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Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Kamerleden willen uitleg huiszoeking Ingabire‏

Black segregation in US drops to lowest in century

DEN HAAG - Politici in Den Haag zijn geschrokken van de huiszoeking bij de Rwandese politica Victoire Ingabire, maandagmorgen in Zevenhuizen. PvdA en ChristenUnie eisen opheldering van Minister Opstelten van Justitie.

“Dit roept heel veel vragen op”, zegt PvdA-kamerlid en justitiewoordvoerder Jeroen Recourt. “Hoe kan het dat Justitie braaf een huiszoeking uitvoert op verzoek van Rwanda, terwijl Nederland ernstige twijfels heeft over de eerlijkheid van het proces Ingabire? Justitie en Buitenlandse Zaken hebben duidelijk niet gecommuniceerd.”

Ms Ingabire Umuhoza Humiliated by Pres. Kagame

“Uiteraard behandelt Nederland juridische verzoeken uit het buitenland. Maar deze zaak ligt hier heel gevoelig. Wij willen in Nederland niet meewerken aan politieke vervolging”, aldus Recourt.
Ingabire, de leider van de Rwandese oppositiepartij UDF, zit gevangen in de Rwandese hoofdstad Kigali, in afwachting van haar proces. Justitie in Rwanda verdenkt haar van terroristische activiteiten en zoekt bewijzen.

Na de genocide van 1994 vertrok zij met haar man en kinderen naar Nederland, waar zij een nieuw bestaan opbouwden. De woning van de familie in Zevenhuizen, vlakbij Rotterdam, werd maandag doorzocht door de Nederlandse recherche.

Joel Voordewind, Tweede Kamerlid van de ChristenUnie, is verontwaardigd. “Waarom zou de Nederlandse overheid orders van Rwanda uitvoeren, terwijl diezelfde overheid de directe begrotingssteun aan Rwanda opschort vanwege zorgen over de mensenrechten?”

Rwanda en Nederland hebben geen uitleveringsverdrag, maar zij mogen elkaar rechtshulp verlenen. “Een verzoek tot huiszoeking kan een variant zijn van rechtshulp”, zegt de Nederlandse advocaat en internationaal strafrechtdeskundige Gert-Jan Knoops. “Voor elk verzoek is toestemming nodig van de minister van Justitie.”

CDA-kamerlid Cortuz Coşkün is tegen politiek gerelateerde rechtszaken. Toch is hij in deze zaak zeer terughoudend. “Elk verzoek uit Rwanda of China kan een vrijbrief worden om geen onderzoek te doen. Ook al heeft de verdachte misschien wel rottigheid uitgehaald. U weet - net zo min als ik - wat er precies achter deze huiszoeking zit''.

The Hague - Politicians in The Hague are shocked by the search for the Rwandan politician Victoire Ingabire, Monday, Zevenhuizen. PvdA and Christen Unie demand more clarification from Opstelten, Minister of Justice.

"It raises many questions," said PvdA MP and justice spokesperson Jerome Récourt. "How is it that Justice obediently performs a search at the request of Rwanda, while the Netherlands has serious doubts about the fairness of Ingabire´s judicial process? Justice and foreign Affairs have not clearly communicated. "

" Netherlands indeed treat legal requests from abroad. But this case is very sensitive here. We would not cooperate in the Netherlands to political persecution, "said Récourt.
Ingabire, the leader of the Rwandan opposition UDF party, is trapped in the Rwandan capital Kigali, pending her trial. Justice in Rwanda suspects her of terrorism and seeks to prove.

After the genocide of 1994 she left with her husband and children to the Netherlands, where she built up a new life. The house of the family in Zevenhuizen, near Rotterdam, was searched Monday by the Dutch police.

Joel Voordewind, MP of the Christian Union, is outraged. "Why should the Dutch government of Rwanda execute orders, while the same government is used to suspend direct budget support to Rwanda because of concerns about human rights?"
Rwanda and the Netherlands have no extradition treaty, but together they may provide assistance. "A request for search may be a variant of assistance," said the Dutch international criminal lawyer and expert Gert-Jan Knoops. "For each request permission from the Minister of Justice is a must."

CDA MP Coskun Cortuz is against such politically related lawsuits. Yet he is reluctant in this case. "Any request from Rwanda or China can be an excuse not to investigate. Even though the defendant might awfully abused. You know - just as I - what exactly is behind this search''.

