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Paul Kagame ex-guard Joel Mutabazi rejects Rwanda trial

Joel Mutabazi fled to Uganda in 2011 and says he was illegally extradited

One of the Rwandan president’s former bodyguards, Joel Mutabazi, is refusing to be tried for alleged terrorism.

He told the court he has no faith in Rwanda’s justice and that he had been illegally extradited from Uganda.

Mr Mutabazi and 15 others are accused of plotting attacks and could face life sentences. Most deny the charges.

Meanwhile, UN special rapporteur Maina Kiai told the BBC that most politicians who are openly critical of the government end up in legal trouble.

Paul Kagame’s government has denied persecuting its opponents.

But earlier this year, following the apparent murder of a prominent dissident in South Africa, the president warned. “There are consequences for betraying your country.”

Patrick Karegeya was found dead in his hotel room earlier this month

Mr Mutabazi is facing eight charges including terrorism, formation of an armed group, murder and illegal possession of firearms.

Among the other accused are several members of the opposition Rwandan National Congress (RNC) and eight students. “I’m not ready to give an explanation to the court on the charges against me because I’m not convinced of the legality of my transfer to Rwanda” Joel Mutabazi

The BBC’s Prudent Nsengiyumva in Kigali says many in Rwanda feel this is a political trial, even though it is not clear whether Mr Mutabazi himself is linked to an opposition party.

Mr Mutabazi fled to Uganda in 2011, claiming his life was in danger in Rwanda, but the Ugandan authorities transferred him back to Kigali at the end of last year.

The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) has condemned Kampala’s decision to extradite him as a “clear violation of the asylum principle”.

Appearing in court, he pleaded not guilty and said he would not take part in the trial.

”I’m not ready to give an explanation to the court on the charges against me because I’m not convinced of the legality of my transfer to Rwanda,” he told the judges.

“I was a refugee. I don’t have faith in Rwanda’s justice.”

One of the founders of the RNC, Patrick Karegeya, was found dead in his Johannesburg hotel room earlier this month.

His supporters say he was killed by government agents – charges denied by Kigali.

On Monday, the UN special rapporteur to Rwanda said the prosecution of politicians who disagreed with Mr Kagame’s “consensus politics” sent a “chilling and unacceptable message that peaceful public disagreement with the government is equivalent to criminality”.

He noted that they had been charged with links to violence or corruption, reports the Reuters news agency.

Mr Kiai, speaking after a week-long visit to Rwanda, told the BBC’s Newsday programme that he had met one young man who had been jailed for six years after discussing politics in a bar.

He said he had raised the case, and others, with the government.

Mr Kagame and his allies say that after the 1994 genocide, Rwanda needs “consensus politics” to prevent a return to ethnic conflict.

Source: BBC

Paul Kagame avoue avoir tué Col Patrick Karegeya.

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Le chef de l’État rwandais, Paul Kagamé, a accordé à Jeune Afrique sa première interview depuis l’assassinat de l’opposant Patrick Karegeya.

Après la mort, le 1er janvier en Afrique du Sud, de Patrick Karegeya, ancien chef des services de renseignement extérieur du Rwanda, le pouvoir de Kigali a immédiatement été pointé du doigt par les opposants en exil et la famille de la victime, et désigné comme responsable, voire coupable.

Le président rwandais a fini par briser le silence, le 10 janvier, avec des responsables lors d’une « breakfast prayer », lors de laquelle il a évoqué les conséquences de la trahison, sans pour autant citer Karegeya.

Dans l’édition de Jeune Afrique à paraître ce dimanche (n°2767, 19-25 janvier 2013), Paul Kagamé répond pour la première fois à une interview sur le sujet. “Le terrorisme a un prix, la trahison a un prix. On est tué comme on a soi-même tué”, répond-il à la question “Qui a tué Patrick Karegeya ?”.

Le dirigeant rwandais précise sa pensée et juge que la communauté internationale applique, pour le Rwanda, une politique du “deux poids, deux mesures”. “Quand il s’agit du Rwanda, l’injonction qu’on nous donne est la suivante : ces individus qui vous combattent et qui ont juré votre perte par tous les moyens, s’il vous plaît, protégez-les. […] Je suis désolé, mais je n’accepte pas cette logique.

Source: http://www.jeuneafrique.com/Article/ARTJAWEB20140117151109/

Rwanda and the New Scramble for Africa: “the Rwandan genocide was 100 percent American responsibility”

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By Robin Philpot

“…essential reading.” Edward S. Herman

An accepted narrative holds that horrible Rwandan Hutu génocidaires planned and executed a satanic scheme to eliminate nearly a million Tutsis after a mysterious plane crash killed the former president of Rwanda on April 6, 1994. Yet former UN Secretary General Boutros-Ghali says, “the Rwandan genocide was 100 percent American responsibility.” Where lies the truth?

Based on vast research, extensive interviews, and close analysis, this fascinating account shows not only that the accepted narrative is false but also that it has been edified to cover-up the causes of the tragedy, protect the criminals responsible for it and then justify the invasion of the Congo.

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Former UN Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali declared, “The Rwandan genocide was 100% American Responsibility.”

The book comprises three parts. The first part addresses the little-discussed but crucial events preceding the assassination of the presidents of Rwanda and Burundi

Former UN Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali declared, “The Rwandan genocide was 100% American Responsibility.”

on April 6, 1994, which triggered massive killings. These include the invasion in 1990, drawn-out guerrilla and terrorist warfare, imposition of a new political and economic order followed by an ill named “peace process” that sanctified the occupation of the country by the invading army, and the assassination of two African heads of state.

The second part, “The Heart of Dark Imaginations,” shows how popular literature on Rwanda has been built on the old clichés, metaphors, and conventions generated during 400 years of slavery, the slave trade, and colonialism, and helped justify them. The resulting narrative is perfectly crafted for the “new scramble for Africa.”

The third part takes down the so-called international criminal justice as applied to Rwanda and explains how and why the murderous, never-ending war in Congo began.

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Praise

“Robin Philpot’s Rwanda and the New Scramble for Africa effectively dismantles a remarkable structure of disinformation on an important area and topic and it throws light on the broader thrust of imperial policy. This book is essential reading.” Edward S. Herman, Co-author of Manufacturing Consent (with Noam Chomsky) and The Politics of Genocide (with David Peterson).

“Explosive, very daring and solidly defended … a real bomb that rocks our interpretation of the Rwandan tragedy!” Le Devoir, Montreal

“Philpot’s investigations show that behind all the words can be found an operation to destabilize and remodel the region.” Africa International, Paris

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In Slouching Towards Sirte, NATO’s War on Libya and Africa Max Forte wrote, “Everywhere is Rwanda for the humanitarian imperialist, which makes one want to know what really happened there in 1994.” This book attempts to answer that question.

Rwanda and the New Scramble for Africa, which is part of Baraka’s Africa, African Diaspora, and International Politics collection, appears as we approach the 20th anniversary of one of the worst tragedies in modern history.

Robin Philpot is a Montréal writer, translator, and publisher. Born in Thunder Bay, Ontario and a graduate of the University of Toronto, he lived and worked in Africa for several years before settling in Montreal, Quebec He is the author of six books on political on international as well as Quebec and Canadian political issues. He is also co-author of A People’s History of Quebec.

