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
Thursday, December 3, 2009
Ntawe uyobewe ko uburenganzira bwo kwitorera abayobozi ari ikimenyetso gikomeye cy’uko abenegihugu batakiri ku ngoyi y’uburetwa n’igitugu , ahubwo bakaba bari mu nzira ya demokarasi ariyo ‘ubutegetsi bw’abenegihugu, bushyizweho n’abenegihugu kandi bugamije inyungu rusange z’abenegihugu”. Gusa rero iyo ndebye uko amatora yagenze muri 2003, nkaba ndashidikanya ko ari nako azagenda umwaka utaha, ncika intege , nkabunza imitima, nkumva biranyobeye , noneho nkabura amahoro byimazeyo . Ni nayo mpamvu niyemeje gufata igihe, nkicara , ngatekereza kuri iki kibazo kitoroshye , nkagifataho umwanzuro.
Muri iki kiganiro nyuma yo kwibutsa uko nabonye amatora yo mu 2003, ndagerageza gusesengura uko ayo muri 2010 azaba ateye, mfate umwanzuro kandi nywumenyeshe umukuru w’igihugu Paul Kagame.
1. Itora rya Perezida wa Repubulika ryo mu 2003 ryagenze rite?
Njyewe ubwanjye nari indorerezi mbifitiye uruhushya rutangwa na Komisiyo y’igihugu y’amatora. Nari nshinzwe gukora mu cyahoze ari Intara ya Cyangugu. Icyo nashimye ku buryo budasubirwaho ni inyigisho zerekeye demokarasi zahawe abaturage . Agatabo k’uburere mboneragihugu kari gateguye neza, abakangurambaga bo mu nzego nyinshi barakifashishije basobanurira Abanyarwanda uko bagomba gukunda igihugu no kwitorera abayobozi mu bwisanzure. Itegeko rigenga amatora naryo ntaho ryari rimwaye, dore ko ryanemeraga ko buri mukandida ashobora kugena abamuhagarariye muri buri cyumba cy’itora ! Muri make twese twaribwiraga mu mitima yacu tuti “dore rwose demokarasi ngiyi yadusesekayeho. Harakabaho FPR!”
Ku munsi w’itora imvugo ntiyabaye ingiro! Byatunguye benshi! Reka mbabwire ibyo nabonye byabaye ku Rusunyu , hafi yo ku Nkanka birahagije ngo twumve uko amatora yari ateguye mu gihugu cyose. Aho ku Rusunyu uwari uhagarariye amatora yitwa Fabiyani...ni umukristu gatolika wa Paruwasi ya Nkanka, twari dusanzwe tuziranye rwose, ntacyo dupfa na we yabihamya! Ariko nkeka ko yahungabanye gato abonye mpingutse aho yayoboraga amatora. Impamvu irumvikana : jye na we twahuzwaga n’Ivanjili dufite intego imwe yo guharanira ukuri, ubutabera n’amahoro ! Icyo mugayaho ni uko yabuze ubutwari bwo kunshyira ku ruhande ngo ambwire ati “Padiri , ubu ibintu byahindutse, dufite andi mabwiriza turi kugenderaho ajyanye no kuniga ijwi ry’umutimanama maze tukumvira ibyo Umuryango FPR udusaba gukora kabone n’aho twagomba kugaragura abaturage mu kiziba”!
Ni ko byagenze: abaturage bahatiwe gutora umukandida Paul Kagame, ushatse gutora undi mukandida akahabonera ishyano! Ntawishwe ariko hari abasuzuguwe, bakozwa isoni, hari abakubiswe n’abafunzwe. Uwashaka urutonde rw’amazina yabo twarumugezaho . Sindibagirwa ba bakobwa bo ku Nkanka batashye barira ayo kwarika bitewe n’uko bari bamaze kubashwanyaguriraho impapuro z’itora ngo batoye nabi! Dore uko umwe muri bo yabinsobanuriye :” nahagurutse mu rugo numva nta wundi natora utari Paul Kagame. Gusa rero nabaye nkinjira mu bwiherero bw’icyumba cy’itora, abantu babiri bahita bansangamo ngo barebe ko ntora neza. Ubwo bahise bamfata akaboko bashaka kunteresha igikumwe ku izina ry’umukandida Paul Kagame. Numvise umujinya unyishe maze nanga agasuzuguro mpita ngitera kuri Faustin Twagiramungu. Ubwo bahise bafata urwo rupapuro bararucagagura nanjye nsohokana ikimwaro ndataha. Ariko ndumva byankomerekeje cyane mu mutima”. Ngayo nguko.
