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ICC: Kenyatta Must be present at trial.

Kenyatta at ICC

In a statement released today via the ICC website, the trial chamber recommended that the Kenyan president must be present during the trial proceedings.

“Trial Chamber V (b) held, by majority, Judge Eboe-Osuji dissenting, that as a general rule, Mr Kenyatta must be present at trial. Any future requests to be excused from attending parts of the trial will be considered on a case-by-case basis,” reads the statement.

President Uhuru Kenyatta is allegedly criminally responsible as an indirect co-perpetrator pursuant to article 25(3)(a) of the Rome Statute for the crimes against humanity of:

Murder (article 7(l)(a));

Deportation or forcible transfer (article 7(l)(d));

Rape (article 7(l)(g));

Persecution (articles 7(l)(h)); and

Other inhumane acts (article 7(l)(k)).

Here is the full statement from ICC.

Today, 26 November 2013, Trial Chamber V(b) of the International Criminal Court (ICC) reconsidered its previous decision excusing Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta from continuous presence at trial, in light of the legal clarifications provided by the Appeals Chamber in its recent judgment on the matter.

Trial Chamber V(b) held, by majority, Judge Eboe-Osuji dissenting, that as a general rule, Mr Kenyatta must be present at trial. Any future requests to be excused from attending parts of the trial will be considered on a case-by-case basis.

The Chamber reasoned that the Appeals Judgment, delivered on 25 October 2013 in the case The Prosecutor v. William Samoei Ruto and Joshua Arap Sang, provided important new information which justified the reconsideration.

The Appeals Chamber had concluded that a Trial Chamber enjoys discretion under article 63(1), which states that “[t]he accused shall be present during the trial”, but that such discretion was limited.

The Appeals Chamber had ruled that absence is only permissible under exceptional circumstances, and must be limited to that which is strictly necessary.

It further held that the decision as to whether the accused may be excused from attending part of his or her trial must be taken on a case-by-case basis.

Background: On 18 October 2013, Trial Chamber V(b) had conditionally granted the Defence’s request to excuse Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta from continuous presence at his trial, with the exception of the following sessions: the opening and closing statements of all parties and participants, hearings when victims present their views and concerns in person, the delivery of judgment, and any other attendance ordered by the Chamber.

If applicable, his presence will also be required at sentencing hearings, the delivery of sentence, the entirety of victim impact hearings, and reparation hearings.

On 28 October 2013, the Prosecution filed a motion for reconsideration of the 18 October decision, in which it requested the Chamber to vacate the excusal decision and revert to the general rule under article 63(1).

Mr Kenyatta is charged, as an indirect co-perpetrator, with five counts of crimes against humanity consisting of murder, deportation or forcible transfer, rape, persecution and other inhumane acts allegedly committed during the post-election violence in Kenya in 2007-2008. Charges were confirmed on 23 January 2012, and the case was committed to trial before Trial Chamber V(b). His trial is scheduled to commence on 5 February 2014.

Source: http://www.redpepper.co.ug/icc-kenyatta-must-be-present-at-trial/

Joseph Kony might negotiate his surrender, ending a long, murderous rampage

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Mr. Kony, who has been indicted on war crimes charges by the International Criminal Court in The Hague, has been hiding in jungles in the Central Africa for years with a band of child soldiers and a harem of child brides. He formed the Lord’s Resistance Army more than 25 years ago with the aim of overthrowing the Ugandan government. He had been on the run in recent years, sought by more than 2,000 Ugandan troops supported by American Special Operations units.

Officials in the Central African Republic have been in contact with members of the Lord’s Resistance Army who are seeking to surrender, though there is little evidence thus far that Mr. Kony is among them. An African Union official fueled speculation about Mr. Kony, saying that the rebel leader had a “serious illness.”

A State Department official said that the United States had been aware for several months that a small group from the Lord’s Resistance Army was in the Central African Republic, but that there were few signs that Mr. Kony was himself a part of that group.

“Many times in the past, Joseph Kony and his senior commanders have used — and we believe will continue to use — any and every pretext to rest, regroup and rearm,” said the official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, “ultimately returning to kidnapping, killing, displacing and otherwise abusing civilian populations.”