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PÉTITION: Pour la protection des rwandais contre les dérives criminelles de leur président dictateur Paul KAGAME

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Lors de son discours prononcé le 12 janvier 2014 à l’occasion d’un déjeuner de prières avec les leaders du Rwanda (Rwanda Leaders Fellowship Prayer Breakfast)le président rwandais Paul KAGAME a fait preuve une nouvelle fois de sa volonté féroce d’éliminer à n’importe quel prix tout opposant politique ou toute autre personne désignée comme ennemie par son régime.

Des propos relayés largement par les réseaux sociaux : « Quiconque trahit notre cause ou souhaite du mal à notre peuple en subira des conséquences. Il reste seulement à savoir comment et à quel moment les conséquences s’abattront sur lui ». Le président Kagame a aussi ajouté lors de ce déjeuner de prières ne pas avoir de scrupules à assumer l’assassinat de ces « ennemis » car il prétend avoir été élu pour protéger le Rwanda et avoir prêté serment pour affronter n’importe quel ennemi (guhangana n’uwo ariwe wese).

CLIIR condamne vigoureusement cette vision criminelle et cette volonté d’exterminer les opposants politiques. CLIIR met en garde le président Paul KAGAME et ses courtisans que ce droit de « neutraliser » les ennemis réels ou supposés dont ils s’arrogent abusivement le pouvoir, aura aussi des conséquences sur le plan judiciaire tôt ou tard. Aucun acte criminel ne restera impuni !

En réaction à ces propos bélliqueux et inacceptables, CLIIR, en complément d’autres actions à mener, a décidé de lancer immédiatement une pétition pour sensibiliser toutes les bonnes volontés du monde à rassembler un maximum de signatures afin d’appeler la Communauté Internationale à protéger l’ensemble du peuple rwandais contre son président dictateur et mégalomane Paul KAGAME.

Cette pétition s’adresse donc :

– à tous ceux qui souhaitent que le président PAUL KAGAME réponde devant la justice de ses implications dans des assassinats politiques et crimes contre l’humanité dont il est accusé par le DRC Mapping Report et les différents rapports des ONG qui opèrent dans la Région des grands Lacs ;

– à tous ceux qui refusent que le président Paul KAGAME s’arroge le droit de tuer en toute impunité quiconque est désigné arbitrairement d’ennemi par lui et ses courtisans

– aux ONG internationales de condamner fermement les propos d’incitation à la violence du président Paul KAGAME qui encourage les fonctionnaires à verser également dans les assassinats pour protéger prétendument le Rwanda de ses ennemis réels ou supposés ;

– aux sociétés civiles régionales et internationales pour exiger la création d’institutions fortes et indépendantes capables d’exercer un véritable contrôle sur le pouvoir exécutif en prévenant et sanctionnant ses dérives éventuelles ;

– aux partis politiques d’opposition pour exercer une pression sans relâche à l’ouverture immédiate de l’espace politique verrouillée par le FPR (Front Patriotique Rwandais), le parti du président Paul KAGAME ;

– aux sponsors et bailleurs de fonds internationaux pour cesser tout soutien financier, militaire et diplomatique au président Paul KAGAME et son régime dictatorial dans leurs activités criminelles ;

– à l’ensemble de la Communauté internationale pour qu’elle sorte enfin de son silence coupable et condamne avec conséquences les dérives criminelles du président Paul KAGAME qui impose depuis 20 ans d’inutiles et atroces souffrances aux populations du Rwanda et de la Région des Grands Lacs.

C’est aujourd’hui que vous pouvez influer sur le changement démocratique dont le Rwanda a grandement besoin en soutenant massivement cette pétition qui sera transmise aux sphères influentes et décisionnelles de la Communauté Internationale.

Avec vos proches, amis et connaissances, soyez parmi ceux qui auront accompli leur devoir citoyen de réclamer la protection des rwandais de l’intérieur et extérieur du pays. En signant cette pétition, vous exigez aussi de la Communauté Internationale sa contribution afin d’instaurer une démocratie et une paix sociale au Rwanda.

C’est la seule garantie du véritable progrès vers une réelle réconciliation entre les rwandais attendue depuis 20 ans. C’est une nécessité fondamentale pour le développement et la stabilité durables du pays.

Nous comptons sur votre signature! Les rwandais ont besoin de votre soutien.

Merci de signer, partager et diffuser largement cette pétition.

CLIIR, un regard impartial

Pétition adressée à :

Mr Ban KI-MOON, Secrétaire Général des Nations Unies
Mme Navanethem PILLAY, Haut-commissaire des Nations Unies aux droits de l’homme
Mme Nkosozana Dlamini ZUMA, Présidente de l’Union Africaine
Mrs Tax Lawrence STERGOMENA, Secrétaire Exécutif de la SADC
Mr Herman Van ROMPUY, Président de l’Union Européenne
Mr Manuel BARROSO, Président à la Commission Européenne
Mr Barack OBAMA, Président des Etats Unis d’Amérique
Mr François HOLLANDE, Président de la République de la France
Mr David CAMERON, Premier ministre de la Grande Bretagne
Mr Jacob ZUMA, Président de la République d’Afrique du Sud
Mr Jakaya Mrisho KIKWETE, Président de la République Unie de Tanzanie ;
Mr Joseph KABILA, Président de la République Démocratique du Congo

Pour la protection des rwandais contre les dérives criminelles de leur président dictateur Paul KAGAME.

Cordialement,

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The Shroud Over Rwanda’s Nightmare by Michael Dobbs

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WASHINGTON — Twenty years ago this Saturday, the commander of United Nations peacekeeping forces in Rwanda wrote a coded cable to his superiors in New York that has come to be known as the “genocide fax.” Citing inside information from a “top-level trainer” for a pro-regime militia group, Brig. Gen. Roméo Dallaire warned of an “anti-Tutsi extermination” plot.

The refusal by United Nations officials to approve the general’s plan for raids on suspected arms caches has been widely condemned as paving the way for one of the worst genocides since the Holocaust. But evidence submitted to the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, some of it still under seal, reveals a murkier, more complicated situation than has often been portrayed.

New details about the mysterious informant known to General Dallaire as “Jean-Pierre” serve as a reminder that history can take a long time to reveal its secrets. Important documents that could shed light on the unresolved mysteries and ambiguities of the Rwanda genocide remain under lock and key.

It is now commonly recognized that the international community failed miserably in its efforts to protect the people of Rwanda. But even 20 years later, there is still much to learn. While the new evidence does not absolve the United Nations and Western governments for failing to take timely action, Jean-Pierre’s story illustrates the challenges that continue to vex decision-makers struggling to make sense of unfolding crises in countries like the Central African Republic or South Sudan.

The immediate trigger for the Rwandan genocide was the shooting down of a plane carrying President Juvenal Habyarimana on April 6, 1994. Over the next hundred days, Hutu militia groups murdered at least half a million members of the Tutsi minority, along with tens of thousands of “moderate” Hutus. These massacres took place against the backdrop of a war that pitted the Hutu-dominated regime against Tutsi-led insurgents who had invaded Rwanda from neighboring Uganda.

Whether the genocide was planned, and was thus foreseeable, has been hotly debated by scholars, politicians and lawyers. The “genocide fax” has been a key part of this debate. Controversy has surrounded Jean-Pierre’s motives for cooperating with General Dallaire, the reliability of his information, and his fate after his request for protection was rejected by the United Nations.

We now know a lot more about Jean-Pierre Abubakar Turatsinze (his full name was established by the war crimes tribunal). Half-Hutu and half-Tutsi, he operated on both sides of Rwanda’s political and ethnic divide. While his prediction of mass murder of Tutsis by Hutu militia groups proved chillingly accurate, he misled United Nations peacekeepers on some key points.

