Kleine Kerk in Wilnis dorp

 




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






 
© Martin Kroon.

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RPF Secret police, torture, murders, arbitrary executions, deportations, forced disappearances, assassinations outside and inside of Rwanda, forced expropriations, democide and cultural genocide: General Kagame's infamous achievements, 1994-2010.

 Paul Kagame is hailed as a hero from some of the Western countries that are involved in Congo looting.

What persuaded General Kagame, his allies and accomplices to believe that all Hutu's should be destroyed if they mastermind the Rwandan Genocide? Criminals' First Power Tools namely:

1.  Disinformation?
2. Green dollars to corrupt ? Targets have always been media, UN institutions and NGOs, individuals from Western governments plus the RPF fake organizations like Africa Rights of Ms. Rakiya Omar, Survie, Ibuka, etc.
3. Propaganda to cover up RPF mass murder?
4. Prejudice of the Hutu to speed u p the extermination ?  
5. Ethnic Tutsi military domination in the region ?
6. Phantom aid ?
7. US funding Kagame's wars ?
8. FDLR typed and labeled as terrorists and the dilatory belligerent manoeuvres of General Kagame to justify military incursions in the DRC?
9. Manipulation of the Mankind? Dictator honoris causa from British and US universities to embellish and whitewash Kagame criminal records.
   

Nicolas Sarkozy, who is confirmed to be the Banana Republic dictator , has a couple of years ago invited another African dictator Gadhafi now in trouble on the soil of Montesquieu motherland. Worse of that, He is stepping up to host the Rwandan Nazi and bloody dictator Paul Kagame, the next to be ejected by the suffering majority of Rwandans.

 How the shameful gesture is perceived by the French people, by human rights groups in the Western world and then by millions of victims in addition to the infamous Kagame awards from Western Universities, etc. What does it mean for all of the serious observers? Is it about the the Western Disease ? The strange syndrome? To dare invite a native psychopath who has butchered millions of his citizens and Congolese people? A native psychopath who has deliberately beheaded his opponent, murdered journalists and sent to jail the would be president of Rwanda and opposition leader, a mother of three kids for peacefully speaking her mind?


At the same time, we've learnt that the very respected Human Organization Amnesty International has has called on UN General Assembly to end war crimes whitewash. Some results? UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has never condemned Kagame's crimes in Congo. Questions remain unanswered relating to Ban Ki-moon's ability to listen to Congo victims. Some super powers at the UN security Council had their own agendas and these powers three years ago could not welcome any movement aims to immediately arrest and indict Paul Kagame. However, the UN charter and regulations give the Secretary General the jurisdiction to properly do his duties instead of trying to hide his real stances toward the embarrassing General Paul Kagame issue.
 
We need African SurViVors International to become the old style dictators nightmare and the rabble rousers best friend. 

Good luck to the Rwandan and Congolese people and we hope they can hang on to make a real democracy from their plight. 

  "Today Rwanda is an example of peace. The people have chosen not to allow themselves to become captive to decades of retributional killings. Distinctions between ethnic groups, political extremism, wide spread corruption, media manipulation, and other factors that led to the genocide have all but disappeared. Rwandans are working hard to reconcile their differences, and grow themselves out of poverty - toward peace and prosperity. They are an example to the world of what is possible." RPF dictatorship's slogan.

Washington's continued support for the Rwandan dictatorship in the face of massive pro-democracy protests in Europe and at the US soil.

US FUNDS KAGAME TO MURDER RWANDANS AND CONGOLESE PEOPLE

The United States currently provides economic aid and security assistance to such repressive African regimes as Swaziland, Congo, Cameroon, Togo, Chad, Cote d'Ivoire, Rwanda, Gabon, Egypt, and Tunisia. None of these countries holds free elections, and all have severely suppressed their political opposition.In any discussion of false teachers you have to address the issue of money. Money is a significant motivator behind those who would compromise the truth, for the love of money is the root of all sorts of evil (I Timothy 6:10-11).Today, it is abundantly clear that the United States has been funding through its Foreign Aid policies the same dictators that are being rejected by the countries who receive billions of dollars in what amounts to bribery.

