Declaration of the FDLR N°04/CD/SEPTEMBER/2008



Considering that on the 1st October 1990 an organised group of Rwandan refugees called Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF-Inkotanyi) attacked Rwanda, a country at the time where harmony, peace and national unity prevailed;
Considering that the RPF-Inkotanyi had justified the invasion in the name of establishing democracy and good governance in Rwanda, although Rwanda had already made remarkable strides in creating democratic institutions and good governance;
Considering that the RPF-Inkotanyi was already guilty of crimes against peace, crimes against humanity, war crimes and genocide in territories under its control in northern Rwanda between the 1st October 1990 and the 5th April 1994;
Considering that between the 1st October 1990 and the 5th April 1994 the RPF-Inkotanyi was already guilty of terrorist acts committed to make the entire territory of Rwanda uncontrollable by the then Rwandan government;
Considering that between the 1st October 1990 and the 5th April 1994 the RPF-Inkotanyi had trained commandos who assassinated many Hutus leaders and their killings falsely attributed to President Habyarimana and his close aides by RPF-Inkotanyi and its lobbyists;
Considering that between the 1st October 1990 and the 5th April 1994, in order to divert the attention of keen observers, the RPF commandos maliciously assassinated some Tutsis and the RPF-Inkotanyi and its lobbyists falsely attributed these killings to President Juvenal Habyirimana and his close aides;
Considering that these murders of Hutus and Tutsis have contributed to the deepening of regional and ethnic divisions in Rwanda;
Considering that those murders of Hutus and Tutsis have contributed to exacerbate tensions and hatred between the different components of the Rwandan society
Considering that these ethnic divisions, tension and hatred were in the plan of RPF-Inkotanyi in order to create chaos in Rwanda and seize power by force;
Considering that the RPF-Inkotanyi, the true founder of Interahamwe militia, has maliciously been able to endorse the activities of those militia on the accounts of MRND and CDR political parties;
Considering that the RPF-Inkotanyi has always controlled the activities of the Interahamwe militia through the many linkages and networks that the RPF-Inkotanyi had woven within the militia throughout the whole country of Rwanda;
Considering that many members of the leadership of the Interahamwe were at the same time members of the RPF-Inkotanyi;
Considering that the President Juvénal Habyarimana had good faith in negotiations for power sharing between the various components of the Rwandan society;
Considering that RPF-Inkotanyi was acting in bad faith and had already conceived the plan to kill the President Juvénal Habyarimana in order to seize power by force;
Considering that the RPF-Inkotanyi, prior to the invasion Rwanda, had planned the genocide of Tutsis who grew up in Rwanda and the endorsement of that genocide on the Hutu population in order to legitimise and monopolise its power in the country;
Considering that the RPF-Inkotanyi knowingly killed President Juvénal Habyarimana to provoke inter-ethnic massacres and use these massacres as a justification to oppress the Hutu population;
Considering that the RPF-Inkotanyi, after 14 years in power in Rwanda, has categorically refused to allow a neutral investigation on the terrorist attack that claimed the lives of the democratically elected presidents of Rwanda and Burundi and their close collaborators on the 6th April 1994;
Considering that after the 6th April 1994 the RPF-Inkotanyi rejected various ceasefire offers and unilaterally breached various ceasefire agreements it had already signed;
Considering that after the 6th April 1994 the RPF-Inkotanyi and its networks within the militias of different political parties massacred innocent citizens of all ethnic groups (Hutu, Tutsi and Twa) in a planned manner throughout the territory of Rwanda and that all these killings fall in the category of genocide;
Considering that RPF-Inkotanyi has pursued the Rwandan refugees in neighbouring countries, especially in Zaire (now Democratic Republic of Congo) where the FPR-Inkotanyi committed a genocide on the Rwandan Hutu refugees in the DRC before the eyes of the entire international community;
Considering that the RPF-Inkotanyi is a criminal and hegemonic regime fully determined to perpetrate ethnic wars in neighbouring countries in order to take advantage of those wars and chaos in those countries to dominate them and plunder their wealth;
Considering that the RPF-Inkotanyi has established in Rwanda a bloody dictatorship that kills, oppress or excludes any person who does not adhere to its hegemonic and racist ideology;
Considering that the RPF-Inkotanyi has introduced in Rwanda a policy of impoverishment of the majority of Rwandans and results of that wicked policy are now evident through unacceptable level of poverty, malnutrition and famine that have become endemic in Rwanda;
Considering that 14 years after the seizure of power by RPF-Inkotanyi, theft of public property and corruption have become common currencies in Rwanda,
Considering that the RPF-Inkotanyi exclusively controls the entire apparatus of the State (security forces, economy, justice, public administration, education, the so-called parliament etc.);
Considering that 14 years after the seizure of power there is no true democratic institutions in Rwanda but “caricatures” of democracy; the Parliament being an institution set up, controlled and manipulated by the clique of RPF-Inkotanyi to make the international community believe that a legislative power separate from the executive exists in Rwanda;
Considering that in Rwanda the whole judiciary machinery is an instrument completely under the control of the clique of RPF-Inkotanyi, designed for the oppression of Hutus in general and Tutsis who dare to criticize the regime;
Considering that the RPF-Inkotanyi, in order to stay on power forever in Rwanda, uses an apartheid system whereby The Hutus are excluded, oppressed and discriminated in all sectors of the national life of the country;
Considering that the RPF-Inkotanyi came up with laws that make impossible the existence of a democratic opposition;
Considering that the so called "opposition parties" inside of Rwanda and now participating in the so-called election are nothing more than branches of the RPF-Inkotanyi;
Considering that every Hutu in Rwanda is indiscriminately accused of genocide when he formulates political claims;
Considering that Kagame and his clique of RPF-Inkotanyi consider and treat Hutu children also as “génocidaires” as their parents;
Considering that there is no more doubt that the current regime in power in Rwanda has prepared and executed the genocide of Tutsis who had not grown up in the Diaspora, especially in Uganda;
Considering that there is no more doubt that the RPF-Inkotanyi prepared and executed the genocide of Hutus before and after the 6th April 1994;
Considering that there is no more doubt than the RPF-Inkotanyi has committed genocide on Hutu refugees in the Democratic Republic of Congo;
Considering that the RPF-Inkotanyi has never respected the human rights stipulated in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights;

The FDLR declare the following:

The elections organized by the RPF-Inkotanyi can never be democratic;
The FDLR will never recognize the institutions resulting from those so called elections organized by RPF criminal regime;
Those fake elections organized by the bloodthirsty regime in Kigali engage only this regime and its sponsors.
The RPF-Inkotanyi is a criminal organization whose leaders must be prosecuted for war crimes, crimes against humanity, crimes against peace and crimes of genocide;
The RPF-Inkotanyi is an organization whose leaders must appear before justice for looting the Rwandan heritage and the natural resources of countries of the African Great Lakes region;
The RPF-Inkotanyi is a criminal organisation whose leaders don’t have the legitimacy to lead the people of Rwanda;
The leaders of the RPF-Inkotanyi, first and foremost Paul Kagame and his close aides, must be arrested and brought to justice;
The countries and multinational corporations that continue to support the criminal regime in Kigali should know that one day they will respond to justice for their acts of collaborating with a group of criminals.
The FDLR call on the people of Rwanda to exercise restraint and patience since the end of the bloody dictatorship of the RPF-Inkotanyi will come when nobody expects it.

Together we will win!

Done in Germany on the 12nd September 2008.

Dr Ignace Murwanashyaka
President of the FDLR
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

US and UK Governments call terrorist who they don't often depends on their political sympathies. Take the African National Congress for example.

Why do they support the for-us terrorist?