Important details about his background and eventual fate are contained in a 2003 interview with his wife by tribunal investigators that has never been officially released but is now available. At the time of his marriage, in 1990, he worked as a driver for a senior Rwandan official. In the turmoil following the rebel invasion, Jean-Pierre used his connections to become an intermediary to the Interahamwe militia, whose principal goal was to defend the Hutu-dominated regime.

Curiously, the fact that he was married to a Tutsi and was the product of a mixed Tutsi-Hutu marriage does not seem to have affected his advancement in the Interahamwe, at least until the end of 1993. Around this time, he told his wife that he might have to kill her because the ruling party was planning to carry out “massacres.” As she told investigators, “because I am Tutsi and his mother was Tutsi, I understood this to mean that the massacres were going to be against the Tutsi population.”

Jean-Pierre told General Dallaire’s aides in January 1994 that he had been instructed to register “all Tutsis” living in Kigali, apparently for “their extermination.” He also said that the Rwandan Army had been supplying the Interahamwe with weapons, and identified several arms caches, including one in the headquarters of the ruling party. The Interahamwe went on to commit many of the murders during the genocide.

The Arusha-based international tribunal has found that the Rwandan Army channeled weapons to the Interahamwe and provided military training to militia members. But tribunal judges were not convinced that the purpose of that training was the “extermination” of Tutsis, as Jean-Pierre claimed, rather than preparation for renewed hostilities with the Tutsi-led Rwandan Patriotic Front. They found that the Interahamwe had drawn up lists of “suspected opponents of the regime,” but such lists were “not focused exclusively on ethnicity.”

Evidence submitted to the tribunal showed that Jean-Pierre may have had other motives for seeking United Nations protection. He had fallen out with party leaders who suspected him of selling arms to rebels in Burundi. Some witnesses believe he might have been an agent of the Rwandan Patriotic Front assigned to penetrate the Interahamwe.

While there is no reliable evidence to back the claim that he was an R.P.F. agent in January 1994, it is clear that he had connections to opposition parties allied with the Tutsi-led rebels. According to United Nations cables, a Hutu opposition leader named Faustin Twagiramungu served as Jean-Pierre’s conduit to General Dallaire. These connections caused French and Belgian analysts to suspect that Jean-Pierre might be spreading “disinformation.”

In his 2003 memoir, “Shake Hands With the Devil,” General Dallaire raised the possibility that his informant had “simply melted back into the Interahamwe, angry and disillusioned at our vacillation and ineffectiveness, and become a genocidaire.” Jean-Pierre told the general’s aides at their final meeting in February 1994 that he was planning to go to Zaire, for “commando training.”

Instead, he went to Tanzania where he joined the R.P.F., according to his wife. In late March, two weeks before the president’s assassination, he moved to a rebel-held enclave in northern Rwanda, where he was reported to be “in very good books with senior members of the R.P.F.” In late 1994, a minister in Rwanda’s new Tutsi-led government informed the family that Jean-Pierre had been “killed in battle.”

The circumstances of his death remain a mystery. As his wife told investigators, “I do not know how he died and where.” She was unable even to establish whether he was “surely dead.”

General Dallaire has told the tribunal that he operated on “instinct” in sending the genocide fax, which was followed up by a series of warnings to New York in early 1994 that were rebuffed or ignored. He sensed that the peacekeeping force had to reassert its authority. But his superiors in New York needed something more than their field commander’s instincts to justify aggressive action.

Newly released State Department records show that United Nations officials briefed the United States, Belgium and France on the emerging crisis, but there was zero enthusiasm in the Clinton administration following the “Black Hawk Down” debacle in Somalia in October 1993. Much stronger intelligence would have been necessary to disrupt the passivity of senior decision makers.

The “Jean-Pierre” revelations are a tantalizing indication of how much we still have to learn about the Rwandan genocide. Records that could shed light on whether it could have been prevented are still classified in Washington, New York, Paris, Brussels, Geneva, Arusha and Kigali — unavailable to the public despite pledges by international leaders to fully investigate the tragedy. In order to draw the correct lessons from history, we must first establish all the facts.

Michael Dobbs directs a Rwanda documentation and oral history project for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and the National Security Archive.

Madame President? No, Madame Prisoner: Rwanda’s Victoire Ingabire

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by Ann Garrison

Victoire Ingabire, imprisoned Rwandan woman political leader who was sentenced to 15 years of jail on 13/12/13.

The Obama administration and its European allies lavish praise, weapons and money on Paul Kagame’s military and ethnic dictatorship in Rwanda. Meanwhile, Victoire Ingabire, a woman of peace, languishes in Kagame’s prisons. If she were president, “there would be a major change in how Rwandans and Congolese live as neighbors, because that would be the end of Rwanda invading Congo.”

“Why have President Obama and the U.S. State Department remained so silent about her case?”

Nearly 60% of Rwanda’s Members of Parliament are women, and the country is commonly praised for empowering women. In October 2011,

Rwandan President Paul Kagame’s delirious state newspaper even suggested that he deserved that year’s Nobel Peace Prize more than the three African women who won, because of his “good practices” to “guarantee a future devoid of gender imbalance.” Trouble with this theory is that Madame Victoire Ingabire, the one woman who dared to challenge Paul Kagame by attempting to run against him in 2010, has been in prison ever since. On Friday, December 13th, while Kagame was in South Africa to pay his last respects to Nelson Mandela, his Supreme Court upheld Victoire’s conviction and extended her sentence from eight to fifteen years.

Rwanda’s Supreme Court justices, 42% of whom are women, agreed with the lower court’s ruling that Victoire conspired to form an armed group to overthrow the government of Rwanda, but Human Rights Watch and many others called the charges politically motivated and the European Parliament called for justice and said that the lower court had not met international judicial standards. I myself spoke to Victoire for Pacifica’s KPFA Radio-Berkeley many times in 2010 and I’ve never known anyone so opposed to armed conflict or committed to the rule of law. Her conviction for this would be a howler if she weren’t facing another twelve years in prison and her family weren’t facing their fourth Christmas without her.

Victoire speaks fluent Dutch, French, Kinyarwanda, and English, but pronounces “dialogue” and “debate” with a distinct and adamant French accent. After the 2010 release of the UN Mapping Report documenting President Kagame’s army’s war crimes, crimes against humanity, and even genocide against Hutu refugees in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, she told KPFA that the mandate of the International Criminal Tribunal on Rwanda should be expanded to include crimes in Congo. Instead, she herself went to prison five days later.

Other prisoners who testified to joining her in a conspiracy to form an armed group were granted release for time served on the same day her own conviction was upheld.

President Obama?

No one would seem to be more respectful of the West’s nominally revered democratic institutions and civil liberties than this Rwandan political prisoner, Victoire Ingabire, so why have President Obama and the U.S. State Department remained so silent about her case? Neither President Obama nor British Prime Minister David Cameron hesitated to make it known that they had warned President Kagame not to send reinforcements across Rwanda’s western border to his M23 militia in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), when M23 finally faced defeat by the Congolese army and UN Force Intervention Brigade. So why have they not, like the European Parliament, called on Rwanda, their longstanding ally and “military partner” to respect judicial standards in Ingabire’s case?

“Victoire stands for negotiation with armed Rwandan refugees in Congo.”

