically strong, must have a file of participation in genocide and get arrested. Those who have lands or money, they should quickly be imprisoned before the elections take place.
We will start by arresting two persons in each sector, the following week we will arrest four, within a month, eight, and so on, until all of them have been arrested. They have to work for us in land managements, field works on our hills, or build our houses.The Hutus are physically strong. If we do not imprison them they won’t be able to work for us as Tigists (from the French acronym TIG: Travaux d'Interets Generaux or Works of General Interests). The Gacaca courts must be reinstated, so that the Hutus who have never been imprisoned be arrested and that those who have been released be imprisoned again."
A population impoverished and intimidated
Bullying looms throughout Rwanda. Every Rwandan is afraid to express his/her opinion on any situation even within close friends.
In April 2009, during a visit to Byumba, President Kagame said that:
“whoever is unable to follow his instructions, has to leave the country, and that he who diverts public funds will be imprisoned”.
Paradoxically, it is the smal group of people that run the country that are incredibly accumulating wealth beyond any measure.
In schools, during break times, the Tutsi students associate themselves according to their social classes. Their whispers usually worry the Hutu students. Such associations of ethnic character among students in Rwanda are surely not aimed at fostering justice and reconciliation.
Although the institution of the “mutual healthcare” system guarantees primary health cares, the gap between rich and poor people is widening on a daily basis.
In Kigali-City the small houses belonging to the Hutus i.e the poor people, have been destroyed to make way to make room for the villas, and these Hutu people had to leave the city towards rural areas with a meager compensation.
No small venders are allowed to sell goods on the roadsides, and many small shops are going out of business because of too high taxes. Peasants have been forced to cut down their banana plantations under false allegations that bananana consumption may cause malnutrition. Instead, it is through banana plantations that the ordinary Rwandan family gets some cash.
Even among the Tutsis, the Banyamulenge from DRC, those of Burundi origin, and those who have always lived in the country, briefly all those who do not belong to the English speaking group that came from Uganda, are increasingly getting marginalized. Any one who wants to do the right thing is threatened and pushed aside.
A regime that enjoys international support
Despite the unspeakable levels of social injustice in Rwanda, the International Community continues to use the double standards, two sets of rules and continues to support the Kigali regime.
There are numerous signs:
-During all those years of civil war since October 1, 1990 too much blood has been shed from one side to the other: why then labeling some people as victims and the other ones as perpetrators, instead of promoting a process of genuine investigation of the facts in truth and justice, so that all Rwandan children can rebuild their country together?
-Why didn’t we see any follow up about the two arrest warrants issued, one by the French Judge Bruguiere against nine senior leaders of the RPF, and the other one by the Spanish judge Merelles against forty officers including high ranking official close to Paul Kagamé?
-While the RPF-Inkotanyi used child soldiers during their conquest war in Rwanda, why up to date no international institution has expressed any concern about this issue?
-Why the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), whose mandate is to investigate all crimes committed in Rwanda and neighboring counties from January 1, 1994 until December 31, 1994, has only prosecuted the Hutus?
-Why the USA has long supported the rebel Laurent Nkunda affiliated to Rwanda, whose soldires in two years of war in North Kivu, has killed so many people and has displaced nearly two million people?
-Upon the publication last December, of the UN report on the Rwandan aggression in the Congo through Nkunda's forces, the Netherlands and Sweden have suspended budgetary aid to Rwanda. Why didn’t other donors do the same?
-The December 2008 agreement between the Congolese President, Joseph Kabila and the Rwandan President, Paul Kagame has made it possible to arrest Nkunda so that the FDLR track down in North Kivu can begin in January 2009.
-The International Community supports these military operations and refuses to listen to the voice of helpless Hutu refugees in DRC: they are hunting them down. Are they all killers? What about the children born in the DRC in exile, the young people born in Rwanda but who were children in 1994, women, elderly and many adult people, who were also victims of the Rwanda civil war?
Conclusion
It is not understandable that one wants to repatriate the Hutu refugees by force, while some of those returnees are now returning back to DRC. One cannot force someone to go home: it is a crime and history will prove it. Rwandan Hutu refugees in Congo would really love to return home, but they cannot be forced to do so, when there is not guarantee for their security and dignity in Rwanda.
Their return that these war operations in North and South Kivu allege to aim at will be achieved not by violence, which is making new victims and displacing people, but by a democratic change in Rwanda. The only solution to restore peace in Rwanda is through an inclusive inter-Rwandan dialogue so that Rwandans at all society levels can discuss the future of their country, just as other people have done so, and build a country where everyone feels free and protected.
The International Community should abstain from supporting perpetuation of crimes against the Hutus worldwide and especially in the eastern provinces of DRC. The Hutu have been equally created by the same God as any other human beings and are therefore entitled to the right to life, the right to claim anything they are entitled to, the right to express themselves and right to receive assistance of any kind.
The International Community should put pressure on the Rwandan government, so that:
- An inclusive inter-Rwandan dialogue can take place, in order to build the country's future in peace;
- A general amnesty be given to all ex-FAR (the army of the previous regime) soldiers and even to every Rwandan so that altogether the Rwandan children can rebuild their country.
- A functioning multiparty system be installed in the country without delay on the eve of the 2010 presidential elections, and that these elections be transparent and free and democratic.
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
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Written by Comfort Ero and Piers Pigou
29 June 2009
Guest column-Just ahead of this week’s African Union summit in Libya, South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma has advocated an old and discredited approach for dealing with African heads of state facing international justice, write Comfort Ero and Piers Pigou.
When a leader of South Africa’s ruling African National Congress speaks on such critical issues as impunity for the perpetrators of human rights violations, the rest of Africa listens. We listen because we recall with passion how apartheid was dismantled, ushering in a new era of democracy for South Africa.
So it comes as a shock that President Jacob Zuma used the recent meeting of the World Economic Forum for Africa to call for a continental policy favouring impunity. Sharing a roundtable conversation with President Paul Kagame of Rwanda, Zuma proclaimed that the “world has changed” and that we must “do things differently and … not emphasise punishment” in dealing with leading perpetrators of serious crimes.
His statement is embarrassing and retrogressive, especially because the world has indeed changed – but not in the ways Zuma assumed.
What has changed is that over the last two decades a global consensus has grown that amnesty for violent crimes is morally and legally unacceptable. Africa led this change in many respects, and the newly-democratised South Africa enthusiastically supported the creation of the International Criminal Court in 2002.
What Zuma now proposes is not a “new” approach but an old and discredited one that would reinforce outdated visions of an Africa which resists human rights and is willing to tolerate the worst forms of brutality.
At a time when Radovan Karadzic is being brought before the International Criminal Tribunal for Yugoslavia, Charles Taylor faces justice before the Special Court for Sierra Leone, and Peru has tried and convicted Alberto Fujimori, Zuma has chosen to make the worst kind of rationalization for African exceptionalism.
Even worse, Zuma’s statement was made just ahead of this week’s African Union summit in Libya, which has on its draft agenda at least two reports dealing with attempts to bring to trial African heads of state. Zuma’s “new” approach, coming just as the continent faces pressures from some of its leaders to thwart justice, threatens to undermine the legitimacy of international humanitarian law.
