Door Anneke Verbraeken

Please let Victoire out and me in, mr Kagame!
 
In dit rubriek :

1. Iran executeert Nederlands-Iraanse Zahra Bahrami. 
2. In Rwanda spreekt Knapen met de ministers van Buitenlandse Zaken, Justitie en Landbouw
3. Van voetbalplaatjes tot ophanging van vrouw in Iran,Terwijl je wel onder je klompen kunt voelen dat dit een leugentje is om mevrouw te straffen. 
4. http://www.trouw.nl/opinie/commentaar/article3403743.ece/Ophanging_Bahrami_toont_Iraanse_regime_in_al_zijn_wreedheid_.htmlVolgens mensenrechtenorganisaties : Nederland te weinig zou hebben gedaan voor Zahra Bahrami.

Dr Theogène Rudasigwa

Rudasingwa vertelt dat hij Rwanda ontvluchtte omdat hij niet langer een dubbelleven wilde leiden. Als een van de topfunctionarissern in Rwanda moest hij liegen over bijvoorbeeld de aanwezigheid van troepen in Congo. "Ik was toen ambassadeur in de VS. Natuurlijk geloofden ze me niet. Maar dan zeiden we altijd: waar waren jullie in 1994. Wie zijn jullie om kritiek op ons te hebben?" Dezelfde reactie werd gegeven als Amnesty International of Human Rights Watch weer eens met een kritisch rapport naar buiten kwam.
In een openhartig interview met een Amerikaans radiostation vertelt voormalig chefstaf Theogene Rudasingwa over zijn dubbelleven als Rwandese vertrouweling van Kagame. Rudusingwa vocht nog zij aan zij met Kagame eind jaren tachting en begin jaren negentig. Onlangs werd hij veroordeelt tot 24 jaar gevangenisstraf. Rudasingwa woont tegenwoordig in de VS. Hij is mede-oprichter van een nieuwe politieke partij RNC, Rwanda National Congress afgelopen december.

NL Staatssecretaris Prof. dr. H.P.M Ben Knapen

De voormalige hoge officier in het regeringsleger wordt genoemd in het VN-mappingrapport waarin het Rwandese leger en Kagame beschuldigd worden van genocide in Oost-Congo eind jaren negentig. Toch is hij niet bang dat hij zich voor een tribunaal moet verantwoorden: "Ik was toen niet in Congo, maar was ambassadeur in de VS. Toch vind ik dat deze gruwelijkheden onze gezamenlijke verantwoordelijkheid zijn. Ik ben daarom bereid om op alle vragen antwoord te geven." Volgens Rudasingwa was het algemeen binnen de RPF bekend wat er zich allemaal in het land en in Oost-Congo afspeelde.

Dat Rudasingwa nu veroordeelt is, past in een patroon, zegt hij. "Zodra een Hutu kritiek heeft op het regime, dan wordt hij door Kagame weggezet als genocidair, divisionist of terrorist.
 

Kijk naar de voormalig manager van Hotel Rwanda en naar oppositieleider Victoire Ingabire." Rudasingwa wijst ook naar de toenemende verdeeldheid binnen leger en RPF: "Kagame keert zich nu niet alleen meer tegen de kritische Hutu's, iedereen die kritiek op hem heeft beschouwt hij als zijn vijand. Kagame is machtscorrupt. Zijn 'gut-instinct is om te doden."

Rudasingwa beschuldigt Kagame van grootschalige corruptie: "Hij gebruikt staatsgelden voor zichzelf. Neem de twee privé-vliegtuigen. Die zijn vanuit de staatskas betaald."

Volgens Rudasingwa zijn er twee toekomstscenario's mogelijk. Als het Rwandese volk niets doet, als de internationale gemeenschap stil blijft, dan stevent het land volgens hem af op een nieuwe burgeroorlog. Het tweede toekomstscenario is een stuk positiever: daarin moeten alle Rwandezen samenwerken aan de democratie.
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The hospitality of Rwanda has its limits. I cannot follow my secretary of state, Ben Knapen, who is visiting Congo and Rwanda next week. The regime doesn't want me: my visa was denied. Kagame who always speaks proudly of his country, the economic growth, democracy and freedom, doesn't want me. Officially no reason was given, but everybody knows I'm not welcome because I'm a journalist who writes not so jubilant about the regime. But most of all, access was denied, because I'm a friend of Victoire Ingabire.

The visit of our secretary of state could be important for Ingabire, who is in custody since October 14th. The Dutch government should ask for her release, because she remains in custody illegally since December 25th. That was the date the prosecutor should have asked for a prolonging of bail. That never happened. There were other irregularities during her time in prison so a fair trial is already out of the question.

