A Candle For Remembering
May this memorial candle lights up the historical past of our beloved Country: Rwanda, We love U so much. If Tears could build a stairway. And memories were a lane. I would walk right up to heaven. To bring you home again. No farewell words were spoken. No time to say goodbye. You were gone before I knew it And. Only Paul Kagame knows why. My heart still aches with sadness. And secret tears still flow. What It meant to lose you. No one will ever know.
Why did Kagame this to me?
Can't forget. He murdered my mother. What should be my reaction? FYI: the number of orphans in Rwanda has skyrocketed since the 1990's Kagame's invasion. Much higher numbers of orphans had and have no other option but joining FDLR fighters who are identified as children that have Lost their Parents in Kagame's Wars inside and outside of Rwanda.If someone killed your child/spouse/parent(s) would you seek justice or revenge? Deep insight: What would you do to the person who snuffed the life of someone I love beyond reason? Forgiving would bring me no solace. If you take what really matters to me, I will show you what really matters. NITUTIRWANAHO TUZASHIRA. IGIHE KIRAGEZE.If democracy is to sell one's motherland(Africa), for some zionits support, then I prefer the person who is ready to give all his live for his motherland. Viva President Putin!!!
RPF committed the unspeakable
The perverted RPF committed the UNSPEAKABLE.Two orphans, both against the Nazi world. Point is the fact that their parents' murder Kagame & his RPF held no shock in the Western world. Up to now, the Rwandan Hitler Kagame and his death squads still enjoy impunity inside and outside of Rwanda. What goes through someone's mind as they know RPF murdered their parents? A delayed punishment is actually an encouragement to crime, In Praise of the ongoing Bloodshed in Rwanda. “I always think I am a pro-peace person but if someone harmed someone near and dear to me, I don't think I could be so peaceful. I would like to believe that to seek justice could save millions of people living the African Great Lakes Region - I would devote myself to bringing the 'perp' along to a non-happy ending but would that be enough? You'd have to be in the situation I suppose before you could actually know how you would feel or what you would do”. Jean-Christophe Nizeyimana, Libre Penseur
Hutu Children & their Mums
Look at them ! How they are scared to death. Many Rwandan Hutu and Tutsi, Foreign human rights advocates, jounalists and and lawyers are now on Death Row Waiting to be murdered by Kagame and his RPF death squads. Be the last to know.
Almighty God :Justice for US
Hutu children's daily bread: Intimidation, Slavery, Sex abuses led by RPF criminals and Kagame, DMI: Every single day, there are more assassinations, imprisonment, brainwashing & disappearances. Do they have any chance to end this awful life?
Killing Hutus on daily basis
RPF targeted killings, very often in public areas. Killing Hutus on daily basis by Kagame's murderers and the RPF infamous death squads known as the "UNKNOWN WRONGDOERS"
RPF Trade Mark: Akandoya
Rape, torture and assassination and unslaving of hutu women. Genderside: Rape has always been used by kagame's RPF as a Weapon of War, the killings of Hutu women with the help of Local Defense Forces, DMI and the RPF military
The Torture in Rwanda flourishes
How torture flourishes across Rwanda despite extensive global monitoring
Fighting For Our Freedom?
We need Freedom, Liberation of our fatherland, Human rights respect, Mutual respect between the Hutu majority and the Tutsi minority
Thursday, March 21, 2013
[Since 1994, the world witnesses the horrifying Tutsi minority (14%) ethnic domination, the Tutsi minority ethnic rule with an iron hand, tyranny and corruption in Rwanda. The current government has been characterized by the total impunity of RPF criminals, the Tutsi economic monopoly, the Tutsi militaristic domination, and the brutal suppression of the rights of the majority of the Rwandan people (85% are Hutus)and mass arrests of Hutus by the RPF criminal organization =>AS International]
The Tulikunkiko tell a sad story of their life and broken dreams -- how they became Russian farmers and why they cannot return to their homeland Rwanda.
François Turikunkiko became a farmer in the countryside of Russia. He cannot go back to his country of origine, Rwanda, because, those who mass-slaughtered his family and relatives still are on power: General Paul Kagame and RPF. When he graduated in Medicine faculty, he had no choice but stay in Russia. As he kn ew what happened to his parents: they got assassinated on orders of Kagame during his visit to the region. François and his wife remember their fast friends, fraternity brothers, and ultimately University roommates who were savagely assassinated by RPF soldiers. Torture and extrajudicial or summary executions are "monnaie courante" in Rwanda, but nobody fears to talk about it. That remember him the dark period of Stalin in the Soviet Union.
