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THE BRITISH HIGH COMMISSIONER'S VISIT TO THE POLITICAL PRISONER INGABIRE IN KIGALI CENTRAL PRISON.*

2012-01-27T16:27:00.015+01:00

Kigali 1930 Prison: Overcrowded, assassinations, disappearances, massacres, HIV, legalized torture… Whatever you can imagine from a prison, they have it here. Corruption and bribery run riot here, and that's just the staff! Prisoners (all Hutu ethnic origin) eat actually rat poison to escape the depravity here. Some prisoners become slaves, others only leave their cells for 4 hours a day and the violence is horrendous. The International Red Cross is unable to know which prisoner was there yesterday or not. Inmates here tend to be naked and infected with horrible diseases that kill them slowly. Overcrowding means that they don’t get the medical help they need and most die in agony... The only way to get out of this: Accept to be a genocidaire and you become a slave somewhere in a Thee or Coffee plantation belonging to one of the powerful RPF leaders.

Ben Llewellyn Jones,
the British high Commissioner to Rwanda

Ms. Ingabire Victoire, the Would-be president
of Rwanda, now in Kagame's worst prison

Kigali - On 24 January 2012, His Excellency Benedict Llewellyn-Jones OBE, the United Kingdom High Commissioner to Rwanda, together with the Embassy political counselor, visited Ms. Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza in her maximum prison cell. They discussed the conditions of detention.
The opposition leader asked the Ambassador to intercede on her behalf on President Paul Kagame in order to have human conditions of detention. “You can see it by yourself, there is little or no fresh air in this cell and no natural light at all”, she showed.

The political party FDU-INKINGI welcomes this visit and trusts that the United Kingdom will continue to engage the government of Rwanda on crucial issues of human rights, political prisoners and political space, freedoms and legal reforms.

On 5 January 2012, as the British Foreign Secretary William Hague was starting a 2 day historic visit to Burma after the release of the pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi he called on political prisoners to
be released and said :“I made clear that the British Government stands ready to respond positively to evidence of further progress towards that lasting improvement in human rights and political freedom that the people of Burma seek.”

The time has arrived to discuss openly those issues with the Rwandan leadership as well and to condition aid to the government of Rwanda on political reforms and freedoms, said Mr. Boniface Twagirimana , Interim Vice President* *FDU-INKINGI
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African SurViVors International (AS International) is an international nonpartisan charity organization devoted to defending human rights. It’s an organization working to promote democracy and national reconciliation, inside countries of the African Great lakes Region.
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AS International centers its work on the twin concepts of freedom of self-determination and freedom from tyranny. These ideals include the belief that all human beings have the rights to speak freely, to associate with those of like mind, and to leave and enter their countries. Individuals in a free society must be accorded equal treatment and due process under law, and must have the opportunity to participate in the governments of their countries;
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AS International’s ideals likewise find expression in the conviction that all human beings have the right to be free from arbitrary detainment or exile and from interference and coercion in matters of conscience. ASI does not support nor condone violence.

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

Travel Advisory for Rwanda Posted on 01/25/2012

2012-01-26T21:51:00.000+01:00

WARNINGS AND RECOMMENDATIONS

Rwanda
Canadians are strongly advised to remain vigilant and avoid large crowds. In recent years, a number of grenade attacks have taken place throughout the country, particularly in Kigali and the Southern Province. The attacks usually occur at nightfall and take place at busy locations such as bus stations. On January 3, 2012, a grenade explosion killed two people and injured several others at Marembo Center in the Gasabo District of Kigali. On January 24, 2012, a grenade attack wounded 10 people in the town of Gitarama in the Muhanga district.

Pickpocketing and petty crimes take place.

Regional Warning: Regions Bordering Burundi and the DRC
OFFICIAL WARNING: Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada advises against non-essential travel to the rural areas bordering Burundi and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) – except to the towns of Gisenyi, Kibuye, and Cyangugu – because of possible incursions by various rebel army groups.

The presence and movement of Rwandan refugees returning from neighbouring countries may cause tensions in rural areas. Although significant progress has been made in promoting national reconciliation, the security situation in these rural areas remains fragile. No violent incidents have been reported recently in the towns of Gisenyi, Kibuye, and Cyangugu, near the border with the DRC, or in the town of Butare, near the border with Burundi.

The Rwanda-DRC border could be closed without notice.

OFFICIAL REGISTRATION RECOMMENDATION: We offer a registration service for all Canadians travelling or living abroad. This service is provided so that we can contact and assist you in an emergency abroad, such as a natural disaster or civil unrest, or inform you of a family emergency at home. Registration can be done on-line or by contacting a Canadian government office abroad. For more information, see our FAQs on Registration of Canadians Abroad.

3. SAFETY AND SECURITY

The decision to travel is the sole responsibility of the traveller. Travellers are responsible for their own personal safety. The Government of Canada takes the safety and security of Canadians abroad very seriously and provides credible and timely advice in its Travel Reports. In the event of a crisis situation that requires evacuation, the Government of Canada’s policy is to provide safe transportation to the closest safe location. Canada will assist Canadians in leaving a country or a region as a last resort, when all means of commercial or personal transportation have been exhausted. This service is provided on a cost-recovery basis. Onward travel is at the individual’s personal expense. Situations vary from one location to another, and there may be constraints on government resources, which can limit the ability of the Government of Canada to provide assistance, particularly in countries or regions where the potential for violent conflict or political instability are high.

Rwanda

This advice has been reviewed and reissued with amendments to the Travel Summary and the Safety and Security - Grenade Attacks section (grenade attack in Gitarama on 24 January 2012). The overall level of the advice has not changed; we advise against all travel to specific parts of Rwanda and against all but essential travel to other specific parts of Rwanda.

Travel Summary
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There was a confirmed grenade attack along a main road in the town of Gitarama on the evening of 24 January. Approximately 14 people were injured.

We advise against all travel to the rural border areas with Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), except to the towns of Gisenyi, Kibuye and Cyangugu. We advise against all travel to Eastern DRC except for Goma and Bukavu. We advise against all but essential travel to Goma and Bukavu. This is because of the risk of cross-border incursions by armed guerrillas operating from DRC’s Kivu provinces and ongoing instability in Eastern Congo. Please see the Local Travel section for advice on gorilla trekking in Rwanda.

We advise against all but essential travel to the rural border areas of Burundi. See Burundi Travel Advice if you are planning to visit Burundi.

Crime levels are relatively low but there have been recent incidents of street crime. You should exercise caution at night.

There is a low threat from terrorism. But you should be aware of the global risk of indiscriminate terrorist attacks which could be in public areas, including those frequented by expatriates and foreign travellers.

You should take out comprehensive travel and medical insurance before travelling. See the General (Insurance) section of this Travel Advice.

Safety and security

Safety and Security – Grenade Attacks
The Rwandan Police have confirmed a grenade attack in Gitarama on 24 January. There were approximately 14 casualties but no deaths. Police are investigating and it has been reported that two suspects have been arrested.
There have been previous reports of random grenade attacks, resulting in fatalities and injuries. These include one in 2012: on 3 January in the Gasabo District of Kagali in which two people were killed and 18 injured. There were three in 2011: in January and March in Kigali in Rusizi town in the Western Province in July People have been arrested and convicted but it remains unclear who is behind these attacks and we advise travellers to maintain at least the same level of personal security awareness as in the UK.

Safety and Security - Terrorism
There is a low threat from terrorism. But you should be aware of the global risk of indiscriminate terrorist attacks which could be in public areas, including those frequented by expatriates and foreign travellers.

See our Terrorism Abroad.

Safety and Security - Crime
Levels of crime remain relatively low in Rwanda. There has, however, been an increase in reports of bag snatching and mugging incidents targeting expatriates and tourists.

You should take sensible precautions i.e. exercise caution when walking at night, arrange transport, do not carry large amounts of money and do not leave cars unsupervised in the town centre. Take care who you talk to, who you invite to your home or hotel and who you hire as a taxi driver just as you would in UK.

See our Victims of Crime Abroad page.

Safety and Security - Local Travel
Areas bordering Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)
We advise against all travel to the rural border areas with Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), except to the towns of Gisenyi, Kibuye and Cyangugu. This is because of the risk of cross-border incursions by armed guerrillas operating from DRC’s Kivu provinces and the ongoing trouble in Eastern Congo where there is a UN peacekeeping force, MONUSCO, operating and the presence of various rebel groups. The visa requirements at the border between DRC and Rwanda have changed. Please see DRC Travel Advice for more details. Please monitor FCO’s Travel Advice section for any updates.

RWANDANS SUPPORTING VICTOIRE INGABIRE UMUHOZA

Hundreds of Rwandans came together for the support of Rwandan Opposition leader Madam Victoire Umuhoza Ingabire.

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

DRC: Assassination of the innocent young Congolese Hutus: Kabila's police march in Goma streets to crush a demonstration of young Congolese Hutus

2012-01-26T20:18:00.002+01:00

All your armies, All your fighters,
All your tanks and all your soldiers.
Against a boy holding a stone,
Standing there all alone.
In his eyes I see the sun,
In his smile I see the moon.
And I wonder I only wonder.
Who is weak and who is strong,
who is right and who is wrong.
And I wish I only wish.
That the truth has a tongue. (Qasem Qasem, 2000)

After the UN Security Council did nothing to bring perpetrators named in the UN Mapping report, Congolese Hutu children prefer dying throwing volcanic stones to the self-proclaimed president: Joseph Kabila, the Rwandan and Kagame's puppet in DRC.

Rwanda : "Si nous nous sommes retirés, c'est parce qu'on tuait des Belges"

All Parties and Presidential contestants should accept for a recount of the votes.

The prevention of genocide and apprehension of RPF criminals is the duty of the UN Security Council. the non-punishment of the criminals has been the source of Twin crimes in our world, which remain unpunished:

Praising the Rwandan and the Ugandan bloody dictators: Kagame-Museveni

Mass-slaughter in Rwanda, Uganda and DRC by both bloody dictators led to the Genocide in both Rwanda and DRC.

En même temps que le Président élu Etienne Tshisekedi voulait prendre en possession de son fauteuil présidentiel à Kinshasa ce jeudi 26 janvier 2012, les Jeunes Hutu de la villede Goma ont utilisé ce qui est à leur portée, à savoir, les pierres volcaniques pour protester contre l'enlevement du chef de la jeunesse Hutu du Territoire de Rutshuru. Plusieurs avenues de la ville ont été barricadées nuitamment par la population au moyen des pierres volcaniques noires qui meublent le sol de Goma.

