A Candle For Remembering
May this memorial candle lights up the historical past of our beloved Country: Rwanda, We love U so much. If Tears could build a stairway. And memories were a lane. I would walk right up to heaven. To bring you home again. No farewell words were spoken. No time to say goodbye. You were gone before I knew it And. Only Paul Kagame knows why. My heart still aches with sadness. And secret tears still flow. What It meant to lose you. No one will ever know.
Why did Kagame this to me?
Can't forget. He murdered my mother. What should be my reaction? FYI: the number of orphans in Rwanda has skyrocketed since the 1990's Kagame's invasion. Much higher numbers of orphans had and have no other option but joining FDLR fighters who are identified as children that have Lost their Parents in Kagame's Wars inside and outside of Rwanda.If someone killed your child/spouse/parent(s) would you seek justice or revenge? Deep insight: What would you do to the person who snuffed the life of someone I love beyond reason? Forgiving would bring me no solace. If you take what really matters to me, I will show you what really matters. NITUTIRWANAHO TUZASHIRA. IGIHE KIRAGEZE.If democracy is to sell one's motherland(Africa), for some zionits support, then I prefer the person who is ready to give all his live for his motherland. Viva President Putin!!!
RPF committed the unspeakable
The perverted RPF committed the UNSPEAKABLE.Two orphans, both against the Nazi world. Point is the fact that their parents' murder Kagame & his RPF held no shock in the Western world. Up to now, the Rwandan Hitler Kagame and his death squads still enjoy impunity inside and outside of Rwanda. What goes through someone's mind as they know RPF murdered their parents? A delayed punishment is actually an encouragement to crime, In Praise of the ongoing Bloodshed in Rwanda. “I always think I am a pro-peace person but if someone harmed someone near and dear to me, I don't think I could be so peaceful. I would like to believe that to seek justice could save millions of people living the African Great Lakes Region - I would devote myself to bringing the 'perp' along to a non-happy ending but would that be enough? You'd have to be in the situation I suppose before you could actually know how you would feel or what you would do”. Jean-Christophe Nizeyimana, Libre Penseur
Hutu Children & their Mums
Look at them ! How they are scared to death. Many Rwandan Hutu and Tutsi, Foreign human rights advocates, jounalists and and lawyers are now on Death Row Waiting to be murdered by Kagame and his RPF death squads. Be the last to know.
Almighty God :Justice for US
Hutu children's daily bread: Intimidation, Slavery, Sex abuses led by RPF criminals and Kagame, DMI: Every single day, there are more assassinations, imprisonment, brainwashing & disappearances. Do they have any chance to end this awful life?
Killing Hutus on daily basis
RPF targeted killings, very often in public areas. Killing Hutus on daily basis by Kagame's murderers and the RPF infamous death squads known as the "UNKNOWN WRONGDOERS"
RPF Trade Mark: Akandoya
Rape, torture and assassination and unslaving of hutu women. Genderside: Rape has always been used by kagame's RPF as a Weapon of War, the killings of Hutu women with the help of Local Defense Forces, DMI and the RPF military
The Torture in Rwanda flourishes
How torture flourishes across Rwanda despite extensive global monitoring
Fighting For Our Freedom?
We need Freedom, Liberation of our fatherland, Human rights respect, Mutual respect between the Hutu majority and the Tutsi minority
Sunday, February 12, 2012
[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]
RPA commander, Paul Kagame tours RPF-controlled areas, Feb. 11, 1993.
CONFIDENTIAL
An eye witness account. By code name "Water Melon". Narrated on January 17, 25, and 28, 2007. Narrated to Timothy Kalyegira.
1. At the time of the August 1993 ceasefire between the government of Rwanda and the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) in Arusha, Tanzania, the Rwandan Patriotic Army (RPA) had set up its military intelligence headquarters at Mulindi, in the Byumba district of Rwanda.
2. The Commanding Officer of the Directorate of Military Intelligence (DMI) in the RPA was Colonel Faustin Kayumba Nyamwasa. The vice Commanding Officer was Lieutenant Colonel Jackson Mutabazi Rwahama. Water Melon was an escort to Rwahama.
3. At the time of the invasion of Rwanda in October 1990, Rwahama was a Captain. He was later to become the Commanding Officer of the RPA Military Police after 1994. Up to 1993, Rwahama was the administrative officer of the RPA's Directorate of Military Intelligence.
4. Under the terms of the Arusha accords, the RPA's DMI was to provide security to the RPF Members of Parliament in Kigali who had been selected to represent the RPF in the National Assembly. 600 RPA soldiers were to be based at the parliament in Kigali to provide this security to the RPF members of parliament. The RPA unit at the Kigali parliament buildings was called the Republican Guard.