The accusations which led to her arrest, are the accusations used for everybody who dares to criticize the regime. Former manager of hotel Rwanda, Paul Rusesebagina, leader of the socialist party Bernard Ntaganda, former Kagame-comrades Kayumba, Karegeya, Gahima en Rudasingwa, they all are accused of the same more or less: divisionism, genocide ideology, threat of state security, aid to or forming of a terrorist organization.

Ms Ingabire Victoire Umuhoza, the would-be President of Rwanda

Because the accusations are false, witnesses and evidence have to be manipulated. Alice and Sylvain, housemates of Victoire and secretary and treasurer of FDU-Inkingi, were pressured into giving false statements. They were also threatened if they didn't stop with their activities for the party. The lawyers of Victoire are now in the possession of her dossier. They are studying closely the 2086 pages! 

Victoires dossier doesn't include the documents found during the house search in Zevenhuizen. In this small Dutch village live the family of Victoire: husband and three children. The house search took place because Rwanda had asked for it. Timing was curious: just a week before, the ministry of Foreign Affairs decided to end budget support, because the lack of political space and press freedom. So there was a situation in which one ministry condemned the regime and another ministry obediently followed the orders of the same regime.

According to the secretary of state, Teeven, there are no obstacles to send the material, found during the house search, to Rwanda. But chances are, that those documents will be manipulated. If the Dutch government decide tot send the material to Kigali, I advise the government to make copies!

Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International and Eurac, the organization for EU NGO’s in the Great Lake Region, also acknowledge that a fair trial is practically not possible.

It is all a bit ironic, because the Dutch government donates a lot to improve the judicial system in Rwanda. But you can improve whatever you like, if the president tells his people one day before a bail hearing that 'this woman should remain in prison', you can't say Rwanda has an independent judicial system.
Let's hope Ben Knapen, our secretary of state, is courageous enough to give a clear signal. A comparison with the Dutch-Iranian woman hanged in Teheran is a comparison easy made. But contrary to Zahra Bahrami, Ingabire doesn't have the Dutch nationality. Therefore, our ministry of Foreign Affairs considers her case an internal Rwandan affair.

But it's not a case of nationality. In Rwanda you have a regime that consistently oppresses the opposition. In Rwanda is no freedom of press. In Rwanda, civil society cannot develop. In Rwanda the judicial system is used for political means. In Rwanda you have a regime that enriches itself, just like Tunisia and Egypt, at the cost of the Rwandan population.

Therefore, it's high time, the Dutch government, this time by its spokesman Ben Knapen, makes a clear statement. Knapen should insist in the release of all the political prisoners. Knapen should tell the president to release all journalists who perish in prison. Knapen should argue Ingabire doesn't belong in jail.

  And Knapen should make a statement the whole world can hear. The days of silent diplomacy are over.




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

4 February 2011
By Ms Sarah Jackson
Researcher - Rwanda and Burundi


Rwandan journalists’ imprisonment condemned 

Ms. Agnes Uwimana, the editor of the independent newspaper UMURABYO

Amnesty International has condemned the imprisonment of two Rwandan journalists who criticized president Paul Kagame ahead of last year’s elections.
Agnes Nkusi Uwimana, editor of the private Kinyarwanda tabloid newspaper, Umurabyo, and her deputy editor, Saidati Mukakibibi, were sentenced today to respectively 17 and 7 years imprisonment over opinion pieces they wrote ahead of the August 2010 presidential elections.

 “Today’s verdict marks yet another blow to freedom of expression and opinion in Rwanda”, said Amnesty International’s Africa Programme Director, Erwin van der Borght.

“Rwanda’s clampdown on critics shows no sign of abating after last year’s elections”.

Agnes Nkusi Uwimana was found guilty of threatening state security, genocide ideology, divisionism and defamation and Saidati Mukakibibi was found guilty of threatening state security.

The pair was prosecuted over several articles they had written in which they criticized government policies and made corruption allegations against senior government officials, including President Kagame. The articles also made references to the prevailing feeling of insecurity prior to the elections in 2010 and contended there were growing divisions within the security forces.

“The government has not adequately demonstrated how the articles could be construed as a threat to national security or were intended, or likely, to incite violence” said Erwin van der Borght.

“The journalists should not have been subjected to criminal sanctions.”

Uwimana said she accepted some of her articles may have lacked professionalism.

“Journalists must be free to criticize public officials and policies without fear of criminal sanctions for defamation”, said Erwin van der Borght. “Rwandan officials should respond to criticism, rather than try to stamp it out”.

 Vague laws on “genocide ideology” and “sectarianism” laws were introduced in Rwanda in the decade after the 1994 genocide to restrict speech that could promote hatred.

Rwandan media incited ethnic hatred before and during the genocide, in which up to 800,000 Rwandans were killed, mostly ethnic Tutsi, but also Hutu who opposed the organized killing.