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

Monday, December 13, 2010

Amsterdam -Victory Ingabire’s home in the village of Zevenhuizen, close to Rotterdam in the Netherlands was raided on Monday morning around 9 am (local time) by 12 officers of the Rotterdam Department of Justice. Both Ingabire’s husband, Lin Muyizere, and the Department of Justice confirmed the news to Radio Netherlands Worldwide.
According to Muyizere, the officers did not show a search warrant, although they said they were in possession of one. They searched the entire house and a vehicle.

Several documents and computer equipment were taken away by police for further investigation. In case of any relevancy, the equipment and documents will be sent to the prosecutor's office in Rwanda.

A spokesman for the Rotterdam Department of Justice said the search has been conducted under the instruction of the Rwandan authorities. A second search party was carried out in the Dutch town of Bilthoven.

"Why would the Dutch government execute orders from Kigali while cutting direct aid to Rwanda because of violations of human rights?" asked Joel Voordewind from the Dutch political party ChristenUnie today in parliament.

Ingabire's lawyer Jan Hofdijk, who reported the incident at the police station, is furious:

In the meantime we witness again how Kagame defines the RPF as a family, probably considering himself the godfather:“Individuals will come and go, but the family will always remain,”Kagame's numerous assasinations of previous collaborators do remind me of the movie Godfather."Sonny Corleone gets whacked" is probably his favorite scene.

AMSTERDAM - De Nederlandse nationale recherche heeft huiszoeking gedaan in twee woningen van de Rwandese oppositieleidster Victoire Ingabire. De invallen vonden plaats op verzoek van de Rwandese autoriteiten.
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Bij de acties, in het Zuid-Hollandse Zevenhuizen en in Bilthoven, werden computers en een groot aantal dozen met papieren in beslag genomen. Die zullen, als de Nederlandse rechter daarmee instemt, naar Rwanda worden gestuurd.

Woordvoerder Wim de Bruin van het Landelijk Parket van het Openbaar Ministerie zegt dat de huiszoekingen zijn uitgevoerd na een rechtshulpverzoek door Rwanda. In het Afrikaanse land wordt Ingabire verdacht van terroristische activiteiten.

'Divisionisme'

Victoire Ingabire was presidentskandidate in Rwanda, maar werd in oktober gearresteerd. Volgens haar Nederlandse advocaat Jan Hofdijk, die sindsdien geen rechtstreeks contact meer heeft gehad met zijn cliënte, wordt zij onder meer beschuldigd van 'divisionisme' - het maken van onderscheid tussen Hutu's en Tutsi's, de twee voornaamste etnische groepen in het land. Hofdijk noemt die beschuldiging onzin.

Cynisch

In de woning in Zevenhuizen waren Ingabires echtgenoot en haar achtjarige kind aanwezig. Volgens Hofdijk zijn zij bij de inval ruw uit hun slaap gewekt en opzij geduwd toen twaalf rechercheurs de woning betraden. Hofdijk noemt het "cynisch dat Ingabires echtgenoot, nota bene als erkend vluchteling, in Nederland zo wordt bejegend."

Ingabires man had alleen via de nu in beslaggenomen computer nog contact met medestanders van Ingabire in Rwanda.

Aangifte

Volgens Hofdijk hebben de Nederlandse autoriteiten zich voor het karretje laten spannen van het omstreden regime van de Rwandese president Paul Kagame. Hij doet maandag bij de politie aangifte van huisvredebreuk.

''Het gaat hier om een geval van huisvredebreuk. Ik heb begrepen dat de politie geen huiszoekingsbevel heeft laten zien. Meneer Ingabire moest zijn telefoons inleveren en mocht niet bellen tijdens de doorzoeking van zijn huis.''

Kamervragen

De ChristenUnie vindt de actie van de Nationale Recherche ''zeer verontrustend'', aldus Kamerlid Joël Voordewind. ''We nemen hiermee een commando aan van een regime dat we zelf niet vertrouwen.''

Hij wees erop dat Nederland onlangs nog heeft besloten geen begrotingssteun toe te kennen aan Rwanda, volgens Voordewind omdat Nederland het land corrupt vindt. Hij gaat Kamervragen stellen over de kwestie.
Pechtold

Alexander Pechtold vindt de huiszoekingen een verontrustend bericht. "Ik ga ervan uit dat het Openbaar Ministerie hierbij niet over één nacht ijs is gegaan. De betreffende ministers Rosenthal en Opstelten zullen hierover opheldering moeten verschaffen. De precieze gang van zaken omtrent deze inval bij Victoire Ingabire moet tot op de bodem uitgezocht worden.”

