[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 fist, 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]


HOW IS IT POSSIBLE THAT US, UK, NL CLOSELY WORK  WITH A RUTHLESS DICTATOR? Does the world realize that some of the United States government members, individuals and some of the British government members, some of the Dutch government members and some individuals from the EU are RWANDAN AND CONGOLESE GENOCIDES PLOTTERS?



Did anybody or anyone inform our readers the best way of finding out the root cause of KAGAME AND RPF's IMPUNITY? Yeah! After the MAPPING REPORT was made public, KAGAME IS STILL INVITED BY SOME CRIMINAL RULERS.... The invisible ruling elite and mastermind of the Rwandan and Congolese genocides will still be there to do these things to us again another day.

It's all about corruption. EXPOSE THESE CRIMINAL RULERS!!!! They need to see their own names on TV, in media, and elsewhere they can find themselves as WELL-KNOWN CRIMINALS.

African SurViVors International (AS International) is an international nonpartisan charity organization devoted to defending human rights. It’s an organization working to promote democracy and national reconciliation, inside countries of the African Great lakes Region.

AS International centers its work on the twin concepts of freedom of self-determination and freedom from tyranny. These ideals include the belief that all human beings have the rights to speak freely, to associate with those of like mind, and to leave and enter their countries. Individuals in a free society must be accorded equal treatment and due process under law, and must have the opportunity to participate in the governments of their countries;

AS International’s ideals likewise find expression in the conviction that all human beings have the right to be free from arbitrary detainment or exile and from interference and coercion in matters of conscience. ASI does not support nor condone violence.

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

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]

The Rwandan Butcher Paul Kagame

AD reader Kana based in California has broken an amazing story on how Kagame has been ditched by Sacramento State University.

The butcher of the Great Lakes Region has been dis-invited.

The Rwandan genocidaire was invited at Sacramento University as the keynote speaker At A GENOCIDE CONFERENCE

Thanks to the ever alert blogger Kamikazi, last week AD revealed how Kagame had found another gullible American university ready to flatter him with awards.
The Rwandan butcher was to deliver the keynote address at the international conference on genocide today on 3 November 2011.The President of Sacramento State University was then to present the dictator with an honorary plaque.
This will not happen.
 
The University has dumped the butcher – Kagame will not set foot at Sacramento State University.

Resistance to Kagame presence at the university has been stiff. The Chairs of the University’s History and Government Departments led the effort of mobilising strong opposition to Kagame’s presence.

AD acknowledges in particular the efforts of the History Professor Michael Vann who played a leading role in dumping the Rwandan dictator.

These faculty members rightly questioned the wisdom of awarding the Rwandan dictator with an honorary plaque in the university’s name. The professors know that Butcher Kagame is war monger and criminal. They know that instead of being honoured with awards, Kagame should be made to account for his crimes in Rwanda and in DRCongo.

To save face, the University has organised a tele-conference via which the Rwandan dictator will give an address without directly soiling their campus.

Bravo the community of Sacramanto State University that bravely said no to the butcher of Rwanda.
Butcher Kagame, your days of killing, terrorising, imprisoning, bullying and exiling Rwandans are numbered.
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AS International centers its work on the twin concepts of freedom of self-determination and freedom from tyranny. These ideals include the belief that all human beings have the rights to speak freely, to associate with those of like mind, and to leave and enter their countries. Individuals in a free society must be accorded equal treatment and due process under law, and must have the opportunity to participate in the governments of their countries;

AS International’s ideals likewise find expression in the conviction that all human beings have the right to be free from arbitrary detainment or exile and from interference and coercion in matters of conscience. ASI does not support nor condone violence.

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

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Morality Should Be above the Law.

Key Rwandan opposition leaders are arrested, intimidated, hounded and even killed.

[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 fist, 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]




Since May 2011, Kagame’s soldiers are on red alert.

