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Protais Hakizimfura: un autre réfugié rwandais échappe aux assaillants du régime criminel de Kagame.

Ouganda: un réfugié rwandais échappe à une tentative d’enlèvement

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Le réfugié rwandais était en plein centre ville de Kampala quand il a été victime d’une tentative d’enlèvement.Getty Images/Lonely Planet Images/Tom Cockrem

Un réfugié rwandais a échappé de justesse à une tentative d’enlèvement en Ouganda. L’information est confirmée par les forces de l’ordre locales, même si beaucoup d’éléments restent à éclaircir. Kigali est régulièrement montré du doigt dans des disparitions de réfugiés en Ouganda voisin où vivent quelques 14 000 réfugiés rwandais.

Protais Akizimfura, 66 ans, a échappé de justesse à un kidnapping perpétré par deux assaillants non identifiés. Les faits se sont déroulés mercredi 9 avril, alors que ce réfugié allait accueillir son épouse débarquée du Rwanda voisin à l’arrêt de bus dans Old Kampala en plein centre ville. L’altercation a fini par attirer l’attention de la police, faisant fuir les agresseurs. S’agit-il d’une tentative d’enlèvement orchestrée par Kigali comme l’a déclaré aussitôt l’homme ? Il est encore trop tôt pour le dire.

Selon le commissaire ougandais aux réfugiés, joint par RFI, celui qui a échappé à l’enlèvement a purgé une peine de six ans de prison au Rwanda, et s’est rendu en Ouganda après sa libération où il avait donc un statut de réfugié. Pourquoi a-t-il fui son pays ? Pas d’information sur ce point précis, le réfugié restant injoignable. Quant aux assaillants, ils sont toujours en fuite, nous explique la même source. Le Commissariat aux réfugiés a toutefois fait par de ses préoccupations et déclaré que les arrestations extrajudiciaires étaient inacceptables, un rappel à l’ordre à peine voilé à l’attention de Kigali.

Le cas Mutabazi, un ancien de la garde présidentielle réfugié à Kampala et extradé vers Kigali dans des conditions douteuses, est encore dans les mémoires, tandis que le Rwanda est régulièrement montré du doigt dans des disparitions de réfugiés en Ouganda. En février dernier, c’était un autre d’entre eux, Andrew Muhanguzi, qui disparaissait, tandis que sa famille accusait Kigali de l’avoir extrader illégalement.

Gutabariza Abanyarwanda: Ibaruwa umusore yandikiye Paul Kagame ku bijyanye na gahunda ya “Ndi umunyarwanda”

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“N’ubwo tubyina iyo gahunda, njye numva umutima unkomanga…sinabyihererana”

Nyakubahwa Umukuru w’Igihugu cy’ U RWANDA,

Impamvu: Gutabariza abanyarwanda.

Nyakubahwa,

Mbanje kubasuhuza mugire amahoro atagabanyije amwe ava ku Mana isumba byose Umuremyi w’isi n’ijuru kandi we nyiri biremwa byose.

Nyakubahwa, mbandikiye iyi baruwa ifunguye nyuma yo gukurikira neza ibiganiro bitandukanye bivuga kuri gahunda nshya ya Leta yiswe NDUMUNYARWANDA ku maradiyo atandukanye hano mu gihugu sinemeranyijwe niyo gahunda nshya. Iyo gahunda ntago nanyuzwe nayo nagato kuko nabonyemo gahunda zisubiza abantu bamwe inyuma mu mitekerereze no mu myitwarire bikaba byazamura umwiryane, ipfunwe no kwishishanya mu muryango mugali Nyarwanda. Nyakubahwa Itegeko nshinga igihugu cyacu kigenderaho ribaha ububasha bwo kuba ari mwe mureberera abanyarwanda twese, mukaba kandi muhagarariye Leta y’Urwanda. Ni muri urwo rwego mbandikiye kugira ngo icyo gikorwa cyatangiwe kandi gihagarariwe na Leta muhagarariye mugihagarike kuko cyibasiye igice kimwe cy’abanyarwanda mushinzwe kuyobora no kureberera ubwisanzure ntayegayezwa bahabwa n’itegekonshinga kuko ari abanyarwanda.

Nyakubahwa bamwe mu bayobozi bari gusobanura iyi gahunda hirya no hino mu bitangazamakuru bashishikariza abahutu bose ko bakwiye gusaba imbabazi abatutsi kubera Genocide ngo yakozwe mu izina ryabo. Nkumusore ukunda  igihugu kandi ukurikirana ibijyanye na politike y’igihugu cyacu, mbona ibi bihabanye nibyo mwakomeje gushishikariza abanyarwanda mu magambo mbwirwaruhame (Discours) mutahwemye kutugezaho mu bihe byashize ubwo kenshi mwadukanguriraga kwibona nk’abanyarwanda kuruta uko twakwibona aho twavuye (Imiryango, amoko, uturere ….), urubyiruko mbona twarakuranye koko uwo muco mwiza wo kumva ko tureshya ariko ibi byo byantunguye, rero nimba koko imvugo yanyu ariyo ngiro iyi gahunda mukwiye kuyihagarika kuko izazamura umwuka mubi mubo muyobora bikaba bishobora kuzateza ibindi bibazo nk’ipfunwe, agahinda no kwicuza ibyiza bamwe batanzeho umusanzu, igikomeye kurushaho amoko yari asigaye mubantu bakuru none n’abana bagiye kubyinjizwamo kandi uko babyinjijwemo si byiza kuko byerekana ko ubwoko bumwe ari bubi ubundi ari bwiza. Muri make impamvu nenga iyi gahunda ni uko yirengagiza nkana izi ngingo 6 zikurikira:

