[Since 1994, the world witnesses the horrifying reality : the Tutsi minority (14%) ethnic domination, the Tutsi minority ethnic rule, tyranny and corruption in Rwanda. The current government has been characterized by the total impunity of RPF criminals, the Tutsi economic monopoly, the Tutsi militaristic domination with an iron hand, and the brutal suppression of the rights of the majority of the Rwandan people (85% are Hutus), mass-arrests and mass-murder by the RPF criminal organization.
So long as justice and accountability for RPF past and current crimes are ignored and delayed, Peace and Stability will remain illusive and impossible in Rwanda=>ASIF]






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March 2 UN Mapping Exercise Congressional Briefing on Cong 
1. March 2 Congressional Briefing on D.R. Congo - Welcome by Emira Woods 
 2. Jacques Bahati's Introductory Remarks
 
 3. Nita Evele's Introductory Remarks

4.Claude Gatebuke's Introductory Remarks

5.  Nii Akuetteh's Introductory Recommendations


6.Recommendations for Congress read by Kambale Musavuli

7.Congolese Embassy's Comment



8.UN expert from the Mapping Exercise shares

9.Congolese Senator Bernadette Mafuta Nkoy's


10.Q&A with the panelists round 1

11.Republican Congresswoman Ann Marie Buerkle Breaks Her Silence at the Congo Briefing
 
12.Audience Comment on the situation in the Congo

13.Rwandans' questions to the panelists

14.A Call for justice in the Congo to Rwandan Women

15. Closing Remarks

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US Congressional Briefing to Address Justice and Stability
in the Congo and Great Lakes Region of Africa, March 2, 2011

When: 2 - 4 P.M. Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Where:
Room 2226 Rayburn House Office Building
45 Independence Ave SW
Washington, DC 20515

RSVP: events@friendsofthecongo.org or 202-584-6512, Please take action and joign us or send your memo to the US Congress.

Resource for your lecture?

Did America Conspire to Cover Up a Genocide in the Congo?
http://shar.es/3J9zh

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/02/19/947096/-Did-America-Conspire-to-Cover-Up-a-Genocide-in-the-Congo

 Congressional Briefing to Address Justice and Stability
in the Congo and Great Lakes Region of Africa

The United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNOHCHR) released the official "Report of the Mapping Exercise" in October 2010. The report documents "the most serious violations of human rights and international humanitarian law committed within the territory of the Democratic Republic of the Congo between March 1993 and June 2003". Over 200 Congolese organizations have appealed to the international community to support and address the report.

Human Rights Watch executive director, Kenneth Roth says: "If followed by strong regional and international action, this report could make a major contribution to ending the impunity that lies behind the cycle of atrocities in the Great Lakes region of Africa."

Philip J. Crowley, Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Public Affairs said: "The United States is firmly committed to helping the DRC and other nations in the region take positive steps to end the corrosive cycle of violence and impunity."
The United States has a key role to play in making sure that justice is delivered to the people of Central Africa. US tax dollars fund US allies, Rwanda and Uganda who are deeply implicated in mass atrocities, crimes against humanity, war crimes and possibly genocide in the Congo.

The American taxpayers should be assured that their tax dollars are not supporting mass atrocities in Africa and perpetuating a war, which has killed an estimated 6 million people, making it the deadliest conflict since World War II. The Congressional briefing can serve as a first step in delivering justice to the people in the heart of Africa.

Who: African Great Lakes Advocacy Coalition (Africa Faith and Justice Network, Friends of the Congo, Foreign Policy in Focus, African Great Lakes Action Network, Hotel Rwanda Rusesabagina Foundation, Foundation for Freedom and Democracy in Rwanda, Congo Global Action Coalition, International Humanitarian Law Institute of St. Paul, Mobilization for Peace and Justice in Congo)

What: Briefing on the UN Mapping Exercise Report and its Implications for US Policy in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Region

Speakers:
Brian Endless, Hotel Rwanda Rusesabagina Foundation
Bahati Jacques, Africa Faith and Justice Network
Nita Evele, Congo Global Action Coalition
Nii Akuetteh, Africa Policy Analyst
Emira Woods, Foreign Policy in Focus at the Institute of Policy Studies
When: 2 - 4 P.M. Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Where:
Room 2226 Rayburn House Office Building
45 Independence Ave SW
Washington, DC 20515
RSVP: events@friendsofthecongo.org  or 202-584-6512

For more information, please visit http://www.friendsofthecongo.org/ or http://www.afjn.org 

Please encourage your Congressional representatives and their staff to attend. Click here to find your representative's contact.