Many reasons, no doubt, including former President Bill Clinton’s determination to protect his longtime friend Paul Kagame and their mutual determination to preserve the received history of the Rwandan Genocide and ensuing Congo wars and conflict. Another may be Victoire’s opposition to their longstanding plan to make Rwanda, or at least its modern capital city Kigali, the “Singapore of Africa,” a banking, technology, and minerals processing hub and multinational corporate gateway to the resource riches of the DRC. In 2010, during her thwarted attempt to run for president, Victoire said:

“The rural population in Rwanda has been neglected for the last 16 years and, instead of the Singapore model of development, which gives the lion’s share to a tiny, urban privileged elite, I would invest in agriculture, I would invest in rural roads and health networks. I would review the land management and I would give priority to the subsistence food crops, rather than cash crops which benefit mostly traders from urban areas. For example, if people cultivate only maize – if you ask them to cultivate only maize for export – what will they eat? This is why I will give priority to enough food to my people.”

Like Tanzanian President Jacaya Kikwete, Victoire stands for negotiation with armed Rwandan refugees in Congo, who have been the Kagame regime’s excuse for invading and plundering that country for years.

“Victoire Ingabire does not believe in invading the neighbors,” said Rwanda Genocide survivor and Friends of the Congo activist Claude Gatebuke. “So Victoire’s case is very significant, not only for Rwanda, but also for Congo. If Victoire Ingabire were allowed to run for president in Rwanda, and she won, there would be a major change in how Rwandans and Congolese live as neighbors, because that would be the end of Rwanda invading Congo.”

Imagine that. After almost 20 years, and millions of Congolese and Rwandan refugees dead.

Speech crime

The lower court also upheld Victoire Ingabire’s conviction for several speech crimes.

1) “Spreading false rumors” intended to incite the public to rise up against the state.
Enough said, I hope, for anyone who believes in free speech. Or anyone who understands that Rwanda is an authoritarian spy state that has engaged in a war of aggression in neighboring Congo for nearly 20 years.

2) “Minimizing” the 1994 Rwandan Genocide.

In 2010, Victoire went to the Kigali Genocide Memorial Centre, and said that Hutu as well as Tutsi victims should be remembered there. The history of the Rwandan Genocide, codified in Rwanda’s Constitution, is that it was only Hutu extremists’ “Genocide Against the Tutsi.”

Before she went to prison, Victoire told KPFA listeners,“ My party and I have never denied the genocide, by the UN understanding, because the Resolution 955 from UN says that in Rwanda was genocide against the people of Rwanda . . . there was genocide against Tutsis and moderate Hutus. We don’t have to forget that. Yes, there was genocide and all people involved should be brought to the court. But, before, during, and after the genocide, other Rwandese people were killed. Hutus and Tutsis were killed. Is this denying genocide? I don’t feel so.”

It’s difficult to rationally argue with this, because the 1991 Rwandan census, as documented by Ed Herman and David Peterson in The Politics of Genocide, reported a Rwandan population of 7,590,235, including 645,170 Tutsis, more than 300,000 fewer than the million Tutsis commonly reported to have died in the genocide. And because Ibuka, Rwanda’s Tutsi genocide survivors group, has claimed that some 300,000 of these 645,170 Tutsis survived. President Kagame would therefore seem to have a lot of bones on display in his genocide memorial sites that he can’t properly account for as the result of his Constitutionally codified “Genocide Against the Tutsi.”

“Rwanda is an authoritarian spy state that has engaged in a war of aggression in neighboring Congo for nearly 20 years.”

Ever since I began to try to untangle this story, with my own focus on U.S. responsibility for backing the Kagame regime, Rwandan Hutu people have told me that they simply want to be able to bury and openly mourn their dead, that this is what they must do to heal and reconcile. Others have told me that they want all the bones buried, not displayed in memorial museums, because it’s not normal in Rwanda to display the bones or body parts of the dead for tourists or anyone else.

To many Rwandans, that is what Victoire Ingabire represents. Acknowledging, remembering, mourning, and burying all the dead.

Quite a few Rwandans appeared out of cyberspace to respond to my 2010 report,Rwanda’s packed prisons and genocide ideology law. Some were absolutely furious, others deeply relieved, just because another writer in the U.S., which has been the dominant power in the region since the Rwanda Genocide and Congo Wars, was trying to make sense of this. At that point I realized how bitterly ethnically polarized Rwanda remains, despite the government’s claim that ethnicity no longer exists there. One reader who appreciated the report left this unforgettable statement in the comments section:

“I am from Kiyombe in Byumba. RPF [Rwandan Patriotic Front] came in 1991 and called all the people from our village for a security meeting. After people had gathered at the soccer pitch of Kiyombe, Mr. Hitler Kagame ordered his military to bomb the gathering. I escaped and went through the tea plantation and found my way to Uganda. Ever since I have never returned to Rwanda but I am still considered a genocide denier or genocidaire. Why? Simply because I am a Hutu and I don’t even have rights to go back to Rwanda and bury my family and relatives in dignity. Do you know how old I was then? Just 16. I survived but it is me and me alone.”

After reading that, I turned to maps and found Kiyombe and Byumba, near the Ugandan border which the RPF, led by General Paul Kagame, had crossed in 1990. And, which this young man then crossed all alone a year later, running in the other direction as a refugee. I also found the tea plantation that he said he had escaped through, and the tea processing plant nearby.

Source: Black Agenda Report

Rwanda: Agasongero k’ikinyoma n’akarengane twasigiwe na GACACA

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Mw’izina ry’Abaturage b’u Rwanda (au nom du Peuple Rwandais), Inkiko GACACA zasize zimitse mu Rwanda akarengane, urwango, ubujura no guhonyora uburenganzira bwa muntu. Porofeseri wo muri Kaminuza (Université Catholique) ya Kabgayi MUBERUKA Pascal azitaba kuri tariki ya 09/01/2014 Urukiko rwisumbuye rwa Muhanga. Ntazi niba azaba agiye kuburana urubanza rwerekeranye n’ifungwa ry’Ibyitso muri 1990-1991 cyangwa azaburana urupfu rwa Mbaraga Rayimondi, ukiriho akaba akorera Leta y’u Rwanda.

Muberuka yafunzwe arengana ku wa 24/12/2008 yagambaniwe na MBARAGA Rayimondi wamushinjaga ko yafungishije Ibyitso by’Inkotanyi muri za 1990-1991 akiri Umushinjacyaho (IPJ) wa Komini Mushubati. Mbaraga yongeye kumushinja ko ngo yaje mu bitero byo kwica abatutsi bahungiye i Kabgayi akahica abantu batazwi muri jenoside ya 1994. Nyamara abarokokeye i Kabgayi batinyutse kwemeza ko Muberuka atigeze ahakandagira. Mukumufungisha, Mbaraga yabifashijwemo na MUNYAKAYANZA Gonzalve, wari umuhuzabikorwa w’Inkiko Gacaca mu murenge wa Nyamabuye (Muhanga-Gitarama). Bombi bifashisha Madamu MURORUNKWERE Alexia wari Perezida w’Urukiko Gacaca rw’Akagari ka Murama (Muhanga-Gitarama).

Abashinjabinyoma bifashishijwe rugikubita ni : Bakundukize Vestine, Nibaseke Viateur na Mpambara Wenceslas. Aba batangabuyamya baje gushinjwa ubugambanyi na NIYISENGWA Paulin wari warafunzwe mu byitso. Uyu nawe yunganiwe n’umugore we MUKAGATANA Anyesi wahamije mu ruhame ko dosiye ya Muberuka ihimbwa yari ahari. Murumuna wa Niyisengwa witwa NIYIRIMBERE Martin baramwitabaje ngo ashinje Muberuka kandi we atarigeze afungwa mu byitso. Nubwo ariwe wagombaga kuburana na Muberuka ntabwo yigeze aboneka m’uru urubanza kugeza ruciwe tariki ya 14/02/2009.