That skepticism is shared by the Ugandan military. “The L.R.A. is not a very reliable partner,” said Lt. Col. Paddy Ankunda, a spokesman for the Ugandan military. “We support the initiative on principle. If they can get serious that’s good, but they’ve never been serious.”

Mr. Kony was the focus of the video “Kony 2012” by the advocacy group Invisible Children, which became a sensation on the Internet last year, bringing mainstream attention to the altar boy turned brutal rebel, who often wore wigs and costumes. His fighters were known for kidnapping thousands of children and brainwashing them into becoming killers themselves, who committed gruesome acts like sawing off lips.

But the Lord’s Resistance Army has been seriously weakened in recent years and many of his followers have defected. The Central African Republic’s president, Michel Djotodia, told Abou Moussa, the special representative and head of the United Nations Regional Office for Central Africa, that he was in contact with Mr. Kony and that he was encouraging him to surrender.

A spokesman for Mr. Djotodia, Guy Simplice Kodegue, confirmed that the president had recently spoken with Mr. Kony, and that he was in the country. He said Mr. Kony had agreed to lay down his weapons.

Kasper Agger, a field researcher for the Enough Project, based in Uganda and focusing on Lord’s Resistance Army, said that “the report has been circulating for some time behind the scenes.” He said that the group was under “unprecedented pressure” between the American special forces and the Ugandan troops involved in the hunt.

Speaking to reporters at the United Nations on Wednesday, Francisco Madeira, the African Union special envoy for Lord’s Resistance Army issues, said that, “Many reports that we have received indicate that he is suffering from some serious illness, some uncharacterized illness.”

Many analysts have long held that Mr. Kony will not give himself up and risk transfer to The Hague. “Having studied the L.R.A., knowing my history, I see no truth that Kony would ever come out,” Mr. Agger said. “I don’t believe it’s in his game plan to come out peacefully.”

Adam Nossiter contributed reporting from Dakar, Senegal, and Rick Gladstone from New York.

Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/22/world/africa/african-rebel-leader-said-to-be-considering-surrender.html?ref=africa&_r=0

Kagame, Kaguta na Kenyatta barezwe mu rukiko!

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Uhereye ibumoso Kenyatta wa Kenya, Kagame w’u Rwanda na Kaguta wa Uganda baregwa kwica amasezerano ya EAC.

Arusha muri Tanzania haravugwa urubanza ruregwamo Perezida Kaguta Museveni, Kagame Paul na Kenyatta Uhuru. Nk’uko tubikesha ikinyamakuru The Citizen mu nyandiko ya Mussa Juma yo kuwa 19 Ugushyingo 2013, aba bagabo bareganwa n’umunyamabanga mukur w’Umuryango w’ibihugu by’Afurika y’Uburasirazuba Bwana Richard Sezibera. Bose uko ari bane bakurikiranweho kwica nkana amasezerano agenga umuryango w’Afurika y’Uburasirazuba East African Community( EAC) mu gihe bakoraga inama zigera kuri eshatu zose bakanga gutumira ibihugu bya Tanzania n’u Burundi kandi nabyo ari ibihugu binyamuryango

Iki kirego cyatanzwe mu rukiko rw’umuryango w’ibihugu by’Afurika y’Uburasirazuba(EAC) kuwa 18 Ugushyingo 2013 n’abagabo batatu ari bo Bwana Ally Msangi, Bwana David Makata, na Bwana Yohani Adam. Barasaba umucamanza ko yagira imfabusa kandi agahagarika ishyirwa mu bikorwa ry’ibyemezo byafashwe mu nama eshatu zitatumiwemo Tanzania n’u Burundi. Izo nama zabaye ku matariki ya 24 na 25 Kamena Entebbe muri Uganda, tariki ya 28 Kanama Mombasa muri Kenya no ku itariki ya 28 Ukwakira I Kigali mu Rwanda zihuza ba Perezida Kagame, Museveni na Kenyatta.

Dr Richard Sezibera umunyamabanga mukuru wa EAC, na we yagizwe ishumi ya ba 3K

Nk’uko The citizen gikomeza kibitangaza, uburanira abarega avuga ko izo nama uko ari eshatu zishe amategeko agenga uyu muryango igice cya 6(a)(b)(d) na (f), igice cya 7(f), igice cya 71(d), igice cya 3 ingingo ya 3 igice cya 1 C(3) z’amasezerano agenga uyu muryango, izi ngingo zikaba ziteganya ko abanyamuryango bose bagomba kugaragara mu ifatwa ry’ibyemezo birebana no kwishyira hamwe(integration).

