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
Thursday, September 4, 2014
[Since 1994, the world witnesses the horrifying Tutsi minority (14%) ethnic domination, the Tutsi minority ethnic rule with an iron hand, 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, and the brutal suppression of the rights of the majority of the Rwandan people (85% are Hutus)and mass arrests of Hutus by the RPF criminal organization =>AS International]
Version française
AFRICOM GO HOME, Bases étrangères hors
d'Afrique est un film document dans le cadre du cinquantenaire des
«indépendances» africaines, (OUA 1963 -2013). C'est un document de contre
propagande et de sensibilisation, aux fins non commerciales, et d'usage d'archive
et de consultation.
Ce document vidéo est une
interprétation personnelle de l'enjeu géopolitique africain et mondial. Il
n'engage que moi et nullement la responsabilité du GRILA et de ses membres. Le
film s'adresse aux dirigeants africains, aux panafricains, aux
internationalistes et à la jeunesse africaine préoccupés de la condition de
l'Afrique dans le système monde. Il compare la vision des pères progressistes
du panafricanisme à celle des tenants de la domination et leurs alliés locaux.
L'objectif de ce document est une contribution subjective au suivi de
la déclaration AFRICOM go home, signée par une cinquantaine de personnalités et
d’organisations africaines et allemandes qui s'opposent à la présence de
l'AFRICOM en Allemagne comme en Afrique. Ce document audiovisuel est articulé
sur des images du WEB dont les auteurs ne portent aucune responsabilité dans le
traitement du film.
Le document audiovisuel est bâti sur
les enjeux fondamentaux suivants :
Le suivi de la déclaration Africom Go home et
le bienfondé de cette déclaration
. L'histoire et l'évolution de la présence militaire impérialiste
et néo coloniale en Afrique sur les 50 ans.
L'avènement de l'AFRICOM, son décryptage et
celui des rivalités et visées impérialistes sur le continent, mais aussi leur
surveillance réciproque et leurs contradictions dans la lutte contre le
terrorisme.
La dénonciation de l' extension rampante et
faussement humanitaire de l'AFRICOM en Afrique et sa position en Allemagne
ainsi que dans toute une série de bases.
Les contradictions des africains et leurs
organisations à se défendre contre les conflits liés au pillage des ressources
et l'accès au territoire.
La nécessité de la résistance panafricaine
et internationaliste et la repolitisation démocratique de notre jeunesse.
Le film suit la visite du président Obama
en Allemagne et en Afrique, traque les positions de divers présidents européens,
américains, africains et chefs militaires de l'AFRICOM, comme ceux et celles
qui s'opposent à elle. Il fait le bilan de la politique sécuritaire du
continent et s'attarde sur l'influence des néo-conservateurs américains et la
poursuite actuelle de certaines de leurs politiques, y compris à travers des
puissances régionales. Il explicite les agissements de l'impérialisme et du
néocolonialisme, et les processus de cooptation de nos élites, de nos
dispositifs militaires comme de nos sociétés civiles. Illustration de bavures
graves auxquelles on s'expose lorsque ces bases s'installent. La responsabilité
de nos élites est engagée autant que celle de leurs commanditaires. Recension
de toutes les bases existantes qui ceinturent ou infiltrent le continent
africain, la position de l'OTAN, la vulnérabilité et la mise en tutelle de
l'Union africaine, et la montée des convoitises surgissant de la présence de
pays émergents, comme les BRICS. Il creuse l'hypothèse de l'enjeu de la
rétrocession de l'or de l'Allemagne détenue aux Etats Unis, en France et en
Angleterre, et la prééminence de la Chine dans l'enjeu monétaire, comme un des
éléments d'explication du fait accompli de l'établissement de la base militaire
en Allemagne, mais aussi une des causes de la crise au Mali. Le film divulgue
au monde l'existence de la base de l'AFRICOM en Allemagne. Il apporte surtout
un éclairage sur les efforts courageux de citoyens et de parlementaires du
parti Linke, rend hommage à la plainte en justice qu'ils ont déposée contre les
frappes par drones et assassinats ciblés de l'AFRICOM.
Au-delà
de l'enjeu sécuritaire, le film montre comment la crise du capitalisme, et le
sous-développement sont un terreau fertile pour le culturalisme, l'intégrisme,
le populisme et le terrorisme qui deviennent alors autant de leviers capables
de diviser le continent et freiner sa souveraineté.
Les
formules censées assurer la sécurité africaine sont concoctées par l'AFRICOM et
l'OTAN. Le film est un plaidoyer pour un développement autocentré plus
équilibré, la redécouverte de la marge progressiste de l'État et l'accélération
de l'intégration panafricaine dans une perspective internationaliste et pour un
monde polycentrique défendant le «bien » commun de l'humanité.
