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
Sunday, April 18, 2010
[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 with an iron hand, and the brutal suppression of the rights of the majority of the Rwandan people (85% are Hutus), and mass-arrests and mass-murder by the RPF criminal organization.=>ASIF]Kwaigaikira, who reunited with her uncle just about two years ago, is, however, facing nationality problems as some sectors feel she should not reap from Malawian spoils.
Rwanda experienced a 100 day genocide that killed thousands and displaced more. Hutus and Tutsis fought after the then president was killed in a plane crash.Private radio station Zodiak Broadcasting Service (ZBS) Director, Gospel Kadzako, however argued the girl has all the right to enjoy the award and be accorded a Malawian passport to travel for further studies in the Chinese metropolitan college of her choice. She wants to be a pathologist.
“Our president is the chairperson of the African Union (AU) and Rwanda is in Africa. Also considering her plight, it is important that she be awarded the scholarship. Authorities must do their best to avail her with a passport,” he said during the award ceremony.
Fifteen year old Edith Chipungu from Ludzi Girls Secondary School, 18-year old Chikondi Dimoni from St. Michaels Girls School, and Kwaigaikira from Likuni Girls Secondary School each scored one point in each subject. They all three want to venture into medicine.
Each girl was also awarded material and financial rewards. Other stakeholders pulled together MK200, 000 for each girl.
“Gender empowerment of our women should start with education. Let this be the start of more efforts to empower women and young girls,” added Kadzako.
He also bemoaned the situation where about 80% of students selected into the nursing corps have not reported for school. Government raised school fees to MK300, 000 per term. Most people in Malawi barely live on a dollar per day.
“This is a worrisome development. In future we may have only the rich from low density suburbs working as future nurses. Government must think deeply on this,” he implored.
Speaking during the same function, Chinese Ambassador to Malawi, Lin So Tian, said his government would continue awarding top performing girls.
“Education is power and key to success. We commit ourselves to provide more scholarships to best girl students. This is part of our role as a diplomatic mate to the Malawian government,” he said.
He added China will also recognize teachers and school heads whose schools produce top performers. China is also going to construct a vocational centre and some secondary schools. A university of sciences is also on the tables.
Malawi and China have been in a two year diplomatic romance after the landlocked country kicked out Taiwan.
Other dignitaries included the deputy ministers of Gender, Child and Women Development, and Information and Civic Education, non-governmental organizations representatives, and traditional leaders.
© AfricaNews
Posted by Mtheto Lungu, reporter in Lilongwe, Malawi
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
[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 with an iron hand, and the brutal suppression of the rights of the majority of the Rwandan people (85% are Hutus), and mass-arrests and mass-murder by the RPF criminal organization.=> ASIF]“Les leçons tirées par les avocats de la défense auprès des tribunaux ad hoc des Nations Unies, et perspectives pour la justice internationale à la Cour Pénale Internationale”
Thursday, April 15, 2010
Kevin Ohalloran
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 with an iron hand, and the brutal suppression of the rights of the majority of the Rwandan people (85% are Hutus), and mass-arrests and mass-murder by the RPF criminal organization.=> ASIFAussie soldiers reflect on the Rwanda genocide
Sir William Deane, former Governor General 1996-2001
To alleviate the suffering and restore order to shattered lives, a group of Australian UN peacekeepers, made up of soldiers and army medical personnel, was sent to Rwanda under a United Nations mandate. These Australians would be exposed to a lack of humanity they were not prepared for and found hard to fathom.
On 22nd April 1995, the daily horror and tragedy they had witnessed escalated out of control. At a displaced persons’ camp in Kibeho, in full view of the Australian soldiers, over 4,000 unarmed men, women and children died in a hail of bullets, grenades and machete blades at the hands of the Rwandan Patriotic Army. Constrained by the UN peacekeeping Rules of Engagement, these Australians could only watch helplessly and try to assist the wounded under the gaze of the trigger-happy killers.
Pure Massacre is a record of what happened during this peacekeeping mission. Kevin “Irish” O’Halloran, a Platoon Sergeant at the time, stresses the weaknesses of the UN charter and what happens when “good men do nothing”. He pulls together the perspectives of those Australian soldiers who served in Rwanda at this time. Pure Massacre gives a new and personal voice to the Kibeho Massacre.
Foreword written by Major General (retired) Guy Tousignant. United Nations Force Commander, UNAMIR II
It takes a special type of bravery, discipline and compassion to do what these soldiers did. Little did they know, when the second tour of Rwanda was over, that they would be the highest decorated UN peacekeeping contingent since the Korean War. For many, their service in Rwanda would come with a personal toll. No Australians died during and immediately after the massacre at Kibeho, but as Pure Massacre testifies, the suffering and tragedy is embedded in their memories.
Tousignant replaced Romeo Dallaire as Force Commander in August 1994 and also served as assistant Secretary-General of that mission.