Taliki ya 14/08/2012, MUBERUKA yatanze ibirego bibiri (2) mu Rukiko Rwisumbuye rwa Muhanga agira ngo arugaragarize ko afungiye kwica umuntu uriho ari we MBARAGA Rayimondi. Byongeye kandi yashakaga kurugaragariza ko, nubwo nta byo yakoze, gufunga ibyitso by’inkotanyi atari icyaha cya jenoside ku mukozi wa Leta, nkuko byemejwe mu rubanza RP 87/GIT/CH.S/3/99 rwaciwe n’Urukiko rwa mbere rw’iremezo rwa Gitarama kuwa 30/05/2000 no mu rubanza RP 89/GIT/CH.S/3/99 rwaciwe n’urwo rukiko ku wa 08/04/2002 haregwa umushinjacyaha (IPJ) Sibomana Jean Baptiste.

Tariki ya 21/12/2012, urwo Rukiko rwafashe icyemezo cy’uko rwiyambuye ububasha kuri urwo rubanza, rwemeza ko ruzaburanishwa n’Urukiko rw’ibanze rwa Nyamabuye ruhita rurwoherezayo. Kugeza na nubu ntabwo Muberuka arahamagarwa ngo aruburane. Maître Julien Ngabonziza umwunganira amaze kwandikira kabiri urwo rukiko ariko ntiruramusubiza.

Ifatwa kuwa 24/12/2008, ifungwa n’imanza Gacaca za Porofeseri MUBERUKA Pascal (wigishaga muri Kaminuza ya Kiliziya Gatorika i Kabgayi) zagaragaje ibikurikira :

1. Akarengane n’ikinyoma n’ibyorezo bikomeje kuvuza ubuhuha mu Ubucamanza bw’u Rwanda. Ikinyoma cyahawe intebe n’amashyirahamwe y’ABASHINJABINYOMA bashyigikiwe na Leta yayogoje Inkiko Gacaca n’Inkiko zisanzwe mu Rwanda.

2. Komisiyo y’Igihugu y’Uburenganzira bwa Muntu (CNDP) yateshejwe agaciro kayo. Kuko yatakambiye abategetsi bakuriye Inkiko GACACA, Minisitiri w’Ubucamanza n’inzego zose zishinzwe kurenganura abaturage biranga biba iby’ubusa. Muberuka afunzwe arengana cyane. Ndetse n’abacikacumu b’abatutsi bamushinjuye barabifungiwe kuko bamaganye kandi bakitandukanya n’udutsiko tw’Abashinjabinyoma bagambaniye Muberuka agakatirwa gufungwa burundu by’umwihariko ku wa 16/09/2009 kandi arengana nkuko tugiye kubibagaragariza muri iri tangazo. Abamushinjura bakatiwe igifungo cyo kubacecekesha n’aba : NIYISENGWA Paulin (yakatiwe umwaka umwe), GASHUGI Oswald (amezi atatu) na SEKAGENGE Claude (amezi atandatu).

3. Itegeko Nshinga ry’u Rwanda, mu ngingo zaryo zirenganura abanyarwanda ryararibaswe biratinda. Amategeko n’inzego byose byagenewe kurenganura MUBERUKA Pascal byarasuzuguwe, himikwa gusa Akarengane, Ikinyoma, Urwango no guhonyora Ukuri.

MUBERUKA Pascal arashinjwa Ibyaha bitatu :

1. Icyaha cy’isakwa n’ifungwa ry’ibyitso by’inkotanyi muri Segiteri Kagarama mu 1990 ;

2. Icyaha cy’isakwa n’ifungwa rya Kamuhinda Gaspard na bagenzi be muri 1991 ;

3. Icyaha cy’uruhare mu rupfu rw’abantu batazwi baguye i Kabgayi muri 1994.

Ibyo byaha bibiri byo gusaka no gufunga ibyitso

Urukiko rwa Mbere rw’Iremezo (Tribinstance) rwa Gitarama rwaciye urubanza RP 87/GIT/CH.S/3/99 kuwa 30/05/2000 maze rugira umwere uwaregagwa ko yafunze ibyitso. Uwo ni uwari Burugumesitiri wa Komini Mushubati, Bwana Munyankumburwa Emmanuel, wahise afungurwa. Urukiko rwemeje ko gusaka no gufunga ibyitso by’Inkotanyi mu rwego rw’akazi nku’uko n’ubu bikorwa atari icyaha cya jenoside. Amaze kuba umwere, MUBERUKA wari Umushinjacyaha IPJ (Inspecteur de la Police Judiciaire) wa Komini Mushubati muri 1990-1991) aregwa ibyo Burugumestri bakoranye yagizweho umwere.

Mu batangabuhamya bamushinjura abatutsi batatu (3) barafashwe bakatirwa ibihano bikomeye bigamije gucecekesha burundu n’undi muntu wese w’inyangamugayo watinyuka gushinjura ababeshyerwa cyangwa ababorera muri za gereza z’u Rwanda barengana

Umugore wa Muberuka nta bategetsi n’imilyango irengera abantu atatakambiye. Kuva kuri Perezida Paul Kagame, ugaca kuri Domitila MUKANTAGANZWA n’abandi bayobozi bari bakuriye GACACA. Abarenganije umugabo we Muberuka bahisemo kwimika umuco wo kugambanira no kurenganya inzirakarengane.

Abatangabuhamya bashinja MUBERUKA bahawe umwanya munini wo kuvuga icyo bashaka byose. Abashinjura Muberuka benshi ntibatumijwe, n’abaje bamburwaga ijambo kimwe n’umuburanyi MUBERUKA wanditse amabaruwa arenga 40 (mirongo ine) kuva yafungwa asaba kumurenganura. Yandikiye abategetsi n’inzego nyinshi z’ubutegetsi n’imilyango irengera ikiremwamuntu biba iby’ubusa na nubu aracyafunzwe arengana.

Dore ibyiciro byinshi by’ako karengane nkuko tubisoma mw’ibaruwa n° CNDP/OCT/576/09 yo kuwa 30/10/2009 Komisiyo y’Uburenganzira bwa Muntu (CNDP) yandikiye Umunyamabanga Nshingwabikorwa w’Urwego rw’Igihugu rwari rushinzwe Inkiko GACACA muri icyo gihe ariwe Madamu Domitila MUKANTAGANZWA :

1. Ku wa 31/12/2008, MUBERUKA Pascal, ukomoka mu Murenge wa Cyeza yandikiye Komisiyo asaba ko yamufasha akarenganurwa kuko avuga ko yafunzwe binyuranyije n’amategeko kubera akagambane.

2. Ku wa 24/12/2008, Muberuka Pascal yafatiwe ku kazi aho yigishaga muri Kaminuza gatolika ya Kabgayi ashinjwa kuba yaragize uruhare muri jenoside yakorewe abatutsi mu mwaka w’1994, no kuba icyitso muri iyo jenoside.

3. Ku wa 28/12/2008, Muberuka Pascal yafungiwe muri Gereza ya Gitarama ari naho agifungiye kugeza ubu. (Ubu asigaye afungiwe muri gereza ya MPANGA hafi ya Nyanza).