Sachant la gâchette facile de la police de Goma, les organisateurs de la manif sont satisfaits de ce test de la pierre volcanique qui a produit les effets escomptés, notamment mettre à dure épreuve le physique des sbires de la police congolaise et décélérer la vitesse de leur intervention dans la ville volcanique de Goma.

Images of stone-throwing Congolese Hutu youths angry with the north Kivu authorities for their colleague reported missing. Instead of investigating the incident, the DRC north province prefer to use force. These are one of the enduring images of the beginning of Kabila's failure to bring peace to congo and stop cooperating with the mastermind of the Congolese genocide: Paul kagame, but how does the portrayal on television differ from the reality on the ground? Probably there will be no say or the event will be minimized by some of western media pro DRC lootings and Congolese genocide.

African SurViVors International (AS International) is an international nonpartisan charity organization devoted to defending human rights. It’s an organization working to promote democracy and national reconciliation, inside countries of the African Great lakes Region.
AS International centers its work on the twin concepts of freedom of self-determination and freedom from tyranny. These ideals include the belief that all human beings have the rights to speak freely, to associate with those of like mind, and to leave and enter their countries. Individuals in a free society must be accorded equal treatment and due process under law, and must have the opportunity to participate in the governments of their countries;
AS International’s ideals likewise find expression in the conviction that all human beings have the right to be free from arbitrary detainment or exile and from interference and coercion in matters of conscience. ASI does not support nor condone violence.

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

Responding to the French Judge Marc Trevidic's technical report

2012-01-11T18:12:00.000+01:00

[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 fist, 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]

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - On the 1st October 2011, I published a confession in which I stated that Paul Kagame, then overall commander of the Rwandese Patriotic Army, the armed wing of the Rwandese Patriotic Front, was personally responsible for the shooting down of the plane on April 6, 1994, in which President Juvenal Habyarimana of Rwanda.

Others killed in the crash:

President C. Ntaryamira
President of Burundi

President Cyprian Ntaryamira of Burundi
Deogratias Nsabimana
Elie Sagatwa
Thaddee Bagaragaza
Emmanuel Akingeneye
Bernard Ciza

Cyriaque Simbizi

Jacky Heraud

Dr. Thoegene Rudasingwa

I stated that Paul Kagame himself had told me, in July 1994, that he was responsible for the shooting down of the plane. I stated that Paul Kagame has to be brought to account for his role in this terrorist crime that provided a trigger for the 1994 genocide in Rwanda.

have also stated that myself and other witnesses are willing, able, and ready to provide further evidence to national or/and international jurisdictions interested in contributing to truth, justice, reconciliation and healing in Rwanda.

Neither myself nor other new, willing, and able witnesses have yet been able to meet Judge Marc Trevidic, or any other international tribunal/court. to give the true account of the events surrounding the shooting down of the plane.

Today, 10th January, 2012, the French Judge, Marc Trevidic, investigating the 1994 terrorist crime, made public the findings of the Technical Report by ballistic experts. Among other things, the technical report stated that:

President J. Habyarimana
President of Rwanda

Rwanda Pres. Juvenal Habyarimana

a) the experts were leaning more towards the version of the events that the missile that shot down the plane originated from several areas, especially around the Kanombe area in Kigali;
b) the missiles were made and supplied from the former Soviet Union and,
c) lawyers and other interested parties have up to three months to contest any matters arising from the report.
In this regard, I would like to state the following:
1. That the missile was fired from a number of areas in the Kanombe area does not exonerate Paul Kagame from having committed the crime;
2. That the missiles were of Soviet Union origin will prove to be of substantive help in establishing who the real culprit is, and;
3. That there is time for us ( myself and other interested and new witnesses) to respond fully to the technical report and provide credible testimony to Judge Marc Trevidic, or any other in the international jurisdiction, to pin down Paul Kagame as the culprit in this terrorist crime.

Rwanda Pres. Paul Kagame

I stand fully behind the letter and spirit of my October 1st, 2011 confession. Judge Marc Trevidic’s technical report has not proved me wrong. Nor has it exonerated Paul Kagame from this crime, and yet Kigali is spinning the story out of context to celebrate what it calls “victory”. In the coming months and years, myself, other witnesses, Rwandans and others in the international community who heed the call, will continue to endeavor to have Paul Kagame account for his role in this and other crimes.

I would like to remind all Rwandans and the international community that this is not Judge Marc Trevidic’s final judgment on the matter. Furthermore, matters of truth and justice for Rwandans will primarily be decided by us Rwandans. Even when the international community and foreigners in general have had the reputation of disappointing Rwandans, we must have faith in our struggle for truth, justice, healing, and reconciliation.
Let us mobilize and organize, for truth and justice shall ultimately prevail.

We shall win.

Dr. Theogene Rudasingwa

Editors :

Jean-Pierre Minaberry

Jean-Michel

AS International centers its work on the twin concepts of freedom of self-determination and freedom from tyranny. These ideals include the belief that all human beings have the rights to speak freely, to associate with those of like mind, and to leave and enter their countries. Individuals in a free society must be accorded equal treatment and due process under law, and must have the opportunity to participate in the governments of their countries;

AS International’s ideals likewise find expression in the conviction that all human beings have the right to be free from arbitrary detainment or exile and from interference and coercion in matters of conscience. ASI does not support nor condone violence.

FACTBOX-Key political risks to watch in Rwanda

2012-01-08T20:49:00.001+01:00

Fri Jan 6, 2012 2:50pm GMT

By Graham Holliday

KIGALI Jan 6 (Reuters) - Just over a year since President Paul Kagame's landslide election win, observers have lauded economic progress in Rwanda but warned a lack of political freedom and media restrictions have dented any reforms.

Kagame, in his final term which expires in 2017, has denied he has cracked down on political opposition and said he is a freedom fighter.

"People say that there is no political space ... Actually, the only space lacking is the one that is occupied by these intruders. This nonsense from outside is occupying our space," Kagame said in a speech to parliament last month.

Below are some of the political risks facing Rwanda:

POLITICAL OPPONENTS

Former chief of staff Kayumba Nyamwasa and a former chief of military intelligence, Patrick Karegyeya, both sentenced to 20 years in jail in absentia by a military court, formed the Rwanda National Congress (RNC) opposition party in December 2010.

Rwanda says the two have formed a rebel group and are collaborating with the country's enemies.

The trial of opposition politician Victoire Ingabire, leader of the unregistered FDU-Inkingi party, which started in September 2011, is set to resume on January 16. She faces charges including denying the genocide, divisionism and working with a terrorist group.

Kagame's election win underlined his domination of the political arena. He has been praised for restoring stability after the 1994 genocide and engineering Rwanda's rapid economic recovery and vision of being a middle-income country by 2020.

But critics accuse Kagame of being authoritarian and of trampling on media and political freedoms.

Any debate over a third term for Kagame is said to be "undesirable" by key sources in the government, because it damages the reputation of the country in the eyes of critics who say the political class has no democratic credentials.

Susan Rice, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, has said although Rwanda's economy has grown, its political culture remains comparatively closed and media restricted.

What to watch:

-- Trial of Ingabire. The case remains a major test of the independence of Rwanda's judiciary. Her British lawyer claimed the laws under which she is being tried were not enacted at the time the crimes were alleged to have been committed, or they lie outside the jurisdiction of the court.

Ingabire denies funding FDLR Hutu rebels and says her detention is politically motivated.

-- Theogene Rudasingwa, a former chief of staff to Kagame, said on Facebook on Oct. 1 that Kagame "was personally responsible" for the shooting down of the plane carrying President Juvenal Habyarimana in 1994, which sparked the start of the genocide. Rudasingwa was formerly ambassador to the U.S. and a founding member of the RNC.
-- Trial of Laurent Nkunda. The former leader of the National Congress for the Defence of the People (CNDP), a rebel force that repeatedly routed Democratic Republic of Congo's army, has been under house arrest in Rwanda since January 2009.

Rwandan law forbids the extradition of people to states such as Congo that have the death penalty. Nkunda's trial has been postponed four times since the case was passed to the military courts in April 2010.

-- The media. A bill to amend the 2009 media law, emphasizing self-regulation and creation of an independent monitor, is currently being debated by the political and gender committee in parliament.

A draft law on access to information is also expected to be enacted in the near future. It will be the first of its kind in Rwanda.

Some observers see the draft media law as a positive move, but remain concerned the changes will remain on paper alone due to limited media outlets. Two newspapers banned in 2010 for six months have failed to resume publication. The editors of Umuseso and Umuvugizi now reside in exile and publish online.

POLITICAL RIFTS, CONGO TENSIONS

Kagame's war on graft, which has led to Rwanda being ranked as the least corrupt nation in east Africa, has seen his former political associates arrested on graft allegations.

Rwandan officials are required to declare their wealth by June 30 every year, but 361 government officials did not meet the deadline in 2011. Diplomats say while the government wants to clean up its act to attract more direct foreign investment, its plans are being hampered by some of its own members.

What to watch:

-- A report by a team of French investigators into the shooting down of the plane carrying former President Juvenal Habyarimana, whose assassination marked the start of the 100-day genocide in 1994, is expected this month.

-- Any signs of deepening rifts within the military. Some observers say Nyamwasa's moves could expose further rifts within the ruling party. What emerges from the alliance between Nyamwasa and Ingabire's party, and how the government reacts to it, could expose weakness among some of the political elite close to Kagame. But diplomatic sources say they do not see the coalition as a serious political or military threat.

-- The fate of Nkunda. Nkunda's arrest heralded a new era in relations between Rwanda and Congo and his fate could influence their ties. Congo wants him extradited for war crimes, but Rwanda wants this done in a way that avoids "conflict of law".

Foreign Minister Louise Mushikiwabo said there was a political dimension to the case and extradition was difficult and could cause instability if not handled carefully.

-- Analysts believe Kagame made a peace agreement with Democratic Republic of Congo President Joseph Kabila in 2009. This has helped keep the previously restive eastern Kivu provinces relatively stable over the past two-and-a-half years.

-- Opposition leader Etienne Tshisekedi has claimed Kabila's re-election to the top seat was fraudulent and has sparked political instability in Congo. Will this unrest spill over into Rwanda?