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
Posted by Ann Garrison at 4:16
Photo courtesy of KigaliWire1, first published at http://kigaliwire.com/2010/04/14/umuseso-and-umuvugizi-newspapers-hit-with-6-month-ban/
Umuvuzi Editor Jean Bosco Gasasira said, "Almost 70% of Rwandans speak only Kinyarwanda, not English or French, and only 3% have internet access, so without these tabloid newspapers, they will have no independent news for the next six months. All they will know of the election is what the government newspapers tell them." Article at Digital Journal,
http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/290545http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/290545
© olored Opinions
Posted by Susan Thomson
Wednsday, April 14,2010
More tightening of government control: media censorship
The Rwandan government is after the media again, this time without linking the suspension of two Kinyarwanda-language papers to any specific article or journalist.
Yesterday, Rwanda's Media High Council (MHC) suspended Umuseso and Umuvugizi for six months. This means that both papers will be unable to comment on the upcoming August presidential elections. THe MHC accused Umuseso of insulting President Kagame, inciting the army and policy to insubordination and for fear mongering among the population. There is no substantive evidence to support these accusations, nor were the charges linked to a specific published article. The government-controlled MHC suspended Umuvugizi without citing any reasons for the suspension.
Under Rwanda's new media law, passed into law in August 2009, media outlets cannot be suspended for more than two weeks.
More critically, there is no alternate source of media in Rwanda at the moment. The New Times, Rwanda's English-language daily, is the most prominent publication. It is widely believed to operate at the behest of the RPF as editorial policy is set in coordination with the MHC.
Another point for authoritarianism in post-genocide Rwanda...
© Democratic-Watch
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, April 9, 2010
Posted by susan thomson
[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 with an iron hand, and the brutal suppression of the rights of the majority of the Rwandan people (85% are Hutus), and mass-arrests and mass-murder by the RPF criminal organization.=> ASIF]
Instead of commemorating lives lost in Rwanda in 1994, Rwandan President Paul Kagame, launched into a negative attack on political freedoms and opposition politics. I remain concerned about the levels of hypocrisy exhibited by the ruling RPF and its agents. They want to call the genocide the "genocide of Tutsi" but then outlaw ethnicity so what happened in 1994 cannot be openly discussed. They want to claim (to international and domestic audiences alike) that the country is democratising, but then claim that democracy leads to genocide.
This article, which summarises Kagame's memorial day speech in Kigali, is reflective of elite hypocrisy....
"Foreigners imposing 'hooligans' like Ingabire on Rwanda" by Chief Editor.
In a 45-minute tirade, President Kagame fired at Ingabire, the west and the Generals.
"They call me Hitler... but I'm not bothered"
Kigali - President Paul Kagame on Wednesday accused foreign critics of trying to impose values on Rwanda as well as preferring 'hooligans' to govern the country -categorically singling-out opposition politician Ms. Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza, RNA reports.
In a fierry 45-minute address to mark the 16th anniversary of the 1994 Tutsi Genocide, Mr. Kagame accused the opposition - specifically naming Ms. Ingabire in person, of "political hooliganism". The President also accused the critics of "abusing me" in the name of freedom of expression, but said he is "not bothered at
all".
"Some people here want to encouraging political hooliganism," he said in English, before going into a tirade of attacks on Ingabire, as the crowd behind him was in onstant applause.
"Some people just come from nowhere...useless people...I see every time in pictures some lady who had her deputy - a Genocide criminal, talking about 'there is Genocide but there is another'...that is politics...and the world is also saying 'the opposition leader'..."
The President was referring to Mr. Joseph Ntawangundi, the aide to Ms. Ingabire who was recently sentenced to 17 years for Genocide.
"They call me Hitler"
In a culmination with loud applause and clapping from the audience, President added: "To that we say a big no. And if anybody wants a fight, then we will give them a fight".
The President dismissed the notion of free expression as promoted by his foreign critics such as campaign groups, saying Rwandans know what freedom means more than anybody else can teach them. He also attacked those he described as "constantly meddling in our politics" by propagating and making up "lies" about his government.The President warned his critics of hiding behind freedom of express to "abuse me" but also added that he does not "give a damn".
"They break tool, they call me Hitler...am not bothered at all...I just hold them in contempt," he said amid more applause. He wondered how his critics attack him and "at the same time complain about press freedom?"
"You are even free to abuse people, you have no respect for anything...and you turn around to complain that you have no freedom to express yourself? ...What more do you want to express about yourself or about others?"
"Ni watu gani awo?"
Mr. Kagame said "bad national politics converged with bad international politics" to cause what was being commemorated at today April 07 for the next three months.
"Who are these giving anyone here lessons honestly? ...Ni watu gani awo? ...who are these? ...are these Rwandans complaining? ...or have they sent you to complain on their behalf? ..." he wondered in a mixture of English, Kinyarwanda and Swahili, amid applause.
He added: "These Rwandans you see here and elsewhere are as free, as happy [and] as proud of themselves, like they have never been in their lives."
The President accused the west of preferring to criticize his government but do not want to be held responsible for their role in the Genocide. He also said the west was undermining "our dignity", "our values" and "our pride", arguing that democracy took time to get to the current level in their countries.
"They wake up in the morning, distort [the] situation, tell lies about everything...plus they are responsible for many of the things that put here today to commemorate this Genocide...," he said.