5. The DMI agents used to transport firewood to the RPA soldiers at the parliament buildings which was used for cooking. The firewood was ferried in a Mercedes Benz trailer lorry.
6. Hidden on the floor of the Mercedes trailer were RPA soldiers whom the RPA was secretly taking to Kigali to reinforce the 600 soldiers agreed upon under the terms of the Arusha accords. A few RPA soldiers at a time were ferried to Kigali until their total reached 1,400 men. This brought the total number of RPA soldiers in Kigali to 2,000. At that point, the RPA stopped taking any more men to Kigali and the mission was brought to an end.
7. Around February 1994, the RPF went on a secret mission. The Rwandese refugees in Uganda had created an association which they called "Banyamulyango", to coordinate their political and social activities.
8. Secretly, a large consignment of machetes (known in East Africa as pangas) was purchased and sent to the NRA detach at a place called Kamwezi in the Kabale district of southwest Uganda. The machetes were wrapped in polythene paper and packed in wooden crates.
9. They were loaded onto a yellowish-green Tata lorry with Ugandan registered number plates. The RPA intelligence officer, Lt. Colonel Jackson Rwahama, came to the RPA detach in a red Toyota single cabin pick up and received the machete consignment.
10. Rwahama then drove across the border into Rwanda and with the Tata lorry behind him, the consignment was taken to the PRA headquarters at Mulindi. High security was observed around the lorry. Soldiers who saw the machetes as they were unpacking them were told that they had been brought to clear the jungle and bush area around the Mulindi camp.
11. In March 1994, the RPA turned to another mission: to try and locate the best vantage point to position themselves as close as possible to the flight paths over the Kanombe airport. "Water Melon" was able to establish this new mission based on the conversations that he picked up as an escort to the DMI's vice commanding officer, Lt. Col. Rwahama.
12. To carry out this reconnaissance, the DMI operatives had to evade roadblocks set up in Kigali by the FAR government army. To do this, they got help from a Tutsi employee of the United Nations based in Kigali.
13. This Tutsi who worked for the UN, was in his 50s or late 40s, he lived in a suburb of Kigali called Kikukiro, and most of his family lived in Burundi.
14. This Tutsi man drove a blue Toyota Hilux single cabin pickup and his role was to guide the RPA's DMI agents around Kigali and he helped them locate the best vantage point below the aerial flight paths leading to Kanombe airport.
15. The UN guide took the RPA DMI personnel on three trips to study the Kigali area. The first trip took them along the Bugesera, while the second reconnaissance trip took the group long the Mulindi road. They came back through the Masaka road and returned to the Parliament buildings.
16. A third trip was made and it would be the final one. On this third trip, the DMI crew left the Parliament buildings on foot to the home of the UN man in the Kikukiro suburb. They returned to Parliament in his Toyota pickup.
17. The RPA had an armory at their camp at the Parliament buildings. In that armory the RPA kept three missiles. These missiles and a missile launcher were wrapped in an olive green polythene material.
18. After the DMI personnel returned from the Kikukiro suburb on the Toyota pickup, they headed for the armory. They got out three missiles and took them outside. The missiles were put onto a four-inch foam mattress. The launcher was also put alongside the missiles. The mattress was then rolled and tied up.
19. Supervising the whole exercise was Lieutenant Bosco Rumenera who was the Intelligence Officer of the RPA Republican Guard. Also supervising this mission of packing the missile was Major Stephen Munyandinda, the Operations Intelligence Officer of the 600-man Republican Guard.
20. Another man on that missile team was Sergeant James Rwaka of the DMI staff. He was in charge of logistics and finances. It was his job to pay the DMI staff and pay them on their missions. He had studied for a Law degree from Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda.
21. Also on the DMI team was a man called Joseph Nyamitale. He was a Ugandan of the Bakonjo tribe from Kasese in western Uganda. He was a private in the RPA and was an artillery specialist. He had received his artillery training at the RPA's training wing in Gikoba, in Rwanda.
22. The missiles and launcher were put onto the Toyota pickup. Then around or just after five O'Clock in the afternoon of April 6, 1994, the DMI team and their escort "Water Melon" left the Parliament buildings. The UN man was driving the pickup.
23. Bosco Rumenera was dressed in a tan suit, white shirt, and striped necktie. He was a tall man and had a missing front left tooth.
24. The UN man wore a brown shirt and ash-grey trousers. Nyamitale wore a black T-shirt and black jeans.
25. During that day, the RPA commander Major-General Paul Kagame sent a radio message to the RPA units in Kigali giving some instructions.
26. They drove along Masaka road via Mulindi and then turned onto a dirt road off the Masaka road. They drove about five kilometres along that road until they reached a house belonging to a friend of the UN man.