Now we see why these countries hate the US so much with a passion. At the same time, we see the most disturbing fact of the billions of dollars that the US is borrowing from China! 

Corruption and Money laundering UN envoys and  MONUC say nothing about Col. Mugabo, RPF commander  battalion in Congo

Most of the time, however, and particularly if the dictatorship is a US ally like Egypt and Rwanda, Washington has shown little enthusiasm for such freedom struggles.
The repressive nature of Rwandan dictatorship and crimes committed by the Rwandan junta leader General Paul Kagame has been well-documented by Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, UN researchers, the UN Board for human rights with the UN Mapping Report and other groups.

 Rwanda is actually a country where a SIMPLE GATHERING of five or more people without a permit is illegal. Peaceful pro-democracy protesters are routinely beaten and jailed. e.g. PS imberakuli, FDU and Rwandan Greens members face daily such horrifying torture and humiliation and some of them still live in prison. Genocidal ideology and genocide denial laws (Kagame's scenario of the 1994 tragic events),  have been in effect for nearly 17 years. Independent observers are banned from monitoring the country's routinely rigged elections except the infamous Commonwealth British organization properly used to serve British interests in the region, from which the largest opposition parties FDU, PS Imberakuli, Rwandan Greens are banned while independent media are severely either banned or restricted in producing publications and other activities.

Supporters of democracy and justice from the Great Lakes region

Jacob G. Hornberger writes: Once it became clear that Egypt’s dictator Hosni Mubarak was on the way out, U.S. officials quickly shifted gears and took the side of the demonstrators, the people who had suffered for 30 years under the brutal Mubarak dictatorship. U.S. officials even offered their guidance for moving Egypt toward a democratic political system.=>Jacob Hornberger is founder and president of the The Future of Freedom Foundation

From Egypt, which saw Hosni Mubarak resign, to Yemen, Tunisia, Algeria, Yemen, Syria, and Jordan, and now Rwanda and Democratic Republic of the Congo, the use of Facebook, Twitter, Internet, etc. is showing once again the great power of communication. The new term is social media.

Get councience of what is happening around you. A WakeUp Call To African Great Lakes Rigion. Take a look around you at what's really going on in your own country. Rwanda and Congo are no exception.Every Rwandan and congolese citizen should wake up and consider really helping his own people.
 
Are there times when supporting a dictator is the lesser of two evils? If we do support a dictator, then we’re subject to the opposition using our own political rhetoric against us and calling us hypocrites. And in some cases they use our stated preference for democracy and self-determination as a cover for installing a new kind of dictatorship, eg. Rwanda. This is just an opinion, Egypt and Tunisia are the most persuasive patterns...
As long as the United States maintains such blatant double standards, U.S. credibility as a defender of human rights and free elections is seriously compromised and thereby plays right into the hands of autocrats and demagogues like Paul Kagame, the bloody criminal still president of Rwanda.

Quest for Justice : Bring the UK backed General Paul Kagame to Justice

An assassinated Hutu woman tied up   with Akandoya techinque Kagame's trademark .

The gendercide had been planned by General Paul Kagame and his RPF military junta. Most of the victims were women, children and the elderly. The same methods were used in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

UN report accuses Rwanda of Hutu genocide and mass murder in DRCOver 600 criminal incidents exposed,World body calls on ICC to prosecute the crimes,Persons to be prosecuted kept secretly in the UNHR database

Prison has become their daily bread Ms. Agnes Uwimana

 If the United States does not take a stand and support the will of the majority of Rwandans today, it risks the good relations between Rwandans and ordinary Americans to actually move towards hatred between both people.

 Halperin noted:
Successive American presidents have said, particularly since the end of the Cold War, that a major goal of American foreign policy was to spread or enlarge or enhance democracy, and that our foreign policy was geared to supporting those who were struggling to establish and maintain democratic regimes.