"...yet when they talk about freedom of expression, they don't want you to express yourself about their responsibility in this Genocide...What freedoms are you teaching me if you cant take responsibility for the politics that killed one million people in Rwanda."
The Generals He added: "I know those who say it and support that, know it is wrong. But [it] is an expression of contempt these people have for Rwandans and for Africans...that they think Africans deserve to be led by these hooligans."
Turning his guns on the government officials who are fleeing the country apparently complaining about "no political space", the President accused them of "running away from accountability".
"These Generals fleeing the country should not be taken seriously," he said, in apparent reference to ex-army chief Gen. Kayumba Nyamwasa, who has political asylum in South Africa.
Earlier, Sports and Culture Minister Joseph Habineza also attacked the man behind the Hollywood movie 'Hotel Rwanda'. Mr. Habineza did not name Mr. Paul Rusesabagina but was clearly referring to him.
Using poetic speech, the Minister also fired at the vocal opposition causing laughter in the otherwise somber occasion, saying they are blocking the reconciliation among Rwandans.
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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
04/09/2010
Posted by Ann Garisson
Rwanda Genocide: Honoring the Dead without Honoring the Lies
I published this article in Fog City Journal, which is read by San Francisco's powerful, Democratic, political elite, and by many of the rest of us out here in the cheap seats. I considered getting this piece into FCJ, along with a link to last week's KPFA Radio News about the 16th anniversary of the Rwanda Genocide a local victory in the battle for consciousness about Rwanda the wider war in the Great Lakes Region of Africa.
The San Francisco Bay Area consumes more of Rwanda/Congo's resources than the Rwandan and Congolese people. That's a no-brainer. All one need do is consider the defense and electronics industries clustered here, before considering all the cars, oil and natural gas, diamonds and gold, and more. All the hybrid cars and the natural gas power plants need cobalt.
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, April 7, 2010
"Aucun Témoin Ne Doit Survivre"
The increasing anger led to the Rwandan genocide....
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All of them died/got assassinated while being acting presidents. All of them got assassinated by the same killer or in complicity with Him.Who is that serial killer? Who is that mass-killer? Who killed and mass-murdered MILLIONS of innocent Rwandans beginning October 1,1990?
Tuesday, April 6, 2010
Mesdames, Messieurs
En cette journée où le Rwanda et la communauté internationale commémore le génocide rwandais, point de départ de grands bouleversements et de grandes turbulences en Afrique centrale, et en cette période durant laquelle la diplomatie française s’illustre par une offensive tous azimuts pour un rapprochement spectaculaire avec le Rwanda , l’Alliance des Patriotes pour la Refondation du Congo (APARECO) lance un appel solennel à la classe politique française pour que la France ne tombe pas dans le piège de la manipulation et ne se retrouve classée malgré elle, parmi ceux que la vérité inaltérable de l’Histoire considérera comme les complices de ceux qui ont conçu ou continuent à pratiquer des massacres à grande échelle dans la région des Grands Lacs.
Friday, April 2, 2010
By Bibiane Aningina Tshefu, Women’s Coordinator & Adviser, Friends of the Congo and Kambale Musavuli , Student Coordinator & Spokesperson, Friends of the Congo
Dear members of the international donor and diplomatic community who think you are supporting democracy and peace in Rwanda,
I know you are all busy, and much more important that academics and other analysts of Rwanda like me. I'll get straight to the point: Paul Kagame and his RPF are employing the same mechanisms and tactics of social and political control and ethnic exclusion that Habyarimana's regime did before the genocide.
There is little new about Kagame's "new" Rwanda that you support both morally and financially. You have a collective chance to intervene now that the Rwandan police have once again detained the leader of the main opposition party, Victoire Inagbire. See this report from AFP on her detention.
She has been summarily and systematically detained without cause since she returned to the country in January 2010.
I urge you to use your diplomatic resources to compare Kagame's speeches in English (incendiary againt the opposition but generally respecting Ingabire's right to be a politician) and Kinyarwanda. In his speeches for Rwandans are broadcast on Radio Rwanda in Kinyarwanda. The broad conclusion is that he uses the memory of the 1994 genocide to intimidate people.
He also uses inflammatory ethnic language; the same language he accuses Ingabire and other opposition politicians of using to incite violence in Rwanda. I am not saying he is purposefully inciting violence, but he is actively promoting a climate of fear and insecurity that is contrary to the content of his English language speeches, which presumably are made for our (international audiences) consumption.
There is considerable evidence of a positive correlation between democratic change and infrastructural economic development.It is ironic that Rwanda, one of the poorest countries The scope of the evolving catastrophe has been widely advertised. The greatest lie ever told about fraudulent statistics through award-winning benefits such as RPF bllodwashing awards daily ditributed around the world telling the world community that: "The Economci growth of the Rwandan Economy raises of 10% each year"! Watch the video here next:
Rwanda : eau insalubre
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[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 with an iron hand, and the brutal suppression of the rights of the majority of the Rwandan people (85% are Hutus), and mass-arrests and mass-murder by the RPF criminal organization.=> ASIF]
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.