Join the global call for justice for the Congo.

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Tony Blair  has proudly announced he is there to advise President Kagame

How Blair distances Himself  from Kagame criminal activities

 Tony Blair : Leave the country. Get out of here. All crimes committed by Paul Kagame since Tony Blair has taken Office as the Rwandan dictator's adviser in Kigali must by blamed to HIM. Since Tony Blair works as Kagame's adviser, he is responsible for the national instability. The International Court that will be established for RPF criminals will have to make sure that it is able to conclude its investigation on all matters. If crimes have been committed, they should be investigated.  The investigation should be pursued no matter where it may lead. No decent person doubts that  Paul Kagame HAS to be pursued and brought to justice for his criminals activities he's accused for.
Therefore, Tony Blair, Paul Kagame's adviser should be pursued for assassinations, forced deportations of Rwandans, theft and other financial offenses and for other criminal activities. Rwandans are not searching  for hateful past - but  for justice.
We were wrong to support dictators, admits David Cameron. 
Britain and the West made "false choices" to support oppressive regimes that trampled on human rights, David Cameron admitted.

Carroll Bogert

 And some of the world’s most admired figures have been his most ardent admirers for years. Bill Clinton has called Kagame “one of the greatest leaders of our time” who “freed the hearts and minds of his people to think about the future,” and bestowed his Global Citizen award on the Rwandan president last year. Tony Blair, who acts as an advisor to Kagame, recently praised the “visionary leadership” of “my good friend Paul Kagame,” while his former UK development minister, Clare Short, reportedly referred to Kagame as “such a sweetie.”
 Now that the RPF/Paul Kagame and Yoweri Museveni crimes are being exposed, U.S.-created "impunity" for the last 20-years of these crimes in the Great Lakes Region begins to verge on U.S "complicity." A complete reversal of U.S. policy is necessary, and soon.
Read more next Here

 It is obvious that if there was a plan of killing innocent people, the mastermind is Kagame and Museveni. The role played by Clinton administartion and Tony Blair is not to be.
With respect to the United Nations Report officially released October 1, showing the role of the RPF and other parties in genocide against Hutus in the Congo (1993-2003). 



 Tony Blair to earn millions as climate changeadviser

The former prime minister will be paid at least £700,000 a year to act as a “strategic adviser” to Khosla Ventures, a venture capitalist firm founded by Indian billionaire Vinod Khosla.
The Californian company bankrolls businesses hoping to profit from technology that helps reduce global warming and carbon emissions.


Rwanda or Paul Kagame splurges on luxury jets

Kagame luxury jets

Former British prime minister Tony Blair is understood to have been a passenger on the aircraft on several occasions.

 Andrew Siebert, a US-based plane spotter, photographed the aircraft at Boeing Field in Seattle last June. "Everyone here knows the jets are for the use of Rwandan president Paul Kagame and other government officials, and belong to his government," said a well-placed source at Lanseria, who asked not to be named.

"ExecuJet maintains the jet on behalf of Repli Investments and whenever Kagame needs to get to Europe, the UK or the US, the Rwandan government 'charters' this plane (ZS-XRS) from ExecuJet," said the sou


“...the supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole”, as defined by the prosecutors at Nuremberg following the defeat of the Nazis.
Tony Blair should brought before the International Tribunal.
 ...The initiative includes placing officials hired by Blair in Rwanda's institutions such as the president's policy unit, the prime minister's office, the cabinet secretariat and the development board to assist with administration. Blair is leading a similar programme in Sierra Leone and Liberia, and says he intends to expand it to other African countries.

But the relationship has come under increasing scrutiny following a UN report that accused Kagame's forces of war crimes, including possibly genocide, in the east of Democratic Republic of Congo, and charges that the Rwandan government is increasingly authoritarian after the opposition was effectively barred from challenging Kagame in August's presidential election. The White House has criticized Kagame for the suppression of political activity and made clear that it does not regard Rwanda as democratic.