Zuma’s approach would protect the perpetrators and architects of violence at the expense of redress for their victims. Not only is no thought given to providing reparation to victims of such violence, but their right to see justice done would be extinguished. When societies fail to make victims’ needs a priority, those societies risk new cycles of violence.
President Zuma did not distinguish between short-term peace processes and durable peacebuilding. His “bold approach” would do more to promote political violence as a means of gaining power than promote peace. He would invite leaders of political violence to look forward to impunity and a mansion in a neighbouring state.
Zuma presents this position – a safe retirement home for African despots – as being “for the sake of our people,” when clearly this protection is antithetical to the public interest. His position suggests that domestic, regional and international legal commitments can be airbrushed away, cloaked under the rubric of the pragmatic notions of what best serves Africa.
Many commentators assume Zuma’s remarks refer mainly to President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe. Zuma is indeed faced with a serious problem in Zimbabwe that is likely to be resolved only when Mugabe is persuaded to step aside.
Mugabe’s decision to leave the scene will likely depend on guarantees of impunity being extended to members of his inner circle. That is all the more reason that accountability should not be bargained away. Prospects for sustainable transformation in Zimbabwe require more, not less accountability, extending to economic crimes and corruption.
Perhaps Zuma’s public remarks are a tactical gamble, presenting himself as “on side” with the recalcitrant leaders while knowing full well that Africa’s political leadership can provide no meaningful guarantees of impunity. If this benign interpretation is true, is it worth the egg that has landed on his face as a result of appearing an apologist for the continent’s perpetrators?
Comfort Ero is deputy director of the Africa Program of the International Center for Transitional Justice. Piers Pigou is a senior associate at the ICTJ.
29 June 2009
Guest column-Just ahead of this week’s African Union summit in Libya, South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma has advocated an old and discredited approach for dealing with African heads of state facing international justice, write Comfort Ero and Piers Pigou.
When a leader of South Africa’s ruling African National Congress speaks on such critical issues as impunity for the perpetrators of human rights violations, the rest of Africa listens. We listen because we recall with passion how apartheid was dismantled, ushering in a new era of democracy for South Africa.
So it comes as a shock that President Jacob Zuma used the recent meeting of the World Economic Forum for Africa to call for a continental policy favouring impunity. Sharing a roundtable conversation with President Paul Kagame of Rwanda, Zuma proclaimed that the “world has changed” and that we must “do things differently and … not emphasise punishment” in dealing with leading perpetrators of serious crimes.
His statement is embarrassing and retrogressive, especially because the world has indeed changed – but not in the ways Zuma assumed.
What has changed is that over the last two decades a global consensus has grown that amnesty for violent crimes is morally and legally unacceptable. Africa led this change in many respects, and the newly-democratised South Africa enthusiastically supported the creation of the International Criminal Court in 2002.
What Zuma now proposes is not a “new” approach but an old and discredited one that would reinforce outdated visions of an Africa which resists human rights and is willing to tolerate the worst forms of brutality.
At a time when Radovan Karadzic is being brought before the International Criminal Tribunal for Yugoslavia, Charles Taylor faces justice before the Special Court for Sierra Leone, and Peru has tried and convicted Alberto Fujimori, Zuma has chosen to make the worst kind of rationalization for African exceptionalism.
Even worse, Zuma’s statement was made just ahead of this week’s African Union summit in Libya, which has on its draft agenda at least two reports dealing with attempts to bring to trial African heads of state. Zuma’s “new” approach, coming just as the continent faces pressures from some of its leaders to thwart justice, threatens to undermine the legitimacy of international humanitarian law.
Zuma’s approach would protect the perpetrators and architects of violence at the expense of redress for their victims. Not only is no thought given to providing reparation to victims of such violence, but their right to see justice done would be extinguished. When societies fail to make victims’ needs a priority, those societies risk new cycles of violence.
President Zuma did not distinguish between short-term peace processes and durable peacebuilding. His “bold approach” would do more to promote political violence as a means of gaining power than promote peace. He would invite leaders of political violence to look forward to impunity and a mansion in a neighbouring state.
Zuma presents this position – a safe retirement home for African despots – as being “for the sake of our people,” when clearly this protection is antithetical to the public interest. His position suggests that domestic, regional and international legal commitments can be airbrushed away, cloaked under the rubric of the pragmatic notions of what best serves Africa.
Many commentators assume Zuma’s remarks refer mainly to President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe. Zuma is indeed faced with a serious problem in Zimbabwe that is likely to be resolved only when Mugabe is persuaded to step aside.
Mugabe’s decision to leave the scene will likely depend on guarantees of impunity being extended to members of his inner circle. That is all the more reason that accountability should not be bargained away. Prospects for sustainable transformation in Zimbabwe require more, not less accountability, extending to economic crimes and corruption.
Perhaps Zuma’s public remarks are a tactical gamble, presenting himself as “on side” with the recalcitrant leaders while knowing full well that Africa’s political leadership can provide no meaningful guarantees of impunity. If this benign interpretation is true, is it worth the egg that has landed on his face as a result of appearing an apologist for the continent’s perpetrators?
Comfort Ero is deputy director of the Africa Program of the International Center for Transitional Justice. Piers Pigou is a senior associate at the ICTJ.
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
Un plan copié et collé du génocide Rwandais.
Les populations civiles de Kanyabayonga sont unanimes : L’incendie des maisons par des militaires, le recrutement massif des jeunes diplômés à qui l'on promet une formation militaire et politique à l’étranger, les conflits terriens ainsi que les assassinats des chefs coutumiers et des civils, sont des actes barbares commis délibérément pour préparer le terrain aux colonies de peuplement tutsi. Les faits suivants en témoignent!
La cité de
Kanyabayonga, à une centaine de kilomètres au sud de Butembo, dans le territoire de Lubero, au Nord-Kivu, a été, dans la nuit de mardi à mercredi 24 juin, le théâtre d’une incursion d’hommes en uniforme militaire non autrement identifiés qui ont mis le feu à plusieurs maisons d’habitation.
L’opération macabre a eu lieu entre 22h et 3 h du matin, heure locale. Au total 31 maisons ont été incendiées au quartier Muhola, à l’extrême Nord de la cité
de Kanyabayonga, et 7 autres à Bulotwa environ 3 kilomètres au nord de Kanyabayonga, comme nous l'a relaté une de victime de cette barbarie qui a eu lieu dans cité ayant plusieurs camps militaires et plusieurs militaires qui se disent en zone opérationnelle.
Le fait que les incendies des maisons était devenue monnaie courante sans qu’un seul bandit soit arrêté et sans qu’il y ait une enquête, suffit pour dire que le génocide qui se commet à petit feu dans la région de Beni-Lubero est l’œuvre des Fardc brassés déployés dans la province. C’est cela la conclusion à laquelle la population victime est arrivée, identifiant les hommes en uniforme militaire comme ses premiers ennemis.