The Rwandan government expressed commitment in April 2010 to review the “genocide ideology” law. The draft law is said to be on the agenda for February’s cabinet meeting.

The law prohibits hate speech, but also criminalizes legitimate criticism of the government.

“Rwandan authorities should follow through on their commitment to revise these laws to respect freedom of expression”, said Erwin van der Borght. “Vague laws should not be misused to prosecute critics”.

Background
The Rwandan government clamped down on critics before the August 2010 presidential elections. They used regulatory sanctions, restrictive laws and criminal defamation cases to close down media outlets critical of the government. Some leading editors and journalists fled Rwanda after facing repeated threats.

Before prosecution, Uwimana was called before Rwanda’s Media High Council, a government-aligned media regulatory body, to respond to allegations that her articles were defamatory.

Uwimana served a one-year sentence after being convicted in 2007 of divisionism and defamation. The prosecution was based on an article comparing the current Rwandan administration to the government of former President Habyarimana.
 ENDS

 © Amnesty International

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

 




 
We call for immediate end to the ongoing genocide against the Hutu majority in Rwanda. In fact there is abundant evidence that Paul Kagame is doing whatever he can to exterminate the hated Hutu majority. We can not understand how the American Human Rights organizations remain silence about the monst hidous criminal our planet has ever known. All worldwide religions including  catholics, Orthodox, Muslims, Protestants, Human Rights Watch and Amnesty international to denounce Kagame's criminal purposes, to protect and help Rwandans from Kagame and his RPF Nazi regime.

A Hutu woman murdered by RPF after being tortured with Akandoyi

Le gouvernement rwandais envisage de lancer 'prochainement' une vaste campagne de vasectomie, une méthode de stérilisation masculine pour quelque 700 000 individus sur l'ensemble du territoire national dans la perspective de limiter une croissance démographique galopante de ce petit pays d'Afrique centrale, apprend-on mercredi de source officielle à Kigali.

Le ministre rwandais de la Santé, Richard Sezibera, a laissé entendre que la croissance de la population rwandaise a atteint récemment une vitesse 'jamais enregitrée' depuis plus de dix ans.

Le Rwanda compte une population d'environ 11 millions d'habitants sur une superficie de 26.338 kilomètres carrés, soit une moyenne de 395 habitants au kilomètre-carré, selon l'Institut national de la statitique du Rwanda dans un récent rapport des projections annuelles publié sur son site Internet.

'Nous avons adopté des mesures pour limiter la croissance de la population à travers l'introduction de méthodes simples', a déclaré le Dr Sezibera qui s'exprimait devant le Sénat rwandais.

'Cette méthode n'est autre que cette opération mineure qui consiste à couper et à bloquer les canaux déférents qui transportent les spermatozoïdes à partir des testicules', a-t-il ajouté, précisant que la nouvelle campagne va s'étendre sur les trois prochaines années.

Le Dr Sezibera, très connu pour avoir apporté de nombreuses innovations dans le secteur sanitaire au Rwanda depuis sa nomination à ce poste en octobre 2008, a par ailleurs renchéri que la nouvelle campagne va aller de pair avec le programme de circoncision de masse qui a été inauguré depuis quelques années au Rwanda.

'Au cours des interventions chirurgicales de circoncision en cours, les médecins auront désormais toute la latitude de proposer aux hommes de subir également la vasectomie', a souligné Dr Sezibera.


The Truth can be buried and stomped into the ground where none can see, yet eventually it will, like a seed, break through the surface once again far more potent than ever, and Nothing can stop it. Truth can be suppressed for a "time", yet It cannot be destroyed. ==> Wolverine




Since at least 2009, radical U.S. Christian missionaries have added anti-gay conferences and workshops in Uganda to their anti-gay efforts in the U.S. – and now they're beginning to ordain ministers and build churches across East Africa focused almost entirely on preaching against homosexuality.

These American extremists didn't call for David's death. But they created a climate of hate that breeds violence – and they must stop and acknowledge they were wrong.

"Stop Exporting Hate." Sign our petition to Carl Ellis Jenkins, Lou Engle, and Scott Lively.

We'll deliver your signature to three men who have gone out of their way to promote hatred:

• Scott Lively of Massachusetts held an anti-gay conference in Uganda with two other U.S. pastors. A few months later, a bill was introduced in Uganda that would make homosexuality punishable by death.
• Lou Engle, a Missouri preacher whose rallies draw tens of thousands in the U.S., spoke at a rally in Uganda this year that focused on praying for the bill's passage. (Engle claims not to support some parts of the bill, but internal documents show he came to speak about "the threat of homosexuality," and defend the Ugandan government's efforts to "curb the growth of the vice using the law.")
• And Carl Ellis Jenkins of Georgia is presiding over a group that's opening 50 new churches in Uganda to "help clean up bad morals, including homosexuality" according to his staff.