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English version
AFRICOM GO HOME : No Foreign Bases in
Africa is shot within the context of the fiftieth anniversary of the
"Independence" of African states (OAS 1963-2013). It's an
anti-propaganda, not-for-profit film dedicated to raising public consciousness
by opening up a space for discussion and building a sound information base
drawn from archival records.
This documentary represents my views, and my views alone, on
geopolitical challenges to both Africa and the wider world. The contents of
this film can in no way be ascribed to GRILA or any of its members. It
addresses Africa's leaders, all PanAfricanists, internationalist and especially
the African Youth caught up in the maelstrom of Africa's place in the world.
AFRICOM GO HOME illuminates a vision of freedom that comes down from
the mothers and fathers of panAfricanism.
This
documentary takes a personal look at how events have evolved in the wake of the
signing of the declaration "AFRICOM Go Home" by fifty or so
organizations from Africa and Germany that are united in their opposition to
the presence of AFRICOM on either African or German soil. The film is a
combination of images filmed or taken off the WEB . However, the authors of
those images are in no way responsible for the production or point of view of
this film.
This video helps us to understand events arising out of the "AFRICOM Go Home" Declaration and what has been achieved since then. It shines a spotlight on the history and evolution of imperialistic, neocolonial military forces within Africa over the last fifty years, as well as the responsibility to protect. It unpacks AFRICOM and how it came into existence, what it means and provides a way of interpreting imperialist rivalries and ambitions on the continent, including why they spy on each other and exposing the contradictions that have surfaced in the "fight against terrorism". It articulates disbelief in claims of humanitarian goals by those who established AFRICOM for Africa after building a whole network of bases stretching as far as Germany. It explores contradictions that also arise between Africans and within African organizations as they try to defend themselves within a context of conflicts tied to the pillage of their resources and the appropriation of their ancestral lands. It examines the urgent need for panAfrican and internationalist resistance as well as the re-politicization of our Youth for future democracy. The film follows President Obama when he visits Germany and Africa, highlighting the attitudes of various European, American and African presidents as well as AFRICOM's military chiefs. There is also footage on some of the men and women who make up the opposition. It takes stock of security policies on the continent, paying special attention to the influence of American neoconservatives and how regional power blocs are already putting some of their policies into practice. AFRICOM GO HOME exposes the machinations of both imperialism and neo-colonialism and shows how they operate to coopt our elites and military leaders as well as civil society organizations. It paints a picture of the damage to which Africans are exposed when these bases take up residence in their midst. Clearly, our local elites are no less responsible than their foreign bosses for has evolved. The film urges all parties to review of those bases already cached on the African continent or encircling it as well as NATO's position, the vulnerability and tutelage of the African Union and the presence of a ravenous pack of emerging nations under the rubric of BRIC. By way of explanation, this video mounts a hypothesis that takes note of the repatriation of Germany's gold which had long been held captive by the US, France and the UK; the now dominant position of China in the global monetary system as well as the reasons why the base was launched so precipitously in Germany. It then goes on to provide reasons for the crisis unfolding in Mali. This film unveils the AFRICOM base in Germany before the eyes of the world. In doing so, it also draws special attention to the heroic efforts of members of the public and parliamentary representatives belonging to the Linke Party and acknowledges their court action against AFRICOM's drone strikes and targeted killings. Beyond the security question, this video demonstrates that the crisis in capitalism as well as endemic under-development are fertile ground for culturalism, integrationism, populism and terrorism which are tools that can both create divisions across the continent and abort sovereignty. AFRICOM and NATO have concocted formulas that they claim will protect Africa. However, this film is an appeal for more self-determination and balance in Africa's development. It calls for the reemergence of progressive wings of African states as well as a plan for accelerating panAfrican integration within the context of internationalism and a polycentric world that upholds all of humanity's common "good".
