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
Friday, November 27, 2009
Ven, 27-11-2009Annick Ferauge
"out est fait pour salir les hutus, j'espère que vous savez que c'est inexact. Voir ce qu'avait publié déjà en 2007, l'avocat Luc De Temmerman à ce sujet (faire croire que les fdlr sont la source des conflits au congo)...
Voir aussi ce qu'on écrit Péan, Reyntjens sur le ptb qui a soutenu le fpr et a reçu leur idéologue ici en conférence, croyant qu'ils soutenaient ainsi l'antiimpérialisme, et n'ayant (parait il) pas détecté à l'époque que ce pouvoir (impérialiste comme "ils" disent, avec kagame et les anglo saxons puis tout l'occident était derrière ce fpr...."
Annick Ferauge
Lectrices et lecteurs, citoyens...
Avez vous vu encore hier soir 26 novembre 2009 dans le registre de l'intox sur le sujet, le Jt de 19h30 ? Nathalie Maleux présente une séquence de Philippe Lamaire, on y dit: le commerce de l'or finance la guerre (RDC)...Avec un financement des rebelles hutus...
There are few things that unite Tony Blair, Gordon Brown and David Cameron, but one of them is Rwanda. All three are passionate advocates for Paul Kagame, who forced out "the genocidal regime" 15 years ago and has ruled the country ever since.
Thursday, November 26, 2009
John AllenStaff blog
As Rwanda applies this week to join the Commonwealth, the international grouping dominated by ex-British colonies, both its membership application and a number of recent books on Central Africa are focusing new attention on the current government's human rights record.
In a debate which somewhat echoes those over justice and human rights in Israel and Palestine, activists and regional experts are arguing over whether President Paul Kagame and his government are to be seen primarily as representing victims of genocide or a government which has become responsible for itself perpetrating human rights abuses.
Olivier Nyirubugara 17 November 2009
Focus on the ICTR: A defence perspective from olny.nl on Vimeo.
The UN International criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) has a few years to go and discussions about its legacy for the International Criminal Law has started. While some perceive that Tribunal as a major advancement, others, including defense laywers, who have been defending genocide suspects for last fourteen years, think that this ICTR and other ad hoc courts, have created a regrettable precedent.
Part One: The illegality of the ICTRThe UN International criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) has a few years to go and discussions about its legacy for the International Criminal Law has started. While some perceive that Tribunal as a major advancement, others, including defense laywers, who have been defending genocide suspects for last fourteen years, think that this ICTR and other ad hoc courts, have created a regrettable precedent.
The legality of the ICTR questioned
‘The ICTR has been a big mistake’, said Kenyan defense attorney Kennedy Ogetto. He was speaking in The Hague, The Netherlands on 14 November 2009 in a three-day self-sponsored conference. Over 100 people, mostly Rwandans, but also foreigners coming from all over the world listened to frustration-marked presentations by the lawyers and other scholars and experts.
Part Two: The illegality of the ICTR
The ICTR and the Joint Criminal Enterprise doctrine
The ICTR and the Judicial genocide
Zigiranyirazo and Péan acquitted
The ICTR is illegal
The legality of the ICTR is still being discussed, even as the Court’s closure is drawing near. In this regard, the laywers and scholars who spoke during the conference converge to qualify the setting up the ICTR by the Security Council as an abuse of power.
The ICTR Archives: The battle to control the future
‘No ad hoc criminal court should be created by the UN Security Council’, said, Austrian Philosophy professor Hans Koechler , adding that justice should not be administered by the five super-powers with the veto right. Veteran French Laywer, Roland Weyl agrees:
‘All the tribunals set up by the Security Council are marked by a fundamental international illegality’, he said. He explained that the sole task of the Security Council is to keep and restore peace. ‘The setting up of criminal tribunals is … a prerogative of the General Assembly in its full sovereignty’, he concluded View the entire report
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, November 22, 2009
29/09/2019
By Jean-Christophe, Libre Penseur
A blanket amnesty of past and present crimes whitewash to General Kagame and RPF heavyweight criminals will not help Rwandans.