 Rwanda - The political crisis that is boiling in Rwanda for several months is expressed by a lack of progress on human rights and democracy. Yet General Kagame is facing an invigorated opposition, the key opposition leaders are calling on the Rwandans inside and outside of the country to remain focused and react appropriately to any attempt to perpetuate the ruthless military dictator's rule and his RPF authoritaria-nism in the country.  The situation arose from the unlawful arrest and imprisonment of the FDU leader and the would-be president of Rwanda and the determination of both RNC and FDU-Inkingi to unite their efforts to liberate and help Rwandans to come over the current critical political situation.
Besides these men in military uniforms in various Rwandan towns, armed to the teeth, the local difence forces, the police and gendarmes along the major streets check identification of suspicious people with all seriousness.

Ms Victoire Ingabire The would -Be President of Rwanda Now in Rwandan Prison.

Many observers, tourists and ordinarily rwandans wonder about the justification of such a state of emergency while the RPF regime hardliners insist on the existence of peace across Rwanda. The world community will be witnessing of the growing wave of unrest in the country. There is no denying that nothing should justify such an emergency situation as a result of the ongoing suspension of civil liberties across the country (e.g. Ms. Ingabire trial).

 After the 1994 tragic events,  Rwandans'rejection of Non-Violence is the Affirmation of their Right to Self-Defense under Kagame's regime and the current State of Emergency.


According to one reliable eye-witness, since May 2011, the state of emergency remains in force with brutally enforced dusk-to-dawn curfews across Rwandan main towns. The arbitrary arrests, torture, assassinations and disappearances reappeared in force elsewhere in the country and became common to ordinarily Rwandans in the country.
Rwandans and the rest of the world should know the following: ‘Defeating dictators’ is a vitriolic lampoon of abuse of power, electoral gerrymandering and rape of democracy in the developing world’.

As security forces and the RPF military men in streets are dispatched all around Rwandan towns and villages, street gatherings are banned of more than five people or more.  the situation is  exacerbated by the RPF party's increasing repression on Rwandans forcing them to forcibly adhere to the party. Asked about the reason behind the non refusal of Rwandans to do it,  the following smart reaction remains the key answer to Kagame's tactics:"if you need to travel in metro, on bus or by train, you need to buy your ticket otherwise you're banned from traveling (meaning no more rights inside Rwanda).

Where there is no longer any alternative, a special term such as “democracy and Justice ” becomes superfluous.

This state in Rwanda is generally believed to be due to General Kagame’s stubborn fight against Ms. Ingabire Victoire, the main Rwandan opposition leaders, his to eternalize his reign, in spite of warnings from both national and international organizations.

The examples of Tunisia, Egypt and Libya he examples of are too conspicuous to be ignored. Kagame should transition into a real democracy to avert the possibility of a popular uprising in the country.
Exacerbated by the initial attempt by the opposition political parties to stage their unification against the existing bloody Rwandan dictatorship, General Kagame is spending/throwing through the window millions of dollars in paying  tickets for his his followers FROM INSIDE RWANDA  and RPF members DISPACHED AROUND THE WORLD to "meet" him at each time he travels abroad while demonstrations are organized by the Rwandan opposition around the world.

The good parent prepares his children for independence, trains them to make responsible decisions, knows that he harms them by not helping them to break loose. The paternal state thrives on dependency. When the dependents free themselves, it loses power. It is, therefore, parasitic on the very persons whom it turns into parasites. Thus, the state and its dependents march symbiotically to destruction.”

African SurViVors International (AS International) is an international nonpartisan charity organization devoted to defending human rights. It’s an organization working to promote democracy and national reconciliation, inside countries of the African Great lakes Region.

AS International centers its work on the twin concepts of freedom of self-determination and freedom from tyranny. These ideals include the belief that all human beings have the rights to speak freely, to associate with those of like mind, and to leave and enter their countries. Individuals in a free society must be accorded equal treatment and due process under law, and must have the opportunity to participate in the governments of their countries;

AS International’s ideals likewise find expression in the conviction that all human beings have the right to be free from arbitrary detainment or exile and from interference and coercion in matters of conscience. ASI does not support nor condone violence.