This video helps us to understand events arising out of the "AFRICOM Go Home" Declaration and what has been achieved since then. It shines a spotlight on the history and evolution of imperialistic, neocolonial military forces within Africa over the last fifty years, as well as the responsibility to protect. It unpacks AFRICOM and how it came into existence, what it means and provides a way of interpreting imperialist rivalries and ambitions on the continent, including why they spy on each other and exposing the contradictions that have surfaced in the "fight against terrorism". It articulates disbelief in claims of humanitarian goals by those who established AFRICOM for Africa after building a whole network of bases stretching as far as Germany. It explores contradictions that also arise between Africans and within African organizations as they try to defend themselves within a context of conflicts tied to the pillage of their resources and the appropriation of their ancestral lands. It examines the urgent need for panAfrican and internationalist resistance as well as the re-politicization of our Youth for future democracy. The film follows President Obama when he visits Germany and Africa, highlighting the attitudes of various European, American and African presidents as well as AFRICOM's military chiefs. There is also footage on some of the men and women who make up the opposition. It takes stock of security policies on the continent, paying special attention to the influence of American neoconservatives and how regional power blocs are already putting some of their policies into practice. AFRICOM GO HOME exposes the machinations of both imperialism and neo-colonialism and shows how they operate to coopt our elites and military leaders as well as civil society organizations. It paints a picture of the damage to which Africans are exposed when these bases take up residence in their midst. Clearly, our local elites are no less responsible than their foreign bosses for has evolved. The film urges all parties to review of those bases already cached on the African continent or encircling it as well as NATO's position, the vulnerability and tutelage of the African Union and the presence of a ravenous pack of emerging nations under the rubric of BRIC. By way of explanation, this video mounts a hypothesis that takes note of the repatriation of Germany's gold which had long been held captive by the US, France and the UK; the now dominant position of China in the global monetary system as well as the reasons why the base was launched so precipitously in Germany. It then goes on to provide reasons for the crisis unfolding in Mali. This film unveils the AFRICOM base in Germany before the eyes of the world. In doing so, it also draws special attention to the heroic efforts of members of the public and parliamentary representatives belonging to the Linke Party and acknowledges their court action against AFRICOM's drone strikes and targeted killings. Beyond the security question, this video demonstrates that the crisis in capitalism as well as endemic under-development are fertile ground for culturalism, integrationism, populism and terrorism which are tools that can both create divisions across the continent and abort sovereignty. AFRICOM and NATO have concocted formulas that they claim will protect Africa. However, this film is an appeal for more self-determination and balance in Africa's development. It calls for the reemergence of progressive wings of African states as well as a plan for accelerating panAfrican integration within the context of internationalism and a polycentric world that upholds all of humanity's common "good".
German version
AFRICOM GO HOME : Alle ausländischen
Militärbasen, raus aus Afrika! ist ein Dokumentarfilm im Zusammenhang mit dem
50. Jahrestag der „Unabhängigkeit“ der afrikanischen Staaten (OAS 1963-2013).Dies ist ein nicht kommerzieller
Anti-Propaganda Film, der das öffentliche Bewusstsein ansprechen und eine
Diskussion anregen soll, mit soliden Informationen aus Archivmaterial als
Grundlage.
Dieser Dokumentarfilm repräsentiert
ausschließlich meine eigenen Ansichten über geopolitische Herausforderungen an
Afrika und die weitere Welt. Die Inhalte dieses Films stehen in keinem
Zusammenhang mit GRILA oder dessen Mitgliedern. Er richtet sich an afrikanische
Führungspersönlichkeiten, alle Panafrikaner, Internationalisten, und
insbesondere an die afrikanische Jugend, die im Strudel von Afrikas Position in
der Welt gefangen ist.
AFRICOM GO HOME beleuchtet eine Vision von
Freiheit, die klar erkennbar zu den Müttern und Vätern des Panafrikanismus
zurückreicht und erhält diese Sicht aufrecht gegen die dominierende Gesellschaft,
die heutzutage mit lokalen Verbündeten unter einer Decke steckt.
Dieser Dokumentarfilm zeigt aus einer
persönlichen Sicht die Entwicklung der Ereignisse, nachdem ungefähr fünfzig
Organisationen aus Afrika und Deutschland, die gegen die Existenz von AFRICOM
auf afrikanischem oder deutschem Boden sind, die Erklärung von “AFRICOM Go
Home” unterzeichnet haben. Der Film besteht aus einer Kollage von Bildern aus
dem Internet und Ausschnitten anderer Filmemacher. Dennoch sind die Autoren
dieser Bilder auf keine Weise verantwortlich für die Inhalte dieser Produktion,
oder die darin vertretenen Ansichten.
Dieses Video wurde gemacht, um
- die
Ereignisse um die „AFRICOM Go Home“-Erklärung verständlich zu machen und
aufzuzeigen, was bisher erreicht wurde.
- Es
wirft ein Licht auf Geschichte und Entwicklung imperialistischer, neokolonialer
militärischer Kräfte in Afrika im Verlauf der letzten fünfzig Jahre.
- Es
entschleiert AFRICOM und seine Entstehung und erklärt seine Bedeutung, und
hilft zudem, imperialistische Rivalitäten und Ambitionen zu interpretieren. Es
wird sowohl erklärt, warum sie einander ausspionieren, als auch die
Widersprüche enthüllt, die im “Krieg gegen Terrorismus” aufgekommen sind.