“When this RPF crime compendium is released, I expect the RPF government to hit back with blanket accusations, without any proof, that I am a “revisionist and a negationist of the Rwandan genocide, actually manufactured by Kagame himself using the RPF sub-organization “IBUKA”, and that “I harbor an ideology of genocide and divisionism”. The international community must take a very close and careful look at such character assassination, and in many cases outright persecution, of all real and perceived contrary opinion holders and political opponents, social justice advocates and human rights critics in Rwanda by the RPF government, and find a proper way to address it”.
US organizations and individuals involved in the sponsoring of previous and current RPF bloodshed and Kagame’s assassinations of his own citizens inside and outside Rwanda, Rwandan refugees and the Congolese people do disservice to fundamental justice.
Saturday, November 21, 2009
By RNA Reporters
Friday, 20 November 2009
Kigali : - The scheduled founding conference of the troubled Green Party did not take place Friday as the group wait for a Police certificate from the new Commissioner-General, Brig. Emmanuel Gasana. But not without new allegations, RNA reports.
A man by the names Gaston Bihibindi is claiming that he was detained for three days without food at the magnificent multi-million dollar Ministry of Defense building known locally as “Pentagon”. Mr. Bihibindi is not the only one accusing unknown individuals driving tinted double cabin Toyota pickup trucks of snatching them from their homes or as they walked.
The local weekly UMUSESO details ordeals of eight people identifying themselves as Green Party activists, who were apparently arrested on October 30 after the failed conference which police halted citing insecurity. The men were apparently detained at an infamous but not gazetted facility in Kimironko, an outskirt of Kigali.
Adopted by the Security Council at its 6216th meeting, on 11 November 2009
The Security Council,
Reaffirming its commitment to the continuing and full implementation, in a
mutually-reinforcing manner, of resolutions 1265 (1999), 1296 (2000), 1325 (2000), 1612 (2005), 1674 (2006), 1738 (2006), 1820 (2008), 1882 (2009), 1888 (2009) and 1889 (2009), and all relevant statements of its President,
Reaffirming its commitment to the Purposes of the Charter of the United
Nations as set out in Article 1 (1-4) of the Charter, and to the Principles of the Charter as set out in Article 2 (1-7) of the Charter, including its commitment to the principles of the political independence, sovereign equality and territorial integrity of all States, and respect for the sovereignty of all States,
Noting that this year marks the tenth anniversary of the progressive
consideration by the Security Council of the protection of civilians in armed conflict as a thematic issue; and acknowledging the enduring need for the Security Council and Member States to strengthen further the protection of civilians in armed conflict,
Noting further that this year also marks the 60th anniversary of the Geneva
Conventions of 1949, which together with their Additional Protocols constitute the basis for the legal framework for the protection of civilians in armed conflict,
Recognizing that States bear the primary responsibility to respect and ensure the human rights of their citizens, as well as all individuals within their territory as provided for by relevant international law,
Reaffirming that parties to armed conflict bear the primary responsibility to
take all feasible steps to ensure the protection of civilians,
Reaffirming the relevant provisions of the 2005 World Summit Outcome
Document regarding the protection of civilians in armed conflict, including
paragraphs 138 and 139 thereof regarding the responsibility to protect populations from genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity,
Reiterating its deep regret that civilians continue to account for the vast
majority of casualties in situations of armed conflict,
* Reissued for technical reasons.
Friday, November 20, 2009
20-11-2009
By Mick Collins
Antoine Nyetera
Pierre Péan
Two of the highlights of this weekend's Conference of ICTR Defense attorneys in The Hague were the French investigative writer, Pierre Péan, author of the magnificent history of the Rwandan counter-revolution (1990-1994), "Noires fureurs, blancs menteurs," and the Tutsi Prince, Antoine Nyetera, the source of Péan's controversial four-page aria on the Rwandan (Tutsi) culture of the lie (known in Kinyarwanda as ubwenge) at the very beginning (pp 41-44) of his 500+page tome.