27. It was an old house with an iron sheet roof. Outside the house were four cows grazing. The DMI team stayed inside the house until after sunset and then set off again.
28. The DMI team walked to a nearby hillock and settled at the top of it. The hillock was about 50 metres away from the old house.
29. This hillock was about three kilometres away from Kanombe airport and the DMI team could see the lights of the airport in the distance from where they stood.
30. The Tutsi UN man remained in his pickup a short distance away from the old house as the DMI team settled on top of the hill.
31. On top of that small hill was a large white tent with the initials "UNHCR" printed on it. The DMI team took the missiles and launcher with them into the tent where they were unwrapped.
32. The missile launcher was an olive green military colour. It was in two parts that the DMI team fitted together into one tube. The point where the two tubes were joined together was black. The DMI team then waited for a while. It was now around half past seven or coming toward eight O'Clock in the evening.
33. About 30 minutes after they arrived at the hillock, a male voice came on Lt. Bosco Rumenera's Motorola two-way radio. Lt. Bosco Rumenera's radio code name was "Sixteen-Charlie".
34. The voice called out, in English: "Sungu-Sungu, Four-Nine-Romeo."
Sungu-Sungu replied, in English, "Go ahead."
Four-nine-Romeo then said, in English, "Connect me Double Five."
Sungu-Sungu called out three times: "Double Five?" but there was no reply from Double Five.
Sung-Sungu then told Four-Nine-Romeo, in Kiswahili and English: "Enda direct kwa Two-Zero-Nine." ("Go direct to Two-Zero-Nine").
Four-Nine-Romeo then called out three times, in English: "Two-Zero-Nine, Four-Nine-Romeo?"
Four-Nine-Romeo then came back, in English: "Two-Zero-Nine connect me Sixteen-Charlie."
Two-Zero-Nine then called twice, in English: "Sixteen-Charlie, Two-Zero-Nine?"
Two-Zero-Nine then replied, in English: "Four-Nine-Romeo, go ahead."
Four-Nine-Romeo then called out, in English: "Sixteen-Charlie, Four-Nine-Romeo?"
Sixteen-Charlie then replied, in Kiswahili: "Sukuma ujumbe." ("Send your message").
Four-Nine-Romeo then gave the order, in Kiswahili: ""Okiwone kitu yote, piga!" ("If you see anything, hit!")
After that order, Sixteen-Charlie replied, in English: "Over, out."
35. The artillery specialist, Private Joseph Nyamitale, then got the launcher, now with a missile inside it, and placed it on his shoulder. He pointed the launcher into the dark night sky.
36. The missile launcher then started giving off a wailing, siren-like noise. Nyamitale then told his colleagues in Kiswahili: "Missile ena liya. Kwisha pata target." ("The missile is crying. It has located its target.")
37. After Nyamitale said this, the escort "Water Melon" of the DMI was ordered to leave the location and return to the old house. A teenage boy at the old house who had followed the team out of curiosity was also sent back to the house.
38. The escorts had barely left the location when they heard a single explosion at the location where the DMI officers stood. It was the sound of the missile being fired.
39. The escorts stayed at the house while the team led by Bosco Rumenera remained at the location where they had fired the missile. During the aftermath of the firing of the missile, Bosco Rumenera and his team got into steady radio communication with unknown people in another part of town.
40. The lights at the airport remained on for a while in the immediate aftermath of the shooting down of the presidential jet.
41. Three hours later, at about 11:00 p.m., on April 6, 1994, the escorts were finally called back and told to pack the remaining two missiles onto the back of the Toyota pickup. The team then drove off.
42. The team, driven by the UN Tutsi official, encountered a roadblock at Mulindi manned by the government soldiers. The UN man suggested that they avoid the roadblock and instead walk through the nearby bush back to the Parliament buildings.
43. The DMI team got out of the pickup and started walking in the direction of the airport while the UN official turned back and drove in the opposite direction with the two remaining missiles and other accessories.
44. The DMI team emerged from the bush and onto the road leading from the airport to the Lemera suburb of Kigali. The whole of Kigali city was in upheaval, with chaos everywhere and people on the streets and roads talking about an aircraft accident. But at that time, Bosco Rumenera, Joseph Nyamitale, and the DMI team did not understand what was going on.
45. They walked on, toward a place called Kyemihurura and encountered a serious roadblock, manned by soldiers and men in civilian clothes holding machetes. The DMI team were ordered to stop but pleaded to be allowed to go on their way.
46. The soldiers ordered them to sit down by the roadside. At that point, sensing danger, Bosco Rumenera drew out a pistol and shot two of the civilians in the chest. They fell down dead on the road.