Selon plusieurs victimes, certains assaillants parlaient Kinyarwanda et d’autres Lingala pour expulser les habitants de leurs maisons avant de les incendier. Longtemps après le crime, soit entre 7h00 et 8h00 du mercredi 24 juin, une équipe des FARDC a voulu se déployer sur le lieu du crime, soit disant pour diligenter une enquête. Les jeunes du quartier Muhola en colère ont jeté des coups de pierre à ces sapeurs pompiers qui n’ont jamais été à l’heure là où on les appellait… Une véritable intifada a eu lieu…
Depuis quelques temps, le climat entre la population et les FARDC déployés dans la région se détériore du jour au lendemain comme en 1996, lors de la première occupation rwando-burundo-ougandaise. La lune de miel avec les rwandais-burundais-ougandais après la libération des beniluberois des FAZ du feu Maréchal Mobutu n’avait durée que deux semaines.
En effet, la résistance armée était née spontanément à la suite du comportement pillard et sanguinaire des libérateurs. Si en 1996, il s’agissait d’une guerre ouverte, celle qui se déroule actuellement au Kivu est sournoise car ses concepteurs pensent arriver à leurs objectifs machiavéliques en utilisant le mensonge et la diversion. Mais les Kivutiens en particulier et les congolais d’une manière générale suivent la situation à la loupe.
L’incendie des maisons au Nord-Kivu aurait ainsi comme objectif de préparer le terrain pour l’installation des populations rwandaises Tutsi qu’on appelle refugiés congolais au Rwanda, Tanzanie, Burundi, Uganda, etc. Ceux qui sont attendus en Territoire de Lubero seraient au nombre de 40 000 familles ! Les habitants de villages incendiés ne se rappellent pas pourtant avoir vécu avec des rwandais qui se seraient refugiés au Rwanda ou ailleurs dans un passé récent…
Si tel était le cas, le HCR pouvait réinstaller les refugiés revenants cas par cas comme il le fait pour les disparus congolais de la même région. Le fait d’incendier les maisons signifie que ceux qu’on appelle r
efugiés revenant du Rwanda n’ont jamais été au Congo auparavant. Il faut leur créer un territoire en toute pièce.
Paul Kagame, dans sa conquête de l' Est de la RDC, massacre les Hutus autochtones et les fait remplacer par des Tutsis venus de tous horizons. But poursuivi: colonie de peuplement.
Liste non exhaustive des Hutus massacrées par le RPF/APR/CNDP/RCD.
1. Uwihoreye Richard, Male, 40 ans
2. Munyandinda Jean-Marie Vianney, Male, 50 ans
3. Uwamahoro Beatha, Femelle, 2 ans
4. Muhetsi, Male, 40 ans
5. Gahungu, Male, 1 an
6. Gaudence, Femelle, 35 ans
7. Julienne, Femelle, 2 ans
8. Mukandayisenga, Femelle, 1an
9. Mujyambere, Male, 48 ans
10.Kazwinande Jean d’Amour, Male, 50 ans
11.Fumberi, Male, 40 ans
12.Habiyaremye Pascal, Male, 55 ans
13.Nyirarugendo Thaciana, Femelle, 54 ans
14.Bimenyimana Fidèle, Male, 45 ans
15.Ndaziganje Lucien, Male, 50 ans
16.Mugoyi, Male, 45 ans
17.Nyiraneza Elisabeth, Femelle, 70 ans
18.Ntakirutinka, Male, 60 ans
19.Kwigira Cyprien, Male, 42 ans
20.Mushimiye, Femelle, 20 ans
21.Mushi Anastase, Male, 35 ans
22.Byiringiro Erneste, Male, 5 ans
23.Mbabazi Samuel, Male, 40 ans
24. Kaneza Catherine, Femelle, 37 ans
25.Uwimbabazi Anne Marie, Femelle, 12 ans
26.Niyomugabo Emmanuel, Male, 10 ans
27. Mushimiyimana Godeleive, Femelle, 8 ans
28.Nzabazira Eric, Male, 10 ans
29.Ngabonziza Eric, Male, 16 ans
30.Safali Oscar, Male, 3 ans
31.Ingabire, Femelle, 14 ans
32.Bikorimana Jean, Male, 2 ans
33.Ndahimana, Male, 9 ans
34.Uwamahoro Pascasie, Femelle, 44 ans
35.Mukantwari Devota, Femelle, 14 ans
36.Karekezi Adam, Male, 59 ans
37.Muhire Jean Marie Vienney, Male, 40 ans
38.Muvandimwe, Male, 36 ans
39.Koboyi Theogene, Male, 40 ans
40.Uwitonze Jeanne, Femelle, 12 ans
41.Gishuhe Thomas, Male, 14 ans
42.Uzamukunda Lea, Femelle, 20 ans
43.Musabyimana Philippe, Male, 17 ans
44.Nyiranzabonimana, Femelle, 25 ans
45.Agatha, Femelle, 45 ans
46.Nzarora John, Male, 15 ans
47.Ubarijoro Léonard, Male, 65 ans
48.Habimana Fidèle, Male, 12 ans
49.Mukamanzi Drocelle, Femelle, 50 ans
50.Nyiraneza Esperance, Femelle, 17 ans
51.Gashema Moïse, Male, 54 ans
52.Hakizimana Emmanuel, Male, 25 ans
53.Niyonsaba, Femelle, 24 ans
54.Uwiragiye Josephine, Femelle, 8 ans
55.Furaha, Femelle, 5 ans
56.Nahayo, Male, 2 ans
57.Nyiramana, Femelle, 5 ans
58.Mukantwari, Femelle, 10 ans
59.Uwinema Marie, Femelle, 7 ans
60.Habiyambere , Male, 25 ans
61.Ayinkamiye Julienne, Femelle, 24 ans
62.Muhawenimana, Femelle, 6 ans
63.Mukantabana, Femelle, 20 ans
D’après nos sources, la première tentative de cette colonie de peuplement devait se dérouler à Luofu au Sud-de Lubero. Elle n’a pas eu lieu car la population sinistrée refuse de quitter les villages réduits en cendres. Certains habitants auraient déjà reconstruit leurs cases incendiées. Sachant que le territoire de Lubero est le territoire rural le plus peuplé de la R.D. Congo, les concepteurs de la colonie de peuplement Tutsi au sud de Lubero cogitent sur les conséquences de l’implantation d’une petite colonie Tutsi au milieu des Nande. Mais ils ne s’avouent pas encore vaincus.
Une autre stratégie d’anéantissement de la Province est l’existence de plusieurs opérations de recrutement des jeunes congolais dans la province du Nord-Kivu. La cible privilegiée de ce recrutement est les jeunes universitaires au chômage après leur licence ou leur graduat dans les universités de la région.
L’objectif de ce nième recrutement militaire dans un pays qui compte déjà plus des militaires qu’il ne peut entretenir, serait l’anéantissement de toute résistance contre les colonies de peuplement en perspective.
Aux jeunes qu’on recrute et qui se réunissent nuitamment dans des résidences bien connues, on promet une formation militaire ou politique à l’étranger, un poste de commandement juteux dans l’armée, la police, la garde présidentielle, etc. Toute présence aux rencontres souvent nocturnes est rémunérée en espèces sonnantes et trébuchantes (au moins 50 US$) après des repas et des libations somptueux.