-- Following the massacre of some 45 civilians in eastern DRC this week, will the violence in South Kivu affect Rwanda? (Editing by James Macharia and Sophie Hares)

African SurViVors International (AS International) is an international nonpartisan charity organization devoted to defending human rights. It’s an organization working to promote democracy and national reconciliation, inside countries of the African Great lakes Region.

AS International centers its work on the twin concepts of freedom of self-determination and freedom from tyranny. These ideals include the belief that all human beings have the rights to speak freely, to associate with those of like mind, and to leave and enter their countries. Individuals in a free society must be accorded equal treatment and due process under law, and must have the opportunity to participate in the governments of their countries;

AS International’s ideals likewise find expression in the conviction that all human beings have the right to be free from arbitrary detainment or exile and from interference and coercion in matters of conscience. ASI does not support nor condone violence.

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

General Dallaire's role - in cold blood - during the premeditated mass-murder of millions of Innocent Hutus and Tutsis

2012-01-08T17:27:00.005+01:00

No judicial action or even investigation is underway:

Hutus are facing ethnic discrimination in Education, in business and in employment.
We read every single day in the Convention on the prevention and punishment of genocide those notorious words:

“…acts committed with the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial, religious group…” and then “… deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part”: in the name of "economic" development and overpopulation, we see the world community keeping silence on the inhuman expropriation, the spread of HIV/AIDS by all possible means, overpopulation in prisons, increase of measures silencing criticism, laws against freedom of speech and freedom of assembly, etc.

All measures taken by the RPF government including the 2020 notarious objective are intended and connected to achieve the results of the ongoing planned genocide o f the Hutu, the ethnic majority of Rwanda, acts that are extended to and taking place in neighboring countries such as the Democratic Republic of the Congo. On the contrary, the Rwandan bloody dictator Paul Kagame, the mastermind of the Rwandan and Congolese genocide is invited across the world and is welcomed with the red carpet.

Why Canada remains greatly indebted to the General Kagame and RPF government?

The Empirical Record on Habyarimana's Death
ICTR/Rudasingwa – Kagame ex-aide wants to reveal all details about downing of Habyarimana’s plane by RPF
"I HAVE BEEN THROUGH HELL". PART 3 - Interview de JC Nizeyimana (DH RWANDA)
Assassinations in Rwanda
Let's not whitewash Dallaire's war crimes and crimes against Humanity as they do in Canada: Lieutenant-General The Honorable Roméo A. Dallaire

The Dutch born General
Protected by his country Canada
1. UN advisory committee on genocide prevention
2. Qualified as suffering of Traumatic stress disorder
3. founder of the Child Soldiers Initiative
4. Senatorial designation to the rest of his life: appointed
on the advice of Martin (Lib.)

=> Booming Business with a criminal regime in Kigali.
Theogene Rudasingwa's Revelations On Downing Of ...

Netherlands's freedom of speech : Internet is 100% controled not by Google: For for which intation? Romeo Dallaire has bon in Denekamp in the Netherlands in June 25, 1946. Surprised? Guess not. Follow Netherlands strict collaboration with General Paul Kagame in Rwanda.

General Romeo Dallire had to lieve Rwanda after being sure the Genocide has taken place and thus RPF would seize power in Kigali according to the plan. Millions of innocent people were brutally murdered in Rwanda. He has never been mentioned even thaugh he made investigations of the assassinated children, wives and all of those who perished because of him without bringing the presumed RPF death squads RPF leaders to justice.

"Is it true that "We" respect human rights in our operations, not just because doing so fosters a stable business environment, but more importantly, because it is the right and responsible thing to do ! ! !"
They don't care. However:

African SurViVors International (AS International) is an international nonpartisan charity organization devoted to defending human rights. It’s an organization working to promote democracy and national reconciliation, inside countries of the African Great lakes Region.

AS International centers its work on the twin concepts of freedom of self-determination and freedom from tyranny. These ideals include the belief that all human beings have the rights to speak freely, to associate with those of like mind, and to leave and enter their countries. Individuals in a free society must be accorded equal treatment and due process under law, and must have the opportunity to participate in the governments of their countries;
AS International’s ideals likewise find expression in the conviction that all human beings have the right to be free from arbitrary detainment or exile and from interference and coercion in matters of conscience. ASI does not support nor condone violence.

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

Merry Christmas and the Prosperous and Happy New Year 2012 from As International !

2011-12-25T11:20:00.003+01:00

While we continue this effort in collaboration and cooperation with other Human Rights organizations working in Africa and network around the globe, As International will continue to call on the intervention of UN Security Council, Amnesty International, Human rights Watch and other NGOs working and promoting Human Rights in Africa to help ending conflicts and human rights violations in that region.
The critical issue in DRC should be HIGHLY taken for serious by the UN Security Council and organize new and fair elections for the sake of Justice, Freedom and RESPECT FOR THE CONGOLESE PEOPLE's CHOICE.

The year 2012 is significant for African SurViVors International: HOPE

In response to the CURRENT critical humanitarian crisis in Rwanda, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Burundi, As International calls on all of other organizations to cooperatively work with us for stopping the bloodyshed in the our African Great Lakes Region.

As we said before, you can't talk about Christmas without mentioning Jesus. In the same context, you cannot talk about human rights abuses in Rwanda, congo, war crimes in Congo, crimes against Humanity in Congo and genocide without mentioning General Paul Kagame, the mastermind of the Rwandan and Congolises Genocides, a criminal STILL AT LARGE.
Concerning the DRC, an independent inquiry was necessay than ever to determine those who are involved in the conflict and who are committing all kind of inimaginable crimes on the Congolese soil: Multinational mining companies, American and Briths individuals, Rwandan government (RDF),RCD,CNDP,FARDC, MONUC, and other RPF newly created proxy armies. Concerning Rwanda, a sustained dialogue among Rwandans is more than necessary to end the regional conflict. The dialogue should be helping conflictual parties and the civil societies to map and name problems and relationships. A dialogue sustained over time can produce such a transforming political process.

Our motto for 2012: Freedom for all prisoners of conscience: Ms Ingabire Victoire, Me Ntaganda Bernard, Mushayidi Deogratias and many others plus journalists. All of them are those who were arrested by the dictator Rwandan Paul Kagame, detained and imprisoned for acts in furtherance of their political beliefs. As a consequence, they are arbitrarily denied their liberty and due process of law.

They are charged with political offenses. But more often than not they are charged with criminal offenses in an effort to deny the political nature of their alleged offenses and to stigmatize them as plain criminals guilty of the most heinous crimes such as rebellion, negationism, genocidal ideology, terrorism and variations thereof. These are all non-bailable offenses meant to keep the all of our political leaders incarcerated while court hearings proceeded at snail's pace.

They are all victims of political repression and state terrorism which are the General Kagame and RPF government's reaction to dissent, criticism, political activism and defense of human rights.

Ms Ingabire Victoire Umuhoza,
The Would-Be President of Rwanda
The Rwandan Rosa Parks
Actually sitting in Kagame's prison

Amsterdam - The African SurViVors International Foundation (As International) Committee, along with all survivors across the world particularly in Afghanistan, Democratic Republic of The Congo, Afganistan, Rwanda, Somalia and Burundi, along with the staff at national headquarters in Wilnis in The Netherlands, would like to take this moment to wish you and your family a Blessed Christmas Day and the Happy New Year 2012!

This is the time of year when you can take stock of the blessings you have, and plan for new success in the New Year. One of the blessings we have here at ASIF are our members, partners, and volunteers, because it simply would not happen without all of you. Human rights are the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world. When human rights are not respected, tension and even armed conflict often follow. That what we actually live in the Congo, across Rwanda, Somalia and Darfur in Sudan.

The New Year 2012 provides exciting opportunities to all of us, but our success depends on all of us working together toward our goals of Human Rights education, conflict resolution, culture of good governance, and democratic values, Justice and reconciliation. The UN Charter makes this clear by affirming its “faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person, in the equal rights of men and women and nations large and small.”

The World Programme for Human Rights Education points out that “Human rights education encompasses:

Human rights is not a subject that can be studied at a distance. All people at all levels in Africa should not just learn about the Universal Declaration, about racial injustice, discrimination, war crimes and genocide or about poverty in developing countries without also being challenged to think about what it all means for them personally. As human rights educator and advocate, African SurVivors International staff members must ask the involved people, students and ourselves, “How does this all relate to the way we live our lives?” The answers to this question will tell us much about how effectively we have taught our students and different community members in different workshops.

(a) Knowledge and skills — learning about human rights and mechanisms for their protection, as well as acquiring skills to apply them in daily life;
(b) Values, attitudes and behaviour — developing values and reinforcing attitudes and behavior, which uphold human rights;

(c) Action — taking action to defend and promote human rights around the world.”

Using information and communication technologies (ICTs) to promote human rights education.

Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.”
Plan an Internet event or campaign

Using the Internet to advertise and even to host an event is a growing trend in communication and in outreach.
Thank you for being a friend, member, partner and supporter, and best wishes from our family to yours!

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays 2012 from African SurViVors International!

We look forward to enjoying great New Year 2012 with all of you!

Be healthy, wealthy and sound!

Congo opposition candidates denounce election fraud, The world Community denounce elections fraude.

2011-12-19T22:46:00.001+01:00

Eastern Congolese Opposition Join Forces to Protest Election

Subject: MARIYA NEDELCHEVA (UE, MISSION D'OBSERVATION EN RDC) : INTERVIEW.

Version 01 : MARIYA NEDELCHEVA- CHEF DE LA MISSION D’OBSERVATION DE L’EU EN RDC- PARLE DES RESULTATS DE L’ELECTION PRESIDENTIELLE.

African SurViVors International (AS International) is an international nonpartisan charity organization devoted to defending human rights. It’s an organization working to promote democracy and national reconciliation, inside countries of the African Great lakes Region.

AS International centers its work on the twin concepts of freedom of self-determination and freedom from tyranny. These ideals include the belief that all human beings have the rights to speak freely, to associate with those of like mind, and to leave and enter their countries. Individuals in a free society must be accorded equal treatment and due process under law, and must have the opportunity to participate in the governments of their countries;

AS International’s ideals likewise find expression in the conviction that all human beings have the right to be free from arbitrary detainment or exile and from interference and coercion in matters of conscience. ASI does not support nor condone violence.

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

General Paul Kagame: The Mastermind of the Rwandan Genocide remains at large

2011-12-18T12:20:00.002+01:00

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]

Deep insight: Rwanda genocide: Bagosora's life sentence reduced

A man who was seen as a key organiser of the Rwandan genocide has had his sentence reduced from life to 35 years.