Billions of dollars borrowed from China to maintain support to the mass-murderer Paul Kagame.

According to some reliable sources, some of the US administration officials have asked China to improve its relations with the Rwandan dictator Paul Kagame to avoid the increasing criticism from the US public. The information should be double-checked.

Those who are refusing freedom to Rwandans are likely suggesting that Rwandans should throw themselves in front of Kagame’s tanks and get willing to die for freedom...

1996: RPF's triumph in mass-murder of Rwandan Refugees. Questions remain answered.

 We support them, and we are working with them to see

Do they have human feelings? We mean  Kagame's allies and accomplices. The answer seems to be a definite No.

General Paul Kagame, the Rwandan vampire still supported by the the US administration More than 8 million Congolese and Rwandan were mass-slaughtered by Him

 The reaction of some readers to the publication of the open letter to Paul Kagame written 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 spoken public, since Kagame and his gangsters destroyed democracy in Rwanda and annihilated millions of people, both Hutu and Tutsi, in his16 year campaign of terror to install a fascist Tutsi minority junta in Rwanda.


Kagame and RPF potentate funds

Rwandans know General Kagame lives in lavish palaces, enjoys private jets in south Africa and Greece, gold, jewelry and the good life on their foreign aid. General Kagame calling him the President of Rwanda, is illegally enriching himself through state funds deprive his state of capital and hinder the development of Rwanda.

 Pursuit of justice or Western plot?

General Kagame should be charged with corruption, theft, rape, torture, targeted horrifying assassinations (cutting the victim into pieces, beheading the victim, using akandoya torture tool, forced disappearances, mass forced inhuman deportation of Refugees, the eyewtness of Kagame crimes, deportations involving the most corrupt UN body UNHCR, mass-murder, war crimes, crimes against humanity and crimes of genocide. African SurViVors urges the ICC arrest warrants against Paul Kagame and his RPF criminal organization. It's obvious that Paul Kagame is the mastermind of the Rwandan and Congolese Genocide. He himself arrogantly confirms the facts. Not to issue those arrest warrants should be saying what everybody knows: "they are fed up with the double standards". If that does not happen, we urge the UN security Council to replace the current ICC Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo who plays double standards by favoring the Rwandan Nazi.

the well-known Hutu refugees still denied justice

 

Prison has become their daily bread Ms. Ingabire Victoire, FDU Chairperson and The Would-be president of Rwanda

 None of  US well known human rights organizations except Human Rights Watch raise any questions about Kagame's notorious human rights record, mass murder or his lack of democracy.
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When nations are founded they are usually founded by just a small group of people of high integrity and intelligence - just a small clique who is interested in the pursuit of truth and development. This group inevitably helps others by creating a prosperous body that others may be able to benefit from, although these others may not necessarily coincide with or agree with the views of the founders. They were never part of the group of hard working and dedicated individuals that created this opportunity for them.
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Deo Mushayidi is a Rwandan opposition politician who has been condemned in September 2010 by the High Court to life....

Prison has become their daily bread Mr. Deo Mushayidi PDP party leader

Kill me or keep me in jail, but … THE PEOPLE OF RWANDA WILL ACHIEVE CHANGE
I have done nothing wrong. I am innocent. 
If the authority considers that my death or my imprisonment is a solution to the problem, they are mistaken. For the love of my people, I am living, suffering and endured the detention.

Prison has become their daily breadMe Ntaganda Bernard PS Imberakuli leader

...Life sentence imprisonment for “causing state insecurity, using forged documents and inciting citizenry against established authority.”

Rwandan opposition figure Bernard Ntaganda has been sentenced to four years in jail after the High Court found him guilty of endangering national security.

Ntaganda of PS-Imberakuri, an opposition political party in Rwanda, was also found guilty of promoting divisionism, inciting ethnic divisions and attempting to organize illegal demonstrations.

Peter Erlinder, speaking to the National Lawyers’ Guild last spring, with a duplicate of the pink prison garb he wore while imprisoned by Rwandan President Paul Kagame’s regime.