- Es
formuliert die Unglaubwürdigkeit der erklärten angeblichen humanitären Ziele
derer, die AFRICOM für Afrika etabliert haben, nachdem sie ein ganzes Netzwerk
an Militärbasen aufgebaut haben, die sogar bis Deutschland reichen.
- Zudem
untersucht es Widersprüche, die unter Afrikanern und innerhalb von
afrikanischen Organisationen aufgekommen sind im Rahmen von Konflikten
bezüglich der Selbstverteidigung bei der Ausbeutung von Ressourcen und der
Beschlagnahmung des Landes ihrer Vorväter
- Es
zeigt die dringende Notwendigkeit pan-afrikanischen und internationalen
Widerstandes sowie die re-Politisierung unserer Jugend für die zukünftige
Demokratie.
- Der
Film folgt Präsident Obama auf seinem Besuch Deutschlands und Afrikas, zeigt
die Haltungen europäischer, amerikanischer und afrikanischer Präsidenten sowie
der Militärführer AFRICOMs. Außerdem gibt es Material über einige Männer und
Frauen der Opposition.
- Es
nimmt Inventur von den Ausprägungen der Sicherheitspolitik auf dem Kontinent
mit besonderer Aufmerksamkeit auf den Einfluss der amerikanischen
Neokonservativen und zeigt, wie regionale Machtblöcke bereits einige ihrer
politischen Ansätze in die Praxis umsetzen.
- AFRICOM
GO HOME stellt die Machenschaften des Imperialismus und des Neokolonialismus
bloß und zeigt die Vereinnahmung unserer Eliten und Militärführer sowie unserer
Zivilgesellschaft und Organisationen. Es zeichnet ein Bild davon, wie schädlich
diese Militärbasen für die Afrikaner sind, wenn diese inmitten Afrikas
etabliert werden.
- Es
ist klar, dass unsere lokalen Eliten dafür nicht weniger verantwortlich sind,
als ihre ausländischen Vorgesetzten.
- Der
Film regt alle Beteiligten an, die bereits auf dem afrikanischen Kontinent
etablierten Militärbasen noch einmal zu betrachten, ebenso wie die Position der
NATO, die Verletzlichkeit und Bevormundung der Afrikanischen Union, und die
Gegenwart eines hungrigen Rudels aufstrebender Nationen, die unter BRIC
zusammengefasst werden können.
- Als
Erklärung bedient sich dieses Video einer Hypothese, die sich mit der
Repatriierung des deutschen Goldes befasst, das seit langem in amerikanischer,
französischer und englischer Hand ist; die mittlerweile dominierende
Rolle Chinas im internationalen Währungssystem, sowie die Gründe, warum diese Militärbasis
ausgerechnet in Deutschland etabliert wurde. Dann geht es zu den Ursachen der
Krise in Mali über.
- Dieser
Film entschleiert die AFRICOM Basis in Deutschland vor den Augen der Welt. Wir
zollen den heroischen Anstrengungen von Mitgliedern der Linken und einigen
ihrer parlamentarischen Repräsentanten Aufmerksamkeit und erkennen ihre
gerichtlichen Schritte gegen AFRICOM’s Drohnenattacken und gezielten Tötungen
an.
- Neben
der Sicherheitsfrage zeigt dieses Video auch, dass die Krise des Kapitalismus
und die vorherrschende Unterentwicklung Kulturalimus, Integrationalismus,
Populismus und Terrorismus fruchtbaren Boden bieten, die als Werkzeuge sowohl
für Spaltungen dienen können, als auch dazu, Unabhängigkeit zu verhindern.
- AFRICOM
und NATO benutzen beide den Vorwand, angeblich Afrika retten zu wollen.
- Dennoch
ist dieser Film ein Appell an größere Selbstbestimmung und Balance in AfrikasEntwicklung. Er fordert die Wiederentstehung progressiver Flügel Afrikanischer
Staaten und eines Planes für die Beschleunigung panafrikanischer Integration im
Kontext von Internationalismus und einer polyzentrischen Welt, die das
allgemeine „Gute“ für die Menschheit unterstützt.
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
Sunday, August 31, 2014
[Since 1994, the world witnesses the horrifying Tutsi minority (14%) ethnic domination, the Tutsi minority ethnic rule with an iron hand, 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, and the brutal suppression of the rights of the majority of the Rwandan people (85% are Hutus)and mass arrests of Hutus by the RPF criminal organization =>AS International]
What is happening in Rwanda? On Aug. 26, the BBC reported that Burundian officials are investigating to determine why Rwandan bodies have been found floating in Lake Rweru, on Burundi’s border with Rwanda.
The discovery is not only gruesome but also ominous because both East African nations suffer from extremely volatile Hutu-Tutsi ethnic rivalries rooted in centuries of Hutu oppression by a feudal Tutsi aristocracy, which became a colonial elite in the 18th and 19th centuries.
