Since at least 2009, radical U.S. Christian missionaries have added anti-gay conferences and workshops in Uganda to their anti-gay efforts in the U.S. – and now they're beginning to ordain ministers and build churches across East Africa focused almost entirely on preaching against homosexuality.

These American extremists didn't call for David's death. But they created a climate of hate that breeds violence – and they must stop and acknowledge they were wrong.

"Stop Exporting Hate." Sign our petition to Carl Ellis Jenkins, Lou Engle, and Scott Lively.

We'll deliver your signature to three men who have gone out of their way to promote hatred:

• Scott Lively of Massachusetts held an anti-gay conference in Uganda with two other U.S. pastors. A few months later, a bill was introduced in Uganda that would make homosexuality punishable by death.
• Lou Engle, a Missouri preacher whose rallies draw tens of thousands in the U.S., spoke at a rally in Uganda this year that focused on praying for the bill's passage. (Engle claims not to support some parts of the bill, but internal documents show he came to speak about "the threat of homosexuality," and defend the Ugandan government's efforts to "curb the growth of the vice using the law.")
• And Carl Ellis Jenkins of Georgia is presiding over a group that's opening 50 new churches in Uganda to "help clean up bad morals, including homosexuality" according to his staff.

They have been stirring up hostility in a country where homosexuality is already illegal, violent attacks are common, rape is used to 'cure' people of their sexual orientation – and a shocking law has been proposed that would make homosexuality punishable by life imprisonment or even death.


And they're in lockstep with some of the largest and wealthiest right-wing groups in the U.S. When the U.S. Congress considered a resolution denouncing the grotesque Ugandan death-penalty-for-gays bill, the extreme-right Family Research Council – now classified as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center – spent $25,000 lobbying to stop the resolution from passing.
Religion should never be used to spread hate. These men do not speak for me or the millions of diverse religious people who support equality not in spite of our faith, but because of it

That's what our Religion and Faith program is all about: helping people of faith from all different traditions speak out so we can reclaim the core religious values we hold dear in America.

At the heart of every religious tradition is love of humanity and love of creator – not hatred for our neighbors. Creating a climate of hate runs contrary to the very idea of faith – but that's exactly what the right wing in America is doing.

Tell missionaries and radical hate groups: "Stop exporting hate."

Whether or not we're people of faith, we cannot stay silent or stand idly by while a radical minority pushes a hateful agenda in God's name. Please stand with us and speak out today.

Sharon Groves
Religion and Faith Program
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De Dominee (links) met de leden van het pastoraal team

Kleine Kerk : 99 jaar

Aan de andere kant, het wankele vredesproces in Rwanda en Kongo, waarin de internationale betrekking een hoofdrol moest spelen, heeft de ramp met meer dan 7 miljoen doden niet voorkomen.

Kleine Kerk in Wilnis

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 [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]

Rwandan Death Squads with Impunity

RPF Mass-murder, arbitrary executions, mass-arrest, mass-rape and disappearances of hundreds of thousands of returnees 
Observances and remembrance activities can occur during the week of Remembrance that runs from the Sunday 16, 2011 through the following Sunday 23, 2011.

 Yes we must always remember the Rwandan Genocide Day! 

The deadliest years : 1996-1997: the years of the infamous mass murder of refugees in Zaïre (currently the Democratic Republic of the Congo) and mass-murder of hundreds of thousands of returnees +
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Candles in honor of and pay tribute to the hundreds of thousands of returnees,, victims of RPF barbarism.

Mr. Bwanakweli Charles Kizito. My brother disappeared on January 23, 1997 He certainly got murdered by Kagame's death squad

 The deadliest months : January 1997
Genocaust, Gendercide, mass murder, ethnic cleansing with extreme hatred, etc. We have waited long enough to see if the world still has any conscience to bring even masterminds of those bloody mass-slaughter. So right now Rwandans should launch the final onslaught to liberate themselves forever from the clutches of RPF and Kagame oppression and cannot afford to continue to fold their hands and watch Clinton and Blair's evil Angel of Destruction. Côte d'Ivoire and Tunisia are the best patterns of nations to take care of themselves.

We had thought that somebody would have known that it is cheaper to prevent sickness than to cure it but the world seems to say bring on the sickness so we can deal with it. Nobody can justifiably pontificate and condemn any form of action Rwandans might employ now to defend and extricate themselves from this Evil – General Paul Kagame and Tony Blair, his adviser.
It only makes sense that the world should justify the usefulness of the various regulatory and arbitration bodies it has put in place by acting now in the case of Eastern of Congo and FDLR issues to end the Rwandan Tyrannical regime. Such a situation can't remains the same forever.
 