4. Komisiyo yakurikiranye urubanza rwa Muberuka Pascal rwaciwe n’Urukiko Gacaca rw’Umurenge wa Jabana, Akarere ka Gasabo mu Mujyi wa Kigali rwabereye i Kabgayi ku wa 08 Nyakanga 2009, n’urubanza rwaciwe n’Urukiko rw’Ubujurire rw’uwo Murenge (Jabana) rwaciwe ku wa 15 no ku wa 16/09/2009. Izo Nkiko zombi zikaba zarahanishije Muberuka igifungo cya burundu y’umwihariko.

5. Komisiyo ibandikiye kugirango ibagaragarize ibitagenze neza mu rubanza rw’Ubujurire rwabereye i Kabgayi ku wa 15 no kuwa 16/09/2009 byerekana ihohoterwa ry’uburenganzira ku rubanza ruciwe mu mucyo.

Ibyo Komisiyo yabonye byabangamiye ubwo burenganira nibi bikurikira :

1. MUBERUKA Pascal ntiyahabwaga ijambo ngo abone uko yisobanura neza. Wasangaga Inteko imwaka ijambo atarangije gusubiza icyo yabajijwe bakamujyana ku kindi kibazo, yatangira kuvuga Inteko ikamubwira ko ibizi atari ngombwa kubisubiramo ko iby’inama batabireba cyane ahubwo ko bareba ibyabereye i Kabgayi.

2. Perezida w’Inteko wasangaga abogamiye ku buryo bugaragara ku ruhande rwa Mbaraga Raymond aho kuba hagati y’ababuranyi bombi. Aha twatanga nk’urugero rw’uko iyo Mbaraga yahabwaga ijambo, yahabwaga umwanya uhagije wo kuvuga. Muberuka Pascal yavuga akamuca mu ijambo.

3. Abatangabuhamya ba Muberuka Pascal ntibigeze bahamagazwa, n’abari bahari bakurikiraga urubanza gusa. Iyo basabaga ijambo ibyo bavuze ntibyahabwaga agaciro cyane cyane iyo babaga bavugira uregwa.

4. Abatangabuhamya ba Mbaraba Raymond, bagaragaye mu rubanze bagahabwa n’ijambo ni abo mu muryango we gusa barimo muramu we n’umugore we.

5. Kuba mu Rubanza hari uwabajije ati ko i Kabgayi hari abandi bantu baharokokeye, habura n’undi waba yarahabonye Muberuka Pascal. Perezida w’Urukiko amusubiza avuga ko afite ingengabitekerezo ya jenoside. Ibi bishobora gufatwa nka « intimidation ».

6. Ikindi kitagenze neza n’uko wasangaga Muberuka Pascal asa n’aho aburana na Perezida w’Inteko aho kuburana n’uwamureze.

7. Ikindi cyakwibazwaho ni uko dosiye ya Muberuka Pascal yavanywe mu buryo butunguranye mu rubanza yari ahuriyeho na Hategeka Augustin na bagenzi be bagombaga kuburanishwa n’Urukiko Gacaca rw’Ubujurire rw’Umurenge wa Kicukiro nk’uko byari mu ibaruwa n° Réf 1521/MDMD/2009 yo ku wa 27/12/2009, Urwego rw’Igihugu Rushinzwe Inkiko Gacaca rwandikiye Urukiko Gacaca rw’Ubujurire rw’Umurenge wa Kicukiro rusaba kuburanisha Hategeka Augustin na bagenzi be. Yaje (Muberuka) kuburanishwa wenyine n’Urukiko rw’Ubujurire rw’Umurenge wa JABANA.

8. Madamu Munyamabanga Nshingwabikorwa, Komisiyo isanga Muberuka Pascal yaravukijwe uburenganzira ku rubanza ruciwe mu mucyo (privé d’un procès équitable).

Iyi baruwa n° CNDP/OCT/576/09 yo kuwa 30/10/2009 Komisiyo y’Igihugu y’Uburenganzira bwa Muntu (CNDP) yasinywe na Perezida w’iyo Komisiyo, Madamu KAYITESI Zaïnabo Sylvie, irasobanura bihagije akarengane kakorewe Muberuka Pascal.

Komisiyo yasabye Madamu Mukantaganzwa Domitila ko urubanza rwa Muberuka rusubirwamo nkuko na nyirubwite yabisabye mu ibaruwa ye yo ku wa 29/09/2009 yandikiye Perezida w’Inama Rusange y’Umurenge wa Gihuma, rugahabwa indi nteko kandi rukaburanishwa mu mucyo no mu butabera. Nkuko byagaragaye, Madamu Mukantaganzwa yasuzuguye Komisiyo y’Uburenganzira bwa Muntu. Bityo Muberuka akaba yarakomeje gufungwa kugeza na n’ubu. Ikigo CLIIR ntikiramenya niba MUBERUKA Pascal azahabwa umwanya wo kwisobanura maze agahita afungurwa nkuko byakagombye kugenda mu gihugu kivuga ko kigendera ku mategeko.

Nkuko twabisobanuye mw’Itangazo ryacu n°80/2005 ryasohowe ku wa 18/03/2005, abategetsi ba gisilikare cyangwa bo mw’ishyaka rya FPR-Inkotanyi biyemeje kuyobya imikorere y’Inkiko Gacaca bagamije kuzikoresha mu guhohotera abahutu b’inzirakarengane.

Hagambiriwe kubafungisha no kubacuza imitungo yabo. Gukenesha imilyango y’abahutu mu buryo bunyuranye. Kuyobya Gacaca babigezeho binjiza ba Maneko ba DMI benshi muri izo Nkiko. Babigezeho birukana Inyangamugayo zitorewe n’abaturage zirenga ibihumbi 45 (45.000 juges) nkuko Madamu MUKANTAGANZWA Domitila yabyivugiye mu kiganiro yagiranye na BBC tariki ya 15 Nyakanga 2006.

Uwo mubare w’Inyangamugayo Gacaca zirukanywe ungana n’ibice 25 kw’ijana (25%) by’Inyangamugayo zisaga 200.000 zari zaratowe. Inyangamugayo zirukanywe zari zaranze kwinjira muri gahunda y’abamaneko ba DMI (Directorate of Military Intelligence) bashakaga kubashora mu kagambane ko gufungisha abahutu b’inzirakarengane babahora ko ari abahutu gusa.

Ba maneko DMI bamaze kwigarurira Inkiko Gacaca, nibwo abahutu benshi mu bize amashuri menshi, mu bakozi ba Leta, mu bacuruzi, mu barimu no mu baganga b’abahutu, baciriwe imanza n’Inkiko Gacaca hagambiriwe kubafungira ubusa no kubacuza imitungo yabo. Gacaca yatumye abaturage benshi bahunga igihugu cy’u Rwanda. Benshi bahungira za Burundi, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzaniya, RDCongo no mu Burayi.

UMWANZURO :

Nkuko Ikigo kirwanya Umuco wo Kudahana no Kurenganya mu Rwanda (CLIIR) kitahwemye kwamagana uburyo abagome, abagambanyi n’abajura bakoresheje Inkiko GACACA bagahohotera abaturage batagira ingano babafungisha, babacuza imitungo yabo. Uruhare rw’abategetsi b’inzego zinyuranye narwo rwaragaragaye mu kwimika ubwo bugome n’ubujura bwakorewe mu Nkiko GACACA.

