[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]

General Paul Kagame should be taken aside with Bashar Assad and pay for his crimes as did Mohammar Khadafi

1. Forget Gaddafi. Blair's NEW best friend is a despot guilty of even bloodier slaughter
2. 19.01.12 - FRANCE/RWANDA - EXPERT REPORT CASTS SOME NEW LIGHT ON CRASH THAT SPARKED GENOCIDE

Kagame Aka Khadafi, What Have You Done To Gasasira?

• BEST SCENARIO: Gasasira may be under the protection of the Swedish police to save him from certain death hatched by Kagafi Embassy in Sweden.
• SECOND BEST SCENARIO: Gasasira went into hiding without even telling his family. That’s why the Swedish police still considered him as “missing.â€�
• WORST SCENARIO: Gasasira may have been killed by Kagame’s aka Kagafi death squads, which prompted Swedish authorities to expel Kagafi killer Evode Mudaheranwa.

Back here in Rwanda, Gasasira's mother has been taken hospital in emergency: she has taken the bad news hard. She has seen her son beaten almost death; exiled to Uganda and then to Sweden: and now the latest sinister turn of events.

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]





Washington, DC. 06 February (Asiantribune.com):

Ambassador Stephen RappThe United States' Global war crimes investigator Ambassador Stephen Rapp, head of the State Department's Office of Global Criminal Justice, will be in Sri Lanka this week to engage in high level talks with the government on the determinations of the Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission, applicability of International Humanitarian Law (IHL) to the 2009 final battle with Tamil Tigers, and accountability of GSL military forces in the final months of the battle.
Ambassador Rapp's visit comes ahead of the UN Human Rights Council Session due to commence end of this month in which the US, Britain and some EU nations want Sri Lanka to agree to substantive talks of the LLRC findings and recommendations.

Sri Lanka has vehemently opposed to this.

Mr. Rapp used ambiguous and conflicting information and data to accuse Sri Lanka of violating International Humanitarian Laws (IHL) in a report released to the US Congress in October 2009 about the military battle between the government forces and the Tamil Tiger fighting cadre during final - January to May 2009 - stages of the Eelam War 4.

Ambassador Stephen Rapp commences his official tour in Sri Lanka in search of answers to what happened during those five months and the government's accountability and reconciliation process with a very heavy baggage;his own culpability of covering-up Rwanda's 1994 genocide as an attempt to white-wash the United States involvement in that episode as the Chief Prosecutor of the United Nations-appointed International Criminal Tribunal of Rwanda (ICTR).

In October 1990, the Ugandan army and the Rwandan Patriotic Front/Army (RPF) led by Major General Paul Kagame (who is now the president of Rwanda) invaded Rwanda. The guerrillas who violated international laws and committed massive war crimes were backed by Britain, Belgium, the United States and Israel, according to many investigators and researchers. By July 1994, the RPF completed its coup d'etat and consolidated its power in Rwanda.

On April 6, 1994, the governments of Rwanda and Burundi were decapitated when the plane carrying the two presidents and top military staff was shot down over Kigali, Rwanda's capital. The well-planned assassinations of Juvenal Habyarimana and Cyprien Ntaryamira sparked a massive escalation of warfare that is falsely portrayed as the result of meaningless tribal savagery. These assassinations were major war crimes, and the RPF was largely responsible, but almost every attempt to honestly investigate the double presidential assassinations has been blocked by the U.S. and its allies.


Professor Peter Erlinder, of the William Mitchell College of Law in Pennsylvania who was very much involved in defending some at the ICTR which was functioning in Arusha in Tanzania has come out with an array of evidence and interpretations of the direct culpability of the current Rwandan president Paul Kagame in the Rwandan genocide, how he and his colleagues were given military training in the U.S., how Kagame as the head of the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF), a proxy force of the Pentagon according to Erlinder, invaded Rwanda to unleash a genocide with tacit approval of the United States, and in the following years how the United States took covert and overt steps to cover up its involvement in the Rwandan mass massacre.

It is here that Ambassador-at Large Stephen Rapp’s name emerge. Mr. Rapp who is traveling to Sri Lanka as the head of the State Department's Office of Global Criminal Justice (until late last year was known as Office of War Crimes Issues) in his previous position as the chief prosecutor of the Rwandan genocide, according to Peter Elinder, and many other investigators, was one of the main person who was involved in the cover up of US involvement in the Rwandan Genocide.