Dans cette rubrique, il faut ajouter que certaines sociétés de gardiennage de la Province forment leurs sentinelles à l’étranger… Une enquête est en cours sur ce vaste réseau de déstabilisation de la province par des promesses fallacieuses aux jeunes et aux forces vives….
Les jeunes du Nord-Kivu sont donc prévenus de ce vaste réseau de recrutement qui n’a d’autre but que le contrôle des forces vives de la Province afin de les anéantir en les éloignant de chez eux sous-prétexte de formation à l’étranger ! Le mirage de Poto, de Mikili, serait ainsi utilisé pour chasser les congolais de leurs terres… Tristesse !
Une des preuves pour convaincre les plus sceptiques est que tous les jeunes de la région qui étaient recrutés lors de la première occupation rwando-burundo-ougandaise n’ont jamais été promus mais vivent aujourd’hui dans la galère des grandes villes du pays, loin du Nord-Kivu. Ceux d’entre eux formés au Rwanda et en Ouganda qui avaient accédé aux postes de commandement militaire sont aujourd’hui morts, souvent de mort mystérieuse : accident de circulation, assassinat, etc.
D’autres sources concordantes parlent de la vente des terrains par certains chefs coutumiers corrompus. Plusieurs conflits terriens du moment seraient aussi dûs à cette montée exponentielle des enchères par les collabos des rwandais. Les chefs coutumiers retrouvés morts ces derniers temps seraient parmi ceux qui auraient refusé de se prêter à cet exercice diabolique de bradage du territoire national.
Les congolais doivent ainsi ouvrir l’œil et le bon car l’épée de Damoclès est suspendue sur notre coup ! Méfions-nous des faux-fuyants politiques ( remaniement, affaire Jean-Pierre Bemba, Muzito) dont le seul but est de nous distraire pendant que l’occupation effective de l’est du pays se met en place dans la douleur, la violation grave des droits humains fondamentaux des congolais !
http://www.benilubero.com/
La cité de
Kanyabayonga, à une centaine de kilomètres au sud de Butembo, dans le territoire de Lubero, au Nord-Kivu, a été, dans la nuit de mardi à mercredi 24 juin, le théâtre d’une incursion d’hommes en uniforme militaire non autrement identifiés qui ont mis le feu à plusieurs maisons d’habitation.
L’opération macabre a eu lieu entre 22h et 3 h du matin, heure locale. Au total 31 maisons ont été incendiées au quartier Muhola, à l’extrême Nord de la cité
de Kanyabayonga, et 7 autres à Bulotwa environ 3 kilomètres au nord de Kanyabayonga, comme nous l'a relaté une de victime de cette barbarie qui a eu lieu dans cité ayant plusieurs camps militaires et plusieurs militaires qui se disent en zone opérationnelle.Le fait que les incendies des maisons était devenue monnaie courante sans qu’un seul bandit soit arrêté et sans qu’il y ait une enquête, suffit pour dire que le génocide qui se commet à petit feu dans la région de Beni-Lubero est l’œuvre des Fardc brassés déployés dans la province. C’est cela la conclusion à laquelle la population victime est arrivée, identifiant les hommes en uniforme militaire comme ses premiers ennemis.
Selon plusieurs victimes, certains assaillants parlaient Kinyarwanda et d’autres Lingala pour expulser les habitants de leurs maisons avant de les incendier. Longtemps après le crime, soit entre 7h00 et 8h00 du mercredi 24 juin, une équipe des FARDC a voulu se déployer sur le lieu du crime, soit disant pour diligenter une enquête. Les jeunes du quartier Muhola en colère ont jeté des coups de pierre à ces sapeurs pompiers qui n’ont jamais été à l’heure là où on les appellait… Une véritable intifada a eu lieu…
Depuis quelques temps, le climat entre la population et les FARDC déployés dans la région se détériore du jour au lendemain comme en 1996, lors de la première occupation rwando-burundo-ougandaise. La lune de miel avec les rwandais-burundais-ougandais après la libération des beniluberois des FAZ du feu Maréchal Mobutu n’avait durée que deux semaines.
En effet, la résistance armée était née spontanément à la suite du comportement pillard et sanguinaire des libérateurs. Si en 1996, il s’agissait d’une guerre ouverte, celle qui se déroule actuellement au Kivu est sournoise car ses concepteurs pensent arriver à leurs objectifs machiavéliques en utilisant le mensonge et la diversion. Mais les Kivutiens en particulier et les congolais d’une manière générale suivent la situation à la loupe.
L’incendie des maisons au Nord-Kivu aurait ainsi comme objectif de préparer le terrain pour l’installation des populations rwandaises Tutsi qu’on appelle refugiés congolais au Rwanda, Tanzanie, Burundi, Uganda, etc. Ceux qui sont attendus en Territoire de Lubero seraient au nombre de 40 000 familles ! Les habitants de villages incendiés ne se rappellent pas pourtant avoir vécu avec des rwandais qui se seraient refugiés au Rwanda ou ailleurs dans un passé récent…
Si tel était le cas, le HCR pouvait réinstaller les refugiés revenants cas par cas comme il le fait pour les disparus congolais de la même région. Le fait d’incendier les maisons signifie que ceux qu’on appelle r
efugiés revenant du Rwanda n’ont jamais été au Congo auparavant. Il faut leur créer un territoire en toute pièce.Paul Kagame, dans sa conquête de l' Est de la RDC, massacre les Hutus autochtones et les fait remplacer par des Tutsis venus de tous horizons. But poursuivi: colonie de peuplement.
Liste non exhaustive des Hutus massacrées par le RPF/APR/CNDP/RCD.