Theoneste Bagosora was a senior figure in Rwanda's ministry of defence at the time of the massacres.
General Paul Kagame, the probably mastermind of the Rwandan Genocide remains at large. To help Rwandans to reconcile, Paul Kagame should be apprehended and brought to JUSTICE. To understand the issue, we call on our readers to listen tothe French Professor Lugan here below:

Génocide rwandais : renversement de perspective
Geüpload door realpolitiktv. - De allerlaatste nieuwscontent.
[In 1994 around 800,000 people - mostly from the Tutsi ethnic group - were killed in just 100 days.=> This is the refrain (from Vulgar Latin refringere, "to repeat", and later from Old French refraindre) repeated in Kagame's music or in verse; the "chorus" of RPF followers'song to hide the Truth about millions of Hutus and Tutsis mass-slaughtered by Paul Kagame. RPF and Kagame pro-media will always repeat it as to insist on Kagame's scenario about the 1994 tragic events].
The UN-backed International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) convicted Bagosora of genocide and crimes against humanity three years ago.
He was arrested 15 years ago in Cameroon and his trial at the Rwanda tribunal in the Tanzanian city of Arusha began in 2002.
Appeal judges in Arusha cleared him of some of the charges he faced, including ordering killings at roadblocks in the capital, Kigali.

But his convictions for genocide and crimes against humanity were upheld.

Co-accused to be freed
The BBC's East Africa correspondent Will Ross says he decision has angered some Rwandans who are are questioning why a man who played such a key role in the genocide would have his sentence reduced.

Around 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus were killed in Rwanda in 1994 They point to the fact that many others who were lowing ranking genocide convicts were given life sentences.

In 1994, Bagosora was chief of staff in the ministry of defence and effectively in charge of the soldiers who took part in the massacres.

The killings began after the plane carrying Rwanda's then-President Juvenal Habyarimana was shot down on 6 April 1994, killing everyone on board.

The appeals court found that he knew the crimes were going to be committed and did nothing to stop them, the AFP news agency reports.
At his trial, Bagosora, who is a Hutu, maintained he was a victim of propaganda by Rwanda's current Tutsi-dominated government.
Bagosora is 70 years old. With time already served, his 35-year sentence will see him imprisoned until he is 89.
One of the men convicted alongside Bagosora, Anatole Nsengiyumva, has had his sentence reduced on appeal to 15 years, and will be released because of time served, says AFP.
African SurViVors International (AS International) is an international nonpartisan charity organization devoted to defending human rights. It’s an organization working to promote democracy and national reconciliation, inside countries of the African Great lakes Region.

AS International centers its work on the twin concepts of freedom of self-determination and freedom from tyranny. These ideals include the belief that all human beings have the rights to speak freely, to associate with those of like mind, and to leave and enter their countries. Individuals in a free society must be accorded equal treatment and due process under law, and must have the opportunity to participate in the governments of their countries;

AS International’s ideals likewise find expression in the conviction that all human beings have the right to be free from arbitrary detainment or exile and from interference and coercion in matters of conscience. ASI does not support nor condone violence.

ICC Releases Callixte Mbarushima‏

2011-12-18T11:21:00.002+01:00

CirqueMinime/Paris

Could the ICC’s decriminalization of the FDLR set a legal precedent?

Beyond the ICC Decision to Release [FDLR[1] Secretary] Callixte Mbarushima

[adapted by CM/P from the original French op/ed by Eugene Shimamungu for the Source de Nile Newletter 37]

At the end of this week, while Paul Kagame was celebrating his high-mass, the “Umushyikirano,” a sort of phony Rwandan national chat, which is really just a Kagame stand-up cheered on by his suck-ups, themselves too scared to ask any real questions, the ground seemed to open up under the dictator’s feet.

In the same week, the ICTR freed Anatole Nsengiyumva of the Military I trial, and agreed to a reduction in the sentence of [Col. Théoneste]Bagosora, who is no longer charged with intent [or planning] to commit genocide. And at the same time, more good news, though bad news, no doubt, for Paul Kagame, came out of the ICC: Chamber I refused to uphold the charges against [FDLR Secretary] Callixte Mbarushimana and ordered his release. Shame on Prosecutor Moreno Ocampo, and intense rectal pain for Paul Kagame!

It was Kagame, himself, who had sensed the impending storm! During the Umushyikirano, after having upbraided the loveliest [sic] of “foreigners” (that being the American [UN Ambassador] Susan Rice) who had recently given him lessons on democracy, Kagame complained about the turn of events at the ICTR, that the Bagosora trial had lasted too long (17 years by his count) to have born such pathetic results. Here we must understand “the results that did not satisfy him.”

Because since the notion of “the brains of the genocide” fizzled out, the Tribunal has not been able to find a “planner for the genocide” and has had to make do with “taking judicial notice” of this genocide by now so well-known to the public, a genocide stitched out of whole propaganda, which has not been proven by the evidence beyond any reasonable doubt, but instead sanctified by the media. This has turned out to be a minimization unto a negation by this same Tribunal of the acts of genocide committed in the period between April and July 1994. The notion of “the brains of the genocide,” supported by the expert ‘blancs menteurs’[2] of every stripe, who have made a lot of hay from, but are having a lot of trouble being clear about this judgment, has gone a long way to make people forget that Bagosora was, by law, innocent until proven guilty. Kagame’s great fear is that justice is liable to find him to be the real planner of the genocide and turn on him to pay his unimaginable debt to bleeding Humanity.

And here’s where the ICC issued a Press Release on 16 December 2011, according to which the charges against Mbarushimana were not upheld and the decision was taken to release him: the Court was moved to this decision especially by the fact that “the evidence bearing on substantial motives was insufficient to make the Court believe that Callixte Mbarushimana could be held criminally responsible” for the crimes against Humanity charged against him by the Prosecution.And the cherry on top: “the Court concluded that there was insufficient evidence of substantive motives to believe that crimes against Humanity had been committed by the soldiers of the FDLR”!All of this is obviously subject to appeal by the Prosecution or by the Defense.

If this decision is upheld, what effect will it have on trials in progress?

The flagship trial is obviously that of Victoire Ingabire. Charged with aiding and abetting terrorism (as an accomplice to the FDLR) and entertaining genocide ideology, there is no hope that the Rwandan judges in Kagame’s clutches will take notice of the ICC decision. It is also unsure whether the charges in this indictment, which could be a double-edged sword, even if Kagame’s power joins in with the former FDLR cadres, like the famous General Rwarakabije, Ingabire’s jailor (Director of Prisons in Rwanda) in her current lock-up, prison “1930,” to diminish if not eliminate the rebellion! It is in this way, too, that power has corrupted all the former or false FDLR to testify against Victoire Ingabire. In the end, this collaboration between the power in Kigali and the FDLR is a backdoor corroboration of the ICC decision. One could even claim that the confusion created by the power in Kigali on this subject will end up decriminalizing the FDLR.
Another trial that the whole world has forgotten is pending in Germany against Ignace Murwanashyaka, president of the FDLR, and his collaborator, Straton Musoni. Their lawyers have been able to use this ICC decision with success, and their clients have a good chance of being released in the next few days. Even if you consider that the responsibilities of the President, who knows the terrain very well, are not the same as those of his Secretary Mbarushimana, who has never set foot on it.

Eugene Shimamungu

©www.editions-sources-du-nil

African SurViVors International (AS International) is an international nonpartisan charity organization devoted to defending human rights. It’s an organization working to promote democracy and national reconciliation, inside countries of the African Great lakes Region.

AS International centers its work on the twin concepts of freedom of self-determination and freedom from tyranny. These ideals include the belief that all human beings have the rights to speak freely, to associate with those of like mind, and to leave and enter their countries. Individuals in a free society must be accorded equal treatment and due process under law, and must have the opportunity to participate in the governments of their countries;

AS International’s ideals likewise find expression in the conviction that all human beings have the right to be free from arbitrary detainment or exile and from interference and coercion in matters of conscience. ASI does not support nor condone violence.

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

Le génocide Rwandais et le Négationnisme

2011-12-13T23:10:00.000+01:00

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]

Le 1er octobre 1990 le FPR (Front patriotique du Rwanda lourdement armé) allié à l’Ouganda et soutenu internationalement a envahi le Rwanda, puis le Congo en 1996.

Depuis, les « gendarmes des Américains en Afrique » (et ailleurs) sont présentés comme des victimes et toutes les stratégies de « com » imaginables y participent.

Dans la foulée, bien entendu, on se plaît à présenter, tout « Hutu », ou membre ou ex membre des FAR (Armée légitime du Rwanda ou Front armé rwandais), FDLR (Front Démocratique de Libération du Rwanda), comme « génocidaire », ce qui est, re-bien entendu, une ineptie notoire (visant à faire taire et à éliminer, ici et là-bas).
Cette majorité Hutu s’est vue, et se voit encore, dépouillée de tout droit, même de défense correcte, de même que ceux qui ont conscience de l’énorme manipulation à laquelle nous assistons pour pouvoir régner, sur l’Afrique, ses terres, ses soleils….

Pour ce faire, on n’hésite pas à traiter, taxer, insulter, de « négationniste », ici et là, qui lève le petit doigt.
Mais, dites-nous, qui sont les vrais « négationnistes » ?
Aux vrais "Négationnistes"
En Belgique, comme au Rwanda, on fourbit les armes idéologiques propagées par les mots et des lois contre les décrétés accusés « négationnistes ».
Au nom du mot "négationnisme", de son utilisation, et de la loi de 1995 mise au point suite à l'apparition de Faurisson qui niait l'existence des chambres à gaz, voici, ou revoici, notre « lettre aux vrais négationnistes ».
Nous rappelons qu’il ne s’agit pas de parler de la Shoah qu’ont subie les Juifs mais bien de l’amalgame que certains veulent imprimer dans les esprits en Belgique et ailleurs au sujet du Rwanda,

cela afin de cacher les vrais enjeux sur toute l'Afrique et la majorité des crimes dont ils sont complices, depuis 1990, au moins.

LETTRE AUX « VRAIS NEGATIONNISTES »

Ceux qui empêchent les autres de pleurer leurs morts.
Ceux qui nient la mort des autres en ne parlant que de la leur ou de celles de leur clan, qui empêchent les autres d’en parler en les effrayant, en effrayant les chercheurs ou les diseurs de vérités.