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

[Since 1994, the world witnesses the horrifying reality : the Tutsi minority (14%) ethnic domination, the Tutsi minority ethnic rule, tyranny and corruption in Rwanda. The current government has been characterized by the total impunity of RPF criminals, the Tutsi economic monopoly, the Tutsi militaristic domination with an iron fist, 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]



Y ROBERT MUKOMBOZI
Perth, Australia
Rwanda entered the 2011 edition of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) with a fair share of shame.

The tiny east African country was put under pressure in the run up to CHOGM 2011 in Perth, Australia on accusations it was serious veering off course in terms of basic standards acceptable by the commonwealth League -both on human rights and democracy.

The Australian government made its position clear to the Rwandan President Paul Kagame that it was prepared to push Rwanda, and other countries accused of human rights violations and suppression of democratic values harder.

Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard said countries like Rwanda would be put under pressure to ensure they respect the value of human rights and democracy as a key requirement among commonwealth member countries.

The same message was sent to Kagame by the Australian Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd as well as Queen Elizabeth II, who stressed that commonwealth countries, uphold the fundamental standards and values of human rights and democracy for a better future of the commonwealth.

The Rwanda leader raised his profile while vouching for more opportunities for the African continent.
He said Africa needed to be given a fair increase in the share of global trade.

But as the Rwandan President Paul Kagame grappled to cope with the diplomatic backlash at the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting, Rwandans, Burundians and DR Congolese descended on Perth streets in droves to protest his participation at the meeting.

From Violation of human rights, muzzling of the opposition and media to rape and plunder of natural resources in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the battle for Rwanda’s positive outcomes was shrinking.
As the outcry of peaceful protesters rocked Perth, Rwanda’s membership in the commonwealth ended up getting shaken alongside Malaysia and Sri Lanka, whose President Mahinda Rajapaska actually survived an arrest attempt shot down by the Australian Attorney General.

The over 200 protestors chanted “Kagame is a killer”, “Kagame release political prisoners”, “Bring Kagame to justice for war crimes and crimes against humanity”. They also questioned the Rwandan leaders’ morality when he spends a whopping $20,000 on a hotel room per night while Rwandans live under $1 a day and the country dependent on +50% aid.

In fact, Mr Gervais Condo, the leader of Rwandan National Congress’ international relations Department said, it was time for the international community to put pressure on the Rwandan government to open up for political pluralism, press freedom and human rights.

“As RNC, we are urging the international community buddies to ensure that Rwanda upholds standards set by the commonwealth. We want President Paul Kagame to release all political prisoners, respect freedom of the press and stop forceful repatriation of refugees,” Mr Condo told a mammoth gathering of protesters at the Esplanade Friday.


The Rwanda National Congress and United Democratic Forces (UDF) also supported the Protests.
In Rwanda, leaders of political parties are languishing in prisons scattered around the country on fabricated charges of treason, inciting ethnic violence, sectarianism and genocide revisionism among other forms of vague accusations. They are currently imprisoned under cruel and inhumane conditions in Kigali.
Ms Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza, Mr Bernard Ntaganda, Mr. Deo Mushayidi, Mr Charles Ntakirutinka, Ms.Seraphine Mukamana are among the critical opposition voices that are perishing in prisons.

Military officers that have tried to promote democracy, the rule of law and political pluralism have also been exiled, particularly, former Chief of Staff Lt.Gen. Kayumba Nyamwasa (who survived an assassination attempt on 19th June 2010 in Johannesburg, South Africa) and former external intelligence chief Colonel Patrick Karegeya have been forced to flee the country.
Some like Col. Rugigana Ngabo have found a permanent place in jail without trial.

The media in Rwanda is also under attack. In July 2010, Mr. Jean-Léonard RUGAMBAGE, a journalist and critic of the government, was murdered.
Many newspapers that are critical of government have been forced to shut down journalists are now operating online from exile because of threats to their lives.