Ikindi cyagaragaye kandi kibabaje n’uruhare rukomeye, Madamu Domitila MUKANTAGANZWA (Umunyamabanga Nshingwabikorwa wari ukuriye Inkiko Gacaca) yagize mu KURENGANYA abantu bashowe mu manza za Gacaca bazira gusa ko ari abahutu bafite amashuri cyangwa imitungo igaragara. Byari byoroshye kwitabaza udukipe tw’abantu bashonje (kandi mu Rwanda abashonji ni benshi) ukabashora mu manza zo gushinja ibinyoma, ubizeza inyungu bazabona mu gihe Imitungo y’abarengana itejwe cyamunara bagahabwa ku mafaranga avuye muri ubwo bujura bushyigikiwe n’abategetsi.

Turasaba ko Porofeseri MUBERUKA Pascal yafungurwa nta yandi mananiza bamushyizeho.

Bikorewe i Buruseli kuwa 08 Mutarama 2014

Yozefu MATATA, Umuhuzabikorwa w’Ikigo CLIIR.

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Leta ya Kagame irahakana ikanapyobya jenoside yakorewe Abatutsi.

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“urupfu rw’umuntu wigaragaje nk’urwanya igihugu nta mpuhwe ruteye”

Hon. Louise Mushikiwabo

Minisitiri w’ububanyi n’amahanga akaba n’umuvugizi wa Guverinoma y’u Rwanda

Kuva aho FPR ifatiye ubutegetsi yahuye n’ikibazo kitoroshye cyo kwemeza isi yose ko koko ubwicanyi bwakorewe abatutsi ari jenoside. Abaregwaga mu rukiko mpuzamahanga na bo akenshi bakomezaga gushimangira ko nta jenoside yabaye kugeza aho mu mwaka wa 2006 icyo kibazo gikemuwe bidasubirwaho ko ubwicanyi bwakorewe abatutsi mu Rwanda ari jenoside. Kugeza na n’ubu ubwicanyi bwakorewe abahutu bwo kuva ku itariiki ya 1 Ukwakira 1990 buracyagibwaho impaka, nta rukiko rubifitiye ubushobozi rwari rwafata umwanzuro ko ari jenoside n’ubwo bwose hari ibimenyetso bifatika byerekana ko ari jenoside koko! Ni ukuvuga ngo ni jenoside ititwa jenoside.

Jenoside yakorewe abatutsi ikimara kwemezwa ku buryo budasubirwaho, leta y’u Rwanda yatangiye urugamba rwo kwibasira abantu bakoraga commentaire iyo ari yo yose kuri jenoside. Utararezwe kuyihakana yarezwe kuyipfobya. Guhakana jenoside umuntu agenekereje yavuga ko ari ukuvuga ko itabayeho cyangwa se kwerekana ko yari ngombwa. Cyakora gupfobya byo igisobanuro gikunze kugorana. Mu Kinyarwanda gupfobya bisobanura gusuzugura ikintu, ukakigira gitoya ugamije kwerekana ko nta gaciro gifite.

Imanza zagiye zicibwa zo gupfobya jenoside akenshi wasangaga umuntu aregwa icyo cyaha byo nyine kuko yavuze ko n’abahutu bishwe kandi bakeneye ubutabera.Icyo kikaba icyaha cyo gupfobya jenoside ngo kuko ugereranyije ubwicanyi bwakorewe abatutsi n’ubwakorewe abahutu. Cyakora hari n’ibindi byagiye bifatwa nko gupfobya jenoside: urugero nko kugerageza kwumvikanisha ko ubwicanyi bwakorewe abatutsi bwari bufite ishingiro. Iyo witegereje neza usanga nta tandukanyirizo risobanutse hagati yo guhakana no gupfobya jenoside. Kubera kudasobanuka byageze aho umuhutu wese yirinda gukora commentaire ijyanye na jenoside kuko yashoboraga guhita ashinjwa ibyo byaha twavuze haruguru, ni uko jenoside iragenda iba tabou ku bahutu, ntawe ushobora gutanga igitekerezo.

Tugendeye kuri logique y’uko kugerageza kwerekana ko ubwicanyi bwakorewe abatutsi bwari bufite ishingiro bikaba gupfobya cyangwa guhakana jenoside, turasanga ibyo leta ya Kigali irimo ikora ubu nabyo bihakana cyangwa se bigapfobya jenoside. Reka tubisesengure:

“Umwanzi w’u Rwanda n’iyo yapfa ntibikwiye kutubuza gusinzira”

Aya ni amwe mu magambo yavuzwe n’umuvugizi wa guverinoma y’u Rwanda, ministre w’ububanyi n’amahanga Louise Mushikiwabo avuga ku byerekeye urupfu rwa Koloneli Karegeya Patrick. Mushikiwabo avuga ko Karegeya nk’umuntu wagaragaje ko arwanya Leta y’u Rwanda adakwiye kuririrwa n’ubwo yapfa. Ikindi Mushikiwabo yemeza ko Karegeya ari umuntu mubi cyane kuko yafatanyaga n’abarwanya u Rwanda aribo ba FDLR ndetse ngo bakaba barateraga ama grenades mu gihugu bagahitana abanyarwanda. Musihikiwabo yanageze aho avuga ko umuntu urwanya Leta nayo igomba kumurwanya nta kundi byamera.Mu kuvuga ibi Mushikiwabo arerekana ko iyicwa rya Karegeya nta kibazo riteye ndetse ibinyamakuru bitandukanye byo byavuze ko Leta y’u Rwanda irimo guca amarenga ko ariyo yishe Karegeya

“Kugambanira igihugu cyakugize uwo uwo uri we bigira ingaruka umuntu agomba kwirengera”

P. Damien Habumuremyi, Ministre w’intebe w’u Rwanda.

Mushikiwabo yunganiwe na Ministiri w’intebe mu kwemeza ko kugambanira igihugu bigomba kugira ingaruka ku muntu wese. Aba bombi bafite imyanya ikomeye muri Leta ni ukuvuga ko ibyo batubwiye ari na byo umukuru wa yo Paul Kagame atekereza. Iyo bitaba ibyo aba yabasabye guhita begura. Byumvikane neza ko iyo Mushikiwabo na Habumuremyi baza kuvuga ko Leta yashakishaga Karegeya ngo arangize ibihano yakatiwe cyangwa se aburane ibirego byo gushaka kuvutsa igihugu umudendezo byari kuba bitandukanye n’uko byitwaye ubu. Reka ibyo tube tubiretse dusubize amaso inyuma gatoya mu myaka 20 ishize.

2. “Umwanzi w’u Rwanda ni Inyenzi Nkotanyi zateye u Rwanda hamwe n’ibyitso byazo”

Iyi ni imvugo yakoreshejwe mu gihe cya jenoside yakorewe abatutsi akenshi yari igamije kwereka abantu ko umututsi wese( icyitso) ari umwanzi w’igihugu bityo akaba nta mwanya afite mu Rwanda. Ni ukuvuga ngo umwanzi w’igihugu aramutse apfuye ntibyabuza igihugu gusinzira. Na nyuma y’uko FPR ifata ubutegetsi abantu benshi ntibigeze bumva impamvu baregwa jenoside kandi nyamara bo barabwiwe ko barimo gutabara igihugu bagikiza umwanzi n’ibyitso bye.