If we are ever to combat the RPF menace, we first need to know how it works: Extremism together with terrorism combined to Nazism: A discriminative and controlled strategy, often producing mass murders, operating distinction between Hutus and Tutsis. Hutus are those who presumably are called terrorists because they refuse to be under the minority criminals gathered under the RPF umbrella, a well-known terrorist organization now running the country. Any opponent to the dictatorship will be treated as a terrorist.
Example:
The ANC was set up to fight for the right of the South African black majority. Life for black South Africans, in the days of apartheid, was grim and for many years they suffered injustice and discrimination at the hands of the white minority. When peaceful protest failed the ANC set-up a military wing in 1961 led by Nelson Mandela who was imprisoned for refusing to renounce violence. It's stated aim was to create maximum havoc and confusion, but they also targeted civilians, frequently killing and maiming innocent people. Now, however, the ANC is South Africa's ruling party and Nelson Mandela, a man once regarded as a terrorist, is the country's most respected elder statesman.
The IRA is the oldest modern terrorist organization. It styled itself as the people's army and it's aim was to unite the country even if the only way of doing that was through violence. "Freedom" Martin McGuiness once said "can only be gained at the point of an IRA rifle but I apologize to no-one for saying we support and admire the freedom fighters of the IRA". The truth is, the IRA would never have been so effective nor had as much popular support if the Irish Catholics hadn't had genuine grievances. They were discriminated against in housing, in employment and under represented in the police and local government. When peaceful protest led to further repression there was a resurgence of support for the IRA and it's political wing Sinn Fein. The result was more than 30 years of blood-shed. When the bombs hit where it hurt, economically, the government had to negotiate. A massive bomb attack on London's financial centre paved the way for the peace process.
What about the Hutus in their country in which their considered like outsiders in their own country.
These are lessons which we in the West have failed to learn and we run the risk of alienating reasonable people when we adopt the methods of the terrorist.


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

Resurrecting Ghosts, or Exorcising Demons?

by Steven Da Silva

As the trial of the alleged Hutu war criminal Désiré Munyaneza unfolds in Montréal, ghosts are being resurrected which have for some time being lingering about the Rwandan conflict of the 1990s. But these ghosts are not merely the restless spirits of 1994 haunting us for recognition – despite what that quivering little quisling Romeo Dallaire would have us believe in his Shake Hands with the Devil (the autobiography or the documentary). No, the devil – if there is one which can be identified and exorcised – possesses neither that chapter of Rwandan history ranging from April to July 1994, nor any Rwandan Hutu whom Dallaire may have ‘shook hands with’ in 1994.

Lest I be accused of slipping into that form of colonialist tongue which has for centuries operated through the application of dehumanizing metaphors to colonized subjects, let me just be clear that the demons in need of exorcising here have nothing to do with the colonized and subordinated bodies. If there is any demon to be exorcised, it is that utterly foreign spirit which has possessed the corpus of Central African history which has come to be known as the ‘Rwandan genocide’ – a hideous beast of a story concocted by imperialism. Hideous not only because of what happened between the months of April and July 1994, but hideous for how the tales told about those few months in Rwanda have served to mask the role imperialism has played in Central Africa at large throughout the 1990s. The tales told about the ‘Rwandan genocide’ are intended to disarm critical reason and deflect attention away from the even larger atrocities and the even greater war criminals that Western imperialism is trying to hide. Therefore, as all these old ghost tales are called forth yet again with the trial of the alleged Hutu war criminal Désiré Munyaneza, Canadians need to be asking the question of what is the real story behind the so-called ‘Rwandan genocide’.

The Causes of the Rwandan Civil War

To the extent that Westerners know anything about Rwanda today, it is thanks to the Rwandan genocide entertainment industry which has proliferated in recent years (Hotel Rwanda, Shakes Hands with the Devil, Un Dimanche à Kigali, to name only a few). According to the myth propagated in these and many other films, books, and documentaries, the conflict really only begins in April 1994 with the shooting down of Rwandan President Juvénal Habyarimana’s plane. As the mainstream discourse goes, ‘extremist’ Hutus shot down their own president’s plane in order to justify the slaughter of the country’s ethnic Tutsi minority. But if the conflict can be so easily periodized at all, one should really begin the story in late 1980s when the current Rwandan President Paul Kagame was head of the Ugandan army’s military intelligence under the American-backed dictatorship of Yoweri Museveni.

In late September 1990, while both the presidents of Rwandan (Habyarimana) and Uganda (Museveni) were away in New York attending a UNICEF meeting, 4000 soldiers and high ranking officers from the Ugandan National Army ‘mutinied’ and invaded Rwanda.1 Immediately after the invasion, Paul Kagame – who was in the United States at the time of the invasion being trained by the U.S. military in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas – returned to Uganda to take up a position as the commander of invading Ugandan forces (soon to be known as the Rwandan Patriotic Forces (RPF)).2

For the next three years, Museveni allowed his former troops to move freely across the Rwanda-Uganda border as the RPF terrorized and dispossessed hundreds of thousands of Hutu peasants in northern Rwanda of the most fertile land in the country. Robin Philpot, who has written a damning exposé on the Western role played in the Rwandan civil war, has written that within “two and a half years after the invasion, only 1800 people lived in an area of northern Rwanda that previously had a population of 800,000.”3 In other circumstances, this act has been called ‘ethnic cleansing’, if not genocide. But such victims are not worthy of mention when Western imperialism has had a hand in such acts. Conspiracies of silence most often shroud their histories.

In a testimony submitted to the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, one source recites that from 1989 onwards, America supported joint RPF-Ugandan attacks upon Rwanda... There were at least 56 'situation reports' in (US) State Department files in 1991… As American and British relations with Uganda and the RPF strengthened, so hostilities between Uganda and Rwanda escalated… By August 1990 the RPF had begun preparing an invasion with the full knowledge and approval of British intelligence.4

At a time when the Western presses were expressing harsh indignation at Saddam Hussein for invading Kuwait, the international community was giving little attention to the RPF’s war crimes. Instead, it was the Habyarimana government that was being condemned by the world for its responses to the invasion and occupation (not unlike the way the Iraqi people are being demonized today for fighting back against their own occupation). In response to the October 1990 invasion, the Rwandan government had some 8000 suspected collaborators arrested, holding them for periods ranging from a few days to a few months. And without taking into consideration the state of emergency which gave rise to these arrests, human rights organizations like Human Rights Watch, as Philpot reports, ignorantly claimed that “the arrests provided verifiable proof of serious human rights violations...proof of the genocidal intentions of the Rwandan Government leaders”.5 But no mention of the genocidal intentions of the RPF were made by Human Rights Watch.

Aside from the attacks being lodged by NGOs, Habyarimana was facing a host of other destabilizing forces from without. The ‘international community’ was pressuring Habyarimana to hold multiparty elections (while under occupation); and the IMF was imposing a Structural Adjustment Program that ended up leading to a harsh devaluation of the Rwandan Franc.6

By August 1993, with pressures escalating from all sides, the Habyarimana government buckled, signing the Arusha accords which allowed for a near parity of military and political forces between the Habyarimana government and the RPF forces.
In the same period in neighbouring Burundi, the first democratically elected Hutu president Melchior Ndadaye was assassinated by Tutsi officers in the Burundian army shortly after taking office. As a consequence, 375,000 Hutu refugees fled from Burundi to Rwanda to add to the one million Hutus internally displaced by the RPF.7 One cannot underestimate the level of resentment Hutus would have been experiencing at this point as they were being unilaterally victimized in a conflict, with the world siding with the RPF. Up until 1994, the refugee crisis in Rwanda was one that solely affected Hutus, thus intensifying the ethnic animosities between the 85-90% Hutu majority and Tutsi minority.

The precipitating cause for what came to be known as the Rwandan genocide came on April 6, 1994 when the plane carrying President Habyarimana and the president of Burundi Cyprien Ntaryamira was shot down with a shoulder rocket. But this is not how the world would come to know this event: not as an assassination of two heads of state deeming a global outcry and an appropriate response by the United Nations, but rather a ‘plane crash’, brought down by unknown perpetrators, likely ‘Hutu extremists’ looking for a pretext to execute their genocidal plot. But no evidence has ever been brought against any Hutu extremists for this crime. In fact, all evidence that has been gathered on the case points to the RPF and Paul Kagame.

With the creation of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) in November 1994, the United Nations Security Council mandated that all violations of international human rights committed in Rwanda during 1994 be investigated. This was a convenient timeframe for the United States and Britain, whose support for the war crimes of the RPF against Hutus prior to 1994 – and what they probably estimated would continue long after 1994 – would go uninvestigated.