Attempts to institute European democracy, between 1959 and 1961 in Rwanda, and in 1993 in Burundi, turned the existing social order upside down, giving electoral advantage to the Hutu majorities, which the Tutsi minorities refused to accept. War, genocide and massacres ensued and both nations, neither of which is yet 100 years old, are commonly described as tinderboxes awaiting a match.
Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame is a Tutsi, Burundi’s President Pierre Nkurunziza a Hutu. Despite past alliances of convenience, they are now antagonists. In 1993, Burundi’s Tutsi military elite assassinated that country’s first democratically elected president, Hutu Melchior Ndadaye, triggering genocidal massacres of both ethnicities in Burundi and escalating fears of the same – which did indeed follow – in Rwanda.
In 1994, near the end of a four year war of aggression, Kagame ordered the assassination of both Rwanda and Burundi’s Hutu presidents by shooting their plane out of the sky on April 6, 1994, and then launched a carefully planned, U.S. backed military offensive to seize power and restore Tutsi rule in Rwanda, even as the country sank into chaos and genocidal massacres of both ethnicities.
Any conclusion that the bodies floating in the lake are victims of state execution, genocidal execution or both could be incendiary within the two countries and/or between them. That incendiary potential has been manipulated by both foreign and domestic elites, who are no doubt following this story closely, and most likely attempting to control its outcomes.
These bound and bagged bodies certainly have the look of state execution, genocidal or not, and the simple conclusion that they were state executions has incendiary potential in itself. Rwandan President Paul Kagame arrested three of his own top military officers last week, as resistance continued to rise within his own Tutsi elite.
Rwandan or Burundian bodies?
Burundian official Jean Berchmans Mpabansi told the BBC that, ‘‘The victims are not Burundian citizens because the bodies are coming from Akagera River flowing from Rwanda.”
The Voice of Burundi reported, translated here from the French: “In recent days corpses wrapped in plastic bags are found floating on Lake Rweru on the border between Burundi and Rwanda in Muyinga Province.
“More than 40 bodies floating in the Rweru Lake town of Giteranyi have been seen and counted since the month of July by the fishermen, as confirmed by the local administration and police. This week, these fishermen, accompanied by a unit of the Navy, saw two bodies on the mouth of the Akagera.”
Rwandan Police said that no one has been reported missing in Rwanda, and Burundian Police said the same about Burundi. Both claims are unlikely because the national police of any country of 10 or 11 million people is sure to have a list of missing persons at any given time.
It’s particularly unlikely in the case of Rwanda, because on May 16, Human Rights Watch reported that “an increasing number of Rwandans have been forcibly disappeared or reported missing” and that some were known to have been forcibly disappeared by Rwanda’s army, the Rwandan Defense Force. HRW detailed 14 cases of missing persons.
In mid-July HRW spoke to the anniversary of the murder of Gustave Makonene, coordinator of Transparency International Rwanda’s Advocacy and Legal Advice Center in Rubavu, Rwanda:
“The details of Gustave Makonene’s death are gruesome. His body was found outside the lakeside town of Rubavu, in northwestern Rwanda, on July 18, 2013. The police medical report indicated he was strangled. Local residents who saw his body gave Human Rights Watch more graphic detail. They believed his body may have been thrown from a car on a road above the lake and ended up twisted around a large tree, which had blocked its fall into the water.“
There have been neither investigations nor charges. Another HRW essayist asked, “Why is the whole world still silent on the murder of Rwandan activist Makonene?” On August 1 Transparency International issued a press release saying that the staff of all five of their Rwandan offices are in danger.
President Paul Kagame’s plausibility problem
Rwandan President Paul Kagame has never been noted for plausible or consistent explanation. After 18 years of Rwandan invasion, occupation, assassination and resource plunder in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, all copiously documented, he continues to tell Western television audiences that he cannot be held responsible for the problems of Congo, that Congo’s problems began with colonialism long before his birth.
And, of course, he continues to say that his destiny is to save and forever protect the Rwandan people from genocide, because, as he tells the story over and over, the world abandoned Rwanda in 1994. It’s a matter of record that Kagame himself threatened to fire on U.N. troops if they attempted to intervene in Rwanda in 1994, but that’s never been of concern to corporate broadcast anchors. Neither has Kagame’s U.S-backed invasion of Rwanda, commanding a detachment of the Ugandan army in October 1990. Nor has the four year war that those Ugandan troops waged in Rwanda between October 1990 and July 1994. Nor has the active intervention of the Clinton Administration to prevent the UN from intervening in Rwanda in 1994.