Prof. Elinder outlined the United States endeavor in the cover up of its own culpability in the Rwandan genocide, and the role played by Stephen Rapp as the Chief Rwanda Prosecutor of the United Nations.

He said: “The July 9, 2009 New York Times reported that the Obama administration had selected Stephen Rapp to replace the Bush administration Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes, Pierre Prosper. Rapp began his international career at the UN Security Council Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda in 2001, while Carla Del Ponte was Chief Rwanda Prosecutor. Rapp’s nomination just a few months after Del Ponte’s of her memoir of her years as Chief UN Prosecutor, Madam Prosecutor:

Confronting Humanity’s Worst Criminals and the Culture of Impunity was published in English.

“Del Ponte’s book describes in detail the systematic U.S.-initiated cover-up of crimes by the current Rwandan government, a U.S. ally, committed during the Rwanda Genocide, and how she was removed from her ICTR (International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda) position in 2003 by U.S. Ambassador Prosper, himself, when she refused to cooperate with the U.S.-initiated “cover-up.”
According to Del Ponte, her ICTR Office had the evidence to prosecute Kagame for “touching-off” the Rwanda Genocide by ordering the assassination of Rwanda’s former President Juvenal, Habyarimana, long before 2003. She also details the dozens of massacre sites, involving thousands of victims, for which the current Rwandan President, Paul Kagame and his military, should be prosecuted. The well-publicized canard, that “the identity of the assassins of Habyarimana is unknown” is a bald-faced lie, well -known by ICTR Prosecutors, according to Ms. Del Ponte, writes Prof. Elinder in a popular/well read web site Global Research.

Two years after Del Ponte was removed from office, Stephen Rapp became “Chief” of ICTR Prosecutions with access to all of the evidence known to Ms. Del Ponte, and more that has been made public in the past few years. During his four years at the ICTR, Ambassador Rapp like Del Ponte, also was in a position to prosecute Kagame and members of the current government of Rwanda but, not One member of Kagame’s military has been prosecuted at the ICTR, to date…and the “cover-up” revealed by Del Ponte, continues today. And, unlike, Ms. Del Ponte, who was fired by the U.S., Mr. Rapp was first rewarded with an appointment as Chief Prosecutor at the U.S.-funded Sierra Leone Tribunal and now, a coveted ambassadorship by the Obama administration as the chief of the Office of Global Criminal Justice at the United States Department of State.

In February 2009, the ICTR issued its Judgment the Military-1 case, that main case at the ICTR, in which Mr. Rapp personally appeared for the Prosecution. Although massive violence did occur in Rwanda, the court certainly recognized that blaming only one side WAS a falsehood, when it acquitted all of the “architects of the killing machine” (as Mr. Rapp called the defendants in court) of conspiracy or planning to kill civilians. The highest ranking military-officer was acquitted of all charges.
And, although it is now clear from Ms. Del Ponte’s memoirs that Mr. Rapp had the evidence to clear the ICTR defendants of the assassination charges and only the losing side has been blamed for all crimes committed in Rwanda in 1994. Simply put, Mr. Rapp and other ICTR prosecutors have withheld evidence that would be beneficial to the defense, contrary to Tribunal Rules; have prosecuted defendants for crimes they knew were committed by Kagame’s forces; and, have created a system of “judicial impunity” that has permitted Kagame to kill millions in the eastern Congo.

It is in this context that Prof. Peter Elinder writing to Global Security questioned President Obama’s wisdom in appointing Stephen Rapp as the head of the Office of War Crimes Issue (as was known before) at the State Department in this manner: “This “inconvenient-African-truth,” raises an uncomfortable question regarding President Obama’s nomination of Mr. Rapp, in the first place: Are Obama and his advisors ignorant of the public record regarding Rapp’s complicity in the ICTR Cover-up….or do they just not give a damn?”

Ambassador Stephen Rapp was also privy to the following information when he was the Chief Prosecutor of the ICTR:

The US Ambassador to Rwanda, and declassified US documents from 1994, establish that:

(a) the assassination of the President of Burundi in October 1993 triggered a “genocide of 150,000 Burundian Hutus;”
(b) hundreds of thousands of Burundian Hutu refugees then poured into Rwanda;
(c) Rwandan Patriotic Front military aggression displaced 1.5 million Rwandans in early 1993; and
(d) the Rwandan Patriotic Front assassinated the Presidents of Rwanda and Burundi in April 1994.