The Truth can be buried and stomped into the ground where none can see, yet eventually it will, like a seed, break through the surface once again far more potent than ever, and Nothing can stop it. Truth can be suppressed for a "time", yet It cannot be destroyed. ==> Wolverine
Wednesday, March 20, 2013
[Since 1994, the world witnesses the horrifying Tutsi minority (14%) ethnic domination, the Tutsi minority ethnic rule with an iron hand, tyranny and corruption in Rwanda. The current government has been characterized by the total impunity of RPF criminals, the Tutsi economic monopoly, the Tutsi militaristic domination, and the brutal suppression of the rights of the majority of the Rwandan people (85% are Hutus)and mass arrests of Hutus by the RPF criminal organization =>AS International]
ICC officials en route to collect DR Congo warlord: US
International Criminal Court officials are travelling to Rwanda to collect Congolese warlord Bosco Ntaganda, who is holed up in the US embassy there, a top American diplomat said Wednesday.
Ntaganda surprised US embassy staff in Kigali on Monday when he walked in off the street and asked for help in reaching the ICC in The Hague, where he is wanted on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
"Officials from the ICC are, as we speak, en route to Kigali," the top US diplomat forAfrica, Johnnie Carson, told reporters on Wednesday.
"The timeline is uncertain but the need for rapid and quick action is clear," Carson added, speaking on a conference call from Washington.
"The next 48 hours or so will be critical in all this," he added.
Carson, Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, said that Ntaganda "voluntarily walked in" to the embassy, but had no clear answer as to why he chose a United States diplomatic mission for his surrender.
"I suspect that he may have come because he knows that we are a symbol of fairness and justice and integrity in this kind of process... but I don't know and can't read his mind," he added.
Carson also appealed to Rwanda to allow Ntaganda free passage to the airport in Kigali on his way to trial "without interference".
Carson said there had been "very open and good contact" with Rwandan officials, who have given assurances they will allow Ntaganda to go to The Hague. But he also said the "realities in practical terms" of how Ntaganda would travel to the airport were still to be ironed out.
Ntaganda was allegedly involved in the brutal murder of at least 800 people in villages in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, using child soldiers in his rebel army and keeping women as sex slaves between September 2002 and September 2003.
Carson said bringing Ntaganda to The Hague would send a "clear signal" to other rebel leaders and be a step towards improving the situation in DR Congo's volatile east.
"It will take off the battlefield one of the most notorious rebel leaders, a man dubbed by the media 'The Terminator'," Carson said.
Tuesday, March 19, 2013
Amnesty International
The US State Department confirmed that Bosco Ntaganda – who heads a faction of the M23 armed group - arrived at the US Embassy in the Rwandan capital, Kigali, on 18 March 2013 and requested to be transferred to The Hague. The US pledged to facilitate this request.
Amnesty International is calling on the US and Rwandan authorities to ensure that Bosco Ntaganda’s rights are protected pending his transfer to the ICC, where he can face a fair trial with full respect for his rights. “Surrendering Bosco Ntaganda to the ICC should act as a strong deterrent to others and help break persistent cycles of impunity that wrack eastern DRC,” said Sarah Jackson, Amnesty International’s Deputy Africa Director.
“Bosco Ntaganda is accused by the ICC of committing war crimes and crimes against humanity in Ituri, eastern DRC in 2002 and 2003. Crimes that caused untold suffering to the people of eastern DRC.”
Despite the ICC arrest warrant issued in 2006, Bosco Ntaganda was never arrested by the DRC or UN authorities. On the contrary, he was made a general in the Congolese army in January 2009, as part of a peace agreement integrating armed groups.
“For the last six years, victims have been waiting for his arrest and surrender to the ICC. It is important that this finally happens,” said Jackson.
Amnesty International is also calling on the Congolese authorities to apprehend Sylvestre Mudacumura, the military commander of the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda, so that he too is surrendered to the ICC.
“It is the obligation of every state to deny a safe haven to anyone suspected of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes.” The ICC first issued an arrest warrant for Bosco Ntaganda in 2006 on allegations of recruiting children under 15 as soldiers into the Forces patriotiques pour la libération du Congo (FPLC) in Ituri between 2002 and 2003.
In July 2012, the ICC issued a second arrest warrant on allegations of war crimes and crimes against humanity, including for murder, rape and sexual slavery, also alleged to have taken place in 2002 and 2003.
Bosco Ntaganda later led the Congrès National pour la Défense du Peuple (CNDP), whose members committed serious human rights abuses, including a massacre at Kiwanja, North Kivu, where more than 150 civilians were killed in November 2008.