In its investigations, the Tribunal delegated a completely separate team to investigate the assassination alone. After years of investigation and once the official inquiry began to compile substantial evidence suggesting that it was indeed Paul Kagame and the RPF who were responsible for the downing of the plane, Chief Prosecutor for the Tribunal Louise Arbour shut down the investigation and put a gag order on its investigators.8 As if proscribing the mandate of the ICTR to 1994 was not discriminatory enough, Louise Arbour shut down the investigation into the assassination of the two presidents lest the world learn that the RPF were not the saviours that the media made them out to be. Were Kagame and the RPF found guilty of triggering the events of 1994, the whole Manichean narrative concerning the evil Hutu génocidaires and innocent Tutsi victims would be thrown into question. To date, despite all the war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by Tutsi forces, from 1990 to the present, not a single RPF member or official of the Kagame government has stood trial at the ICTR.

While these accounts of the Rwandan civil war will almost certainly not correspond with the account most people have come to know from sources like Hotel Rwanda, the real-life hero of that film, Paul Rusesabagina himself, has called for the arrest of Paul Kagame and the RPF forces.9 Rusesabagina’s call is in line with a recent issuance by the French judge Jean-Louis Bruguière of 23 November 23, 2006, which put out arrest warrants for nine close collaborators of the Kagame regime on the charges of downing the presidential aircraft on April 6, 1994, which killed everyone on board including three French citizens. (Bruguière was constitutionally prohibitted from issuing an arrest warrant for Kagame because he is still the head of state.)10
While Bruguière’s case begins to shed some light on the untold horrors of the Rwandan civil war and Western complicity therein, the horrible consequences of the West’s support for the RPF were only just beginning with Kagame’s seizure of power in July 1994.

The Consequences of the Rwandan Civil War:

Holocaust and Plunder in the Congo

The motivations for the Western-supported coups in Uganda (1986) and Rwanda (1994) become perfectly clear in hindsight when we look to how events have unfolded in the Great Lakes Region of Africa over the last two decades, particularly with respect to Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). One of the reasons for strong Western support in Uganda was to create a strong military and ideological bulwark against the spreading influence of Islam in Sudan. After coming to power, Museveni of Uganda aided the insurgency in the south of Sudan led by John Garang of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement/Army. The civil war generated by Western subversion in south Sudan left two million dead. And of course, now there is the related and similarly foreign-generated conflict ensuing in the Darfur region of Sudan.11 But even more directly and with even greater destruction and plunder have the puppet governments of Rwanda and Uganda been involved the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

In the wake of the events of 1994 in Rwanda, with the coming to power of the RPF, some 1,300,000 Rwandan refugees fled to the Democratic Republic of Congo (at that time, still Mobuto’s Zaïre). Upon the justification that Hutu génocidaires who had fled to the eastern region of Zaïre needed to be eliminated, Rwanda and Uganda invaded and occupied the eastern regions of Zaïre. In an oral report provided by investigative journalist Wayne Madsen to the U.S. congress, he claims that U.S. intelligence and satellite imagery aided Rwanda and Uganda in carrying out their genocidal assaults in the refugee camps where hundreds of thousands of Hutus were living. Meanwhile, the U.S., Rwanda, and Uganda were all supporting Laurent Kabila and his paramilitary squad, the Alliance of Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Congo-Zaire (AFDL-CZ) against the Mobutu government. While all this was carried out under the pretense of hunting down Hutu génocidaires, as Madsen writes, America's early support for Laurent Kabila, which was aided by U.S. allies in Rwanda and Uganda, had less to do with getting rid of the Mobutu regime than it did in opening up Congo's vast mineral riches to North American based mining companies.

The series of reports drafted by the United Nations Security Council concerning the illegal exploitation of resources in the DRC confirms this claim with a great degree of specificity. The first in the series of these reports, from 12 April 2001, extensively details the role that the occupying forces of Rwanda and Uganda have played in carrying out the systematic plundering of natural resources and the continuation of civil strife in the DRC. The report itself provides enough details of the personal relationships and business connections involved in perpetuating the conflict in the DRC (which has killed millions since 1996, with estimates ranging from 5-10 million) to easily justify an international criminal tribunal for the DRC. In its concluding recommendations, the Panel of the report indeed recommends that the Security Council consider establishing an international mechanism that will investigate and prosecute individuals involved in economic criminal activities…[and] companies and government officials whose economic and financial activities directly or indirectly harm powerless people and weak economies.12

Yet, despite how damning the report is of the Anglo-American puppets in the region, the report barely scratches at the surface of the role played by Western imperialism in fomenting the conflicts in the DRC. The report reads as if the only parties to whom economic benefits of the conflict in the DRC accrued were the Rwandan and Ugandan economies, thus casting the conflict as merely another born-in-Africa affair to which Western parties and corporations have unwittingly been pulled into. (The most recent depiction of this myth I can think of is in the film Blood Diamond, which puts forward the idea that it is the West who is victim, the beguiled victim of the illicit market of ‘blood diamonds’). Only on one page of the 57-page report are ‘developed countries’ referenced for their role in supporting Rwandan and Ugandan operations in the DRC:
• “The Panel also has indications of the direct and indirect involvement of some staff of the embassies and cooperation of agencies of developed countries. They have facilitated the purchase of illegal minerals”
• “The rush to profit of some foreign companies that were ready to do business regardless of elements of unlawfulness and irregularities”
• “The political legitimization provided by some developed countries.”13

The most telling statement made by the report on the same page was how “the main bilateral donors to Rwanda and Uganda have been the U.K., Denmark, Germany, and the U.S.” and how such bilateral aid has helped free up the recipient countries to spend more on their militaries while foreign aid took care of the social needs of the population. (I wonder what all those yuppie-do-gooder NGO workers administering humanitarian aid – feeding children, building schools – would say if one were to tell them that they were actually just freeing up the resources of the host government to carry out a genocidal conflict in the next country?) The report asks the critical question “while such [humanitarian] support is legitimate…Were these savings used to finance this war?”14 However, the report does not draw out this question to its logical conclusions, because to do so would be to suggest that imperialist countries like the U.K. and the U.S. indirectly funded the Rwandan and Ugandan militaries by freeing up the national budgets of those countries through bilateral humanitarian provisions. This has been a clever and safe way for the West to distance itself from the conflict in the DRC which has claimed to life of millions of Congolese.

Show Trials Intended to Rewrite History

Notwithstanding the intentional shortsightedness of the report – afterall, who could have expected a U.N. Security Council-commissioned report to indict its veto-wielding members U.S. and U.K.? – there is enough information in that report alone to show just how criminal are the Western-backed regimes of Paul Kagame in Rwanda and Yoweri Museveni in Uganda, and, more importantly, what Anglo-American imperialism had in mind when it brought these regimes to power. The death, destruction, and plunder of the DRC since the 1996 invasion by Uganda and Rwanda pales in comparison to what unfolded in Rwanda from April to July 1994. Yet, the whole International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR)-process and its domestic counterpart in Canada in the form of the Modern War Crimes Program has been directed solely at the persecution of the Hutus who backed the Habyarimana government in the 1994-period of the Rwandan conflict. Justice is not as blind and impartial as we are led to believe.
With the evidence referenced above, it is clear that the ongoing trial of Désiré Munyaneza in Montréal is intended as nothing more than a show trial intended to further entrench the mainstream myth of the ‘Rwandan genocide’. I am not suggesting that people like Munyaneza should not face justice for the crimes of rape and murder, if indeed people like him are responsible for these acts. But he should be held no less to account than the Tutsi-RPF war criminals who have carried out ten-times the carnage in Central Africa; and most certainly the imperialist players who have brought such conditions to bear upon the African continent.
The trial of Munyaneza is nothing but a show trial, a spectacle which sustains the mainstream myth about the ‘Rwandan genocide’, collectively diverting the attention of Western audiences from the greatest war criminals of them all. From the kangaroo courts of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia to the trial of Saddam Hussein, and the ongoing unilateral persecution of Hutus involved in Rwandan civil war, for one to condemn unilateral persecutions is not necessarily to rush blindly to the defense of a figure like Saddam Hussein, but to aspire to the ideal that Lady Justice ought to remain blindfolded. The greatest war criminals of the late twentieth century — those imperialist powers who destabilized and waged war against Yugoslavia and Rwanda to those who continue to do the same with Iraq and the DRC today — have escaped justice altogether. The Law in a time of ceaseless war and plunder cannot but be a reflection of the configurations of power which put the Law into place. And with respect to Canada, its persecution of Désiré Munyaneza is no exception to this rule.
Notes