And, that these were the actual causes of the Rwanda Genocide.

The U.S. Ambassador to Rwanda personally warned Kagame in November 1993 that, if he resumed the war, he would be responsible for mass violence in Rwanda in 1994, like that in Burundi in 1993. This was confirmed by cables from the State Dept on April 7, 1994;
UN documents show that the RPF was militarily dominant as of February 1993 and, according to UN Gen. Dallaire's cables to the UN in April-June 1994, Kagame refused to stop the violence because he was winning;

Former ICTR Prosecutor Carla Del Ponte’s 2009 memoirs document then–Gen. Kagame’s culpability for the assassination of the Presidents of Rwanda and Burundi of April 6, 1994 that began the Rwandan Genocide, as does the 2008 indictment issued by Spanish Judge Fernando Abreu Merelles and the 2006 indictment of French Judge Jean-Louis Bruguière;

The Spanish indictment also describes, prefecture-by-prefecture, 325,000 murders of Hutus and Tutsis for which Kagame and the RPF are responsible, not including the massive killing after 1994, in both Rwanda and neighboring Congo;

In 2009 published Edward S. Herman and David Peterson's investigative/research book The Politics of Genocide said: “The United States and its allies worked hard in the early 1990s to weaken the Rwandan government, forcing the abandonment of many of the economic and social gains from the social revolution of 1959, thereby making the Habyarimana government less popular, and helping to reinforce the Tutsi minority’s economic power. Eventually, the RPF was able to achieve a legal military presence inside Rwanda, thanks to a series of ceasefires and other agreements. These agreements led to the Arusha Peace Accords of August 1993, pressed upon the Rwandan government by the United States and its allies, called for the “integration” of the armed forces of Rwanda and (Kagame's) RPF, and for a “transitional,” power-sharing government until national elections could be held in 1995. These Peace Accords positioned the RPF for its bloody overthrow of a relatively democratic coalition government, and the takeover of the Rwandan state by a minority dictatorship.”

The U.S. State Department’s Office of War Crimes Issues - now known as Office of Global Criminal Justice - chief Stephen Rapp knew this entire Rwandan episode, the U.S. interests in Paul Kagame, the UN concealment of the 1994 report at the behest of the Clinton administration, the U.S. military assistance to Kagame’s Rwandan Patriotic Front and the entire exercise of the ‘Rwandan cover up’ to conceal the U.S. culpability in the Rwandan genocide when he focused his attention elsewhere; Sri Lanka
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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.

Prof. Filip Reyntjes

Ainsi, les avocats des mis en examen annoncent qu'ils vont porter plainte pour "tentative d'escroquerie au jugement en bande organisée". Certaines de ces affirmations pourraient bien avoir pour but d'orienter la suite de l'instruction, puisque, maintenant que "la vérité est connue", il serait plus difficile pour les juges de conclure à une autre vérité.
Ayant fait des recherches sur cette affaire, j'ai été fort sollicité par les médias qui souhaitaient entendre mes commentaires. J'ai systématiquement refusé de me prononcer, puisque je ne pouvais commenter un rapport que je n'avais pas lu. Maintenant que le rapport d'expertise est disponible grâce à une fuite dont j'ignore l'origine, une analyse peut être proposée. Elle débouche sur des conclusions bien moins tranchées que celles qu'on a pu entendre ces dernières semaines.

Le rapport d'expertise tente de donner des réponses à deux questions principalement : l'endroit d'où les missiles ont été tirés et le type des missiles utilisés. Deux données techniques autorisent les experts à désigner les endroits de tir les plus probables: d'une part, le point d'impact du missile qui a touché l'avion, d'autre part des données acoustiques sur le bruit du souffle de départ des missiles que des témoins ont entendu. Notons que l'expert acousticien ne s'est pas rendu sur les lieux, mais a effectué une simulation sur un terrain militaire en France. Quant à l'endroit où l'avion a été touché, les experts se basent sur une approche normale, alors que l'avion aurait pu être dévié de sa trajectoire par le premier missile ou que le pilote aurait pu effectuer une manœuvre d'évitement, possibilité d'ailleurs signalée dans le rapport. Sur cette double base technique, l'expertise privilégie deux endroits à l'intérieur du domaine militaire de Kanombe, le cimetière et une position en bas du cimetière, tout en notant que la zone Masaka se situe dans le prolongement des endroits retenus.