Jyewe, uko nakabaye indorerezi sinamenyaga ibiri kubera mu bindi byumba by’itora. Iyo nageraga mu cyumba, nabonaga abantu barwanira kwinjira ngo batore. Jye nkibwira ko ari uko bashishikariye icyo gikorwa cyabazinduye, sinkamenye ko ari uko abashinzwe amatora batinye kwereka padiri akari i Murori nuko bakareka abantu bagatora uko babyumva ! Koko rero hashize nk’isaha imwe mpageze(hari nka saa yine za mugitondo), nagiye kubona mbona Nyakubahwa Perefe wa Cyangugu, bwana Bisengimana Elisée arahasesekaye! Yinjira mu cyumba narimo, anyicira ijisho ngo ninsohoke tuvugane. Namukundiye ko we yambwiye ibintu atabiciye ku ruhande ! Yagize ati” Padiri , barampuruje ngo uri kutwicira gahunda y’amatora. Ubu byadukomeranye ahantu hose bari kwitorera Twagiramungu Faustin gusa ! Ubwo rero turagira ngo wirinde kujya utinda mu cyumba cy’amatora, ujye winjira uhite wisohokera kugira ngo bafashe abaturage gutora neza!” Ubwo se umurimo wanjye sinari nywurangije?Nari nazinduwe no kureba uko amatora agenda, nari mbibonye!
Ubwo kandi ibyabaye kuri uriya mukobwa wo Nkanka ni ko byagendekeye n’abandi Banyarwanda benshi, mu gihugu cyose. Ugishidikanya azirebere raporo yakozwe n’indorerezi zihagarariye ibihugu by’Ubulayi”.Iyo raporo yanditwe taliki ya 3 ukwakira 2003 bayishakiye izina rihuje n’uko babonye amatora yo muri 2003:” le calme et l’ordre règnent, la démocratie n’en est pas pour autant pleinement assurée”(Kuba amatora yarabaye mu mutuzo, ntibivuga ko yakurikije amahame ya demokarasi!).Iritavuga umwe !Siniriwe mvuga uko abahagarariye abandi bakandida baje gufungwa mbere y’amatora, bagahindurwa abanzi b’igihugu, n’uko byaje kugaragara ko abari bahagarariye umukandida Paul Kagame muri buri cyumba cy’itora ari bo bari bashinzwe wa murimo mutindi wo gufasha abaturage gutora neza !!. Simvuze uko naje gufungirwa i Kamembe ngo nimvuge uwo nzaha raporo y’ibyo nabonye! Abo twakoranaga nabo bahuye n’ingorane! Muri Cyangugu nari nshinzwe indorerezi zigera kuri 40. Barahamagawe ,baratukwa, baterwa ubwoba, nuko mu mwanya wabo abasirikari aba aribo bakora raporo irata ukuntu amatora yabaye mu mucyo ! Nuko abanjye barasinya gusa ngo barokore amagara yabo! Abanyarwanda cyane cyane urubyiruko nibakomeza kumenyerezwa kubaho mu kinyoma nk’iki indi imyaka nka 20, hari uzaba agishoboye kubarogora?
2. Amatora yo mu 2010 azagenda ate?
Nta gushidikanya nayo azakorwa nk’ayo mu 2003. Imvugo nziza idafite aho ihuriye n’ingiro ! Igiti se ntikizahora kigaragazwa n’imbuto cyera ? Amakuru atugeraho aturutse mu turere twose tw’igihugu arahamya ko FPR igenda ikoresha inama za ninjoro hirya no hino mu gihugu ngo zigamije kwigira hamwe amayeri yo kugira ngo batazatungurwa nko muri 2003. Icyakora muri izo nama ho ngo baratobora bakavugisha ukuri : bemera ko ari Twagiramungu Faustin wari watsinze amatora yo muri 2003! Ayo mayeri nayo ubwo tuzayamenya igihe nikigera.Ariko icy’ingenzi ni ukumenya ko ubwo buriganya buriho butegurwa! Kandi ga na kera nta gihe amatora yo mu Rwanda atariganyijwe. Gusa ibya kera n’iby’ubu biratandukanye. Amatora yo mu gihe cya Habyarimana ntiyaburaga gufifikwa. Nyamara sinzi uko abategetsi babisobanuriraga abaturage ukabona muri rusange byakiriwe neza abaturage bakitabira bashishikaye,batagombye gushorezwa ikibuno cy’imbunda cyangwa ngo bahatirwe gutora amazina badashaka! Ibyo ndabona byarananiye FPR burundu pe! Bazivamo Christophe ntako atagira, nakomeze ashishikare yenda Abanyarwanda bazageraho bamwumve!