Eerder deze maand besloten minister Uri Rosenthal en staatssecretaris Ben Knapen van Buitenlandse Zaken al om geen algemene begrotingssteun aan Rwanda te geven. De zeven miljoen euro die daarvoor was uitgetrokken, wordt niet verstrekt omdat het land onvoldoende ruimte biedt voor vrijheid van meningsuiting.

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

Saturday, December 11, 2010

Cessons de serrer la main à Paul Kagame (ce criminel de président).

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Comment est-ce possible que notre pays, l’actuel président de l’UE, reçoive l’un des plus grands criminels de guerre depuis la Deuxième Guerre Mondiale? Paul Kagame, président du Rwanda est à Bruxelles. Le 6 et 7 décembre, il participera à la cinquième édition des ‘Journées Européennes du Développement’, organisées par la Commission Européenne en collaboration avec la présidence belge.
Paul Kagame et le développement

Quel développement ? Le développement social favorisant une minorité de la population rwandaise ? Le développement démocratique comme façade d’un régime autoritaire empêchant par répression, intimidation et élimination des adversaires toute culture démocratique ? Le développement

économique se réalisant avec les recettes des ressources naturelles congolaises pillées de façon éhontée?

Le développement au Rwanda n’est rien d’autre qu’un ordre oppressant, organisé par un criminel de guerre, un homme portant une coresponsabilité indéniable pour le génocide en 1994 au Rwanda et au Congo, depuis 1996. Un ordre organisé par un homme honoré déjà trop longtemps pour avoir arrêté un génocide que lui-même a commencé. Un ordre organisé par un homme responsable du chaos actuel à l’Est du Congo.
Interview met Els SCHELFHOUT, Gewezen senatrice, CD&V
Interview met Els SCHELFHOUT, Gewezen senatrice, CD&V from JamboNewsTV on Vimeo.

Le rapport « Mapping » des Nations Unies, publié en octobre dernier, sur la République Démocratique du Congo durant la période 1993-2003, démontre la responsabilité énorme de Paul Kagame et son Front Patriotique Rwandais (FPR) dans le génocide des réfugiés Hutu et de la population congolaise. Cela n’empêche pas que Kagame vienne discuter sans honte du développement. Assisté par son ‘grand ami’ et initiateur du groupe informel de l’Union Européenne ‘Les amis du Rwanda’. Il s’agit de l’ancien Ministre belge des Affaires étrangères, l’ancien Commissaire européen à la Coopération au Développement et l’Aide Humanitaire et l’actuel député européen Louis Michel.

Lors d’une émission à la radio VRT ‘De Ochtend’ Louis Michel appelait le rapport « Mapping » une honte pour les Nations Unies. Il nommait « peu fiables » les centaines de témoignages des personnes et organisations ayant vécu les atrocités des milices et groupes armés lors des années de guerre. « Le rapport est une insulte pour l’histoire’, se moquait-il.

Mais le rapport n’a rien évoqué de nouveau et la vérité a ses droits

En 1996, le Ministre belge de la Coopération au Développement de l’époque, Reginald Moreels, a déclaré sur base des messages des humanitaires et des missionnaires, qu’un génocide contre les réfugiés Hutu et les expatriés congolais avait lieu à l’Est du Zaïre. Mohammed Shanooun, le Représentant des Nations Unies de l’époque, mettait l’ampleur des atrocités au même niveau que le génocide du 1994. Le Secrétaire Général Kofi Annan avouait être choqué par la cruauté des rebelles du FPR. Il parlait d’une ‘lente éradication’ des civils. UNHCR, UNICEF, WFP, Amnesty International, le Commissaire européen aux Affaires Humanitaires de l’époque Emma Bonino, des organisations humanitaires (Médecins Sans Frontières, Oxfam, Care), tous ont témoigné que le FPR chassait et tuait les réfugiés. Ils sont massacrés, battus, brûlés, coupés en morceaux, enterrés vivants. Kagame était le dirigeant de l’armée.Maintenant, il est encore président, et a récemment obtenu un deuxième mandat. Un Chef d’Etat siégeant ne peut être inculpé par la Cour Pénal International pour des crimes commis avant juillet 2002. Kagame échappe – pour l’instant- à la justice.