The solution to this morass of evil is obvious: The American people should require their government to cease all support for dictatorships (and every other foreign regime). They should require their government to dismantle its overseas military empire and bring all the troops home and discharge them. They should prohibit their government from meddling in the affairs of other nations.

We believe leaders today are surprised, shocked, and sometimes stunned at the power of the people to change our world now in favor of human rights. Smart leaders are listening and beginning to respond before it is too late for them.

© ASI

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

   

 Whereas the fundamental cause of Africosis (African general crisis) is not the multitude of its consequences or results (such as: lack of democracy, ethnic conflicts, colonial borders, corruption, nepotism, lack of "free" market,..), it is, rather, Ubuhake, a Bantu Hutu word describing a socio-politico-economic structure of equal redistribution of all State powers and all State resources between, on the one hand, an indigenous minority proto-hegemonie naturally allied of globalism/neo-imperialism (representing less than 0.03% of the entire population) BUT possessing everything,AND, on the other hand, a marginalized indigenous majority population (representing over 99.07% of the entire population) who are powerless, voiceless, homeless and defenseless.


 
Africans are in serious times.

Time has come when they have to decide instead of their doctators. It is up to the PEOPLE to decide who their leaders should be.

Demostrations in Paris

Congolese demonstrations in Paris

Demonstrations in Paris

 The real problem is that Congolese people are to blame more than they want to admit. 
Do American Outraged against U.S. Support of Dictatorships particularly in Rwanda?

  U.S. government has been the prime partner and enabler of this brutal and broody dictatorship for the entire decade under which Rwandans have suffered.
 In fact, it's actually worse than that. Believe it or not, U.S. government has support RPF Rwandan torturers to exterminate the Hutu´s. It is all a sham, one that enables U.S. officials to deceitfully express shock over the Kagame´s torture, acquire the information or confession with torture, and then secretly thank their RPF, DMI partners for employing their torture expertise on their behalf. The torture deal was a testament to the U.S. government's partnerships with Paul Kagame the African Great Lakes dictator.
 


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

As soon as voting ended at 5:00 pm, a meticulous counting process began after a dramatic day of polling that ended in bloodshed and left many others behind bars on election-related offences.

In some areas in Eastern Uganda, polls closed behind schedule amid chaos, confusion and isolated instances of violence. With very many people still wedged in lengthy queues, at various polling stations particularly in urban centers, polling officials were left with no choice but to extend the deadline to 7am.

Dr Kizza Besigye

In Soronko district, Police Commander Gerald Manta was by press time admitted in Mbale regional hospital where he was reportedly fighting for his life after opposition supporters attacked him in chaotic scenes that ensued over allegations of ballot stuffing.

Earlier, in Budadiri West, the incumbent MP, Mr Nandala Mafabi (FDC), was also attacked in a scuffle that left Julius Odeke, a journalist working with The Razor newspaper shot in the knee allegedly by the bodyguards for the Minister in charge of the Presidency, Ms Beatrice Wabudeya. Ms Wabudeya is contesting against Mr Mafabi.

Electoral Commission Chairman, Eng. Badru Kiggundu whose competence to deliver a free and fair poll has been under scrutiny for the last several months that preceded the elections was quick to say “sorry for election hiccups”, claiming that Uganda is a growing democracy.

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

Dr. Theogene Rudasingwa

Dr. Theogene Rudasingwa
15th February, 2011
Fellow Citizens, Ladies and Gentlemen,

Last night as I thought about what to tell you today, it was humbling to me to think about the long journey that our nation has taken for many centuries. I remembered those who have led this nation before me. Ndahiro Ruyange. Ndoba. Samembe. Nsoro Samukondo. Ruganzu Bwimba. Cyilima Rugwe. Kigeri Mukobanya. Mibambwe Mutabaazi. Yuhi Gahima. Ndahiro Cyamatare. Ruganzu Ndori. Mutara Seemugeshi. Kigeli Nyamuheshera. Mibambwe Gisanura. Yuhi Mazimpaka. Karemera Rwaka. Cyilima Rujugira. Kigeli Ndabarasa. Mibambwe Seentaabyo. Yuhi Gahindiro. Mutara Rwogera. Kigeli Rwabugiri. Mibambwe Rutalindwa. Yuhi Musinga. Mutara Rudahigwa. Kigeli Ndahindurwa. Gregoire Kayibanda. Juvenal Habyarimana. Sindikubwabo. Pasteur Bizimungu.