Such gross abuse of human rights and freedoms in Rwanda is what has raised concerns within the commonwealth, making the country a subject of the bloc’s monitoring system.

Now Prime ministers and presidents from 54 member states are considering a recommendation that a commissioner be appointed monitor human rights in countries especially Rwanda, Sri Lanka and Malaysia among others.

Analysts at the CHOGM 2011 meeting said Rwanda, Malaysia and Sri Lanka recorded the lowest mark on their scorecard, which may have forced Mr Kagame to cancel his meeting with the Rwandan diaspora at Hyatt Hotel in Perth.

He delegated his Ambassador to Australia and Japan, Dr Charles Murigande and Foreign Affairs Minister Louis Mushikiwabo to proceed with the meeting.


African SurViVors International (AS International) is an international nonpartisan charity organization devoted to defending human rights. It’s an organization working to promote democracy and national reconciliation, inside countries of the African Great lakes Region.

AS International centers its work on the twin concepts of freedom of self-determination and freedom from tyranny. These ideals include the belief that all human beings have the rights to speak freely, to associate with those of like mind, and to leave and enter their countries. Individuals in a free society must be accorded equal treatment and due process under law, and must have the opportunity to participate in the governments of their countries;

AS International’s ideals likewise find expression in the conviction that all human beings have the right to be free from arbitrary detainment or exile and from interference and coercion in matters of conscience. ASI does not support nor condone violence.

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

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=>As International]

• Sixty-nine percent of those surveyed believe the fear of authority....

African SurViVors International (AS International) is an international nonpartisan charity organization devoted to defending human rights. It’s an organization working to promote democracy and national reconciliation, inside countries of the African Great lakes Region.



AS International centers its work on the twin concepts of freedom of self-determination and freedom from tyranny. These ideals include the belief that all human beings have the rights to speak freely, to associate with those of like mind, and to leave and enter their countries. Individuals in a free society must be accorded equal treatment and due process under law, and must have the opportunity to participate in the governments of their countries;

AS International’s ideals likewise find expression in the conviction that all human beings have the right to be free from arbitrary detainment or exile and from interference and coercion in matters of conscience. ASI does not support nor condone violence.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

1. Dictatorship to Democracy
2. Open letter to Carnegie Mellon University: Don’t host Kagame!
3. The presence of President Paul Kagame tarnishes the European Union’s image
4. No more red carpet to the bloody dictator Paul Kagame
5. No more degrees to the heavyweight criminal
6. And much more

Paul Kagame, behind the scenes, The real face of a criminal

The Lantos Foundation was proud to join with dozens of prominent human rights organizations in sponsoring the WE HAVE A DREAM GLOBAL SUMMIT AGAINST DISCRIMINATION AND PERSECUTION last week during the convening of the 66th session of the UN General Assembly.

No more red carpet to the bloody dictator Paul Kagame

The summit challenged the UN to confront the hypocrisy involved in “rolling out the red carpet” for tyrants and giving them a place of honor and a bully pulpit from which to address the world.



Ladies and Gents:

Aleichem shalom (עֲלֵיכֶם שָׁלוֹם) !

If we truly want peace in this world, we need to make better choices closer to home. I recently have heard that many of western Universities committees won’t see anymore their degrees getting devalued because of non sense and even stupid publicity in granting honorary degrees to unpopular leaders across the world and to heavyweight criminals and or dictators such like Paul Kagame only because they happen to be self-elected presidents.


The invited dictator Paul Kagame, your/their guest Does Nobody have no idea about his criminal records? A permanent attempt to whitewash the bloody criminal




On the other hand, I think I am certainly correct when I say or repeat that when you give, you get, and that goes both ways. If you give well, you get well; and if you give poorly, you can expect a poor return. Come on! So are the consequences of those unpredictable distributions of honorary degrees. In my point of view, these universities should be aware too about their tight relationship with the African Paul Pot, the Hitler admirer Paul Kagame. Who doesn’t know Paul Kagame? Is this a good thing to destroy your own university because of one bloody dictator only because he’s backed by your government?
Prison : a chief tool to silence the opponent, a tool of prosecution


You be the judge!

