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
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
RPF intentions into whitewashing the Tutsi minority crimes committed in the past against the majority of the Rwandan population.Something is actually happening in Rwanda and Rwandans have no clue about that.
RPF Tutsis' Responsibility in crimes committed from 1990 to 1998 is all dumped on the Hutus. They say : "Hutus did it. They are the ones to blame. We are innocent."
To make it clear: The generally acknowledged founders of Historical revisionism in Rwanda mainly are Antoine Mugesera, Jill and Tito Rutaremara. At the great ICTR trials, RPF backers charged and still charge that Hutus had killed 500,000 Tutsis and Hutu moderates.
Then RPF criminal organizations made public another assertion that the majority of Hutus allegebly killed from 800,000 to one million Tutsis and Hutu moderates. Pattern: Gikongoro Prefecture does no longer exist on the Rwandan map: Reason: To hide the Rwandan Auschwitz: Kibeho with 150,000 Hutus butchered by RPA in 1995. Have a look at the map here above.
Undoubtedly, dealing with such a painful and dark chapter in history of Rwanda as the current Rwandan Nazi era is an immensely difficult task particularly when those criminals run the country. Examples: RPF Tutsi criminals, its backers those who invaded in 1990 and 1994 Rwanda together with RPF have been recently declared as "heroes". Abundantly illustrated, there is an adaptation in transforming the killed Hutus into the Tutsis.
The Gisozi cemetery and other cimeteries across Rwanda are believed to be of the killed Tutsis. Question as an example: How many people, all ethnic members included, lived in Kigali before 1994?
Different places believed to be Rwandan Auschwitz have changed their names and others were simply deleted from the Rwandan map. Books are burnt and librairies and Universities libraries are emptied from history books.
Rwandans still ask for Paul Kagame's and RPF organization's accountability about the role they played from 1990 and their accomplices are quite questionable since the Tutsi RPF invasion that led up to the 1994 tragic events as a bridge to seize power and pursue the ongoing genocide against Hutus.
The revisionists strive to establish what happened; they are positive, while the exterminationists doggedly continue to tell us about things which didn't happen: their work is negative and cannot be acceptable. All Rwandans, Hutus, tutsis and Twas must sit together around the table and discuss this painful matter. RPF has no mandate to do that.
Since 1994, the world witnesses the horrifying Tutsi minority (14%) ethnic domination, the Tutsi minority ethnic rule, tyranny and corruption in Rwanda.The current government has been characterized by the total impunity of RPF criminals, the Tutsi economic monopoly, the Tutsi militaristic domination, and the brutal suppression of the rights of the majority (85% Hutus) of the Rwandan people by the RPF criminal organization.
© SurVivors Human Rights Advocates
Please witness the coming revisionism announcement by reading this article:
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The New Times
8 September 2009
editorial
Kigali — Last week, the National Curriculum Development Centre (NCDC) announced it would soon release revised editions of Rwanda's history books which will be used in schools. NCDC says history books, currently used in schools are not factual and distorts the history of this nation. This is true. The importance of history should never be underestimated.
Almost every subject and field of study is linked to history. It has been said that he who controls the past dominates the future. Our view of history shapes the way we view the present, and therefore it dictates what answers we offer for existing problems. Sadly, Rwanda's history has been written in the books of lies.
For long many generations of our people were indoctrinated with falsified historical literature. Take the example of the so-called 1959 revolution of MDR-PARMEHUTU party, which sadly has been part of the history that our students are taught. How can such a criminal and distractive act qualify to go in the books of history of this nation as a revolution?
A revolution does not deny its own people the right to their homeland and revolutionaries do not point their guns to their own people. Some of the disbanded national symbols like national anthem, national flag and national emblem were indeed a representation of this distorted history.
The history that the majority of a certain age-bracket in the country consumed sowed seeds of hatred that eventually culminated into the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi. Therefore, it is critical that we correct this past distortion, not only for the record but for the common good of all Rwandans. Those who do not learn from history are destined to repeat it and it is worse when the existing history is a pile of lies.
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
The Gisozi cemetery and other cimeteries across Rwanda are believed to be of the killed Tutsis. Question as an example: How many people, all ethnic members included, lived in Kigali before 1994?
Different places believed to be Rwandan Auschwitz have changed their names and others were simply deleted from the Rwandan map. Books are burnt and librairies and Universities libraries are emptied from history books.
Rwandans still ask for Paul Kagame's and RPF organization's accountability about the role they played from 1990 and their accomplices are quite questionable since the Tutsi RPF invasion that led up to the 1994 tragic events as a bridge to seize power and pursue the ongoing genocide against Hutus.
The revisionists strive to establish what happened; they are positive, while the exterminationists doggedly continue to tell us about things which didn't happen: their work is negative and cannot be acceptable. All Rwandans, Hutus, tutsis and Twas must sit together around the table and discuss this painful matter. RPF has no mandate to do that.
Since 1994, the world witnesses the horrifying Tutsi minority (14%) ethnic domination, the Tutsi minority ethnic rule, tyranny and corruption in Rwanda.The current government has been characterized by the total impunity of RPF criminals, the Tutsi economic monopoly, the Tutsi militaristic domination, and the brutal suppression of the rights of the majority (85% Hutus) of the Rwandan people by the RPF criminal organization.
© SurVivors Human Rights Advocates
Please witness the coming revisionism announcement by reading this article:
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The New Times
8 September 2009
editorial
Kigali — Last week, the National Curriculum Development Centre (NCDC) announced it would soon release revised editions of Rwanda's history books which will be used in schools. NCDC says history books, currently used in schools are not factual and distorts the history of this nation. This is true. The importance of history should never be underestimated.
Almost every subject and field of study is linked to history. It has been said that he who controls the past dominates the future. Our view of history shapes the way we view the present, and therefore it dictates what answers we offer for existing problems. Sadly, Rwanda's history has been written in the books of lies.
For long many generations of our people were indoctrinated with falsified historical literature. Take the example of the so-called 1959 revolution of MDR-PARMEHUTU party, which sadly has been part of the history that our students are taught. How can such a criminal and distractive act qualify to go in the books of history of this nation as a revolution?
A revolution does not deny its own people the right to their homeland and revolutionaries do not point their guns to their own people. Some of the disbanded national symbols like national anthem, national flag and national emblem were indeed a representation of this distorted history.
The history that the majority of a certain age-bracket in the country consumed sowed seeds of hatred that eventually culminated into the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi. Therefore, it is critical that we correct this past distortion, not only for the record but for the common good of all Rwandans. Those who do not learn from history are destined to repeat it and it is worse when the existing history is a pile of lies.
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
Monday, September 7, 2009
African Press Agency
7 September 2009
APA-Kigali (Rwanda)
L'historien franco-rwandais José Kagabo, membre de l'ancienne commission sur le rôle supposé de la France dans le génocide perpétré contre les Tutsis en 1994, a été nommé sénateur par décret du président Paul Kagame, a rapporté lundi Radio Rwanda.
The Rwandan historian José Franco-Kagabo, former member of the Committee on the alleged role of France in the genocide against Tutsis in 1994, was appointed Senator by decree of President Paul Kagame, Radio Rwanda reported Monday.
Le professeur Kagabo, qui enseigne l'histoire dans plusieurs universités françaises, remplace Stanley Safari, condamné à la réclusion criminelle à perpétuité en juin dernier après avoir été reconnu coupable de participation au génocide de 1994.
Professor Kagabo, who teaches history in several French universities, replaces Stanley Safari, sentenced to life imprisonment last June after being convicted of involvement in the genocide of 1994. Il entre à la chambre haute avec Mme Henriette Umulisa qui hérite du fauteuil de Béatrice Mukabaranga qui a dû démissionner le mois dernier pour une histoire de chèques sans provisions, selon Radio Rwanda.
He entered the upper chamber with Henriette Umulisa who inherited the chair of Beatrice Mukabaranga who resigned last month to a history of bad checks, according to Radio Rwanda. Le Sénat rwandais comprend 26 membres dont 8 nommés par le chef de l'Etat. The Rwandan Senate has 26 members including 8 appointed by the Head of State.
Selon le rapport de la commission sur le rôle de la France dans le génocide rwandais, rendu public en août 2008, la France était "au courant des préparatifs" du génocide et a "participé aux principales initiatives" de sa mise en place et "à sa mise en exécution".
According to the report of the Committee on the role of France in the Rwandan Genocide, released in August 2008, France was "aware of preparations for" genocide and "participated in major initiatives" from its inception and " implementing it.
Le rapport, rejeté par Paris, incrimine 33 personnalités françaises dont feu le président François Mitterrand. The report, rejected by Paris, 33 persons offense of which the late French President François Mitterrand.
Since 1994, the world witnesses the horrifying Tutsi minority (14%) ethnic domination, the Tutsi minority ethnic rule, tyranny and corruption in Rwanda.The current government has been characterized by the total impunity of RPF criminals, the Tutsi economic monopoly, the Tutsi militaristic domination, and the brutal suppression of the rights of the majority (85% Hutus) of the Rwandan people by the RPF criminal organization.
Translation: David Barouski
7 September 2009
APA-Kigali (Rwanda)
L'historien franco-rwandais José Kagabo, membre de l'ancienne commission sur le rôle supposé de la France dans le génocide perpétré contre les Tutsis en 1994, a été nommé sénateur par décret du président Paul Kagame, a rapporté lundi Radio Rwanda.
The Rwandan historian José Franco-Kagabo, former member of the Committee on the alleged role of France in the genocide against Tutsis in 1994, was appointed Senator by decree of President Paul Kagame, Radio Rwanda reported Monday.
Le professeur Kagabo, qui enseigne l'histoire dans plusieurs universités françaises, remplace Stanley Safari, condamné à la réclusion criminelle à perpétuité en juin dernier après avoir été reconnu coupable de participation au génocide de 1994.
Professor Kagabo, who teaches history in several French universities, replaces Stanley Safari, sentenced to life imprisonment last June after being convicted of involvement in the genocide of 1994. Il entre à la chambre haute avec Mme Henriette Umulisa qui hérite du fauteuil de Béatrice Mukabaranga qui a dû démissionner le mois dernier pour une histoire de chèques sans provisions, selon Radio Rwanda.
He entered the upper chamber with Henriette Umulisa who inherited the chair of Beatrice Mukabaranga who resigned last month to a history of bad checks, according to Radio Rwanda. Le Sénat rwandais comprend 26 membres dont 8 nommés par le chef de l'Etat. The Rwandan Senate has 26 members including 8 appointed by the Head of State.
Selon le rapport de la commission sur le rôle de la France dans le génocide rwandais, rendu public en août 2008, la France était "au courant des préparatifs" du génocide et a "participé aux principales initiatives" de sa mise en place et "à sa mise en exécution".
According to the report of the Committee on the role of France in the Rwandan Genocide, released in August 2008, France was "aware of preparations for" genocide and "participated in major initiatives" from its inception and " implementing it.
Le rapport, rejeté par Paris, incrimine 33 personnalités françaises dont feu le président François Mitterrand. The report, rejected by Paris, 33 persons offense of which the late French President François Mitterrand.
Since 1994, the world witnesses the horrifying Tutsi minority (14%) ethnic domination, the Tutsi minority ethnic rule, tyranny and corruption in Rwanda.The current government has been characterized by the total impunity of RPF criminals, the Tutsi economic monopoly, the Tutsi militaristic domination, and the brutal suppression of the rights of the majority (85% Hutus) of the Rwandan people by the RPF criminal organization.
Translation: David Barouski
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
Les FDLR ne sont pas impliquées dans des attaques qui auraient visé l’aéroport de Shabunda et les localités environnantes en RDC.
Les Forces Démocratiques de Libération du Rwanda ( FDLR ) démentent catégoriquement les fausses informations propagées par certaines autorités congolaises et reprises par certains médias dont le journaliste Jonathan Kacelewa Mutayega dans les émissions de BBC Kinyarwanda du 2 Septembre 2009 selon lesquelles les FDLR auraient attaqué et pillé l’aéroport de Shabunda et les localités environnantes et auraient même pris en otage une trentaine de Congolais.
Les FDLR informent le public et les médias que les lieux desdites attaques sont très éloignées de là où se trouvent les membres des FDLR et qu’après une enquête minutieuse, il en résulte que ces informations sont mensongères et dénuées de tout fondement et qu’aucun élément des FDLR n’était présent dans ces dites localités et les environs au moment des faits allégués.
Selon des informations dignes de foi à notre disposition, ces attaques furent menées par certains éléments des FARDC qui voulaient piller les biens se trouvant à l’aéroport de Shabunda et il appartient à l’autorité militaire congolaise de déterminer les identités de ces auteurs.
Les FDLR alertent le public et les médias sur le risque d’intensification future de tels agissements visant à ternir l’image des FDLR et leur leadership et leur demandent de ne pas accepter aveuglement des informations non vérifiées et corroborées car l’intention profonde de ce stratagème n’est rien d’autre que de propager le mensonge et de donner une légitimation à une guerre dont le nombre de victimes ne fait qu’augmenter de jour en jour.
Les FDLR n’ont jamais cessé de condamner et condamnent encore fermement les crimes graves contre l’Humanité commis par la coalition de l’APR(RDF) et des FARDC avec l’appui de la MONUC contre les populations civiles congolaises et les réfugiés Hutu rwandais se trouvant à l’est de la RDC.