As I contemplated the lives and fate of those before me, I realized that the only constant in our history has been change and this nation called Rwanda. I now realize that like them I came, and like them I will go, leaving behind this nation.Like you Rwandan people, each one of us leaders had abilities to do constructive things. Like all humans beings, we also make mistakes, some of them costly. Each had something positive to offer to this nation and her people and each one had flaws. Sometimes, the flaws outweighed the strengths and the nation suffered as a consequence. Colonial conquest was possible in Rwanda, as elsewhere, because we were weak compared to foreigners. They had guns, money, and ideas. It survived in Rwanda for long because we were a divided house. We have remained a divided house till today, and some of the consequences are the repeated violent conflicts, death destruction, and genocide. Because of repeated trauma we have inflicted on each other, we have become the sick nation, with a chronically sick people that desperately need healing at home and abroad.

I am very concerned about this nation as you all are, and as my predecessors were. Often we, your leaders, and the elite that has governed Rwanda, have decided to see a small part of Rwanda. A Rwanda of Bahutu or a Rwanda of Batutsi. Actually, we rarely think about Batwa. It seems difficult to us to imagine a whole Rwanda, of Bahutu, Batwa and Batutsi. We have tended to cater for our own interests by making sure that most power is in our hands. We live in today, hardly looking at the long term impact of our present actions. Our habit of seeing a small part of Rwanda, vesting absolute power in our hands, and to have short term interests, have caused much damage to this country, especially in recent years.

Last night I was thinking about how many people have died or fled the country from 1959 to 2011 as a result of conflict and state inspired violence. Innocent Bahutu, Batwa, Batutsi have become victims of state violence, human rights abuses, civil war, or genocide. I thought about life in refugee camps and the jungles through which ordinary people, including myself, had to move through. Mushiha. Kigamba. Ngara. Nyakivara,.Cyangwari, Nshungezi,. Gahunge. Goma, and others.

I thought about the humiliation of statelessness, and the lost dreams and opportunities. I recalled the loss of life in the civil war that pitted RPF against the regime of the late President Habyarimana. Each side in the conflict lost many lives of young Rwandans. Each side believed they had a patriotic duty to defend a nation or a cause they loved. In the opening stages of the civil war RPF lost the charismatic General Fred Rwigyema. In the final stages Rwanda lost its President General Juvenal Habyarimana in circumstances that we as a nation are still to come to terms with. For this level of sacrifice, what do we owe Rwandans? Can we stop the trauma we inflict on each other? Can Rwandans heal? Can we Bahutu, Batwa and Batutsi imagine and create a common future in peace, rule of law, freedom, democracy, and shared prosperity?
I was almost tempted to give a speech talking about RPF’s victories from 1990 to 2011, and especially since 1994. As I reviewed the speech written by my advisers, I recognized its usual arrogant tone and deceptions. Some of RPFs victories are facts. So are the facts about victories of my predecessors. It is not my intention to repeat them here. You have heard them from me, RPF, and by other government officials. What bothers me is that we have become an organization that has become insensitive to the damage we have caused to the Rwandan people.

If there is one failure that stands out since 1959 up to now, it is the inability to place the sanctity of human life, and basic freedoms, at the center of everything we do as a nation. On behalf of RPF members and the Rwanda Government, I apologize to the Rwandan people where RPF under my leadership have caused additional trauma to the Rwandan people. On their behalf I ask for your forgiveness. Today I would like to propose a one-point program. Today I am announcing a program for freedom, on which all other national endeavors must be anchored, and against which actions must be prioritized, and performance measured. There must be freedom, first, or nothing else.