One or the other or both of them smartly pointed out that the 'culture of the lie' is characteristic to all irrational, anti-democratic, neofeudal, monarchic, minoritarian--in a word, Fascist--political cultures. The ruling minority, in constant fear of being turned out by the masses they exploit for their privileges, always play it fast and loose with the Truth, with History, with Reality. And if you have a problem with that fact, then you're probably a neofeudal nostalgic, a cringing anti-democrat, a wincing Czarist, a putrid piece of Nazi scum.
Péan's book came out in 2005 at about the same time that journalist Stephen Smith leaked in Le Monde the report of French anti-terrorist judge, Jean-Louis Bruguière's investigation into the 6 April 1994 missile strike against the Rwandan presidential jet that cost the lives of two democratically elected African heads of state, Presidents Juvénal Habyarimana of Rwanda and Cyprien Ntaryamira of Burundi, their entourages, the Chief of Staff of the Rwandan Army, Déogratias Nsabimana, and the three-man French flight crew, Jacky Heraud (pilot), Jean-Pierre Minaberry (co-pilot), and Jean-Marc Perrine (flt engineer), the three French nationals whose families instigated the Bruguière investigation.
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Une victoire de la liberté d'expression
France : 18 Novembre - Pierre Péan était poursuivi pour diffamation raciale et provocation à la hainte pour le livre "Noires fureurs, blancs menteurs". L'avocat de SOS racisme annonce un pourvoi en cassation.
De son côté, l'avocat de SOS Racisme, partie civile au procès, Me Lef Forster, a annoncé qu'il allait se pourvoir en cassation."Culture du mensonge" des Tutsis
Dans ce livre sur le génocide rwandais, qui en 1994 a fait selon l'ONU 800. 000 morts, essentiellement parmi la minorité tutsie, Pierre Péan soutient que "la culture du mensonge et de la dissimulation domine toutes les autres chez les Tutsis".
"Dès leur plus tendre enfance, écrit-il encore dans les quatre pages incriminées, les jeunes Tutsis étaient initiés à la réserve, au mensonge, à la violence et à la médisance". "C'est ce qui fait de cette race l'une des plus menteuses qui soit sous le soleil".
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
ICTR-ADAD Welcomes Acquittal of Fr. Hormisdas Nsengimana on Charges of Genocide and “Genocide Planning”
Contact ADAD Bureau: Prof. Peter Erlinder, ADAD President, 31(0)70 345 92 00 (Hague)/651-271-4616 (US)/peter.erlinder@wmitchell.edu / Me. John Philpot, 0755 352 931 (Arusha)/ 514-844-4655 (Can)/jphilpot@videotron.ca
Arusha TZ – Nov. 17 -- The Bureau of ICTR-ADAD (Association des Avocats de la Defense), welcomes today’s Trial Chamber Judgement acquitting the second defendant in as many days. The court ordered the immediate release of Fr. Hormisdas Nsengimana, who was charged with genocide and crimes against humanity committed in Rwanda in 1994.
Regardez les pays ayant intervenu dans le génocide Rwandais. GUERRECIVILE ? Certainement pas. Les plus malins et les supporteurs du FPR parleront de guerre civile qui a mené au génocide rwandais. Faux. Il s' agissait d'une invasion.: Les Pays ayant servi/participé à l'invasion du Rwanda: UGANDA, BURUNDI, ETHIOPIA, ERHYTREA, USA, GB ET Al Qaeda recruté (des Somaliens) à partir de l'ambassade des Etats Unis à Addis Abeba.
Les Rwandais ont besoin de VERITE ET DE JUSTICE et non de complot contre eux, UN COMPLOT QUI SOUTIENT un régime criminel qu'est celui du FPR.
Témoignage: L'attaque des camps par le général Kagame: Un apocalypse pour les réfugiés Hutus Rwandais. Un génocide planifié depuis 1990.