3. Uko mbibona
Ikibazo gikwiye gushakirwa mu mubano wa FPR n’abaturage. Abayobozi bashinzwe gukorera abaturage aho ntibita ku nyungu zabo gusa n’iz’Umuryango FPR bakibagirwa rubanda ikomeje kuzahazwa n’ubukene, akarengane n’iterabwoba? None se abaturage baba bapfa iki kindi na Leta nziza ya FPR idahwema kwivuga ibigwi ko yazanye amajyambere n’ubukungu bwinshi mu rwa Gasabo? Leta abaturage batibonamo igaragazwa n’amatora! FPR niyongere ijye ku munzani muri 2010, kandi ntizatungurwe n’uko agaciro yo ubwayo yiha gatandukanye n’ako ipima mu maso y’abaturage! Na none ariko iracyafite iturufu yo kwica umunzani, igihe bigishoboka.
Jyewe ndumva kujya gutora Umukuru w’igihugu ntacyo bimaze niba amatora azagenda nk’uko yagenze muri 2003. Umukino nk’uriya ni ugutesha abaturage igihe , kubakomeretsa ku mutima no gukomeza kongera urwango bafitiye abayobozi batitaye ku nyungu rusange. Nahitamo ko abo bamotsi ba FPR bansanga iwanjye tugatongana aho kugira ngo bajye kumvuna amaboko bantoresha uwo ndashaka!
Na none ariko bakomeje kumvuzaho induru ngo njye gutora, najyayo. Gusa rero ngeze mu biro by’itora ngasanga ba Fabiani abo barahicaye, bakitanguranwa kumfasha “gutora neza”, nakora agashya. Nahebera urwaje nkikoza mu bicu , nkamanukira kuri Fabiyani nkamukubita urushyi rumwe rusobanutse,nkamwongera n’urundi rw’imperekeza; yazajya kuzanzamuka yamenye ko rubanda igira uburenganzira butavogerwa! Ngo bamfunga? Bashaka bakandasa! Ni hahandi kuba mu gihugu utemerewe kwitsamura no guhumeka ntaho bitaniye n’urupfu .Umusizi yabivuze ukuri ati “nanze kubaho ntariho” .Abanyarwanda dukwiye guhumuka tukabona neza ko ibyo gukorera kuri baranyica ari byo byoretse Urwanda. Tuzahora mu iterabwobwa tugereze he ? Tuzahora tubunza imitima kugera ryari? Nibyumvikane neza ko atari Abanyamerika badushyize ku ngoyi y’iterabwoba turiho. Nitumenye neza ko atari Abafaransa bazayidukuraho. Abayobozi b’ibi bihugu by’abazungu nabo bifitiye ibibazo byabo bakagira n’inyungu zabo bagomba gushyira imbere. Simbona ko hari n’umwe warara adasinziriye ngo ni uko Abanyarwanda bari ku ngoyi. Nta mwanzi bagira, nta nshuti bagira. Uwakwibwira ko ari umutoni wabo udasanzwe ntagatangazwe n’uko agera ahazamuka bakamurusha amaguru, bakamuta aho!
Nitwemere ko ari twe ubwacu twishyize ku ngoyi ndetse tugakomeza ubukana bwayo igihe cyose twemeye kujya mu mujishi tugaheka mu ngombyi abayobozi batagize ikindi batumariye uretse kutwica urubozo no kudutindahaza. Nitwe ubwacu tugomba kwibohoza. Mu by’ukuri ndahamya ko hagize b’Abanyarwanda nk’ 1000 gusa biyemeza kugira icyo bakora, mbese bakamfasha tukarebera akantu nka Fabiyani n’abandi bakora nka we ibintu byahinduka mu gihugu cyacu hatagombye imivu y’amaraso. Fabiyani abonye ko uje gutora wese ari bugende amunyafuye urushyi, yakwifata neza akubaha icyo rubanda igamije kugeraho mu gihe yahagurukiye gutora abayobozi ishaka kandi yibonamo.Uvuga ko gukubita Fabiyani urushyi ari icyaha azabanze asobanurire Abanyarwanda ukuntu kubuza umuturage gutora uko abyumva atari cyo cyaha gikomeye kurushaho. Mu gihe ibiro by’itora byahinduwe indiri y’uburiganya (zone de non-droit), n’uharwaniye yirenganura ntazaba acumuye ! Abwirwa benshi, akumva beneyo.