In this regard, I am proposing the following measures, which I hope will change the course of our nation in the next several years.
First, with regard to Rwandese Patriotic Front (RPF)/Rwandese Patriotic Army (RPA, now Rwanda Defense Forces, RDF): As RPF Chairman, I am ordering,

1) A full and independent investigation on party finances since 1990
2) A report on all RPA deaths, and lessons learned, from October 1990 to 2011
3) I further propose commissioning a committee to come up with proposals on how RPF can re-dedicate itself to freedom, internal democracy, and innovations to champion democracy in Rwanda
4) An investigation of the RPA human rights abuses in Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo, including the Mapping Report,
5) An immediate international investigation into the death of Presidents Juvenal Habyarimana and Cyprian Ntaryamira,
6) The creation, out of RPF finances, of RPF Widows and Orphans Fund to support the welfare of widows and orphans of RPF’s fallen comrades
7) creation, out of RPF finances, of RPF Scholarship Fund, to get RPF cadres into education, training and employment opportunities and 8) creation of a Small and Medium Enterprises Fund from RPF finances, to support growth of small businesses.

Second, I propose creation of a Coalition Transitional Government to undertake the necessary reforms prior to holding genuinely free and fair Presidential and Parliamentary elections within the next 36 months. I am inviting all credible opposition leaders in and outside Rwanda to unconditional talks, leading to the creation of the coalition transitional government, the full opening of the political space, freedom for the media and civil society, the repatriation of all refugees, and the re-integration of armed groups and demobilized soldiers into RDF and civilian life.

Third, I propose a comprehensive national dialogue, with local and international chapters, that goes beyond justice to talk about our society’s struggle for healing. Among other things, the national dialogue will attempt to construct a national “balance sheet” from 1959-2011. Among other things, it will produce a candid general assessment of how many people Rwanda has lost from state-inspired terror, civil war, genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity. These chronicles will be published as a National Black Book. This will be a basis of having a National Day of Remembrance, Forgiveness and Healing. When we celebrate this day for the first time, we’ll release all prisoners in Rwanda, and institute discussions with the international community to free even those who are being tried (or have been convicted) by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. There will be a day in our history when all Rwandans are free. The national dialogue will have the freedom to recommend a way forward on other substantive challenges facing the country. Such issues will include a “History of Rwanda Project,” to produce a harmonized approach to writing and teaching history in Rwanda’s institutions of learning, and a “Constitution Project”, to recommend revisions that are commensurate with this new agenda for freedom, reconciliation and healing.

 Fourth, with effect from today, I am disbanding all the informal security networks and ordering immediate cessation of harassment of opponents at home and abroad. I am also instructing forthwith that the Rwanda Defense Forces, the National Security Service and the Directorate of Military Intelligence be brought under full Cabinet/Parliamentary oversight.

 Fifth, I am ordering the immediate release of all political prisoners.

Sixth, I am initiating a special bill, The Rwanda Defense Forces Integration, Education, Training and Employment Bill, to put every man and woman of the RDF into school, training and employment programs. Through this bill every barracks should function as a school. All schools must be expanded to accommodate educational and training needs for soldiers and former combatants, including Ex-FAR, FDLR and other armed groups operating out of eastern DRC. In connection with this, and under the auspices of the coalition government and help of the international community, Rwandan armed groups will be integrated into a new reformed RDF that reflects the character of the Rwandan nation.

Seventh, I am ordering cessation and review of all unpopular policies that the RPF government has undertaken, including:
a) A policy on French as a language of instruction in Rwanda
b) A policy on scholarships in the institutions of higher learning
c) A policy on vasectomies for Rwandan men as a family planning tool and
d) A policy on housing for the Batwa.