The prefectures of Ruhengeri and Gisenyi have suffered the highest number of the very planed massacres and extra judicial executions by RPA soldiers. Amnesty International has received countless reports of unarmed civilians being killed there by the RPA, in the wake of reported attacks by "infiltrators".

Bwanakweli Charles Kizito  disappeared on January 23rd 1997 and has never come back

Domitille Abimana gang-raped at the Gisenyi gendermerie, her  one-year son Nshuti, 2 daughters  Diane 6 and Rosette 8 years old raped and thrown into Kivu lake

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Under the slogan of “Choose Peace,” Rwandan President Paul Kagame was re-elected for a second seven-year term. Praised by his supporters for building new roads and health clinics across the country, developing a national health insurance plan and attracting millions of dollars’ worth of foreign investment, Kagame won the election with a convincing 93 percent of the vote. His detractors, however, such as Frank Habineza, founder of the unregistered Democratic Green Party, alleged that conditions in the country limited freedom of press, association and expression.

The election period was also marred by the death of Andre Kagwe Rwisereka, vice-president of the Democratic Green Party, whose nearly beheaded body was found along a river near the southern town of Butare. A police spokesman suspected that Rwisereka had been killed for his money, but Habineza said that the killers had not taken Rwisereka’s wallet, keys or car and suggested the murder was politically motivated.

On Election Day, however, Commonwealth observers, who were among the 1,394 accredited observers, 214 of them from abroad, said voting had been peaceful. However, they noted “a lack of critical opposition voices,” during the campaign: “A number of opposition parties had earlier stated their intention to stand, but faced either legal or administrative problems, which resulted in their non-participation,” a statement said. “Each case appears to be different, but the overall impact is a concern.”
Assassination attempt and assassination

The world's worst despot menace "Choose me or war"

Jean Leonard Rugambage'Assassination  deputy editor of the banned newspaper Umuvugizi

Late on June 24/10  Leonard Rugambage, the outspoken deputy editor of Umuvugizi newspaper was shot outside his home in Kigali just hours after he allegedly posted a contentious story online about an assassination attempt on a dissident Rwandan general in South Africa. The contentious newspaper had been forced to publish solely online after authorities suspended its print operation. Although police initially didn’t know who was behind the attacks, Umuvugizi editor Jean Bosco Gasasira, who himself fled Rwanda in April, accused the Rwanda Security Service of masterminding the attack. “I’m 100 percent sure,” he told Voice of America. Nevertheless, more than four months later, the Rwandan High Court convicted Didace Nduguyangu of homicide and Antoine Karemera as an accessory to homicide in Rugambage’s death. The men admitted that they killed the journalist as revenge for Karemera’s brother who was allegedly killed by Rugambage during the genocide. Critics of the government, however, remained sceptical that justice had been served.

Gen. Kayumba Nyamwasa escape  Attempt murder in South Africa RPF death squad

The dissident in Rugambage’s story was General Faustin Kayumba Nyamwasa who had been shot outside his home in Johannesburg on June 19. His wife claimed the attack had been politically motivated because the assassin did not have any demands. The Rwandan government said they had nothing to do with the attack and that it does not condone violence. Nyamwasa fled to South Africa in February after falling out with President Kagame. In March the government accused him of being behind a spate of grenade attacks in Kigali, a charge that Gen. Nyamwasa vehemently denied. Since arriving in South Africa the dissident general has accused President Kagame of corruption and has argued that the Rwandan judiciary is compromised.

Mapping exercise

In early September relations between the Kigali government and the UN deteriorated precipitously after a leaked draft emerged of a UN report accusing Rwandan troops of having killed and raped Hutu refugees in the DR Congo. The Kigali government called the report, “flawed and dangerous,” that applied, “the lowest imaginable evidentiary standard,” and was an “insult to history.”

First Hutu victims of RDF in DRC camps

The report details crimes committed by the Rwanda, Uganda, Burundi, Angola, Zimbabwe and DR Congo armies in DRC between 1993-2003, but pays special attention to crimes perpetrated by Rwandan troops, which the report says could count as possible acts of genocide. The accusations were met with fierce resistance in Kigali because the government there has drawn much of its legitimacy from being the force that ended the genocide in Rwanda. The government also said that claims of genocide “are directly contradicted by Rwanda’s extensive and coordinated efforts to repatriate, resettle and reintegrate 3.2 million Hutu refugees.”

