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
Saturday, January 16, 2010
Le Comité National de l’APARECO s’est réuni ce samedi 21 novembre 2009 en vue d’analyser les documents officiels de l’État-major Général des Forces Armées de la République Démocratique du Congo (FARDC) relatifs à la «Réarticulation et COMDT des unités OPS KIMIA II Sud Kivu», et l’«organigramme OPS KIMIA II Sud Kivu», en vue d’en tirer toutes les conséquences qui s’imposent. Ces documents officiels, et donc secrets, détaillant la mise en place des officiers des forces armées congolaises déployées dans la zone de combat au Sud Kivu nous ont été communiqués par les officiers congolais patriotes et résistants au sein même de l’État-major Général des FARDC.
Thursday, January 14, 2010
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[De Antwerpse burgemeester Patrick Janssens is voorstander van het invoeren van een huwelijksleeftijd. Dat zou volgens hem de kans verhogen dat jongeren van allochtone origine in het huwelijksbootje treden met iemand die onze taal en normen kent en dus geïntegreerd is.
Janssens deed die opmerkelijke uitspraak in het vakblad 'Samenleving en politiek'. Janssens noemt geen vaste leeftijd maar vindt het wel een item waarover om twee redenen moet nagedacht worden.
Ten eerste verhogen zo de kansen dat allochtonen trouwen met iemand "die de taal, de gebruiken, waarden en normen kent", meent de burgervader. "Bovendien wordt de familiale druk bij jongeren weggenomen om snel te trouwen."]
Partnerchoice Sign Of Integration?
It has become the consensus among the Dutch political elite to openly say that choosing a partner from abroad equals unwillingness to integrate. The small Dutch coaltion party ChristenUnie's former scientific institute director Roel Kuiper recently stated:
Sommige allochtone groepen zoeken nog altijd huwelijkspartners in het land van herkomst. "Is dat kiezen voor Nederland?"
Translated:
Some (allochtoon= someone with one parent born abroad) groups still look for a partner in their country of origin. "Is that choosing the Netherlands?"
First of all I remind the readers that Article 8 of the European Treaty of Human Rights asks all the European memberstates to respect the family life of all it's citizens. Governmen interference based on the above doubts concerning the willingness to integrate are not mentioned as grounds to refuse these fundamental rights.
Secondly, "choosing for the Netherlands" is exactedly what the partner from the country of origin is doing. She or he is intending to move to the Netherlands and live with his or her spouse here in the Netherlands.
Apparently "choosing for the Netherlands" means something else in Roel Kuiper's mind. Apparently a good citizen should choose a Dutch partner. And he praises the efforts of the Dutch integration minister Albayrak to limit to a maximum the number of foreign brides from Turkey and Maroc. On a sidenote, in practice this sounds very similar to the interference in family life during communism. The protection of family life by the European Treay of human rights and fundamental liberties (article 8) is clear: there are only very limited reasons government interference into family can be acceptable. The reason of not "choosing for the Netherlands" is certainly not one of them. Nobody moving from the UK that moves to the Netherlands can be forced to "choose for the Netherlands".
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
His Excellency Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero
President of the European Union
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His Excellency, Dr. Herman Van Rompuy
President of the European Council
Rue de la Loi 175,
B-1048 Brussels
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His Excellency, Dr. Jose Manuel Durao Barroso
President, European Commission
Rue de la loi 200
B- 1049 Brussels
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His Excellency, Dr. Karel de Gutch
European Commissioner for Development and Humanitarian Aid
Berlaymont 10/165
B- 1049 Brussels
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Your Excellencies:
RE: 2010 Presidential Elections and Human Rights in Rwanda
African SurViVors International (ASI) is an international nonprofit charitable organization based in The Netherlands. ASI deeply values Democracy and the principles of international Human Rights.
• The Declaration of the European Union on the 50th anniversary of the Universal Declaration on Human Rights stipulates:
Monday, January 11, 2010
11-01-2010
Marianne2.fr
[Dans son acte de traitrise, M. Bernard Kouchner est le premier dirigeant français qui s'en fiche et se moque de l'assassinat de ses compatriotes pour ses intérêts personnels et ceux de son président Nicolas Sarkozy.
Les Français regreteront toute leur vie pour avoir élu des étrangers à la direction de leur pays. Quelle honte! Le Général Charles de Gaulle est dans les oubliettes]. Kouchner s'en fiche. il n'est pas un élu des Français
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Question
Qui croira en son humanisme lorsque il promène les Afghans au coeur de la France pendant que des veuves françaises crient Justice.