Seventh, I am asking the entire government to review and come up with innovative policies that will help us tackle the problem of poverty and hunger in an equitable and sustainable way. While we have been praised by foreigners on social and economic development, the truth is that our economic growth is confined to the small urban elite. Too many of our people are still poor and hungry. This is not acceptable.

Eighth, it might sound a bitter pill to swallow for me and my fellow partisans in RPF, but I am forced to declare the last elections of 2010 null and void. I am concerned that having rigged the 2003 elections, as well as the last one, the RPF is setting a corrupting effect on its cadres and RDF’s officers and men. I apologize for the deception, and the waste of time and resources that have gone into the elections of 2003 and 2010. I am sure that all of you citizens agree with me that it is better to admit mistakes, so as not to repeat them, rather than to continue on a path of deception that will inevitably lead to civil war and more bloodshed.
We are in need of a fresh start. Let this be the day we re-dedicate ourselves to trying new and bold things. Free and fair elections, under the new coalition of transitional government, must take place no later than 36 months from its formation.

 Ninth, I would like to assure all our neighbors that from now on Rwanda is genuinely interested in good neighborliness, and will stop policies which in the past have destabilized the region.
Tenth, I am announcing today that I will not stand in the next elections. I leave it to you and history to judge my performance while in power.

Make no mistake about this; the task before us is a Rwandan task. Only Rwandans can build Rwanda for the benefit of Rwandans. However, we need the help of our elders, our neighbors, our African brothers and sisters, and the rest of the international community. In this regard, to face these difficult tasks before us, I will be seeking the advice of my fellow Rwandan leaders currently in exile and those within the country.
In the next few weeks, I will be requesting my colleagues President Museveni of Uganda, President Kikwete of Tanzania, President Kibaki of Kenya, President Kabira of the DRC, President Pierre Nkurunziza and President Zuma of South Africa to an urgent summit to discuss how best these proposals can be supported by the region, the African Union and the international community. I will also be reaching out for advice from eminent personalities like former Presidents Arap Moi, Benjamin Mkapa, Al-Hassan Mwinyi, Pierre Buyoya and former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, former U.S. President Bill Clinton and former British Prime Minister, Tony Blair. I am also counting on the support of my allies, the United Kingdom and United States to support this peace process towards Rwanda's freedom and democratization.

I realize that the proposals I have highlighted are ambitious and difficult. However, this is not the first time we have faced a challenge of this magnitude. We have to count on our own imagination, hard work, and collective will to enable freedom to thrive in our country. Rwanda can only break away from its dangerous habits of violence, coercion; politics of exclusion, mistrust, and fear if its citizens embrace freedom, with all its rights and obligations. I know that freedom is what every one of us needs to live a full life. This is what the blood of departed Rwandans, the aspirations of the present generation, and the future generations demand from us. We cannot afford to offer them anything less. We cannot wait for another seven years.
Will you join me in implementing these proposals to make freedom and healing a reality?
Thank you very much and may God bless you.

 © Dr. Theogene Rudasingwa

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

Door buitenlandredacteur Esther Bootsma

 
 [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]


 

De man van de Rwandese Victoire Ingabire uit Zevenhuizen hoopt dat staatssecretaris Knapen van Buitenlandse Zaken vandaag op bezoek in Rwanda pleit voor haar vrijlating uit de gevangenis.

Na zestien jaar asiel in Nederland zit Ingabire sinds oktober vorig jaar in een zwaarbewaakte gevangenis in Rwanda. Ze was naar Rwanda gegaan om mee te doen aan presidentsverkiezingen, maar het liep anders. Ze werd gearresteerd op verdenking van haat zaaien en steun aan Hutu-extremisten.