  1. Hari abahutu beza kandi benshi cyane badakwiye kwikorezwa uwo musaraba wo gukora Genocide, nabaha ingero: Nyuma ya Genocide hari Abana bigaga I Nyange b’abahutu (bashyizwe no mu ntwali z’igihugu kuko banze kwitandukanya na bagenzi babo b’Abatutsi) imiryango yabo kuri ubu nkeka ko yari ifite ishema ko yabyariye Igihugu intwali, none ko bagiye gusigwa ubusembwa bw’icyaha batakoze, batanatumye umuntu kugikora mu izina ryabo? Hari abahutu bakijije abatutsi muri Genocide bahigwaga, hari n’abandi bahutu bapfanye n’abatutsi muri genocide kuko banze kubatanga ngo bicwe urugero ruzwi cyane n’urw’umupadiri w’I Mukarange (Kayonza), Hari abahutu b’abanyeporitike barwanyije gahunda  za Leta yacyuye igihe zacagamo abanyarwanda ibice babarwanyiriza mu gihugu bashinga amashyaka bacishamo ibitekerezo byabo birwanya iyo politike mbi ingero hano ni nyinshi sinazirondora. Mwibuke ko hari n’ababiguye mo bashyinguye ku I Rebero imiryango yabo n’amashyaka yabo nkeka  bari bafite ishema ry’ibyo barwaniye none imiryango yabo nayo isabe imbabazi?, urugero rwanyuma natanga ni urw’abahutu bafashe iyambere nabo bakajya ku rugamba bagafatanya n’abandi bagahagarika Genocide. Mu by’ukuli nabo ibyo byagakwiye kubatera ishema, Nyakubahwa mumbabarire hano ntarugero mbaha kuko nziko mubazi kundusha kuko mwari mu ishyaka rimwe icyo gihe. Abo ni bamwe mu bahutu bafatwa nk’ ibyitegererezo byiza k’Urubyiruko rw’U Rwanda kuko bafashe imyanzuro ikwiye mu gihe byari bikomeye. Abatabarutse Imana ibahe iruhuko ridashira kandi nemera ko barwaniye ukuli, arikose abakiriho bahumeka babarizwa mu byiciro navuze cyangwa imiryango yaba Nyakwigendera nabo bazagende basabe imbabazi kandi benshi baranabihombeyemo, bakicirwa imiryango…? Nyakubahwa icyaha ni gatozi nta bwoko bwabazwa ibyo abantu bandi bakoze ngo mu izina ryabo kuko ubwoko bwose ntibwaba bubi cyangwa bwiza.
  1. Abatutsi bose siko bahizwe muri genocide, amateka avuga neza ko abatutsi bose atariko bahizwe, abari barayobotse Muvoma ntakibazo bagize ingero zirahari kuko nk’Interahamwe uwari uzikuriye mu rwego rw’Igihugu yari umututsi. Kubw’ibyo mbona umuryango w’umututsi wakoze genocide nawo udakwiye gusabwa imbabazi kuko wagize uruhare mu mahano yagwiririye igihugu cyacu. Kandi mubyukuli  abo na bo bafite abavandimwe bandi bazize Genocide bagomba gusabwaho imbabazi, ku rundi ruhande bakagira abahitanywe na bamwe mu muryango wabo; ubwo bo bazabarwa he?
  1. Generalisation niyo yoretse imbaga mu Rwanda: Imbarutso ya Genocide yabaye  mu ijoro ryo kuya 06/04/1994 ubwo indege yaritwaye uwari Umukuru w’Igihugu Nyakubahwa Juvenal Habyarimana yahanurwaga n’igisasu, Abatutsi nabitwaga ibyitso by’inyenzi batangira kwicwa bazira ko ngo bahanuye indege y’umubyeyi, umututsi wo mucyaro hasi ku mudugudu utazi gusoma no kwandika yewe utazi no kurashisha itopito yashinjwe iryo hanurwa ry’indege kandi yahanuriwe I Kigali hakoreshejwe misire. None muri iyi gahunda Umuhutu warwanye muri FPR, Uwahishe abatutsi bakarokoka ndetse n’uwarwanije ubutegetsi bwahozeho nabo bashyizwe mu gatebo kamwe ngo bihanire ubwoko bwabo Hutu bwakoze genocide? Iki se kibaye icyaha cy’inkomoko umuhutu wese azihana? NDUMUNYARWANDA se ibaye Batisimu abahutu bose bakwiye gucamo? Mbona harimo akarengane kuko leta yacyuye igihe abataragiye muri POWER yabise abagambanyi babuzwa amahoro, bicirwa imiryango, birukanwa kukazi abandi barapfa none no kuri ubu bagiye kwambikwa ubusembwa bwa Genocide batahwemye kurwanya? Bahungire hehe handi ko bari bageze igihe cyo gusoroma ibyo babibye? Numva gushyira mu gatebo kamwe (Generalisation) ari politike ishaje kandi mbi yatumazeho abantu kuyikoresha ubu ni ikosa rikomeye kuko ubwo amateka ntacyo yaba yaratwigishije! Nta bwoko bwaba bubi bwose.
  1. Uburemere bw’icyaha cya Genocide: Genocide mu mategeko mpuzamahanga ni icyaha gikomeye cyane kandi kidasaza kubw’ibyo uruhare rwose wayigiramo ntuba ukiri inyangamugayo amategeko agukuraho ubudahangarwa bwose. Numva mu rwego rwo guha icyubahiro gikwiye abaguye muri Genocide ari ukubaha ubutabera nyabwo mugahana ababigizemo uruhare bose kandi mwibuka ko imbabazi zitavanaho ibihano, nkaba numva uruhare rwose umuntu yakwiyemerera yakoze harebwa mu mategeko agahanwa. Ibiri gukorwa byashyirwa mu rwego rwo gufatanya icyaha n’abakoze amarorerwa, mbibutse ko hari abafunzwe kuko batatabaye abari mu kaga ubwo abandi nabo mbona abari kuzisaba aribyo nabo bakoze.
  1. Ninde uhagarariye Ubwoko ubwo aribwo bwose?: Nyakubahwa ubwo mperuka mu ngando (2011) nigishijwe ko amoko mu Rwanda atakibaho, ariko ikigaragara nanjye nemera mu kanwa byavuyemo, Munyandiko birahishwa, mu ndangamuntu ni amateka ariko mu mitima ntibyigeze bivamo. None Nyakubahwa muzemera ko hagira uhagararira ubwoko hutu, twa cyangwa Tutsi Kugirango asabwe cyangwa asabe imbabazi? Numva bitaba ari byo kuko uwo muryango cyangwa iyo groupe yaba ishingiye ku bwoko kandi Itegeko Nshinga ribuza umutwe uwo ariwo wose wavuka ushingiye ku bwoko,…. Byatandukanya abanyarwanda. Ubwo rero mbona iyi gahunda itararebye abazasaba n’abazasabwa imbabazi. Nkuko nabivuze igiye kugarura amoko mu bana batari bayazi kandi aze mu buryo bubi bwerekana ko ubwoko bumwe ari bubi ubundi bukaba bwiza.
  1. Imbabazi zigira umumaro nI izivuye ku mutima sizivuye mu gihiriri: Nyakubahwa, ubundi muri rusange imbabazi zisabwa umuntu wakorewe icyaha zigasabwa n’uwagikoze kuko amaze kumenya kandi yemera neza ko ibyo yakoze ari amakosa cyangwa ari icyaha akaba kandi yiteguye kutazongera gusubira mu ikosa ibyo abikora nta gahato ahubwo ari umutima nama we ubimwemeza. Uzitanga ntategetswe kuzitanga kungufu ahubwo areba koko uzisabye niba azikwiye kandi atazongera kumuhemukira yarangiza akazimuha kandi nyuma ntabimucyururire nawe ntagahato ashyirwaho mukuzitanga. None umuntu uzasabira undi imbabazi dore ko atanamutumye ni iki cyemeza ko uwo wabikoze atazongera agakora nkabyo dore ko atariwe uzisabiye? Uzitanze se n’iyihe garanti yagira imwemeza ko bitazongera? Dore ko dukwiye kwibuka ko uwakoze icyaha siwe uri gusaba imbabazi…  Nyakubahwa ndabona atariko bizagenda ahubwo birasa n’agahato, kuko umwanya munini utwarwa nuwo kubyigishwa (Gusaba imbabazi) ubundi bamwe bakemera kubera umwiherero tutamenya ibyawubereyemo. Nkabona rero nta mumaro izo mbabazi zagira igihe zitari gutangwa kubushake, uwakoze ikosa yishakire uwo yahemukiye amusabe imbabazi atabibwirijwe. Anaduhe garantie ko atazongera kudusiga icyo cyasha nk’abanyarwanda.