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Le Ministre des Affaires étrangères a entamé sa tournée africaine par Kigali, où il a assisté, impassible à l'humiliation diplomatique de la France par le régime de Kagamé, qui poursuit son offensive afin d'obtenir l'annulation du jugement qui accuse ses collaborateurs de terrorisme.
[Dans son acte de traitrise, M. Bernard Kouchner est le premier dirigeant français qui s'en fiche et se moque de l'assassinat de ses compatriotes pour ses intérêts personnels et ceux de son président Nicolas Sarkozy.
Les Français regreteront toute leur vie pour avoir élu des étrangers à la direction de leur pays. Quelle honte! Le Général Charles de Gaulle est dans les oubliettes]. Kouchner s'en fiche. il n'est pas un élu des Français
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Qui croira en son humanisme lorsque il promène les Afghans au coeur de la France pendant que des veuves françaises crient Justice.
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Le Ministre des Affaires étrangères a entamé sa tournée africaine par Kigali, où il a assisté, impassible à l'humiliation diplomatique de la France par le régime de Kagamé, qui poursuit son offensive afin d'obtenir l'annulation du jugement qui accuse ses collaborateurs de terrorisme.
Saturday, January 9, 2010
09-01-2010
In Philip Gourevitch’s post to The New Yorker of 8 January 2010, he describes the just-released Mutsinzi Commission Report on the 6 April 1994 missile strike against the Rwandan presidential jet that killed two duly-elected Hutu heads of state, the presidents of Rwanda and Burundi, the Chief of Staff of the Rwandan Army, and their entourages, as well as the French flight crew, as ‘remarkable’ and ‘an extraordinary historical and political document.’ There’s a certain ‘last days of Bernie Madoff’ tone to Gourvitch’s writing—like he can hear history's Five-O coming up his back stairs and he’s got to put out this one last ‘the check is in the mail’ pitch rationalizing his long since debunked historical pyramid scheme on the Rwanda genocide of April-July 1994 before they book ‘im, Dano.
Even the ‘Dallaire fax,’ which is the source of the title to Gourevitch’s On the Town in Kigali gossip-novel, ‘We Wish to Inform You . . .’ has been shown by our own Chris Black to be a fabrication, long after the fact, of British MI6. His The New Yorker (sl)easy style, which glosses over historical irrationalities with bathos and lurid sentimentality, is not enough to hide just how bereft of any decent concern for the real victims his ‘victims justice’ agit-prop really is. His evidence-free insinuation that Mme Habyarimana aided and abetted in the murder of her husband, the President, and the others on board the Falcon 50, if not actionable, is certainly unspeakable.
Thursday, January 7, 2010
7/1/2010
Missionaries for peace in two Kivus say no to military solution and yes to export control of Congolese minerals and dialogue with local peoples
Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "After the November 2009 report of the Group of United Nations experts on the situation in North and South Kivu, in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the great powers of the earth can no longer pretend to ignore what happens there," said a statement sent to Fides, from the Network "Peace for Congo," sponsored by the Xaverian missionaries operating in the Kivu regions.
The Other Side of Gender:
Masculinity Issues in Violent Conflict
Friday, January 15, 2010, 12:00pm-1:30pm
Location:
U.S. Institute of Peace
2nd floor
1200 17th Street NW
Washington, D.C. 20036
Directions
The study of gender is often assumed to be about women. Increasingly, however, researchers and development practitioners are demonstrating the importance of addressing the other side of gender--men and issues of masculinity--particularly when it comes to violent conflict. The extreme sexual violence used as a weapon of war in the DRC has brought this gendered lens to the forefront. We realize that any proposed solutions to the problem are incomplete without understanding the underlying predicaments and motivations of men and boys, as well as the often complex relationships between men and women in these societies.
Defeated; Kabila Regime Under Siege on Multiple Fronts
[This title is an updated version of the December 22 publication:
"Belgian Paratroopers to Crush Rising Congo Rebellion?"]
6 January 2010
A rising alliance calling themselves "The Resistance Patriots of Dongo" (Patriotes-Réistants de Dongo) has gained currency and recruits after Congolese people learned that the Dongo resistance forces were fighting against Rwandan Tutsi troops in the little frontier town of Dongo.
Sources in Kinshasa report that in mid-November President Joseph Kabila secretly airlifted a battalion of Rwandan Defense Forces (RDF) across Congo to put down the small rebellion. The operation involved multiple flights in November and was supported by the United Nations Observer Mission in Congo (MONUC) and the U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM). The RDF forces, moved to Congo from Rwanda exclusively for the operation, were uniformed as Armed Forces of the DRC (FARDC) troops.