4. Inama ngira umukuru w’igihugu Paul KAGAME
Nyakubahwa Paul Kagame, umaze imyaka igera kuri 15 uri umuyobozi w’ikirenga. Ubutegetsi wabufashe ku ngufu, utsinze intambara y’amasasu mu 1994. Utabizi ni utaravuka, ababyumva neza ni imfubyi n’abapfakazi batagira ingano . Mu gihe nta we uraboneka ngo akurushe ingufu abukunyage, ni wowe muyobozi dufite. Uko mbibona, uracyakeneye gutegeka. Ndagirango nkwisabire ikintu kimwe gusa: irinde abo bagushuka bakagushora mu matora uzi neza ko utazayatsinda. Tinyuka ubwize Abanyarwanda ukuri, ko ugifite gahunda z’amajyambere wifuza kubagezaho, ko usanze bigisaba indi myaka 10 , 20 cyangwa se 30. Ushobora no kubamenyesha hakiri kare ko umwana wawe w’imfura yatangiye kwitoza kuzagusimbura kugira ngo azashobore kusa ikivi watangiye! Babwire ko aho kwirirwa bashyuha imitwe ngo barajya mu matora kandi bazi neza ikizayavamo bakwiye kwicara bagafata amasuka bakajya gutabira dore ko n’inzara ibamereye nabi.
Naho ubundi ibyo gutoresha rubanda ku gahato ni ukwiyongerera abanzi n’abarakare. Umunsi umwe iyo rubanda yazabikuryoza sinkubeshya. Abo kandi bihaye akazi ko kukwibira amajwi utabatumye ujye ubagendera kure ; ni bo bazaguhinduka kandi uwo munsi nugera, ntibazabura kugushinja ko utigeze utorwa na rubanda, ko wahoraga wiba amajwi! Ba intwari dore ko usanzwe uri indatwa, iyo mikino mitindi uyice mu gihugu. Ngira ngo nawe urabibona neza ko ibintu ari bibiri bizira icya gatatu : reka amatora abe mu bwisanzure, bityo n’aho utatorwa uzavugwe ko wabaye umubyeyi wa demokarasi ; cyangwa se utwemeze ko amatora atari ngombwa , uyigizeyo tuzayagarukeho igihe uzaba wumva uhaze ubutegetsi. Hagati aho uzashaka gufata ubutegetsi ngo ahindure ibintu mu gihugu na we azanyure mu nzira wanyuzemo! Hitamo neza, igihe ni iki. Ndaruhutse, igitekerezo nifuzaga kukugezaho ni icyo. Imana ikurinde.
Ugushyingo 2009,
Padiri Thomas Nahimana
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, December 2, 2009
December 2nd, 2009
(Bujumbura) - Burundi's government should immediately reverse a new policy of deporting Rwandan asylum seekers without considering their cases, Human Rights Watch said today. On November 27, 2009, Interior Minister Edouard Nduwimana ordered police to return 103 asylum seekers to Rwanda, in violation of international law.
Burundi has a moral and legal obligation to receive Rwandans who fear for their lives.
Georgette Gagnon, Africa director at Human Rights Watch
Burundi's decision came days after an official delegation from Rwanda told the Burundian government that recently arrived Rwandans should be sent back to Rwanda, the Burundi state news agency reported. Officials were quoted as saying that they wanted to protect Rwanda's international image as a peaceful country that does not produce refugees. Several Burundian officials, who asked not to be named for fear of retaliation, told Human Rights Watch that Rwanda had an important role in the returns.
Sunday, November 29, 2009
29-11-2009
“No Justice, No Peace”
An Historian’s View
This paper intends to point out the importance of the Rwandan Patriotic Front’s (RPF) influence on parts of the private human rights movement and the UN Commission on Human Rights in the establishment of the ICTR.
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The idea to ask for a Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda is closely linked to the RFP’s accusation that the Habyarimana regime planned the genocide against the Tutsi population before the RPF attack on 8 February 1993. The RPF rebels based their claim on the report of the “International Commission of Investigation on Human Rights Violations in Rwanda since October 1, 1990” (ICI) . The Commission had been dispatched to Rwanda from 7 to 21 January 1993 at the request of Rwandan human rights groups opposed to President Habyarimana. The ICI Report indeed contained such accusations. The RPF and its supporters were aware that the ultimate conquest of power in Kigali could lead to mass murders against the Tutsi population.
Friday, November 27, 2009
The UN fails to address Kagame'impunity with a dirty monitoring report on DRC
The report of the UN monitoring on DRC is totally based on lies and totally biased exclusively on Kagame's propaganda and slanders.
No mention about the increasing criticism about war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide committed by FRDC, CNDP, RPF/RDF even though testimonies show up the involvement of Rwandan soldiers in mass-murder and mass rape in the DRC. The UN commission fails to address impunity in the DRC and shift all crimes on the FDLR.African SurViVors International ask for an impartial and independant investigation that would help to bring all criminal perpetrators of :
Massacres of Kiwanja, Bunagana, Jomba, Rutchuru, Massisi, Walikale and other regions in South Kivu where Congolese displaced women and children were wildly tortured, raped and assassinated. Perpetrators awere documented, and are well-known.
Hutu women and children refugees were wildly tortured, raped and assassinated in Kasiki and other regions. Perpetrators were documented, and are well-known.