Zaire/Congo - Le 17 Novembre 1996, jour pour jour, je suis rentré de force au Rwanda via le Nord-Est de la RDC en VIOLATION DIRECTE DE TOUTES LES CONVENTIONS INTERNATIONALES. Durant ce voyage du Congo au Rwanda, j'ai assisté à l'horreur. Durant mon séjour au Rwanda, j'ai assisté et vu de mes propres yeux l'horreur du FPR.
Ils ont torturé, violé et tué ma soeur Abimana domitille pendant une semaine...son enfant criait dans une autre cellule de détention à la gendarmerie de Gisenyi. Refusé les soins de santé à Appoline Twizerimana qui est morte sur le coup. Ils ont tué à coups de machettes - les petites filles ( 6 et 8 ans à peu-porès je ne me souviens pas de leur age exactement) de ma soeur Pénine : m'-a-t-on expliqué les témoins oculaires.
“Genocide Planning” Again Rejected at ICTR
Contact: ICTR Association des Avocats de la Defence (ADAD)
Me. John Philpot: 0755352931 (Arusha)/ 514-844-4655 (Can.)/jphilpot@videotron.ca
Me. John Philpot: 0755352931 (Arusha)/ 514-844-4655 (Can.)/jphilpot@videotron.ca
Me. Beth Lyons: 201-295-3103 (U.S.)/ bethlyons@aol.com
Prof. Peter Erlinder: 31(0)70 345 92 00 (Hague) 651-271-4616 (U.S.)/peter.erlinder@wmitchell.edu
ARUSHA, TZ – Nov. 17 -- The Bureau of the ICTR Defense Lawyers Association (ADAD) applauds the Appeal Chamber rejection of charges of “genocide planning” in acquitting Protais Zigiranyirazo, the brother-in-law of Rwandan President Habyarimana whose assassination in April 1994 triggered the violence that swept Rwanda, which has been portrayed as a “long-planned genocide.”
Allegations that close associates of Habyarimana, (labeled the Akazu or “small house” in Kinyarwanda) were engaged in a conspiracy to kill “Tutsis and moderate Hutus” were rejected by the court for the second time in less than a year.
The acquittal adds to growing evidence that Kagame and the RPF has conducted a successful disinformation campaign to de-legitimize the former Rwandan government, and to deflect attention from their own crimes in Rwanda and the Congo. In December 2008 the NY Times and most recent of four Reports by UN Experts detailed the occupation and illegal theft of Congo resources by Rwanda and Uganda since the 1996 invasion, which has resulted in some 6-million civilian deaths.
The Appeal Chamber acquittal follows the December 2008 Military-1 Trial Chamber Judgement, published in Feb. 2009, acquitting four high-ranking military officers FOUND NOT guilty of “conspiracy to commit genocide,” including Colonel Theoneste Bagosora, the alleged “author of the genocide.”
After 7-years of trial, the court found that Prosecutor’s evidence was explained by normal military planning in the course of the war that raged for 4-years, following the 1990 invasion of Rwanda from Uganda, by the RPF army of current Rwandan President Paul Kagame.
Monday, November 16, 2009
Me. Beth Lyons: 00316- 84403304 (Hague)/ 201-295-3103 (U.S.)/ bethlyons@aol.com
Prof. Peter Erlinder: 31(0)70 345 92 00 (Hague)/ 651-271-4616 (U.S.)/peter.erlinder@wmitchell.edu
HISTORIC FIRST INTERNATIONAL DEFENSE COUNSEL CONFERENCE CONVENES AT THE HAGUE:
“The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and Its Legacy” 
THE HAGUE – 16 Nov. -- For the first time in history, defense lawyers before international criminal courts convened a self-organized conference to discuss, and publicize, the obstacles that prevent accused persons from receiving fair trials, particularly at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR). The co-sponsors included 20 law-schools, lawyers and human-rights groups from Europe, Africa and N. America.
By Annie Garrison
This tragic incidents happened after agent provocateurs stood up chanting "Hail the RPF! Hail the RPF!" and threw chairs, injuring some of the 1000 Rwandans in attendance. (The RPF is Rwanda's ruling Rwandan Patriotic Front party accused for war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide.)