Les experts estiment également que la position de Masaka est la meilleure de celles étudiées et que celles retenues offrent une probabilité d'atteinte de l'avion moins élevée, mais qu'elle était suffisante pour que, sur les deux missiles tirés, l'un d'eux puisse toucher l'avion. Plusieurs points doivent être notés à ce sujet. D'abord, contrairement à ce qu'ont affirmé de nombreux commentateurs, ces endroits ne se trouvent pas à l'intérieur du camp militaire de Kanombe (ce qui en toute probabilité désignerait les FAR), mais à la lisière d'un vaste domaine militaire d'une centaine d'hectares. Ce domaine n'était ni clôturé ni gardé. Les experts estiment en outre que le périmètre de lancement pourrait s'étendre vers l'Est ou le Sud, de l'ordre d'une centaine de mètres voire plus, ce qui situerait l'endroit de tir en dehors du domaine militaire.

Ensuite, deux importants témoins cités dans le rapport ont vu les traînées des missiles à travers la baie vitrée à l'arrière de la maison qui est située à la limite du domaine et qui est orientée vers la vallée de Masaka. Dans une déposition faite devant l'auditorat militaire belge le 13 avril 1994, une semaine après les faits, le colonel médecin Daubresse déclare qu'il a vu "regardant en direction de l'est (c'est-à-dire les environs de Masaka), monter de la droite vers la gauche, un projectile propulsé par une flamme rouge-orange" à une distance maximale de cinq km et une distance minimale de un km (les deux endroits retenus par les experts se situent à 116 et 203 mètres respectivement de la maison). Cette observation est confirmée le même jour par son collègue le colonel médecin Pasuch. Ces deux témoins ne situent donc pas le départ des missiles à l'intérieur du domaine militaire, mais dans la direction de la vallée de Masaka.

Enfin, puisque le lieu dit "La Ferme" dans la vallée à côté de Masaka a été cité comme lieu de départ des missiles, il est étonnant qu'aucun témoin de Masaka n'ait été entendu par les experts ni dès lors que leurs déclarations aient été vérifiées du point de vue acoustique. Or en octobre 1994 des témoins de Masaka m'ont dit avoir vu les missiles partir des environs de "La Ferme", et cela à un moment où ni eux ni moi ne nous rendions compte de l'enjeu que constitue l'endroit de départ des tirs. On constate donc que l'expertise technique ne correspond pas forcément aux observations de témoins oculaires, et il appartiendra à l'instruction d'évaluer la force probante de ces données contradictoires.

Quant aux missiles utilisés, le rapport d'expertise conclut, par un processus d'élimination, à la probabilité qu'il s'est agi de SA16 d'origine soviétique. Les experts soulignent que leur conclusion n'est pas influencée par la découverte, près de "La Ferme" quelques semaines après l'attentat, de deux tubes de lancement de missiles SA16. Les experts notent que 50 à 60 heures de formation sont nécessaires pour pouvoir se servir de ces armes et qu'un novice ne peut pas mettre en œuvre un tel système. Or les anciennes FAR ne possédaient pas de missiles sol-air (elles avaient en vain tenté d'en acquérir), alors que le FPR s'en était servi pendant la guerre. Le juge Bruguière avait déjà établi que les missiles dont les lanceurs ont été trouvés près de "La Ferme" avaient été vendus par l'Union soviétique à l'Ouganda. Mes sources haut placées dans l'armée ougandaise affirment qu'ils faisaient partie d'un lot plus tard cédé au FPR.

Ces quelques constats montrent simplement que ceux qui ont affirmé qu'avec le rapport d'expertise, "la vérité est connue" aiment les histoires simples. Même si je pense toujours que les faisceaux d'indications désignent plutôt le FPR que les FAR comme auteur de l'attentat, je ne prétends pas connaître la vérité. Ce sera aux juges Trévidic et Poux de décider, à l'issue de leur instruction, sur base de tous les éléments du dossier et –surtout? en toute indépendance, si oui ou non il sera nécessaire de transmettre le dossier pour poursuites éventuelles. Puisque le gouvernement rwandais a salué le sérieux des deux juges, il faut espérer que leur décision mettra fin à une controverse vieille de près de 18 ans.