 

Nyakubahwa nsoza iyi baruwa natanga umusanzu wanjye mbagira inama zikurikira:

  1. Nyakubahwa Itegekonshinga ribaha uburenganzira bwo guhagararira abanyarwanda twese, amarorerwa yagwiririye u Rwanda ni ibyago bikomeye kandi icyasha cyagiye k’umunyarwanda wese, rero mbona ko gahunda ya NDUMUNYARWANDA ikwiye kuza twese abanyarwanda hadaciwemo ibice tugakubitwa icyuhagiriro ndetse tukemera ko habaye Genocide yaduhesheje isura mbi mu ruhando mpuzamahanga iryo pfunnwe rikaba iryacu twese aho kuba irya bariya cyangwa bano dore ko buri gice nyarwanda ukijoye utakiburaho inenge, ubundi Nyakubahwa mububasha muhabwa n’itegeko bwo guhagararira u Rwanda n’abanyarwanda mukaduhagararira abakorewe n’abakoze Genocide izo mbabazi mukazisaba mu izina ry’abanyarwanda muhagarariye batavanguye kuko nyine TURABANYARWANDA ntituri ABAHUTU, ABATUTSI cg ABATWA ubundi mukizeza amahanga ko nta Genocide izongera kubaho dore ko itanashoboka hatabayeho inkunga ya Leta.