Urebye uburyo Abanyatanzania bahagaurukiye iki kibazo, biragaragara ko bahangayikishijwe no kubona bashyirwa ku ruhande rw’umuryango biyubakiye. Hari Umunyatanzania twaganiriye ambwira ko iri yegezwa ku ruhande rya Tanzania, rifatwa nk’akagambane kabaye gaturutse kuri Kagame w’u Rwanda, ngo kandi ari bwo akinjira muri uwo muryango.

Mubajije impamvu akeka ko U Burundi nabwo bwaba bwaregejwe yo ambwira ko yakomeje gukurikira ibinyamakuru byandikirwa Kigali agasanga Nkurunziza na Kikwete ngo bashobora kuba bashyirwa ku ruhande ngo kuko ari Abahutu.

Biragaragara ko urukiko ruramutse rukoze akazi karwo neza, ibyemezo bya ba 3K (Kaguta, Kagame na Kenyatta) biyise ishyirahamwe ry’abashaka ( coalition of the willing) bishobora kuba imfabusa aba bagabo bakaba babaye nka ya Nkorabusa ngo ibagara imigozi. Reka dukomeze tubitege amaso.

Chaste Gahunde

Case against Kenyan, Ugandan and Rwandan govts filed at EACJ

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Arusha. Three Tanzanians yesterday (Nov 18, 2013) filed a case at the East Africa Court of Justice against the Kenyan, Ugandan and Rwandan governments and the East Africa Community (EAC) secretary general.

The four are accused of violating the EAC treaty after holding three meetings which sidelined Tanzania and Burundi which are other member states.

Those who filed the case at the Arusha-based court are Mr Ally Msangi, Mr David Makata and Mr John Adam. They pray for judges at the court to suspend the implementation of resolutions reached during the meetings of presidents Uhuru Kenyata of Kenya, Yoweri Museveni of Uganda and Paul Kagame of Rwanda.

Their lawyer Jimm Ubedi said his clients are challenging the three presidents for holding meetings on June 24 and 25 in Entebbe, Uganda, followed by another meeting which was held on August 28 in Mombasa, Kenya, and another meeting which was held on October 28 in Kigali, Rwanda.

According to him, the meetings violated the Section 6 (a) (b) (d) and (f), Section 7 (f), Section 71 (d), Section 3 (3) and Section (1) C (3) c of the EAC treaty, which require all EAC member states to be involved in making decisions with regard to the integration process.

Presidents of Rwanda, Uganda and Kenya met under what was later dubbed as the ‘Coalition of the Willing’ to go ahead and fast-track the East Africa integration to create the East African federation in the shortest possible time.

By Mussa Juma, The Citizen, November 19th, 2013.

Pope Francis ‘is mafia target after campaigning against corruption’

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Pope Francis is ‘dismantling centres of economic power in the Vatican’, said Nicola Gratteri. Photograph: AGF srl/Rex

Pope Francis‘s crusade against corruption has made him a target forItaly‘s all-powerful mafia clans, a leading anti-mob prosecutor has warned.

Nicola Gratteri, who has battled Calabria’s shadowy ‘Ndrangheta mafia, said on Wednesday that Francis’s attempt to bring transparency to theVatican was making the white collar mobsters who do business with corrupt prelates “nervous and agitated”.

He told the Italian daily Il Fatto Quotidiano: “Pope Francis is dismantling centres of economic power in the Vatican.

“If the bosses could trip him up they wouldn’t hesitate. I don’t know if organised criminals are in a position to do something, but they are certainly thinking about it. They could be dangerous.”

Francis, who has called for “a poor church”, has backed reform at the Vatican’s bank, which has been suspected for years of being a channel for the laundering of mob profits. This week police impounded a luxury hotel on Rome’s Janiculum hill – formerly a monastery – which the ‘Ndrangheta allegedly purchased from a religious order.