The story of four years of war and mass killing in Rwanda has instead been shortened and simplified into a 100-day morality play about genocide ending with “Never again!” And, Kagame has been allowed to trump all evidence and reason by playing the genocide card for so long that he feels in no way compelled to offer a plausible or consistent explanation of anything.
Nearly 50,000 people reported missing in Rwanda this year
Although Rwandan officials denied, on August 26th, that anyone is missing, the government has, on other days, acknowledged that nearly 50,000 people have disappeared this year. The government says they’re missing, but dissident Rwandan refugees and exiles say they’re dead – and that they are Hutu victims of Kagame’s slow, silent, systematic Hutu genocide – genocide by exclusion, poverty, starvation, sterilization and execution.
Rwandans whom the government acknowledges are missing include 16,000 Hutu villagers from the country’s northwestern Ngororero District. Rwandan Interior Minister James Musoni acknowledged, in the country’s Kinyarwanda language, that these villagers are missing but said that the government has no idea where they’ve gone and fears they may have crossed Rwanda’s border with DR Congo to join the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR).
Rwandan refugee Ambrose Nzeyimana translated the English into Kinyarwanda and posted “Kigali acknowledges the disappearance of 16,000 of its citizens” to his British-based blog, The Rising Continent. Rwandans in exile write that these people have been massacred by the Kagame regimeas part of its program to slowly, quietly, and systematically eliminate the Hutu population. Their belief is based on their own experience, their contact with extended family in Rwanda, and their attention to the Kinyarwanda press.
Rwandan prison authorities acknowledge that 30,000 Hutu prisoners sentenced to “community service” (hard labor) have also disappeared, Rwandan exiles, again, write that they’ve been executed by Kagame’s genocidal government.
It’s difficult to imagine how a government with one of the best trained, best equipped African military and security forces, including local forces everywhere, in one of the most tightly controlled, dictatorial regimes in the world, could lose track of 30,000 state prisoners. However, the government, again, and the Ibuka Tutsi survivors’ group, claim to fear that these people may have escaped across the border to join the FDLR in DR Congo, where they now constitute a threat to genocide survivors.
As with so much in Rwanda, including the history of the 1990-1994 war and genocide, there is a Tutsi version of the truth and a Hutu version, but the Tutsi version is legally enforced and championed worldwide by rich and powerful people, including Bill Clinton, Tony Blair, Rev. Rick Warren and Howard Buffett. Despite wholesale de facto discimination against Hutu people, they join Kagame in proclaiming that truth and reconciliation have been achieved in Rwanda, and ethnicity is no longer important.
Prisoners incinerated?
More Rwandan Hutu prisoners may have perished in a fire on June 5, 2014, in Rwanda’s largest prison, Muhanga Central Prison in Gitarama, and then in a second prison fire at Nyakiriba Prison in Rubavu (Gisenyi) on July 7.
Rwandan exiles write that prisoners in both Muhanga Central Prison and Nyakiriba Prison were intentionally incinerated in their cells, once again as part of a slow, silent, systematic Hutu genocide.
Is it likely that two, geographically distant Rwandan prisons would be destroyed or badly damaged by fire in barely more than one month? All we know is what Rwandan authorities say, and all they say is that there were two prison fires but no prisoners died.
Muhanga Prison, formerly known as Gitarama Central Prison, was known to be one of the most hellish prisons on earth. In 1995, a London Independent headline about it read, “Hutus held in ‘worst prison in world’: 7,000 suspects of Rwanda massacre are kept in jail built for 400.“
On June 6, the International Red Cross reported that “the accommodations” of 3,500 prisoners went up in flames in Gitarama but that the Rwandan government said no prisoners were in their cells at the time.
Hard evidence?
There will be no hard evidence of the truth behind any of these missing persons reports, except perhaps those few filed by Human Rights Watch, unless the U.N. Security Council deems the situation in Rwanda so dangerous to international security and stability that an independent U.N. investigative team must be allowed in, as when U.N. investigator Hans Blix’s team was allowed into Iraq before the 2003 U.S./U.K. invasion.
Of course, the U.S. and U.K. ignored Blix’s conclusion that there were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, as the U.S. and allied states will ignore any evidence counter to the security interests now defined by their executive corporate, military and foreign policy elites, not by popular democracy.
However, that’s no reason not to call for investigation. It’s better that Hans Blix’s team was allowed into Iraq than not, for the sake of history and global consciousness, and we can continue to work for just outcomes. Independent U.N. investigations should be undertaken, post haste, into each instance of individual and mass disappearances in Rwanda, and into why bound, bagged bodies were found floating in Lake Rweru between the shores of Rwanda and Burundi.
Why has the U.S. renewed support for Kagame’s Rwanda?