For this reason, ASI is to make the following demands :
- To bring the next criminal perpetrators for (mass) rape, war crimes, crimes against Humanity and genocide to be judged by a credible and impartial court :
- Paul Kagame, the instigator and RDF commanders in DRC
- CNDP civil and military leaders: Mutebusi, Ntaganda, Kamanzi and Nkunda
- MONUC civil and military leaders including Mr. Alan Doss, the mastermind of both Kimya I and II that led to more massacres, distruction of houses and to more than 1 million of IDPS in the Eastern region of the Congo.
- FARDC
- FDLR
- Multinational companies CEOs involved in Mineral ressources exploitation in that region and bring them to Justice to show the entire world that NOBODY IS ABOVE THE INTERNATIONAL LAW. This should be the first and strong signal to all crimes perpetrators.
More than 8 millions lives were lost because of Kagame's wars.
3. ASI ask the UN to stop protecteting the main criminal: GENERAL PAUL KAGAME. The region will not retrieve peace if this man is not brought before the bar of Justice.
4. A VERY IMPORTANT RECOMMANDATION: The ever-lasting peace in the region will be possible if the UN security Council and other UN institutions, NGO's help to engage DIALOGUE between ALL RWANDANS INCLUDING THE CIVIL SOCIETY, Religious institutions, THE CURRENT TUTSI LED-GOVERNMENT AND Rwandan ARMED GROUPS opposed to the current regime in Rwanda.
History and reality has proved that, sovereignty is a collective of human rights of the people in a country so it must be respected and protected by international law. The Tutsi-led government's violation of national sovereignty means trampling upon the human rights of ALL people inside Rwanda and ALL RWANDANS inside and outside of Rwanda.
The Trust of Rwandans has been broken.And a process of arrest and indictment of 40 RPF most criminals must be undertaken to repair this trust. This process must begin with honesty and accountability with the cooperation of all countries and all UN institutions and organizations.
ASI believes that Justice means that a person cannot commit the same crimes in the future, Justice also means that no other person can do these things in the future, Justice will enable people to respect each other. Covering up Monuc crimes, FARDC's crimes, Kagame's crimes, the protected Nkunda, Kamanzi, Ntaganda and Mutebusi's crimes means Congolese and Rwandan people will fall into daily injustice and never find lasting peace.
Nothing more than the same old routine of Lies from UN monitoring commissions on Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of The Congo. The majority Hutu are terrorized by the UN institutions while they are denied all rights to peacifully live in their country.
Thoughts on the Virtue of Truth by Romano Guardini
One virtue above all others is in the limelight of the church these days — truthfulness. Some people who profess to tell it have been crucified, while others who haven’t told it have crucified the church. I think we could profit by listening to Romano Guardini on this needed but complex virtue. Quoted from his book The Virtues.
A Virtue which has suffered great damage in our day is truthfulness, which taken in its widest interpretation includes also the love of truth, and the will that truth should be recognized and accepted.
First, truthfulness means that the speaker should say what is so, as he sees and understands it, and that he should express what is in his mind. Under certain circumstances this may be difficult, and may even cause annoyance, harm and danger. But our conscience reminds us that truth is an obligation, that it is something absolute and sublime. It is not something of which we say: “You may tell it if it is convenient for you or serves some purpose,” but “When you speak you must tell the truth, not abbreviate it or change it. You must tell it absolutely, simply — unless the situation urges you to be silent or you can evade a question in a decent and proper way.”
But apart from this, our whole existence depends upon truth. We shall say more about this later. The relations of people to each other, social institutions, government — all that we call civilization and man’s work in its countless forms — depends on a respect for truth.
Truthfulness means, then, that man has the instinctive feeling that the truth must be told, absolutely. Of course, we must emphasize this point again, this obligation is based on the assumption that the questioner has the right to be informed. If he does not, then it becomes the task of experience and prudence to find the proper way of avoiding an answer.
Ven, 27-11-2009Annick Ferauge
"out est fait pour salir les hutus, j'espère que vous savez que c'est inexact. Voir ce qu'avait publié déjà en 2007, l'avocat Luc De Temmerman à ce sujet (faire croire que les fdlr sont la source des conflits au congo)...
Voir aussi ce qu'on écrit Péan, Reyntjens sur le ptb qui a soutenu le fpr et a reçu leur idéologue ici en conférence, croyant qu'ils soutenaient ainsi l'antiimpérialisme, et n'ayant (parait il) pas détecté à l'époque que ce pouvoir (impérialiste comme "ils" disent, avec kagame et les anglo saxons puis tout l'occident était derrière ce fpr...."
Annick Ferauge
Lectrices et lecteurs, citoyens...