Pitched battles involving RDF occurred in past weeks on Nov. 22-24 and Nov. 26-28 in the Dongo region. Along with RDF regulars, MONUC troops from the supposed international "peacekeeping" mission have been fighting alongside Tutsi Rwandan soldiers infiltrated by Rwanda, with the Kabila government's support, into Congo's national army, the FARDC.
Sunday, January 3, 2010
BO Nkumu WA MBOKA ya Kongo
USULTANI WA NCHI ya Kongo
BUNFUMU BWA BWA KABUKULU KONGO
Chieftainships and Traditional Authority of the Congo
AN OPEN LETTER TO HIS EXCELLENCY BARAK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,
SUBJECT: Our categorical REFUSAL of your AFRICOM Project in the Congo
COPIES TO:
-The Honourable Ban Ki Moon, Secretary General of the United Nations,
-The governments, Peoples and Nations of the World;
Dear President Obama,
We, traditional Chiefs and the rightful landowners of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, are sending you, through this letter, our stirring message to denounce and condemn at a global level , with all our energy, the machinations and relentless multitude of hardly veiled crimes by the previous American administrations , at least since 1994, in the process of exterminating the population of the Congo.
Harsh anti-gay legislation proposed in both Uganda and Rwanda has turned more Western attention to East Africa than anything since the 1994 Rwanda Genocide, though Westerners drink coffee and tea grown in Rwanda every day, while Rwandans go hungry.
On 12.24.2009, the Democratic Green Party of Rwanda, released a detailed account of how Rwandan President Paul Kagame's government, dominated by the Rwandan Patriotic Front Party, continues to harass its members as they attempt to register, as a party, and register voters, prior to Rwanda's August 2010 national election.
Tuesday, December 29, 2009
By Christopher Black
(Reposted from SaveRwanda, with editions by cm/p)
[Here's an antidote to some of the toxic bilge coming out of Anglo-Saxony these days on the subject of Rwanda. Even quisling frogs like Gérard Prunier (whose perfect English is perfectly maddening) have joined with their trans-chunnel and trans-Atlantic kith, like Linda Melvern and Wm Schabas, in pissing in the information pool which has so recently been refilled with hard information against their mythic genocide of '800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus carried out in 100 days by Extremist Hutus in pastel periwigs and weilding Red Chinese machetes', just so as not to let go of the historical lie that has for so long been their meal ticket.
Thus, from dankest Canadia, comes our strong comrade, Me Chris Black, with yet further proof that, no matter what the military humanists bleat, ça ne s'est pas passé comme ça au Rwanda.
So here, read this--then try and cop a hook at D'Arusha à Arusha, a new French doc by Chris Gargot--and start demanding that your favorite English-language, leftish press (I'm thinking Verso, Soft Skull, MR and Pluto, here) start printing translations of important French works on this history--like those of Pierre Péan, Ambassador JMV Ndagijimana, Col Jacques Hogard, Faustin Ntilikina, Charles Onana--and that's just the few lurch forth in my incipient senility.
But this history is key to understanding the thorough privatization of the world and all dominant state functions--esp the military--from which U.S. President Obama is (impossibly) charged with saving us. Putin did it for Russia--but Russia had 70 years of socialism in its history. That vague part of the socialist history that survived the bloody purges of the late 19th and 20th Centuries, by the Pinkertons and the FBI, has been driven deep into the denial reflex of the collective sub-conscious of a nation terrorized into willful ignorance unto amnesia.
This one's for all those who continue to fight for truth, justice and peace, against the craven forces of terrorized idiocy--and it's for Obama, too. --mc]
The reaction of some readers to the publication of the open letter to Paul Kagame
by the Hutu political prisoners held by the US-controlled Rwanda Tribunal is a tragic manifestation of the deliberate disinformation fed to the world’s public, especially the English-language public, since Kagame and his gangsters destroyed democracy in Rwanda and annihilated millions of people, both Hutu and Tutsi, in his four-year campaign of terror to install a fascist Tutsi minority junta in the country.
Friday, December 25, 2009
25-12-2009
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The year 2010 is significant for African SurViVors International.
In response to the critical humanitarian crisis in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, ASIF calls on all of other organizations to cooperatively work with us for stopping the bloody war in the Eastern Region of Congo.