Les FDLR demandent encore une fois de plus aux régimes de Kigali et de Kinshasa de mettre fin à la guerre dont les premières victimes restent les populations civiles congolaises et les réfugiés rwandais se trouvant à l’Est de la RDC.
Les FDLR demandent à la Communauté Internationale de condamner cette guerre inutile, injuste et sans issues que les va-t-en guerre ont imposée aux peuples épris de paix de la Région des Grands Lacs Africains dans le but de les assujettir et de piller les richesses immenses se trouvant dans cette région.
Les FDLR demandent à la Communauté Internationale d’encourager et de soutenir toute initiative visant à résoudre par le dialogue le problème politique rwandais qui est la source de tous les maux que connaît la Région des Grands Lacs Africains et ce depuis le début de la guerre commencée par le Front Patriotique Rwandais (FPR-Inkotanyi) le 1er Octobre 1990.
Fait à Paris le 07 Septembre 2009
Callixte Mbarushimana
Secrétaire Exécutif des FDLR
(Sé)
Since 1994, the world witnesses the horrifying Tutsi minority (14%) ethnic domination, the Tutsi minority ethnic rule, tyranny and corruption in Rwanda.The current government has been characterized by the total impunity of RPF criminals, the Tutsi economic monopoly, the Tutsi militaristic domination, and the brutal suppression of the rights of the majority (85% Hutus) of the Rwandan people by the RPF criminal organization.
Les Forces Démocratiques de Libération du Rwanda ( FDLR ) démentent catégoriquement les fausses informations propagées par certaines autorités congolaises et reprises par certains médias dont le journaliste Jonathan Kacelewa Mutayega dans les émissions de BBC Kinyarwanda du 2 Septembre 2009 selon lesquelles les FDLR auraient attaqué et pillé l’aéroport de Shabunda et les localités environnantes et auraient même pris en otage une trentaine de Congolais.
Les FDLR informent le public et les médias que les lieux desdites attaques sont très éloignées de là où se trouvent les membres des FDLR et qu’après une enquête minutieuse, il en résulte que ces informations sont mensongères et dénuées de tout fondement et qu’aucun élément des FDLR n’était présent dans ces dites localités et les environs au moment des faits allégués.
Selon des informations dignes de foi à notre disposition, ces attaques furent menées par certains éléments des FARDC qui voulaient piller les biens se trouvant à l’aéroport de Shabunda et il appartient à l’autorité militaire congolaise de déterminer les identités de ces auteurs.
Les FDLR alertent le public et les médias sur le risque d’intensification future de tels agissements visant à ternir l’image des FDLR et leur leadership et leur demandent de ne pas accepter aveuglement des informations non vérifiées et corroborées car l’intention profonde de ce stratagème n’est rien d’autre que de propager le mensonge et de donner une légitimation à une guerre dont le nombre de victimes ne fait qu’augmenter de jour en jour.
Les FDLR n’ont jamais cessé de condamner et condamnent encore fermement les crimes graves contre l’Humanité commis par la coalition de l’APR(RDF) et des FARDC avec l’appui de la MONUC contre les populations civiles congolaises et les réfugiés Hutu rwandais se trouvant à l’est de la RDC.
Les FDLR demandent encore une fois de plus aux régimes de Kigali et de Kinshasa de mettre fin à la guerre dont les premières victimes restent les populations civiles congolaises et les réfugiés rwandais se trouvant à l’Est de la RDC.
Les FDLR demandent à la Communauté Internationale de condamner cette guerre inutile, injuste et sans issues que les va-t-en guerre ont imposée aux peuples épris de paix de la Région des Grands Lacs Africains dans le but de les assujettir et de piller les richesses immenses se trouvant dans cette région.
Les FDLR demandent à la Communauté Internationale d’encourager et de soutenir toute initiative visant à résoudre par le dialogue le problème politique rwandais qui est la source de tous les maux que connaît la Région des Grands Lacs Africains et ce depuis le début de la guerre commencée par le Front Patriotique Rwandais (FPR-Inkotanyi) le 1er Octobre 1990.
Fait à Paris le 07 Septembre 2009
Callixte Mbarushimana
Secrétaire Exécutif des FDLR
(Sé)
Since 1994, the world witnesses the horrifying Tutsi minority (14%) ethnic domination, the Tutsi minority ethnic rule, tyranny and corruption in Rwanda.The current government has been characterized by the total impunity of RPF criminals, the Tutsi economic monopoly, the Tutsi militaristic domination, and the brutal suppression of the rights of the majority (85% Hutus) of the Rwandan people by the RPF criminal organization.
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
Saturday, September 5, 2009
Tony Blair controls Rwanda and the bloody puppet and mass-killer Paul Kagame has no choice than do as told. You know why?8,5 millions assassinated ! The toll is certainly higher and worse than what happened in the end of the 20th century in other countries. Isn't it? If it goes unreported, it is because stakeholders have managed to suppress the story and to protect the perpetrators from accountability.
7,5 millions is like the whole Irish, Gabon, Malawi or Palestinian population wiped out. Could the holocaust have happened without anybody knowing about it? Most likely. The ongoing silent genocide in Rwanda and Congo has proved it.
Kigali - Tony Blair, personal advisor of the Kagame terrorist regime.
Harsh laws banning "genocide ideology", harassment of independent journalists and military intervention in the Democratic Republic of Congo make Rwanda's accession "ill-advised", says a report released this week by the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI), an NGO.
The organisation said Rwandan troops had been guilty of abuses during three incursions into Congo and that the gacaca (community justice) courts established to try ge
nocide suspects violated international norms.
Serious ills during the past fifteen years of Kagame’s autocratic and iron-fist rule and progress made in other areas. The old tired tune of “what we went through” has lost its persuasive power: Rwanda has experienced SEVERAL genocides and the risk of others—God forbids—is only being reinforced by those bent on revenge and self-victimization.
Can we take Kagame's tactics at face value? Did not Western leaders have similar relationships with Mobutu of Zaire when he first assumed power?
Have a look: 3,500,000 Rwandan plus 5,000,000 Congolese people are priceless. We are not about 8,5 millions of bucks, we are about millions of Human beings assasssinated by the regime supported by Tony Blair and whose advices led to mass-slaughters.
The evening before Human Rights Watch expert on Rwanda Alison Des Forges’ critical quote on the secret deal worked out between Rwanda’s murderous U.S.-backed President Paul Kagame and Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) President Joseph Kabila appeared in a Washington Post article written by Stephanie McCrummen from Kigali, the Rwandan capital, Des Forges died in a the fiery crash of Continental Flight 3407, en route from Newark to Buffalo, Des Forges’ home town. Des Forges, an expert on the ethnic violence that has swept Rwanda, Burundi and the eastern DRC, was returning from a trip to Europe on Human Rights Watch business.
Also on Flight 3407 was Beverly Eckert, a 9/11 widow whose husband, Sean Rooney, died on 9/11 while in his Aon Risk Services office in the South Tower of the World Trade Center. On Dec. 19, 2003, Eckert wrote an op ed in USA Today titled “My Silence Cannot be Bought.” She rejected a pay-out offer from the 9/11 victims’ compensation fund and opted for a lawsuit to seek out answers to her many questions about 9/11.
Also on Flight 3407 was Beverly Eckert, a 9/11 widow whose husband, Sean Rooney, died on 9/11 while in his Aon Risk Services office in the South Tower of the World Trade Center. On Dec. 19, 2003, Eckert wrote an op ed in USA Today titled “My Silence Cannot be Bought.” She rejected a pay-out offer from the 9/11 victims’ compensation fund and opted for a lawsuit to seek out answers to her many questions about 9/11.
Much will be written, undoubtedly, about Beverly Eckert and her suspicions about 9/11. But it was Des Forges who had an enemy in the Kagame regime, which has, in the past, used assassinations in Rwanda and abroad as a tool to silence its critics. One such operation was planned against this editor in Tanzania
On Dec. 3, 2008, WMR reported: “The Rwandan government, through its political and intelligence network in Washington, applied pressure on the International Criminal Tribunal fo r Rwanda in Arusha, Tanzania, to reject this editor’s testimony on two different occasions about the 1994 plane shoot down [of the presidents of Rwanda and Burundi].
On a third occasion, I received word that Kagame’s intelligence team in Arusha would ensure I would “never make it” to my U.N.-arranged guest house on the way from Kilimanjaro International Airport.
Heeding the warning about Kagame’s intentions that were passed on to me by a friendly African intelligence service, I quickly cancelled my trip to Arusha. Members of Rwanda’s regime have been indicted by judges in France and Spain for murder.
In return for allowing Rwandan troops into the DRC, Rwanda “arrested” its Tutsi proxy rebel general, Gen. LaurentNkunda, after he fled the eastern DRC into Rwanda. Nkunda was the head of the Rwandan-sponsored National Congress for the Defense of the People (CNDP), which replaced the former Rally for Congolese Democracy (RCD). The RCD was involved in the 1998 second invasion of the DRC by Rwanda, an invasion supported by the Clinton administration. Rwandan troops first invaded the DRC in 1996 to overthrow the then-Zairian dictator Mobutu Sese Seko.
WMR’s sources in Africa report that Nkunda is not under real arrest in Rwanda because he is not in jail. In addition, Rwanda is ignoring repeated extradition requests from the DRC for Nkunda to be returned, but it appears that these requests are merely “window dressing” attempts by Kabila’s government to show that it is interested in putting the rebel general on trial.
Nkunda, a self-declared Christian preacher, is linked to a shadowy U.S.-based Pentecostal group called the “Rebels for Christ.” Nkunda is also an open admirer of George W. Bush.
Kabila, according to WMR’s African sources, is suspected of being an ethnic Burundian Tutsi who was adopted by his father and predecessor as president, Laurent D. Kabila, who was assassinated in 2001, in a plot said to have been engineered by Rwanda with the help of Angolan elements.
Des Forges questioned the Rwandan-DRC pact in her interview with the Post. She said, “Is the FDLR now suddenly on the verge of becoming more militarily powerful? I don’t think we’ve seen that … And if they haven’t, then what you have is Rwanda trotting out an old warhorse of an excuse to go in again. The question is, what is the intent?”
Des Forges obviously knew the answer. With U.S. military forces of the U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) now backing a joint Ugandan-DRC offensive in the northeastern DRC to wipe out the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), with hundreds of civilian casualties in the DRC and Uganda, and a secret pact worked out between Kabila and Kagame to permit Rwandan troops to occupy the eastern DRC, the target of both operations is securing the vast territory that is rich in commodities that the United States, Britain and Israel – all allies of Uganda and Rwanda – want badly.
Those commodities are gold, diamonds, columbite-tantalite (coltan), platinum and natural gas.
And Des Forges’ criticism of the pact between Kagame and Kabila earned her some powerful enemies ranging from the murderous Kagame, who will not think twice about sending his agents to silence critics abroad, and international interests who want to see nothing prevent them from looting the DRC’s vast mineral and energy resources.
Eckert’s criticism of the 9/11 Commission report and her honest skepticism about the events of that day in 2001 also earned her some powerful enemies. The sudden crash of Continental Flight 3407 eliminated two spirited enemies of those who hide in the shadows of government and business around the world.
This story first appeared on WayneMadsenReport.com. Editor Wayne Madsen writes: (T)his online publication tackles the “politically incorrect” and “politically embarrassing” stories and holds government officials accountable for their actions. Contact him at wmreditor@waynemadsenreport.com.
Since 1994, the world witnesses the horrifying Tutsi minority (14%) ethnic domination, the Tutsi minority ethnic rule, tyranny and corruption in Rwanda.The current government has been characterized by the total impunity of RPF criminals, the Tutsi economic monopoly, the Tutsi militaristic domination, and the brutal suppression of the rights of the majority (85% Hutus) of the Rwandan people by the RPF criminal organization.
The organisation said Rwandan troops had been guilty of abuses during three incursions into Congo and that the gacaca (community justice) courts established to try ge
nocide suspects violated international norms.Serious ills during the past fifteen years of Kagame’s autocratic and iron-fist rule and progress made in other areas. The old tired tune of “what we went through” has lost its persuasive power: Rwanda has experienced SEVERAL genocides and the risk of others—God forbids—is only being reinforced by those bent on revenge and self-victimization.
Can we take Kagame's tactics at face value? Did not Western leaders have similar relationships with Mobutu of Zaire when he first assumed power?
Have a look: 3,500,000 Rwandan plus 5,000,000 Congolese people are priceless. We are not about 8,5 millions of bucks, we are about millions of Human beings assasssinated by the regime supported by Tony Blair and whose advices led to mass-slaughters.
The evening before Human Rights Watch expert on Rwanda Alison Des Forges’ critical quote on the secret deal worked out between Rwanda’s murderous U.S.-backed President Paul Kagame and Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) President Joseph Kabila appeared in a Washington Post article written by Stephanie McCrummen from Kigali, the Rwandan capital, Des Forges died in a the fiery crash of Continental Flight 3407, en route from Newark to Buffalo, Des Forges’ home town. Des Forges, an expert on the ethnic violence that has swept Rwanda, Burundi and the eastern DRC, was returning from a trip to Europe on Human Rights Watch business.
Also on Flight 3407 was Beverly Eckert, a 9/11 widow whose husband, Sean Rooney, died on 9/11 while in his Aon Risk Services office in the South Tower of the World Trade Center. On Dec. 19, 2003, Eckert wrote an op ed in USA Today titled “My Silence Cannot be Bought.” She rejected a pay-out offer from the 9/11 victims’ compensation fund and opted for a lawsuit to seek out answers to her many questions about 9/11.