Amnesty International is calling on the US and Rwandan authorities to ensure that Bosco Ntaganda’s rights are protected pending his transfer to the ICC, where he can face a fair trial with full respect for his rights. “Surrendering Bosco Ntaganda to the ICC should act as a strong deterrent to others and help break persistent cycles of impunity that wrack eastern DRC,” said Sarah Jackson, Amnesty International’s Deputy Africa Director.
“Bosco Ntaganda is accused by the ICC of committing war crimes and crimes against humanity in Ituri, eastern DRC in 2002 and 2003. Crimes that caused untold suffering to the people of eastern DRC.”
Despite the ICC arrest warrant issued in 2006, Bosco Ntaganda was never arrested by the DRC or UN authorities. On the contrary, he was made a general in the Congolese army in January 2009, as part of a peace agreement integrating armed groups.
“For the last six years, victims have been waiting for his arrest and surrender to the ICC. It is important that this finally happens,” said Jackson.
Amnesty International is also calling on the Congolese authorities to apprehend Sylvestre Mudacumura, the military commander of the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda, so that he too is surrendered to the ICC.
“It is the obligation of every state to deny a safe haven to anyone suspected of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes.” The ICC first issued an arrest warrant for Bosco Ntaganda in 2006 on allegations of recruiting children under 15 as soldiers into the Forces patriotiques pour la libération du Congo (FPLC) in Ituri between 2002 and 2003.
In July 2012, the ICC issued a second arrest warrant on allegations of war crimes and crimes against humanity, including for murder, rape and sexual slavery, also alleged to have taken place in 2002 and 2003.
Bosco Ntaganda later led the Congrès National pour la Défense du Peuple (CNDP), whose members committed serious human rights abuses, including a massacre at Kiwanja, North Kivu, where more than 150 civilians were killed in November 2008.
In April 2012, Bosco Ntaganda led a mutiny creating the M23 armed group whose fighters have committed numerous human rights abuses, including unlawful killings, forced recruitment of children and rape.
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RDC. Bosco Ntaganda doit être livré à la CPI
Les États-Unis et le gouvernement rwandais doivent agir rapidement pour que Bosco Ntaganda soit livré en toute sécurité à la Cour pénale internationale (CPI), a déclaré Amnesty International.
Le Département d'État américain a confirmé que Bosco Ntaganda – le chef d'une faction du groupe armé M23 – était arrivé à l'ambassade américaine de Kigali, la capitale du Rwanda, le 18 mars 2013, et a demandé à être transféré à La Haye. Les États-Unis se sont engagés à faciliter cette demande.
Amnesty International appelle les autorités américaines et rwandaises à veiller à ce que les droits de Bosco Ntaganda soient protégés en attendant son transfert à la CPI, où il pourra bénéficier d'un procès équitable.
« Transférer Bosco Ntaganda à la CPI devrait agir comme un puissant moyen de dissuasion pour d'autres responsables d'atteintes aux droits humains, et aider à briser le cercle vicieux de l'impunité qui mine l'est de la RDC », a affirmé Sarah Jackson, vice-directrice d'Amnesty International pour l'Afrique.
« La CPI accuse Bosco Ntaganda d'avoir commis des crimes de guerre et des crimes contre l'humanité en Ituri, dans l'est de la RDC, en 2002 et 2003. Ces crimes ont causé des souffrances indicibles à la population ».
Malgré le mandat d'arrêt émis par la CPI en 2006, Bosco Ntaganda n'a jamais été appréhendé par les autorités de la RDC ou de l'ONU. Il a au contraire été nommé général dans l'armée congolaise en janvier 2009, dans le cadre d'un accord de paix auquel participaient des groupes armés.
« Depuis ces six dernières années, les victimes attendaient le jour de son arrestation et sa remise à la CPI. Il est important que ce jour arrive enfin », a ajouté Sarah Jackson.
Amnesty International appelle également les autorités congolaises à arrêter Sylvestre Mudacumura, le commandant des Forces démocratiques de libération du Rwanda, afin qu'il soit livré à la CPI.
« Tout État a pour devoir de refuser l'asile aux personnes soupçonnées de génocide, de crimes contre l'humanité et de crimes de guerre. »
La CPI a émis un premier mandat d'arrêt contre Bosco Ntaganda en 2006, sur la base d'allégations de recrutement d'enfants de moins de 15 ans comme soldats dans les Forces patriotiques pour la libération du Congo (FPLC), en Ituri, entre 2002 et 2003.
En juillet 2012, la CPI a délivré un second mandat d'arrêt lié à des allégations de crimes de guerre et de crimes contre l'humanité, notamment des meurtres, des viols et de l'esclavage sexuel, également survenus en 2002 et 2003, selon les sources.