In a fiery sermon on Monday, Francis railed against corruption and quoted the bible’s advice that practitioners be thrown into the sea with a millstone tied around their neck.

“The mafia that invests, that launders money, that therefore has the real power, is the mafia which has got rich for years from its connivance with the church,” said Gratteri. “These are the people who are getting nervous.”

Gratteri attacked priests and bishops in southern Italy who legitimise mobsters. “Priests continuously visit the houses of bosses for coffee, which gives the bosses strength and popular legitimacy,” he said. A bishop in Locri in Calabria had excommunicated mobsters after they damaged fruit trees owned by the church, he said. “But before that episode, the bosses had killed thousands of people” without being sanctioned, he added.

Boosting the strong links between mob and church is the fierce religious devotion of the gangsters themselves, he said, adding that in his 26 years as a magistrate he had never raided a mafia hideout which did not contain a religious image. “There is no affiliation rite that does not evokereligion. ‘Ndrangheta and the church walk hand in hand,” he said.

A survey of jailed mobsters had revealed that 88% were religious, he added. “Before killing, a member of the ‘Ndrangheta prays. He asks the Madonna for protection.”

Gratteri said mobsters did not consider themselves wrongdoers, and used the example of a mafioso putting pressure on a business owner to pay protection money, first by shooting up his premises, then by kneecapping him. “If the person still refuses, the mobster is ‘forced’ to kill him. If you have no choice, you are not committing a sin.”

Source: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/13/pope-francis-mafia-target-corruption

“Be ready for a horrific violence in Rwanda”: Charles Kambanda warns Kagame’s junta

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Charles Kambanda is known to have a deep critical thinking while analyzing issues that affect today’s Rwanda.Talking about Kagame’s command to all Hutus to apologize to Tutsis, Professor Kambanda via Facebook warns that …” when you have a minority armed group subjecting over 84% of the entire population to these evils, you can only expect such a country to burst into horrific violence any time”.

The following is his full message:

It is now Kagame Junta official position; the Hutu ( of any age, social or official status) must apologize to the Tutsi for the genocide. This was imposed to the nation from a Cabinet and high government officials’ retreat, chaired by Kagame. Questions: (1) Is the crime of genocide inherent in being a Hutu or like any crime, liability for the crime of genocide is personal? (2) Kagame has been telling the world that there are no Hutu, Tutsi or Twa in Rwanda. He abolished national cards bearing people’s ethnic groups. Where did he get this list of the Hutu who must apologize to the Tutsi for the crime of genocide? I hope Kagame’s friends, including President Bill Clinton and former UK Prime minister Tonny Blair who have been promoting Kagame, now realize how deceitful their buddy is!!!! Kagame’s deep seated hatred for the Hutu as a race is open to the world: (a) Kagame is a ” professional” at exterminating the Hutu like flies; he will always create a pretext for his evil intentions. (b) Kagame, under his apartheid-like junta has excluded the Hutu from participating meaningfully in the country social, political and economic life. He has created a second class citizenry of the Hutu; with no rights and freedoms. (c) Kagame has killed the common consciousness of the Hutu; he has convinced the world that the Hutu alone are responsible for the genocide and other crimes of international concern in Rwanda. This is wrong. Some Tutsi ( including Kagame himself) committed genocide and other crimes of international concern against the Hutu. True some Hutu committed genocide and other crimes of international concern against the Tutsi. As between the Hutu and Tutsi in Rwanda, Kagame is institutionalizing an ” evil vs. holy” relationship between the Hutu and Tutsi. On the one hand the Hutu are inherently evil who must apologize to the Tutsi for the genocide and its consequences ( whether they were born before or after the genocide). On the other hand, you have the ” holy” Tutsi – who are inherently holy, innocent and victims of the Hutu – who will be receiving and accepting apology from the evil Hutu!!!! . (d) Kagame is currently subjecting the Hutu, especially in rural areas, to forcible vasectomy. (e) Over 95% of people languishing in prisons are Hutu. (f) A big number of the Hutu in Rwanda is subjected to forced labour under what is officially called ( TIG); they provide free labor to ” communities” and government. For what? To compensate the Tutsi for the genocide and property destroyed during the genocide. (e) the Tutsi survivors and their relations have access to free education and health care. Their Hutu counterparts who were the victims of the the genocide and other crimes committed against some Tutsi are have no such opportunities… When you have a minority armed group subjecting over 84% of the entire population to these evils, you can only expect such a country to burst into horrific violence any time. Kagame’s PR agents, including President Bill Clinton, stand warned!!!! Dictatorship of the majority is as evil as minority dictatorship.