1. Uwihoreye Richard, Male, 40 ans
2. Munyandinda Jean-Marie Vianney, Male, 50 ans
3. Uwamahoro Beatha, Femelle, 2 ans
4. Muhetsi, Male, 40 ans
5. Gahungu, Male, 1 an
6. Gaudence, Femelle, 35 ans
7. Julienne, Femelle, 2 ans
8. Mukandayisenga, Femelle, 1an
9. Mujyambere, Male, 48 ans
10.Kazwinande Jean d’Amour, Male, 50 ans
11.Fumberi, Male, 40 ans
12.Habiyaremye Pascal, Male, 55 ans
13.Nyirarugendo Thaciana, Femelle, 54 ans
14.Bimenyimana Fidèle, Male, 45 ans
15.Ndaziganje Lucien, Male, 50 ans
16.Mugoyi, Male, 45 ans
17.Nyiraneza Elisabeth, Femelle, 70 ans
18.Ntakirutinka, Male, 60 ans
19.Kwigira Cyprien, Male, 42 ans
20.Mushimiye, Femelle, 20 ans
21.Mushi Anastase, Male, 35 ans
22.Byiringiro Erneste, Male, 5 ans
23.Mbabazi Samuel, Male, 40 ans
24. Kaneza Catherine, Femelle, 37 ans
25.Uwimbabazi Anne Marie, Femelle, 12 ans
26.Niyomugabo Emmanuel, Male, 10 ans
27. Mushimiyimana Godeleive, Femelle, 8 ans
28.Nzabazira Eric, Male, 10 ans
29.Ngabonziza Eric, Male, 16 ans
30.Safali Oscar, Male, 3 ans
31.Ingabire, Femelle, 14 ans
32.Bikorimana Jean, Male, 2 ans
33.Ndahimana, Male, 9 ans
34.Uwamahoro Pascasie, Femelle, 44 ans
35.Mukantwari Devota, Femelle, 14 ans
36.Karekezi Adam, Male, 59 ans
37.Muhire Jean Marie Vienney, Male, 40 ans
38.Muvandimwe, Male, 36 ans
39.Koboyi Theogene, Male, 40 ans
40.Uwitonze Jeanne, Femelle, 12 ans
41.Gishuhe Thomas, Male, 14 ans
42.Uzamukunda Lea, Femelle, 20 ans
43.Musabyimana Philippe, Male, 17 ans
44.Nyiranzabonimana, Femelle, 25 ans
45.Agatha, Femelle, 45 ans
46.Nzarora John, Male, 15 ans
47.Ubarijoro Léonard, Male, 65 ans
48.Habimana Fidèle, Male, 12 ans
49.Mukamanzi Drocelle, Femelle, 50 ans
50.Nyiraneza Esperance, Femelle, 17 ans
51.Gashema Moïse, Male, 54 ans
52.Hakizimana Emmanuel, Male, 25 ans
53.Niyonsaba, Femelle, 24 ans
54.Uwiragiye Josephine, Femelle, 8 ans
55.Furaha, Femelle, 5 ans
56.Nahayo, Male, 2 ans
57.Nyiramana, Femelle, 5 ans
58.Mukantwari, Femelle, 10 ans
59.Uwinema Marie, Femelle, 7 ans
60.Habiyambere , Male, 25 ans
61.Ayinkamiye Julienne, Femelle, 24 ans
62.Muhawenimana, Femelle, 6 ans
63.Mukantabana, Femelle, 20 ans
D’après nos sources, la première tentative de cette colonie de peuplement devait se dérouler à Luofu au Sud-de Lubero. Elle n’a pas eu lieu car la population sinistrée refuse de quitter les villages réduits en cendres. Certains habitants auraient déjà reconstruit leurs cases incendiées. Sachant que le territoire de Lubero est le territoire rural le plus peuplé de la R.D. Congo, les concepteurs de la colonie de peuplement Tutsi au sud de Lubero cogitent sur les conséquences de l’implantation d’une petite colonie Tutsi au milieu des Nande. Mais ils ne s’avouent pas encore vaincus.
Une autre stratégie d’anéantissement de la Province est l’existence de plusieurs opérations de recrutement des jeunes congolais dans la province du Nord-Kivu. La cible privilegiée de ce recrutement est les jeunes universitaires au chômage après leur licence ou leur graduat dans les universités de la région.
L’objectif de ce nième recrutement militaire dans un pays qui compte déjà plus des militaires qu’il ne peut entretenir, serait l’anéantissement de toute résistance contre les colonies de peuplement en perspective.
Aux jeunes qu’on recrute et qui se réunissent nuitamment dans des résidences bien connues, on promet une formation militaire ou politique à l’étranger, un poste de commandement juteux dans l’armée, la police, la garde présidentielle, etc. Toute présence aux rencontres souvent nocturnes est rémunérée en espèces sonnantes et trébuchantes (au moins 50 US$) après des repas et des libations somptueux.
Dans cette rubrique, il faut ajouter que certaines sociétés de gardiennage de la Province forment leurs sentinelles à l’étranger… Une enquête est en cours sur ce vaste réseau de déstabilisation de la province par des promesses fallacieuses aux jeunes et aux forces vives….
Les jeunes du Nord-Kivu sont donc prévenus de ce vaste réseau de recrutement qui n’a d’autre but que le contrôle des forces vives de la Province afin de les anéantir en les éloignant de chez eux sous-prétexte de formation à l’étranger ! Le mirage de Poto, de Mikili, serait ainsi utilisé pour chasser les congolais de leurs terres… Tristesse !
Une des preuves pour convaincre les plus sceptiques est que tous les jeunes de la région qui étaient recrutés lors de la première occupation rwando-burundo-ougandaise n’ont jamais été promus mais vivent aujourd’hui dans la galère des grandes villes du pays, loin du Nord-Kivu. Ceux d’entre eux formés au Rwanda et en Ouganda qui avaient accédé aux postes de commandement militaire sont aujourd’hui morts, souvent de mort mystérieuse : accident de circulation, assassinat, etc.
D’autres sources concordantes parlent de la vente des terrains par certains chefs coutumiers corrompus. Plusieurs conflits terriens du moment seraient aussi dûs à cette montée exponentielle des enchères par les collabos des rwandais. Les chefs coutumiers retrouvés morts ces derniers temps seraient parmi ceux qui auraient refusé de se prêter à cet exercice diabolique de bradage du territoire national.
Les congolais doivent ainsi ouvrir l’œil et le bon car l’épée de Damoclès est suspendue sur notre coup ! Méfions-nous des faux-fuyants politiques ( remaniement, affaire Jean-Pierre Bemba, Muzito) dont le seul but est de nous distraire pendant que l’occupation effective de l’est du pays se met en place dans la douleur, la violation grave des droits humains fondamentaux des congolais !
http://www.benilubero.com/
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
Sunday, June 28, 2009
Kagame is one of the puppets for the geopolitical powershift in Africa that the Anglo-American powers have organized in their favor. Aftermath: millions of Rwandan and Congolese people got butchered. Kagame sa
ys he's not responsible!Who's still not convinced Paul Kagame is behind the genocide that the world quite simply sat and watched?
Why would Paul Kagame say the following in response to such allegations?
"Would I care that bloody Habyarimana died? I don't give a damn."
Please witness Kagame's choice of words during BBC HardTalk show. There is no doubt about it. After killing so millions of innocent Rwandans including dozens of innocent people from different nationalities, Kagame deserves to be taken into custody, held in the cells of the International Criminal Tribunal Court in Arusha or in The Hague where he should be tried hopefully before 2010.
By Jooneed Khan
The short and swift way to stop the ongoing holocaust in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) goes through Rwanda: the Anglophone Tutsi minority that has ruled Kigali since the 1994 genocide must be brought to reconcile with the Hutu majority, and accept its full participation in open democratic elections.
All other measures, from so-called "peace processes" to emergency aid and human rights campaigns, albeit necessary and praiseworthy, will be just more band-aid remedies applied to the symptoms of the crisis. The root cause of the "looters' war" is in Rwanda: it is the continuation, on Congolese soil, of Rwanda's unfinished civil war of 1990-94.
The latest band-aid measure is the 3,100 reinforcements added to the 21,000 MONUC (UN Mission in the Congo) this week by the Security Council after the Congolese stoned UN offices and vehicles, disgusted with the MONUC's nine-year failure, or unwillingness, to crush pro-Rwandan Tutsi General Laurent Nkunda's "rebellion" force of 10,000.