Plus tard, Bosco Ntaganda a dirigé le Congrès national pour la défense du peuple (CNDP), dont les membres ont commis de graves violations des droits humains, notamment un massacre à Kiwanja (Nord-Kivu), où plus de 150 civils ont été tués en novembre 2008.
En avril 2012, Bosco Ntaganda a organisé une rébellion et créé le groupe armé M23, dont les combattants sont responsables de nombreux crimes, notamment des homicides illégaux, des recrutements forcés d'enfants et des viols.
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AI Index: PRE01/135/2013
http://www.amnesty.org/en/news/drc-bosco-ntaganda-must-be-surrendered-icc-2013-03-19
http://www.amnesty.org/en/news/drc-bosco-ntaganda-must-be-surrendered-icc-2013-03-19
Tom Gibson
Acting Researcher, Rwanda and Burundi
Acting Researcher, Rwanda and Burundi
International Secretariat, Amnesty International
1 Easton Street, London WC1X 0DW
Tel: +44 207 413 5615
E-mail: tgibson@amnesty.org
1 Easton Street, London WC1X 0DW
Tel: +44 207 413 5615
E-mail: tgibson@amnesty.org
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
Bosco Ntaganda has never been Congolese
- Ntaganda's surrender: Let's not forget a few things.
- Congolese warlord Bosco Ntaganda hands himself in in Rwanda
- Fugitive M23 leader Ntaganda surrenders
For years, the war-crimes fugitive known as “The Terminator” was so supremely confident that he played tennis at a luxury hotel near the Congo-Rwanda border, flaunting his freedom while United Nations peacekeepers drove past.
So it was perhaps in keeping with his
style that the fugitive, Bosco Ntaganda, chose the moment of his
surrender. Rather than suffering an undignified arrest, he walked
through the gates of the U.S. embassy in Rwanda’s capital on Monday,
announced his surrender and demanded to be taken to the International
Criminal Court in The Hague.Kigali - The Rwandan rebel Bosco Ntaganda, wanted by the International Criminal Court for a string of alleged atrocities, has surrendered to the US embassy in Kigali, US and Rwandan officials said Monday.
Ntaganda asked to be sent to the ICC, the world's
permanent independent war crimes court, said US State Department
spokeswoman Victoria Nuland.
"I can confirm that Bosco Ntaganda... walked into
the US embassy in Kigali this morning. He specifically asked to be
transferred to the ICC in The Hague," she told reporters in Washington.
Nuland's comments confirm an earlier statement by
Rwandan Foreign Minister Louise Mushikiwabo that the rebel general had
"presented himself" at the US embassy in Rwanda's capital.
Nuland said that Washington was in contact with the ICC and the Rwandan government, adding that the United States "strongly (supports) the ICC and their investigation on the atrocities committed in the DRC".
Nuland said that Washington was in contact with the ICC and the Rwandan government, adding that the United States "strongly (supports) the ICC and their investigation on the atrocities committed in the DRC".
DR Congo government spokesman Lambert Mende said
Sunday that Ntaganda had fled to neighbouring Rwanda, which has been
accused by Kinshasa and the United Nations of masterminding, arming and
even commanding M23 rebels in resource-rich east of the vast country.
Ntaganda, a former general nicknamed "The
Terminator" and widely seen as the instigator of the M23 group's
rebellion against Kinshasa last year, is wanted by the ICC on charges of
war crimes and crimes against humanity including rape, murder and
recruiting child soldiers.
Neither Rwanda nor the United States are
signatories to The Hague-based ICC's founding document, the Rome
Statute, and therefore would not be obliged to hand Ntaganda over to the
tribunal.
However, his presence in the embassy raises thorny diplomatic issues for both Washington and Kigali.
Kinshasa earlier demanded that Kigali refuse to give asylum to the Rwandan-born Ntaganda.
ICC spokesman Fadi el-Abdallah told AFP late Monday that the court was trying to confirm Ntaganda's surrender.
"If this information is confirmed, the court will
make the necessary arrangements for the transfer of Ntaganda to The
Hague," he said, adding that "nothing prevents a state which is not a
signatory of the Rome Statute from cooperating with the court on a
voluntary basis."
Fighting between the M23 -- mainly ethnic Tutsi
army mutineers -- and Congolese forces in the eastern province of North
Kivu has displaced 500,000 people since last May, according to the UN
refugee agency.
Over 25,000 Congolese fled to Rwanda, according to officials in Kigali.
Mushikiwabo on Sunday had scoffed at Kinshasa's claims that
Ntaganda had entered Rwanda, but said that 600 fighters from the M23 had
crossed into the country, including its former political leader
Jean-Marie Runiga.