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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

[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 ========>   As International]
Related articles:

• The Dutch people must refuse that one day history accuses them of being accomplice of the dictatorial regime of General Paul Kagame
• Growing frustration as FDU-Inkingi members are not allowed to visit jailed opposition leader Victoire Ingabire

Ben Llewellyn Jones, the British high Commissioner to Rwanda

Ms. Ingabire Victoire, the Would-be president of Rwanda, now in Kagame's worst prison

Kigali - On 24 January 2012, His Excellency Benedict Llewellyn-Jones OBE, the United Kingdom High Commissioner to Rwanda, together with the Embassy political counselor, visited Ms. Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza in her maximum prison cell. They discussed the conditions of detention.
The opposition leader asked the Ambassador to intercede on her behalf on President Paul Kagame in order to have human conditions of detention. “You can see it by yourself, there is little or no fresh air in this cell and no natural light at all”, she showed.

The political party FDU-INKINGI welcomes this visit and trusts that the United Kingdom will continue to engage the government of Rwanda on crucial issues of human rights, political prisoners and political space, freedoms and legal reforms.

On 5 January 2012, as the British Foreign Secretary William Hague was starting a 2 day historic visit to Burma after the release of the pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi he called on political prisoners to
be released and said :“I made clear that the British Government stands ready to respond positively to evidence of further progress towards that lasting improvement in human rights and political freedom that the people of Burma seek.”

The time has arrived to discuss openly those issues with the Rwandan leadership as well and to condition aid to the government of Rwanda on political reforms and freedoms, said  Mr. Boniface Twagirimana ,  Interim Vice President* *FDU-INKINGI
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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;
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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

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

After the UN Security Council did nothing to bring perpetrators named in the UN Mapping report, Congolese Hutu children prefer dying throwing volcanic stones to the self-proclaimed president: Joseph Kabila, the Rwandan and Kagame's puppet in DRC.

• Rwanda : "Si nous nous sommes retirés, c'est parce qu'on tuait des Belges"
• All Parties and Presidential contestants should accept for a recount of the votes.

The prevention of genocide and apprehension of RPF criminals is the duty of the UN Security Council. the non-punishment of the criminals has been the source of Twin crimes in our world, which remain unpunished: 



En même temps que le Président élu Etienne Tshisekedi voulait prendre en possession de son fauteuil présidentiel à Kinshasa ce jeudi 26 janvier 2012, les Jeunes Hutu de la villede Goma ont utilisé ce qui est à leur portée, à savoir, les pierres volcaniques pour protester contre l'enlevement du chef de la jeunesse Hutu du Territoire de Rutshuru. Plusieurs avenues de la ville ont été barricadées nuitamment par la population au moyen des pierres volcaniques noires qui meublent le sol de Goma.






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

Part 2 Trial Victoire Ingabire

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]


(WASHINGTON D.C.) - On the 1st October 2011, I published a confession in which I stated that 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 on April 6, 1994, in which President Juvenal Habyarimana of Rwanda.

Others killed in the crash:

President C. Ntaryamira President of Burundi

President Cyprian Ntaryamira of Burundi
Deogratias Nsabimana
Elie Sagatwa
Thaddee Bagaragaza
Emmanuel Akingeneye
Bernard Ciza
Jacky Heraud

Dr. Thoegene Rudasingwa

Today, 10th January, 2012, the French Judge, Marc Trevidic, investigating the 1994 terrorist crime, made public the findings of the Technical Report by ballistic experts. Among other things, the technical report stated that:

President J. Habyarimana President of Rwanda

Rwanda Pres. Juvenal Habyarimana

a) the experts were leaning more towards the version of the events that the missile that shot down the plane originated from several areas, especially around the Kanombe area in Kigali;
b) the missiles were made and supplied from the former Soviet Union and,
c) lawyers and other interested parties have up to three months to contest any matters arising from the report.
In this regard, I would like to state the following:
1. That the missile was fired from a number of areas in the Kanombe area does not exonerate Paul Kagame from having committed the crime;
2. That the missiles were of Soviet Union origin will prove to be of substantive help in establishing who the real culprit is, and;
3. That there is time for us ( myself and other interested and new witnesses) to respond fully to the technical report and provide credible testimony to Judge Marc Trevidic, or any other in the international jurisdiction, to pin down Paul Kagame as the culprit in this terrorist crime.