Aux vrais négationnistes, ceux qui, sans vergogne, nient, étouffent la parole et les deuils, le chagrin de ceux qui savent, ceux qui les relayent et empêchent, interdisent, nient leur existence ou la salissent,
ceux qui veulent répandre à tous cris le mensonge dans les nouvelles générations ignorantes par le biais de l’enseignement et de l’éducation permanente, de la culture et de la politique, et ce, avec les deniers publics, les nôtres, ceux qui traînent les autres devant des tribunaux qu’ils n’ont nullement mérités,
ceux qui soutiennent le bien fondé d’une justice inique et improvisée, transformant les lieux publics en tribunaux expéditifs, ceux qui corrompent, qui payent de faux témoins, qui avilissent l’intégrité et toute parole humaine, toute conscience restante, ceux, de nos élus, de noo élites, universitaires ou pas, qui osent les soutenir, et se présentent, souriant(e)s, faussement innocent(e)s, sur des écrans et à la tête de parterres de conférences, abuseurs(se)s patentés, indignes d’éducation populaire ou pas, ceux qui cherchent travestir l’histoire, ceux qui utilisent la victimisation au bénéfice matériel de leur propre descendance ou communauté, afin, peut-être, de rendre plus exceptionnelle leur histoire, ceux qui par tous les biais s’ingénient à empêcher la libre expression, quand il s’agit de celle des autres, détournant notamment les canaux médiatiques à leur avantage ; cela, au nom, à présent, d’une prétendue « résilience » personnelle, clanique ou communautaire, revendiquée.
Ils ne sont pas conscients, sans doute…. qu'à long terme, ils auront tort....

A ceux-là, négationnistes de la vérité, nous disons :

nous soutenons ceux qui en ont besoin et qui veulent qu’on sache ce qui s’est passé et ce qui se passe.

Annik Ferauge

- Avril 2010, repris en 2011
En complément, veuillez trouver ici, résumé d’un livre récemment paru.
Carnages, Les guerres secrètes des grandes puissances en Afrique
Pierre Péan – Fayard, novembre 2010

Résumé par Mr Philpot

Pierre Péan a mis les pieds en Afrique pour la première fois en 1962, dans la foulée des libérations, mais aussi dans la foulée d’une nouvelle sorte de domination qu’on a fini par qualifier de néo-colonialisme, dont le lâche assassinat en 1961 de Patrice Lumumba, libérateur du Congo, est devenu le symbole.
Au moins douze des trente livres que Pierre Péan a publiés depuis ce temps, portent sur l’Afrique et particulièrement sur la politique française en Afrique mais aussi, à un moindre degré, sur celle des autres pays-grandes puissances.

Nombreux sont ceux qui le placent parmi les plus grands journalistes d’enquête au monde. Il réunit toutes les qualités de l’écrivain limpide et incisif à celles du journaliste rigoureux et sans complaisance, dont les sources, principalement documentaires, sont toujours fiables, et dont le carnet d’adresses n’a pas d’égal.
C’est grâce à ce parcours incomparable qu’il a pu s’attaquer à un sujet aussi complexe et périlleux, mais ô combien important, que celui des guerres secrètes que les grandes puissances ont menées en Afrique depuis la fin de la Seconde guerre mondiale.

Carnages, Les guerres secrètes des grandes puissances en Afrique (Fayard, 2010) n’est pas seulement un tour de force par l’ampleur de la matière traitée mais aussi par les révélations sur des événements que l’on pense, souvent à tort, connaître.

Parmi celles-ci, les plus importantes concernent, à notre avis, le rôle d’Israël dans les guerres et les joutes de pouvoir qui ont laissé tant de morts sur le continent.

À titre d’exemple, peu après que le Général de Gaulle a commencé à parler en 1959 de l’autodétermination de l’Algérie, David Ben Gourion, premier ministre d’Israël, a essayé de convaincre de Gaulle, ainsi que tous les fonctionnaires français d’adopter sa solution : la partition de l’Algérie pour faire en sorte qu’il y ait une population française permanente le long de la Méditerranée qui serait alimentée par l’émigration de la France vers l’Algérie d’un million de Français.

Lors de sa deuxième tentative de convaincre de Gaulle, ce dernier lui a répondu : « Ma foi, vous essayez de créer un nouvel Israël en Algérie! » Il faut ajouter qu’Israël voulait être récompensé pour des attentats commis par le Mossad contre des dirigeants du FLN algérien pour le compte de la France.

Cette recherche d’une « profondeur stratégique » de la part de l’État hébreu expliquerait beaucoup son implication dans la politique et les guerres africaines, du Caire au Cap et de Djibouti à Dakar.

C’est sous cet angle qu’il faut regarder les bouleversements au Soudan, le plus grand pays de l’Afrique. Péan cite une conférence d’Avi Dichter, ministre israélien de la Sécurité intérieure, prononcée en Hébreu à l’Institut de sécurité, en septembre 2008.

Traitant du Soudan et de sa région le Darfour, il dit : « Pourquoi cette ingérence? Parce qu’il y a un lien avec la question palestinienne (…) Il est important que le Soudan n’arrive pas à se stabiliser durablement. Important qu’Israël ait maintenu le conflit au Sud-Soudan pendant trois décennies, et qu’il le maintienne maintenant dans l’ouest du Soudan [Darfour]. (…) Il faut jouer sur les conflits ethniques et confessionnels, poursuit Dichter, et prolonger ainsi la profondeur stratégique d’Israël. C’est ce qu’a résumé Golda Meir quand elle s’est saisie du dossier en 1967. : ‘Il faut affaiblir les pays arabes dans leurs potentialités’ ». Pour y arriver le patron de la Sécurité intérieure, Dichter, propose divers moyens alternés, « tantôt la force, tantôt la diplomatie, tantôt les moyens de la guerre secrète. »

Mais Pierre Péan démontre aussi avec brio que les chefs d’orchestre des guerres secrètes en Afrique depuis plus de 20 ans se trouvent, non pas à Paris, ni à Londres, ni à Jérusalem, malgré leurs intérêts et interventions respectifs, mais à Washington.

Son portrait de Roger Winter, directeur depuis 1980 de la nébuleuse ONG US Commitee For Refugees et homme à tout faire de Washington en Afrique, donne froid dans le dos. Mais surtout il aide à comprendre les terribles guerres, toujours en cours, qui ont mis l’Afrique centrale à sac, de Kampala, en Ouganda, à Kinshasa, au Congo.

Les lecteurs québécois seront très intéressés par les détails fournis sur le rôle du Canada dans ces guerres meurtrières. Comment Jean Chrétien, et son neveu Raymond Chrétien, alors ambassadeur du Canada aux États-Unis ainsi que le général Maurice Baril, ont sacrifié des millions de réfugiés rwandais et de congolais pour satisfaire les visées stratégiques de Washington au Congo.

Bref, ils ont manigancé avec l’administration Clinton pour qu’aucune force d’interposition n’intervienne au Congo (l’ex-Zaïre) en novembre 1996, laissant ainsi la voie libre au Rwanda, soutenu par Washington et Londres, pour envahir ce pays et tuer des centaines de milliers de Rwandais, surtout des femmes en enfants en fuite, ce qui a abouti à la prise du pouvoir à Kinshasa.

Et dans cette guerre, Israël n’est jamais loin. Plusieurs avaient remarqué que le président rwandais Paul Kagamé a visité Israël à l’automne 1996 pour rencontrer le premier ministre Netanyahou peu avant l’invasion de l’ex-Zaïre en novembre 1996.

Pierre Péan explique pourquoi. En fait, Kagamé s’était rendu auparavant à Washington pour préparer l’invasion. Là on lui a conseillé d’aller en Israël pour s’assurer de la neutralité du Mossad (services secrets israéliens) qui s’occupait de la sécurité du président Mobutu de Zaïre.

Les lecteurs québécois seront également intéressés d’apprendre de qui relevait vraiment celui qu’on a érigé en héros international, Roméo Dallaire, au Rwanda au printemps de 1994.

Selon Pierre Péan, « les ‘grandes oreilles’ françaises, basées sur l’île de la Réunion , dans l’océan indien, (lire les services secrets), détectent que le général Dallaire, patron des Casques bleus, envoie ses ordres d’opération, avec demande de directives, non pas à ses supérieurs de l’ONU, à New York, mais au lieutenant Daniel Schroeder, patron américain de l’opération prétendument humanitaire baptisée Support Hope, avec copie au lieutenant-colonel, Jim Anderson, qui est à l’ambassade américaine récemment rouverte à Kigali. Dans les faits, poursuit Péan, Dallaire est passé sous commandement américain, Washington considérant Boutros Boutros-Ghali, le secrétaire général de l’ONU, comme inféodé à la France. »

Carnages, Les guerres secrètes des grandes puissance en Afrique est un livre passionnant, bien écrit et essentiel pour comprendre les 50 dernières années en Afrique mais aussi dans les grandes capitales de l’Europe et de l’Amérique.

African SurViVors International (AS International) is an international nonpartisan charity organization devoted to defending human rights. It’s an organization working to promote democracy and national reconciliation, inside countries of the African Great lakes Region.
AS International centers its work on the twin concepts of freedom of self-determination and freedom from tyranny. These ideals include the belief that all human beings have the rights to speak freely, to associate with those of like mind, and to leave and enter their countries. Individuals in a free society must be accorded equal treatment and due process under law, and must have the opportunity to participate in the governments of their countries;

AS International’s ideals likewise find expression in the conviction that all human beings have the right to be free from arbitrary detainment or exile and from interference and coercion in matters of conscience. ASI does not support nor condone violence.

L'Institution Jimmy Carter denonce les fraudes massives pendant les elections

2011-12-08T23:31:00.002+01:00

Fraude massive des elections en RDC

Une opinion de Arnaud ZAJTMAN, Réalisateur de documentaires sur le Congo et ancien correspondant permanent au Congo pour la BBC et la RTBF (de 2000 à 2010).

Les mots manquent pour qualifier la gravité de la situation qui prévaut actuellement au Congo. La commission électorale congolaise s’apprête à annoncer la victoire du président sortant Joseph Kabila sur la base de résultats frauduleux rejetés par la majorité des Congolais, jetant ainsi les bases du conflit le plus meurtrier qui puisse advenir, celui qui oppose un appareil d’Etat à sa population.