Runiga -- seen as loyal to Ntaganda -- has been fighting rivals within the M23 under the group's military chief Sultani Makenga.
Kigali, which accuses Kinshasa of sheltering and
supporting Rwandan rebel groups thought to include perpetrators of the
1994 genocide, signed a deal aimed at ending the crisis along with other
regional countries last month.
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, March 17, 2013
[Since 1994, the world witnesses the horrifying Tutsi minority (14%) ethnic domination, the Tutsi minority ethnic rule with an iron hand, tyranny and corruption in Rwanda. The current government has been characterized by the total impunity of RPF criminals, the Tutsi economic monopoly, the Tutsi militaristic domination, and the brutal suppression of the rights of the majority of the Rwandan people (85% are Hutus)and mass arrests of Hutus by the RPF criminal organization =>AS International]
Does anybody ready to be granted such an honor?
US Universities have lost their meaning as they grant Doctor
Honoris Causa to criminals and dictators, e.g. General Paul Kagame and
the likes.
Lionnel Luca claims that bearing in mind that the ex-dictator held this distinction and it was not redrawn later, the Doctor Honoris Causa title has lost its meaning. He says he does not understand why the case was kept silent.
On the other hand, representatives of the University from Nyssa explained that on January 25 1990, the institution's Administration Council tried to "review this distinction", but the institution's policy made the redraw of the distinction awarded to Nicolae Ceausescu impossible.French deputy refuses Doctor Honoris Causa title because it was also awarded to dictator Ceausescu and later to the Rwandan dictator Paul Kagame.
General Paul Kagame is popular:
In 1975 Elena was awarded Doctor Honoris Causa at both the
University of Teheran and Jordan University in Amman (Les 3-4). Before Elena
and Nicolae Ceausescu set out for a state visit to the United States in 1978,
the Illinois Academy of Science approached Elena, offering her an honorary
membership.
Here is the list of the infamously granted awards by the Kagame crime whitewashers shamefully wearing the human rights umbrella and coming from all ranks of importance. The criminal system includes US and UK worldwide mafia’s individuals, organizations and charlatans that praise and support Kagame’s crimes, a good thing to them as he facilitates loots of Rwandan and Congolese wealths. What a cynism! How people are so cruel. Où va-t-on? Dirait le Français.
Saturday, March 16, 2013
Rwanda: The land of Liars, Total Impunity and Colossal Corruption
In they Think You're Stupid, Inferior and Subman
This horrific story does not end there.
Despite the ongoing violence and human rights abuses in Rwanda, the United States works in public and behind the scenes to strengthen relations with the Rwandan criminal regime.
The US and EU political systems must immediately cut off all funding for Kagame (secret) police, military and militia, who continue to abuse their power without consequence. And US court system must allow Individuals, US citizens who claim to proceed in situations where justice is not possible in the country where the abuse takes place.
We hope the Kagame case will help bring justice where it has been denied. Instead:
Let’s Go Wipe Our Feet on Kagame's Red Carpe
GOMA - A rebel faction spokesman says his armed group has regained control of all of the M23 rebel territory in eastern Congo, and the leader of the other faction "has been arrested" in Rwanda.
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| Jean-Marie Runiga Arrested in Rwanda |
Col. Vianney Kazarama said Saturday that Jean-Marie Runiga was detained by Rwandan authorities after fleeing across the border.
The movement's military leader, Gen. Sultani Makenga, dismissed the political head of the movement, Jean-Marie Runiga, in February. Both men then formed their own factions, which have been fighting since. Kazarama, who is the spokesman for Makenga's faction, says they have taken control of the areas designated for M23 control.
The M23 is largely made of Tutsi fighters who were part of a previous rebellion before being integrated into the army in 2009. They rebelled again in April 2012.
KINSHASA (Reuters) - Congolese rebels loyal to warlord Bosco Ntaganda have fled into neighboring Rwanda or surrendered toUnited Nations peacekeepers after being routed by a rival faction, rebel and U.N. sources said on Saturday.
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| General Nkunda Also arrested or fled to an unknown destination? |
Ntaganda's apparent defeat comes after weeks of infighting within the M23 insurgency and could open the way for rival rebel leader Sultani Makenga to sign a peace deal with Kinshasa, bringing an end to a year-long rebellion in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.
Rebel spokesman Vianney Kazarama said Makenga's fighters seized control of the town of Kibumba, 30 km (19 miles) north of Goma, capital of mineral-rich North Kivu province, early on Saturday.
Ntaganda and an estimated 200 fighters fled into the forest while others crossed the border into Rwanda, Kazarama said. At least seven fighters were killed.
"We're sweeping the area and placing our soldiers at strategic points," Kazarama said. "It is finished."