“Ceux qui ont tué Ghislaine Dupont et Claude Verlon devront payer” L’Elysée

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La France mettra “tous ses propres moyens en oeuvre” pour que l’assassinat de deux journalistes français au Mali ne reste “pas impuni quels qu’en soient les auteurs”, a déclaré aujourd’hui l’Élysée, interrogé sur une revendication d’al-Qaida au Maghreb islamique (Aqmi).

“La France soutient les efforts du gouvernement malien et met tous ses propres moyens en oeuvre pour que ces crimes ne restent pas impunis quels qu’en soient les auteurs”, a déclaré la présidence française à l’AFP. “La France est engagée sans relâche dans la lutte contre le terrorisme dans la région du Sahel”, a-t-elle ajouté.

Aqmi a revendiqué aujourd’hui l’assassinat, le 2 novembre, des deux journalistes français de RFI dans un communiqué publié par l’agence de presse mauritanienne en ligne Sahara Medias. “Cette opération intervient en réponse aux crimes commis par la France contre les Maliens et à l’oeuvre des forces africaines et internationales contre les musulmans de l’Azawad”, nom donné par les Touareg au nord du Mali, indique ce communiqué.

Aqmi considère aussi que l’assassinat des deux journalistes “constitue le minimum de la facture que (le président français François) Hollande et son peuple doivent payer en contrepartie de leur nouvelle croisade”, conclut le texte.

Ghislaine Dupont, 57 ans, et Claude Verlon, 55 ans, journalistes à Radio France Internationale (RFI), ont été tués à Kidal, (nord-est du Mali), peu après avoir été enlevés par un petit groupe d’hommes armés.

Source: Le Figaro

No more proof needed: Kagame killed Habyarimana

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There are criminals who never face justice, not because there is not enough evidence to get them sentenced, but only because the judiciary system supposed to investigate them is managed by criminal interests.

It was on April 6th, 1994 at 8.25 in the evening. His family would never see him again alive. Even dead, his body could not be brought together in all its parts.

It will be soon 20 years that will have passed since that incident. Those who were there at that night in Kigali can recall it as if it was yesterday.

That night, war resumed between the Rwandan Patriotic Front and the government forces, like it did last night between M23/RDF and FARDC in the Kibumba area of the Eastern Congo.

This time the fighting appears to be a consequence of the collapse of the negotiations of Kampala on Monday 21st October between Kinshasa and M23/RDF.

People should remember that the new dialogue had been prompted after the FARDC had defeated the occupying M23/RDF forces and evicted them from some of the different areas of North Kivu they controlled at the time.

Last night too, Thursday 24th October, Boniface Twagirimana wrote from Rwanda that the country’s alleged security forces, though not well identified by the locals, had abducted tens of young men and adults in the area of Ruzizi in the South West and close to the border with the DRC.

The population of that part of Rwanda is claiming that these young men and adults being kidnapped, – some think that it must be the Department of Military Intelligence which is involved-, are being sent to fight for M23.

A week or so ago, Kigali restricted further the few areas of news coverage that the rare remaining journalists still operating in Rwanda could publish about.

For at least 25 years, Rwandan journalists are now prohibited from publishing anything related to military operations in the country or the DRC, because reporting on these issues has been very damaging for the Rwandan image abroad.

On October 1st, 2010 the UN Mapping report was published. The document extensively describes the crimes committed in the DRC against Congolese populations and Hutu refugees by Kagame’s forces among others, crimes which could amount to crimes against humanity, war crimes and those of genocide nature if they could be brought in front of court.

So far 6 million constitute the lowest estimate of the Congolese victims from the wars that Kagame and Co continue to impose to the DRC for more than seventeen years. More than 500,000 Congolese women, girls and even men have been raped. And it is not evidence which is lacking about his responsibility in all those crimes.