Also on Flight 3407 was Beverly Eckert, a 9/11 widow whose husband, Sean Rooney, died on 9/11 while in his Aon Risk Services office in the South Tower of the World Trade Center. On Dec. 19, 2003, Eckert wrote an op ed in USA Today titled “My Silence Cannot be Bought.” She rejected a pay-out offer from the 9/11 victims’ compensation fund and opted for a lawsuit to seek out answers to her many questions about 9/11.
Much will be written, undoubtedly, about Beverly Eckert and her suspicions about 9/11. But it was Des Forges who had an enemy in the Kagame regime, which has, in the past, used assassinations in Rwanda and abroad as a tool to silence its critics. One such operation was planned against this editor in Tanzania
On Dec. 3, 2008, WMR reported: “The Rwandan government, through its political and intelligence network in Washington, applied pressure on the International Criminal Tribunal fo r Rwanda in Arusha, Tanzania, to reject this editor’s testimony on two different occasions about the 1994 plane shoot down [of the presidents of Rwanda and Burundi].
On a third occasion, I received word that Kagame’s intelligence team in Arusha would ensure I would “never make it” to my U.N.-arranged guest house on the way from Kilimanjaro International Airport.
Heeding the warning about Kagame’s intentions that were passed on to me by a friendly African intelligence service, I quickly cancelled my trip to Arusha. Members of Rwanda’s regime have been indicted by judges in France and Spain for murder.
Des Forges was quoted in the Post criticizing a deal worked out and signed in Goma, DRC, on Dec. 5, 2008, between Kagame and Kabila that permits Rwandan troops to legally enter the DRC to ostensibly clean out elements of the Rwandan Hutu militia – the Democratic Liberation Forces of Rwanda (FDLR) – operating in the country. However, the FDLR is seen by both Rwanda and the DRC as a spent force that is an internal DRC problem and not a threat to Rwanda.
In return for allowing Rwandan troops into the DRC, Rwanda “arrested” its Tutsi proxy rebel general, Gen. Laurent
WMR’s sources in Africa report that Nkunda is not under real arrest in Rwanda because he is not in jail. In addition, Rwanda is ignoring repeated extradition requests from the DRC for Nkunda to be returned, but it appears that these requests are merely “window dressing” attempts by Kabila’s government to show that it is interested in putting the rebel general on trial.
Nkunda, a self-declared Christian preacher, is linked to a shadowy U.S.-based Pentecostal group called the “Rebels for Christ.” Nkunda is also an open admirer of George W. Bush.
Kabila, according to WMR’s African sources, is suspected of being an ethnic Burundian Tutsi who was adopted by his father and predecessor as president, Laurent D. Kabila, who was assassinated in 2001, in a plot said to have been engineered by Rwanda with the help of Angolan elements.
Des Forges questioned the Rwandan-DRC pact in her interview with the Post. She said, “Is the FDLR now suddenly on the verge of becoming more militarily powerful? I don’
Des Forges obviously knew the answer. With U.S. military forces of the U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) now backing a joint Ugandan-DRC offensive in the northeastern DRC to wipe out the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), with hundreds of civilian casualties in the DRC and Uganda, and a secret pact worked out between Kabila and Kagame to permit Rwandan troops to occupy the eastern DRC, the target of both operations is securing the vast territory that is rich in commodities that the United States, Britain and Israel – all allies of Uganda and Rwanda – want badly.
Those commodities are gold, diamonds, columbite-tantalite (coltan), platinum and natural gas.
And Des Forges’ criticism of the pact between Kagame and Kabila earned her some powerful enemies ranging from the murderous Kagame, who will not think twice about sending his agents to silence critics abroad, and international interests who want to see nothing prevent them from looting the DRC’s vast mineral and energy resources.
Eckert’s criticism of the 9/11 Commission report and her honest skepticism about the events of that day in 2001 also earned her some powerful enemies. The sudden crash of Continental Flight 3407 eliminated two spirited enemies of those who hide in the shadows of government and business around the world.
This story first appeared on WayneMadsenReport.com. Editor Wayne Madsen writes: (T)his online publication tackles the “politically incorrect” and “politically embarrassing” stories and holds government officials accountable for their actions. Contact him at wmreditor@waynemadsenreport.com.
Since 1994, the world witnesses the horrifying Tutsi minority (14%) ethnic domination, the Tutsi minority ethnic rule, tyranny and corruption in Rwanda.The current government has been characterized by the total impunity of RPF criminals, the Tutsi economic monopoly, the Tutsi militaristic domination, and the brutal suppression of the rights of the majority (85% Hutus) of the Rwandan people by the RPF criminal organization.
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, September 4, 2009
04- 09-2009
L’abbé Joseph Sagahutu, dans "Espérer contre toute espérance"
L’assassinat de Mgr Christophe Munzihirwa le 29 octobre 1996 , Archevêque de Bukavu, le 29 octobre 1996, dès l’attaque du Zaïre par l’Armée Patriotique Rwandaise du Général Paul Kagame, s'inscrit dans la logique de la purification ethnique, des nouveaux seigneurs de guerre en Afrique des Grands Lacs : détruire toute autorité morale et éliminer tous les témoins de la tragédie surtout quand ils étaient suspectés d’établir des liens avec l’étranger.
Au Rwanda et au Congo, les religieux furent aussi pourchassés et massacrés parce qu’ils étaient susceptibles d’offrir un havre de paix aux réfugiés rwandais et qu’ils avaient été témoins des massacres de populations ou de leurs confrères.
Le massacre des Frères Maristes d'origine espagnole à Nyamirangwe le 31 octobre 1996, le massacre de 11 religieux et religieuses d'origine rwandaise à Kalima le 2 mars 1997, s'inscrivent, eux aussi, dans la même logique.
Unique rescapé du massacre de Kalima, l’abbé Joseph Sagahutu a rencontré l’archevêque Mgr Christophe Munzihirwa avant son assassinat.
Devant l’afflux de réfugiés rwandais et sa détermination à les accueillir le mieux qu’il pouvait, l’Archevêque Munzihirwa avait confié à l’abbé Joseph Sagahutu, la charge pastorale de Vicaire de sa paroisse natale de Burhale.
Dans ses divers entretiens avec l’Archevêque, celui-ci lui recommandait de garder espoir : « Espérer contre toute espérance ». L’auteur a gardé cette phrase comme testament et comme nourriture sur son long et périlleux chemin d’exil.
Depuis 1994, le monde entier est témoin de la domination ethnique horrifiant de la minorité Tutsi.
Since 1994, the world witnesses the horrifying Tutsi minority (14%) ethnic domination, the Tutsi minority ethnic rule, tyranny and corruption in Rwanda.
The current government has been characterized by the total impunity of RPF criminals, the Tutsi economic monopoly, the Tutsi militaristic domination, and the brutal suppression of the rights of the majority (85% Hutus) of the Rwandan people by the RPF criminal organization.
L’abbé Joseph Sagahutu, dans "Espérer contre toute espérance"
L’assassinat de Mgr Christophe Munzihirwa le 29 octobre 1996 , Archevêque de Bukavu, le 29 octobre 1996, dès l’attaque du Zaïre par l’Armée Patriotique Rwandaise du Général Paul Kagame, s'inscrit dans la logique de la purification ethnique, des nouveaux seigneurs de guerre en Afrique des Grands Lacs : détruire toute autorité morale et éliminer tous les témoins de la tragédie surtout quand ils étaient suspectés d’établir des liens avec l’étranger.
Au Rwanda et au Congo, les religieux furent aussi pourchassés et massacrés parce qu’ils étaient susceptibles d’offrir un havre de paix aux réfugiés rwandais et qu’ils avaient été témoins des massacres de populations ou de leurs confrères.
Le massacre des Frères Maristes d'origine espagnole à Nyamirangwe le 31 octobre 1996, le massacre de 11 religieux et religieuses d'origine rwandaise à Kalima le 2 mars 1997, s'inscrivent, eux aussi, dans la même logique.
Unique rescapé du massacre de Kalima, l’abbé Joseph Sagahutu a rencontré l’archevêque Mgr Christophe Munzihirwa avant son assassinat.
Devant l’afflux de réfugiés rwandais et sa détermination à les accueillir le mieux qu’il pouvait, l’Archevêque Munzihirwa avait confié à l’abbé Joseph Sagahutu, la charge pastorale de Vicaire de sa paroisse natale de Burhale.
Dans ses divers entretiens avec l’Archevêque, celui-ci lui recommandait de garder espoir : « Espérer contre toute espérance ». L’auteur a gardé cette phrase comme testament et comme nourriture sur son long et périlleux chemin d’exil.
Depuis 1994, le monde entier est témoin de la domination ethnique horrifiant de la minorité Tutsi.
Since 1994, the world witnesses the horrifying Tutsi minority (14%) ethnic domination, the Tutsi minority ethnic rule, tyranny and corruption in Rwanda.
The current government has been characterized by the total impunity of RPF criminals, the Tutsi economic monopoly, the Tutsi militaristic domination, and the brutal suppression of the rights of the majority (85% Hutus) of the Rwandan people by the RPF criminal organization.
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, September 3, 2009
03-09-2009
KIGALI — Une importante personnalité politique rwandaise, président du parlement de 2003 à 2008, a été condamnée à la prison à perpétuité après avoir été reconnue coupable de participation au génocide de 1994 contre les Tutsis, a-t-on appris jeudi de source officielle.
Alfred Mukezamfura born on Dec 25 1953 a été reconnu coupable d'"incitation à la haine et au génocide" par une juridiction populaire gacaca du secteur Nyakabanda, à Kigali, et condamné à la prison à perpétuité, a annoncé Radio Rwanda.
L'accusé "n'était pas présent à l'énoncé du verdict", selon la radio.
Il avait quitté le Rwanda en mars dernier pour se réfugier en Belgique, où il a depuis demandé l'asile politique, selon un de ses proches.
Président du Parti démocrate centriste (PDC), M. Mukezamfura avait été jusque début 2009 l'une des plus importantes personnalités hutu au sein du régime du président Paul Kagame, dominé par les Tutsis. Il avait été président du parlement pendant cinq ans, de 2003 à 2008, ainsi que vice-président de la Commission constitutionnelle rwandaise.
M. Mukezamfura a été impliqué "indirectement" dans le génocide à travers ses écrits, "incitateurs au génocide", selon Radio Rwanda. Il lui est en particulier reproché la rédaction, en mai 1994, d'un éditorial publié dans le journal gouvernemental "Imvaho" au mois de mai 1994 (en plein génocide), et intitulé "Intwari yaratabarutse" ("le héros est décédé") en hommage au président Juvénal Habyarimana, dont la mort dans un attentat le 6 avril 1994 avait déclenché le génocide.
M. Mukezamfura travaillait alors au sein de l'Orinfor (Office rwandais d'information), où il dirigeait "Imvaho" ainsi qu'une autre publication gouvernementale, "La Nouvelle relève".
Plusieurs personnalités hutu, hommes politiques ou officiers supérieurs, qui exerçaient des responsabilités au sein du gouvernement depuis l'arrivée au pouvoir de Paul Kagame ont été ainsi condamnées pour leur participation présumée au génocide ces dernières années par des juridiction.
Avant les législatives de septembre 2008, auxquelles il n'avait pas été autorisé a se présenter à cause de la gravité des accusations portées contre lui, M. Mukezamfura était constitutionnellement la troisième personnalité de l'Etat.
En juillet, le sénateur Safari Stanley, fondateur en 2003 d'un petit parti proche du Front patriotique rwandais (FPR, au pouvoir) a été condamné à la perpétuité. Des parlementaires membres du FPR ont été également mis en cause, dont la député Béatrice Nirere, condamnée au début de l'année, et le sénateur Anastase Nzirasanaho qui attend d'être jugé.
Les juridictions gacaca ont également condamné à la perpétuité mardi un important homme d'affaires de l'ouest du pays, Aphrodice Mugambira, pour sa participation au génocide, a rapporté le quotidien privé New Times (pro-gouvernemental).
L'homme d'affaires, 51 ans, originaire de la préfecture de Kibuye, a été reconnu coupable d'avoir acheté des fusils et des machettes pour des miliciens locaux et d'avoir fait tuer un de ses beaux-frères, selon New Times.
Eminente figure du monde des affaires à Kibuye à l'époque des faits, M Mugambira était également un membre influent de l'ex-parti présidentiel, le Mouvement.
Since 1994, the world witnesses the horrifying Tutsi minority (14%) ethnic domination, the Tutsi minority ethnic rule, tyranny and corruption in Rwanda.The current government has been characterized by the total impunity of RPF criminals, the Tutsi economic monopoly, the Tutsi militaristic domination, and the brutal suppression of the rights of the majority (85% Hutus) of the Rwandan people by the RPF criminal organization.
Source: AFP/Save Rwanda.org
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
03-09-2009
By UEL ALTOZANO
Un ex agent des services secrets du Rwanda témoigne à propos de l’implication de son Gouvernement dans le meurtre de Kabila
Madrid - Un témoin protégé dévoile, devant l’Audition Nationale, le plan d’assassiner le chef d’état congolais en 2001
Traduit de l'espagnol)
L'attentat qui a mis un terme à la vie de Laurent-Desiré Kabila, ex président de la République Démocratique du Congo (RDC) assassiné par l’un de ses gardes du corps le 16 janvier 2001, a été organisé et financé par le Gouvernement du Rwanda comme l’a déclaré un ex haut responsable des services secrets rwandais devant le juge de l'Audition Nationale Fernando Andreu.