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

By: Andrew Sullivan
Posted: 9/9/08Andrew Sullivan* is a McGill student who spent his summer working on projects and publications in Rwanda while living with his parents. Originally from Ottawa, Africa has been his home for the past six years.Many assume Rwanda is a young nation recovering from the Genocide, still covered in blood. When telling people my family was moving to Rwanda, most responded with: "You mean Rwanda is safe? Aren't they still killing each other?" Fortunately, the answer is no. Rwanda withdrew from the Congo in 2002, reformed its constitution in 2003, and has not seen combat missions-other than peacekeeping- since. Paul Kagame, the hero of the 1994 liberation of Rwanda from Genocidaire forces, is currently in office and seeking re-election in the fall. However, the traces of Genocide and social unrest are still an everyday reality.Behind the peaceful screenMeet a Rwandan for the first time and you may wonder what happened to that person during the Genocide in 1994. Which political group did they belong to? Was their family murdered? Did their neighbours hunt them? Are they still married to the husband awaiting sentencing for his role in the Genocide? The sad truth is that everyone has a Genocide story. The shocking truth is that it can happen all over again.Recovering from a death toll of around one million has been an extremely difficult process. Tourists travelling within Kigali, the largest city in Rwanda, see Rwanda as a hopeful country with a strong sense of democracy, trying to rid themselves of corruption and mass poverty. In another light, Rwanda is led by a man turning into a dictator who is trying to take the country into his own hands. There is no freedom of the press and the neighbourhood- watch-style community policing functions as a Big Brother. District administrators and the general public have to file report cards on their behaviour demonstrating positive contributions to the workforce, society, and government. I spoke with one ex-patriot who has been living in the northern region for the past 30 years. He mentioned what some refer to as "the second genocide," in which fatalities may have been as high as the massacres of 1994. Between 1997 and 2001, thousands of people were killed by the current regime in what many believe was an effort to scare the Hutu population into submission. The government has now taken a stance which prohibits the Hutu population from burying their dead at any memorial commemorating the genocide.Government discrimination against the Hutu population continues despite peace efforts. Recently, a Hutu neighbourhood in downtown Kigali was razed to the ground. The New Times, a government-run newspaper, claims neighborhood residents were given compensation, advance notice, and alternate housing. In fact, there was no notice or compensation, and the provided housing is priced beyond resident means-paid via a loan which many will pass along to their children. Additionally, it is located far from the city, and the added distance forces those who work downtown to spend the majority of the salary not devoted to paying off loans on transport. As a result, many evictees are now either squatting or homeless. After spending no more than 20 minutes taking photos within the razed neighbourhood, a police inspector and armed guard approached and asked why I was taking photos, claiming they were tipped off by one of the residents in the community policing system. After I explained how photographers like the angles and textures of the buildings, he was satisfied that I was not there to jeopardize the Rwandan façade of peace and reconciliation. Though official reasons for the eviction of the Hutu residents were vague, one resident of Kigali repeated what she had heard: "They [the Tutsi] were tired of looking at [the Hutu] and tired of the dirtiness." Whether or not this is true, remember: years of ethnic strife were set off by little more than rumours and word of mouth. An incomplete tourTourists spend an average of less than three days in Rwanda and so remain oblivious to the current situation, especially since the Rwandan travel industry hinges on two options: genocide tourism and eco-tourism. Busses full of visitors arrive everyday at Gisozi, the national memorial and museum in Kigali, to recall the events of the 1994 war. The more adventuresome take a short side trip to visit the church memorials in Nyamata and Ntarama, where victims' personal effects are on display along with their skulls and bones. Each memorial has a guide who survived the massacre, in an attempt to create a more palpable sense of what happened. Tourists with stronger stomachs can visit Murambi, an ex-technical school which houses the remains of several hundred lime-covered bodies on display to busloads of tourists shuffling silently from room to room. The pinnacle of genocide tourism: returning to the hotel for the evening to listen to foreigners discuss how they felt about the results of mass death over a cold beer.Wildlife lovers also see a side of Rwanda far removed from what Rwandans experience. Rwanda's eco-tourism involves visiting the mountain gorillas in Virunga National Park, where visitors fork over $500 for the permit alone. The government justifies the high price by giving five per cent of every permit sale to the communities on the route to the park entrance. After staying at decent $50-250 hotels, eating meals comparable to those in bad North American restaurants, and only seeing what the government allows, each tourist leaves the country with a skewed sense of hope. Yet those who have spent more time in the country outside of what some call "Tutsi town" (Kigali) or who have kept their ears open to the rumblings of the people will say goodbye to Rwanda thinking only one thing: it might happen again.

© Copyright 2008 The McGill Tribune

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RTBF ou Média la Haine, mieux encore la Fabrique de la haine par la RTBF

Ma réaction
Je suis indigné par votre reportage facile et racoleur et me semble t-il dangereux et criminel ! Quand je regarde votre reportage et votre acharnement sur une partie de la population rwandaise, je suis outré. ... C’est indigne ! Comment la télévision d’un pays démocratique peut-elle accepter une mise en scène de propagande des criminels Nazis rwandais aujourd’hui connus pour avoir planifié, organisé, téléguidé et dans une large mesure a fait exécuter et exécuté le génocide rwandais? Après ce film de propagande pour Kagame, le plus grand criminel que le monde ait jamais connu et abrité, allez-vous nous montré l’ autre face de la souffrance des Hutus, l’ ennemi no 1 du FPR, les massacres sans nom qui leur sont attribués au Nord Ouest du Rwanda, à l’ Est, au Centre et au sud du Rwanda dont le nombre dépasse de loin les 3 millions 500 mille ? Ou nous montrerez-vous la souffrance des Hutus et des Congolais à l’Est de la RDC, des survivants sans cesse menacés depuis 1948 par les agressions répétées de ces prétendus victimes à travers aussi leur proxy armée-rebelle de Nkunda?? ou nous montrerez-vous la souffrance des survivants du Génocide commis par le FPR/APR/RDF sur les survivants Hutus et Congolais dont les leurs s’ évaluent à plus de 8 millions de morts, tous sur le dos de Paul Kagame, le top Nazi rwandais ? Pouvez-vous mer citer des noms de ceux et celles qui ont apprécié votre émission la qualifiant d’objective et de complète ? A quoi bon attiser la haine entre les Hutus et les Tutsis si la RTBF n’y a pas d’intérêt quelconque ? Comment voulez-vous que votre reportage soit crédible alors que Kagiraneza, Bihozagara (ne fusse que donner deux exemples) se promènent sur le sol Belge sans que vous dénonciez les crimes horribles dont ils sont responsables à Ruhengeri et à Kibeho ? Saviez-vous combien de Hutus font des travaux forcés avec la participation des ONGs belges francophones ? Si vous saviez que nous le savons.
Tout en constant ce que vous avez fait : pouvons-nous conclure que la télévision nationale belge (francophone) veut dire que tous les francophones partagent cette avis et que la Wallonie n’est autre que le mégaphone anti-Hutu mais vouée à défendre ce FPR, cette organisation de criminels-terroristes ?
Où-voulez-vous en venir si depuis 1990 vous n’ avez jamais voulu montrer du doigt ceux que le monde libre trouve comme criminels à l’ i instar des mandats d’ arrêt d’abord français puis espagnols ? Qui vous croira que vous ne jouez pas la carte du FPR et de son Top Nazi, aujourd’ hui connu pour avoir massacré et fait massacré « ses » populations pour devenir général major ???