2. Nyakubahwa ikindi mbona ko cyafasha, numva iki aricyo gihe hajyaho campain ku Murenge cyangwa ku Kagali yo kurata ubutwari bw’ababashije guhisha abandi bahigwaga muri uwo murenge cyangwa Akagali abahizwe bagatanga ubuhamya uko bahishwe ababahishe nabo bakavuga uko biyemeje gukora ibitari byoroshye, bakambikwa imidari yakwitwa izina kurwego rubishinzwe maze abana mu midugudu bagakura babona umuntu wakoze ibyo abandi batinye gukora, akabagira inama zo kwanga ikibi cyose kabone niyo baba ari ababyeyi be bagikora. Mbona byaba urugero rwiza aho kubereka ko hari ubwoko bwavukanye icyaha bukamara abantu. Ubundi kurwego rw’igihugu hakambikwa Imidende abanyapolitike bikuye umugati mu kanwa cyera bagatinyuka bakavuga ibitaragendaga muri icyo gihe bigatuma bangwa na benewabo, bagakurwa ku kazi, bagafungwa, bakitwa ibyitso… ndetse n’amashyaka yose yarwanije ibitekerezo bya cyera byavanguraga abantu nayo ntabure kuri uwo Mudende tukayamenya, tukayaratira abandi. Bityo Abasore n’inkumi bashaka kuba abanyaporitiki bakabona abo bagisha inama zo kwanga ikibi kabone niyo cyaba gikorwa n’abo basangiye ishyaka. Bityo abasore n’inkumi tugakurana imihigo nk’iyizo ntashyikirwa zakoze ibitoroshye. Abo bakazaba abantu ndeberwaho bityo iyi gahunda ya NDUMUNYARWANDA isige umurage ku bana bato wo guharanira kwanga ikibi niyo byaba bigukura amata kumunwa cyangwa niyo byaba bikorwa na mwene wanyu ukabyanga wivuye inyuma. Bitabaye ibyo nkukombona iyi gahunda izasiga NDUMUHUTU, NDUMUTUTSI, NDUMUTWA aho gusiga NDUMUNYARWANDA NYAWE.

Amashyaka yarwanije ingoma mbi, abanyapolitike barwanije ibitekerezo bibi bya cyera byavanguraga abanyarwanda, abantu batabaye abandi bakabahisha cg bakajya muri opposition kurwanya ikibi ….. cyo nimuze abo bantu mvuze tubarinde kwicuza ibyiza bakoze ahubwo baterwe ishema n’uko batabaye abari bababaye bakabaha ubuzima.

 

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Was Clinton’s “No Genocide” Dictate On Rwanda Meant To Ensure Kagame’s Military Victory In 1994?

By Milton Allimadi

Who killed Juvenal Habyarimana?
[Black Star News Commentary]

It’s generally accepted that Bill Clinton opposed a vigorous international community- and American armed intervention when the massacres erupted in Rwanda in 1994 because he feared this country could get bogged down in a messy operation with unpredictable outcome.

There has never been an internationally supervised research to estimate the numbers of civilians murdered in Rwanda however the figure of “nearly 800,000″ has been widely quoted and accepted for years.

It’s also generally accepted that Clinton wouldn’t allow his administration officials to use the term “genocide” to describe the mass killings in Rwanda because the word carries legal connotations that would have obligated intervention.

But how credible is this explanation as to why Clinton opposed use of the word and outside intervention?

If that was indeed the true motive for barring the use of the term and opposing intervention how did Clinton hope for the killings to come to an end? He was president of the United States, the world’s only remaining superpower.

Is it conceivable that Clinton was willing to let the U.S. stand aside and risk the possibility of Hutus, the 85% majority population in Rwanda, annihilating all Tutsis?

This is a difficult proposition to accept or believe.

The killings had been triggered when on April 6, 1994 the plane carrying Rwanda’s Hutu president Juvenal Habyarimana and Burundi’s Cyprian Ntaryamira was downed by two missiles as it approached Kigali airport.
Is it more likely that Clinton in fact knew that the massacres would come to an end — with victory by the RPF, under its leader Paul Kagame?

So, in fact, by refraining from calling the massacres a “genocide” and triggering an international armed intervention did Clinton’s decision at the time actually buy time for Kagame and allow his RPF to seize power?

Former Rwandan President Juvenal Habyarimana assassinated by current president Paul Kagame

Habyarimana was returning from Tanzania, where regional leaders were pressing the warring parties to carry out the Arusha Peace Accord to halt fighting between his army and the opposing force, which included units of Uganda’s army and the Rwanda Patriotic Front (RPF).

The Arusha deal was detrimental to the RPF’s goal and U.S. interests which included displacing France’s influence in the region.

Arusha called for a Transitional government, power-sharing between Habyarimana’s party, Kagame’s RPF, and other parties. It also called for elections and given that Hutus comprised 85% of the population, Kagame wouldn’t have become president.

Kagame stood to gain the most from the assassination of President Habyarimana and to lose the most from negotiated peace. The use of the term “genocide” by the Clinton administration and robust outside intervention most likely would have saved hundreds of thousands of lives.

It also would have closed Kagame’s path to presidential powers in Rwanda.
So was it mere coincidence that Clinton’s withholding the use of the term “genocide” benefitted Kagame?

Consider some points that indicate U.S. preference of an RPF/Kagame victory at the time.