Avez vous vu encore hier soir 26 novembre 2009 dans le registre de l'intox sur le sujet, le Jt de 19h30 ? Nathalie Maleux présente une séquence de Philippe Lamaire, on y dit: le commerce de l'or finance la guerre (RDC)...Avec un financement des rebelles hutus...
There are few things that unite Tony Blair, Gordon Brown and David Cameron, but one of them is Rwanda. All three are passionate advocates for Paul Kagame, who forced out "the genocidal regime" 15 years ago and has ruled the country ever since.
Thursday, November 26, 2009
John AllenStaff blog
As Rwanda applies this week to join the Commonwealth, the international grouping dominated by ex-British colonies, both its membership application and a number of recent books on Central Africa are focusing new attention on the current government's human rights record.
In a debate which somewhat echoes those over justice and human rights in Israel and Palestine, activists and regional experts are arguing over whether President Paul Kagame and his government are to be seen primarily as representing victims of genocide or a government which has become responsible for itself perpetrating human rights abuses.
Olivier Nyirubugara 17 November 2009
Focus on the ICTR: A defence perspective from olny.nl on Vimeo.
The UN International criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) has a few years to go and discussions about its legacy for the International Criminal Law has started. While some perceive that Tribunal as a major advancement, others, including defense laywers, who have been defending genocide suspects for last fourteen years, think that this ICTR and other ad hoc courts, have created a regrettable precedent.
Part One: The illegality of the ICTRThe UN International criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) has a few years to go and discussions about its legacy for the International Criminal Law has started. While some perceive that Tribunal as a major advancement, others, including defense laywers, who have been defending genocide suspects for last fourteen years, think that this ICTR and other ad hoc courts, have created a regrettable precedent.
The legality of the ICTR questioned
‘The ICTR has been a big mistake’, said Kenyan defense attorney Kennedy Ogetto. He was speaking in The Hague, The Netherlands on 14 November 2009 in a three-day self-sponsored conference. Over 100 people, mostly Rwandans, but also foreigners coming from all over the world listened to frustration-marked presentations by the lawyers and other scholars and experts.
Part Two: The illegality of the ICTR
The ICTR and the Joint Criminal Enterprise doctrine
The ICTR and the Judicial genocide
Zigiranyirazo and Péan acquitted
The ICTR is illegal
The legality of the ICTR is still being discussed, even as the Court’s closure is drawing near. In this regard, the laywers and scholars who spoke during the conference converge to qualify the setting up the ICTR by the Security Council as an abuse of power.
The ICTR Archives: The battle to control the future
‘No ad hoc criminal court should be created by the UN Security Council’, said, Austrian Philosophy professor Hans Koechler , adding that justice should not be administered by the five super-powers with the veto right. Veteran French Laywer, Roland Weyl agrees:
‘All the tribunals set up by the Security Council are marked by a fundamental international illegality’, he said. He explained that the sole task of the Security Council is to keep and restore peace. ‘The setting up of criminal tribunals is … a prerogative of the General Assembly in its full sovereignty’, he concluded View the entire report
The Truth can be buried and stomped into the ground where none can see, yet eventually it will, like a seed, break through the surface once again far more potent than ever, and Nothing can stop it. Truth can be suppressed for a "time", yet It cannot be destroyed. ==> Wolverine
Sunday, November 22, 2009
29/09/2019
By Jean-Christophe, Libre Penseur
A blanket amnesty of past and present crimes whitewash to General Kagame and RPF heavyweight criminals will not help Rwandans.
“When this RPF crime compendium is released, I expect the RPF government to hit back with blanket accusations, without any proof, that I am a “revisionist and a negationist of the Rwandan genocide, actually manufactured by Kagame himself using the RPF sub-organization “IBUKA”, and that “I harbor an ideology of genocide and divisionism”. The international community must take a very close and careful look at such character assassination, and in many cases outright persecution, of all real and perceived contrary opinion holders and political opponents, social justice advocates and human rights critics in Rwanda by the RPF government, and find a proper way to address it”.
US organizations and individuals involved in the sponsoring of previous and current RPF bloodshed and Kagame’s assassinations of his own citizens inside and outside Rwanda, Rwandan refugees and the Congolese people do disservice to fundamental justice.
Saturday, November 21, 2009
By RNA Reporters
Friday, 20 November 2009
Kigali : - The scheduled founding conference of the troubled Green Party did not take place Friday as the group wait for a Police certificate from the new Commissioner-General, Brig. Emmanuel Gasana. But not without new allegations, RNA reports.
A man by the names Gaston Bihibindi is claiming that he was detained for three days without food at the magnificent multi-million dollar Ministry of Defense building known locally as “Pentagon”. Mr. Bihibindi is not the only one accusing unknown individuals driving tinted double cabin Toyota pickup trucks of snatching them from their homes or as they walked.