“On 6 February 2008, the Spanish Investigative Judge Andreu Merelles issued an indictment charging 40 current or former high-ranking Rwandan military officials with serious crimes including genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes and terrorism, perpetrated over a period of 12 years, from 1990 to 2002, against the civilian population, and primarily against members of the Hutu ethnic group.”

Almost two years earlier, on November 17th, 2006 the French judge

Jean-Louis Bruguiere had on his part indicted 9 top collaborators of Kagame more or less for the same crimes including the shooting down of Habyarimana’s airplane.

At the hype of the second Congolese war, in 1998/99, Kagame had ordered the cleansing of the region of Gisenyi/Ruhengeri where civilians were systematically targeted and killed in big number by his Chief of Staff at the time General Faustin Nyamwasa. Nobody will ever know exactly how many were massacred in those operations as they were aimed at clearing that part of the country which was the stronghold of the Habyarimana regime.

In April 1995, Colonel Ibingira, certainly with the orders from his boss Kagame, killed with machine guns and tanks, and all this under the watch of UN peacekeepers, 8,000 internally displaced in the Kibeho camp of Gikongoro.

After Kagame gained the war from the Hutu government in July 1994, he went on rampage across the country killing indistinctly hutu civilians at the trend of 30,000 a month at least for the entire period covered by the report of the UN expert Robert Gersony.

The list of Kagame’s crimes could go and on forever. Books and more books could be written to account for his criminal achievements.

Having highlighted this brief list far from being exhaustive of his crimes, who is frankly still making people believe that there is a need of some more evidence to prove that he killed Habyarimana?

There are people arguing that the assassination of the former president was part of Kagame’s strategy of war. I am of the same opinion. The effect on the course of the war which resumed immediately was of total mayhem and unpreparedness in the hutu government camp.

As a war strategy, it was a coup of a master. Considered from that perspective, even the concerned himself does not dismiss his eventual responsibility in the assassination. Kagame explains in the interview he gave to Stephen Sucker during the BBC Hard Talk programme of December 7th, 2006.

When the journalist asks Kagame:

“… do you believe you had a right to assassinate him?”

His reply was:

“…of course Habyarimana, having been on the other side that I was fighting, it was possible that he could easily die. Imagine if I had died myself in the same process? Would the same judge be asking about my death or who killed me? … I am saying [that] this was a situation where there was a war which was being fought.”

Without a clear denial of his personal involvement in the assassination of Habyarimana from the concerned Kagame, why would somebody else appear to have some interests in continuing to cultivate the doubt among the people about who killed the former Rwandan president?

There are two plausible motivations.

One is that the doubt enforcers, looking for unnecessary additional evidence, are interested in covering up some responsibility [theirs or some of other people] seeing that Kagame might soon be taken to court.

Two is that they are deliberately distracting the particularly concerned general public from what is happening presently of more importance in the Great Lacks region, such as the resumption of war in Eastern Congo, and even the necessary political change in Rwanda and countries like the DRC and Uganda.

There are criminals who never face justice, not because there is not enough evidence to get them sentenced, but only because the judiciary system supposed to investigate them is managed by criminal interests.

Source: http://therisingcontinent.wordpress.com/2013/10/25/no-more-proof-needed-kagame-killed-habyarimana/

Sweden jails a member of Kagame’s death squad who was spying Rwandan refugees.

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Aimable Rubagenga a.k.a Emmanuel Habiyambere: there are many like him who are claiming life to Rwandan Refugees especially politicians and journalists.

On Wednesday October 23^rd , 2013, Örebro District Court has sentenced Aimable Rubagenga to eight months of imprisonment after being found guilty of spying Rwandan refugees living in Sweden.

Aimable Rubagenga aka Emmanuel Habiyambere aged 44, was spying Rwandans who fled persecution and extrajudicial killings in Rwanda. Rubagenga was receiving orders directly from the chief of Kagame’s death squad, General Jack Nziza. One of codes he used to communicate with Kigali, is “banana”, meaning the targeted refugee. The most wanted was Gasasira Jean Bosco, the owner of the online newspaper Umuvugizi.com.