1) At the time of the October 1, 1990 invasion of Rwanda from Uganda, Paul Kagame was being trained at the U.S. Military Academy at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. He had been sent here by Uganda’s ruler Gen. Yoweri Museveni.

He came on a Ugandan passport because at the time he was chief of Uganda’s Military Intelligence. He and many Tutsis of his generation had grown up in Uganda; his family had fled the massacres of 1959 when the monarchy under King Kigeri V in Rwanda was overthrown by the Hutu majority.

When the first commander of the 1990 invading force from Uganda, Gen. Fred Rwigyema, who had been Uganda’s deputy defense minister, was killed under questionable circumstances, Museveni recalled Kagame and installed him commander of the invading army which initially included 4,000 regular Ugandan army soldiers. Later the force became the Rwanda Patriotic Front.

2) The U.S. took no action to censure Uganda or to denounce the invasion, which was a war of aggression which has consequences under international law. Moreover the U.S. allowed Uganda to keep sending more officers for U.S. training under the International Military Education Training (IMET) program that had brought Kagame to Fort Leavenworth.

In 1995 when I was a reporter at The City Sun newspaper, I asked then Vice President Al Gore about this and he told me Uganda “deceived” the U.S. It was a disingenuous response since in subsequent years after I asked the question the number of officers sent for IMET training by Uganda actually increased.

3) France, a supporter of the Habyarimana government, when Francois Mitterand was president, tried to bring action against Uganda for launching a war of aggression against Rwanda on October 1, 1990, through the United Nations Security Council. The U.S. opposed this move.

So a battlefield stalemate maintained from 1991 to 1994, with the RPF controlling much of the areas of Rwanda towards Uganda — the supply route for recruiting fighters and for obtaining arms. During this period, while abuses by Habyarimana’s army was widely quoted in media those of the RPF, including massacres documented by Human Rights Watch, were rarely mentioned.

The stalemate ended after the assassination of Habyarimana.
According to documents from French archives “Mitterrand and his advisers” believed “that the Rwandan Patriotic Front wanted to use its superior military position to restore a Tutsi-dominated regime in Rwanda. French military advisers reported that the rebel movement had acquired surface-to-air missiles from Uganda. When President Habyarimana’s plane was shot down by a SAM missile on April 6, 1994, triggering the genocide, French officials immediately suspected the RPF.”

In recent years, Theogene Rudasingwa, who had been Kagame’s chief of staff and then Rwanda’s ambassador to the United States has said Kagame in fact was the one who ordered the assassination of Habyarimana. A French government minister had claimed that the U.S. gave the missiles to Uganda, from stockpiles seized in Iraq; Uganda then provided them to the RPF — the U.S. denied the allegation.

According to Rudasingwa, the purpose was strategic. Knowing the ethnic volatility in Rwanda, Kagame was aware the Hutu civilian majority would unleash vengeful massacres after Habyarimana’s death. The power vacuum and the bloody mayhem would create the excuse for Kagame seizing power.

Kagame would then be hailed as Rwanda’s “savior.” Kagame would no longer have to fulfill the requirements of Arusha including the elections the RPF could not have won.

In subsequent years the United Nations and Human Rights Watch repory that Kagame has exported the war into the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

Was Clinton, given U.S. intelligence capabilities, unaware of the alleged Machiavellian scheme by Kagame in 1990?

– See more at: http://www.blackstarnews.com/global-politics/africa/was-clintons-no-genocide-dictate-on-rwanda-meant-to-ensure-kagames-military#sthash.qdQsOlMj.rNTRfch1.dpuf

Source: Black Star News

What the author of this article forgets to mention is that the Arusha Peace Accord which was signed on August 3rd, 1993 recommended the presence of 5,000 UN peacekeepers to supervise its implementation. Though it was initially difficult to assemble such force, by mi-December of that year there were already in Rwanda near 2,500 for that contingent. However, surprisingly, even that number was going to be reduced significantly to the point that when the plane of President Juvenal Habyarimana was shot down on April 6th, 1994, there were only 297 UN peacekeepers left. Prior to that, the CIA Kigali desk had sent to Washington an analysis of the political situation prevailing in Rwanda around January 1994. One of the main points the report highlighted was the fact that the assassination of Habyarimana could cause between 300,000 and 500,000 casualties. And this prediction was apparently based on what had happened in neighboring Burundi when president Melchior Ndadaye had been assassinated in October 1993. In summary, when Washington resisted declaring the massacres of Rwanda genocide and probably ensured that there were not enough external forces to intervene, they knew what they were doing. This made the former UN secretary Boutros Boutros Ghali to say that the Rwandan genocide was a 100% US responsibility.

Was Clinton’s “No Genocide” Dictate On Rwanda Meant To Ensure Kagame’s Military Victory In 1994?

Kenyatta, Kagame under fire at media conference

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Cape Town. President Uhuru Kenyatta of Kenya has been criticised for signing into law legislation giving the state the power to decide what journalists report.

Similar attention was given to President Paul Kagame of Rwanda for limiting media freedom and called on him to allow independent journalists to work freely.

The criticism came during the official opening of the International Press Institute 43rd world congress in Cape Town, South Africa, yesterday.

In her formal report to the congress on the state of press freedom worldwide, IPI executive director Alison Bethel McKenzie told delegates of increasing attacks on journalists.