Mais cessons au moins de faire semblant

Cessons de contribuer par les programmes de développements et de l’aide budgétaire – et donc d’être coresponsable !- à la construction d’un état totalitaire violant systématiquement les droits de l’homme. C’est un état bafouant les droits de l’opposition et accordant le pouvoir à une petite élite. Cessons de soutenir un système judiciaire et la construction des prisons dans lesquelles des leaders d’opposition comme Victoire Ingabire sont détenus sur base des fausses accusations et sans aucune perspective d’un procès équitable.

Cessons de serrer la main à Paul Kagame

Le temps de l’hypocrisie est passé. Et la carte « génocide » qui a permis Kagame durant des années, surtout grâce aux Etats-Unis et au Royaume Uni, de déstabiliser le Congo et de bombarder les camps des réfugiés, peut enfin être déjouée.

Par Els Schelfhout, Ancienne sénatrice

Video Posted by Ann Garrison, Colored Opinions

De Verenigde Naties hebben gisteren een rapport herzien, waarin gedetailleerd verslag wordt gedaan van de schending van de mensenrechten in Oost-Congo tussen 1993 en 2003. Nadat Rwanda en Oeganda bijzonder boos hadden gereageerd op de ontwerpversie van het rapport, waarin gewag gemaakt werd van genocide.

Interview met Peter Verlinden, VRT Journalist

De definitieve versie is minder stellig dan het eerder uitgelekte ontwerp. Door hier en daar 'kennelijk' en 'vermoedelijk' in te voegen, en vooral door extra paragrafen die duidelijk moeten maken hoe moeilijk 'genocide' te bewijzen is voor een rechtbank.

I began researching and reporting on war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide in Rwanda in 1995; I began reporting on events in Zaire (DRC) in 1996.....

The murderous Rwandan RPF-aligned military (RCD, CNDP, etc etc) are the primary problem for eastern Congo

Interview met Peter Verlinden from JamboNewsTV on Vimeo.

Open letter to the United Nations Security Council with regard to most recent Expert Report on the Democratic Republic of Congo

The President
United Nations Security Council

New York,

Your Excellency,

Re: United Nations Security Council Expert Report on the Democratic Republic of Congo

I write this press release on my own behalf and on behalf of Lt General Kayumba Nyamwasa.

In its 6th December 2010 edition, 'The New Times', a Rwanda daily newspaper owned and run by the National Security Service (the intelligence service of the Government of Rwanda) published an article entitled, UN Report Pins Kayumba, Karegeya on FDLR. The newspaper article alleges inter alia, that "independent sources" had linked me and Gen. Nyamwasa to the Rwandan armed group known as the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (the FDLR); that General Nyamwasa has facilitated contacts between the Forces Patriotique pour la Liberation du Congo (the FPLC) and the Federal Republican Forces (the FRF) rebel groups; that "credible testimony" has suggested that former officers of the Congress National pour la Defense du Peuple (the CNDP) have been in contact with us; that the UN Group of Experts on the DRC had "directly witnessed" a conversation between me and the former officers o f the CNDP; that Gen. Nyamwasa may have sent an emissary to meet FDRL, FPLC and Mai Mai Leaders in the Democratic Republic of Congo in February 2010; that both of us are believed to be the masterminds of grenade attacks that took place in Kigali, Rwanda, in early 2010 and that we have been charged with forming a terrorist group, fomenting ethnic divisionism, threatening national security, undermining state authority, and spreading harmful propaganda.
We have also had the opportunity to read the United Nations Security Council Experts' Report on the Democratic Republic of Congo (the Experts' Report on the DRC) and note with both surprise and regret that the report states that 'Several independent sources, including one in Kampala and one within FPLC, informed the Group that FRF had agreed to join the FPLC coalition all alleging, without providing further details that those contacts may have been facilitated by Kayumba Nyamwasa, the dissident former Rwandan general' (para. 73).

The Experts' Report on the DRC further states: “In addition, according to credible testimony from various sources former CNDP officers have been in contact with Rwandan political dissidents in South Africa, including Col. Karegeya, the former head of Rwandan intelligence, and Lieutenant General Faustin Kayumba Nyamwasa, who survived an assassination attempt in June 2010 in Johannesburg. The Group directly witnessed a conversation between Karegeya and former CNDP FARDC officers in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo in September. According to United Nations sources and combatant s interviewed by the Group, Kayumba may have sent an emissary to meet with FDLR, FPLC and Mai Mai leaders in the Democratic Republic of Congo in February’ (para. 164).