What a shame !
Celui-
ci a lancé une procédure pour génocide contre le Président rwandais Paul Kag
ame et 39 autres responsables de son armée qu’il accuse d’avoir procédé à l’extermination systématique de l’ethnie hutu entre 1994 et 2000.
Since 1994, the world witnesses the horrifying Tutsi minority (14%) ethnic domination, the Tutsi minority ethnic rule, tyranny and corruption in Rwanda.
The current government has been characterized by the total impunity of RPF criminals, the Tutsi economic monopoly, the Tutsi militaristic domination, and the brutal suppression of the rights of the majority (85% Hutus) of the Rwandan people by the RPF criminal organization.
Des agents secrets rwandais ont donné de l'argent pour commettre l’attentat.
L'ex agent de Kagame a prêté serment en tant que témoin protégé à cause des risques pour sa vie que peut impliquer son témoignage. Selon des sources judiciaires, le témoin a livré des détails importants concernant l’ingérence rwandaise au Congo pendant les dernières 14 années.
Le dernier épisode de cette tension est la rébellion tutsi animée par le Congrès National pour la Défense du Peuple (CNDP) dirigé par le général tutsi Laurent N’Kunda. Selon un rapport examiné lundi par le Conseil de Sécurité de l'ONU, le Rwanda joue un rôle fondamental dans ce conflit, en prenant part au recrutement des troupes et en fournissant l’équipement militaire ; il a également fourni des fonctionnaires pour la région du Nord Kivu, où la rébellion a provoqué jusqu'à présent la fuite de 250.000 personnes. Kagame, le président rwandais, nie tout systématiquement.
Le témoin qui s’est présenté au bureau du juge Andreu le mois dernier, a donné des détails, selon lesquels, il y a presque huit ans, des agents secrets au service du Gouvernement rwandais, dirigé par le tutsi Kagame, chef du Front Patriotique Rwandais (FPR), ont donné de l'argent à des personnes proches du président Laurent Kabila pour organiser l’attentat. Ces mêmes agents au service de Kagame, se sont engagés à faciliter l’exfiltration des conjurés vers des pays européens pour éviter des représailles après le meurtre.
Le même Gouvernement qui a certainement (financé l’assassinat de Kabila – auquel a succédé son fils Joseph – l’avait installé au pouvoir cinq ans auparavant, après la guerre de 1996 qui a mis un terme la dictature de Mobutu Sese Seko.
Le Rwanda avait alors appuyé financièrement le mouvement dont il était président, l'Alliance des Forces Démocratiques pour la Libération du Congo-Zaire (AFDL). La confrontation entre les anciens alliés s'est produite, selon le témoin, lorsque Kabila, une fois au pouvoir, a rompu avec les cadres militaires tutsis qui l'avaient aidé et entamé des contacts commerciaux avec la Russie, la Chine et le Vénézuéla pour la vente de matières premières comme l'or ou le coltan.
Pendant la campagne militaire qui a conduit Kabila au pouvoir, selon le témoin protégé, le Rwanda a poursuivi une stratégie d'élimination systématique de la population hutu qui avait fui son pays et trouvé refuge dans les camps du Nord et du Sud Kivu après la prise du pouvoir à Kigali par l’Armée Patriotique Rwandaise.
Le principal objectif de ce plan, a déclaré l'ex agent secret, était « de tuer le plus grand nombre possible de hutus » ou « leur rapatriement au Rwanda pour être emprisonnés ». Lors des opérations militaires aveugles contre les camps de réfugiés on est allé jusqu’à utiliser un « armement lourd ».
Ceux qui ont pu échapper aux massacres, ont été poursuivis dans leur fuite vers l'ouest du Congo en passant par les villes de Kisangani et d'Ubundu jusqu'à Mbandaka, la frontière occidentale du pays, où des centaines d’entre eux ont été massacrés en 1997.
By UEL ALTOZANO
Un ex agent des services secrets du Rwanda témoigne à propos de l’implication de son Gouvernement dans le meurtre de Kabila
Madrid - Un témoin protégé dévoile, devant l’Audition Nationale, le plan d’assassiner le chef d’état congolais en 2001
Traduit de l'espagnol)
L'attentat qui a mis un terme à la vie de Laurent-Desiré Kabila, ex président de la République Démocratique du Congo (RDC) assassiné par l’un de ses gardes du corps le 16 janvier 2001, a été organisé et financé par le Gouvernement du Rwanda comme l’a déclaré un ex haut responsable des services secrets rwandais devant le juge de l'Audition Nationale Fernando Andreu.
What a shame !
Celui-
ci a lancé une procédure pour génocide contre le Président rwandais Paul Kag
ame et 39 autres responsables de son armée qu’il accuse d’avoir procédé à l’extermination systématique de l’ethnie hutu entre 1994 et 2000.Since 1994, the world witnesses the horrifying Tutsi minority (14%) ethnic domination, the Tutsi minority ethnic rule, tyranny and corruption in Rwanda.
The current government has been characterized by the total impunity of RPF criminals, the Tutsi economic monopoly, the Tutsi militaristic domination, and the brutal suppression of the rights of the majority (85% Hutus) of the Rwandan people by the RPF criminal organization.
Des agents secrets rwandais ont donné de l'argent pour commettre l’attentat.
L'ex agent de Kagame a prêté serment en tant que témoin protégé à cause des risques pour sa vie que peut impliquer son témoignage. Selon des sources judiciaires, le témoin a livré des détails importants concernant l’ingérence rwandaise au Congo pendant les dernières 14 années.
Le dernier épisode de cette tension est la rébellion tutsi animée par le Congrès National pour la Défense du Peuple (CNDP) dirigé par le général tutsi Laurent N’Kunda. Selon un rapport examiné lundi par le Conseil de Sécurité de l'ONU, le Rwanda joue un rôle fondamental dans ce conflit, en prenant part au recrutement des troupes et en fournissant l’équipement militaire ; il a également fourni des fonctionnaires pour la région du Nord Kivu, où la rébellion a provoqué jusqu'à présent la fuite de 250.000 personnes. Kagame, le président rwandais, nie tout systématiquement.
Le témoin qui s’est présenté au bureau du juge Andreu le mois dernier, a donné des détails, selon lesquels, il y a presque huit ans, des agents secrets au service du Gouvernement rwandais, dirigé par le tutsi Kagame, chef du Front Patriotique Rwandais (FPR), ont donné de l'argent à des personnes proches du président Laurent Kabila pour organiser l’attentat. Ces mêmes agents au service de Kagame, se sont engagés à faciliter l’exfiltration des conjurés vers des pays européens pour éviter des représailles après le meurtre.
Le même Gouvernement qui a certainement (financé l’assassinat de Kabila – auquel a succédé son fils Joseph – l’avait installé au pouvoir cinq ans auparavant, après la guerre de 1996 qui a mis un terme la dictature de Mobutu Sese Seko.
Le Rwanda avait alors appuyé financièrement le mouvement dont il était président, l'Alliance des Forces Démocratiques pour la Libération du Congo-Zaire (AFDL). La confrontation entre les anciens alliés s'est produite, selon le témoin, lorsque Kabila, une fois au pouvoir, a rompu avec les cadres militaires tutsis qui l'avaient aidé et entamé des contacts commerciaux avec la Russie, la Chine et le Vénézuéla pour la vente de matières premières comme l'or ou le coltan.
Pendant la campagne militaire qui a conduit Kabila au pouvoir, selon le témoin protégé, le Rwanda a poursuivi une stratégie d'élimination systématique de la population hutu qui avait fui son pays et trouvé refuge dans les camps du Nord et du Sud Kivu après la prise du pouvoir à Kigali par l’Armée Patriotique Rwandaise.
Le principal objectif de ce plan, a déclaré l'ex agent secret, était « de tuer le plus grand nombre possible de hutus » ou « leur rapatriement au Rwanda pour être emprisonnés ». Lors des opérations militaires aveugles contre les camps de réfugiés on est allé jusqu’à utiliser un « armement lourd ».
Ceux qui ont pu échapper aux massacres, ont été poursuivis dans leur fuite vers l'ouest du Congo en passant par les villes de Kisangani et d'Ubundu jusqu'à Mbandaka, la frontière occidentale du pays, où des centaines d’entre eux ont été massacrés en 1997.
Dans cette campagne aux relents génocidaires, ont perdu la vie les missionnaires maristes espagnols Julio Rodriguez, Fernando de la Fuente, Miguél Ángel Isla et Servando Mayor qui travaillaient au camp de réfugiés de Nyamirangwe qui abritait 30.000 hutus.
Deux agents secrets rwandais ont été cités comme témoins de leur exécution par un commando de cinq personnes, afin que les missionnaires « ne puissent pas dénoncer les massacres perpétrés par les troupes rwandaises », selon le témoignage de l'ex agent secret rwandais. Un des membres de ce commando, est l’actuel Général Eric Murokore, aux ordres du chef de la rébellion tutsi Laurent N’Kunda.
MANUEL ALTOZANO - Madrid - 21/12/2008 El Pais
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The Truth can be buried and stomped into the ground where none can see, yet eventually it will, like a seed, break through the surface once again far more potent than ever, and Nothing can stop it. Truth can be suppressed for a "time", yet It cannot be destroyed. ==> Wolverine
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, September 2, 2009
02-09-2009By Prof. Peter Erlinder
[CM/P continues to support President Obama despite all the seeming insults to the intelligence of his constituency--and to History, itself.
The appointments of Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton and Richard Holbrooke--to name just three--are hard unto impossible to explain except as reflexes of a deeply decadant and savagely anti-democratic system for the administration of such a large and powerful nation.
[CM/P continues to support President Obama despite all the seeming insults to the intelligence of his constituency--and to History, itself.
The appointments of Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton and Richard Holbrooke--to name just three--are hard unto impossible to explain except as reflexes of a deeply decadant and savagely anti-democratic system for the administration of such a large and powerful nation.
Biden, like so many other good working-class American Catholics, was a rabid supporter of the illegal secession from the Yugoslav Socialist Federation in 1991 of the revived Fascist Croatian Free State (and the cannonization of the Ustashi's own Arch-Bishop Stepinac);
Clinton, like so many other sentimental feminists (Eve Ensler and Ben Affleck also come to mind), did yeo(wo)man's work in arranging important financial incentives for making rape (of women and children, one supposes, though this crime has recently claimed victims among fighting-age males in Congo), which has always been a crime in every nation on the planet, into a war crime, a crime against Humanity and even an act of genocide (Ms Clinton got a $600K reward together that brought such an indictment from the ICTR against the Former Rwandan Women's Development and Family Welfare Minister, Pauline Nyiramasuhuko, see p://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/419850.stm);
and Holbrooke, like all noble knights errant of the financial round table, almost single handedly from his broker's chair at Credit Suiss First Boston, broke into the privileged trade relations of the former Yugoslav Republics of Croatia and BiH, to insinuate therein the wasteful ministrations of Western investment banks, collected significant courtier's fees and service charges, and so raised the cost of living in these nominally socialist-administered political-economies that many chose suicide to paying outlandishly high energy prices for the same Russian feul they'd gotten pre-Dick at a third the price from YugoGaz when Slobodan Milosevic was heading that agency, just to help the Holbrookes with the rent on their Eastside Manhattan coop.
Maybe these appointments can be written off as corrupt Clinton-era legacies--or just further murky reflections in an ever-more degenerating and putrescent US social service employees pool. But President Obama's recent appointment of Stephen Rapp as his Ambassador for War Crimes, replacing Pierre Prosper--coming as it does at this critical moment in the writing of recent military history in Africa and elsewhere, and having as much or as little as it does of Obama's own political volition behind it--can only exacerbate an already morbidly ill US foreign policy, especially where the vast, rich and strategically essential African continent is concerned.
We won't blame Obama for this selection, yet another set back for Historical Truth and Justice; but we will come in as hot as we can to bring out the evidence of its folly. For after all, as Prof Erlinder, a great and good fighter in our cause, mentioned in a personal email: --I "like" Obama too, and would much rather shoot hoops with him, than cut brush with Bush ... but, we now have the smartest, most likeable and most competent captain that the Titanic has ever had. ....
But he does not own the ship, does not determine the ports of call, has already demonstrated that "first class" gets the lifeboats and, even though he hears us yelling down in steerage--and was once down here himself-- ..... we are not a priority for the "Cunard Line" mukimuks that pay his salary.
More importantly, no matter how hard he pulls on the wheel .... when allowed to ..... the course of the ship was set long ago, and .... the iceberg is still looming in the darkness.-- Wow, whadda buzz-kill, huh. Man, let's all just pull up a deck chair, kick back, ice up those cocktails (there's a whole lot a fresh ice right off the port bow), and see what the band'll play next. You think they know Louie, Louie? --mc]
Former Chief UN Rwanda Prosecutor Carla Del Ponte: “Obama War Crimes Ambassador Complicit in War Crimes Cover-up.” Does Obama Know? ….or Care? by Prof. Peter Erlinder In mid-July, the NY Times reported that the Obama administration had selected Stephen Rapp to replace Pierre Prosper, the Bush administration’s Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes.