They have been stirring up hostility in a country where homosexuality is already illegal, violent attacks are common, rape is used to 'cure' people of their sexual orientation – and a shocking law has been proposed that would make homosexuality punishable by life imprisonment or even death.


And they're in lockstep with some of the largest and wealthiest right-wing groups in the U.S. When the U.S. Congress considered a resolution denouncing the grotesque Ugandan death-penalty-for-gays bill, the extreme-right Family Research Council – now classified as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center – spent $25,000 lobbying to stop the resolution from passing.
Religion should never be used to spread hate. These men do not speak for me or the millions of diverse religious people who support equality not in spite of our faith, but because of it

That's what our Religion and Faith program is all about: helping people of faith from all different traditions speak out so we can reclaim the core religious values we hold dear in America.

At the heart of every religious tradition is love of humanity and love of creator – not hatred for our neighbors. Creating a climate of hate runs contrary to the very idea of faith – but that's exactly what the right wing in America is doing.

Tell missionaries and radical hate groups: "Stop exporting hate."

Whether or not we're people of faith, we cannot stay silent or stand idly by while a radical minority pushes a hateful agenda in God's name. Please stand with us and speak out today.

Sharon Groves
Religion and Faith Program
© HRC

 
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

De Dominee (links) met de leden van het pastoraal team

Kleine Kerk : 99 jaar

Aan de andere kant, het wankele vredesproces in Rwanda en Kongo, waarin de internationale betrekking een hoofdrol moest spelen, heeft de ramp met meer dan 7 miljoen doden niet voorkomen.

Kleine Kerk in Wilnis

The Truth can be buried and stomped into the ground where none can see, yet eventually it will, like a seed, break through the surface once again far more potent than ever, and Nothing can stop it. Truth can be suppressed for a "time", yet It cannot be destroyed. ==> Wolverine

 [Since 1994, the world witnesses the horrifying reality : the Tutsi minority (14%) ethnic domination, the Tutsi minority ethnic rule, tyranny and corruption in Rwanda. The current government has been characterized by the total impunity of RPF criminals, the Tutsi economic monopoly, the Tutsi militaristic domination with an iron hand, and the brutal suppression of the rights of the majority of the Rwandan people (85% are Hutus), mass-arrests and mass-murder by the RPF criminal organization.
So long as justice and accountability for RPF past and current crimes are ignored and delayed, Peace and Stability will remain illusive and impossible in Rwanda=>ASIF]

Rwandan Death Squads with Impunity

RPF Mass-murder, arbitrary executions, mass-arrest, mass-rape and disappearances of hundreds of thousands of returnees 
Observances and remembrance activities can occur during the week of Remembrance that runs from the Sunday 16, 2011 through the following Sunday 23, 2011.

 Yes we must always remember the Rwandan Genocide Day! 

The deadliest years : 1996-1997: the years of the infamous mass murder of refugees in Zaïre (currently the Democratic Republic of the Congo) and mass-murder of hundreds of thousands of returnees +
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Candles in honor of and pay tribute to the hundreds of thousands of returnees,, victims of RPF barbarism.

Mr. Bwanakweli Charles Kizito. My brother disappeared on January 23, 1997 He certainly got murdered by Kagame's death squad

 The deadliest months : January 1997
Genocaust, Gendercide, mass murder, ethnic cleansing with extreme hatred, etc. We have waited long enough to see if the world still has any conscience to bring even masterminds of those bloody mass-slaughter. So right now Rwandans should launch the final onslaught to liberate themselves forever from the clutches of RPF and Kagame oppression and cannot afford to continue to fold their hands and watch Clinton and Blair's evil Angel of Destruction. Côte d'Ivoire and Tunisia are the best patterns of nations to take care of themselves.

We had thought that somebody would have known that it is cheaper to prevent sickness than to cure it but the world seems to say bring on the sickness so we can deal with it. Nobody can justifiably pontificate and condemn any form of action Rwandans might employ now to defend and extricate themselves from this Evil – General Paul Kagame and Tony Blair, his adviser.
It only makes sense that the world should justify the usefulness of the various regulatory and arbitration bodies it has put in place by acting now in the case of Eastern of Congo and FDLR issues to end the Rwandan Tyrannical regime. Such a situation can't remains the same forever.
 
The prefectures of Ruhengeri and Gisenyi have suffered the highest number of the very planed massacres and extra judicial executions by RPA soldiers. Amnesty International has received countless reports of unarmed civilians being killed there by the RPA, in the wake of reported attacks by "infiltrators".

Bwanakweli Charles Kizito  disappeared on January 23rd 1997 and has never come back

Domitille Abimana gang-raped at the Gisenyi gendermerie, her  one-year son Nshuti, 2 daughters  Diane 6 and Rosette 8 years old raped and thrown into Kivu lake

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