However, there is also concern that a rising generation of Hutu's will increasingly feel shut out of the political process, deepening ethnic divisions once again as the majority of Rwandans increasingly accuse Tony Blair of rebuilding the Tutsi domination in Rwanda. A criminal act that undoubtedly will lead to the war between both major ethnic groups.

Mr Blair – who has made at least £20million since leaving Downing Street – has a commercial consultancy, called Tony Blair Associates, plus paid jobs advising a US bank and a Swiss insurer. Mr Blair has so far refused to discuss what these financial structures, centered on a pair of mysterious limited partnerships, are for.

Tony Blair: of what help is he to Rwanda?
 
Tony Blair, Rick Warren and anyone else participating in the active or passive oppression of Rwandans, need to be reminded that Paul Kagame is not God. He maybe charismatic, a “visionary” and a brilliant military strategist, but he cannot govern Rwanda without popular consent. He is not immortal, and his destiny is not intertwined with that of Rwanda.

Like any other public official before him, however ruthless he may be, he will soon have to leave. What would be better at this time would be for these well meaning friends of Rwanda, to take a comfortable backseat, steer clear of Rwandan politics and let Rwandans decide their destiny.
Ends.

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

Ibarwa abanyeshuli bo muli KIE bandikiye Kagame

Twebwe abanyeshuri bo mu Ishuri rikuru rya Kigali Institute of Education(KIE), kuri wowe Nyakubahwa Paul Kagame, Perezida wa Repubulika y'Urwanda ;
Tukwandikiye kugira ngo tukumenyeshe ko dufite akababaro kenshi duterwa n'uko uburezi bwifashe nabi mu gihugu cyacu muri rusange no mu kigo cyacu cya KIE ku buryo bw'umwihariko :

IBIBAZO

1. Gukuraho inguzanyo twahabwaga na Leta byashyize abanyeshuri b'abakene mu kaga gakomeye. Benshi bahagaritse kwiga kubera kubura ubushobozi bwo kwirihira ,ubu bari mu ngo iwabo kandi barababaye bitavugwa.

2. Umunyeshuri mugenzi wacu witwa Mbarushimana Eugène aherutse kwiyahura taliki ya 31 Mutarama 2011 kubera ukwiheba yatewe no gukurwa ku rutonde rw'abagomba guhabwa iyo nguzanyo. Urwo rupfu rw'umusore w'imyaka 20 gusa, w'imfubyi, rwaradushegeshe cyane.Ministre w'Uburezi nta cyo yakoze kigaragara ngo atwegere, aduhumurize kandi ahumurize n'abo mu muryango wa nyakwigendera. Byatweretse ko nta mutima w'ababyeyi yifitemo, ntabwo rero akwiye gushingwa uburezi.

3. Bamwe mu banyeshuri bo mu mashuri makuru baramwegereye bamugezaho impungenge zacu, nyuma y'uko bitangajwe ko Leta itazatanga inguzanyo yo gufasha abakene kwiga. Aho kugira ngo Leta idusobanurire impamvu zumvikana zatumye hafatwa icyemezo nk'icyo kidufiteho ingaruka zikomeye, Ministre Muligande yahisemo kutwishongoraho ngo « ntabwo leta ikeneye abo badashoboye kwirihira amashuri ». Ayo magambo mabi yuje agasuzuguro yaduciye intege cyane ataretse no kutwumvisha ko Leta yacu itatwitayeho na busa. Ni yo mpamvu dusaba ko Muligande ko yakwegura tugahabwa undi ukunda abantu n'umurimo.

4. Benshi muri twe ntibagishobora kubona icyo barya n'aho bacumbika. Tugerageza kwirwanaho uko dushoboye mbese nk'intama zitagira umushumba. Hari abajya ibihe byo kuryama, bagasimburana ku gitanda kimwe ari bane cyangwa batanu, mu ijoro rimwe. Hariho abajya ibihe byo kurya kuko bakoresha ikarita imwe ya restaurant : ifunguro ry'umwe bakarisaranganya ari batutu cyangwa bane. Ni ukuri kwambaye ubusa : hari abanyeshuri bo mu mashuri makuru bageze aho barya rimwe mu minsi itatu. Turibwira ko inkuru y'abasigaye bitura hasi bagahemburwa n'imiti yo mu bitaro yamenyekanye. Ni nde wundi utumva ko umunyeshuri waraye adasinziriye akagerekaho no kuba adaheruka kurya adashobora kwiga ngo agire icyo afata mu mutwe, uretse Ministre Muligande Charles ?