A former Iowa U.S. Attorney, and Democrat politico, Rapp began his international career at the UN Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda in 2001, while Carla Del Ponte was Chief Prosecutor. In Del Ponte’s 2008 memoir, Madam Prosecutor: Confronting Humanity’s Worst Criminals and the Culture of Impunity, translated into English in early 2009, Del Ponte explains how she was removed from her ICTR position in 2003 by U.S. Ambassador Prosper, himself, because she refused to cooperate with a U.S.-initiated “cover-up” of war crimes committed by the current Rwandan government during the 1994 “Rwandan Genocide.”
According to Del Ponte, the ICTR Prosecutor had the evidence long before 2003 to prosecute Kagame for “touching-off” the Rwanda Genocide by ordering the assassination of Rwanda’s sitting President Juvenal Habyarimana. Her book also details dozens of massacre sites involving thousands of victims for which the Kagame government and military should be prosecuted.
The well-publicized canard, that “the identity of the assassins is unknown” is a bald-faced lie, known to all ICTR senior prosecutors, according to Ms. Del Ponte. Two years after Del Ponte was removed from office, Rapp became “Chief” of ICTR Prosecutions with access to all of the evidence known to Ms. Del Ponte, and more.
During his four years at the ICTR, Rapp also was in a position to prosecute Kagame and members of the current government of Rwanda, but, to this date, not ONE member of Kagame’s military has been prosecuted at the ICTR … and the “cover-up” continues to this day. Unlike, Ms. Del Ponte, Mr. Rapp was rewarded with an appointment as Chief Prosecutor at the U.S.-funded Sierra Leone Tribunal and, now, with a coveted ambassadorship.
Former Chief ICTR Prosecutor Del Ponte Details ICTR “Cover-up” According to Del Ponte, in May 2003 she was called to Washington D.C. by Prosper (ironically, also a former ICTR prosecutor with knowledge of Kagame’s crimes) who informed her that the U.S. would remove her from her UN post if she carried through with her publicly announced plans to indict Kagame and members of his government and military.
According to Del Ponte, when she refused to knuckle-under because “she worked for the UN, not for the U.S,” Prosper told her her ICTR career was over. True to his threat, by October, Del Ponte was replaced by a US-approved ICTR prosecutor, Hassan Abubacar Jallow. Stephen Rapp was elevated to Chief of Prosecution by Jallow two years later.
ICTR Trials: More Evidence of Rwanda Crimes Cover-Up Del Ponte’s revelations are not the only evidence that a U.S. initiated “ICTR cover-up” is creating impunity for crimes committed by Kagame and his military. Memos from September 10, 1994, in evidence in the ICTR Military-1 Trial, confirm that U.S. Secretary of State Warren Christopher was informed that Kagame’s troops were killing “10,000 civilians a month” in military-style, according to an investigation funded by USAID.
And, in early 1997, Chief ICTR Investigative Prosecutor and former Australian Crown Prosecutor Michael Hourigan; former FBI Agent James Lyons; and former UN-Chief of Military Intelligence in Rwanda, Amadou Deme: all reported to Ms. Del Ponte’s predecessor, Louise Arbour, that Kagame should be prosecuted for assassinating the previous president.
Arbour scuttled the investigation, suppressed the report and disbanded the investigative team. Shortly thereafter, Arbour was elevated to Canada’s Supreme Court and has recently been chosen to head the International Crisis Group, after an illustrious UN career. Former ICTR Prosecutor Rapp Complicit in Cover-up.
Clinton, like so many other sentimental feminists (Eve Ensler and Ben Affleck also come to mind), did yeo(wo)man's work in arranging important financial incentives for making rape (of women and children, one supposes, though this crime has recently claimed victims among fighting-age males in Congo), which has always been a crime in every nation on the planet, into a war crime, a crime against Humanity and even an act of genocide (Ms Clinton got a $600K reward together that brought such an indictment from the ICTR against the Former Rwandan Women's Development and Family Welfare Minister, Pauline Nyiramasuhuko, see p://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/419850.stm);
and Holbrooke, like all noble knights errant of the financial round table, almost single handedly from his broker's chair at Credit Suiss First Boston, broke into the privileged trade relations of the former Yugoslav Republics of Croatia and BiH, to insinuate therein the wasteful ministrations of Western investment banks, collected significant courtier's fees and service charges, and so raised the cost of living in these nominally socialist-administered political-economies that many chose suicide to paying outlandishly high energy prices for the same Russian feul they'd gotten pre-Dick at a third the price from YugoGaz when Slobodan Milosevic was heading that agency, just to help the Holbrookes with the rent on their Eastside Manhattan coop.
Maybe these appointments can be written off as corrupt Clinton-era legacies--or just further murky reflections in an ever-more degenerating and putrescent US social service employees pool. But President Obama's recent appointment of Stephen Rapp as his Ambassador for War Crimes, replacing Pierre Prosper--coming as it does at this critical moment in the writing of recent military history in Africa and elsewhere, and having as much or as little as it does of Obama's own political volition behind it--can only exacerbate an already morbidly ill US foreign policy, especially where the vast, rich and strategically essential African continent is concerned.
We won't blame Obama for this selection, yet another set back for Historical Truth and Justice; but we will come in as hot as we can to bring out the evidence of its folly. For after all, as Prof Erlinder, a great and good fighter in our cause, mentioned in a personal email: --I "like" Obama too, and would much rather shoot hoops with him, than cut brush with Bush ... but, we now have the smartest, most likeable and most competent captain that the Titanic has ever had. ....
But he does not own the ship, does not determine the ports of call, has already demonstrated that "first class" gets the lifeboats and, even though he hears us yelling down in steerage--and was once down here himself-- ..... we are not a priority for the "Cunard Line" mukimuks that pay his salary.
More importantly, no matter how hard he pulls on the wheel .... when allowed to ..... the course of the ship was set long ago, and .... the iceberg is still looming in the darkness.-- Wow, whadda buzz-kill, huh. Man, let's all just pull up a deck chair, kick back, ice up those cocktails (there's a whole lot a fresh ice right off the port bow), and see what the band'll play next. You think they know Louie, Louie? --mc]
Former Chief UN Rwanda Prosecutor Carla Del Ponte: “Obama War Crimes Ambassador Complicit in War Crimes Cover-up.” Does Obama Know? ….or Care? by Prof. Peter Erlinder In mid-July, the NY Times reported that the Obama administration had selected Stephen Rapp to replace Pierre Prosper, the Bush administration’s Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes.
A former Iowa U.S. Attorney, and Democrat politico, Rapp began his international career at the UN Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda in 2001, while Carla Del Ponte was Chief Prosecutor. In Del Ponte’s 2008 memoir, Madam Prosecutor: Confronting Humanity’s Worst Criminals and the Culture of Impunity, translated into English in early 2009, Del Ponte explains how she was removed from her ICTR position in 2003 by U.S. Ambassador Prosper, himself, because she refused to cooperate with a U.S.-initiated “cover-up” of war crimes committed by the current Rwandan government during the 1994 “Rwandan Genocide.”
According to Del Ponte, the ICTR Prosecutor had the evidence long before 2003 to prosecute Kagame for “touching-off” the Rwanda Genocide by ordering the assassination of Rwanda’s sitting President Juvenal Habyarimana. Her book also details dozens of massacre sites involving thousands of victims for which the Kagame government and military should be prosecuted.
The well-publicized canard, that “the identity of the assassins is unknown” is a bald-faced lie, known to all ICTR senior prosecutors, according to Ms. Del Ponte. Two years after Del Ponte was removed from office, Rapp became “Chief” of ICTR Prosecutions with access to all of the evidence known to Ms. Del Ponte, and more.
During his four years at the ICTR, Rapp also was in a position to prosecute Kagame and members of the current government of Rwanda, but, to this date, not ONE member of Kagame’s military has been prosecuted at the ICTR … and the “cover-up” continues to this day. Unlike, Ms. Del Ponte, Mr. Rapp was rewarded with an appointment as Chief Prosecutor at the U.S.-funded Sierra Leone Tribunal and, now, with a coveted ambassadorship.
Former Chief ICTR Prosecutor Del Ponte Details ICTR “Cover-up” According to Del Ponte, in May 2003 she was called to Washington D.C. by Prosper (ironically, also a former ICTR prosecutor with knowledge of Kagame’s crimes) who informed her that the U.S. would remove her from her UN post if she carried through with her publicly announced plans to indict Kagame and members of his government and military.
According to Del Ponte, when she refused to knuckle-under because “she worked for the UN, not for the U.S,” Prosper told her her ICTR career was over. True to his threat, by October, Del Ponte was replaced by a US-approved ICTR prosecutor, Hassan Abubacar Jallow. Stephen Rapp was elevated to Chief of Prosecution by Jallow two years later.
ICTR Trials: More Evidence of Rwanda Crimes Cover-Up Del Ponte’s revelations are not the only evidence that a U.S. initiated “ICTR cover-up” is creating impunity for crimes committed by Kagame and his military. Memos from September 10, 1994, in evidence in the ICTR Military-1 Trial, confirm that U.S. Secretary of State Warren Christopher was informed that Kagame’s troops were killing “10,000 civilians a month” in military-style, according to an investigation funded by USAID.
And, in early 1997, Chief ICTR Investigative Prosecutor and former Australian Crown Prosecutor Michael Hourigan; former FBI Agent James Lyons; and former UN-Chief of Military Intelligence in Rwanda, Amadou Deme: all reported to Ms. Del Ponte’s predecessor, Louise Arbour, that Kagame should be prosecuted for assassinating the previous president.
Arbour scuttled the investigation, suppressed the report and disbanded the investigative team. Shortly thereafter, Arbour was elevated to Canada’s Supreme Court and has recently been chosen to head the International Crisis Group, after an illustrious UN career. Former ICTR Prosecutor Rapp Complicit in Cover-up.
But, even though Arbour suppressed the “Hourigan Report” it must have been known to Ms. Del Ponte, Mr. Rapp and other ICTR prosecutors, because ICTR judges had ordered the ICTR Prosecutor to release the “Hourigan report” which had already been released to a defense team as early as 2000, a year before Rapp began his ICTR work, and two years before Del Ponte was fired by Prosper.
Like Del Ponte, when Rapp became the ICTR Chief of Prosecutions under Jallow in 2005, he had access to all of the information necessary to prosecute Kagame and main figures in his military and government.
But to date, not one indictment has been issued against Kagame by the ICTR Prosecutor. Kagame & Co. Already Indicted in France and Spain Athough the U.S. has been successful in preventing Kagame’s crew from being indicted at the ICTR, other courts have indicted Kagame and members of his retinue.
But to date, not one indictment has been issued against Kagame by the ICTR Prosecutor. Kagame & Co. Already Indicted in France and Spain Athough the U.S. has been successful in preventing Kagame’s crew from being indicted at the ICTR, other courts have indicted Kagame and members of his retinue.
In late 2007, French Judge Jean-Louis Bruguière indicted the assassins of Habyarimana and recommended that Kagame be prosecuted by the ICTR. And, in February 2008, Spanish Judge Fernando Merelles issued a 180-page indictment specifically charging Kagame with Genocide, War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity, including the massacres of more than 300,000 civilians.
And Mr. Rapp’s former boss, Mr. Jallow, publicly admitted before the UN Security Council in spring 2008 that Kagame’s military is responsible for the assassination of Rwanda’s Catholic leadership in 1994. But still no ICTR prosecutions.
The Consequences of the ICTR Cover-up of Kagame’s Crimes The tragic consequence of the failure to prosecute Kagame at the ICTR, from 1994 to-date, is that Kagame was free to invade Congo in 1996 and 1998, and is currently occupying a part of eastern Congo 14-times larger than Rwanda.
No less than four UN Security Counsel-commissioned Panel of Experts Report(s) on the Illegal Exploitation of the DR Congo (2001, 2002, 2003 and December 2008) have detailed the massive rape of the Congo’s resources that has brought vast riches to Kagame and his inner circle. Since the first invasion in 1996, Kagame’s Congo invasions have been responsible for more than 5-million deaths, more every few months than the total alleged to have died in Darfur, crimes for which Sudanese President Bashir, a figure disfavored by the U.S., has been indicted by the ICC.
While Rapp was ICTR Senior Trial Attorney and Chief of Prosecutions, Kagame was effectively elected President-for-Life with 95% of the vote, after banning opposition parties and jailing opponents, in “a climate of intimidation” according to EU observers.
According to the Economist report on the 10th Anniversary of the “genocide” in 2004: “[Kagame] tolerates no serious domestic opposition, nor much in the way of free speech. Rwanda today is a thinly-disguised autocracy, where dissidents are usually accused of genocidal tendencies, live in fear, or exile, or both. The regime is a threat to its neighbors.
ICTR Chief of Prosecutions Rapp Personally Withheld Exculpatory Evidence from Defense Counsel and ICTR Judges As if this wasn’t enough, in February 2009, the ICTR issued its Judgement in the Military-1 case, the main case at the ICTR, in which Mr. Rapp personally appeared for the Prosecution.
Although massive violence did occur in Rwanda, the court certainly recognized that blaming only one side WAS a falsehood, when it acquitted all of the “architects of the killing machine” (as Mr. Rapp called the defendants in court) of conspiracy or planning to kill civilians. The highest ranking military-officer was acquitted of all charges.
And, although it is now clear from Ms. Del Ponte’s memoirs that Mr. Rapp had the evidence that would clear the defendants of the assassination charges and that both sides had committed crimes, for which the losing side has been blamed entirely.