47. Other men at the roadblock, seeing this, pounced onto the DMI team and overpowered them. They cut Bosco Rumenera into pieces with a machete. Joseph Nyamitale, the man who fired the missile that blew up the Falcon 50 jet, was also hacked to death by this group manning the roadblock. Sergeant Rwaka was taken away captive.
48. The escort "Water Melon" had been walking at a distance of about 30 metres behind the DMI team and he stopped in his tracks when he saw what was happening at the roadblock.
49. After he watched his colleagues being hacked to death, he fled the scene and back in the direction from which they had come, toward town until he found the St. Famille Church and took refuge there. Inside the church were ordinary civilians, both Hutu and Tutsi, and some of them were listening to the news over small radios.
50. The news was entirely about the death of the Presidents of Rwanda and Burundi, blown up by a missile as the plane approached landing at Kanombe airport en route from a summit in Tanzania. That was when "Water Melon" made the connection between their DMI mission that night and the events unfolding in Rwanda.
51. There was no other aircraft that had been shot down by a missile or any other gunfire that night over Kigali or any other part of Rwanda. This made "Water Melon" realise that their mission, which they did not fully understand at the time, had been to shoot down the plane carrying President Habyarimana.
52. Lieutenant Bosco Rumenera and Private Joseph Nyamitale died at the roadblock without knowing the magnitude of the mission that night, April 6, 1994.
Related Materials:
Paul kagame plotted to kill Habyarimana
The Mutsinzi Report: A Video Analysis of Habyarimana Plane Crash
A Rebuttal of the Mutsinzi Report on the Rwandan genocide
Report of the Mutsinzi "Experts Committee" : a collection of distortions of the truth, speculations, lies, paradoxes and antitheses
Rwanda: Habyarimana Death - Findings Out But Where Are the Black Boxes?
The alleged mystery surrounding the black box of the Rwandan genocide
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]
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| General Paul Kagame should be taken aside with Bashar Assad and pay for his crimes as did Mohammar Khadafi |
- Forget Gaddafi. Blair's NEW best friend is a despot guilty of even bloodier slaughter
- 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?
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| Mr. Gasasira, the reported Rwandan Journalist exiled in Sweden |
Meanwhile speculation is rife about what may have happened to Gasasira. In Kigali here, we are hearing three possible scenarios:
- 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.�
- WORST SCENARIO: Gasasira may have been killed by Kagame’s aka Kagafi death squads, which prompted Swedish authorities to expel Kagafi killer Evode Mudaheranwa.
Meanwhile, the butcher of Nyamagumba, General-President aka Khadafi in reference to his Libyan counterpart, Muammar Gaddafi, is sitting pretty. He is celebrating the new Rwanda he has transformed with 90% success! But how many will left standing to tell the real story from Guide Kagame's fantasies?
The cynical increasing anger of the United States of America against the Syrian president Bashar Al Assad while President Obama asks for the bloodiest murderous Rwandan dictator General Kagame. What about Kagame's accountability for economic crimes, including large-scale corruption, intersects with accountability for human rights violations: assassinations of journalists, political opponents in every corner of the world, inside and outside of Rwanda.
There's consistent proof that behind every dictator, there's a scheming adviser. During his two decades in power, General Kagame enriches himself and his RPF Tutsi cronies while impoverishing the majority of people; turned RPF military into a rabble effective only in preying upon and repressing the Hutu majority.
Westerners should hold their nerve and trust democracy and most importantly remain fighting corruption instead of supporting an endless war against democracy in Rwanda and Congo.
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; The cynical increasing anger of the United States of America against the Syrian president Bashar Al Assad while President Obama asks for the bloodiest murderous Rwandan dictator General Kagame. What about Kagame's accountability for economic crimes, including large-scale corruption, intersects with accountability for human rights violations: assassinations of journalists, political opponents in every corner of the world, inside and outside of Rwanda.
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| Remember : A Dictator is generally known to be a leader of a country who 'dictates' his vision and orders on his subordinates. As firm believers in accountability for gross human rights violations, Rwandan and Congolese survivors would love to see Rwandan President Paul Kagame arrested and brought to justice before the International Criminal Court (ICC) for human rights violations in both Rwanda and Democratic Republic of the Congo. We have no doubt in the mind of Rwandan and Congolese survivors' mind Kagame will eventually face international justice for the serious charges against him ranging from crimes against humanity to genocide. |
Behind much of the savagery of modern US and British democracy lies impunity for the Rwandan murderous dictator Paul Kagame. Most of Rwandans wonder why United States focuses on the protection to the very corrupt ruler, the very murderous dictator as well as equally protecting his stolen funds from Rwandan and Congolese citizens.