Why did the U.S. renew its political and military support of Rwandan President Paul Kagame’s dictatorship at the U.S.-Africa Summit? Why is the U.S. threatening the Hutu refugees organized as the FDLR with military action if they refuse to disarm and surrender unconditionally?
The FDLR may be armed in self-defense, but Special Envoy to the Great Lakes Region Russ Feingold has acknowledged that they pose no credible threat to Rwanda. The majority of Rwandan Hutu refugees in eastern Congo are simply that – refugees – who dare not return to Rwanda for fear of having their names added to these long lists of missing persons that the Rwandan government says it’s unable to explain.
Rwandan opposition leaders, Hutu and Tutsi alike, and Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete have all called upon the Rwandan government to negotiate with the FDLR for safe repatriation to a Rwanda in which they will not be a de facto Hutu underclass threatened with elimination. ,
On January 4th, former Rwandan General Kayumba Nyamwasa told KPFA: “I understand the guiltiness that maybe some could be feeling about their failure to stop the genocide. But you don’t support somebody who’s in the process of creating another genocide. And I think they should be able to examine their consciences, look at what is happening in Rwanda, and see exactly what is taking place.”
Many Rwandan Hutus, refugees and exiles believe that if the regime now headed by Paul Kagame remains in power for another 50 years, there will be no Hutu people left in Rwanda.
Oakland writer Ann Garrison writes for the San Francisco Bay View, Counterpunch, Global Research, Colored Opinions, Black Agenda Report, and Black Star News, and produces radio news and features for Pacifica’s WBAI-NYC, KPFA-Berkeley and her own YouTube Channel. She can be reached at anniegarrison@gmail.com. If you want to see Ann Garrison’s independent reporting continue, please contribute on her website, anngarrison.com.
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
Saturday, August 30, 2014
- Kagame link to rival’s shooting - The Times
- Increasing arrests and disappearances rattle Rwandans
Rwanda, Burundi disown Lake Rweru floating bodies
Bound, bagged bodies found floating in Burundi lake
2014-08-26 16:06
Burundi has set up an investigation after a number of dead bodies wrapped in plastic were found floating in a lake on its border with Rwanda.
Fishermen say there are reports of dozens of unidentified bodies being spotted in recent weeks in Lake Rweru.
It is not clear how they died. The regional authorities say their investigations indicate the victims were not from Burundi.
But Rwanda police say no-one has been reported missing on the Rwandan side.
''The victims are not Burundian citizens because the bodies are coming from Akagera River flowing from Rwanda,'' Burundian official, Jean Berchmans Mpabansi, told the BBC.
The latest bodies - five wrapped within two plastic bags - were discovered on Sunday and Monday.
Two other bodies were found last Tuesday.
Villagers in Giteranyi district, which borders the lake, say the bodies first began appearing in July - with some saying up to 40 have been spotted.
The BBC's Prime Ndikumagenge in Burundi says most of the bodies have been wrapped in plastic, but one fisherman said that not all of them have been - giving the example of a naked woman who was found.
The bodies are often discovered in an advanced stage of decomposition, prompting health fears as villagers in the semi-arid province of Muyingai depend on the lake for their water, he says.
ATROCITIES IN RWANDA, 2014
The Kagame regime began this year by assassinating Patrick Karegeya in South Africa. It moved on to “disappearing” citizens all over the nation, and then there were strange fires that burned down prisons. Now there are arrests of leading regime generals and other figures as the totalitarian regime eats its own, and there are also bodies turning up on a lake in Burundi. This story, translated from French, says:
In recent days corpses wrapped in plastic bags are found floating on the lake Rweru on the border between Burundi and Rwanda in the province Muyinga.More than 40 bodies floating in the lake town Rweru Giteranyi were seen and counted from the month of July by the fishermen, as confirmed by the local administration and police. This week, these fishermen accompanied by a unit of the Navy, saw two bodies on the mouth of the Kagera. It was a woman without clothes and a man wrapped in a bag. One of the dead was identified by Rwandan fishermen, they immediately rushed to repatriate the dead body.
The report goes on to says that Burundi had not reported any disappeared, and that Burundians:
…indicate that such carcasses are thrown into the river Akagara the Rwandan side, that comes pouring into the lake Rweru: “In the neighborhood, we deplore any loss, unless they are brought from other regions and thrown in the lake, “they say.
The lake in question borders Rwanda and Burundi, as you can see from this map:
Lake Rugwero with Rwanda on the North
The case made headlines Burundian newspapers for two days: the fishermen said they saw dozens of bodies floating on the Rweru Lake in northeastern Burundi, on the border with Rwanda. They are bodies of men, women and youth, some tied up.