"On Rwanda it should wait for next year's presidential elections, send a strong observer group to decide whether they are fair (the last ones were not) and then consider the application at the next CHOGM in 2011.
The Democratic Green Party of Rwanda's fourth attempt to convene in Kigali ended in broken bones and arrests after agent provocateurs stood up chanting "Hail the RPF! Hail the RPF!" and threw chairs, injuring some of the 1000 Rwandans in attendance. (The RPF is Rwanda's ruling Rwandan Patriotic Front party.)
Friday, November 13, 2009
Le 12/11/2009
Gaspard Musabyimana***
- Horrifying and grisly evidence of Kagame and RPF' rule of terror. The horrifying case of Habumugisha Léopold again illustrates the absolutely crimes against the hutu majority and one of the way of exterminating the ethnic group.
- Another revealation concerns the assassinations carried out by RPF doctors killing mothers with their babies in hospitals inside Rwanda
- Our grave concern is about the role played by Kagame's first counselor Mr. Tony Blair in these ever heard awful nazi crimes perpetrated by RPF.
Thursday, November 12, 2009
Complicity and Cover-Up in the Most Serious Crimes since the U.N. founding
On February 6, 2008 judge Fernando Andreu Merelles issued an indictment against 40 top officials of the RPF (Rwandan Patriotic Front) which has ruled Rwanda in a totalitarian way since 1994. For a period of many years, and within the framework of the complaint filed by the International Forum for Truth and Justice in the African Region of the Great Lakes, the judge of the 4th Court of the Audiencia Nacional, Spain’s National Court, centered his investigation on finding those responsible for the death of millions of Rwandan and Congolese people as well as for the murder of 9 Spanish missionaries and volunteers who had been inconvenient witnesses of some of the massacres perpetrated by the RPF.
In early 2009, however, the judge went a step further and turned his attention on the pillage of natural resources taking place in Congo. The magistrate asked U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon for the evidence on which the U.N. itself had based its three reports that attributed responsibility for the pillage primarily to Rwandan president Paul Kagame, a group of mining multinational companies linked to him as well as three other major co-defendants.
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
10-11-2009
Par RFI
Les organisations humanitaires se disent préoccupées de la situation de plus de 20 000 personnes qui ont fui la RDC pour chercher refuge au Congo-Brazzaville.Cet afflux de réfugiés est lié aux violences interethniques qui se sont déclenchées il y a bientôt une semaine dans le nord-ouest de la RDC. Selon les autorités de Kinshasa, parmi ces réfugiés il y a des hommes en armes.
Selon le Haut commissariat des Nations unies pour les refugiés (HCR), plus de 22 000 personnes ont fui les violences interethniques liées à un conflit foncier entre les ethnies Munzaya et Enyele qui se disputent des droits de pêche dans le village de Dongou, dans la province de l’Equateur, en RDC. Selon les autorités de Kinshasa, parmi ces réfugiés il y a des hommes en armes.
10-11-2009
Kigali: The Commonwealth advocacy group which opposes the entry of Rwanda into the block is standing by its stance – now accusing the British government of supporting Kigali membership “for reasons that are still not entirely clear”, RNA reports.
In the latest assessment, the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI) says Rwanda’s application should wait to be considered at the next Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM), not the one to be held this month in Trinidad and Tobago.
“Recently years of Commonwealth diplomacy brought to the Maldives good elections and the end of a president who had ruled for 27 years. In this work the Commonwealth does a great job,” argues Derek Ingram, a CHRI Executive Committee member.
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SurViVors SPEAK OUT - Rights of Victims Seeking Justice and Compensation for the RPF Genocide. This is an Exciting Collaborative Project launched by The AS International Founder Jean-Christophe Nizeyimana, Economist and Human Rights Activist. Join US and Be the First to know about the Mastermind of the Rwandan Genocide Still At large and enjoing Impunity.