 

5. Abarimu bacu bahembwa nabi bigatuma bajya gutera ibiraka ahantu henshi kugira ngo bahangane n'ikibazo cy'ibiciro bihora bizamuka muri iki gihugu.Kubera iyo mpamvu, umusaruro wabo uba muke kuko batabona umwanya uhagije wo gutegura amasomo no kuyatanga uko bikwiye.Imfashanyigisho bahabwa zidahagije ni ikibazo cyabajijwe kenshi kitigeze gisubizwa.

6. Ihindagurwa rya porogaramu zakunze gukorwa mu buhubutsi no mu kajagari gakomeye rikomeje kutugiraho ingaruka mbi. Ingero ni nyinshi, reka tuvuge zimwe muri zo :

a.Ikibazo cyo kwiga mu cyongereza, twigishwa n'abarimu batize mu cyongereza batanagihuguwemo bihagije byatumye dusubira inyuma cyane mu bumenyi. Benshi mu barimu bategura amasomo yabo mu gifaransa, bakayashyira kuri murandasi akaba ari yo iyahindura mu cyongereza kitumvikana na busa, bakabijugunyira abanyashuri ngo birwarize.

b.Ibyo guhindura umwaka w'amashuri aho gutangira muri Nzeri nk'uko byari bisanzwe , ugatangira muri Mutarama, muzi akavuyo byateje , hakiyongeraho n'ingorane twahuye nazo zijyanye no kwiga mu kwezi kwa 7 n'ukwa 8 kandi haba hashyushye cyane.

c.Ku byerekeye amashuri yisumbuye : gukuraho internat ni icyemezo giteye ingorane nyinshi.Tuzi ukuntu Internat yafashaga abana gucumbikirwa, kugaburirwa, guhabwa uburere bwiza, guhabwa ibyangombwa byorohereza umwana ugitangira amashuri yisumbuye kwiga atuje (nk'amazi n'amashanyarazi), kudakora ingendo za buri munsi mu mvura n'izuba...Icyo cyemezo ngo cyari kije gufasha ababyeyi kudatanga amafaranga menshi y'ishuri ariko umusaruro wacyo mubi waragaragaye :ubumenyi buri ku rwego rwo hasi, uburere bwarahazahariye ! Ubwo se inyungu ya gahunda nk'iyo iri he ?

d.Raporo y'Inteko ishinga amategeko yagaragaje bisadubirwaho, nyuma y'igenzura ryakozwe mu 2009, ko ubumenyi butangwa n'amashuri makuru na Kaminuza yo mu Rwanda bwasubiye inyuma cyane y'urugero rukenewe. Nyamara nyuma y'isohoka ry'iyo raporo, nta ngamba zafashwe zo gukemura ibyo bibazo. Kubera iyo mpamvu turasaba ko Ministre Muligande yakweguzwa.

7. Last but not least : Kwimwa uburenganzira bwo kuvuga icyo umuntu atekereza no kujya mu mashyirahamwe anyuranye bikomeje guca urubyiruko mo ibice.

Mu bigaragarira amaso ya buri wese, abanyeshuri bitwa « Abacitse ku icumu rya jenoside yakorewe Abatutsi » muri mata 1994, nibo bonyine bafite uburenganzira bwo kuvuga icyo bashaka, bagakorera no mu mashyirahamwe yabo nka AERG ntawe ubahagaze hejuru. Nyamara twarabisesenguye dusanga na bo nta bwisanzure na busa bafite. Bahawe gusa uruhushya rwo gutekereza nka FPR , guhitisha amatangazo yayo, kuvuga ko byose bigenda neza mu gihugu n'aho baba batabyemera no kuneka ibyo bagenzi babo b'Abahutu bakora. Muri twebwe abanyeshuri bacitse ku icumu, hari benshi bamaze kubirambirwa, tukaba twifuza gufatwa nk'abandi.