Mass-murder of Hutu in Mbandaka Dem. Rep. of the Congo 2000 km away

The Kigali government subsequently threatened to withdraw 3,500 peacekeepers from UN missions in Sudan if the report’s final version was published unchanged. However, after a series of meetings with UN officials, including a visit to Kigali by UN Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon, Rwanda went back on its threat. When the report was finally published on October 1, a few amendments had been made, but the essence of the report remained intact. In its official 30 page response, Rwanda lambasted the report’s lead investigator Luc Cote of trying to compare the deaths of tens of thousands in the DRC over a decade with those of “a million in 100 days” in Rwanda.

Re-engaging the French

On February 25, French President Nicolas Sarkozy admitted that his country had made “grave errors of judgement” during the 1994 genocide. The comments were aimed at repairing the longstanding rift between the two countries that had developed since a 2006 French ruling implicated top Kagame aides of being involved in the untimely death of former president Juvenal Habyarimana.

Sarkozy’s visit to Rwanda marks the first from a French head of state since the genocide. “We want to turn the page,” he said, during the visit that included a meeting with President Kagame and a tour of the genocide memorial in Kigali. “France will construct a relationship of confidence.”

Wonder if Pres. Sarkozi realizes who those orphans are : the abandoned Hutu children Pres. Sakozy supports Tyrannical Regimes: Tunisian and Rwandan

On December 16 relations between the two countries were further strengthened after a French judge placed Rwanda’s defence minister and five other aides of President Kagame under investigation for the assassination of Habyarimana, marking an end to an earlier arrest warrant by French judge Jean Louis Bruguiere. The men are now free to roam and the judge can now decide whether to pursue the investigation and eventually send the suspects for trial, or drop the case.

“The Rwandan Government has welcomed this development and hopes that this is the first step towards the comprehensive conclusion of this unfortunate case based on political manipulations by people interested in destabilising Rwanda,” said Justice Minister Tharcisse Karugarama.

Rebels hunted down by ICC while Kagame overplays the FDLR card

FDLR, a Terrorist group? Click on the link to get the point : Last week Colonel Bizimana left the FDLR rebel group and returned from the DRC. So General Rwarakabije, Ndahimana, ...Bizimana anre no longer terrosits because they gave up to fight the Rwandan evil?

Kagame's Terrorists Are Rwandan Freedom Fighters.

The word "terrorist" doesn't have a single, universally-accepted definition. The most commonly accepted definition is "a person who uses political violence to achieve a political end." The problem is this: people who engage in a guerrilla war against an oppressive government can also be described as using political violence to achieve political ends. Another definition of terrorist is "one who uses terror as a means to achieve a goal." The problem with that definition is that includes state terrorism (that is, terrorist acts committed on behalf of or directly by a government, although no government on the planet defines its own policies as such), any policeman who scares a witness or a suspect into cooperating, and your Wounded Gazelle Gambit-loving little sister. The government of France once planted a bomb on a ship owned by Greenpeace. Israel sent hitmen into various countries in Europe to avenge the murders of their Olympic team in 1972.
 
Part of the problem is that, since at least the 9-11 attacks (and in some cases, even before then), it became fashionable to use the word "terrorist"as a sort of blanket label for any person or group working against the interests of a national government... especially if that enemy was actively fighting a military action against that State, regardless of methods (which resembles the usage of the word 'communist' in the McCarthy's era). The FBI, for example, has in the past labeled war protesters as "potential terrorists", while the Department of Homeland Security has currently labeled tax protesters and some military veterans as "potential terrorists".

Then, there is the association of certain ethnic groups with terrorism. Islamic groups have always been branded as terrorist soon after they emerge, communist guerrillas not so, in fact the Naxal movement in India has fought a war against the state for the past 20 years without being branded as Terrorist. To further muddy the waters, some governments may state that a group is a terrorist movement, but others may not. China considers the Tibetan separatists to be Terrorists, most of the world did not. Pakistan maintained ties to the Taliban until 2001 invasion, but the world never recognized the regime.

Lastly, there is the common confusion regarding the meaning and use of the term "illegal combatant". (Not all illegal combatants are terrorists, for example, though they tend to be labeled as such by the people they are fighting, e.g. Kagame vs FDLR).