General Paul Kagamé, the Rwandan dictator and darling of the West (especially of the Anglo-Saxon axis), who still pumps the 1994 genocide for every ounce of legitimacy, is totally self-serving when he says that the crisis in North and South Kivu "is an internal Congolese matter, not a problem between the Congo and 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
by Kevin Jon HellerNDLR: In a 2007 interview with the BBC, Mr Kagame said he would co-operate with an impartial inquiry. So why then he's not satisfied with the Spanish inquiry on the matter and other crimes committed in Rwanda? What matters?
I have been reading Roger’s fascinating missives from Rwanda with great interest and agree with much of what he has to say. But I have to demur from the claim that “Kagame is personally invested in making Rwanda a country that is committed to reconciliation, human rights and self-sufficiency.” Self-sufficiency, perhaps — there is no question that Rwanda has experienced significant economic growth over the past decade, although it is important to emphasize that, according to USAID, “[a] majority of the population lives on less than $1 per day and nearly nine in ten live on less than $2 per day.”
As for Kagame’s investment in reconciliation and human rights? Here is the summary paragraph from the State Department’s 2008 Country Report on Rwanda — which was one of its better years:
Significant human rights abuses occurred, although there were improvements in some areas. Citizens’ right to change their government was restricted, and local defense forces (LDF) personnel were responsible for four killings during the year. Violence against genocide survivors and witnesses by unknown assailants claimed at least 16 lives. There were reports of torture and abuse of suspects, although significantly fewer than in previous years. Prison and detention center conditions remained harsh. Security forces arbitrarily arrested and detained persons. Prolonged pretrial detention was a problem, and government officials attempted to influence judicial outcomes, mostly regarding the community-based justice system known as gacaca. There continued to be limits on freedom of speech and of association, and restrictions on the press increased. The government limited religious freedom, and official corruption was a problem. Restrictions on civil society, societal violence and discrimination against women, recruitment of child soldiers by representatives of a Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)-based armed group, trafficking in persons, child labor, and restrictions on labor rights occurred.
As for democracy, if Rwanda gets good marks, it’s only because the bar is set so low in the region. Here is the State Department again:
National Electoral Commission (NEC) rulings restricted the ability of the PSD and the PL to effectively spread their message, allowing the RPF to dominate the 22-day electoral campaign. The media devoted the bulk of its coverage to the RPF. There were credible reports of local government interference with PL and PSD rallies and meetings, and security forces briefly detained several campaign workers.
According to observers many voting stations opened early, did not make proper use of forms, and did not initially seal ballot boxes. Observers were often prevented by NEC and other government officials from monitoring the ballot counting above the polling station and polling center level (the first two levels). The Civil Society Election Observation Mission observed in its Statement of Preliminary Findings that “in a significant proportion of cases, it was not possible to confirm the accuracy of consolidated results at any stage beyond polling center consolidation.”
In 2003 President Paul Kagame won a landslide victory against two independent presidential candidates, receiving 95 percent of the vote in a largely peaceful but seriously marred election.
The constitution provides for a multiparty system but offers few rights for parties and their candidates. According to the 2006 African Peer Review Mechanism report, released by the New Partnership for Africa’s Development, a mandated initiative of the African Union, the country had made significant progress toward political pluralism, but parties were still “not able to operate freely” and faced legal sanctions if accused of engaging in divisive acts. The government’s continuing campaign against divisionism discouraged debate or criticism of the government and resulted in brief detentions and the holding of one political prisoner, former minister Ntakarutinka.
All political organizations were constitutionally required to join the Forum for Political Organizations, which continued to limit competitive political pluralism, according to the 2006 APRM report. Despite a June 2007 law allowing political parties to open offices at every administrative level, local officials on occasion reportedly prevented opposition meetings preceding the September parliamentary elections, citing improper paperwork or venue booking conflicts. During the year there were no reported efforts to form any new parties or efforts by the government to deny registration to any party.
And, of course, we cannot forget Kagame’s multiple invasions of the Congo, using the need to hunt down the FDLR as a pretext for illegally exploiting Congo’s natural resources — leading the UN to describe Kagame as one of the “godfathers” of such exploitation — and his unwavering support for Congolese rebel groups such as the RCD and Nkunda’s CNDP, which has led to suffering on a scale not seen since WW II.
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
An exile from her native land, Victoire Umuhoza seeks ethnic reconciliation.
By Doug Page, Staff Writer
1:25 AM Sunday, June 28, 2009
DAYTON — Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza is one of the estimated 500,000 Rwandans living in exile.
The mother of three hopes to end her exile in September, returning to her country to get her political party on the 2010 presidential ballot.
Umuhoza is chairwoman of the United Democratic Forces, which espouses nonviolence and reconciliation among the various Rwandan ethnic groups following the 1994 genocide.
“It is time to get the (democratic) process back on track,” she said Saturday, June 27, prior to speaking to members of the local Rwandan community at the Holiday Inn North. “I am speaking to the exiles, telling them they can play a role in solving these problems.
“The first step is to end the use of violence. We must give a chance (to) a peaceful transition of power.”
Unlike some in her audience Saturday, Umuhoza did not witness the genocide that killed an estimated 1 million people. She left her country for school in the Netherlands several months before the start of the countrywide violence.
But what she saw on television started her down a political path.
Recently, several disparate exile groups formed a political coalition of the Umuhoza’s United Democratic Forces and the Rwanda Democratic Opposition Party to put forward a presidential candidate: Umuhoza.
There are several roadblocks the coalition must pass. It must be recognized by the current government, which prohibits opposition parties, to appear on the ballot.
And Umuhoza must get a passport and return to Rwanda for the first time since 1994. If allowed back and her candidacy is recognized, then comes a likely uphill campaign.
“I will do anything for my country,” she said, though admitted some trepidation about returning to Rwanda. “The regime does not accept dissenting voices.”
She hopes that her appearances before Rwandans in Europe and the United States will encourage Western governments with investments in Rwanda to speak out on her behalf to the current Rwandan government.
“I hope the United States government will support the democratic process, put words into action,” she said.
By Doug Page, Staff Writer
1:25 AM Sunday, June 28, 2009
DAYTON — Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza is one of the estimated 500,000 Rwandans living in exile.
The mother of three hopes to end her exile in September, returning to her country to get her political party on the 2010 presidential ballot.
Umuhoza is chairwoman of the United Democratic Forces, which espouses nonviolence and reconciliation among the various Rwandan ethnic groups following the 1994 genocide.
“It is time to get the (democratic) process back on track,” she said Saturday, June 27, prior to speaking to members of the local Rwandan community at the Holiday Inn North. “I am speaking to the exiles, telling them they can play a role in solving these problems.
“The first step is to end the use of violence. We must give a chance (to) a peaceful transition of power.”
Unlike some in her audience Saturday, Umuhoza did not witness the genocide that killed an estimated 1 million people. She left her country for school in the Netherlands several months before the start of the countrywide violence.
But what she saw on television started her down a political path.