While we have no reason to question the good faith of the authors of the Experts ' Report on the DRC, we would wish to put it on record that the extensive allegations contained in the Rwanda Government newspaper article referred to in the foregoing paragraph and the more limited allegations set out in the Experts' Report on the DRC are all absolutely false and unfounded. As we have done before, we would like to reiterate that we do not seek to destabilize Rwanda or any of her neighbors. We advocate for democratization in Rwanda through peaceful political change.

Together with our colleagues, Dr. Theogene Rudasingwa and Dr.Gerald Gahima, we articulated (in our idely circulated paper,'Rwanda Briefing ') our political views on the situation in Rwanda and our thinking on a way out of the political impasse that Rwandan society find itself, proposing political reforms in Rwanda as a peaceful alternative to the current dictatorship that can only lead to more conflict and bloodshed. Our political stand on Rwanda’s grave state of affairs remains the same. We are not in any way whatsoever linked to the FDLR, or indeed any other rebel organization operating on the territory of the Democratic Republic of Congo (the DRC) or elsewhere .

We have not had and we do not maintain any contact or relationship of any kind with the groups in question. We have not been involved in thecriminal activities (including the grenades attacks in Kigali) that the Government of Rwanda falsely attributes to us through its media propaganda or politically motivated criminal cases that have been instituted against us in the military justice system of Rwanda. It is ironical that President Kagame, who has a long track record of working with elements from the highest echelons of the leadership of FDLR when it suits his ambitions to acquire and keep power at any cost, should seek to de-legitimize other political leaders with false allegations of contacts with the same organization. President Kagame's uncompromising intransigence on political reform and respect of fundamental liberties destabilizes Rwanda more than any other factor.

Paradoxically, it is President Kagame himself whose policies and actions perpetually destabilize the Great Lakes region . The United Nations Security Council Experts should have taken cognizant of the historical perspectives of Rwanda' s involvement in the DRC conflict since 1996. President Kagame bears very heavy personal responsibility for the human suffering and physical destruction that conflict has caused in the DRC.

President Kagame has twice ordered invasion of the DRC, against the advice of many of his colleagues, and in violations of Rwanda' s laws (that require parliamentary approval of declaration of war) as well as international law. The policy of the Government of Rwanda on the DRC (dictated by President Kagame , as Rwanda lacks a system of government with appropriate checks and balances) is to keep the DRC perpetually weak and vulnerable to his manipulation, blackmail and exploitation. President Kagame has historically sought to weaken and destabilize Congo by forming, training, arming and militarily intervening in support of rebel groups used to wage aggressive war against the legitimate governments of the Democratic Republic of Congo. President Kagame has personally been responsible for the establishment of several of the rebel groups that have been involved in the conflict in the DRC, including some whose activities are discussed in the instant report.

President Kagame was responsible for the creation of the Alliance des Forces Democratiqes pour la Liberation du Congo-Zaire (the AFDL) under late President Desire Laurent Kabila. While the Government of Rwanda was involved in AFDL's formation and operations from the beginning to the end, it repeatedly denied its involvement in the first (1996 - I 997) DRC war. However, then Rwandan Vice-president and Defense Minister Paul Kagame subsequently granted an interview to the Washington Post on 9 July 1997, in which he not only admitted the role that his troops had played a key role in the ADFL campaign, but proudly claimed credit for removing President Mobutu from power. By Kagame’s own admission, Rwanda's campaign strategy during the first Congo war comprised three elements, namely: to destroy the refugee camps, to destroy ex-FAR and Interahamwe structures based in and around the camps and to overthrow the Mobutu regime. The Government of Rwanda had planned the AFDL rebellion in advance, recruiting Congolese combatants, providing the recruits with training in facilities in Rwanda, supplying the Congolese rebels with arms and munitions.

According to Kagame, operations - in particular key operations - were directed by Rwandan mid- level commanders. Contrary to his denials and deceptions, Kagame in fact personally managed the campaign. President Kagame is a micro-manager who is always intervening at all levels in the chain of command, and was directly involved in key operational decisions of the AFOL rebellion.

20 milliars are used by the Rwanda government to per year corrupt individuals, NGOs and governments around the world .