As we said before, you can't talk about Christmas without mentioning Jesus. In the same context, you cannot talk about human rights abuses in congo, war crimes in Congo, crimes against Humanity in Congo and genocide without mentioning General Paul Kagame.
Concerning the DRC, an independent inquiry is necessay than ever to determine those who are involved in the conflict and who are committing all kind of inimaginable crimes on the Congolese soil: Multinational mining companies, American and Briths individuals, Rwandan government (RDF),FDLR, RDC,CNDP,FARDC, MONUC, Maï Maï and Pareko and other RPF proxy armies.
Concerning Rwanda, a sustained dialogue among Rwandans is more than necessary to end the regional conflict. The dialogue should be helping conflictual parties and the civil societies to map and name problems and relationships. A dialogue sustained over time can produce such a transforming political process.
Amsterdam - The African SurViVors International Foundation (ASIF) Committee, along with all survivors across the world particularly in Afghanistan, Democratic Republic of The Congo, Angola, Iraq, Rwanda, Somalia, Sri Lanka and Sudan/Darfur, along with the staff at national headquarters in Wilnis in The Netherlands, would like to take this moment to wish you and your family a Blessed Christmas Day and the Happy New Year 2010!
This is the time of year when you can take stock of the blessings you have, and plan for new success in the New Year. One of the blessings we have here at ASIF are our members, partners, and volunteers, because it simply would not happen without all of you. Human rights are the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world. When human rights are not respected, tension and even armed conflict often follow. That what we actually live in the Congo, across Rwanda, Somalia and Darfur in Sudan.
The New Year 2010 provides exciting opportunities to all of us, but our success depends on all of us working together toward our goals of Human Rights education, conflict resolution, culture of good governance, and democratic values, Justice and reconciliation. The UN Charter makes this clear by affirming its “faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person, in the equal rights of men and women and nations large and small.”
This is the time of year when you can take stock of the blessings you have, and plan for new success in the New Year. One of the blessings we have here at ASIF are our members, partners, and volunteers, because it simply would not happen without all of you. Human rights are the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world. When human rights are not respected, tension and even armed conflict often follow. That what we actually live in the Congo, across Rwanda, Somalia and Darfur in Sudan.
The New Year 2010 provides exciting opportunities to all of us, but our success depends on all of us working together toward our goals of Human Rights education, conflict resolution, culture of good governance, and democratic values, Justice and reconciliation. The UN Charter makes this clear by affirming its “faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person, in the equal rights of men and women and nations large and small.”
The World Programme for Human Rights Education points out that “Human rights education encompasses:
(a) Knowledge and skills — learning about human rights and mechanisms for their protection, as well as acquiring skills to apply them in daily life;
(b) Values, attitudes and behaviour — developing values and reinforcing attitudes and behavior, which uphold human rights;
(c) Action — taking action to defend and promote human rights around the world.”
Human rights is not a subject that can be studied at a distance. All people at all levels in Africa should not just learn about the Universal Declaration, about racial injustice, discrimination, war crimes and genocide or about poverty in developing countries without also being challenged to think about what it all means for them personally.
As human rights educator and advocate, African SurVivors International staff members must ask the involved people, students and ourselves, “How does this all relate to the way we live our lives?” The answers to this question will tell us much about how effectively we have taught our students and different community members in different workshops.
Using information and communication technologies (ICTs) to promote human rights education.
Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.”
Plan an Internet event or campaign
Using the Internet to advertise and even to host an event is a growing trend in communication and in outreach.
Thank you for being a friend, member, partner and supporter, and best wishes from our family to yours!
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays 2010 from African SurViVors International!
We look forward to enjoying great New Year 2010 with all of you!
Be healthy, wealthy and sound!
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
December 23rd, 2009
posted by David Barouski
A matter of“Rwanda is on path of destruction
If Kagame is not ousted.
Moral value of Freedom”
World News Journal
23 December 2009
Kigali - Last week, the Rwandan newspaper Umuseso published a story with the names of 2 senior people alleged to be behind the Rwandan Democratic Green Party: Patrick Mazimpaka (former Deputy Chairperson of the African Union's African Commission, and former Special political Advisor to President Kagame) and Col. Joesph Karemera (former Rwandan Minster of Health and Minister of Education). This information reportedly came from a "leaked" intelligence report submitted to Rwandan President Paul Kagame.
Last weekend, the Rwandan newspaper Umuvugizipublished more details and names. Below is the original article Umuvugizi and its translation from Kinyarwandan and the 256 News article. WNJ did not translate the document and therefore cannot take responsiblity for any errors contained therein. There is also another article below that originated from Uganda's 256 News Agency carrying the same information.