In een kerk in Waddinxveen laat haar man Lin Muyizere foto's zien. "Kijk, hier heeft Victoire nog haar prachtige haar. En nu moet ze rondlopen met een kale kop", zegt hij, terwijl hij een korrelige foto toont van zijn vrouw in een roze gevangenishemd. "En dan te bedenken dat ze zo van mooie kleren houdt en er altijd netjes uitziet. Ik heb nog nieuwe kleding gekocht, maar het heeft geen zin die nu op te sturen."
Mandela of terrorist

Muyizere heeft zijn vrouw niet meer gesproken sinds ze in de cel zit. Via haar partijleden hoort hij dat haar gezondheid goed is. "Maar ze is wel heel bang. Zoveel oppositieleden en critici in Rwanda zijn vermoord of vergiftigd. Vrienden brengen elke dag eten naar de gevangenis, zodat niemand gif door haar eten kan mengen."

Haar aanhangers noemen haar de vrouwelijke Mandela, maar de Rwandese regering noemt haar een terrorist. Sinds de genocide in 1994 is het in Rwanda verboden om openlijk over Hutu's en Tutsi's te spreken. Maar dat deed Ingabire juist wel. Sterker nog: ze vroeg openlijk aandacht voor de Hutu-slachtoffers van het huidige bewind van Tutsi-president Kagame.De gangbare kennis over de genocide in Rwanda is dat Hutu-extremisten 800.000 mensen vermoordden, vooral Tutsi's. Minder bekend is dat de 'slachtoffers' ook daders waren; het Tutsi-leger vermoordde zelf na de genocide tienduizenden Hutu's (vanaf 1990 t/m 1994, honderd duizenden Hutu's werden vermoorden. Na de Genocide, massmoord van 3 miljoen Hutu's in Kibeho en Kongo=> ASI): militieleden én burgers. Omdat Ingabire hier onderzoek naar eist, wordt ze beschuldigd van haat zaaien, 'divisionisme' en het propageren van de theorie van de 'dubbele genocide'.
Daarnaast wordt ze verdacht van samenwerking met Rwandese Hutu-rebellen (FDLR) die zich schuilhouden in het buurland Congo. Ze zou hen financieren en een gewapende tak willen oprichten van haar partij. De Rwandese openbaar aanklager heeft verschillende namen bekendgemaakt van prominente Hutu-strijders waarmee Ingabire contact had. Ook in een VN-rapport wordt haar naam in verband gebracht met FDLR-rebellen.

"Erg!", zegt haar man over deze beschuldigingen. Volgens hem zijn alle bewijzen volstrekt gefabriceerd. "Victoire wil juist verzoening en dialoog in Rwanda tot stand brengen. Daarom heeft ze inderdaad deze mensen ontmoet, op uitnodiging van de Congolese president Kabila. Die vroeg haar hulp om de problemen op te lossen die deze mensen in Congo veroorzaken."

Op zoek naar harde bewijzen zoals banktransacties vroeg Rwanda de Nederlandse justitie om huiszoeking te doen in de rijtjeswoning van Ingabire in Zevenhuizen. "Met twaalf man kwamen ze lomp binnenvallen", zegt haar man. "Onze zoon van negen was doodsbang."

De huiszoeking leidde tot ophef in de Tweede Kamer. PvdA, Christen-Unie en SP vinden dat Nederland geen gehoor had moeten geven aan dit verzoek van een bewind dat mensenrechten schendt. Er is nog steeds een juridisch steekspel gaande of Nederland de in beslag genomen documenten aan Rwanda zal overdragen.

Lin Muyizere heeft de vurige hoop dat staatssecretaris Knapen bij dit bezoek zijn best doet om Victoire vrij te krijgen. Maar hij vreest het ergste. "De Nederlandse ambassade heeft heel weinig voor haar gedaan", zegt hij. De ambassadeur in Rwanda beroept zich erop dat Ingabire geen Nederlands paspoort heeft en dat hij zich niet kan mengen in interne aangelegenheden. Maar Muyizere vindt dat een zwak excuus.

"Nederland is een belangrijke donor van Rwanda en er zitten veel Nederlandse bedrijven, zoals Heineken en Draka. De ambassadeur wil gewoon dat zijn projecten slagen. Hij vindt zijn goede contacten en het bedrijfsleven belangrijker dan de mensenrechten."

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