Does Money talk in the western world ?

In 1998, President Laurent Kabila fell out with Paul Kagame (largely due to Kagame's arrogant, over-bearing and irrational behavior) and President Laurent Kabila expelled Rwandan forces from the DRC.
President Kagame retaliated by forming another rebel group, the Rassemblement Congolais pour la Democratie (the RCD) that he used to try and overthrow President Kabila's government. President Kagame again at first denied the presence of Rwanda's troops in the DRC. When the RCD negotiated a political settlement with the DRC overnment, President Kagame retained part of the RCD and formed the CNDP to continue destabilizing and controlling Eastern DRC. After President Paul Kagame fell out with General Laurent Nkunda (the leader of the CNDP) in 2009, Kagame replaced General Nkunda with General Bosco Ntaganda. We have no doubt that even today, the Government of Rwanda is talking to splinter groups of CNDP namely, the FPLC and the FRF, as indicated in the Experts' report on the DRC.

President Kagame's claim to being a stabilizing influence in the Great Lakes region is ridiculous. The President is in fact the single greatest source of instability, violence and bloodshed in both Rwanda and the DRC. For the last fourteen years, President Kagame has visited mayhem on communities across the DRC. Given this historical perspective,and the chronology of President Kagame’s reckless and ruthless strategy to keep DRC’s Kivu region as a de facto extension of Rwanda through proxy forces it should be obvious to Rwanda's neighbors and he wider international community that it is President Kagame, not his opponents like ourselves, who have the motives (weakening the DRC state and getting access to its resources), opportunity (proximity to the DRC) and the means (the final resources of both the Government of Rwanda and the RPF) to form and sustain groups that are detrimental to peace, stability and development in the DRC. In public, President Kagame adopts the language of friendliness towards the DRC and other neighboring countries. In private and through his actions, President is an unrepentant belligerent who seeks to weaken and destabilize other fragile neighboring states struggling to emerge out of conflict.

Symbol of Kagame's wars in DRC: Kadogo

President Kagames military commanders and security operatives (and not ourselves) are responsible for the formation and sustenance of the rebel groups that the Rwanda Government accuses us of fraternizing with. I was in prison in 2005 when the CNDP was established . I spent almost three years in illegal detention in solitary confinement and under house arrest before escaping from Rwanda. Gen. Nyamwasa was serving as Rwanda' s Ambassador to India until March 2010. Neither of us have had any motive or opportunity to have any relations with the rebel groups in question.

The allegation that Kayumba may have sent an emissary to meet with FDLR, FPLC and Mai Mai leaders in the Democratic Republic of Congo in February' is totally unfounded. Gen. Nyamwasa did not, prior to the publication of the Experts Report on the DRC, have any knowledge of the existence of the FPLC and FPLC rebel groups. Consequently it could not have been possible for him to facilitate the contacts between the two groups. I escaped from Rwanda in 2007. The groups that the report discusses were formed when I was no longer in government service and I cannot possibly know any of the individuals who are part of these groups.

You must be extremely courageous and corrupt to stand with such a criminal, if it's true and not a manipulated image.

Gen. Nyamwasa did not send an emissary to FDLR and Mai Mai as alleged in the report as he does not agree with the two groups ideologically. Since 1998, Gen. Nyamwasa was always concerned about the political, social and strategic implications of the formation of anti-government Congolese rebel groups.

He unsuccessfully opposed the formation of such groups during the time that we both worked for the Government of Rwanda. Disagreements over Rwanda's nurturing and patronage of such groups partly accounts for the political differences that eventually arose between General Nyamwasa and President Kagame. General Nyamwasa was still serving as Rwanda's Ambassador to India in February 2010.

He did not have any prior plans to visit Rwanda in February 2010. Gen Nyamwasa's unplanned visit to Rwanda in February 2010 was only compelled by the death of one of his parents. It is very distressing that this sad episode is being cynically used by the Government of Rwanda to frame and victimize him . We are inclined to believe that the authors of the report met Rwandan intelligence operatives in Uganda, where many of these operatives are deployed to hunt down and kill President Kagame's opponents throughout the region.