- General Kagame and President of Rwanda has murdered killed more than 3 million Rwandans and more than 6 millon Congolese inhabitants most of them women and children. His RPF regime is a regime and not a government and second it's a bloody dictatorship, a one man show, a person who takes decisions by self and enforces its application on all state officials thus people. Kagame's advisers including Tony Blair do their job in advising the dictator to kill and rape without fear of repression. US, British, German and Dutch and allies mainstream media and other western criminal advisors spend millions of money to tell the world that Rwandan opponents are either very silly, genocidaires, stupid or must think Rwandans and congolese people are silly or stupid and will always be manipulated.
- General Hafez al-Assad and president of Syria has killed over 5000 civilians and protesters, uprising that turned into civil war. But who's behind the Syrian people should first be behind the Rwanda and congolese people.
Just as one of Kagame's bloody mass slaughter in Congo. such mass murder happened in Rwanda at Kibeho, Kanama, Musanze, Byumba, Butaro,etc. We can't say that President Obama is not aware of the mega murderous dictator's misdeeds in that part of the African Great Lakes region.
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| General Kagame, a hero killing innocent people? Just like Hitler, Kagame was both hero (according to his allies in US and Europe) and villain. He helps the Rwandan economy and improves the lives of his ethinc group |
There's consistent proof that behind every dictator, there's a scheming adviser. During his two decades in power, General Kagame enriches himself and his RPF Tutsi cronies while impoverishing the majority of people; turned RPF military into a rabble effective only in preying upon and repressing the Hutu majority.
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| Billions of dollars are wasted to support Kagame's morally bankrupt regime |
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| Westerners stealing billions of dollars and encouraging looting of mineral resources in both D.R.Congo and Rwanda |
Westerners should hold their nerve and trust democracy and most importantly remain fighting corruption instead of supporting an endless war against democracy in Rwanda and Congo.
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’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
Monday, February 6, 2012
[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]
By Daya Gamage - Asian Tribune Analysis
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
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| Prof. Filip Reyntjes |
Le 10 janvier dernier, les juges Trévidic et Poux ont communiqué aux parties un rapport d'expertise sur la destruction en vol, le 6 avril 1994, de l'avion présidentiel rwandais, événement déclencheur du génocide. Il ne s'agit pas d'un rapport des juges, mais d'un important élément versé au dossier d'instruction qui contient de très nombreuses autres informations.
Ce qui est nettement moins normal est la façon dont la presse et certains autres commentateurs ont immédiatement tiré des conclusions péremptoires et définitives, alors qu'ils n'avaient pas lu le rapport, couvert par le secret de l'instruction, et qu'ils ne pouvaient se baser que sur ce que les avocats des mis en examen en aient dit et, peut-être, sur leur propre intime conviction. Ils font ainsi dire au rapport ce qu'il ne dit pas, en l'occurrence que l'attentat a été commis par les FAR de Habyarimana. Des propos parfois très durs et définitifs ont été tenus. Ceux qui ont osé suggérer que le FPR pourrait être derrière l'attentat sont accusés de négationnisme et ceux qui n'adhèrent pas à ce qui semble être soudainement devenu politiquement correct sont violemment pris à partie, voire même intimidés.
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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Friday, January 27, 2012
[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]
Kigali 1930 Prison: Overcrowded, assassinations, disappearances, massacres, HIV, legalized torture… Whatever you can imagine from a prison, they have it here. Corruption and bribery run riot here, and that's just the staff! Prisoners (all Hutu ethnic origin) eat actually rat poison to escape the depravity here. Some prisoners become slaves, others only leave their cells for 4 hours a day and the violence is horrendous. The International Red Cross is unable to know which prisoner was there yesterday or not. Inmates here tend to be naked and infected with horrible diseases that kill them slowly. Overcrowding means that they don’t get the medical help they need and most die in agony... The only way to get out of this: Accept to be a genocidaire and you become a slave somewhere in a Thee or Coffee plantation belonging to one of the powerful RPF leaders.
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| Ben Llewellyn Jones, the British high Commissioner to Rwanda |
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| Ms. Ingabire Victoire, the Would-be president of Rwanda, now in Kagame's worst prison |
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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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.
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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
Thursday, January 26, 2012
WARNINGS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
Rwanda
Canadians are strongly advised to remain vigilant and avoid large crowds. In recent years, a number of grenade attacks have taken place throughout the country, particularly in Kigali and the Southern Province. The attacks usually occur at nightfall and take place at busy locations such as bus stations. On January 3, 2012, a grenade explosion killed two people and injured several others at Marembo Center in the Gasabo District of Kigali. On January 24, 2012, a grenade attack wounded 10 people in the town of Gitarama in the Muhanga district.
Pickpocketing and petty crimes take place.