Ask Ms Ingabire Victoire The would-be President of Rwanda Actually in Prison

 Paul Kagame is the worse dictator the world has ever hosted. He is responsible for repeated and egregious crimes against humanity.

1. He is responsible for perpetrated massacres of perhaps thousands of pro-democracy students and teachers (about 21,000) at Kibeho in the early 1995.

2. The widespread repression, torture, and murder, imprisonment of hundred of thousands of Hutus by the bloody RPF government led by him.

3. His DMI, MP and other unknown intelligence organizations across Rwanda are a foresight of what the world will face as the humiliation of the human kind.


Ask that Hutu woman about Paul Kagame's cruelties


4. At the same time, US government delivers military training to RPF criminals and US universities are not anxious to grant Paul Kagame various honorary degrees despite the sufferings of Rwandan and Congolese people due to the most-wanted criminal Paul Kagame’s crimes. Personally, I do think there are very few people, and it’s very important to emphasize this, that merit being awarded honorary degrees, and the likes of Paul Kagame should certainly not be among them.


Ask Me Ntaganda Bernard, the opposition leader in Rwanda prison about Paul Kagame's cruelties


5. He is responsible for perpetrated massacres of hundred of thousand Rwanda refugees in the Democratic of the Congo: 3,500,000 butchered byhim and his bloody army genocidaire. Thoutsands of returnees were butchered in those prepared for them death camps and in the countryside according to the well planed killing strategy.

Ask those journalists in prison about Paul Kagame's cruelties

For many experts, the key to the recent RPF crimes in Rwanda and in the Republic of the Congo lies in the Universities staffs, senate and students’ push to extend their influence in the Western government’s foreign policies to merely stop this phenomenon which negatively affect their future.

Listen to what Guga Rockall says:

Ask that Belgian priest about Paul Kagame's cruelties

· “ If universities want to avoid their honorary degrees being devalued to a level comparable with peerages and similar, they should be limited to people who have made some outstanding contribution in a particular field or area, and which has resulted in some form of benefit to the country or the world”.


Another respected man Mr. Roy, one of the serious observers in this matter adds the following:

Ask that Hutu children in prison at Iwawa Island about Paul Kagame's cruelties

· “Giving away degrees by universities just for a bit of free publicity devalues the achievements of those who have had to spend years working for them…”

Ask survivors about Paul Kagame's cruelties

For a longtime, we have been told that nominees are selected and vetted about the type of people honored. The result is very critical when for free publicity which does not care about their future, some of western universities continue to confer the honoris causa degrees upon the Rwandan Top Nazi despite tie fact that he is on top of the target list f bloody dictators. So, after analyzing the situation, I came to the conclusion that the degree that He receives is in all a degree of anger at roll of dishonor for the University itself, the UK citizens who have studied or worked in those universities and of course for dishonor and a shame for the abandoned Rwandans.

Ask those Hutu children about Paul Kagame's cruelties

Recommendations:

I. Stopping the award of degrees to people who are believed to be criminals and Nazis suck like Paul Kagame

II. No more red carpet to the world heavy-weight criminal and Rwanda Top Nazi

III. Banning serving politicians from receiving awards.

IV. Giving serious consideration to whether degrees should be awarded to nominees from countries with poor or without human rights records

Ask that raped Hutu woman about Paul Kagame's cruelties

V. Greater scrutiny at the nomination stage between the degree committee and the university senate which rubber stamps awards.

VI. Previous degrees awarded to Paul Kagame should be withdrawn





Ask those Hutu children about Paul Kagame's cruelties



This process to allow honorary degrees to be removed may start and encouraged and it is a good thing.