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Kananga foot shufflers, April 19, 2003
Kinshasa, May 4, 2003 »
Kigali, Rwanda, April 22, 2003
“How many lives in danger are necessary for a multinational force to be deployed? Is it the color of the skin that makes the difference?” Emma Bonino, European Union Humanitarian Affairs Commissioner, 1997.
“We think Mrs. Bonino is a psychopath, obsessed with refugees.” Laurent Desire Kabila.
Bringing Hutus from DRC to Kigali. Then what happens?
The men were crying, the women held their breasts with both hands while the children peered out the window to get a look at their father’s homeland for the first time. It was a highly emotional moment when the UN flight from Kananga landed in Kigali, bringing eleven ex-combatants and their families back to Rwanda after nine years of hiding in the Congolese forests.
They are among the one million five hundred thousand Hutus who fled Rwanda after the 1994 genocide, when the victorious Tutsi led FPR took over the country. They were afraid that they would be killed for the murder of up to one million Tutsis and moderate Hutus. They were right.
Their story is as atrocious as the genocide most of them took part in. If one third of the refugees returned to Rwanda within the two years following the genocide, another third of them were killed when the Rwandans and Laurent Desire Kabila’s forces marched on Kinshasa to overthrow Mobutu in 1996-97. The European Union Humanitarian Affairs Commissioner, Emma Bonino, was outraged at the massacres. She said in May 1997 that the Rwandan refugees “are abandoned to the mercy of an army without uniforms, without a flag, without laws, who hunt them down like wild game. Hunting season is open.” Bonino qualified the wholesale slaughter of the Hutu refugees in the Congo as yet another “genocide.”.
Half a million people disappeared without a trace? “I believe nobody looked for them, or if they looked for them, they did not want to see.” (Bonino) Given the figures, Laurent Desire Kabila killed more people in six months than the dictator Mobutu did in thirty years. The Hutu refugees were running for their lives.
The hundreds of thousands who managed to survive fled to the forests where they remained a threat to the new Rwandan government. They sided with Mobutu’s army for survival when Kabila’s men were “hunting” them. Then, when Kabila fell out with his former masters in Rwanda and Uganda, the Hutus found themselves on the side of their recent butcher given that the Rwandans remained their biggest threat. Their presence was the excuse Rwanda used for invading the mineral rich Kivu in the first place.
Apparently, Rwanda would now rather have them back in the country farming peacefully than over the border, an ever-present threat. The Congolese want them out, among other reasons, so that the Rwandans no longer have an excuse to invade. The UN Mission in the Congo (MONUC) has developed a plan to repatriate the refugees who step forward: DDRRR (Disarmament, Demobilization, Repatriation, Reinsertion, and Reintegration). The Rwandans have set up a government committee to ‘welcome them home’. Tuesday’s batch is among the roughly 1300 ex-combatants, their wives and children who have returned so far.
Jean Sayinzoga is a tall man. Wearing a brown tweed jacket, dress slacks and a dress shirt opened around the neck, the Chairman of the Rwanda Demobilization and Reintegration Commission (RDRC) shook each nervous hand. He says, “They have nothing to fear. Those who have already returned live happily in the country.”
According to Sayinzoga, the men will go to a camp for two month’s “training” while the women and children will go straight to the village and be given fifty thousand Rwandan francs worth of supplies to start their new lives. UN personnel in Kigali say the reinsertion program is working well. Does this mean the Rwandans have an extraordinary capacity to forgive and forget? Maybe not.
The policemen who escorted me to the airport restaurant spoke English as a foreign language. A sure sign that he had been a refugee who came to Rwanda from either Tanzania or Uganda after the Genocide. I told him that I had taught at the University of Butare.
“Was that before or after the war?” he asked. This is not an innocent question. Although I taught under a program with the UNDP, if it had been before the war, I would have been serving the genocidal Hutu government. After the war and I would have been serving the ‘new Rwanda’.
Another sign the war is ever present: when I tried to take pictures of the refugees’ return, the airport security got very hostile. “No pictures here!” they shouted in English. The reason? Perhaps the dozen brand-new Russian made MI-24 attack helicopters on the other side of the runway.
But the reception for the refugees was very friendly. Sayinzoga says the Rwandans “have no business in the Congo. The Congolese don’t want them. Their future is Rwanda, not in the Congo.”
I cannot say how well they are treated back in their villages of origin. I have not been there to find out and I have learned not to trust reports from UN personnel, especially MilObs (UN Military Observers). Until an independent, credible source goes and reports on the process first hand, chances are only a trickle of refugees will be returning “home” for some time to come.
The other problem, as I explained in the Lubumbashi report last week, is the MilObs in the Congo whose job it is to safely escort the refugees from the forests to Kigali. One of the ex-combatants on the plane had been badly mistreated by Congolese government soldiers after he had turned himself in. He was covered with bruises from his beatings and showed the signs of having been tied and hanged in painful positions. He is the third case the doctor has diagnosed in Kananga in recent weeks. This gratuitous torture will not encourage more Rwandans to step forward for DDRRR. Radio Okapi was asked not to report the case because it could discourage other refugees from stepping forward. How can I give news, which encourages them to step forward if they risk being tortured?
Another question to be answered is why do the MilObs leave the refugees in the custody of the Congolese Army for days on end? In Lubumbashi, is it because they are too busy having fun and unwilling to allow Rwandans to camp in their nice townhouse? It has been pointed out to me by UN personnel, not to mention my own observations, that many MilObs are racists and most of the racists are not Caucasian-whites. As I have previously reported, I have come across very few MilObs who take their job to heart (but there are some good men who are serious about their mission). Most seem to be in it for the easy money.
As Mr. Sayinzoga took his fellow countrymen into the ‘loving care’ of the ‘new Rwanda’, he turned to me and said: “I pray you are never a refugee. It turns your life to Hell”. Thanks for the advice.
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Mr. KOTA venant,
I would like to give in danger your assertion according to which “After all, they (Rwemalika and RPF) are really able of all”.
Rwemalika belongs to this association of criminals (RPF), a band of the gangster-vagrants who imposed a dictatorial ship power resulting from violence to the Rwandan people.. Rwemalika is also loud-hailer of the FPR as well as SEBASONI which carried glasses magnifying glasses manufactured in 1900.
Therefore, dear Kota, RPF are able to assassinate, imprison and make exile the Hutus treated of genocidary in a final and totalitarian way and tutsi honest of opposition which did not accept' to be members of this criminal band known as RPF with the power in a Banana republic, our old dear fatherland.
Remainder, the God is the only Almighty and able to do everything and are assured that the same causes produce the same effects. I believe that you understand me until there! Let us keep hope one day, the lie, Kagame and its RPF will fall at the great day. To date, the history of Rwanda will be interpreted objectively. It will not be faked any more by the criminals of the RPF, the truth will not be choked any more, of the cans reports based on false documents will not be made any more, of the assembled legal files of all parts and cut to measure will belong to the history of the vagrants who are with the power at Kigali.
Much more, the economy of the country will not be based on our forces and not on the genocide transformed into a true good will of the RPF and freedom exchange of the false witnesses of the interahamwes known as repented will not be sold any more which show France wrongfully.
On the basis of rational and founded index which converges on the responsibility for the persons in charge politico-soldiers of the RPF in a series of activities in criminal matter of which the genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity, we could ensure of the right lawsuits and equitable and Rwanda could be proclaims Rule of law and not State-Police officer as it is the case today.
Whatever the length of the night, the day will end up appearing, Kagame will be beaten when it is time and not because it is well armed and militarily extremely. It is not stronger than Hitler but it was beaten because it was time and because there were reasons serious and valid for fight him! “The same causes produce the same effects”
John Kalisa
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Très Cher ami et grand compatriote Nkuliyingoma,

L'honneur m'échoit de pouvoir vous répondre illico à votre dernier posting.
Il sied de vous remercier de la facon dont vous avez pu analyser ma réponse pleine d'idnignations, mais j'ose vous avouer que je n'ai aucune dent contre vous ni contre qui que ce soit selon ses idées et opinions.

Seulement, au vu de ce qui s'est passé au Rwanda depuis 1990 jusqu'à maintenant, et que beaucoup de gens continuent à exhiber la carte de méconnaissance du dossier qui a entrainé des milliers de victimes de nos compatriotes: parents, frères, soeurs, amis du collège, d'université, commercants et paisibles paysans, sous pretexte de pouvoir retourner de force dans leur bercail, ou de l'obtenir à l'arraché( dans un bain de sang), je reste écoeuré et septique devant cette situation plus ahurie et hébétée.