Recently, several disparate exile groups formed a political coalition of the Umuhoza’s United Democratic Forces and the Rwanda Democratic Opposition Party to put forward a presidential candidate: Umuhoza.
There are several roadblocks the coalition must pass. It must be recognized by the current government, which prohibits opposition parties, to appear on the ballot.
And Umuhoza must get a passport and return to Rwanda for the first time since 1994. If allowed back and her candidacy is recognized, then comes a likely uphill campaign.
“I will do anything for my country,” she said, though admitted some trepidation about returning to Rwanda. “The regime does not accept dissenting voices.”
She hopes that her appearances before Rwandans in Europe and the United States will encourage Western governments with investments in Rwanda to speak out on her behalf to the current Rwandan government.
“I hope the United States government will support the democratic process, put words into action,” she said.
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
Friday, June 26, 2009
RWANDA MUST BE FREED FROM THE AUTOCRATIC RPF REGIME. Enough is enough. Enough to the World Still Watching.
The world cannot abandon Rwandans in two decades without repercussions. If nothing is done to help the ever determined Rwandan pro-democratic movement, contempt of the value of democracy outside THE FREE WORLD will flourish.
The shameful silence of the EUROPEAN AND AMERICAN LEADERS about the heavyweight criminal Paul Kagame's criminal records, the Freen world indifference to the multitude of obvious mass atrocities committed by Paul Kagame and his RPF/A, the whitewashing of Paul Kagame's crimes with visits, TERRORISM sponsoring, invitations and shameful academic awards MUST END. That silence or the lack of thereof, is what has actually got us to take such a decision. Regrattable silence has led to the assassination of more than 8 millions of Rwandan and Congolese people.
NOT TO MAKE PRESSURE ON THE ICTR TO PROSECUTE AND ARREST RPF CRIMINALS INVOLVED IN THE MASS-ATROCITIES AGAINST RWANDANS WILL BE A COMMON FAILURE BECAUSE OF WORLD LEADERS -CRIMINALS AND RPF BACKERS IN ADDTION TO THE INTERNATIONAL MAFIA'S INTERESTS. INSTEAD OF ARMING RWANDAN TERRORISTS (PAUL KAGAME, NKUNDA, NTAGANDA) AND BANNING RPF CRIMINAL ORGANIZATIONS SETTLED ELSEWHERE IN THE WORLD, THE CIVILIZED WORLD WOULD MUCH BE FOCUSED ON HELPING THE RWANDAN POPULATION INCLUNDIG THOSE ORPHANS WHO HAVE NO OTHER CHOISE BUT FIGHTING TO LIBERATE THEIR HOMELAND, Rwanda.
We know many of former Clinton adminstration members, those who are currently enjoying the Congolese bloody coltan are not willing to help those who oppose the current bloody RPF regime, those who are determined to liberate Rwanda. And they still do. That means Paul Kagame and his bloody criminal organization, RPF will have more time to continue to continue arming Local Defence Forces and RPF/A/RDF who wish to kill as many Hutus and others from the democratic world (Spanish, Amercans and French mainly) as they can find.
Contempt is already there: Paul Kagame says: I don't care. And He actually doesn't. Look : 8 millions consciously mass-slaughtered without being intimidated. RPF Impunity is underway inside Rwanda and outside of IT.
The ending democracy of Rwanda is setting back the cause of Freedom around the world, including and especially in The African Great Lakes Region and that region will never be secure until Rwanda is free. We cannot and must not allow the Rwandan people to always be abandoned. Lessons : 1990 RPF invasion, 1994 genocide, 1995 Kibeho genocide, 1996 up to 1998 genocide. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH !
With the seemingly world conspiracy, Rwandans feel they have no choice. Therefore Rwandan SurViVors inside Rwanda and around the world hereby beg every single European, American, Burundian, Congolese to join us in supporting the continuing effort to liberate Rwanda and demanding the European Union, the United States of America and Canada NOT ANYMORE ABANDON THE RWANDAN PEOPLE. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH !
NOTHING BUT HUMAN RIGHTS. WE WILL WIN !
***
The revolution starts by changes in ideas. Once the changes in thinking processes started then it needs that changes get maturity. Mind will remain active with practices of ideas.
When the ideas are put in practice the difficulties and problems arise that were not thought before or neglected. Hence the thinking minds are needed to lead the revolutionary process.
It is the process of maturity of revolution. The masses also mature with maturation of the revolution. If a revolution has to survive it has to evolve constantly and it only can evolve when there are thinking minds with clear visions and devotions. Hence every revolution has three basic processes:
1- Birth of revolution: The struggle to change opinion of masses and intellectuals is key to revolution. A culture and system that is making lives for people difficult, messy, hard to handle and no ways to escape can’t be expressed effectively by people. People usually lack the ability to express in coordinated manners though they express their sufferings frequently.
The coordination of sufferings and finding their reasons in coordinated manner reveal the defects the culture and system that govern society. It is the intellectuals that have the ability to coordinate the sufferings, defects of culture and systems and link the sufferings of people to them. Similarly it is the intellectuals which can present the alternative solutions and systems. Presenting the alternative solutions is the seed of change in mind. This seed germinates only if the thought processes are continuously injected.
2- Maturation of revolution: When the ideas put into practice it would need a thinking body of visionary intellectuals to solve the problems and lead revolution in correct path (Stick to objectives). The high levels of flexibility in tactics and approaches are necessary for maturity of revolution.
3- Evolution of revolution: Once revolution succeeds to put its firm foundations in society and achieved the goals and changes it promised then there is need to expand and make alive the revolution. As coming generations are brought up under new situations and conditions so their preferences, judgments and objectives differ from previous generations. It is called generation gapes. Generation gaps are a common phenomenon of all societies. It is dangerous for revolutions and many revolutions collapse by ignoring generation gaps. The coming generations may reject the accomplishments of revolutions by making alternative historical interpretations and analysis so it is necessary for a revolution to indulge its every generation in revolutionary processes by creating tasks and making their minds thinking in the revolutionary lines. It is called evolution of the revolution.
In all three processes that we have counted the thinking process is the core and hub of the revolution. No revolution could take birth or succeed with leading thinkers. Societies which lack leading revolutionary groups or settings fail to have any revolution or have riots, civil wars, chaos and destructions by name of revolution.
A small introduction and knowing the stages of revolution we can have a short analysis of revolution by posing key questions and answers to them.
1- Does revolution need massive support to be started?
From historical evidences it is clear that revolution starts from small thinking devotees rather than in masses. The socialist revolution has its roots in Marx that had a small part of his life in political struggle and in large part had an intellectual struggle.
It was not Karl Marx that had massive struggle for revolution and its maturity but it was Lenin and Mao who had evolved in Marxist thoughts that agitated people of Russia and China to propagate the Socialist and communist revolutions. The same example is fitted to the Islamic revolution in Iran.
The leftist thoughts rooted in Marxism already working in China and Russia, and other parts of Europe, Asia, Africa and Latin America. The Islamic thoughts have roots both in Iran and Iraq. Imam Khomeini were old man lived majority of his life teaching Islamic thoughts. The thinking process requires time to develop leading intellectuals and coordination of thoughts.