Beyond the praise for Paul Kagame : Corruption

Corruption helps Kagame’s greatest admirers Bill Clinton, Warren, Tony Blair, and Starbucks magnate Howard Schultz (1) to illegally occupy Rwanda and organize lootings in Congo with the help of their protégé.
American evangelist Rick Warren (2) considers him something of an inspiration and even Bill Gates has invested in what has been called Africa’s success story. Yes, Western liberals, reactionary evangelicals, and capitalist carpetbaggers alike tout Paul Kagame as the herald of a new, self-reliant African prosperity.

It is also a strange one coming from a man who boasts that he has put the past behind him. Not far enough, as it would turn out, to trust the democratic process with criticisms or challenges. Nor far enough to shut down the parasitic black-market trafficking of minerals and resources

We are completely mystified by the significance that the Experts Report on the DRC attaches to a conversation that is alleged to have taken place between me and former officers of the CNDP who have been integrated into the DRC National Army (the FARDC) that the Group of Experts is reported to have witnessed. The report does not indicate how the committee verified that the person that the alleged CNDP officers claimed to speak to was actually me. Neither does the report indicate how the content of the conversation constituted a crime or conspiracy against either of the two states. I do not recall ever having the conversation referred to in the Experts' Report on the DRC. I definitely did not initiate any calls to any known member of the CNDP either have I had any discussions with real or presumed members of the CNDP (or indeed any other person) regarding a conspiracy to destabilize Rwanda or the DRC. It is unfair for the committee to assume, without verification, that the person that the alleged CNPD officers claimed to talk to was indeed me. Our suspicion is that the UN Security Council experts on the DRC must have been duped by Rwandan intelligence operative s who remain embedded in FARDC, of whom there is to our knowledge a very large number. The truth about the alleged conversation could not be established without giving me an opportunityto explain its circumstances . Unfortunately, the team of experts did not provide me with an opportunity to rebut the erroneous impression that the agents who must have duped them created.
The Government of Rwanda keeps a tight grip on the population of Eastern Congo through the former CNDP fighters, at the behest of the Government of Rwanda, during the peace agreement between the CNDP and the government of the Democratic of Congo, it was agreed that unlike all other government forces, CNDP fighters would never be transferred from Eastern Congo. It is most probable that the United Nations Security Council experts interviewed stage-managed witnesses or proxies of the Government of Rwanda. We believe that the so-called 'independent sources' that are alleged to have linked us to the rebel groups in the DRC are likely to be compromised elements of the CNDP, which was created, and is maintained and still remains under the influence of the Government of Rwanda.

The claim that we were the masterminds behind the grenade attacks that exploded in Kigali early this year is absurd. The Government of Rwanda has time and again conveniently changed the narrative about the grenade attacks, depending on whom the Government seeks to victimize at a particular time. Initially, Rwanda's Minister of Security reported that the grenade attacks were the work of the FDLR. Responsibility for the attacks was later shifted to opposition leader Mme. Victoire lngabire, who has now been incarcerated on trumped-up charges. When Gen. Nyamwasa escaped from Rwanda on account of a planned attempt on his life at end of February, the grenade attacks wereblamed on him. The same grenade attacks were said to have been perpetuated by another imprisoned opposition leader, Deo Mushayidi. The government's continuing allegations that we are responsible for the grenade attacks are driven by the vindictive nature of President Paul Kagame, who, having failed in the course of several attempts to assassinate Gen. Nyamwasa and me in South Africa, ordered the arrest and incarceration of Gen.Nyarnwasa's brother. Lt Co l. Rugigana, forced many of his family members to exile, and ordered the murder of John Rutayisire, a relative of mine.

In the aftermath of the publication of the DRC Mapping Report by the United Nations Commission for
Human Rights, President Kagame is desperately searching for anything on the horizon to deflect attention from his crimes by creating `scapegoats for the`suffering and mayhem that he has visited on millions of Rwandans and citizens of the DRC. The allegations that the government of Rwanda is leveling against us (as well as other Rwandans who are demanding an end to dictatorship) are also intended to deflect the attention of the people of Rwanda and the international community from Rwanda's internal crisis, to disguise President Kagame's continuing role in destabilizing neighboring states and to salvage his tarnished image in the aftermath of the publication of the DRC Mapping Report. These types of allegations are characteristic of a regime engulfed by crisis. Trumped-up charges of corruption, terrorism, connections with the FDLR, divisionism, genocide ideology, and even moral impurity are some of the tools that President Kagame always uses against real or perceived opponents.