Notre cher ami John, neveu de Gatabazi nous a fait partagé sur ce forum ce qu'il sait(savait) de la mort de son Oncle, froidement assassiné par le FPR, après de longues tractations qui se sont déroulées à l'hôtel méridien UMUBANO en présence de Twagiramungu, Nzamurambaho, Karenzi karake et Rutaremara, pour ne citer que ceux-là.

Les services habilités qui ont diligenté l'enquête ont bel et bien prouvé que Gatabazi a été assassiné par la horde du Fpr, parce qu'il n' épousait pas l'idée des ses frères de lutte: celle de liquider physiquement le Président Habyarimana, la seule facon qui était possible(selon eux) de prendre le pouvoir.
Ceci étant, le regreté et homme courageux que fût Gatabazi, n'a pas accepté cette proposition' qui n'avait aucun jugement de valeur, car lui, voulait se hisser au pouvoir par des moyens passifiques et démocratiques.

Ce refus lui coûta la vie, laissant derrière lui une page sombre d'histoire, une veuve et orphelins dont on compatit très bien dans cette triste douleur.

Et pourtant, le porte-parole de l'opposition Rwandaise a été le premier à déclarer sur les ondes des chaînes étrangères comme quoi Gatabazi a été assassiné par l'Escadron de la mort du MRND.Quel mensonge!

Si tu lis minutieusement la teneur de cet ex- étudiant du Campus de Mburabuturo- Kigali, et qui résidait chez Gatabazi, et la facon dont il a eu Rutaremara au télephone, tu verras bien que les dés étaient jétés depuis l'apparution du multipatismeau Rwanda.

Ces truands avaient peur d'être trahi, au cours de libations trop capiteuses qui ont eu lieu dans la nuit macabre du Méridien.
Mais hélas,toute fille amoureuse commet une impudence qui le trahit ( cfr Balzac); et Gatabazi a été lui aussi abandonné par les siens, qui voulaient à tout pris sacrifier le peuple Rwandais pour renflouer les caisser de l'état Rwandais souverain, dans la conquête du pouvoir d'une facon mafieuse, par une clique aux mains maquillées de sang.

Je sais très bien qu'il y avait des informations qui n'étaient pas acceccibles à tout le monde à l'époque, raison de plus , plusieurs gens se sont laissés bernés par le mensonge outrageux du Fpr et son lobbies.

Certes, je me demanderais pourquoi les gens prêtaient plus d'attention aux dires de la Radio Muhabura ou des Opposants qui s'opposaient seulement pour leur ventriotisme, au lieu d'écouter la version officielle donnée par les sevices habilités, chevronnés dans ce domaine.
Et la suite vous la connaissez très bien, c'est l'extermination systématique du peuple Hutu et Tutsi de l'intérieur, au profit de la solde du Fpr qui crie victoire inespérée.

Tu as vécu à Ruhengeri cher Jean Baptiste, et tu ne me contrediras pas en disant que la population si gentille et courtoise de Ruhengeri ne voulait pas la coexistance pacifique avec d'autres Rwandais de tous les horizons?

Pourquoi alors le Fpr a tenté le tout pour le tout pour exterminer ces paisibles paysans?
Je me limite par là, parce que les messacres de Ruhengeri depuis 1991 jusqu'à nos jours, à coûté la vie à plus de 700.000 paysans innocents, surtout dans les communes que tu connais bien comme Nkuli, Butaro, Kidaho, Nyamutera, Kigombe ,kinigi ,Nkumba et Mukingo.
Si tu veux avoir plus de précisions, je te donnerais nomement la liste des personnes que tu as cotoyé toi-même durant ton séjour dans cette région.

Ecoutez-moi bien , je ne suis pas parte-parole des ces victimes de Ruhengeri, mais c'est une illustration pure et simple, sinon , je pourrais aussi te citer les cas de Byumba(Rwebare, Cyondo, Kaniga, Kaborogota, Rwempasha, Murambi, Kivuye,Kinjonjo) ou ceux de Gitarama et/ou Kigali rural...tous extérminés par le FPR au vu et au su de tout le monde.

Pourait-on donc dire et affirmer avec aplomb que les opposants qui ne cessaient de s'acharner sur Habyarimana ne connaissaient pas la vraie nature du Fpr?

Oserions-nous déclarer que le gouvernement que dirigeait Twagiramungu ne connaissait pas toute la teneur du rapport de l'ex- Ministre de L'intérieur Feu Seth Sendashonga? ( que Dieu ait son âme)

Pouvons-nous affirmer que ce même gouvernement n'était pas au courant des tractations qui se faisaient au moment d'exterminer les déplacés de Kibeho(plus de 8000 au total)?

Cher Jean Baptiste,si tu avais suivis les pluies de bombes qui se sont abattues sur les Camps de Mugunga, katale, Kayindo, Inera,Nyangezi, Shabunda, Rukwi, Busurungi, Rushoga, Musenge, Walikale,Bunyakili, Hombo,Miti, Chambusha ,Tingi-Tingi; Ubundu, Wandji, Ikela, Kisangani km100 , ainsi que les morts qui s'en ont suivis dont notamment les enfants de moins de 3 ans, femmes enceintes éventrées,, enfants qui allaitaient leurs seins de leurs mamans déjà mortes,sans pouvoir les secourir ni les nourrir ou les cacher, tu comprendrais bien mon indignation la plus atroce et difficile à digérer.
Pourtant, je ne cessais de me demander pourquoi suis-je né au cours du siécle des truands?
Heureusement que Dieu n'abandonne jamais les siens!On doit la vie à sa clémence.

Je sais très bien que tu n'y es pour rien, car ton sens de discernement ne pouvais te permettre de faire pareilles choses, Mais tu ne manquerais pas de dire à haute voix que 'le désespoir paisible, sans convulsions de colère et sans reproches au ciel, est la sagesse même.
Evidement, on ne recoit pas la sagesse, mais il faut la découvrir soi-même, car elle est un point de vue sur les choses(Proust) .

Cher Camarade, je ne doute pas que tu comprennes mon idnignation, car j 'ai perdu les êtres chers dans cette lutte fratricide incensée, et que la communauté internationale continue à fermer les yeux sur la vraie cause et réalité des faits.
Je n'ai aucune dent contre toi, mais j'aimerais vous faire partage ma compassion et mon indingation sur les mensonges et injustices flangrantes qui secouent notre région sous l'oeil complaisant de la communauté internationale.

Je ne peux pas terminer mon posting, sans remercier du fond de mon coeur Me De Temmerman qui nous a dit que: "Le peuple Rwandais ne vote pas pour les traitres et les criminels. Ceux qui se sont trompés et font leur"mea culpea" peuvent bien attendre participer au débat, mais sans diriger ces derniers"

Et à Rutayisire aussi qui a prononcé une phrase qui m'a fort touchée: "il faut approcher tous les criminels et extremistes( si extremisme il y a) de deux cÔtés parce qu'ils sont Rwandais.
De ceci j'y ajouterais que c'est la minorité actuelle qui en profite, car elle va toujours continuer à écraser la majorité de peur de perdre le pouvoir pour qu'un jour elle soit traduit devant les juridictions plus martiales du mal qu'elle a causé au Rwandais en général et à la majoroité Hutu en particulier.

Du reste,cher noble ANCIEN, je vous souhaite passer un ecxellent week-end dans votre belle Capitale.
Salue-moi chaleureusement les tous les Gnoufs ( Inyufu) encore en vie.
Amicalement Christian.
Bugarama City
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

Hi folks:
Be the first to know:
Paul Kagame orchestrated the entire genocide just so he could come to power as the glorious leader who ended the bloodshed. MOst of you guys believed he's a hero rather than the Rwanda genocide mastermind.

Hitler killed 6 million Jews in about 6 years. Paul Kagame killed 3.5 millions of Hutus et 5 millions of Congolese people in about in about 8 years. That's the reason why we must speak out far more bluntly against Kagame's now anarchist campaigns.