On October 11 Callixte Mbarushimana, a senior Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR) rebel leader, was arrested in France on a warrant by the International Criminal Court (ICC). Mbarushimana, 47, faces five crimes against humanity, and six war crimes for murders, rapes, torture and the destruction of property in eastern DRC in 2009. Rwanda had also issued an arrest warrant for Mbarushimana for his alleged involvement in the 1994 genocide. “This is a welcome development. The FDLR is a movement bent on genocide,” said Martin Ngoga Rwanda’s chief prosecutor. “We believe it is an international obligation to hunt its members wherever they are.”

Maitre Bernard NTAGANDA sentenced to 22 years in jail

In mid-December Rwandan authorities also received word from Canadian officials that a Canadian federal court ruled that Faustin Rutayisire, a former mathematics teacher and sous-prefet of Butare prefecture, used his position to influence militias to hunt down Tutsis. Rutayisire applied for refugee status in Canada and was granted permanent residence in 2003. However, two years later Canada began trying to extradite him under the Crimes against Humanity and War Crimes Act.

However, in Zimbabwe, Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) has accused the Zimbabwean government of protecting suspected genocide planner, Protais Mpiranya. Mpiranya, who was the commander of the Presidential Guard during the genocide, also has a five million dollar bounty on his head under the US-funded Reward for Justice Programme.

Ingabire behind bars

Ms Ingabire Victoire, the would-be President  has spent her life under  judicial surveillance then in prison for humiliation proposes

Victoire Ingabire, the leader of the unregistered United Democratic Forces (FDU), has spent a good part of the year either in detention or under judicial surveillance. In April she was arrested on accusations of associating with a terrorist group, denying genocide and promoting genocide ideology and division. After being released, she was barred from travelling outside Kigali and was placed under police investigation. On October 14 she was arrested again, this time on the basis of information provided by Major Vital Uwumuremyi,a former military officer, who himself was arrested on October 13 on the Rwanda-DRC border. Uwumuremyi said he had received Ingabire’s assistance to “set up a military wing of the FDU.” The charges against the pair include “buying and distributing arms and ammunitions to the terrorist organisation and threatening national security and public order.”

On July 14, amid escalating election violence and repression, Democratic Green Party of Rwanda Vice President Andre Kagwa Rwisereka was found beheaded (as strong sign to the opposition), with a machete left nearby, in the wetlands of the Makula River in Rwanda's Butare Province, his grisly murder reminiscent of the Rwanda genocide, in which upwards of a million people were killed, many with machetes.

Rwandan Green Party VPAndré Kagwa Rwisereka Murdered by Kagame's death squad

Ingabire then appeared in court on October 26 but was denied bail. “In public Victoire Ingabire masquerades as a politician. But behind the scenes she operates as a terrorist leader and finacier,” chief prosecutor Martin Ngoga was quoted as saying. On November 12 Rwanda’s high court rejected Ingabire’s appeal against detention, leaving her lawyer, Gatera Gashabana, with no choice but to fix a date for the substantive trial as soon as possible. Meanwhile, on December 13, Ingabire’s home in the Netherlands was cordoned off and searched by Dutch police under a request by Rwandan authorities that had been submitted in February. Some materials were removed from the house and more evidence is now expected from Europe and America. Ingabire’s FDU party accuses Rwandan authorities of fabricating evidence against its leader to deny her from participating in politics.

NDLR : some of the pictures were added to illustrate Kagame as a cold killer.

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 [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), Serial assassinations, 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]





UK: Rwandan Refugees Warned of Elimination Plans


 Rwandan government allegedly might be planning a series of eliminations and acts of division within the Rwandan exiled community in UK by means of assassinations, poisoning and false accusations.


Newspaper Umuvugizi claims to have received intelligence materials that, following a meeting between military and intelligence authorities in Kigali, there are plans to eliminate exiled dissidents currently living in United Kingdom. The article containing the allegations was published on Saturday, 8th January 2011.
According to Umuvugizi newspaper, on this meeting, a Rwandan military officer, Colonel Mupenzi might have received approval and budget to carry out his proposed plan.
Paul Kagame sponsoring Serial Killings

A list of UK local representatives and supporters of FDU-Inkingi, RNC and Imvura political parties might have been drawn.


Umuvugizi also revealed that Rwandan officials might be concerned over the involvement of BBC Journalists with the opposition.


Harassment of Rwandan ex-soldiers is also claimed. It is alleged that two days after his return, officer Mupenzi instructed the Rwandan Embassy to call a certain lady Lieutenant Jeanne D’Arc Umulisa, a former Rwanda Defense Force servicewoman now in exile in UK since 2000. She was called in a meeting in a Nandos Restaurant in Huston, London where they met at around 17h30.