Canadians are strongly advised to remain vigilant and avoid large crowds. In recent years, a number of grenade attacks have taken place throughout the country, particularly in Kigali and the Southern Province. The attacks usually occur at nightfall and take place at busy locations such as bus stations. On January 3, 2012, a grenade explosion killed two people and injured several others at Marembo Center in the Gasabo District of Kigali. On January 24, 2012, a grenade attack wounded 10 people in the town of Gitarama in the Muhanga district.
Pickpocketing and petty crimes take place.
Regional Warning: Regions Bordering Burundi and the DRC
OFFICIAL WARNING: Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada advises against non-essential travel to the rural areas bordering Burundi and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) – except to the towns of Gisenyi, Kibuye, and Cyangugu – because of possible incursions by various rebel army groups.
The presence and movement of Rwandan refugees returning from neighbouring countries may cause tensions in rural areas. Although significant progress has been made in promoting national reconciliation, the security situation in these rural areas remains fragile. No violent incidents have been reported recently in the towns of Gisenyi, Kibuye, and Cyangugu, near the border with the DRC, or in the town of Butare, near the border with Burundi.
The Rwanda-DRC border could be closed without notice.
OFFICIAL REGISTRATION RECOMMENDATION: We offer a registration service for all Canadians travelling or living abroad. This service is provided so that we can contact and assist you in an emergency abroad, such as a natural disaster or civil unrest, or inform you of a family emergency at home. Registration can be done on-line or by contacting a Canadian government office abroad. For more information, see our FAQs on Registration of Canadians Abroad.
3. SAFETY AND SECURITY
The decision to travel is the sole responsibility of the traveller. Travellers are responsible for their own personal safety. The Government of Canada takes the safety and security of Canadians abroad very seriously and provides credible and timely advice in its Travel Reports. In the event of a crisis situation that requires evacuation, the Government of Canada’s policy is to provide safe transportation to the closest safe location. Canada will assist Canadians in leaving a country or a region as a last resort, when all means of commercial or personal transportation have been exhausted. This service is provided on a cost-recovery basis. Onward travel is at the individual’s personal expense. Situations vary from one location to another, and there may be constraints on government resources, which can limit the ability of the Government of Canada to provide assistance, particularly in countries or regions where the potential for violent conflict or political instability are high.
OFFICIAL WARNING: Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada advises against non-essential travel to the rural areas bordering Burundi and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) – except to the towns of Gisenyi, Kibuye, and Cyangugu – because of possible incursions by various rebel army groups.
The presence and movement of Rwandan refugees returning from neighbouring countries may cause tensions in rural areas. Although significant progress has been made in promoting national reconciliation, the security situation in these rural areas remains fragile. No violent incidents have been reported recently in the towns of Gisenyi, Kibuye, and Cyangugu, near the border with the DRC, or in the town of Butare, near the border with Burundi.
The Rwanda-DRC border could be closed without notice.
OFFICIAL REGISTRATION RECOMMENDATION: We offer a registration service for all Canadians travelling or living abroad. This service is provided so that we can contact and assist you in an emergency abroad, such as a natural disaster or civil unrest, or inform you of a family emergency at home. Registration can be done on-line or by contacting a Canadian government office abroad. For more information, see our FAQs on Registration of Canadians Abroad.
3. SAFETY AND SECURITY
The decision to travel is the sole responsibility of the traveller. Travellers are responsible for their own personal safety. The Government of Canada takes the safety and security of Canadians abroad very seriously and provides credible and timely advice in its Travel Reports. In the event of a crisis situation that requires evacuation, the Government of Canada’s policy is to provide safe transportation to the closest safe location. Canada will assist Canadians in leaving a country or a region as a last resort, when all means of commercial or personal transportation have been exhausted. This service is provided on a cost-recovery basis. Onward travel is at the individual’s personal expense. Situations vary from one location to another, and there may be constraints on government resources, which can limit the ability of the Government of Canada to provide assistance, particularly in countries or regions where the potential for violent conflict or political instability are high.
Rwanda
This advice has been reviewed and reissued with amendments to the Travel Summary and the Safety and Security - Grenade Attacks section (grenade attack in Gitarama on 24 January 2012). The overall level of the advice has not changed; we advise against all travel to specific parts of Rwanda and against all but essential travel to other specific parts of Rwanda.
Travel Summary
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There was a confirmed grenade attack along a main road in the town of Gitarama on the evening of 24 January. Approximately 14 people were injured.
We advise against all travel to the rural border areas with Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), except to the towns of Gisenyi, Kibuye and Cyangugu. We advise against all travel to Eastern DRC except for Goma and Bukavu. We advise against all but essential travel to Goma and Bukavu. This is because of the risk of cross-border incursions by armed guerrillas operating from DRC’s Kivu provinces and ongoing instability in Eastern Congo. Please see the Local Travel section for advice on gorilla trekking in Rwanda.