We challenge the Government of Rwanda to release the dossiers in respect of the criminal cases that have been filed against us (and our colleagues, Dr. Rudasingwa and Dr. Gahima) to the public so that the people of Rwanda and the international community can see for themselves how the sham criminal cases that are being prosecuted against us are nothing but a blatant abuse of the judicial system for purposes of persecution of political opponents.

One of the Kagame's jet
As we have indicated in our paper (Rwanda Briefing) and other declarations, Rwanda is in serious crisis. Peace and stability in several of the neighboring states remains tenuous. By virtue of his unapologetic attempt to destabilize sister states through the use of proxy rebel groups, President Kagame is one of the major (if not the principal) stumbling block to peace and stability in this fragile region . The conflicts waged by the various armed groups that the Government of Rwanda has formed, supported and used to destabilize states in the region have caused immense horrendous suffering. President Kagame bears personal responsibility for the gross human rights violations that are a result of the wars that he has waged and continues to foment in the DRC. We firmly believe that time is long overdue for the international community to hold President Kagame accountable for the crimes that he has committed, and continues to commit, directly or through proxy rebel groups to the peoples of the region. We, on our part, reiterate our commitment to seeking a peaceful transition to democracy in Rwanda and our support for peace and stability in the Great Lakes region, especially in the DRC. We affirm our desire to meet the team of experts on the DRC both to clear the aspersions that have been made againstus.

Accept, your Excellency, the assurances of our highest consideration.

Col. Patrick Karegeya
Cc:
Members of the Security Council
The Secretary General, United Nations
Members of the UN Security Council Committee of Experts on the Democratic

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Rwandan and Congolese survivors demonstrate in Brussels

Rwandan and Congolese survivors demonstrate in Brussels agianst the invitation and arrival of the Rwandan genocidaire General Paul Kagame.

GENERAL KAGAME LEAVES OPPOSITION LEADERS IN PRISON AND DISCUSSES DEVELOPMENT WITH EUROPEAN UNION PARTNERS IN BRUSSELS.

Between 03rd and 07th December 2010, General Kagame is visiting Brussels and EU headquarters where he is expected to appear tomorrow in the European Development Days 5th edition. This is a irony of politics as it happens when his country is facing disturbing challenges: the democracy leader Ms. Victoire INGABIRE and other opposition leaders are in prison; the regime is accused by the United Nations of war crimes, humanitarian crimes and a possible genocide in the Democratic Republic of the Congo; some members of FDU INKINGI in Rwanda are tortured and forced to testify against the party Chair on imaginary terrorist crimes; Rwandans are still running away as a result of an on-going score settling campaign against opposition and dissents after the elections masquerade that keep Rwanda on the edge.

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We sincerely expect the partners of Rwanda and the free world to urge President Paul Kagame to open up the political space, to release political prisoners and engage in a broad-based governance of the country through a transparent democratisation process. Sylvain Sibomana, Secretary General, FDU-INKINGI.

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".......The Netherlands promised budget support to Rwanda in 2008, but did not proceed to granting this assistance after of the publication, in December 2008, of the report of the UN expert on the role of Rwanda in the conflict in the eastern DRC.

The Netherlands also has no plans to provide general budget support to Rwanda, because we believe freedom of expression in Rwanda and the political space is insufficient to justify granting general budget support. As communicated in the Basic Development Letter to the Dutch Parliament, the policy on general budget support is being reviewed and, in general, this instrument will be drastically reduced.

The future of the development relationship with Rwanda, in the broad sense. is part of the current generic policy assessment in the field of development cooperation. The Dutch Parliament will in due course be informed in writing of the results.Dr. U. Rosenthal, The Minister of Foreign Affairs, State Secretary of Foreign Affairs, Dr. B. Knapen

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Une version tronquée de l’histoire des Grands Lacs

Plus de 8 millions de morts ? Qui en parle ? Depuis la fin de la guerre froide, la région des Grands Lacs est devenue celle de la mort et du malheur dans une indifférence quasi générale. Avec 2 millions de Rwandais exterminés en 1994 à l’intérieur du Rwanda (1), plus de 6 millions de morts rwandais et congolais dans l’ex-Zaïre, des centaines de milliers de Soudanais tués, de nombreuses victimes ougandaises, plus de un demi-million de morts angolais, des millions de déplacés, quatre chefs d’Etat et des centaines de ministres et autres dirigeants assassinés, des dizaines de milliers de femmes violées, des pillages éhontés

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