L’Occident, qui depuis dix ans dépense plus d’un million de dollars par jour pour la restauration de la paix et de l’Etat de droit au Congo, via la mission de maintien de la paix des Nations unies, s’apprête à valider ces résultats, signant ainsi l’échec de sa propre politique.

Les tendances déjà publiées par la commission électorale qui donnent la victoire à Kabila ne résistent pas à l’analyse. Par exemple, au Katanga, censé être le fief traditionnel de Kabila, la CENI donne près de 90 % des voix à Kabila alors que le jour du scrutin, les chiffres qui parvenaient des bureaux de vote disséminés dans les grandes villes de cette province donnaient seulement une légère avance de Kabila sur son rival Etienne Tshisekedi. Au Kivu, les chiffres donnent une écrasante majorité à Kabila alors que le jour du scrutin, c’est l’opposant Kamerhe qui y était largement en tête.
Dans les provinces de l’ouest et du centre qui ont voté massivement pour Tshisekedi, les chiffres sont incomplets ou peu crédibles. La fraude est grossière et tous les observateurs de la vie politique congolaise le constatent.

En réalité, les journalistes qui ont travaillé sérieusement sur ces élections et ont fait la tournée des bureaux de vote ont noté des tendances lourdes qui augurent de la victoire de Tshisekedi.

La population congolaise non plus n’est pas dupe. Lors des élections de 2006, la capitale Kinshasa n’avait pas plebiscité Kabila. Cependant les Kinois avaient accepté les résultats, comprenant que Kabila avait remporté la majorité des suffrages ailleurs dans le pays. Ils exprimaient ainsi avec sagesse l’espoir que ces élections marquaient le début d’un développement économique au Congo.

Aujourd’hui, les choses sont totalement différentes. Les électeurs congolais savent que Kabila n’a pas remporté l’élection. De plus, les révolutions arabes et, plus au sud du Sahara, le conflit en Côte-d’Ivoire avec l’invalidation par la communauté internationale des résultats frauduleux prononcés par la Cour suprême ivoirienne ont renforcé la conviction des Congolais dans leur lutte pour un Etat de droit.

Par ailleurs, Kabila, qui avait promis lors de son élection "la fin de la récréation", a en réalité bradé les ressources minières du Congo, mettant les entreprises d’Etat, notamment la MIBA, qui possède les immenses mines de diamant au Kasai, et la Gécamines, qui possède les gisements du Katanga, à genoux, créant, selon le rapport très précis du député britannique Eric Joyce, chef de la commission parlementaire britannique consacrée à l’Afrique centrale, un trou dans la caisse de plus de cinq milliards de dollars en à peine cinq ans, soit autant que le pillage organisé par Mobutu en 32 ans de règne sans partage !

Enfin, les électeurs congolais voient en Tshisekedi un leader charismatique, dont l’intransigeance certes inquiète parfois hommes politiques et diplomates occidentaux habitués à plus de déférence de la part de leurs interlocuteurs congolais, mais qui porte à son crédit le fait d’avoir mené une longue lutte pacifique et sans compromis pour l’émergence d’un Etat de droit au Congo, ce dont aucun autre homme politique congolais ne peut se prévaloir.

Face à cette situation explosive, la question de la position de l’Occident, et plus particulièrement de la Belgique, se pose avec acuité. Il est essentiel pour nos relations futures avec le Congo que la Belgique, elle aussi, réalise que l’époque a changé, et évite l’écueil dans lequel est tombée la France en Tunisie en ne voyant pas la révolution venir et en faisant perdurer un soutien à un régime autoritaire digne d’un autre âge. Rappelez-vous comment l’ambassade française en Tunisie avait ensuite été critiquée par Paris ! On assiste à une situation semblable au Congo, où les ambassadeurs occidentaux soutiennent Kabila face à un Tshisekedi qu’ils jugent imprévisible. Un jugement qui rappelle celui que l’Occident proférait envers le Premier ministre congolais Patrice Lumumba au moment de l’indépendance du Congo.
C’est pourtant en notre nom que les ambassadeurs agissent. Ce sont nos taxes qui leur permettent de mener sous les tropiques un mode de vie dispendieux. Nous avons droit à des explications sur leurs actions. Pourquoi apportent-ils un soutien tacite, sinon actif, au coup de force que prépare Kabila, comme on l’apprend de différentes sources à Kinshasa ? Au nom de quelles valeurs ? De quels intérêts ? Est-ce de nature à sécuriser les intérêts de la Belgique et la présence des ressortissants belges au Congo ? Je ne le crois pas. Au contraire ! Les temps ont changé et il est essentiel que la Belgique le comprenne sans tarder.

Il faut aussi que la Belgique mobilise ses alliés traditionnels au Conseil de sécurité des Nations unies : la France, la Grande-Bretagne et les Etats-Unis, et imprime une politique commune sur le Congo, comme elle l’a fait avec succès lors du tortueux processus politique qui a mené aux élections de 2006 au Congo. Il faut faire comprendre de toute urgence à Kabila que son coup de force et les massacres qui s’ensuivront immanquablement ne seront pas avalisés et qu’il est de son intérêt de sortir par la grande porte tant qu’il en est encore temps. Il a l’occasion d’entrer dans l’histoire comme le premier Président ayant permis l’alternance politique au Congo. Cela sera à son crédit et lui permettra peut-être de revenir aux affaires ultérieurement par la voie des urnes, comme on l’a déjà vu ailleurs en Afrique.

Lorsque le Congo a traversé des moments difficiles, la Belgique a souvent été en pointe. Il est important qu’il en soit ainsi en ce moment crucial et que notre ministre des Affaires étrangères agisse.

Il en va de l’avenir du Congo et de l’avenir de nos relations avec le pays africain le plus peuplé appelé, s’il est bien géré, à devenir un pôle de développement pour l’Afrique et d’expansion économique pour l’Europe.
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Tshisekedi's UDPS Press Conference

2011-12-03T10:02:00.001+01:00

UDPS a donné une conférence de presse

Jacquemain Shabani, secretary general of the UDPS, gives press conference on the elections:

It would be a disaster to ignore the Great will of 56 millions of Congolese citizens. Otherwise, that would be the the mastermind of the genocide as it happened in Rwanda. The world community must stay ouside of the results and NOT inflouence them to favour anyone of the politicla parties or individuals. Get to watch the conference witnessed by Colored Opinions

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Dans le cadre d'une initiative de consolidation de la paix pour prévenir les conflits

2011-12-03T09:40:00.000+01:00

As International préconise la démocratisation et les autre réformes des Nations Unies pour ne pas servir d'instrument de guerre contre les faibles nations. Aujourd'hui, La Cour Internationale ne sert que pour juger les vaincus pendant que les criminels sont accueillis a bras ouverts par nos dirigeants ici en Europe et aux Etats Unis. L'exemple frappat est celui de Kagame, le criminel reconnu internationalement pour ses crimes qui dépassent de loin ceux d'Adolf Hitler.

MOT D'ORDRE DE 2012: ARRETEZ KAGAME

Burundi: Disregard & loss of the spirit of the 2000 Arusha Accord

2011-12-03T09:13:00.000+01:00

In november 2010 we could read:

"Jean Marie Gasana, an independent consultant on the Great Lakes, traces the current situation in Burundi to what he terms a "disregard and loss of the spirit" of the 2000 Arusha Accord, a power-sharing deal designed to steer Burundi from civil war to stable democracy."
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Congo: Place Your Pre-Checked Ballot Please

2011-12-03T08:51:00.001+01:00

As International stark Warning against those who are actually preparing for a conflict in Congo. Enough is Enough. The Congolese People has more than enough suffered.

Pre-checked ballots arrived from South Africa a week ago in Lubumbashi and were used. Nice list of election rigging efforts. Some quotes of the day on the process. A study by Stanis Kalombo and Didier Nkingu APRODEC calculated, who interviewed CENI vice-president in Brussels november 21st on the elections, a couple of months ago that there are about 3 million phantom voters. Part of the exchange between Stanis Kalombo and CENI vice-president Jacques Ndjoli in this video.

A New War In Democratic Republic of Congo Is Imminent

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Watch ‘Rwanda Truth and Reconciliation: The Process Begins’ live at 4 pm Monday, Nov. 28

2011-11-28T22:21:00.003+01:00

The West and South Africa Working on Succession Plan in Rwanda, DRC, and Uganda

William Mitchell College of Law will webcast a conference featuring a high-ranking member of the Rwanda government from 4 to 6 pm Monday, Nov. 28.

“Rwanda Truth and Reconciliation: The Process Begins” will focus on steps Rwanda needs to take to fully recover from the Rwanda Genocide that killed hundreds of thousands of Rwandan people in 1994.

It is being organized by William Mitchell Professor Peter Erlinder, director of the International Humanitarian Law Institute, international criminal defense attorney, and former defense attorney at the International Criminal Tribunal on Rwanda.

Speakers include:

■Dr. Ali Galayd, former prime minister of Somalia,

■Paul Rusesabagina, president of the Hotel Rwanda Rusesabagina Foundation and author of “An Ordinary Man,” the memoir that became the film Hotel Rwanda,■Robert Flaten, former U.S. ambassador to Rwanda (1990-93),More to find out

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Susan Rice expresses concern over absence of fundamental freedoms in Rwanda

2011-11-25T00:59:00.000+01:00

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]

Kigali, Ruanda (AFP) - Rwanda should end harassment of opposition supporters to allow greater political openness for the country to develop, the U.S. envoy to the United Nations Susan Rice said on an official visit Wednesday.

Susan E. Rice
U.S. Permanent Representative
to the United Nations

Restrictions on the media, harassment of civil-society activists, opposition figures and journalists as well as the disappearance of some of them pose the “next developmental challenge” for the country, Rice said in a copy of a speech delivered at the Kigali Institute of Science and Technology in the capital today.

“The deepening and broadening of democracy can be the next great achievement of this great country and its remarkable people,” she said. “Economic development and political; openness should reinforce each other.”

"Civil society activists, journalists, and political opponents of the government often fear organizing peacefully and speaking out," Rice said in a speech in the Rwandan capital.

"Some have been harassed. Some have been intimidated by late-night callers. Some have simply disappeared."

The political culture in Rwanda under President Paul Kagame's government "remains comparatively closed “Rice said, adding that” press restrictions persist."

“Rwanda has not just moved beyond its own genocide. It has consistently led by example. From Darfur to Libya and standing up against those who would commit genocide or mass atrocities.”