Simply put, Mr. Rapp and other ICTR prosecutors have: withheld evidence at the ICTR that would be beneficial to the defense; prosecuted defendants for crimes they knew were committed by Kagame and the RPF; and created a system of “judicial impunity” that has permitted Kagame to kill millions in the eastern Congo.
All of which raises the uncomfortable question regarding President Obama’s nomination of Mr. Rapp: Are his advisors ignorant of the public record regarding Rapp’s complicity in an ICTR Cover-up? … or does Obama just not give a damn?
Prof. Peter Erlinder
And Mr. Rapp’s former boss, Mr. Jallow, publicly admitted before the UN Security Council in spring 2008 that Kagame’s military is responsible for the assassination of Rwanda’s Catholic leadership in 1994. But still no ICTR prosecutions.
The Consequences of the ICTR Cover-up of Kagame’s Crimes The tragic consequence of the failure to prosecute Kagame at the ICTR, from 1994 to-date, is that Kagame was free to invade Congo in 1996 and 1998, and is currently occupying a part of eastern Congo 14-times larger than Rwanda.
No less than four UN Security Counsel-commissioned Panel of Experts Report(s) on the Illegal Exploitation of the DR Congo (2001, 2002, 2003 and December 2008) have detailed the massive rape of the Congo’s resources that has brought vast riches to Kagame and his inner circle. Since the first invasion in 1996, Kagame’s Congo invasions have been responsible for more than 5-million deaths, more every few months than the total alleged to have died in Darfur, crimes for which Sudanese President Bashir, a figure disfavored by the U.S., has been indicted by the ICC.
While Rapp was ICTR Senior Trial Attorney and Chief of Prosecutions, Kagame was effectively elected President-for-Life with 95% of the vote, after banning opposition parties and jailing opponents, in “a climate of intimidation” according to EU observers.
According to the Economist report on the 10th Anniversary of the “genocide” in 2004: “[Kagame] tolerates no serious domestic opposition, nor much in the way of free speech. Rwanda today is a thinly-disguised autocracy, where dissidents are usually accused of genocidal tendencies, live in fear, or exile, or both. The regime is a threat to its neighbors.
ICTR Chief of Prosecutions Rapp Personally Withheld Exculpatory Evidence from Defense Counsel and ICTR Judges As if this wasn’t enough, in February 2009, the ICTR issued its Judgement in the Military-1 case, the main case at the ICTR, in which Mr. Rapp personally appeared for the Prosecution.
Although massive violence did occur in Rwanda, the court certainly recognized that blaming only one side WAS a falsehood, when it acquitted all of the “architects of the killing machine” (as Mr. Rapp called the defendants in court) of conspiracy or planning to kill civilians. The highest ranking military-officer was acquitted of all charges.
And, although it is now clear from Ms. Del Ponte’s memoirs that Mr. Rapp had the evidence that would clear the defendants of the assassination charges and that both sides had committed crimes, for which the losing side has been blamed entirely.
Simply put, Mr. Rapp and other ICTR prosecutors have: withheld evidence at the ICTR that would be beneficial to the defense; prosecuted defendants for crimes they knew were committed by Kagame and the RPF; and created a system of “judicial impunity” that has permitted Kagame to kill millions in the eastern Congo.
All of which raises the uncomfortable question regarding President Obama’s nomination of Mr. Rapp: Are his advisors ignorant of the public record regarding Rapp’s complicity in an ICTR Cover-up? … or does Obama just not give a damn?
Prof. Peter Erlinder
Wm. Mitchell College of Law
St. Paul, MN 55105
Former Chief UN Rwanda Prosecutor Carla Del Ponte: “Obama War Crimes Ambassador Complicit in War Crimes Cover-up.” Does Obama Know? ….or Care? by Prof. Peter Erlinder In mid-July, the NY Times reported that the Obama administration had selected Stephen Rapp to replace Pierre Prosper, the Bush administration’s Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes.
A former Iowa U.S. Attorney, and Democrat politico, Rapp began his international career at the UN Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda in 2001, while Carla Del Ponte was Chief Prosecutor. In Del Ponte’s 2008 memoir, Madam Prosecutor: Confronting Humanity’s Worst Criminals and the Culture of Impunity, translated into English in early 2009, Del Ponte explains how she was removed from her ICTR position in 2003 by U.S. Ambassador Prosper, himself, because she refused to cooperate with a U.S.-initiated “cover-up” of war crimes committed by the current Rwandan government during the 1994 “Rwandan Genocide.”
According to Del Ponte, the ICTR Prosecutor had the evidence long before 2003 to prosecute Kagame for “touching-off” the Rwanda Genocide by ordering the assassination of Rwanda’s sitting President Juvenal Habyarimana.
Her book also details dozens of massacre sites involving thousands of victims for which the Kagame government and military should be prosecuted. The well-publicized canard, that “the identity of the assassins is unknown” is a bald-faced lie, known to all ICTR senior prosecutors, according to Ms. Del Ponte. Two years after Del Ponte was removed from office, Rapp became “Chief” of ICTR Prosecutions with access to all of the evidence known to Ms. Del Ponte, and more.
During his four years at the ICTR, Rapp also was in a position to prosecute Kagame and members of the current government of Rwanda, but, to this date, not ONE member of Kagame’s military has been prosecuted at the ICTR … and the “cover-up” continues to this day. Unlike, Ms. Del Ponte, Mr. Rapp was rewarded with an appointment as Chief Prosecutor at the U.S.-funded Sierra Leone Tribunal and, now, with a coveted ambassadorship.
Former Chief ICTR Prosecutor Del Ponte Details ICTR “Cover-up” According to Del Ponte, in May 2003 she was called to Washington D.C. by Prosper (ironically, also a former ICTR prosecutor with knowledge of Kagame’s crimes) who informed her that the U.S. would remove her from her UN post if she carried through with her publicly announced plans to indict Kagame and members of his government and military.
According to Del Ponte, when she refused to knuckle-under because “she worked for the UN, not for the U.S,” Prosper told her her ICTR career was over. True to his threat, by October, Del Ponte was replaced by a US-approved ICTR prosecutor, Hassan Abubacar Jallow. Stephen Rapp was elevated to Chief of Prosecution by Jallow two years later.
ICTR Trials: More Evidence of Rwanda Crimes Cover-Up Del Ponte’s revelations are not the only evidence that a U.S. initiated “ICTR cover-up” is creating impunity for crimes committed by Kagame and his military. Memos from September 10, 1994, in evidence in the ICTR Military-1 Trial, confirm that U.S. Secretary of State Warren Christopher was informed that Kagame’s troops were killing “10,000 civilians a month” in military-style, according to an investigation funded by USAID.
And, in early 1997, Chief ICTR Investigative Prosecutor and former Australian Crown Prosecutor Michael Hourigan; former FBI Agent James Lyons; and former UN-Chief of Military Intelligence in Rwanda, Amadou Deme: all reported to Ms. Del Ponte’s predecessor, Louise Arbour, that Kagame should be prosecuted for assassinating the previous president. Arbour scuttled the investigation, suppressed the report and disbanded the investigative team.
Shortly thereafter, Arbour was elevated to Canada’s Supreme Court and has recently been chosen to head the International Crisis Group, after an illustrious UN career.
Former ICTR Prosecutor Rapp Complicit in Cover-up But, even though Arbour suppressed the “Hourigan Report” it must have been known to Ms. Del Ponte, Mr. Rapp and other ICTR prosecutors, because ICTR judges had ordered the ICTR Prosecutor to release the “Hourigan report” which had already been released to a defense team as early as 2000, a year before Rapp began his ICTR work, and two years before Del Ponte was fired by Prosper.
St. Paul, MN 55105
Former Chief UN Rwanda Prosecutor Carla Del Ponte: “Obama War Crimes Ambassador Complicit in War Crimes Cover-up.” Does Obama Know? ….or Care? by Prof. Peter Erlinder In mid-July, the NY Times reported that the Obama administration had selected Stephen Rapp to replace Pierre Prosper, the Bush administration’s Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes.
A former Iowa U.S. Attorney, and Democrat politico, Rapp began his international career at the UN Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda in 2001, while Carla Del Ponte was Chief Prosecutor. In Del Ponte’s 2008 memoir, Madam Prosecutor: Confronting Humanity’s Worst Criminals and the Culture of Impunity, translated into English in early 2009, Del Ponte explains how she was removed from her ICTR position in 2003 by U.S. Ambassador Prosper, himself, because she refused to cooperate with a U.S.-initiated “cover-up” of war crimes committed by the current Rwandan government during the 1994 “Rwandan Genocide.”
According to Del Ponte, the ICTR Prosecutor had the evidence long before 2003 to prosecute Kagame for “touching-off” the Rwanda Genocide by ordering the assassination of Rwanda’s sitting President Juvenal Habyarimana.
Her book also details dozens of massacre sites involving thousands of victims for which the Kagame government and military should be prosecuted. The well-publicized canard, that “the identity of the assassins is unknown” is a bald-faced lie, known to all ICTR senior prosecutors, according to Ms. Del Ponte. Two years after Del Ponte was removed from office, Rapp became “Chief” of ICTR Prosecutions with access to all of the evidence known to Ms. Del Ponte, and more.
During his four years at the ICTR, Rapp also was in a position to prosecute Kagame and members of the current government of Rwanda, but, to this date, not ONE member of Kagame’s military has been prosecuted at the ICTR … and the “cover-up” continues to this day. Unlike, Ms. Del Ponte, Mr. Rapp was rewarded with an appointment as Chief Prosecutor at the U.S.-funded Sierra Leone Tribunal and, now, with a coveted ambassadorship.
Former Chief ICTR Prosecutor Del Ponte Details ICTR “Cover-up” According to Del Ponte, in May 2003 she was called to Washington D.C. by Prosper (ironically, also a former ICTR prosecutor with knowledge of Kagame’s crimes) who informed her that the U.S. would remove her from her UN post if she carried through with her publicly announced plans to indict Kagame and members of his government and military.
According to Del Ponte, when she refused to knuckle-under because “she worked for the UN, not for the U.S,” Prosper told her her ICTR career was over. True to his threat, by October, Del Ponte was replaced by a US-approved ICTR prosecutor, Hassan Abubacar Jallow. Stephen Rapp was elevated to Chief of Prosecution by Jallow two years later.
ICTR Trials: More Evidence of Rwanda Crimes Cover-Up Del Ponte’s revelations are not the only evidence that a U.S. initiated “ICTR cover-up” is creating impunity for crimes committed by Kagame and his military. Memos from September 10, 1994, in evidence in the ICTR Military-1 Trial, confirm that U.S. Secretary of State Warren Christopher was informed that Kagame’s troops were killing “10,000 civilians a month” in military-style, according to an investigation funded by USAID.
And, in early 1997, Chief ICTR Investigative Prosecutor and former Australian Crown Prosecutor Michael Hourigan; former FBI Agent James Lyons; and former UN-Chief of Military Intelligence in Rwanda, Amadou Deme: all reported to Ms. Del Ponte’s predecessor, Louise Arbour, that Kagame should be prosecuted for assassinating the previous president. Arbour scuttled the investigation, suppressed the report and disbanded the investigative team.
Shortly thereafter, Arbour was elevated to Canada’s Supreme Court and has recently been chosen to head the International Crisis Group, after an illustrious UN career.
Former ICTR Prosecutor Rapp Complicit in Cover-up But, even though Arbour suppressed the “Hourigan Report” it must have been known to Ms. Del Ponte, Mr. Rapp and other ICTR prosecutors, because ICTR judges had ordered the ICTR Prosecutor to release the “Hourigan report” which had already been released to a defense team as early as 2000, a year before Rapp began his ICTR work, and two years before Del Ponte was fired by Prosper.
Like Del Ponte, when Rapp became the ICTR Chief of Prosecutions under Jallow in 2005, he had access to all of the information necessary to prosecute Kagame and main figures in his military and government. But to date, not one indictment has been issued against Kagame by the ICTR Prosecutor.
Kagame & Co. Already Indicted in France and Spain Athough the U.S. has been successful in preventing Kagame’s crew from being indicted at the ICTR, other courts have indicted Kagame and members of his retinue. In late 2007, French Judge Jean-Louis Bruguière indicted the assassins of Habyarimana and recommended that Kagame be prosecuted by the ICTR.
And, in February 2008, Spanish Judge Fernando Merelles issued a 180-page indictment specifically charging Kagame with Genocide, War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity, including the massacres of more than 300,000 civilians.
And Mr. Rapp’s former boss, Mr. Jallow, publicly admitted before the UN Security Council in spring 2008 that Kagame’s military is responsible for the assassination of Rwanda’s Catholic leadership in 1994. But still no ICTR prosecutions.
The Consequences of the ICTR Cover-up of Kagame’s Crimes The tragic consequence of the failure to prosecute Kagame at the ICTR, from 1994 to-date, is that Kagame was free to invade Congo in 1996 and 1998, and is currently occupying a part of eastern Congo 14-times larger than Rwanda.
No less than four UN Security Counsel-commissioned Panel of Experts Report(s) on the Illegal Exploitation of the DR Congo (2001, 2002, 2003 and December 2008) have detailed the massive rape of the Congo’s resources that has brought vast riches to Kagame and his inner circle.
Since the first invasion in 1996, Kagame’s Congo invasions have been responsible for more than 5-million deaths, more every few months than the total alleged to have died in Darfur, crimes for which Sudanese President Bashir, a figure disfavored by the U.S., has been indicted by the ICC.