Abanyeshuri bo mu bwoko bw'Abahutu tubujijwe gutekereza no kugaragaza icyo dutekereza. Nta n'ubwo twemerewe kugira ishyirahamwe duhuriramo. Iyo tugize ingorane tugahurira hamwe turi bane cyangwa batanu, tukamara iminota nka 30 tuganira, ubwo raporo ihita itangwa ko habonetse umutwe ukora inama zitemewe zigamije guhungabanya umutekano w'igihugu no gukwirakwiza ingengabitekerezo ya jenoside. Abafunzwe muri ubwo buryo si bake kandi bari bakwiye kurenganurwa bidatinze. Uko guhora duhagaritse umutima amanywa n'ijoro turabirambiwe, nta mbaraga nta n'ubushake tugifite bwo kubyihanganira.

Tuzi neza ko icyo kibazo gikururwa na Leta kuko ari yo imaze imyaka isaga 17 ikandagira ubwo burenganzira bwo kwishyira ukizana umuntu wese avukana. Dusanga kandi icyo kibazo cyaragize uruhare mu kongera umubare w'abanyeshuri b'abarakare ku buryo ntawe byazatungura bihaye guhangana na Leta. Ministre Muligande kimwe n'abamubanjirije ntacyo yakoze ngo gikemuke, akwiye kwegura.

 

IBYIFUZO :

Dushingiye ku byo tumaze kubagezaho, Nyakubahwa Perezida wa Repubulika, turasanga:

1. Ministre Muligande mwari mukwiye kumuvanaho, mukaduha undi ushoboye akazi kandi ufite ubushake bwo kwegera abanyeshuri, guteza imbere uburere n'uburezi.

2. Mwakagombye kumenya ko abanyeshuri bose ari Abanyarwanda kandi ko bagomba kureshya imbere y'amategeko. Guhitamo bamwe bagafashwa na Leta abandi bakibagirana ni akarengane tubona ko kabyara amacakubiri ashobora kuzadusenyera igihugu mu gihe kizaza.

3. Turasaba ko abanyashuri bose bimwe inguzanyo ya Leta bayihabwa, abaretse kwiga bakagarurwa mu ishuri mu maguru mashya,bitagombye kugibwaho impaka.

ICYEMEZO:

Twiyemeje kwiga tubishizeho umuhate no kwakira uburere bwiza dutozwa kugira ngo tuzagirire igihugu cyacu akamaro. Ntitubona neza impamvu Leta yahitamo kuduca intege.

Gusa rero ibintu bikomeje kugenda nk'uko bimeze muri iki gihe, byatuma duhaguruka tukajya mu myigaragambyo,wenda tukaraswa, ariko tukazayihagarika ari uko bihindutse.

Bikorewe i Kigali, taliki ya 21 Gashyantare 2011.

Abiyemeje kuvugira abandi muri KIE:

Mutwewingabo Samson

Nyinawingoma Maryse

Bisengimana Joseph

Uwabikira Pauline

 The Truth can be buried and stomped into the ground where none can see, yet eventually it will, like a seed, break through the surface once again far more potent than ever, and Nothing can stop it. Truth can be suppressed for a "time", yet It cannot be destroyed. ==> Wolverine

 By Charles Kambanda, PhD



[Since 1994, the world witnesses the horrifying reality : the Tutsi minority (14%) ethnic domination, the Tutsi minority ethnic rule, tyranny and corruption in Rwanda. The current government has been characterized by the total impunity of RPF criminals, the Tutsi economic monopoly, the Tutsi militaristic domination with an iron hand, and the brutal suppression of the rights of the majority of the Rwandan people (85% are Hutu's), mass-arrests and mass-murder by the RPF criminal organization.
So long as justice and accountability for RPF past and current crimes are ignored and delayed, Peace and Stability will remain illusive and impossible in Rwanda=>ASIF]




 In controversy is the Minister of Health’s announcement of what the government of Rwanda calls voluntary vasectomies (sterilizing) of 700,000 males between 2011 and 2013. The target group is men who cannot pay bills for their children’s upkeep. The poor who make over 75% of Rwanda’s population are only uncertain of when their males will be sterilized.