We advise against all but essential travel to the rural border areas of Burundi. See Burundi Travel Advice if you are planning to visit Burundi.
Crime levels are relatively low but there have been recent incidents of street crime. You should exercise caution at night.
There is a low threat from terrorism. But you should be aware of the global risk of indiscriminate terrorist attacks which could be in public areas, including those frequented by expatriates and foreign travellers.
You should take out comprehensive travel and medical insurance before travelling. See the General (Insurance) section of this Travel Advice.
Safety and security
Safety and Security – Grenade Attacks
The Rwandan Police have confirmed a grenade attack in Gitarama on 24 January. There were approximately 14 casualties but no deaths. Police are investigating and it has been reported that two suspects have been arrested.
There have been previous reports of random grenade attacks, resulting in fatalities and injuries. These include one in 2012: on 3 January in the Gasabo District of Kagali in which two people were killed and 18 injured. There were three in 2011: in January and March in Kigali in Rusizi town in the Western Province in July People have been arrested and convicted but it remains unclear who is behind these attacks and we advise travellers to maintain at least the same level of personal security awareness as in the UK.
Safety and Security - Terrorism
There is a low threat from terrorism. But you should be aware of the global risk of indiscriminate terrorist attacks which could be in public areas, including those frequented by expatriates and foreign travellers.
See our Terrorism Abroad.
Safety and Security - Crime
Levels of crime remain relatively low in Rwanda. There has, however, been an increase in reports of bag snatching and mugging incidents targeting expatriates and tourists.
You should take sensible precautions i.e. exercise caution when walking at night, arrange transport, do not carry large amounts of money and do not leave cars unsupervised in the town centre. Take care who you talk to, who you invite to your home or hotel and who you hire as a taxi driver just as you would in UK.
See our Victims of Crime Abroad page.
Safety and Security - Local Travel
Areas bordering Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)
We advise against all travel to the rural border areas with Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), except to the towns of Gisenyi, Kibuye and Cyangugu. This is because of the risk of cross-border incursions by armed guerrillas operating from DRC’s Kivu provinces and the ongoing trouble in Eastern Congo where there is a UN peacekeeping force, MONUSCO, operating and the presence of various rebel groups. The visa requirements at the border between DRC and Rwanda have changed. Please see DRC Travel Advice for more details. Please monitor FCO’s Travel Advice section for any updates.
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There was a confirmed grenade attack along a main road in the town of Gitarama on the evening of 24 January. Approximately 14 people were injured.
We advise against all travel to the rural border areas with Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), except to the towns of Gisenyi, Kibuye and Cyangugu. We advise against all travel to Eastern DRC except for Goma and Bukavu. We advise against all but essential travel to Goma and Bukavu. This is because of the risk of cross-border incursions by armed guerrillas operating from DRC’s Kivu provinces and ongoing instability in Eastern Congo. Please see the Local Travel section for advice on gorilla trekking in Rwanda.
We advise against all but essential travel to the rural border areas of Burundi. See Burundi Travel Advice if you are planning to visit Burundi.
Crime levels are relatively low but there have been recent incidents of street crime. You should exercise caution at night.
There is a low threat from terrorism. But you should be aware of the global risk of indiscriminate terrorist attacks which could be in public areas, including those frequented by expatriates and foreign travellers.
You should take out comprehensive travel and medical insurance before travelling. See the General (Insurance) section of this Travel Advice.
Safety and security
Safety and Security – Grenade Attacks
The Rwandan Police have confirmed a grenade attack in Gitarama on 24 January. There were approximately 14 casualties but no deaths. Police are investigating and it has been reported that two suspects have been arrested.
There have been previous reports of random grenade attacks, resulting in fatalities and injuries. These include one in 2012: on 3 January in the Gasabo District of Kagali in which two people were killed and 18 injured. There were three in 2011: in January and March in Kigali in Rusizi town in the Western Province in July People have been arrested and convicted but it remains unclear who is behind these attacks and we advise travellers to maintain at least the same level of personal security awareness as in the UK.
Safety and Security - Terrorism
There is a low threat from terrorism. But you should be aware of the global risk of indiscriminate terrorist attacks which could be in public areas, including those frequented by expatriates and foreign travellers.
See our Terrorism Abroad.
Safety and Security - Crime
Levels of crime remain relatively low in Rwanda. There has, however, been an increase in reports of bag snatching and mugging incidents targeting expatriates and tourists.
You should take sensible precautions i.e. exercise caution when walking at night, arrange transport, do not carry large amounts of money and do not leave cars unsupervised in the town centre. Take care who you talk to, who you invite to your home or hotel and who you hire as a taxi driver just as you would in UK.
See our Victims of Crime Abroad page.