Question: Should the international community make pressure on Kagame to withdraw from politics after the 2003 presidential and parliamentary elections were masterfully orchestrated, after it has been found out Paul Kagame armed all those RPF infiltrators within Parties' youths with machetes and pangas, after killing his predecessor President Habyarimana and most importantly, after both Spanish and French judges indict him for having orchestrated all of those mass-murders in Rwanda and in the Republic of the Congo?

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

MASS KILLINGS IN RWANDA
In an ethnic conflict such as is the case in Rwanda, truth is the first victim especially, regarding the accused. We do not have to wait hundreds of years like Oedipus Rex to be told the bitter truth.Thousands of innocent people were killed in Rwanda since October 1, 1990 when RPF invaded that country from Uganda. Between October 1, 1990 and April 1994, over 140,000 people were systematically killed by RPF/NRA in northern Rwanda, and over a million people were displaced rendering them to excruciating suffering without help from anywhere. That baleful killing of the innocent has continued up to today and also extended into Congo when RPF/NRA assisted by US Commandos, invaded Zaire slaughtering thousands of refugees in camps. The cabal went to great length to cover up their crimes as has been demonstrated over the years. Their lies have fooled the entire world community up to this very day, including the UNO. Nobles, intellectuals and commoners alike have come to believe the fabrications generated purposely to give legitimacy to a criminal gang dressed in the banality of evil so as to give them legitimacy, sympathy and acceptability, while covering up their heinous crimes against humanity which superseded those of Pol Pot of Cambodia and Salvadore Ayende of Chile.

The evidence, based on revelations from NRA military and intelligence officers plus interviews of peasant refugees which our organization has collected point to Tutsis. The RPF, together with NRA and the United State are implicated very clearly as the greatest criminals of the Rwanda genocide.Because of the lies and cover-ups which have been thoroughly concocted and orchestrated ever since the invasion started on October 1, 1990, the victims have been made to look like the criminals.
This criminal cabal has utilized tactics common to typical compulsive liars. The former UN Secretary General, Butros Butros Ghali, has often lamented over the fact that on many occasion he wanted to convene the Security Council to look into the Rwanda Crisis as it was unfolding in order to protect the lives of innocent civilians. Each time his efforts were thwarted by the USA and UK for reasons only known to their leaders. The USA went as far as training, arming, financing, and manipulating the international media in order to make the cabal’s criminal agenda prevail and succeed.One does not have to graduate from a Military Academy to know that in war, the victor wins if it kills more of the enemy.

If RPF and NRA defeated the Rwandese army, it goes without saying who killed more of whom. Regarding the theory of winning a war, General Patton said that, “Let the other son of a bitch die for his country”? How can then any person be fooled to believe that the defeated Hutus killed that many Tutsis and stilllost the war? The campaign to demonize all Hutus as “genociders” – an accusation which was never applied to Germans after WW II –has been effectively applied to Hutus and has demonized the entire ethnic group, including those who lived abroad during those years.

This kind of blanket accusation which is intended to protect the true criminals in this horrendous crime of invasion and mass murders and ethnic cleansing, which Tutsis are committing in Rwanda up to now, paints a an unbelievable picture of Hutus as being sophisticated in the art of war and so highly organized that they had the capability of amassing their enemies and slaughtering them in a matter of days. Not even a fool could believe that. It is sad to admit that that Hitler and Goebbels ingenuity in twisting facts and truth have made believers among today’s world’s greatest democracies. Secondly, we look at the population of Rwanda which was about 7 million people at that time. Tutsis were about 10% about 700,000 people. Is the cabal’s propaganda machine trying to convince us that all Tutsis in Rwanda were mobilized to be in accessible locations so that murderous thugs could butcher them in a matter of days?

Depicting Hutus as a collection of murderous thugs, when in fact they are the victims, and yet the German population was not so depicted after WWII is not only a skillful cover up of the truth but also an abomination of human reasoning. The Tutsis were always a minority in Rwanda. During the Hutu rule of Kayibanda and Habyarimana, there were many Tutsi attempts to invade and take power by force. There was no single time when Hutus ordered their army of civilians to butcher Tutsis. Yet in neighboring Burundi where Tutsi minority control the country, since 1960, there have been numerous pogroms of Hutus by ruling Tutsis which have claimed thousands of innocent Hutus. The UN has done nothing to bring the killers in Burundi to justice. Why? Now that we know what NRA did in Uganda during the war that ousted Obote’s regime and brought Museveni to power.

The same tricks were repeated in Rwanda when the same group NRA/RPF invaded Rwanda and overthrew Habyarimana’s government and established a Tutsi dominated junta. Former NRA intelligence officers reveal that in January of 1994, NRA deployed 950 soldiers from Uganda to Kigali in civilian clothes to take up positions in preparation for the planned mass killings that were to take place soon after the Rwandese President was killed by NRA/RPF in collaboration with Belgian troops, both of which had full control of the airport. They later sent another force of 5000 soldiers in other localities in the country to carry out the same job on a simultaneous basis. We have also learned that machetes, pangas, axes plus mobile radio transmitting units were brought in from Uganda to be used in the mass murders of civilians who happened to be Hutus, not Tutsis as the cabal wants us to believe.

Those tools were returned to Uganda as soon as the job was finished. Could this have been a nasty way of paying back the Hutus for their 1959/60 overthrow of the Tutsi monarchy when no guns were used?The same tactic has been effectively applied in northern Uganda where for nearly 20 years, NRA original goal of wiping out the Nilotic tribes are conducted with impunity. It is inconceivable that the Lords Resistance Army or Lakwena, who do not exceed two thousands, can prevail over NRA for all these years when operating inside Uganda which is under Museveni’s full controls. NRA successfully invaded Rwanda and Zaire and also gave the Sudanese army a hard time but cannot clean up an area as narrow as Acholi? According to local people in northern Uganda s and also people inside NRA, there are reports which have been suppressed by the western media to the effect that the so called crimes of mutilating people in Acholi, abducting children etc.. are all the works of NRA in order to justify their ethnic cleansing in northern Uganda.

The Tutsi controlled radio MUHABURA was spreading ethnic hatred of Hutus and never received criticism from either the USA or the UK. The Voice of America also set up a special Kinyarwanda Broadcast reporting the Tutsi side of the Rwanda crisis. The game of demonizing Hutus as mass killers was orchestrated at maximum speed by the western media, utilizing reporters and human rights watchers who were censored by USA or UK and had to go through Uganda to reach Rwanda. Roger Winters of the U.S. Committee for Refugees, plus another hired gun, William Pike, played a key role that made those two white men look like twin sons of Joseph Goebbels. We learned later that RPF/NRA had portable radio transmitters which broadcast their messages over the same channels of Hutu radio and spread murderous messages as part of the wider scheme to demonize Hutus.

For outside listeners and readers, all that sounded as the work of a highly organized Hutu killing machine. Yet indeed, the Hutus as a people were in total disarray and confusion at that moment in time. This assertion does not deny a fact that Hutus killed Tutsis. However, the organized killing of thousands of innocent civilians was the work of Kagame and Museveni. The greatest majority of the victims were Hutus but not Tutsis as the cabal propagandists want us to believe. The USA had already supplied RPF with radio jamming technology to block Hutu broadcasts to the masses. This was confirmed by a State Department person at a meeting of The Rwanda Forum that I attended in Washington DC in 1993.

If in fact the death toll was anywhere between 500,000 and a 1,000,000 people, and most of that killing took place in and around the city of Kigali, it absolutely impossible to have had that many Tutsis in the area. I personally visited Kigali and Ruhengyeri twice in March and August of 1993. I drove thorough the markets, hospitals, public car parks and around town. I could hardly count ten (10) Tutsis among those crowds – much as Tutsis are very conspicuous when among Hutus. The Hutus who reacted and indeed did kill some Tutsis could have responded to the misleading radio massages given out by the RPF killing machine which I have outlined above. Others may have reacted in anger in a manner no different from that of Black Americans after the killing of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968 or the barbaric treatment of Mr. Rodney King on April 29, 1992 in Los Angeles.