Ntaganda is wanted by the International Criminal Court on charges of killing civilians during a previous rebellion. His links to M23 have been a stumbling block to peace talks with Kinshasa - the Congolese government has repeatedly said it wants him brought to justice.
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| Gisenyi/Rwanda: A kind of mis-en-scène: JM Runiga's rebels or RDF soldiers?? Check it out ! |
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| General Nkunda Also arrested in Rwanda |
"We're following the situation very closely. The only thing we want is for Ntaganda to be arrested," government spokesman Lambert Mende said.
Ntaganda's whereabouts could not be confirmed independently and members of his faction were not reachable by telephone on Saturday.
Rwanda said on Saturday more than 200 rebel fighters had fled across its border overnight, including M23's former political head Jean-Marie Runiga, a Ntaganda loyalist who was ousted from the rebel hierarchy last month.
"It's over for the Bosco (Ntaganda) and Runiga faction," one U.N. source said.
Dozens of other M23 fighters, including senior officers, had handed themselves over to U.N. peacekeepers in recent days, according to the source, who asked not to be named.
The United Nations has accused Rwanda of backing armed uprisings in its vast and unstable neighbor to tackle extremist Rwandan rebels who operate there and to protect its economic interests.
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| General Mutebusi Also arrested in Rwanda ! |
In 2009, Kigali played a key role in ending the last major insurgency when it arrested its former ally and rebel leader Laurent Nkunda as part of a deal with Kinshasa.
That agreement saw Ntaganda integrated into the Congolese army as a general. It was Kinshasa's alleged failure to honor the terms of the deal that the rebels say sparked the M23 uprising.
M23 is one of many rebel groups operating in eastern Congo, which has been torn apart by nearly two decades of fighting over land, ethnicity and resources which has left millions dead.
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| Bizima ou Bizimana? Why are U lying? Karaha or Karahamuheto?? |
1999 - Rifts emerge between Congolese Liberation Movement (MLC) rebels supported by Uganda and Rally for Congolese Democracy (RCD) rebels backed by Rwanda.
Lusaka peace accord signed
1999 July - The six African countries involved in the war sign a ceasefire accord in Lusaka. The following month the MLC and RCD rebel groups sign the accord.
GOMA/KINSHASA, 26 August 2004 (IRIN) - A battle is looming in the Democratic Republic of the Congo over who will control a key rebel group-turned-political party. How the battle plays out could determine whether the peace process remains on track.
The leader of the Rassemblement congolais pour la democratie (RCD-Goma), Azarias Ruberwa, who has been one of the four vice-presidents, left the capital, Kinshasa, last week for Goma, his stronghold in the east, and then this week announced that he was suspending his participation in the country's one-year old transitional government of national unity. But party members are divided over the decision and Ruberwa, himself, seems deeply ambivalent about the action he has taken.
"The situation at the moment is tense and fragile," Jacqueline Chernard, a UN information officer in Goma, said. "This is a difficult period and indeed some hard-line elements might seize the opportunity to continue rebelling," she told IRIN.
The current crisis was precipitated by a massacre on 13 August of 160 Congolese Tutsis, known as Banyamulenge, who in June had fled across the border into neighbouring Burundi. Ruberwa, who is also a Banyamulenge, described the massacre as "a genocide" and said the transitional process needed to be paused and re-assessed.
The leader of the Rassemblement congolais pour la democratie (RCD-Goma), Azarias Ruberwa, who has been one of the four vice-presidents, left the capital, Kinshasa, last week for Goma, his stronghold in the east, and then this week announced that he was suspending his participation in the country's one-year old transitional government of national unity. But party members are divided over the decision and Ruberwa, himself, seems deeply ambivalent about the action he has taken.
"The situation at the moment is tense and fragile," Jacqueline Chernard, a UN information officer in Goma, said. "This is a difficult period and indeed some hard-line elements might seize the opportunity to continue rebelling," she told IRIN.
The current crisis was precipitated by a massacre on 13 August of 160 Congolese Tutsis, known as Banyamulenge, who in June had fled across the border into neighbouring Burundi. Ruberwa, who is also a Banyamulenge, described the massacre as "a genocide" and said the transitional process needed to be paused and re-assessed.
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| Ruberwa or Ruberwankiko? Why are U lying?? |
Divisions within RCD-Goma largely follow ethnic lines and reflect one of major fault lines in the country's on-going conflict. Other Congolese see the Banyamulenge as foreigners since they originally came from Rwanda over a century ago.
Ruberwa said he suspended his participation in the transitional government because the peace accord that brought it about may need to be redesigned. However, according to Information Minister Henri Moya Sakanyi, President Joseph Kabila has said renegotiating the agreement was "out of the question". Moya Sakanyi said the signatories of the accord had met earlier this year and agreed that the accord should stand.