While Rapp was ICTR Senior Trial Attorney and Chief of Prosecutions, Kagame was effectively elected President-for-Life with 95% of the vote, after banning opposition parties and jailing opponents, in “a climate of intimidation” according to EU observers.
According to the Economist report on the 10th Anniversary of the “genocide” in 2004: “[Kagame] tolerates no serious domestic opposition, nor much in the way of free speech. Rwanda today is a thinly-disguised autocracy, where dissidents are usually accused of genocidal tendencies, live in fear, or exile, or both. The regime is a threat to its neighbors.
Kagame & Co. Already Indicted in France and Spain Athough the U.S. has been successful in preventing Kagame’s crew from being indicted at the ICTR, other courts have indicted Kagame and members of his retinue. In late 2007, French Judge Jean-Louis Bruguière indicted the assassins of Habyarimana and recommended that Kagame be prosecuted by the ICTR.
And, in February 2008, Spanish Judge Fernando Merelles issued a 180-page indictment specifically charging Kagame with Genocide, War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity, including the massacres of more than 300,000 civilians.
And Mr. Rapp’s former boss, Mr. Jallow, publicly admitted before the UN Security Council in spring 2008 that Kagame’s military is responsible for the assassination of Rwanda’s Catholic leadership in 1994. But still no ICTR prosecutions.
The Consequences of the ICTR Cover-up of Kagame’s Crimes The tragic consequence of the failure to prosecute Kagame at the ICTR, from 1994 to-date, is that Kagame was free to invade Congo in 1996 and 1998, and is currently occupying a part of eastern Congo 14-times larger than Rwanda.
No less than four UN Security Counsel-commissioned Panel of Experts Report(s) on the Illegal Exploitation of the DR Congo (2001, 2002, 2003 and December 2008) have detailed the massive rape of the Congo’s resources that has brought vast riches to Kagame and his inner circle.
Since the first invasion in 1996, Kagame’s Congo invasions have been responsible for more than 5-million deaths, more every few months than the total alleged to have died in Darfur, crimes for which Sudanese President Bashir, a figure disfavored by the U.S., has been indicted by the ICC.
While Rapp was ICTR Senior Trial Attorney and Chief of Prosecutions, Kagame was effectively elected President-for-Life with 95% of the vote, after banning opposition parties and jailing opponents, in “a climate of intimidation” according to EU observers.
According to the Economist report on the 10th Anniversary of the “genocide” in 2004: “[Kagame] tolerates no serious domestic opposition, nor much in the way of free speech. Rwanda today is a thinly-disguised autocracy, where dissidents are usually accused of genocidal tendencies, live in fear, or exile, or both. The regime is a threat to its neighbors.
ICTR Chief of Prosecutions Rapp Personally Withheld Exculpatory Evidence from Defense Counsel and ICTR Judges As if this wasn’t enough, in February 2009, the ICTR issued its Judgement in the Military-1 case, the main case at the ICTR, in which Mr. Rapp personally appeared for the Prosecution.
Although massive violence did occur in Rwanda, the court certainly recognized that blaming only one side WAS a falsehood, when it acquitted all of the “architects of the killing machine” (as Mr. Rapp called the defendants in court) of conspiracy or planning to kill civilians.
The highest ranking military-officer was acquitted of all charges. And, although it is now clear from Ms. Del Ponte’s memoirs that Mr. Rapp had the evidence that would clear the defendants of the assassination charges and that both sides had committed crimes, for which the losing side has been blamed entirely.
Although massive violence did occur in Rwanda, the court certainly recognized that blaming only one side WAS a falsehood, when it acquitted all of the “architects of the killing machine” (as Mr. Rapp called the defendants in court) of conspiracy or planning to kill civilians.
The highest ranking military-officer was acquitted of all charges. And, although it is now clear from Ms. Del Ponte’s memoirs that Mr. Rapp had the evidence that would clear the defendants of the assassination charges and that both sides had committed crimes, for which the losing side has been blamed entirely.
Simply put, Mr. Rapp and other ICTR prosecutors have: withheld evidence at the ICTR that would be beneficial to the defense; prosecuted defendants for crimes they knew were committed by Kagame and the RPF; and created a system of “judicial impunity” that has permitted Kagame to kill millions in the eastern Congo.
All of which raises the uncomfortable question regarding President Obama’s nomination of Mr. Rapp: Are his advisors ignorant of the public record regarding Rapp’s complicity in an ICTR Cover-up? … or does Obama just not give a damn?
Prof. Peter Erlinder
Wm. Mitchell College of Law
St. Paul, MN 55105
All of which raises the uncomfortable question regarding President Obama’s nomination of Mr. Rapp: Are his advisors ignorant of the public record regarding Rapp’s complicity in an ICTR Cover-up? … or does Obama just not give a damn?
Prof. Peter Erlinder
Wm. Mitchell College of Law
St. Paul, MN 55105
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, September 1, 2009
01-09-2009SurViVors Human Rights Advocates would like to acknowledge and express their concerns to the UNHCR High Commissioner and his staff members for their tireless efforts to forcibly rapatriate Rwandan Hutu refugees in violation to the Humanitarian law and the Genenva conventions relating to the status of refugees.
"Everybody has the right to request asylum and to be informed of their rights". The UNHCR must stop every attempt to unload its responsibilities and international obligations on Hutu refugees.
Particularly serious is the UNHCR decision to hire those who work shoulder to shoulder with the Rwandan Tutsi-led goverment. Those UN corrupt employees are believed to fulfill the Tutsi-led government wishes namely making hard the hutu refugees life-conditions and facilitate their forcible repatriation to Rwanda, the country they fear for their lives.
The expulsion of these persons, without having adequately informed them of their right to request asylum,and without access to procedures for an eventual recognition of refugee status, is a breach of national and international law.
In particular it is a grave violation of the Geneva Convention, which in Article 33 sanctions the principle of "non-refoulement" (the principle of not refusing entry to those requesting asylum even if they happen to be born Hutu ethnic members).
SurViVors Human Rights Advocates urge the office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) to provide a written guarantee or proofs that it respects the Geneva Conventions on Hutu Refugees. Particularly serious is the decision to send back Hutu refugees to the Rwandan bloody dictatorship led by the Tutsi extremists.
Since 1994, the world witnesses the horrifying Tutsi minority (14%) ethnic domination, the Tutsi minority ethnic rule, tyranny and corruption in Rwanda. The current government has been characterized by the total impunity of RPF criminals, the Tutsi economic monopoly, the Tutsi militaristic domination, and the brutal suppression of the rights of the majority of the Rwandan people (85% are Hutus), by the RPF criminal organization.
© SurVivors Human Rights Advocates
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
"Everybody has the right to request asylum and to be informed of their rights". The UNHCR must stop every attempt to unload its responsibilities and international obligations on Hutu refugees.
Particularly serious is the UNHCR decision to hire those who work shoulder to shoulder with the Rwandan Tutsi-led goverment. Those UN corrupt employees are believed to fulfill the Tutsi-led government wishes namely making hard the hutu refugees life-conditions and facilitate their forcible repatriation to Rwanda, the country they fear for their lives.
The expulsion of these persons, without having adequately informed them of their right to request asylum,and without access to procedures for an eventual recognition of refugee status, is a breach of national and international law.
In particular it is a grave violation of the Geneva Convention, which in Article 33 sanctions the principle of "non-refoulement" (the principle of not refusing entry to those requesting asylum even if they happen to be born Hutu ethnic members).
SurViVors Human Rights Advocates urge the office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) to provide a written guarantee or proofs that it respects the Geneva Conventions on Hutu Refugees. Particularly serious is the decision to send back Hutu refugees to the Rwandan bloody dictatorship led by the Tutsi extremists.
While humanitarianism has always had a presence in international politics, it has never had the salience it possesses today particularly when Hutu refugees are abused... Threats are many for those countries refusing to extradate or forcibly repatriate hutu refugees.
In many African countries, the UNHCR break out the Geneva Conventions and take decisions regarding the forcible repatriation policy of Hutu refugees counciously knowing that the Rwandan Tutsi-led government has no respect for Human rights, that since 1994, this Tutsi-government has launched a massive witch-hunt for Hutus inside and outside of it ,those who refuse to adhere to the RPF mono ethnic party and ideology.
The UNHCR staff members’ attitude vis-à-vis the corruption and conspiracy inspired by the Tutsi-led government to harm and forcibly repatriate those Hutu refugees is no longer surprising.
On the other hand, It then goes on to show how the new humanitarianism is causing the erosion of the fundamental principles particularly when it concerns the Hutu refugees protection with negative consequences transforming the character and image of UNHCR.
The contrasting circumstances surrounding Hutu refugees’ crisis provide an opportunity to the world and Humanitarian organizations to show they are committed to peace and urge their country of origin to start negotiations with their representatives, the opponent political parties and the civil society in exile.
SurVivors Human Rights advocates urge the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and African countries authorities to reconsider any plan to forcibly repatriate Hutu refugees living in the those countries or living in holding centers who have not been given refugee status by the UNHCR.
According to reliable sources, Rwandan refugees who are forcibly repatriated face lengthy prison sentences, assassinations and other human rights abuses. The situation across the country is still dangerous for Hutu ethnic members particularly for those forcibly repatriated...
RPF military troops, local defense forces, DMI and other RPF clandestine organizations have started their dry season offensive on arbitrary arrests, imprisonment of those who are believed to recent repatriated.
According to many sources, the forcible repatriation is often covered by some pro-RPF media out of some European countries accusing the repatriated of having committed genocide in 1994. Thousands of Rwandans the mainly Hutus inside Rwanda are expected to flee the country because of incessant insecurity conditions, menaces that they are confronted on daily basis.
The Tutsi led government is demanding that those Hutu refugees be brought back to Rwanda. Instead of going back, they will go to other countries particularly to those who respect Human rights and thus where conditions are better.
THE NAMES OF RWANDAN REFUGEES DEPORTED BY UNHCR FROM GABON AND TORTURED BY RPF TO DEATH
Majority of these refugees who were deported by force by the UNHCR agency could not see the next millenium because of the brutal torture they had to undergo in the hands of RPF. The UNHCR sent its staff to Franceville headed by a lady known by only one name of Louise of a camerron origin.
Since she was presumably given some cash to sell the Rwandan Hutu Refugees, she went and sensibilized them saying I quote "Je ne peux pas vous repatrier au Rwanda car le Rwanda sous la leadership de Mr.Kagame est devenu un pay de l'holocauste" end of the quote.
Meaning that she could not want to repatriate us back to Rwanda because Rwanda under Kagame's leadership has become a country of holocaust. All hutu refugees in Franceville were very happy hoping the best from her hypocrasy.
But she was playing the tactic to catch all Hutu Refugees in Gabon without any hint that she wanted to take them back for butchery in Kagame's Abattoirs.The whole of July of 1997. The UNHCR hired a malian airplane which was taking Hutu Refugees from Franceville town of Gabon to Kigali International Airport.
On their arrival, therse refugees could be taken to triage chambers where all young people could be taken to torture chambers at Gikondo Industrial area. This people underwent inhumane treatment. According to my fomer schoolmate who were among this Hutu refugees repatriated by force by UNHCR, he told me that they were degraded to the level that they were fed on the human waste because of hunger.
He told as the tears were freely flowing on his both chicks, "Man,it is like apocalypse inside the Godowns of Gikondo.The RPF soldiers could come and start squeezing our male genital parts, to the ladies they could rape them and put red pepper in their private parts.
It was a harrowing moment, only God,my mother and I could believe what I am telling you, otherwise"....then he stopped as he was interrupted by tears which were flowing like water slops from Mt Karisimbi.
I continued carrying out some amateur research since I wanted to unveil what happened to these people who were given out as sacrifices by the people who were supposed to protect them,mainly UNHCR,the International Communiy,and the Gabon Governemnt, which used to claim to be friends of the late President Habyalimana.
I came across a mother of one of the people who lost their lives in the Gikondo torture chambers. She was from Gisenyi Prefecture which is in the Northwest of Rwanda. This list contained around 50 names of different young men and women who died from torture of all nature. Some of these name are as follow:
1. Iyaremwe Daniel (Gaseke-Gisenyi) died the 14.01.1998
2. Uwimana Evariste (Kivumu-Kibuye) died the 03.02.1998
3. Nzarora Theogene (Kibali-Byumba) died the 09.02.1998
4. Sadiki Ntawumenya (Rubavu-Gisenyi) died the 14.02.1998
5. Niyindora Laurent (Musebeya-Gikongoro) died the 18.02.1998
6. Sindikubwabo Innocent (Maraba-Butare) died the 18.02.1998
7. Bigilimana Bernard (Shyanda-Butare) died the 06.03.1998
8. Singirankabo Oswald (Bulinga-Gitarama) died the 06.03.1998
9. Rwaheru Felicien (Kiyombe-Byumba) died the 08.03.1998
and many others.
In many African countries, the UNHCR break out the Geneva Conventions and take decisions regarding the forcible repatriation policy of Hutu refugees counciously knowing that the Rwandan Tutsi-led government has no respect for Human rights, that since 1994, this Tutsi-government has launched a massive witch-hunt for Hutus inside and outside of it ,those who refuse to adhere to the RPF mono ethnic party and ideology.
The UNHCR staff members’ attitude vis-à-vis the corruption and conspiracy inspired by the Tutsi-led government to harm and forcibly repatriate those Hutu refugees is no longer surprising.
On the other hand, It then goes on to show how the new humanitarianism is causing the erosion of the fundamental principles particularly when it concerns the Hutu refugees protection with negative consequences transforming the character and image of UNHCR.