They are carefully listening to the Kagame envoy. A couple of hours before getting slaughtered. So afraid of dying. Compare this to 200% chances of being killed

In issue is not whether the country needs sound family planning policy. Whether the political elite will stick to voluntary vasectomies is the main concern. Conceptualizing “voluntary” vasectomies in Rwanda’s contemporary public policy, history gloss and politics is utterly crucial. The timing of sterilizing 700,000 males raises red flags. In Rwanda’s social political environment that swivels on passivity, apathy, suspicion and docile citizenry with militarized “civil society”, securing free will of the males to be sterilized boarders insanity.
Who is the poor?
The deprived are the Twa (a secluded ethnic group). The needy are the Hutu peasants who survived the Congo refugee camps massacres. The hard-up in Rwandan society are those few Tutsi survivors of genocide who have not benefited from the genocide survivors’ fund. The underprivileged are the Hutu populace that was uprooted from their land, without compensation, under the habitant and land reform government policy.

The poor are those Tutsi returnees who have no close relations in the Tutsi dominated government. The bitter fact is that poverty in Rwanda runs along the country’s ethnic divides. The poor are mostly victims of the country’s unresolved ethnic and power sharing crisis.

History is seldom a bad teacher. However, people are hardly good students of history. Rwanda’s post independence history, not different from the country’s pre-independence era, insinuates a constant fight between the Hutu (majority ethnic group, about 86%) and the Tutsi (minority ethnic group about 14%). The Twa are hardly 1%.

Growing or dropping in numbers of either ethnic group is an issue for each ethnic group’s political and physical survival. The Hutu-Tutsi co-existence failed on win-win modus operandi. The victor seeks to depopulate the looser, at least to delay the other ethnic group’s violent return into power.

War crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide have long been a “social engineering” and depopulation strategy geared at incapacitating the loser in the country’s power grabbing paradigm. In 1959 it was some Hutu’s turn to ‘depopulate’ the Tutsi.

In the 1980s a Hutu led government flocked the Tutsi to cannibals and crocodiles in the country’s national park – Akagera. Although scholars disagree on whether the 1994 genocide was committed by only the Hutu against the Tutsi, the scholars appear to concur that genocide was a strategy to “tame” the enemy’s unmanageable and unwanted population.

The brutal massacres of the Hutu refugees in Congo, that the United Nations’ Mapping report accuses the Tutsi dominated Rwandan troops of, could also be viewed from this perspective. With growing international enforcement of laws on war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide, Rwandan society appears vulnerable to apparent legal methods of birth control like “voluntary” vasectomies; to achieve the traditional ethnic depopulation conspiracy.

Sociologists, philosophers and psychologists have long discussed whether a poor person can make choices. Do the poor have a free will? Rwandan government does not appear uptight about this paradox. The poor, who cannot nourish their children are said to be going for “voluntary” vasectomies. This is the proverbial hiding of the head in the sand.
If poverty be a criterion for vasectomies, free will cannot exist.

If the policy be voluntary, the 700,000 men (specific) target contradicts what the government of Rwanda calls voluntary vasectomies. Last year, 2010, the vice-president of Rwanda’s Parliament marketed, in vain, a policy proposal for compulsory sterilization of the “socially retarded” Rwandans. It took excessive efforts by international human rights organization to thwart the policy proposal. The 2011“voluntary” vasectomies policy may be a continuum of the 2010 policy proposal.

Public policy analysts consent that current latent public policy ideas and motives, of any country, must be read in similar previous policy. First, the government of Rwanda implemented the habitant and land reform policy. People were supposed to abandon their traditional homestead and go to live in settlement centers – imidugudu. The previous homesteads were meant to be for farming. Initially the government called it a voluntary policy.

Implementation of this policy turned out forceful and inhuman. Some government officials snatched victory in the jazz of defeat; they grabbed the land people had abandoned for settlement centers. Second, the government’s policy of what was called voluntary sharing of land between owners (Hutu) and the returnees (Tutsi) ended into forceful grabbing of land from the Hutu in many regions of the country. Will vasectomies of the unprivileged males be voluntary as the government suggests?