If breaking of habits is difficult in individuals then breaking habit of masses is much difficult. Individuals suffer from their bad habits but it requires high levels of convincing to change the individual’s life style. To change lives of people it requires changes in culture and systems of society. Certainly both culture and system are too resistant to change. Cultures and systems are evolved through long processes and they govern daily lives of people. Changing these sustained cultures and systems require high levels of intellect, knowledge and visions. More important than this, is transferring of these intellect and visions to people to prepare people for a change.
The development of historical dialectic and historical materialism is the foundation of intellectual endeavors of communists and socialists movements. Similarly, the revival of concepts of Islamic government was the foundation of the Islamic movements which lead to the Islamic revolution of Iran.
2- How intellectual leaderships lead to maturity of revolution?
It is the Chinese communist party and the Islamic councils that lead the Chinese and Islamic revolution of Iran when the ideas put into practice. The Chinese communist party and Islamic councils were the sources of intellectual leaderships to bring revolution into maturity.
The successful leadership involve in total restructuring and nourishing the young generation into a revolutionary culture. The most effective part of introducing new culture is educations, active and controlled participation of masses in processes of change.
3- Do people not become trouble making once they become habitual of resistance and aware of their powers?
Revolution is more sensitive than artworks as they just not only agitate people for change but also put people in constructive process of change. It is the real art of revolutionaries that they make people more responsible and contributing than normal conditions or in older exploiting systems and cultures.
As agitations of people require learning new ideas and skills, interacting and coordinating with each other but once the revolution took place, it will follow unlearning processes in which people have to unlearn the agitating behaviors and learning constructions. Unlearning agitations and having active participations in reconstructing new revolutionary systems, culture and ideals in society the people require new skills, knowledge and coordination.
4- Societies are part of international communities and they have agreements. Revolutions break the relations between societies. How the revolutionary societies could reattach into international community?
Certainly! The revolution break ties with international community and even may result in conflict with international communities as we have seen in case of Soviet, Chinese, Cuban and Islamic revolution in Iran.
As revolution matures, it starts evolving and it is the evolutionary phases of the revolution that the revolutions and the international community find ways to bring their relations and interactions normal. Why I have chosen the evolutionary stage of revolution as a phase of normalization of relation because in this phase or stage the revolutionary process would have constructed the promises it made and would have gained skills, knowledge, professionalism, productivities and capabilities that international communities can no more ignore them.
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 Hannah C. Bealer, Staff Writer
12:38 AM Friday, June 26, 2009
12:38 AM Friday, June 26, 2009
Rwandan presidential candidate and United Democratic Front party member Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza will be at the Dayton North Holiday Inn at 3 p.m. Saturday, June 27.
Dayton has a Rwandan population of about 300, said Kristine Ward, chair of the board at the House of the People, a shelter for Rwandan refugees in Dayton.
Ward said 17 refugees are currently housed at the center, where they have the opportunity to seek employment and focus on education.
In September 2010, Umuhoza will run against President General Paul Kagame of the Rwandan Patriotic Front.
The Tutsi-formed RPF are widely believed to have played a part in the killings of Rwandan President Juvenal Habyarimana and Burundian President Cyprien Ntaryamira, who died when their plane was shot down in 1994. The assassinations caused controversy among the two groups, and led to the Rwandan genocide.
“Those who ignore all about Rwanda think that Kagame is a hero for his country whereas he is co-responsible for the Rwandanese tragedy,” Umuhoza said April 15 while giving a lecture at the University of Leiden in the Netherlands.
Ward said as an American citizen, she does not have a position in the Rwandan election. She believes that the local refugees, however, will “have a great deal to say about it. They were the ones who fortunately lived through the genocide.”
Renewal ceremony
“We gather not because we are all the same. We gather because we are all in this together,” Father John Krumm said at St. Mary’s Church on Saturday, June 20.
Krumm, who has been the priest of St. Mary’s for nine years, led a ceremony for the renewal of Isaie Sibomana’s and Sylvie Incuti’s marriage vows. The couple married in 1999 in Burkina Faso, a nation in West Africa. Their first child, Brice Sibomana, 8, was born in the country.
When the couple moved to Dayton, Incuti gave birth to their now 1-year-old twins, Bryan and Bright.
The family felt it was “important to renew their vows in a church for the community and their children,” Ward said. Brice’s first communion was included in the ceremony as well as the twins’ baptism.
Many Rwandan refugees who escaped the 1994 genocide were in attendance for the ceremony, and Krumm’s words must have hit home for many of them.Ward has only positive things to say about the refugees she assists at the House of the People. “They’re very forgiving,” she said. “That’s why it’s hard for them to understand the genocide.”
Ward also noted that many of the refugees held high-ranking jobs in Rwanda, ranging from university professors to doctors. However, when they arrive at the House of the People, “they take any job they can get.”
Many will agree to work the night shift so they can spend the daytime with their children, she said.
“If there’s a gift they can give, it’s the way they care for their children,” Ward said. “These men are the most dedicated fathers I have seen.”
Ward, who’s work at the House is voluntary, says it’s a miracle when a Rwandan fam
ily comes to live at the House with all members intact. Despite their misfortunes, “they never lost their dignity, their hope or their love,” said Ward.Now, the refugees have a new hope for the country they fled.
That hope comes in the form of Umuhoza.
Umuhoza did not witness the genocide personally.
In an interview with Oliver Nyiruburgara, a journalist who focuses on African affairs, she explained she left Rwanda in 1994 to live in the Netherlands. She watched the genocide progress on television.
“It hurt me deep in my heart,” she told Nyiruburgara. “My political determination is based on that. We suffered a genocide and the first step should be reconciliation.”
Philippe Bizimana, the Rwandan community coordinator in Dayton, says that Umuhoza will be the first politician the community will see when she comes to speak in Dayton.
Bizimana came to live in the U.S. 10 years ago when he left a Kenyan refugee camp and arrived in Dayton. “This is my place,” he said of the city.
Bizimana said not many people know of Umuhoza, but “many people would support anyone who could bring peace in Rwanda.”
Dr. Joseph Twagilimana, another Rwandan refugee, feels similarly. He explained the name ‘Umuhoza’ means a person who cleans the tears off of a crying person’s cheeks.
If Umuhoza defeats the current president, she will be the country’s first female president.
“That would be great. I feel like everyone will be happy like they are in Liberia now,” said Bizimana, referring to Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf who won the 2005 Liberian presidential election and became its first elected female head of state.
“We don’t distinguish between male or female,” explained Twagilimana. “We distinguish who can do what and the way he or she can do it. A president is a president, not a male or a female.”
Contact this reporter at (937) 225-9370 or hbealer @DaytonDailyNews.com.
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
Subscribe to:
Posts
(Atom)
AS International
SurViVors SPEAK OUT - Rights of Victims Seeking Justice and Compensation for the RPF Genocide. This is an Exciting Collaborative Project launched by The AS International Founder Jean-Christophe Nizeyimana, Economist and Human Rights Activist. Join US and Be the First to know about the Mastermind of the Rwandan Genocide Still At large and enjoing Impunity.