“Kenya is another concern. President Kenyatta has signed legislation … the Information and Communication Act … that we believe would lead to state control of news and information during emergencies, plus give the government the power to perform functions currently executed by the country’s Media Council.”

She said IPI had protested the new measures by the Kenya government and acknowledged that local journalists had moved to the courts to fight for their freedom.

“Kenyan journalists are not about to have their rights trampled on. They’ve filed legal challenges against the Information and Communication Act on the grounds that it is unconstitutional,” Ms McKenzie said.

On Rwanda, the IPI boss said as the world marks the 20th anniversary of the genocide, even though some local media played a “terrible role in fanning ethnic hatred in 1994”, reasonable space must be curved for free expression.

“While there is no defence for such hate speech, we are concerned that the Rwandan authorities use that experience to maintain tight control over today’s news media and call on the government to allow independent media to flourish.” Globally, Turkey was identified as one of the worst countries for press freedom and the world’s leading jailer of journalists with 44 currently behind bars.

“Media owners’ economic dependence on government connections continues to stifle reporting in Turkey, as did the reported attacks by police on dozens of journalists as they covered protests that erupted last year following the brutal treatment of demonstrators opposing the demolition of Gezi Park in Istanbul,” she said.

IPI tracked 119 journalists killed in the line of duty in 2013, a slight decline from the 133 who died in 2012. So far in 2014, more than 20 have either been killed while on the job or died while on duty.

Kizito Mihigo, Cassien Ntamuhanga and Jean Paul Dukuzumuremyi survive police extrajudicial killing.

[Kizito Mihigo, Cassien Ntamuhanga and Jean Paul Dukuzumuremyi went missing for more than a week. Police was contacted on that issue but said they had no news. Different media houses and independent accused the police of trying to kill these three young men but police kept denying. Finally newtimes.co.rw confirms…] Admin

Police arrest Kizito Mihigo, Cassien Ntamuhanga and Jean-Paul Dukuzumuremyi

Rwanda National Police today revealed the arrest of three individuals suspected of offenses against state security.

The three who the Police believe had been recruited by Rwanda National Congress and working for some time in collaboration with the FDLR are: Kizito Mihigo, a musician who was arrested last Friday; Cassien Ntamuhanga, a journalist at Amazing Grace Radio who had earlier been reported missing was arrested this morning; and Jean-Paul Dukuzumuremyi, a demobilised soldier arrested last Saturday.

Mihigo, Ntamuhanga and Dukuzumuremyi are under investigation for involvement in planning terrorist attacks against Rwanda, planning violent overthrow of the government, planning to assassinate government officials and inciting violence among the population.

The three are suspected to be working closely with senior members of Rwanda National Congress (RNC) and the FDLR, and participating actively in a network that has carried out several grenade attacks and continues to plan terrorist action against Rwanda.

Police Spokesperson, ACP Damas Gatare said:

“The Police is in possession of ample evidence including grenades and testimonies obtained from other accomplices arrested during the course of investigation. Kizito Mihigo Cassien Ntamuhanga and Jean-Paul Dukuzumuremyi have admitted to working closely with senior members of RNC and FDLR, an active network that has carried out several grenade attacks in Rwanda.

“The case file will now be submitted to the prosecution. However, investigations continue to arrest other members of the network still at large. We encourage the public to continue to share relevant information with the Police.”

Source:http://www.newtimes.co.rw 14/04/2014

Undi Munyarwanda yaburiwe irengero!

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Nyuma y’ibura rya Mihigo Kizito na Ntamuhanga Cassien, noneho Niyomugabo Gerard nawe yaburiwe irengero. Polisi y’u Rwanda ntacyo itangaza nyamara numero za telefone z’abo bantu bose ziba zizwi ku buryo hakoreshejwe ikoranabuhanga byakoroha kumenya aho telefone ziherereye, abantu bavuganye bwa nyuma bityo aya makuru agaherwaho mu gukora iperereza. Cyakora hari iperereza ryakozwe ku ibura rya Cassien. Ariko nanone biratangaje cyane kubona umuntu nka Kizito wagombaga kuririmba indirimbo y’icyunamo kuwa 7 Mata 2014 aburirwa irengero Leta ikicecekera. Ibi bishobora gusobanura ko Leta ibifitemo uruhare cyangwa se ko itabizi. Ariko kubera ko byavuzwe cyane, nta kabuza leta irabizi. Bityo rero ibifitemo inyungu. Niyomugabo we se yaba azize iki? Dore uko igihe.com kibivuga.

Hashize icyumweru kirenga bivugwa ko Umwanditsi w’ibitabo Niyomugabo Nyamihirwa Gerard yaba yarabuze, gusa na Polisi mu mujyi wa Kigali yatangaje ko kugeza ubu nta makuru y’ibura rye izi.

Biravugwa ko Niyomugabo Nyamihirwa Gerard yaba yarabuze ku itariki ya 4 Mata 2014, kuko hari bamwe mu ncuti ze bemeza ko baherukaga kuvugana nawe mbere y’iyo tariki mu gihe abandi bavuga ko bamubonye bwa nyuma ku rubuga facebook ku itariki ya 3 Mata, ari nabwo bigaragara ko aheruka kwandika igitekerezo cye kuri urwo rubuga, gusa binagaragara ko kandi ku itariki ya 5 n’iya 6 Mata yakoze “share” ya link y’urubuga asangiye n’abandi bantu baganira umuco nyarwanda.