Self-propagation is a basic need and right. However, producing excessive children, like many Rwandans do, is a symptom of insecurity and poverty. There is a general demographic pattern for the well-off to produce between one to three children. The deprived generally produce more than six children. It is no surprise that in a country like Rwanda, where about 75% of the population survives on less that $1 a day, population is increasing by 3% per annum. If quantity of the population be a problem, vasectomies are not a durable solution.
The first beneficiary of development is the human person.

Quality of a country’s human resources and not quantity is what matters. Investing in human development is the only sustainable solution. Rwandan government has sustained one of the most expensive wars in Africa. It is well documented that Rwanda has one of the biggest and most armed military in the Great region of Africa. Rwanda runs the most expensive President personal security unit in Africa. Rwanda’s economy is said to be doing well. Ironically, money is available. How does quantity of the population become a problem that requires dire questionable voluntary vasectomies?

Human history demonstrates habitual failure by some leaders to reconcile existence of the poor in an environment the political leadership project as prosperous. Adolf Hitler exterminated the Gypsies along side the Jews because the Gypsies (the poor) would negate the economic prosperity of the Germany (the Volk). The world takes serious protection of the poor.
Crime against humanity

Denying people the right to self propagation on basis of their failure to meet costs for their children ought to be an issue of utmost concern for the international community. Targeting the poor with vasectomy is presumed forceful because the poor always lack free will. Vasectomy in this unique Rwandan context might amount to a crime against humanity. The essence and function of government is redistributing resources and power among the citizens. Vasectomy in Rwandan context manifests government failure to perform its core functions and responsibilities. The policy mirrors incivility, lack of public conscience and negates the basic ethical tenets.

© Charles KM KAMBANDA, Dip.Phil., BA., LLB., MA.ETPM., MBA., MA.HRTs., .LLM, PhD
St. John’s University Law School
LLM Center
 New York, US

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 reality : the Tutsi minority (14%) ethnic domination, the Tutsi minority ethnic rule, tyranny and corruption in Rwanda. The current government has been characterized by the total impunity of RPF criminals, the Tutsi economic monopoly, the Tutsi militaristic domination with an iron hand, and the brutal suppression of the rights of the majority of the Rwandan people (85% are Hutu's), mass-arrests and mass-murder by the RPF criminal organization.
So long as justice and accountability for RPF past and current crimes are ignored and delayed, Peace and Stability will remain illusive and impossible in Rwanda=>ASIF]



Afgelopen week bezocht Ben Knapen, staatssecretaris van Buitenlandse Zaken, Rwanda. Na een onderhoud met de president, vloog hij met de minister van landbouw naar Musanze, in het noorden van Rwanda. Hier heeft hij onder andere gesproken met aardappelboeren die via de landbouworganisatie Imbaraga door Agriterra ondersteund worden. 
  

Aardappels zijn in het noorden van Rwanda, samen met maïs, de belangrijkste landbouwproducten. Imbaraga probeert, met ondersteuning van Agriterra, de kwaliteit en kwantiteit van de aardappelproductie van haar leden te verbeteren. Dit probeert ze onder andere te bereiken door advies te leveren bij het opstellen van bedrijfsplannen, door informatievoorziening en het (tegen een kleine prijs) beschikbaar stellen van pootgoed, kunstmest en consumptieaardappelen.

Vorig jaar was Imbaraga één van de drijvende krachten achter de eerste aardappeldagen van het Grote Merengebied, een manifestatie die met financiële ondersteuning van Agriterra is georganiseerd. Tijdens dit vijfdaagse evenement in Congo konden boeren uit Rwanda, Burundi en Congo relaties leggen met handelaren, kennis en ervaringen uitwisselen en knelpunten in de aardappelketen bespreken. De eerste aardappeldagen waren zeer succesvol en leerzaam en gaan daarom in juni op herhaling, deze keer in Rwanda.

Op de foto (van het Ministerie van Buitenlandse Zaken) laat aardappelboer Joseph, lid van Imbaraga, aan Knapen zijn producten zien: gewassen aardappelen in mandjes, geschikt voor de supermarkt in Kigali, de hoofdstad van Rwanda.


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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

Kleine Kerk in Wilnis dorp

 




Iedereen was van harte welkom op deze oecumenische viering die in de Kleine Kerk werd gehouden.






 
© Martin Kroon.

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