3. Mushikiwabo arahakana akanapfobya jenoside yakorewe abatutsi

Ndabivuga ntya kuko Mushikiwabo asubiye mu mvugo FPR ivuga ko ariyo yakoreshejwe mu gukangurira abantu jenoside. Iyi mvugo yerekanaga ko kwikiza umwanzi (Inkotanyi) n’ibyitso byazo (Abatutsi) nta kibazo cyarimo kabone n’ubwo bwari ubwicanyi. Uwasubira muri aya magambo muri iki gihe cya FPR nta shiti yashinjwa guhakana no gupfobya jenoside kandi koko yaba abikora. None dore Mushikiwabo niyo magambo asubiyemo mu rwego rwo kwerekana ko umwanzi(Karegeya) yagombaga kwicwa. Gukoresha aya magambo ni ukwerekana ko n’amagambo yakoreshwejwe mu gukangurira abantu gukora jenoside yari afite ishingiro. Par conséquent, ni ukwemeza ko jenoside yari ifite ishingiro kuko abantu bikizaga umwanzi n’ibyitso bye.

Aha hari uwavuga ati abatutsi ntibari abanzi. Igisubizo ni ukubanza kumenya ni nde ugena umwanzi w’igihugu. Iyo igihugu cyatewe ubusanzwe leta igira ijambo igeza ku baturage ikanavuga icyo amaperereza yagaragaje ku bijyanye n’umwanzi. Niba Leta yaravuze ko umwanzi ari FPR n’ibyitso( njye sinabyiyumviye) ni ukuvuga ko abavuzwe bafatwa nk’abanzi koko kabone n’aho byaba atari ukuri. Uyu munsi niba umuvugizi wa guverinoma avuze ku mugaragaro ko Karegeya na bagenzi be ari abanzi ndetse leta igomba kubarwanya ni uko bifatwa nyine n’ubwo byaba atari ukuri.

Gushyigkira imvugo abakoze jenoside bitwaje kandi bakaba barumvaga ko bakoraga ibikwiye, ukayisubiramo nawe wemeza ko kwica bikwiye kuko wikiza umwanzi nk’uko abakoze jenoside babivugaga, nta kundi njye nagufata uretse kuvuga ko nawe uhakana jenoside ukanayipfobya.

Namwe mumbwire uko mubyumva.

Chaste Gahunde

Arrests made after death of Rwanda’s ex-spy boss

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Col Patrick Karegeya

Three Rwandan nationals were arrested for the murder of Rwanda’s former spy chief Patrick Karegeya, the New Agereported on Wednesday.

Karegeya (53) was living in exile in South Africa for a number of years. He was found dead in the Michelangelo Towers in Sandton, Johannesburg, last Wednesday.

Private investigator Chad Thomas reportedly said Rwanda’s Lieutenant Colonel Francis Gakwere was among those arrested in Maputo, Mozambique, for Karegeya’s murder.

“Gwakere was also a prime suspect in the failed hit on General Kayumba Nyamwasa in 2010 but there was insufficient evidence to allow the charges to stick,” Thomas was quoted as saying.

Three other suspects were still on the run.

Karegeya’s nephew David Batenga said he last saw his uncle with a close family friend, Apollo Kiririsi, at the hotel.

The New Age reported that Kiririsi had since been seen in Rwanda and had denied any involvement in the killing.

Kagame accusations
Former Rwandan army chief-of-staff Nyamwasa and others have accused Rwandan President Paul Kagame of ordering Karegeya’s assassination.

Kagame has denied the claims.

While the Rwandan government denies it targets dissidents for assassination, the death of Karegeya fits a pattern of attacks on Rwandan dissidents. Kagame has long been accused of extra-territorial killings, including ones committed when Karegeya was the feared boss of Rwanda’s external security agency.

Among the attacks, gunmen twice tried to kill Kagame’s former chief of army staff Nyamwasa while he was living in exile in Johannesburg in 2010. Nyamwasa told the Associated Press in 2012 that Kagame has hunted him and other dissidents around the world “using hired killer squads”.

Rwanda’s foreign minister said on Monday her government had no sympathy for the slain former spy chief. He had a falling out with the country’s president. Rwanda’s prime minister also warned on Monday that betraying one’s country brought consequences.

In Twitter messages, Rwandan Foreign Minister Louise Mushikiwabo said Karegeya was a “self-declared” enemy of their African nation. Referring to Karegeya’s death, she tweeted: “You expect pity?”

Responding to the tweets, Karegeya’s eldest son Elvis asked her on Twitter: “So it’s your government’s view that any ‘enemy’ of the state deserves to be strangled to death?” Mushikiwabo responded: “It’s my Gov position: 1. what happens to its enemies shd not make it lose sleep & 2. investigation shd proceed”

She repeated accusations that the slain dissident colonel and his colleagues had been behind grenade attacks in Rwanda in recent years.

Fake SA passport

Karegeya’s family, meanwhile, said the Ugandan government has rejected a request for him to be buried in Uganda, the country of his birth and where his mother and siblings still live. James Mugume, the permanent secretary at Uganda’s foreign ministry, said on Monday Karegeya cannot be buried in Uganda because of “sovereignty” issues.

“He was a citizen of Rwanda and was resident in South Africa. We don’t want to interfere in other countries’ matters,” Mugume said.

In an interview with the Associated Press on Monday, Karegeya’s nephew Batenga, said he believes that the last person seen with Karegeya used a fake passport to enter South Africa. Batenga said on Monday that the man, whose full name is Apollo Kiririsi Gafaranga, had seemed to be a friend of the former Rwandan external intelligence chief.

“We haven’t been able to find any record of him entering the country. So he must have used a fake passport,” Batenga said.

Fears of the Rwandan regime

Three days earlier, Batenga and his uncle had picked Gafaranga up at a light-rail station and driven him to the plush Michelangelo Towers where he had asked to be booked in. According to family members and friends, Gafaranga had spent years earning Karegeya’s trust and had travelled to South Africa at least four times, always apparently on fake documents and staying at Karegeya’s home.

But this time asked to be booked into a hotel, citing growing fears of the Rwandan regime and the security risk to his friend.

Karegeya was found dead in the hotel room after failing to respond to phone calls and text messages from his nephew. Gafaranga was gone, taking only his cellphone and wallet with him and leaving his suitcase behind in the room, Batenga said. Batenga believes more than one person was involved in the killing, saying it would likely take a several men to overpower his uncle and there weren’t any signs of a massive struggle in the hotel room. – Sapa, Sapa-AP

http://mg.co.za/article/2014-01-08-three-arrests-made-for-rwandas-ex-spy-boss

Death didn’t take a Christmas break in Congo!

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Ban Ki-Moon in the picture is responsible for more than 6 million Congolese killed by Kagame and his proxy war groups

Congo faced an attempted coup on December 30, 2013 and 143 innocent people were killed, not the real perpetrators who are or were part of DRC government but innocents.

Plus, a beloved Congolese colonel was assassinated as a reward for his dedication to protect Congo sovereignty. It was alleged that a rocket hit his car but specialists say that this is false and that the vehicle was burnt after Colonel Mamadou Ndala’s body was riddled with bullets and burnt.
Two Tutsi officers were arrested as suspects.

Moreover, today RFI announces that they managed to get a new UN report that will be released very soon and that shows how Rwanda and Uganda are fuelling the war in DRC through the M23, which is not dead obviously despite a peace accord signed with Congo government in Nairobi lately.

We have many questions: when will this hypocrisy stop? When will those who consider Kagame as a ”darling” stop their support? When will people finally admit that the ones arming Rwanda and Uganda are to be found here in the West and that they need to be held accountable for the millions death in DRC?

You as a people can do something, you need to stand up either by joining Congolese demonstrations when they take place or by signing the petition we launched and that can be found on our website www.dbbtt.org

Congo does not need charity nor tears but JUSTICE!

Source: www.dbbtt.org