The local weekly UMUSESO details ordeals of eight people identifying themselves as Green Party activists, who were apparently arrested on October 30 after the failed conference which police halted citing insecurity. The men were apparently detained at an infamous but not gazetted facility in Kimironko, an outskirt of Kigali.
Adopted by the Security Council at its 6216th meeting, on 11 November 2009
The Security Council,
Reaffirming its commitment to the continuing and full implementation, in a
mutually-reinforcing manner, of resolutions 1265 (1999), 1296 (2000), 1325 (2000), 1612 (2005), 1674 (2006), 1738 (2006), 1820 (2008), 1882 (2009), 1888 (2009) and 1889 (2009), and all relevant statements of its President,
Reaffirming its commitment to the Purposes of the Charter of the United
Nations as set out in Article 1 (1-4) of the Charter, and to the Principles of the Charter as set out in Article 2 (1-7) of the Charter, including its commitment to the principles of the political independence, sovereign equality and territorial integrity of all States, and respect for the sovereignty of all States,
Noting that this year marks the tenth anniversary of the progressive
consideration by the Security Council of the protection of civilians in armed conflict as a thematic issue; and acknowledging the enduring need for the Security Council and Member States to strengthen further the protection of civilians in armed conflict,
Noting further that this year also marks the 60th anniversary of the Geneva
Conventions of 1949, which together with their Additional Protocols constitute the basis for the legal framework for the protection of civilians in armed conflict,
Recognizing that States bear the primary responsibility to respect and ensure the human rights of their citizens, as well as all individuals within their territory as provided for by relevant international law,
Reaffirming that parties to armed conflict bear the primary responsibility to
take all feasible steps to ensure the protection of civilians,
Reaffirming the relevant provisions of the 2005 World Summit Outcome
Document regarding the protection of civilians in armed conflict, including
paragraphs 138 and 139 thereof regarding the responsibility to protect populations from genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity,
Reiterating its deep regret that civilians continue to account for the vast
majority of casualties in situations of armed conflict,
* Reissued for technical reasons.
Friday, November 20, 2009
20-11-2009
By Mick Collins
Antoine Nyetera
Pierre Péan
Two of the highlights of this weekend's Conference of ICTR Defense attorneys in The Hague were the French investigative writer, Pierre Péan, author of the magnificent history of the Rwandan counter-revolution (1990-1994), "Noires fureurs, blancs menteurs," and the Tutsi Prince, Antoine Nyetera, the source of Péan's controversial four-page aria on the Rwandan (Tutsi) culture of the lie (known in Kinyarwanda as ubwenge) at the very beginning (pp 41-44) of his 500+page tome.
One or the other or both of them smartly pointed out that the 'culture of the lie' is characteristic to all irrational, anti-democratic, neofeudal, monarchic, minoritarian--in a word, Fascist--political cultures. The ruling minority, in constant fear of being turned out by the masses they exploit for their privileges, always play it fast and loose with the Truth, with History, with Reality. And if you have a problem with that fact, then you're probably a neofeudal nostalgic, a cringing anti-democrat, a wincing Czarist, a putrid piece of Nazi scum.
Péan's book came out in 2005 at about the same time that journalist Stephen Smith leaked in Le Monde the report of French anti-terrorist judge, Jean-Louis Bruguière's investigation into the 6 April 1994 missile strike against the Rwandan presidential jet that cost the lives of two democratically elected African heads of state, Presidents Juvénal Habyarimana of Rwanda and Cyprien Ntaryamira of Burundi, their entourages, the Chief of Staff of the Rwandan Army, Déogratias Nsabimana, and the three-man French flight crew, Jacky Heraud (pilot), Jean-Pierre Minaberry (co-pilot), and Jean-Marc Perrine (flt engineer), the three French nationals whose families instigated the Bruguière investigation.
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Une victoire de la liberté d'expression
France : 18 Novembre - Pierre Péan était poursuivi pour diffamation raciale et provocation à la hainte pour le livre "Noires fureurs, blancs menteurs". L'avocat de SOS racisme annonce un pourvoi en cassation.
De son côté, l'avocat de SOS Racisme, partie civile au procès, Me Lef Forster, a annoncé qu'il allait se pourvoir en cassation."Culture du mensonge" des Tutsis
Dans ce livre sur le génocide rwandais, qui en 1994 a fait selon l'ONU 800. 000 morts, essentiellement parmi la minorité tutsie, Pierre Péan soutient que "la culture du mensonge et de la dissimulation domine toutes les autres chez les Tutsis".
"Dès leur plus tendre enfance, écrit-il encore dans les quatre pages incriminées, les jeunes Tutsis étaient initiés à la réserve, au mensonge, à la violence et à la médisance". "C'est ce qui fait de cette race l'une des plus menteuses qui soit sous le soleil".