This is potentialy very bad news for the Greens because RPF party and RDF army officials are on the list. Many of these individuals have had a falling out with the RPF/RDF and some are considered dissidents and have been illegally detained in the past. According to Green Party sources, none of the names listed are members/supporters and they never have been. They fear the state will use this information as a political weapon to stigmatize them through the fallacy of assocation with RPF supporters who consider those listed as dissidents and also members of the general public who do not support the RPF. Green Party members also fear arbitrary detentions, torture, and oppression of their right to peacful assembly, as well as freedom of speech and press as they have experienced in the past during their peaceful assemblies.
Thursday, December 24, 2009
December 24th, 2009Letter to Human rights Watch/Press Department - ASIF,Genocidestopper.
Dear Ms. Drake,
Further to my phone call, we would like to ask you how better we could closely and shoulder to shoulder work together on the Human Rights issues in the African Great Lakes Region particularly in Rwanda and Democratic Republic of the Congo.
If your method of defining human rights is correct then it would not be hard for you to understand that on one hand Rwanda is run by RPF criminals and people have no rights at all. On the Other hand, the DRC is experiencing huge human rights violations due to the protection of criminals from Rwanda. We are about the no mention of the impunity that Paul Kagame enjoys as he uses his proxy armies in Congo with officially the objective of destroying the FDLR described as a criminal and terrorist organization.
At the same time, we will have criminals like General Mutebusi actually in Rwanda and General Nkunda who also injoys protection from General Kagame somewhere in Rwanda and finally General Bosco Ntaganda, the RPF “protégé” who still kills and rapes with total impunity in Congo and who still enjoys protection from KABILA-KAGAME-MONUC before he got replaced BY ANOTHER RPF CRIMINAL. We all know that those CNDP "MILITARY LEADERS" were or still are RPF military members since the Rwanda invasion October 1st, 1990.
Instead of creating confusion in the public, why are you afraid to join our voices and ask for ending support to General Kagame by American and British individuals including the Pentagon and the British administration?
We all know and have proofs that General Kagame is the real big issue. Our campaign urges everyone including Human Rights Watch to 'Finger General Kagame' as their contribution to fighting Congolese and Rwanda rising war crimes rate. How long are we going to deal with false issues whereas the real issues might help the Congolese and Rwandan people to retrieve peace through Justice? Not to address the real issues will always lead to the non-ending violence in that region. General Kagame will always find somebody else to replace those criminals already identified by the world community and Rwandan and Congolese victims as well.
Finally Human Rights Watch and African survivors International, as Human rights organizations, we should focus on Peace and democracy rather than fueling wars in that region. In Rwanda, we should encourage dialogue between all parties in the conflict. Justice should be for all. In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, we should encourage an independent inquiry about crimes committed in the Eastern region of the Congo and bring to justice those criminals.
Congolese people are wondering whether they less value than Central African Republic people. Why? Because the former vice president of Congo got jailed and send to the ICC for allegedly crimes committed in the Central African Republic. The Hutu community and the majority in Rwanda still wonder why RPF criminals are not brought to justice even though the RPF crimes were very well documented.
What can we do in these situations? How do you respond to that?
We look forward to hearing back from you.
Jean-Christophe Nizeyimana
Director
African SurVivors International
Wednesday, December 23, 2009
UN: Ensure Peacekeepers in Congo Focus on Protecting Civilians
(New York) - UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon should ensure that the UN peacekeeping force in Congo focuses on protecting civilians and avoids supporting Congolese army operations that implicate peacekeepers in violations of the laws of war, Human Rights Watch said today. The UN Security Council is expected to adopt a new resolution on the peacekeeping mission's mandate on December 23, 2009.
The civilian cost of the current military operations in eastern Congo has been catastrophic. The secretary-general should ensure that MONUC's new mandate is implemented in a way that ensures peacekeepers do not find themselves aiding those who are committing war crimes.
.Georgette Gagnon, Africa director
"The civilian cost of the current military operations in eastern Congo has been catastrophic," said Georgette Gagnon, Africa director at Human Rights Watch. "The secretary-general should ensure that MONUC's new mandate is implemented in a way that ensures peacekeepers do not find themselves aiding those who are committing war crimes."
Human Rights Watch called for MONUC's conditionality policy that sets out conditions for the mission's support to Congolese army units to include the removal of Congolese army commanders with a documented track record of grave human rights abuses.
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