Ask about RPF torture tools Here is Akandoya

I finally do hope Paul Kagame will be the first world heavyweight criminal to be deprived of his award for becoming the Rwanda Top Nazi, a genocidaire, a war criminal, an anti-democratic tyrant and no longer be able to flaunt his degrees. Otherwise, it’s a big shame to all of us. Shame, indeed. Shame on all of us for tolerating a terrorist state.



As International
African SurViVors International (AS International) is an international nonpartisan charity organization devoted to defending human rights. It’s an organization working to promote democracy and national reconciliation, inside countries of the African Great lakes Region.


AS International centers its work on the twin concepts of freedom of self-determination and freedom from tyranny. These ideals include the belief that all human beings have the rights to speak freely, to associate with those of like mind, and to leave and enter their countries. Individuals in a free society must be accorded equal treatment and due process under law, and must have the opportunity to participate in the governments of their countries;


AS International’s ideals likewise find expression in the conviction that all human beings have the right to be free from arbitrary detainment or exile and from interference and coercion in matters of conscience. ASI does not support nor condone violence.
 
The Truth can be buried and stomped into the ground where none can see, yet eventually it will, like a seed, break through the surface once again far more potent than ever, and Nothing can stop it. Truth can be suppressed for a "time", yet It cannot be destroyed. ==> Wolverine

 [Since 1994, the world witnesses the horrifying reality : the Tutsi minority (14%) ethnic domination, the Tutsi minority ethnic rule, tyranny and corruption in Rwanda. The current government has been characterized by the total impunity of RPF criminals, the Tutsi economic monopoly, the Tutsi militaristic domination with an iron fist, 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]



  Nowadays, there are a lot of heartless people walking around freely in the society. Among them, the still president Paul Kagame and RPF war criminals.





Rwanda - Kigali : On August 4, 1993, in Arusha, Tanzania, the Government of Rwanda and the Rwandese Patriotic Front signed the Arusha Peace Agreement. The provisions of the agreement included a commitment to principles of the rule of law, democracy, national unity, pluralism, the respect of fundamental freedoms and the rights of the individual. The agreement further had provisions on power-sharing, formation of one and single National Army and a new National Gendarmerie from forces of the two warring parties; and a definitive solution to the problem of Rwandan refugees.

On April 6, 1994, at 8:25 p.m., the Falcon 50 jet of the President of the Republic of Rwanda, registration number “9XR-NN”, on its return from a summit meeting in DAR-ESSALAAM, Tanzania, as it was on approach to Kanombe International Airport in KIGALI,
Rwanda, was shot down. All on board, including President Juvenal Habyarimana , President
Cyprien Ntaryamira of Burundi, their entire entourage and flight crew died.


The death of President Juvenal Habyarimana triggered the start of genocide that targeted Tutsi and Hutu moderates, and the resumption of civil war between RPF and the Government of Rwanda. The RPF’s sad and false narrative from that time on has been that Hutu extremists within President Habyarimana’s camp shot down the plane to derail the implementation of the Arusha Peace Agreement, and to find a pretext to start the genocide in which over 800,000 Rwandans died in just 100 days. This narrative has become a predominant one in some international circles, among scholars, and in some human rights organizations.

The truth must now be told. Paul Kagame, then overall commander of the Rwandese Patriotic Army, the armed wing of the Rwandese Patriotic Front, was personally responsible for the shooting down of the plane. In July, 1994, Paul Kagame himself, with characteristic callousness and much glee, told me that he was responsible for shooting down the plane. Despite public denials, the fact of Kagame’s culpability in this crime is also a public “secret” within RPF and RDF circles. Like many others in the RPF leadership, I enthusiastically sold this deceptive story line, especially to foreigners who by and large came to believe it, even when I knew that Kagame was the culprit in this crime.
The political and social atmosphere during the period from the signing of the Arusha Accords in August 1993 was highly explosive, and the nation was on edge. By killing President Habyarimana, Paul Kagame introduced a wild card in an already fragile ceasefire and dangerous situation. This created a powerful trigger, escalating to a tipping point towards resumption of the civil war, genocide, and the region-wide destabilization that has devastated the Great Lakes region since then. Paul Kagame has to be immediately brought to account for this crime and its consequences. First, there is absolutely nothing honorable or heroic in reaching an agreement for peace with a partner, and then stabbing him in the back. Kagame and Habyarimana did not meet on the battlefield on April 6, 1994. If they had, and one of them or both had died, it would have been tragic, but understandable, as a product of the logic of war. President Habyarimana was returning from a peace summit, and by killing him, Kagame demonstrated the highest form of treachery.