Aimable Rubagenga a Rwandan, had applied and been granted refugee status in Sweden as a Burundi national using names of Emmanuel Habiyambere in order to go undercover. After a long period of investigations carried out by Swedish police, the suspect was arrested in 2012. During that year, another official of Rwanda embassy in Sweden Evode Mudaheranwa was also given 48 hours to leave the country due to his involvement in activities to harm the security of Rwandan refugees. The same Evode Mudaheranwa had unsuccessfully tried to kill Gasasira Jean Bosco because police remained vigilant after having enough information regarding Kigali’s plan to eliminate opponents especially politicians and journalists in different countries. In its report, the ministry of foreign affairs of Sweden has noted that Kagame’s death squad is operating all over in the country and many of its members have a refugee status.

One of the main evidence that impeached Rubagenga is the numerous SMS he exchanged with Maj General Jack Nziza with information on how to hunt and kill Rwandan refugees.

Despite Rwandan refugees repeated cry over spy activities by the regime that pushed them into exile, Sweden is the first country to take such action by prosecuting a member of Kagame’s death squad. It should be reminded that in 2011 the UK police has revealed an assassination plot that targeted Rwandan politicians living in London, Rene Mugenzi and Jonathan Musonera. The government of Rwanda has always denied such plot just the same way it denies its involvement in Eastern Congo despite strong evidence and satellite pictures showing Rwanda troops crossing the border.

All countries that are accommodating Rwandan refugees should remain alert since Kagame’s death squad is everywhere.

Chaste Gahunde

Theogene Rudasingwa VS Paul Kagame on Habyarimana’s plane.

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Since Rudasingwa and Kagame fell out about four years ago, the first has tirelessly repeated that Habyarimana’s presidential plane was shot down on orders given by current President of Rwanda, and then commander of RPF Paul Kagame. Although no investigations were done concerning this terrorist attack, the international community and diverse Non Governmental Organizations, legal and political organizations as well as independent reporters and members of academia confirmed that the shooting sparked genocide. Of course it is somehow dubious, but strong enough to try convince us why mass killings started after Habyarimana was shot down, and not before. Therefore genocide is hereby understood as a reaction or a consequence of the shooting down of the presidential plane.

Yet what remains a puzzle is the silence over that critical matter in Rwanda’s history. It is not because the UN or key players in international decision-making bodies ignore the importance of this case. Many times this case was raised in different courts of law but was turned down for unknown reasons.

While one would be pushed to think the case was avoided because it would have been very difficult to gather evidence especially after the black box “disappeared” within the UN Secretary General office, Dr Theogene Rudasingwa has come out to make the task easier. “Kagame is the man you want” Theogene’s testimony resonates.

But again, why this former lieutenant and comrade of Kagame’s seems taking pleasure in speaking out? Views on this question differ tremendously. For some, Rudasingwa was fired by Kagame and he is trying to revenge. For others, he ( Rudasingwa) wants to take over RPF after it will have been decapitated of Kagame and other key politicians, and yet for others Rudasingwa is taking advantage of time given unto him by the situation to do a good job for his motherland, Rwanda; by telling the truth and providing his contribution towards the long-lasting peace. “And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” John 8, 32.

Kagame never said he did not give the order to shoot. He was heard saying that it was the war time, that Habyarimana was his enemy, and that even Habyarimana would have wanted him to die,… but he did not explicitly accept his role. For this unclear position of Kagame’s, Rudasingwa gives another medication: Let Kagame take a lie-detector test. Wow! That is interesting, isn’t? Rudasingwa goes on to say that he is willing to take it as well. Following is his statement:

INVITATION TO PRESIDENT PAUL KAGAME TO TAKE A LIE-DETECTOR TEST (POLYGRAPH)

I am inviting President Paul Kagame to join me in taking a lie-detector ( polygraph) test, under international supervision, on the question of who shot down President Juvenal Habyarimana’s plane in 1994.

In April 2012, I testified before the French Judge, Marc Trevidic, to confirm that President Paul Kagame is responsible for the shooting down of the aircraft in which President Habyarimana of Rwanda, President Ntaryamira of Burundi and all others on board perished.

Both of us could take the test under the auspices of a joint panel of investigators constituted by the African Union and the United Nations.

Dr. Theogene Rudasingwa
Washington DC
USA

10/23/2013

What do you think will be Kagame’s reaction? Please let me hear you.

Chaste Gahunde