The article said that the meeting was led by Rwandan Ambassador Ernest Rwamucyo and was attended by Intelligence officer Jimmy Uwizeye and Mr. Murego also an intelligence officer.

TONY BLAIR SHOULD BE ACCOUNTABLE for assassination of Rwandan political dissidents inside and outside the country.

Tony Blair should be brought to Justice for crimes he's commit- ting against Rwandans

It is claimed that Mr. Murego had fled his country in the past as did Lieutenant Jeanne, but he has been brought back to work under Kagame’s umbrella. Lieutenant Jeanne is a founder of “Wariyo Baka”, an association of Rwandan exiled ex-soldiers living in UK, Umuvugizi revealed.


Allegedly, Lieutenant Jeanne d’Arc was instructed to dissolve the association and to join RPF party or, otherwise, she would face serious consequences and soon realise her mistakes, in case she refuses to apologize and rejoin the ranks.


According to Umuvugizi, the Ambassador Rwamucyo might have warned her that, if she fails to dissolve the association of exiled RDF servicemen and to apologize, he would take steps to dissolve it and prove her wrong.


Umuvugizi’s exiled Chief Editor Jean-Bosco Gasasira claims that the Rwandan Embassy’s intelligent officers are currently tasked with locating certain refugees in the UK and to lure them into the plan. Other refugees will have to be watched closely to know where they live and what they do.


The plan also include silencing dissidents by ways of false accusations, using hired English people to be sent to wherever they are or in their homes, according to the Newspaper.


The newspaper Chief Editor claims that one of the main secret agents is a certain Mrs Abera, who resides in UK as a refugee. Abera allegedly is acting under the Diaspora initiative in locating Rwandans through her association with their wives.


Mrs Abera might have transformed her home into a pub to allegedly offer a place of meeting to the embassy agents and other refugee-disguised agents who are living off the UK taxpayer’s money.


The Umuvugizi article goes on to say that Rwandan embassy is using some of the defected soldiers who had exiled into UK and now living poverty. These young men have joined the intelligence network of spies and are targeting relatives of the late former President Habyalimana, supporters of Rwanda National Congress, United Democratic Forces as well as local BBC journalists.


“This intelligence Network has a deep hierarchy with different branches in the country. At the top of the largest branch is intelligent officer Jimmy who is an experienced spymaster” says Jean-Bosco Gasasira.

“Another branch of the network is the so-called Diaspora initiative. They use this organisation to locate Rwandans, learn what they do and what their political aspirations are that may be opposed to Kagame’s and to RPF policies.”

Umuvugizi warned “Rwandans living in UK especially those who are opposed to Kagame to be vigilant. They should avoid attending diner parties or same restaurants frequently“.

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 Last month, I moderated a panel at Brown University on the topic of whether genocide could ever happen again. The details of the event can be found here:

Panelists include the Rwandan Ambassador to the US, James Kimonyo, as well as two prominent Rwanda human rights activists, Aloys Habimana and Noel Twagiramungu.


The Ambassador spoke aggressively, and did not leave much space for either Aloys or Noel to speak, probably because he knew that he would not agree with what they would have to say. Instead, I had to bring Kimonyo to heel twice as he spoke beyond his allotted time, accusing some of us on the panel of denying the 1994 genocide within his barrage that Rwanda will have another genocide if we (meaning foreigners, I think) continue to deny the genocide. For my part, because Kimonyo mentioned what he sees as my views to the audience, I spoke briefly to say that my position is, has been and always will be a desire to stop the killing by all sides, and to bring justice to the Great Lakes Region. Having similarly denounced Aloys and Noel as individuals whose work also tries to deny the genocide, one of them made the best comment of the panel, asking if the government of Rwanda itself was not denying genocide (by its own definition) in denouncing the UN Mapping Report of 1 October 2010.

Most interesting was the Ambassador's lack of knowledge about the opinions of his fellow panelists. He accused me and Aloys of being genocide deniers (his understanding of my views is from my blog, not my opinion pieces or academic writing; I am not sure where he gets his information on Aloys' ideas). His failure of logic is that you cannot deny what you cannot talk about. No thinking person denies that there was genocide in Rwanda in 1994 - what some of us argue is that the genocide occurred in a broader context of civil war in which Rwandans of all ethnicities were caught up in the violence. It is a shame that the current government of Rwanda cannot understand that. It is the lack of understanding, combined with intra-RPF conflict that will push Rwanda to another round of violence....
 
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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