The contrasting circumstances surrounding Hutu refugees’ crisis provide an opportunity to the world and Humanitarian organizations to show they are committed to peace and urge their country of origin to start negotiations with their representatives, the opponent political parties and the civil society in exile.
SurVivors Human Rights advocates urge the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and African countries authorities to reconsider any plan to forcibly repatriate Hutu refugees living in the those countries or living in holding centers who have not been given refugee status by the UNHCR.
According to reliable sources, Rwandan refugees who are forcibly repatriated face lengthy prison sentences, assassinations and other human rights abuses. The situation across the country is still dangerous for Hutu ethnic members particularly for those forcibly repatriated...
RPF military troops, local defense forces, DMI and other RPF clandestine organizations have started their dry season offensive on arbitrary arrests, imprisonment of those who are believed to recent repatriated.
According to many sources, the forcible repatriation is often covered by some pro-RPF media out of some European countries accusing the repatriated of having committed genocide in 1994. Thousands of Rwandans the mainly Hutus inside Rwanda are expected to flee the country because of incessant insecurity conditions, menaces that they are confronted on daily basis.
The Tutsi led government is demanding that those Hutu refugees be brought back to Rwanda. Instead of going back, they will go to other countries particularly to those who respect Human rights and thus where conditions are better.
THE NAMES OF RWANDAN REFUGEES DEPORTED BY UNHCR FROM GABON AND TORTURED BY RPF TO DEATH
Majority of these refugees who were deported by force by the UNHCR agency could not see the next millenium because of the brutal torture they had to undergo in the hands of RPF. The UNHCR sent its staff to Franceville headed by a lady known by only one name of Louise of a camerron origin.
Since she was presumably given some cash to sell the Rwandan Hutu Refugees, she went and sensibilized them saying I quote "Je ne peux pas vous repatrier au Rwanda car le Rwanda sous la leadership de Mr.Kagame est devenu un pay de l'holocauste" end of the quote.
Meaning that she could not want to repatriate us back to Rwanda because Rwanda under Kagame's leadership has become a country of holocaust. All hutu refugees in Franceville were very happy hoping the best from her hypocrasy.
But she was playing the tactic to catch all Hutu Refugees in Gabon without any hint that she wanted to take them back for butchery in Kagame's Abattoirs.The whole of July of 1997. The UNHCR hired a malian airplane which was taking Hutu Refugees from Franceville town of Gabon to Kigali International Airport.
On their arrival, therse refugees could be taken to triage chambers where all young people could be taken to torture chambers at Gikondo Industrial area. This people underwent inhumane treatment. According to my fomer schoolmate who were among this Hutu refugees repatriated by force by UNHCR, he told me that they were degraded to the level that they were fed on the human waste because of hunger.
He told as the tears were freely flowing on his both chicks, "Man,it is like apocalypse inside the Godowns of Gikondo.The RPF soldiers could come and start squeezing our male genital parts, to the ladies they could rape them and put red pepper in their private parts.
It was a harrowing moment, only God,my mother and I could believe what I am telling you, otherwise"....then he stopped as he was interrupted by tears which were flowing like water slops from Mt Karisimbi.
I continued carrying out some amateur research since I wanted to unveil what happened to these people who were given out as sacrifices by the people who were supposed to protect them,mainly UNHCR,the International Communiy,and the Gabon Governemnt, which used to claim to be friends of the late President Habyalimana.
I came across a mother of one of the people who lost their lives in the Gikondo torture chambers. She was from Gisenyi Prefecture which is in the Northwest of Rwanda. This list contained around 50 names of different young men and women who died from torture of all nature. Some of these name are as follow:
1. Iyaremwe Daniel (Gaseke-Gisenyi) died the 14.01.1998
2. Uwimana Evariste (Kivumu-Kibuye) died the 03.02.1998
3. Nzarora Theogene (Kibali-Byumba) died the 09.02.1998
4. Sadiki Ntawumenya (Rubavu-Gisenyi) died the 14.02.1998
5. Niyindora Laurent (Musebeya-Gikongoro) died the 18.02.1998
6. Sindikubwabo Innocent (Maraba-Butare) died the 18.02.1998
7. Bigilimana Bernard (Shyanda-Butare) died the 06.03.1998
8. Singirankabo Oswald (Bulinga-Gitarama) died the 06.03.1998
9. Rwaheru Felicien (Kiyombe-Byumba) died the 08.03.1998
and many others.
Since 1994, the world witnesses the horrifying Tutsi minority (14%) ethnic domination, the Tutsi minority ethnic rule, tyranny and corruption in Rwanda. The current government has been characterized by the total impunity of RPF criminals, the Tutsi economic monopoly, the Tutsi militaristic domination, and the brutal suppression of the rights of the majority of the Rwandan people (85% are Hutus), by the RPF criminal organization.
© SurVivors Human Rights Advocates
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
01-09-2009
Dublin - THE MAN who helped save 1,268 people during the 1994 Rwandan genocide by providing shelter and safety at a Kigali hotel is in Ireland to press for peace, truth and reconciliation in conflict zones.
Paul Rusesabagina, whose story was dramatised in the acclaimed film Hotel Rwanda, will address Irish audiences this week on the lessons from conflicts in both his own country and Northern Ireland. Speaking to The Irish Times in Belfast yesterday, he said Ireland and Rwanda were similar in that conflict raged between divided communities but, he said, the two countries had handled the post-conflict situation differently.
“In Ireland Protestants and Catholics came up with an agreement that, even if they don’t reconcile necessarily, they are going to live together.”
However, he said, no such compromise had been reached yet in Rwanda. “Rwanda has a lot of lessons to learn from Ireland especially about equal justice for all and also about reconciliation for all as time goes on . . .
At least here [in Ireland] people have come to an understanding that both sides made mistakes. But in Rwanda there was a winner and a loser,” said Mr Rusesabagina, who is a long-standing critic of Rwanda’s president Paul Kagame.
“The winner today is dictating his rules, his regulation, imposing his views and dictating. In Ireland you can have a Catholic and a Protestant sitting around one table and talking. We need to learn this lesson so that one day in Rwanda Hutus and Tutsis could honestly sit down around a table.”
He said there were frequent references to the 800,000 Rwandans killed during three months of 1994. “But we forget many people, according to human rights advocates, were killed before the genocide and by the people who present themselves as victims today.”
He said he was advocating “an internationally sanctioned truth and equal justice commission for Rwanda and for the Great Lakes region of Africa as a whole”.
Mr Rusesabagina travels to Dublin today for a special screening of Hotel Rwanda and a talk in Trinity College.
Since 1994, the world witnesses the horrifying Tutsi minority (14%) ethnic domination, the Tutsi minority ethnic rule, tyranny and corruption in Rwanda. The current government has been characterized by the total impunity of RPF criminals, the Tutsi economic monopoly, the Tutsi militaristic domination, and the brutal suppression of the rights of the majority of the Rwandan people (85% are Hutus), by the RPF criminal organization.
© Irish Times
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
Dans un document confidentiel du TPIR que nous avons réussi à nous procurer, le témoignage d’un ancien de l’APR, Georges Rwakampala, vient à nouveau confirmer nombre des révélations de Ruzibiza au juge Bruguière et met à mal les récentes déclarations de Richard Mugenzi.
George Rwakampala est un des nombreux refugiés tutsi qui ont rejoins la NRA (armée ougandaise). En 1990, il rejoint l’Armée Patriotique Rwandaise (APR), bras armé du Front
Patriotique Rwandais le mouvement politico-militaire fondé par les refugiés tutsis d’Ouganda (dont la plupart des officiers sont également membres de l’armée ougandaise) pour reprendre le pouvoir au Rwanda.Kagame n’a jamais voulu la paix
Dans son témoignage Rwakampala explique que Kagamé n’a jamais voulu la paix et ce malgré les accords de paix signé avec le régime de l’époque. En effet, Il retrace en détail comment, durant la période de mise en application des accords d’Arusha, Kagamé a minutieusement organisé l’infiltration de ses soldats, en profitant de la naïveté (ou de la complicité?) de la Mission des Nations Unies pour le Rwanda et décrit avec précision comment ces derniers entraient dans Kigali, y étaient entrainés puis était dispatchés dans des zones stratégiques pour y attendre le signal d’action.
L’attentat du 06 avril a été soigneusement préparé
Rwakampala explique que dès 19h le 06 Avril, soit une heure et demie avant l’attentat, l’ordre est venu de Kayonga, commandant du 3ème bataillon, de passer en mode « stand by one », ce qui voulait dire en ordre de combat et prêt pour lancer une offensive.
Quelques heures après l’attentat, les ordres de déploiement tombent, les cibles privilégiées sont le camp Kami, le camp de la garde présidentielle, le secteur industriel de Kicukiro et le renforcement des défenses au CND.
L’élimination systématique des Hutus
Rwakampala va plus loin et explique que les ordres étaient clairs, il fallait tuer tout les hutus. Dans un premier temps s’il ne se trouvait aucun hutu présent dans les rangs de l’APR sur place, ils pouvaient procéder directement à l’élimination des hutus sur lesquels ils mettaient la main (comme ce fut le cas notamment pour le préfet de Ruhengeri) et sinon ils les mettaient simplement aux arrêts et les transféraient au Capitaine Charles Karamba, qui se chargeait de les faire disparaitre.
Selon lui, il est difficile de chiffrer les victimes du FPR durant cette période mais pour donner un exemple il explique que la machine à tuer du FPR éliminait l’équivalent de près de trois à quatre camions militaires (de Hutus) chaque jour durant le seul mois de novembre 1994. Toujours selon lui, ces massacres étaient supervisés de près par les officiers de la DMI.
Lutte contre les infiltrés
Rwakampala décrit également les détails ignobles de la stratégie de lutte contre les abacengezi, ces infiltrés qui vers la fin des années 90 tentaient désespérément d’empêcher le FPR d’asseoir sa main mise sur le pays.
Il cite pour exemple des massacres perpétrés dans la commune de Ramba, ou l’APR est venue massacrer la population locale après la fuite des abacengezi vers les forêts du Congo. « Ils tuaient tout le monde et incendiaient leurs maisons. »
Massacres de Hutus au Congo
Rwakampala explique finalement comment lorsqu’il était en poste au Congo dans la région du Masisi, l’APR a commis un très grand nombre de massacres pour lesquels il affirme même être capable d’indiquer les lieux des fosses communes ou les victimes ont été enterrées.
Pourquoi le TPIR ne fait’ il rien de ce genre témoignages ?
Ce témoignage est un parmi de nombreux autres qui gisent dans les archives du TPIR et qui sont simplement classé sans suite. Il est dès lors légitime de s’interroger encore une fois sur la véritable mission du TPIR.
Car celle qui lui a été assigné était de rendre justice à tous les Rwandais indistinctement pour ce qui est des crimes commis durant l’année 1994 œuvrant ainsi à une véritable réconciliation nationale. Or, depuis sa création le TPIR a systématiquement ignoré et parfois même dissimulé les preuves (comme ce témoignage) mettant en cause les responsables du régime en place à Kigali.
Au vu de ce type de témoignages, il est aisé de comprendre pourquoi Kigali a fait preuve d’autant de zèle récemment pour récupérer les archives du TPIR. Il ne fait nul doute que de tels documents finiraient tout simplement dans un incinérateur une fois transférés à Kigali.
La communauté internationale devant sa responsabilité
Au lieu de participer à la réconciliation du peuple rwandais, la communauté internationale a mis sur pied un tribunal qui par sa pratique de la justice du vainqueur contribuera encore longtemps a attiser les braises de l’ethnisme et à entretenir le cycle de la haine au Rwanda.
Toutefois, comme on dit il n’est jamais trop tard pour bien faire et si la communauté internationale ne veut pas porter à nouveau la responsabilité des drames à venir dans l’histoire du Rwanda, il serait temps qu’ils fassent ce à quoi ils se sont engagés à savoir rendre justice à tous les rwandais.
Car c’est l’impunité conférée au FPR depuis 1994 qui est la véritable source de tout les maux de l’Afrique des grands lacs actuel.
Les entraves aux enquêtes du Juge Bruguière et de la justice espagnole doivent cesser !
Il est inconcevable et incompréhensible que devant l’abondance de témoignages et de rapports (Hourigan, Gersony, Lyons, etc…) en tout genre, autant sur l’attentat du 06 avril que sur les autres massacres commis par l’APR au Rwanda et Congo qui dorment dans les caves du TPIR, certaines personnes bien intentionnées aillent dénicher des témoins au Rwanda (que pourtant tout le monde reconnais être une dictature) pour appuyer tel ou tel autre thèse.
C’est comme si du temps de l’URSS, quelqu’un était allés chercher des preuves et des témoignages à visage découvert contre Staline dans les goulags de Sibérie ou même à Moscou (même ceux à l’étranger n’osaient pas parler ouvertement de peur des représailles contre leur famille restée sur place) … c’est tout simplement absurde.
Since 1994, the world witnesses the horrifying Tutsi minority (14%) ethnic domination, the Tutsi minority ethnic rule, tyrany and corruption in Rwanda. The current government has been characterized by the total impunity of RPF criminals, the Tutsi economic monopoly, the Tutsi militaristic domination, and the brutal suppression of the rights of the majority of the Rwandan people (85% are Hutus), by the RPF criminal organization.
© Arthur Ngenzi/SaveRwanda.Org
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
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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.