Senior MPs in RCD-Goma based in Kinshasa and the majority of RCD-Goma members are also opposed to withdrawing from the transitional government. "We feel that pulling out of the institutions of the republic at this time is not going to resolve any of the contradictions we are denouncing," Emile Ilunga, a former chairman of the RCD who is the deputy speaker of parliament, said.
"We should rather go to the elections," Ilunga said of the nation's first ever-democratic elections scheduled for 2005. "It's from the inside that we can influence the course of events rather than being on the outside."
But the massacre in Burundi has hardened the position of hard-liner Banyamulenge within the RCD-Goma who have long opposed the transitional government and who now accuse the Kinshasa government of supporting the massacre.
Ruberwa said he suspended his participation in the transitional government because the peace accord that brought it about may need to be redesigned. However, according to Information Minister Henri Moya Sakanyi, President Joseph Kabila has said renegotiating the agreement was "out of the question". Moya Sakanyi said the signatories of the accord had met earlier this year and agreed that the accord should stand.
Senior MPs in RCD-Goma based in Kinshasa and the majority of RCD-Goma members are also opposed to withdrawing from the transitional government. "We feel that pulling out of the institutions of the republic at this time is not going to resolve any of the contradictions we are denouncing," Emile Ilunga, a former chairman of the RCD who is the deputy speaker of parliament, said.
"We should rather go to the elections," Ilunga said of the nation's first ever-democratic elections scheduled for 2005. "It's from the inside that we can influence the course of events rather than being on the outside."
But the massacre in Burundi has hardened the position of hard-liner Banyamulenge within the RCD-Goma who have long opposed the transitional government and who now accuse the Kinshasa government of supporting the massacre.
| General Kagame Monsters don't sleep under your bed They sleep inside your head |
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| I hate liars, hypocrits, backstabbers..Huum From Kigali. They keep their eyes open to assure themselves that you believe their tale. |
Already in June, renegade commander Gen Laurent Nkunda led his troops into southern Kivu town of Bukavu saying that the Banyamulenge there were being persecuted. His troops are accused of committing widespread looting and human rights abuses in the week they occupied the town.
In an interview with IRIN following the recent massacre, Nkunda vowed to invade Bukavu again. "If the peaceful means of solving the problem have failed we shall resort to forceful measures," he said. "Unless our demands are met of protecting our people, then we will certainly pick up our guns and fight on."
Now, according to a number of officials in Goma, a coalition is emerging between Nkunda and former foreign affairs minister Bizima Karaha who was among eight RCD-Goma MPs in the interim parliament who failed to take up their seats recently when the assembly went into session.
Many observes say that Ruberwa is caught between showing his colleagues in Kinshasa that he is serious about the peace process and showing his fellow Banyamulenge in Goma that he will stand up for them.
Reflecting the competing pressures Ruberwa is under, one of his last acts as vice-president was to issue a decree calling for Nkunda's arrest. Then, the next day, he announced his withdrawal from the government, a position that effectively supported Nkunda.
One official within RCD-Goma told IRIN that Ruberwa had wanted to return to Kinshasa but had been overpowered by elements opposed to the transition. An expatriate in Goma agreed. "Ruberwa is seen as a traitor from both sides no matter which decision he takes," he said.
Ruberwa openly admitted the dilemmas he faces when speaking last week at the memorial service in Goma for the Banyamulenge massacred in Burundi. "We are divided at the moment," he said of party members. "Some are for Karaha, others for Ruberwa, others for Nkunda. If we do not unite and speak as one, then we will perish."
Ruberwa's pullout will result in a slow down in the Kinsaha's ability to expand its authority to the east as well as a halt in economic reunification and the reintegration of the armed forces. It also reduces the effectiveness of the parliament and the senate.
Heightened tensions also make the job harder of the 10,800-strong UN peacekeeping force currently spread throughout a country the size of Western Europe.
An international committee supporting the transition called on RCD-Goma to lift its suspension. In a communiqué on Tuesday, it stated that there was no viable alternative to the transition process. The committee is made up of the ambassadors of Angola, Belgium, Britain, Canada, China, France, Gabon, Russia, South Africa, USA, Zambia, the European Union, African Union and the UN mission in the DRC.
Many observers say that war is again a possibility. "This is a stark reminder that events could spiral into large-scale war again at nearly any time," says a UN official in Goma. A South African diplomat in the Rwandan capital, Kigali, agrees. "The position taken by RCD-Goma is definitely a terrible blow to the peace process and could lead this country into renewed war," he said. South Africa brokered the peace agreement that led to the formation of the power-sharing transitional government.