“I’ve visited Rwanda now several times and as always I come here as a friend. This time, for the first time, I’ll be joined by my family. I want them to see your beautiful country and to learn what can be accomplished when a proud people unite in common cause.”

“I want them also to witness and take inspiration from your achievements. I believe as well that friends should speak frankly to friends.”

“Rwanda’s economic vitality has moved the country forward. Social progress has been substantial, yet the political culture in Rwanda remains comparatively closed. Press restrictions persist, civil society activists, journalists and political opponents of the government often fear organising peacefully and speaking out. Some have been harassed, some have been intimidated by late night callers, some have simply disappeared.”

“Yet, the world is moving rapidly in a different direction. Across the globe, including in societies where a common system rose that freedom would never arise, we’re seeing people demand the right to chart their own future. To organise peaceful demonstrations and to criticise their own governments. From… Tunisia, the demand to be heard has spread across North Africa and the Middle East…”

“…They will keep speaking out because they have a universal right to do so. And they know it. These rights: freedom of assembly, freedom of expression, freedom to organise peacefully, are just as valid, just as inherent in Asia, in Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa as they are in Europe, America or the Middle East.”

“As President Kagame said, I quote, “The uprising in Libya has already sent a message to leaders in Africa and beyond. It is that if we lose touch with our people, if we do not serve them as they deserve and address their needs, there will be consequences. Their grievances will accumulate — and no matter how much time passes, they can turn against you.” End quote.”
“The deepening and broadening of democracy can be the next great achievement of this great country and its remarkable people. In Rwanda, economic development and political openness can reinforce… this is Rwanda’s next great developmental challenge.”

“And with all that you have achieved ove the past seventeen years, I am confident that you will pass this milestone as well.”

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French Minister Juppé expressed concern over Rwanda’s human rights abuses.

2011-11-21T21:16:00.006+01:00

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]

French Foreign affairs Minister Allain Juppé
disappointed of the ongoing
human rights abuses in Rwanda!

French Foreign Minister Alain Juppé recently expressed his concern over continued human rights abuses committed by the government of Rwanda.

Speaking recently at a conference in South Africa, Juppé boldly expressed his concern over human rights abuse to over a hundred dignitaries attending the conference.

The conference entitled New Global Governance was organised by South Africa’s Institute of International Affairs and the French embassy in South Africa.

Participants at the conference included different diplomatic envoys to S.Africa, international researchers and international media practitioners.

Responding to a question from one of the RNC members which required his opinion on what was happening in Rwanda, French foreign affairs Minister Juppé expressed his concern about the ongoing human rights abuses committed by the government of Rwanda.

Juppé who happen to know much about Rwanda’s history said that the violation of human rights in Rwanda deserved an urgent solution and should worry everyone.

Most of the participants appreciated Minister Juppé ‘s concern most especially in such times when the entire International community and activist are also concerned of the ongoing violations of human rights in Rwanda.

Rwandan children, women and elderely people, Rwandan activists and different Rwandan political opposition parties were rallied in Brussels on Saturday November 19th to protest against Paul Kagame dictatorship and His human rights mass violations (montgomery metro station to the Rwanda House Embassy) against his own people. Get to watch it and BE THE FIRST TO KNOW!

Rwandan political analyst told Umuvugizi news that Minister Juppé’s words were comforting message to all Rwandans that the International community is strongly concerned of what’s taking place in Rwanda.

Uwera, South AfricaSource : Umuvugizi
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Joseph Kabila au service du Rwanda et des Multinationales

2011-11-17T23:27:00.002+01:00

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No return, restoring the past: main cause of failure=>ASIF]

Les mystères du "conglomérat d'aventuriers" venu du Rwanda pour "libérer" le Congo se dévoilent petit à petit, sur le temps. Ils ont roulé plusieurs de nos compatriotes dans la farine. Il se pourrait que nos leaders politiques n'aient pas fait exception; Théodore Ngoy et Etienne Tshisekedi y compris. L'alliance pour la sauvegarde du Dialogue inter-congolais dont plusieurs congolais ne maîtrisaient ni les tenants ni les aboutissants peut être classifiée parmi les erreurs de notre marche historique sous l'AFDL.

Lumumbiste proche de feu général André Kisase Ngandu, ancien commandant de brigade des Forces armées congolais (FAC) à Lodja sous Laurent-Désiré Kabila, JulesLumumba Onangando vit depuis plusieurs années en exil en France. Dans une interview accordée à Congoindependant.com, l’officier donne sa version sur la disparition du général Kisase Ngandu, le tout premier chef militaire de l’AFDl, et évoque ses déboires avec Joseph Kabila, alors chef d’état-major de l’armée congolaise.

« Joseph Kabila a travaillé dans les services de sécurité rwandais avant la guerre de l’AFDL»

Qui êtes-vous exactement ?

Je m’appelle Jules Lumumba Onangando. Je suis un militaire proche de feu général André Kisase Ngandu. Nous avons commencé la lutte dans les années 60 avec Kisase et le général Nicolas-Philippe Olenga dès que nous avons appris la mort du Premier ministre Patrice Lumumba en janvier 1961. J’ai fait partie de l’armée fidèle à Antoine Gizenga à Kisangani. Nous étions des nationalistes. C’est à cette époque que j’ai rencontré Laurent-Désiré Kabila, qui était un des nôtres.

Avez-vous rencontré un certain Joseph Kabila à l’étape de Goma ?

Effectivement. « Joseph » était souvent en compagnie de James Kabarebe, alors colonel de l’Armée patriotique rwandaise. « James » l’initiait aux métiers des armes.

On vous l’a dit ou avez-vous été un témoin direct ?

Je l’ai vécu. On entendait dire que c’est un fils Kabila. Etrangement, les autres enfants de LD Kabila autant que ceux de Jean-Claude Kifwa alias Tango Tango – un des neveux de LD Kabila - ne considéraient pas Joseph comme un des leurs. Ils lui déniaient la qualité de membre de leur famille. Nous avons fini par comprendre que Joseph était en réalité le fils d’une des « maîtresses » de Laurent-Désiré.
Est-ce peut-être parce que Joseph est né dans le maquis et a grandi à l’étranger ?

En vérité, Joseph Kabila est un soldat de l’armée patriotique rwandaise. C’est un fait connu de tous. Ce n’est qu’à l’étape de Lubumbashi (avril 1997) qu’une certaine propagande l’a présenté comme le fils de son père, donc Congolais.

Quid alors de Mama Sifa Mahanya ?

Mama Sifa Mahanya n’est pas la mère de Joseph.

Pouvez-vous le démontrer ?

Sifa est une « maman inventée » de toutes pièces pour les besoins de la cause. Il s’agit de crédibiliser l’histoire selon laquelle la mère de Joseph est congolaise. Alors que tous ceux qui ont eu à fréquenter le maquis de Kabila père savent que la génitrice de l’ actuel président est une femme tutsie que le Mzee avait prise à un militaire tutsi qui travaillait avec lui.

Que dites-vous alors de la déclaration solennelle du Grand Chef Kasongo Nyembo selon laquelle « Joseph Kabila est un MulubaKat à cent pour cent » ?

Je me demande si le chef Kasongo Nyembo - que je respecte par ailleurs - n’a pas été « conditionné » pour faire cette annonce

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Is Paul Kagame of Rwanda a Communist?

2011-11-13T11:15:00.000+01:00

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]

Is Rwanda under Paul Kagame a communist state? Our friends at Colored Opinions have reinvented this debate again. The contend that the characteristics of the Rwandan state bears close resemblance to other communist experiments that the world has witnessed elsewhere. Moreover, they demonstrate the links that Kagame shares with the global communist movement--from Museveni's National Resistance Army to South Africa's anti-apartheid movement. I have to say that this is an issue that has long fascinated me as much.

From the onset, it must be said that there is little difference whether procedural or substantive between the present and the past regimes in Rwanda. A comparison between Kagame's regime and that of Habyarimana reveals sticking similarities. Both regimes are western donor darlings; and both attempt to exercise total control over the civilian population. The only major difference is that the actors have changed--that is, a Tutsi elite has replaced a Hutu elite as the protector of the "revolution". Otherwise, the two regimes are largely a copy and paste of each other.

If Habyarimana's rule was communist, then it was never overt. Habyarimana had very little contact with the global Marxist movement. In fact, he tried to flirt with right-wing fascists, and perhaps due to his close ties with Mobutu, he was believed to be sympathetic to rogue elements of the capitalist world such as Jonas Savimbi of Angola. He might have been the only other African president (other than Mobutu) who never bothered to support the Africa National Congress (ANC) in South Africa. While his greatest support came from French's Mitterand who was a socialist, it would be a stretch to call Miterrand a communist. Moreover, ties with China were quite weak under Habyarimana and apart from the occasional scholarships that the Soviet rendered to Rwandan students, the cooperation between Rwanda and the Soviets was very basic.
Theogene Rudasingwa likes to boast his about past Marxist credentials. During an Open Society Forum, he openly claimed that the RPF was a Marxist revolutionary movement. There is some truth to this claim. First, the RPF founder, Fred Rwigema masqueraded as the Rwandan version of Che Guevara. Rumors have it that he fought in Mozambique against the Portuguese. His role in Museveni's National Resistance Army is a public record. Together with Kagame and several other young Tutsis, they fought to lay the foundation for the corrupt dictatorship that owns Uganda to this day. Important to note, Museveni marketed himself as a Marxist during those days.

My impression is that communism is a figment of imagination to the RPF, a tool they can flirt with in order to achieve power. In reality, their only ideology at this point is how to maintain political privileges. During the late 80s, Communism was the only ideology that could mobilize a disenfranchised mass to take up arms against their oppressors. Moreover, it was an easy way for a rebel movement to gain support from communist internationalists and Pan Africanist movements. In retrospect, this worked for the RPF. One of their earliest benefactors, in addition to Uganda, was Cuba. Many of the RPF cadres, including President Kagame were trained in Cuba. Later even the mad-man of Libya, now humbled by an internal revolution in his own country, rendered support to the RPF.