We cannot blame the US government for both of those riots since they were natural reaction to a provocative tragedy. Besides, what would anyone expect people to react like when they are slaughtered by invaders and their government leaders have been killed by the enemy who is clearly known?As soon as RPF came into power, they exhumed the skeletons of their victims from where they had hidden them. They collected the skeletons and paraded them all over Kigali and on roadsides throughout Rwanda to impress outside investigators so as to justify their criminal invasion of a Free State and murdering her citizens.Foreign journalists, human rights investigators and foreign policy makers who went to Rwanda during the fighting and after RPF took over, had to go through Uganda from where they were escorted by NRA or RPF agents.

They were managed thoroughly as to which places they can visit, whom to interview etc. In some of those interviews that were broadcast abroad, the local people who were interviewed could speak English with a Ugandan accent while others could be overheard speaking broken Swahili. We already know that Tutsis from Uganda, Congo, USA, Tanzania, Belgium and elsewhere flocked back to Rwanda after RPF conquered the Hutu army. They took over homes, farms and other properties that belonged to Hutus who were either killed or fled into exile. There are cases where Hutu families who returned home to find their family home occupied by Tutsis were permitted to build grass shanty nearby instead of reclaiming their original nice houses which they had built with their own labor.

Their only role in life is to be slaves of the Tutsis.No one has ever questioned what could have motivated an entire population to run off from their land into exile, as was the case in Rwanda during those dark days. The cabal’s propaganda has blindfolded to believe what is unbelievable. Only fire at each one’s rare end can force a people to flee for their lives in such huge numbers. I find it very difficult to believe that all those skulls are what they claim to be. After all, no one can tell the difference between the skull of a Tutsi and that of a Hutu or a Chinese or German for that matter. This trick of fabricating facts to favor NRA in Uganda was done to the maximum and served Museveni very well to convince the world that the Luwero Triangle skeletons he paraded were victims of Obote’s soldiers while in actual fact it was NRA who killed the citizens of that area and put the blame on Obote’s government.

The same people who did that in Luwero repeated it in Rwanda and, unfortunately, it worked for them both times.The cabal fabricated and carried out a well managed media campaign to demonize Hutu people as murderers while covering up the crimes of the real murderers. The crimes of NRA and RPF, first of invading another country have been swept under the rug for all these years. Yet, when Iraq invaded Kuwait a few years ago, the USA and Britain mobilized other nations to drive the invaders out of Kuwait. RPF/NRA crimes of murdering thousands of innocent civilians and displacing nearly a million people from the day of invasion in 1990 to April of 1994 have been ignored tactfully.

Contrary to public lies which have been spread all over the world that Hutus massacred nearly a million Tutsis right after the RPF killed President Habyarimana we have information from people who were inside Museveni’s military/security system bringing new revelations that the so called genocide was planned by the Museveni/Kagame group to justify their attack on Kigali and win sympathy for their monolithic Tutsi regime, and also enable them to mobilize foreign aid without anyone questioning their barbaric brutality and gross human rights violations.Kagame and Museveni knew and planned the mass killings of innocent people who were to be predominantly Hutus, right after the President’s plane was shot down by RPF.

Kagame is quoted as saying that about 500,000 people will be slaughtered during that period of confusion. Hose people who did not know that Kagame was behind the planned genocide have accused him of being callous because he did not take steps to protect those many innocent lives, but rather was merely interested in taking power. We can now understand why he was not concerned about the loss of innocent lives if, in fact, he was responsible for their death. Second, the people who got killed were predominantly Hutu civilians as he had done in Northern Rwanda since October of 1990 and especially in Byumba and Ruhengeri in February of 1993. However, this time around Kagame had already set in motion media propaganda to claim that the people hacked to death were Tutsis and their killers were Hutu thugs.In March of 1994 a team of Tutsi/Hima soldiers from NRA were sent into Rwanda in civilian clothing.

They went into Kigali proper. Their mission was to carry out mass killings of civilians in Kigali and the surrounding areas. Another group of 5000 soldiers, all in civilian clothes, were subsequently sent into other populated areas of Rwanda to carry out the same mission of mass killings soon after President Habyarimana has been killed. Kagame armed all those men with machetes and pangas delivered to them directly from Uganda, their supply headquarters. In addition to those tools, they had portable radios and broadcasting units which transposed their messages onto the regular radio channels of Rwanda. The message was for Hutus to kill Tutsis who had killed the president.

To any outsider monitoring those radio broadcasts, the killers were obviously assumed to be Hutus while in actual fact it was Tutsis and Himas from Uganda who were carrying out the killings so as to tarnish the image of Hutus in the world community. Soon after the killings had been done, all the equipments (radios, pangas and machetes) were returned to Uganda, lest they be noticed by investigators for they were all brand new and had markings identifying them as coming from Uganda.

For any person to claim that between 800,000 and 1,000,000 Tutsis were slaughtered begs the question. Most of that killing was in the city of Kigali. What was the population of Kigali and how many of those were Tutsis. Interviews with refugees tell stories of many Hutus who lost their family members, and those were not necessarily opposition party members.Another area of concern for any person who wants to obtain the hidden truth would be to ask RPF leaders what may have caused a whole population of people to run away as the Rwandese did into exile. There must have been a thorough and well organized attack on the entire population to cause them gets into flight.

The only force which could possibly do that was RPF invaders. In September of 1992, I received information from sources in the Uganda military stating that Tutsis were planning to bulldoze Hututs off the land and replace them with Tutsis. I shared that information with some people, but they responded with laughter and scorn saying that it was impossible to bulldoze an entire population from their land, especially since the targeted population was the majority. The RPF crimes against the population have tactfully been swept under the rug for all these years.In January of 1990 a team of 150 mostly Tutsi men from the NRA and ISO were sent to Rwanda to survey (in military terms “WRECK” the situation prior to the proposed invasion which took place on October 1 of the same year.The RPF is committing atrocities of genocide in Rwanda from the day they invaded that country October 1, 1990 up to the present which have been ignored by the biased western media for reasons only known to themselves.

The U.S. government, Britain and Belgium are equally as guilty in the crimes of genocide in Rwanda. The participation of USA in the RPF crimes deserve its leaders to be tried before a Court of Justice if there is any in this world.SKULLS OF HUTUS KILLED BY RPF: The RPF massacre of innocent people in northern Rwanda in February of 1993 claimed over 25,000 civilian lives and displaced more than 100,000 people from their home area. At one location near Byumba, in a football stadium built by Mr. Kabuga, RPF massacred about 2000 people, cutting off their heads which they then buried in pits.

After the conquest of Rwanda, the RPF junta dug out all the sculls of their own victims and paraded them in Kigali and everywhere as skulls of Tutsis who were killed by Hutus. Such calculated and blatant lies horrified the local people who witnessed those crimes being committed and also witnessed the actual unearthing of the skulls and skeletons for display in Kigali and on roadsides for the world to further condemn the Hutus en masse.CORPSES IN THE RIVER KAGERA AND LAKE VICTORIA:RPF has become a master of deception and lies which have gone on unabated for years. One should look at the way RPF entered Rwanda in two columns. One column followed eastern route along the Rwanda Tanzania border. That area was already under RPF control. It is through that swampy area that River Kagera passes and has a bridge that crosses into Tanzania. During that time many Hutu civilians fled their homes and country as RPF invaders were on a wild rampage of killing any person in sight.

Those who attempted to enter Tanzania via the only crossing there is met RPF invaders waiting for them at the bridge. Thousands of Hutus were thrown into the raging river by RPF men. Others drowned in the attempt to cross the river away from the bridge where certain death awaited them. It is important to emphasize that all those corpses which floated into the river and eventually reached Lake Victoria were of Hutus and their killers were RPF. The Tutsi propaganda twisted the facts claiming those floating corpses as being of Tutsis killed by Hutu extremists. The world community and you here in this Tribunal have swallowed those fabrications up to this very day.

How could intelligent people in the UN and western governments be so myopic and not ask a simple question: if Hutu rioters in Kigali were killing any people – I am not denying the killings which took place mainly in Kigali – did they have any reason or means to transport their victims as far away as to dump those bodies in the river where there were columns of invading RPF on the move towards the capital?

Now we know who was killing and who were being killed. It is obvious that the people who were being killed were the ones on the run for their lives. That is why the world witnessed in horror a tremendous exodus of Hutus fleeing to Congo, Burundi and Tanzania but not to Uganda where the killers were coming from.

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