Kugeza ubu telefone ya Niyomugabo wibanaga mu nzu ku Kacyiru, ntiri ku murongo, gusa hari abavuga ko hari abo yashoboye kuvugana nabo ubwo bohererezanyaga ubutumwa kuri WhatsApp nyuma y’aho bivugiwe ko yabuze.

Umuvandimwe wa Niyomugabo yabwiye IGIHE ko yaherukaga kuvugana nawe ku itariki ya 2 Mata mu gihe indi ncuti ya Niyomugabo isanzwe imufasha kwandika no kugurisha ibitabo, yabonanye nawe bwa nyuma ku itariki ya 3 Mata.

Uyu muvandimwe akomeza avuga ko nyuma y’aho ku Cyumweru tariki ya 6 abari bafitanye gahunda na Niyomugabo mu ishuri ry’ibiganiro ryitwa “Uruganda rw’ubunyarwanda” risanzwe riteranira mu nyubako ya UTC, bamutegereje bakamubura, bagerageje guhamagara telefone ye ; rimwe igacamo ubundi nticemo.

Yagize ati “Byageze aho incuti ye imwoherereza ubutumwa (SMS), ariko Niyomugabo akamusubiza ibiterekeranye ; yamubaza aho ari, akamubwira ngo araza kumubwira.”

“Kuwa Kabiri tuvuye kugeza ikibazo kuri Polisi, telefone ya Niyomugabo yaje kumpamagara ariko nayitaba, ntihagire umuntu uvuga.”

Inshuti ya Niyomugabo twise Mugabo yaje kohereza ubutumwa Niyomugabo imubaza aho aherereye, yahise yakira ubutumwa bugira buti “na telefone irananiye, ndakubwira mwana ! Ubu ndi kujya muri Tz (Tanzaniya).”

Umuvandimwe yabwiye IGIHE ko Mugabo ari inshuti ya hafi cyane kuri Niyomugabo, ariko atari azi gahunda yo kujya muri Tanzaniya kuko byinshi akora aba abizi.

Nyuma yo kubura Niyomugabo, abari bamutegereje kuri gahunda mu ishuri “Uruganda rw’ubunyarwanda” rihurira mu kabari kitwa Carrefour des artistes mu nyubako UTC mu mujyi rwagati, bahise bahamagara umwe mu muryango we uba mu karere ka Nyanza.

Yahise aza, ajyana kwa Niyomugabo na Mugabo, bagezeyo basanga umugore – nyirinzu Niyomugabo abamo, ari we ufite urufunguzo. Yababwiye ko ari abana barumweretse munsi y’urugi.

Nyirinzu ntiyazuyaje kubaha urwo rufunguzo, dore ko yari anasanzwe abona Mugabo agendana na Niyomugabo. Binjiye mu nzu basanga inkweto n’imyenda byose bya Niyomugabo bihari.

“Gusa Mugabo yarabaze asanga haraburamo ipantaro imwe.”

Ese hari isano na Cassien Ntamuhanga nawe waburiwe irengero ?

Niyomugabo wanahoze ari umwarimu wungirije mu cyari Kaminuza Nkuru y’u Rwanda, yatangaga ibiganiro ku maradiyo atandukanye arimo n’Ubuntu butangaje, aho yakirwaga mu kiganiro na Cassien Ntamuhanga usanzwe ari umuyobozi w’iyi radiyo.

Niyomugabo akunda kugaragaza ko ashyigikiye cyane imyemerere gakondo y’Abanyarwanda. Ibi byatumaga muri iki kiganiro ajya impaka n’abayobozi b’amadini atandukanye nabo babaga batumiwemo.

Umuvandimwe yabwiye IGIHE ati : “Ntabwo nzi Cassien Ntamuhanga, usibye ko gusa njya mwumva kuri radiyo nkaba nzi ko anakorana ikiganiro na Niyomugabo ndetse bakaba bakora ama-CD y’ibiganiro by’imyemerere.”

“Ubundi Niyomugabo afite imyemerere itandukanye n’iy’abandi bantu. Yigeze kumara igihe akorana cyane na Cassien Ntamuhanga ikiganiro, gusa hari n’undi mugore witwa Hadidja wajyaga akorana na Niyomugabo mu gihe Cassien adahari.” Uku niko yongeraho.

Uyu Cassien Ntamuhanga uyobora Radio ya gikiristu yitwa Ubuntu butangaje ivugira i Kigali nawe yaburiwe irengero ku itariki ya 7 Mata, nyuma y’iminsi mike Niyomugabo nawe abuze.

Nta gihamya yerekana ko ibura ry’aba bagabo bombi ryaba rifitanye isano, gusa polisi y’u Rwanda ikomeje gushakisha irengero ryabo.

Iperereza ?

Mu kiganiro na IGIHE, Umuvugizi wa Polisi mu mujyi wa Kigali, SSP Mwiseneza Urbain, yavuze ko kugeza ubu bakomeje iperereza, gusa nta makuru araboneka ku irengero ry’Umuyobozi wa radiyo wabuze, mu gihe ngo aya makuru yaba abonetse biteguye kuyatangaza.

Mwiseneza yakomeje avuga ko abavuga ko umuryango w’Umwanditsi w’ibitabo Niyomugabo waba waratanze ikirego kuri Polisi, atabizi.