The question that begs asking is whether an unpopular movement can claim Marxist credentials. There is no easy way to answer this. It is true that the RPF was very unpopular particularly among the rural peasantry during the three-year long armed rebellion. It is possible that the RPF blamed this backlash on bourgeoisie's propaganda. After all, the media at the time was an exclusive monopoly of the regime in power. Still, it both aloof and arrogant that one would seek to liberate an individual, not willing or ready to be liberated. We see a repeat of this when the RPF invaded the DRC to "liberate Hutu refugees.
In as much as the RPF used communist ideals to gain power, they use it today to maintain it. To be sure, this is not a unique Rwandan problem. As George Ayittey argues, crocodile liberators and limousine communists are rampant on the continent of Africa. However, in Rwanda, the communist stance takes occupies a very visible place. As such, a lot of the government's programs are totalitarian in nature. For instance, it is a crime in Rwanda to "oppose government programs". Those who criticize the government are shunned as "Rwanda haters". We have indoctrination camps for "re-educating" the masses, some of which are ironically funded by western donors. The communist doctrine is solidified by a highly militarized and fascists political class that aims at inserting total control over speech and thought.

It is no wonder then that most outsiders are amazed by the sophisticated and unnatural level of public order. This is a very programmed country, and we keep a well rehearsed script for outsiders. But the cleanliness comes at a heavy cost. People who look dirty (read: the poor) are banned from entering Kigali. The disabled and the homeless are routinely taken to an island prison where they they get "educated". Never seen or heard from again. At the same time, Kagame is rewarded with numerous prizes around western capitals. However, when the time is right, the international accolades he has accumulated will not save him. Like Gadaffi he might be popular abroad but Rwandans are brewing with a dangerous combination of fear and anger.
My last point is that some people might refuse to accept this characterization, citing what they believe to be Kagame's business friendly stance. Indeed, much of my assessment focuses on the political rather than the economic dispensation. I do not see any contradiction at all. For it is possible for a fascist government to embrace pro-business policies. What matters to Kagame is how to maintain power and privilege and gaining more cash helps him achieve his nebulous agenda. It might well be the case that by embracing pro-business reforms, Kagame is digging his own grave much like Gadaffi did. However, what Kagame is promoting is not free-enterprise but an increase in foreign investment. It is impossible to accomplish the latter without allowing for basic freedoms.

Agence Hirondelle de presse 7.11.11 (Washington): Rudasingwa veut témoigner sur l’attentat du 6 avril 1994

2011-11-08T00:05:00.005+01:00

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]

Washington, 7 novembre 2011 (FH) – Théogène Rudasingwa, directeur de cabinet de Paul Kagamé avant d’entrer en dissidence en 2004, « exige » d’être entendu par le Tribunal pénal international pour le Rwanda (TPIR) ou toute autre juridiction indépendante pour « divulguer tous les détails » sur l’attentat du 6 avril 1994, dont il impute la responsabilité à l’actuel chef de l’Etat rwandais. « Je ne le demande pas, je l’exige », a-t-il déclaré vendredi à l’Agence Hirondelle.

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Dr Rudasingwa Theogene
confirms `The Truth Wins Out`

AS International centers its work on the twin concepts of freedom of self-determination and freedom from tyranny. These ideals include the belief that all human beings have the rights to speak freely, to associate with those of like mind, and to leave and enter their countries. Individuals in a free society must be accorded equal treatment and due process under law, and must have the opportunity to participate in the governments of their countries;
AS International’s ideals likewise find expression in the conviction that all human beings have the right to be free from arbitrary detainment or exile and from interference and coercion in matters of conscience. ASI does not support nor condone violence.

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

Firebreathing Interview on the Politics of Genocide‏ -The inevitable incredible truth

2011-11-07T23:23:00.007+01:00

As I watch the video from my terrace on the west of Utrecht, I find it hard to see the world community defending their interests while millions of victims are abandoned to their destiny.

HOW IS IT POSSIBLE THAT US, UK, NL CLOSELY WORK WITH A RUTHLESS DICTATOR? Does the world realize that some of the United States government members, individuals and some of the British government members, some of the Dutch government members and some individuals from the EU are RWANDAN AND CONGOLESE GENOCIDES PLOTTERS?

Did anybody or anyone inform our readers the best way of finding out the root cause of KAGAME AND RPF's IMPUNITY? Yeah! After the MAPPING REPORT was made public, KAGAME IS STILL INVITED BY SOME CRIMINAL RULERS.... The invisible ruling elite and mastermind of the Rwandan and Congolese genocides will still be there to do these things to us again another day.

It's all about corruption. EXPOSE THESE CRIMINAL RULERS!!!! They need to see their own names on TV, in media, and elsewhere they can find themselves as WELL-KNOWN CRIMINALS.

Dictator Kagame Dumped By Sacramento University

2011-11-07T19:58:00.004+01:00

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]

The Rwandan Butcher
Paul Kagame

AD reader Kana based in California has broken an amazing story on how Kagame has been ditched by Sacramento State University.

The butcher of the Great Lakes Region has been dis-invited.

The Rwandan genocidaire was invited at
Sacramento University as the keynote speaker
At A GENOCIDE CONFERENCE

Thanks to the ever alert blogger Kamikazi, last week AD revealed how Kagame had found another gullible American university ready to flatter him with awards.
The Rwandan butcher was to deliver the keynote address at the international conference on genocide today on 3 November 2011.The President of Sacramento State University was then to present the dictator with an honorary plaque.
This will not happen.

The University has dumped the butcher – Kagame will not set foot at Sacramento State University.

Resistance to Kagame presence at the university has been stiff. The Chairs of the University’s History and Government Departments led the effort of mobilising strong opposition to Kagame’s presence.

AD acknowledges in particular the efforts of the History Professor Michael Vann who played a leading role in dumping the Rwandan dictator.

These faculty members rightly questioned the wisdom of awarding the Rwandan dictator with an honorary plaque in the university’s name. The professors know that Butcher Kagame is war monger and criminal. They know that instead of being honoured with awards, Kagame should be made to account for his crimes in Rwanda and in DRCongo.

To save face, the University has organised a tele-conference via which the Rwandan dictator will give an address without directly soiling their campus.

Bravo the community of Sacramanto State University that bravely said no to the butcher of Rwanda.
Butcher Kagame, your days of killing, terrorising, imprisoning, bullying and exiling Rwandans are numbered.
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Rwanda Under Undeclared State of Emergency as the Rwandan leader is met by protests Around the world.

2011-10-30T16:42:00.008+01:00

Morality Should Be above the Law.

Key Rwandan opposition leaders are arrested, intimidated, hounded and even killed.

Since May 2011, Kagame’s soldiers are on red alert.

Rwanda - The political crisis that is boiling in Rwanda for several months is expressed by a lack of progress on human rights and democracy. Yet General Kagame is facing an invigorated opposition, the key opposition leaders are calling on the Rwandans inside and outside of the country to remain focused and react appropriately to any attempt to perpetuate the ruthless military dictator's rule and his RPF authoritaria-nism in the country. The situation arose from the unlawful arrest and imprisonment of the FDU leader and the would-be president of Rwanda and the determination of both RNC and FDU-Inkingi to unite their efforts to liberate and help Rwandans to come over the current critical political situation.
Besides these men in military uniforms in various Rwandan towns, armed to the teeth, the local difence forces, the police and gendarmes along the major streets check identification of suspicious people with all seriousness.

Ms Victoire Ingabire
The would -Be President of Rwanda
Now in Rwandan Prison.

Many observers, tourists and ordinarily rwandans wonder about the justification of such a state of emergency while the RPF regime hardliners insist on the existence of peace across Rwanda. The world community will be witnessing of the growing wave of unrest in the country. There is no denying that nothing should justify such an emergency situation as a result of the ongoing suspension of civil liberties across the country (e.g. Ms. Ingabire trial).

After the 1994 tragic events, Rwandans'rejection of Non-Violence is the Affirmation of their Right to Self-Defense under Kagame's regime and the current State of Emergency.

According to one reliable eye-witness, since May 2011, the state of emergency remains in force with brutally enforced dusk-to-dawn curfews across Rwandan main towns. The arbitrary arrests, torture, assassinations and disappearances reappeared in force elsewhere in the country and became common to ordinarily Rwandans in the country.
Rwandans and the rest of the world should know the following: ‘Defeating dictators’ is a vitriolic lampoon of abuse of power, electoral gerrymandering and rape of democracy in the developing world’.

As security forces and the RPF military men in streets are dispatched all around Rwandan towns and villages, street gatherings are banned of more than five people or more. the situation is exacerbated by the RPF party's increasing repression on Rwandans forcing them to forcibly adhere to the party. Asked about the reason behind the non refusal of Rwandans to do it, the following smart reaction remains the key answer to Kagame's tactics:"if you need to travel in metro, on bus or by train, you need to buy your ticket otherwise you're banned from traveling (meaning no more rights inside Rwanda).

Where there is no longer any alternative, a special term such as “democracy and Justice ” becomes superfluous.

This state in Rwanda is generally believed to be due to General Kagame’s stubborn fight against Ms. Ingabire Victoire, the main Rwandan opposition leaders, his to eternalize his reign, in spite of warnings from both national and international organizations.

The examples of Tunisia, Egypt and Libya he examples of are too conspicuous to be ignored. Kagame should transition into a real democracy to avert the possibility of a popular uprising in the country.
Exacerbated by the initial attempt by the opposition political parties to stage their unification against the existing bloody Rwandan dictatorship, General Kagame is spending/throwing through the window millions of dollars in paying tickets for his his followers FROM INSIDE RWANDA and RPF members DISPACHED AROUND THE WORLD to "meet" him at each time he travels abroad while demonstrations are organized by the Rwandan opposition around the world.

The good parent prepares his children for independence, trains them to make responsible decisions, knows that he harms them by not helping them to break loose. The paternal state thrives on dependency. When the dependents free themselves, it loses power. It is, therefore, parasitic on the very persons whom it turns into parasites. Thus, the state and its dependents march symbiotically to destruction.”

African SurViVors International (AS International) is an international nonpartisan charity organization devoted to defending human rights. It’s an organization working to promote democracy and national reconciliation, inside countries of the African Great lakes Region.

AS International centers its work on the twin concepts of freedom of self-determination and freedom from tyranny. These ideals include the belief that all human beings have the rights to speak freely, to associate with those of like mind, and to leave and enter their countries. Individuals in a free society must be accorded equal treatment and due process under law, and must have the opportunity to participate in the governments of their countries;

AS International’s ideals likewise find expression in the conviction that all human beings have the right to be free from arbitrary detainment or exile and from interference and coercion in matters of conscience. ASI does not support nor condone violence.

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