Fishermen Lake Rweru say they would have seen since early July between six and forty bodies floating in the waters of the lake, located in the northeastern Burundi. Several private radio stations in Bujumbura, the alarm was given it a week ago.
Contacted by RFI yesterday, Sunday, the representative of the fishermen of the town Giteranyi shoreline of the lake, said he went near the mouth of the Kagera River with soldiers from the Burundian Navy. They then discovered there two bodies, one still wrapped in a big burlap bag. ” We unfortunately could not bring them back to the mainland because the bodies were in an advanced state of decomposition , “said the representative of the fishermen. They then drifted the body along with the current like other fishermen did with the body they discovered earlier.… Fishermen are, claim that these bodies would be carried by the Kagera River which originates in neighboring Rwanda. Prudente, the Burundian government would not confirm or deny.
There have been widespread disappearances, such as this:
Rwandan opposition politician Damascene Munyeshyaka, who went missing on June 27, is just one in a growing list of people who have not been heard of over the past few months and who rights activists believe have been forcibly disappeared.
Rwandan opposition politician Damascene Munyeshyaka, who went missing on June 27, is just one in a growing list of people who have not been heard of over the past few months and who rights activists believe have been forcibly disappeared.
Munyeshyaka, the organisational secretary of the Democratic Green Party, was at a meeting in the eastern district of Bugesera, when he received a phone call.The caller said he had an urgent message to deliver, according to the party. Munyeshyaka didn’t know the caller but left to meet him. He has not been seen since.
And there are mass arrests of high ranking regime members, in moves reminiscent of purges after the French Revolution. See here, here, here, and here.Finally, look at this appalling picture from inside a Rwandan prison:
Prisoners tortured in Rwandan prisons.
This article, whose truth I cannot verify,1 says:
To understand how furious and systematic Hutus extermination is, Tutsis RPF regime has nowadays chosen a plan to blaze prisons and more than thirty thousand (30,000) Hutus perished in this process of prisons blaze where they were abducting prisoners to massacre in name of transfers to other prisons so that other fellow prisoners cannot question what happening and try to claim. The recent prisons set on fire are two prisons of Muhanga central prison in Gitarama and Nyakiriba prison in Rubavu (Gisenyi) respectively on 5 June 2014 and 7 July 2014, i e within one month. This happened following 1 or 2 months more than sixteen thousand (16,000) Hutus massacred in Northern West province in Nyabihu district and the RPF regime said they don’t know their whereabouts, and simply said that they disappeared.
The above picture is Muhanga prison in Gitarama set on fire on 5 June 2014 and this happen alongside the slow systematic massacres of these Hutus prisoners where they are daily beaten, killed abducted, starved and poisoned. More than 80% of Hutus who terminated their sentence when they come out for normal life, consequently they cannot pass 1 or 2 years alive, they die.2
To understand how furious and systematic Hutus extermination is, Tutsis RPF regime has nowadays chosen a plan to blaze prisons and more than thirty thousand (30,000) Hutus perished in this process of prisons blaze where they were abducting prisoners to massacre in name of transfers to other prisons so that other fellow prisoners cannot question what happening and try to claim. The recent prisons set on fire are two prisons of Muhanga central prison in Gitarama and Nyakiriba prison in Rubavu (Gisenyi) respectively on 5 June 2014 and 7 July 2014, i e within one month. This happened following 1 or 2 months more than sixteen thousand (16,000) Hutus massacred in Northern West province in Nyabihu district and the RPF regime said they don’t know their whereabouts, and simply said that they disappeared.
The above picture is Muhanga prison in Gitarama set on fire on 5 June 2014 and this happen alongside the slow systematic massacres of these Hutus prisoners where they are daily beaten, killed abducted, starved and poisoned. More than 80% of Hutus who terminated their sentence when they come out for normal life, consequently they cannot pass 1 or 2 years alive, they die.2
Conditions in the open-air prison that is Rwanda are horrible, and yet we continue to only see the sanitized, mission-trip version of reality in PEAR USA publications. Speaking of another appalling situation, that of Christians in Iraq, PEAR Bishop Breedlove says:
The silence of the US and Canadian media and government is unconscionable, and we need to call them to account and ask for a change of behavior. “Never Silent” is part of our story. We need to bring that legacy to this critical issue happening right now. We must never be silent while Christians are slaughtered for nothing more than being Christians.
The silence of the US and Canadian media and government is unconscionable, and we need to call them to account and ask for a change of behavior. “Never Silent” is part of our story. We need to bring that legacy to this critical issue happening right now. We must never be silent while Christians are slaughtered for nothing more than being Christians.
He is right for once, and yet the hypocrisy is more than a little thick given the outrages in Rwanda that have been happening for two decades now, with the increasing complicity of Westerners, who choose to see no evil and hear no evil.
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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