Umuvandimwe we yabwiye IGIHE ko Niyomugabo wandikaga ibitabo cyane ku mateka y’u Rwanda no ku myemerere gakondo y’Abanyarwanda bo hambere, yaburiwe irengero yitegura gushyira ahagaragara igitabo cye gishya cyitwa “Gatebe gatoki ya Gahutu na Gatutsi mu gihugu cya Kanyarwanda.”

Ibindi bitabo yaherukaga kwandika birimo : Ubumenyi gakondo bw’AbanyarwandaUmusogongero ku ijambo ry’Imana y’ i Rwanda na Nta Yezu nta Ruganzu.

Muri ibi bitabo akunda kugaragazamo cyane ko atemera amadini yazanwe n’abakoloni, agasobanura ko n’Abanyarwanda ba kera bari bazi Imana kandi yari nziza kurusha iya none

“Sauver un maximum de vies… c’est le défi que beaucoup jugeaient impossible et que les troupes françaises de Turquoise ont pourtant relevé”, Jean-Yves Le Drian.

Génocide rwandais : pour Le Drian, “certaines accusations ne peuvent rester sans réponse”

11/04/2014 à 14:36 Par Jeune Afrique
Le ministre français de la Défense, Jean-Yves Le Drian.
Le ministre français de la Défense, Jean-Yves Le Drian. © AFP

Jean-Yves Le Drian a tenu vendredi à défendre l'”honneur” de l’armée française lors de l’opération Turquoise en 1994, après les accusations de complicité de génocide réitérées par le président rwandais, Paul Kagamé. Car, pour le ministre français de la Défense, “certaines accusations ne peuvent rester sans réponse”. Explications.

Après le Premier ministre Manuel Valls, c’est au tour du ministre de la Défense, Jean-Yves Le Drian, de réagir à la polémique entre la France et le Rwanda relancée par Paul Kagamé dans une interview à Jeune Afrique publiée le 7 avril. Dans un message aux armées, diffusé vendredi 11 avril, Jean-Yves Le Drian a défendu l'”honneur” de l’armée française lors de l’opération Turquoise en 1994, après les accusations de complicité de génocide réitérées par le président rwandais.

“Les mots ont un sens et, dans ces circonstances, certaines accusations ne peuvent rester sans réponse”, écrit Le Drian, sans mentionner le nom du chef de l’État rwandais. Selon le ministre, “l’honneur de la France et de ses armées, c’est d’avoir, avant les autres, réagi au drame qui se déroulait sous le regard d’une communauté internationale paralysée”.

“Sauver un maximum de vies sans prendre parti dans la lutte pour le pouvoir qui était alors engagée: c’est le défi que beaucoup jugeaient impossible et que les troupes françaises de Turquoise ont pourtant relevé”, poursuit Jean-Yves Le Drian.

>> Lire aussi : “L’histoire mythique de l’opération Turquoise ne correspond pas à la réalité” (Guillaume Ancel)

“Accusations inacceptables”

La France “ne s’est pas dérobée à son devoir”, affirme-t-il encore. “Les conclusions de la mission [menée par Paul Quilès en 1998, NDLR], indépendante et pluraliste, ne laissaient aucune place aux accusations inacceptables qui ont été proférées à l’encontre de l’armée française ces derniers jours”, insiste-t-il, en soulignant que “plus de 1 100 documents” ont été déclassifiés en vingt ans par le ministère de la Défense, dans le cadre des procédures judiciaires.

Lors de sa déclaration de politique générale mardi à l’Assemblée nationale, Manuel Valls avait déjà rejeté ces accusations, selon lui “injustes” et “indignes”.

Dans une interview à Jeune Afrique, le président rwandais Paul Kagamé avait accusé la France d’avoir eu un “rôle direct” dans “la préparation politique du génocide” et dans “son exécution même”.

Réagissant à ces déclarations, Paris avait annulé le voyage de la ministre de la Justice, Christiane Taubira, qui devait représenter la France à la commémoration du vingtième anniversaire du génocide, à Kigali le 7 avril. Après que Paris avait annoncé la participation de l’ambassadeur de France à Kigali, Michel Flesch, le ministère rwandais des Affaires étrangères avait fait savoir à ce dernier qu’il n’était pas le bienvenu.

(Avec AFP)

Rwanda : Le régime du FPR a toujours prononcé un « non catégorique » à la démocratie.

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Au moment où le monde entier aspire toujours à la démocratie, les tactiques du FPR  pour accéder au pouvoir n’ont jamais été démocratiques, aujourd’hui il en est de même pour le maintenir.  Mais les Rwandais croient que « mûr ou non mûr, par la force de l’Ouragan, le fruit finit par tomber »1.

Pendant quatre ans (1990-1994) que la guerre du FPR a endeuillé le Rwanda, de multiples efforts sans succès, ont été essayés par les mêmes rebelles pour s’assurer d’une victoire militaire. Les accords de Paix d’Arusha signés par les représentants des belligérants ne donnaient pas du tout avantage à l’FPR quoiqu’il ait eu cinq portefeuilles au moment où d’autres partis allaient en avoir moins.

Ces accords n’étaient pourtant pas la destination finale : les élections démocratiques allaient se tenir pour choisir les dirigeants dignes de confiance. Qui peut affirmer que le FPR allait avoir  plus…

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