Second, Kagame, a Tutsi himself, callously gambled away the lives of innocent Tutsi and
moderate Hutu who perished in the genocide. While the killing of President Habyarimana, a
Hutu, was not a direct cause of the genocide, it provided a powerful motivation and trigger to those who organized, mobilized and executed the genocide against Tutsi and Hutu moderates.
Third, by killing President Habyarimana, Kagame permanently derailed the already fragile
Arusha peace process in a dangerous pursuit of absolute power in Rwanda. Kagame feared the letter and spirit of the Arusha Peace Agreement.
As the subsequent turn of events has now shown, Kagame does not believe in the unity of Rwandans, democracy, respect of human rights and other fundamental freedoms, the rule of law, power sharing, integrated and accountable security institutions with a national character, and resolving the problem of refugees once and for all.
This is what the Arusha Peace Agreement was all about. That is what is lacking in Rwanda
today. Last, but not least, Kagame’s and RPF’s false narrative, denials, and deceptions have led to partial justice in Rwanda and at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, thereby undermining prospects for justice for all Rwandan people, reconciliation and healing. The international community has, knowingly or unknowingly, become an accomplice in Kagame’s systematic and shameful game of deception.

I was never party to the conspiracy to commit this heinous crime. In fact, I first heard about it on BBC around 1:00 am on April 7, 1994, while I was in Kampala where I had been attending the Pan African Movement conference.

I believe the majority of members of RPF and RPA civilians and combatants, like me, were not party to this murderous conspiracy that was hatched and organized by Paul Kagame and
executed on his orders. Nevertheless, I was a Secretary General of the RPF, and a Major in the rebel army, RPA. It is in this regard, within the context of collective responsibility, and a spirit of truth-telling in search of forgiveness and healing, that I would like to say I am deeply sorry about this loss of life, and to ask for forgiveness from the families of Juvenal Habyarimana, Cyprien Ntaryamira, Deogratias Nsabimana, Elie Sagatwa, Thaddee Bagaragaza, Emmanuel Akingeneye, Bernard Ciza, Cyriaque Simbizi, Jacky Heraud, Jean-Pierre Minaberry, and Jean-Michel Perrine.

I also ask for forgiveness from all Rwandan people, in the hope that we must unanimously and categorically reject murder, treachery, lies and conspiracy as political weapons, eradicate
impunity once and for all, and work together to build a culture of truth-telling, forgiveness,
healing, and the rule of law. I ask for forgiveness from the people of Burundi and France whose leaders and citizens were killed in this crime. Above all, I ask for forgiveness from God for having lied and concealed evil for too long.

In freely telling the truth before God and the Rwandan people, I fully understand the risk I have undertaken, given Paul Kagame’s legendary vindictiveness and unquenchable thirst for spilling the blood of Rwandans. It is a shared risk that Rwandans bear daily in their quest for freedom and justice for all. Neither power and fame, nor gold and silver, are the motivation for me in these matters of death that have defined our nation for too long.

Truth cannot wait for tomorrow, because the Rwandan nation is very sick and divided, and cannot rebuild and heal on lies. All Rwandans urgently need truth today. Our individual and collective search for truth will set us free. When we are free, we can freely forgive each other and begin to live fully and heal at last.
Dr. Theogene Rudasingwa 
Former: RPF Secretary General,
Ambassador of Rwanda to the United States, and Chief of Staff for President Paul Kagame.
E-mail: ngombwa@gmail.com; Washington, DC. October 1, 2011

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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