Safety and Security - Local Travel
Areas bordering Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)
We advise against all travel to the rural border areas with Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), except to the towns of Gisenyi, Kibuye and Cyangugu. This is because of the risk of cross-border incursions by armed guerrillas operating from DRC’s Kivu provinces and the ongoing trouble in Eastern Congo where there is a UN peacekeeping force, MONUSCO, operating and the presence of various rebel groups. The visa requirements at the border between DRC and Rwanda have changed. Please see DRC Travel Advice for more details. Please monitor FCO’s Travel Advice section for any updates.
RWANDANS SUPPORTING VICTOIRE INGABIRE UMUHOZA
Hundreds of Rwandans came together for the support of Rwandan Opposition leader Madam Victoire Umuhoza 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
All your armies, All your fighters,
All your tanks and all your soldiers.
Against a boy holding a stone,
Standing there all alone.
In his eyes I see the sun,
In his smile I see the moon.
And I wonder I only wonder.
Who is weak and who is strong,
who is right and who is wrong.
And I wish I only wish.
That the truth has a tongue. (Qasem Qasem, 2000)
All your tanks and all your soldiers.
Against a boy holding a stone,
Standing there all alone.
In his eyes I see the sun,
In his smile I see the moon.
And I wonder I only wonder.
Who is weak and who is strong,
who is right and who is wrong.
And I wish I only wish.
That the truth has a tongue. (Qasem Qasem, 2000)
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.
- Praising the Rwandan and the Ugandan bloody dictators: Kagame-Museveni
- Mass-slaughter in Rwanda, Uganda and DRC by both bloody dictators led to the Genocide in both Rwanda and DRC.
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.
Sachant la gâchette facile de la police de Goma, les organisateurs de la manif sont satisfaits de ce test de la pierre volcanique qui a produit les effets escomptés, notamment mettre à dure épreuve le physique des sbires de la police congolaise et décélérer la vitesse de leur intervention dans la ville volcanique de Goma.
Images of stone-throwing Congolese Hutu youths angry with the north Kivu authorities for their colleague reported missing. Instead of investigating the incident, the DRC north province prefer to use force. These are one of the enduring images of the beginning of Kabila's failure to bring peace to congo and stop cooperating with the mastermind of the Congolese genocide: Paul kagame, but how does the portrayal on television differ from the reality on the ground? Probably there will be no say or the event will be minimized by some of western media pro DRC lootings and Congolese genocide.
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
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Part 2 Trial Victoire Ingabire
Wednesday januari 24, 2012
Last saturday party members and supporters of opposition leader Victoire Ingabire demonstrated in front of the Dutch parliament in The Hague. They asked the Dutch people not to go along with the policy of the Dutch government considering Rwanda. The Dutch government pays every year millions of euro's for the development of the Rwandees judicial system.
It's that same judicial system which is used by the Rwandese government to arrest and put into jail those who criticize the regime, using dubious laws to accuse people of genocide ideology, divisionism or ties with the Hutu-rebels of the FDLR.
its that same judicial system that arrested Victoire Ingabire and put her into jail. She's there since october 2010, living under not the best circumstances to say the least. Her trial started in august 2011, it's uncertain when it will end as her trial is postponed again. Now because prosecution needs more time for the translation of the more then 600 documents, sent to rwanda by the Dutch government in November. That's another way in which the Dutch are helping Rwanda: by sending documents and doing house searches in Holland.
President Paul Kagame is clear in how he sees Victoire Ingabire. On several occasions he said publicly that 'that woman' belongs in jail. The last time was during an interview with CNN, december 12th, 2011. 'That woman deserves only prison'.
Also clear are the problems prosecution is dealing with concerning the evidence. From the start prosecution declared there was more then enough to send her to jail. But again and again, prosecution seized every opportunity to get more evidence, and again and again prosecution tried to rely the trial. It's also clear, evidence is manipulated. It's also clear the lawyers of Ingabire miss some of the documents belonging to her file. Then there are the four co-accused. It's clear prosecution has put them under a lot of pressure. And it's also clear prosecution sees them more like witnesses, not like co-accused. It's also clear the judges handling this trial are biassed.
Nevertheless, the Dutch government persists in her view of a fair trial for Ingabire and refuses to acknowledge her as a political prisoner.
That's why FDU-Inkingi askes in a petition to the Dutch government that they should declare the trial of Ingabire has lost all credibility. The Dutch government should also ask for immediate release of all political prisoners, not only the release of Ingabire, but also for example the release of Deogratias Mushayidi, Theoneste Niytegaka, Charles Ntakiutinka and Bernard Ntaganda. Also all support to Rwanda must be frozen.
While demonstrating, the Dutch prime minister Mark Rutte passed by coincidentally. De demonstrators seized the occasion and offered him the petition. He took it, all smiles. Let's see if he does anything with it.
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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