In a letter addressed to the UN Security Council, the International Crisis Group appealed to Western countries to act to save the DRC from being plunged into a new war.
Most dangerous are the threats, accusations and counter-accusations between the governments of the DRC and its eastern neighbours, Burundi and Rwanda.
In an interview with IRIN following the recent massacre, Nkunda vowed to invade Bukavu again. "If the peaceful means of solving the problem have failed we shall resort to forceful measures," he said. "Unless our demands are met of protecting our people, then we will certainly pick up our guns and fight on."
Now, according to a number of officials in Goma, a coalition is emerging between Nkunda and former foreign affairs minister Bizima Karaha who was among eight RCD-Goma MPs in the interim parliament who failed to take up their seats recently when the assembly went into session.
Many observes say that Ruberwa is caught between showing his colleagues in Kinshasa that he is serious about the peace process and showing his fellow Banyamulenge in Goma that he will stand up for them.
Reflecting the competing pressures Ruberwa is under, one of his last acts as vice-president was to issue a decree calling for Nkunda's arrest. Then, the next day, he announced his withdrawal from the government, a position that effectively supported Nkunda.
One official within RCD-Goma told IRIN that Ruberwa had wanted to return to Kinshasa but had been overpowered by elements opposed to the transition. An expatriate in Goma agreed. "Ruberwa is seen as a traitor from both sides no matter which decision he takes," he said.
Ruberwa openly admitted the dilemmas he faces when speaking last week at the memorial service in Goma for the Banyamulenge massacred in Burundi. "We are divided at the moment," he said of party members. "Some are for Karaha, others for Ruberwa, others for Nkunda. If we do not unite and speak as one, then we will perish."
Ruberwa's pullout will result in a slow down in the Kinsaha's ability to expand its authority to the east as well as a halt in economic reunification and the reintegration of the armed forces. It also reduces the effectiveness of the parliament and the senate.
Heightened tensions also make the job harder of the 10,800-strong UN peacekeeping force currently spread throughout a country the size of Western Europe.
An international committee supporting the transition called on RCD-Goma to lift its suspension. In a communiqué on Tuesday, it stated that there was no viable alternative to the transition process. The committee is made up of the ambassadors of Angola, Belgium, Britain, Canada, China, France, Gabon, Russia, South Africa, USA, Zambia, the European Union, African Union and the UN mission in the DRC.
Many observers say that war is again a possibility. "This is a stark reminder that events could spiral into large-scale war again at nearly any time," says a UN official in Goma. A South African diplomat in the Rwandan capital, Kigali, agrees. "The position taken by RCD-Goma is definitely a terrible blow to the peace process and could lead this country into renewed war," he said. South Africa brokered the peace agreement that led to the formation of the power-sharing transitional government.
In a letter addressed to the UN Security Council, the International Crisis Group appealed to Western countries to act to save the DRC from being plunged into a new war.
Most dangerous are the threats, accusations and counter-accusations between the governments of the DRC and its eastern neighbours, Burundi and Rwanda.
A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali is a moving, passionate love story set amid the turmoil
and terror of Rwanda’s genocide.
All manner of Kigali residents pass their time by the pool of the Mille-Collines hotel: aid workers, Rwandan bourgeoisie, expatriates, UN peacekeepers, prostitutes. Keeping a watchful eye is Bernard Valcourt, a jaded foreign journalist, but his closest attention is devoted to Gentille, a hotel waitress with the slender, elegant build of a Tutsi. As they slip into an intense, improbable affair, the delicately balanced world around them–already devastated by AIDS–erupts in a Hutu-led genocide against the Tutsi people. Valcourt’s efforts to spirit Gentille to safety end in their separation. It will be months before he learns of his lover’s shocking fate.(less)
All manner of Kigali residents pass their time by the pool of the Mille-Collines hotel: aid workers, Rwandan bourgeoisie, expatriates, UN peacekeepers, prostitutes. Keeping a watchful eye is Bernard Valcourt, a jaded foreign journalist, but his closest attention is devoted to Gentille, a hotel waitress with the slender, elegant build of a Tutsi. As they slip into an intense, improbable affair, the delicately balanced world around them–already devastated by AIDS–erupts in a Hutu-led genocide against the Tutsi people. Valcourt’s efforts to spirit Gentille to safety end in their separation. It will be months before he learns of his lover’s shocking fate.(less)
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The Truth can be buried and stomped into the ground where none can see, yet eventually it will, like a seed, break through the surface once again far more potent than ever, and Nothing can stop it. Truth can be suppressed for a "time", yet It cannot be destroyed. ==> Wolverine
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