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
ICTR-ADAD Welcomes Acquittal of Fr. Hormisdas Nsengimana on Charges of Genocide and “Genocide Planning”
Contact ADAD Bureau: Prof. Peter Erlinder, ADAD President, 31(0)70 345 92 00 (Hague)/651-271-4616 (US)/peter.erlinder@wmitchell.edu / Me. John Philpot, 0755 352 931 (Arusha)/ 514-844-4655 (Can)/jphilpot@videotron.ca
Arusha TZ – Nov. 17 -- The Bureau of ICTR-ADAD (Association des Avocats de la Defense), welcomes today’s Trial Chamber Judgement acquitting the second defendant in as many days. The court ordered the immediate release of Fr. Hormisdas Nsengimana, who was charged with genocide and crimes against humanity committed in Rwanda in 1994.
Regardez les pays ayant intervenu dans le génocide Rwandais. GUERRECIVILE ? Certainement pas. Les plus malins et les supporteurs du FPR parleront de guerre civile qui a mené au génocide rwandais. Faux. Il s' agissait d'une invasion.: Les Pays ayant servi/participé à l'invasion du Rwanda: UGANDA, BURUNDI, ETHIOPIA, ERHYTREA, USA, GB ET Al Qaeda recruté (des Somaliens) à partir de l'ambassade des Etats Unis à Addis Abeba.
Les Rwandais ont besoin de VERITE ET DE JUSTICE et non de complot contre eux, UN COMPLOT QUI SOUTIENT un régime criminel qu'est celui du FPR.
Témoignage: L'attaque des camps par le général Kagame: Un apocalypse pour les réfugiés Hutus Rwandais. Un génocide planifié depuis 1990.
Zaire/Congo - Le 17 Novembre 1996, jour pour jour, je suis rentré de force au Rwanda via le Nord-Est de la RDC en VIOLATION DIRECTE DE TOUTES LES CONVENTIONS INTERNATIONALES. Durant ce voyage du Congo au Rwanda, j'ai assisté à l'horreur. Durant mon séjour au Rwanda, j'ai assisté et vu de mes propres yeux l'horreur du FPR.
Ils ont torturé, violé et tué ma soeur Abimana domitille pendant une semaine...son enfant criait dans une autre cellule de détention à la gendarmerie de Gisenyi. Refusé les soins de santé à Appoline Twizerimana qui est morte sur le coup. Ils ont tué à coups de machettes - les petites filles ( 6 et 8 ans à peu-porès je ne me souviens pas de leur age exactement) de ma soeur Pénine : m'-a-t-on expliqué les témoins oculaires.
“Genocide Planning” Again Rejected at ICTR
Contact: ICTR Association des Avocats de la Defence (ADAD)
Me. John Philpot: 0755352931 (Arusha)/ 514-844-4655 (Can.)/jphilpot@videotron.ca
Me. John Philpot: 0755352931 (Arusha)/ 514-844-4655 (Can.)/jphilpot@videotron.ca
Me. Beth Lyons: 201-295-3103 (U.S.)/ bethlyons@aol.com
Prof. Peter Erlinder: 31(0)70 345 92 00 (Hague) 651-271-4616 (U.S.)/peter.erlinder@wmitchell.edu
ARUSHA, TZ – Nov. 17 -- The Bureau of the ICTR Defense Lawyers Association (ADAD) applauds the Appeal Chamber rejection of charges of “genocide planning” in acquitting Protais Zigiranyirazo, the brother-in-law of Rwandan President Habyarimana whose assassination in April 1994 triggered the violence that swept Rwanda, which has been portrayed as a “long-planned genocide.”
Allegations that close associates of Habyarimana, (labeled the Akazu or “small house” in Kinyarwanda) were engaged in a conspiracy to kill “Tutsis and moderate Hutus” were rejected by the court for the second time in less than a year.
The acquittal adds to growing evidence that Kagame and the RPF has conducted a successful disinformation campaign to de-legitimize the former Rwandan government, and to deflect attention from their own crimes in Rwanda and the Congo. In December 2008 the NY Times and most recent of four Reports by UN Experts detailed the occupation and illegal theft of Congo resources by Rwanda and Uganda since the 1996 invasion, which has resulted in some 6-million civilian deaths.
The Appeal Chamber acquittal follows the December 2008 Military-1 Trial Chamber Judgement, published in Feb. 2009, acquitting four high-ranking military officers FOUND NOT guilty of “conspiracy to commit genocide,” including Colonel Theoneste Bagosora, the alleged “author of the genocide.”
After 7-years of trial, the court found that Prosecutor’s evidence was explained by normal military planning in the course of the war that raged for 4-years, following the 1990 invasion of Rwanda from Uganda, by the RPF army of current Rwandan President Paul Kagame.
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