Rwanda Pres. Paul Kagame

I stand fully behind the letter and spirit of my October 1st, 2011 confession. Judge Marc Trevidic’s technical report has not proved me wrong. Nor has it exonerated Paul Kagame from this crime, and yet Kigali is spinning the story out of context to celebrate what it calls “victory”. In the coming months and years, myself, other witnesses, Rwandans and others in the international community who heed the call, will continue to endeavor to have Paul Kagame account for his role in this and other crimes.

I would like to remind all Rwandans and the international community that this is not Judge Marc Trevidic’s final judgment on the matter. Furthermore, matters of truth and justice for Rwandans will primarily be decided by us Rwandans. Even when the international community and foreigners in general have had the reputation of disappointing Rwandans, we must have faith in our struggle for truth, justice, healing, and reconciliation.
Let us mobilize and organize, for truth and justice shall ultimately prevail.


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Fri Jan 6, 2012 2:50pm GMT















By Graham Holliday




KIGALI Jan 6 (Reuters) - Just over a year since President Paul Kagame's landslide election win, observers have lauded economic progress in Rwanda but warned a lack of political freedom and media restrictions have dented any reforms.

Kagame, in his final term which expires in 2017, has denied he has cracked down on political opposition and said he is a freedom fighter.

"People say that there is no political space ... Actually, the only space lacking is the one that is occupied by these intruders. This nonsense from outside is occupying our space," Kagame said in a speech to parliament last month.

Below are some of the political risks facing Rwanda:

POLITICAL OPPONENTS

Former chief of staff Kayumba Nyamwasa and a former chief of military intelligence, Patrick Karegyeya, both sentenced to 20 years in jail in absentia by a military court, formed the Rwanda National Congress (RNC) opposition party in December 2010.

Rwanda says the two have formed a rebel group and are collaborating with the country's enemies.

The trial of opposition politician Victoire Ingabire, leader of the unregistered FDU-Inkingi party, which started in September 2011, is set to resume on January 16. She faces charges including denying the genocide, divisionism and working with a terrorist group.

Kagame's election win underlined his domination of the political arena. He has been praised for restoring stability after the 1994 genocide and engineering Rwanda's rapid economic recovery and vision of being a middle-income country by 2020.

But critics accuse Kagame of being authoritarian and of trampling on media and political freedoms.

Any debate over a third term for Kagame is said to be "undesirable" by key sources in the government, because it damages the reputation of the country in the eyes of critics who say the political class has no democratic credentials.

Susan Rice, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, has said although Rwanda's economy has grown, its political culture remains comparatively closed and media restricted.

What to watch:

-- Trial of Ingabire. The case remains a major test of the independence of Rwanda's judiciary. Her British lawyer claimed the laws under which she is being tried were not enacted at the time the crimes were alleged to have been committed, or they lie outside the jurisdiction of the court.

Ingabire denies funding FDLR Hutu rebels and says her detention is politically motivated.


-- Theogene Rudasingwa, a former chief of staff to Kagame, said on Facebook on Oct. 1 that Kagame "was personally responsible" for the shooting down of the plane carrying President Juvenal Habyarimana in 1994, which sparked the start of the genocide. Rudasingwa was formerly ambassador to the U.S. and a founding member of the RNC.
-- Trial of Laurent Nkunda. The former leader of the National Congress for the Defence of the People (CNDP), a rebel force that repeatedly routed Democratic Republic of Congo's army, has been under house arrest in Rwanda since January 2009.

Rwandan law forbids the extradition of people to states such as Congo that have the death penalty. Nkunda's trial has been postponed four times since the case was passed to the military courts in April 2010.

-- The media. A bill to amend the 2009 media law, emphasizing self-regulation and creation of an independent monitor, is currently being debated by the political and gender committee in parliament.

A draft law on access to information is also expected to be enacted in the near future. It will be the first of its kind in Rwanda.

Some observers see the draft media law as a positive move, but remain concerned the changes will remain on paper alone due to limited media outlets. Two newspapers banned in 2010 for six months have failed to resume publication. The editors of Umuseso and Umuvugizi now reside in exile and publish online.

POLITICAL RIFTS, CONGO TENSIONS

Kagame's war on graft, which has led to Rwanda being ranked as the least corrupt nation in east Africa, has seen his former political associates arrested on graft allegations.

Rwandan officials are required to declare their wealth by June 30 every year, but 361 government officials did not meet the deadline in 2011. Diplomats say while the government wants to clean up its act to attract more direct foreign investment, its plans are being hampered by some of its own members.