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Contre Nkurunziza, le Rwanda de Paul Kagame imite Museveni contre Habyarimana en 1990

Toutes les sources le confirment: les assaillants qui ont attaqué le Burundi ce vendredi 10 juillet sont entrés par la forêt de Nyungwe. Ils ont attaqué les positions militaires dans la province de Kayanza. Les assaillants estimés autour de 150 combattants lourdement armés se sont heurtés à un feu meurtrier des militaires burundais. Ils auraient perdu beaucoup d’éléments avant de s’attaquer au barrage de Rwegura. Les combats ont duré plusieurs heures et ont provoqué un déplacement d’une population importante. Le gouverneur de Kayanza a clairement accusé le Rwanda d’être derrière cette agression. Dans la soirée, des tirs nourris et des explosions de grenades ont été signalés dans les quartiers de Bujumbura connus pour être le fief de ma contestation ou des insurgés. Ce qui a fait penser à la diversion de Kayanza pour que des éléments infiltrés assiègent la capitale.

Sur RFI, le journaliste Esdras Ndikumana parle de combats d’une grande intensité à Kayanza. Il pointe du doigt le Rwanda. Même accusation de la part de Sonia Rolley. Cette attaque était très attendue vue que tous les fauteurs de troubles burundais ont menacé de prendre les armes contre Nkurunziza. Le président Paul Kagame souhaiterait, à travers cette attaque, empêcher la tenue des élections présidentielles prévues le 15 juillet.

Maggy Barankitse à Bruxelles

Le Rwanda est le seul pays de l’EAC qui s’oppose à la candidature de Nkurunziza et qui a refusé de reconnaître le bon déroulement des élections des conseillers communaux et des députés au Burundi. Cette attaque survient au moment où Maggy Barankitse venait d’animer une conférence à Bruxelles pour demander d’intervenir militairement et de cesser les résolutions sans effet. Elle a déclaré quitter Bruxelles pour terminer son exil provisoire à Kigali, aux côtés de ceux qui combattent! Prémonitoire ou complicité?Le parlement européen qui vient de répéter les mêmes accusations contre Nkurunziza et ne condamne que les Imbonerakure serait favorable à cette attaque. Il aurait donné le feu vert et table déjà sur un chiffre de réfugiés de plus de deux cent mille burundais dans la région. Le parti pris des Occidentaux dans cette crise justifie le culot de Paul Kagame qui ouvre un passage des rebelles contre un pays voisin. Cette invasion du Burundi rappelle celle qui a été consommée en 1990 par Museveni contre Habyarimana. Des sources dignes de foi parlent d’une grande infiltration des combattants burundais et des experts rwandais qui aident dans le lancement des grenades, l’usage de l’artillerie lourde et le renseignement. Kagame espère ainsi bloquer Nkurunziza dans son ambition de gagner les élections présidentielles et ainsi obtenir son départ forcé pour installer des marionnettes des Occidentaux. Va-t-il y arriver? Et si Nkurunziza offrait enfin le chemin au RNC et aux FDLR qui se désolent de son indifférence à leurs appels du pied?

Cette guerre contre Bujumbura permettrait à Kagame de faire oublier sa révision de la constitution et ses déboires avec la justice espagnole. La femme de TONY BLAIR qui sert d’avocat à Karenzi Karake ainsi que son ancien Premier ministre de mari sont au four et au moulin pour montrer que Kagame est encore très utile. Mais cette attaque du Rwanda pourrait susciter une réaction de la Tanzanie et de l’Afrique du Sud en soutien à Nkurunziza. Les Américains qui soutiennent l’attaque contre Nkurunziza redoutent l’embrasement et brouillent les pistes avec des communiqués contre toute agression entre pays voisins. Nul n’est dupe. Il appartient plus que jamais au gouvernement de Bujumbura de fournir rapidement les preuves de l’agression et de ne pas tomber dans le piège de la naïveté comme Habyarimana. Inutile de prendre les Occidentaux à temoin mais de mobiliser les pays de la région et les BRICS. Les diplomates burundais doivent mouiller le maillot et contraindre le Rwanda à renoncer à ses folies hégémoniques si récurrentes.

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Democracy is not a mystifying western plot – it is a universal value

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A Bahraini pro-democracy protester gestures in front of a wall sprayed with anti-government graffiti. Photograph: Hasan Jamali/AP

‘The sustainable development goals may not mention democracy, but their focus on the accountability of political institutions will be key to improved governance’

The slow unfolding of the sustainable development goals continued last month with the unveiling of the zero draft that will be negotiated in the runup to the summit in New York in September.

How does the draft of 17 goals look from the perspective of an organisation dedicated to helping countries to strengthen democracy? The answer is not bad, but not good.
On the plus side, it is good that there is a goal 16 at all. The draft goal reads: “Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels.”

There was no equivalent in the millennium development goals (MDGs), and it is welcome that goal 16 includes a target of ensuring “responsive, inclusive, participatory and representative decision-making at all levels”.

I like all those words, which embody a commendable set of ambitions. The target of “effective, accountable and transparent institutions at all levels” is a good transposition of text from the UN high-level panel report on the post-2015 development agenda co-chaired by the presidents of Liberia and Indonesia and the British prime minister, which included all three adjectives.

On the minus side, there are two main gaps.

First, the word “democracy” itself has not been used, nor any variant such as “democratic accountability”. That is disappointing but not surprising, even though the Millennium Declaration, which formed the basis of the MDGs, did make specific calls for these conditions to be included.
My guess is that the word “democracy”, perhaps less popular now than it was 15 years ago, was blocked by the sensitivities of UN politics.

The second gap is the failure to address the key instruments of representative democracy, namely parliaments or political parties. Again, this is disappointing but not surprising. There is a presumption in the text that the executive are the main actors, rather than the representatives of citizens. Indeed, the high-level panel called for someone (implicitly governments) to grant rights (such as freedom of speech) to people, rather than for people to act to curb the powers of the executive.

So what should be the response of those interested in strengthening democracy? We need to do two things.

First, we should demystify democracy. Democracy is not a western plot, it is a universal value. Virtually all countries have aspects of democratic culture in place to some degree, and absolutely every country has room to strengthen the quality of their democracy.

I would like to build common ground about the aspects of democracy that are important regardless of region or political grouping. That would make work on achieving the targets in goal 16 much more useful.
Second, the Millennium Declaration is still relevant when it says that we should “work collectively for more inclusive political processes, allowing genuine participation by all citizens in all our countries”. We should rebalance our thinking about national responsibilities, taking up that challenge of putting people and their representatives first. This links back to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The central task of the declaration, and of the Magna Carta for that matter, was to curb the power of the executive – which, unchecked, tends to be abused.

In the vast majority of countries, we should look at the role of parliaments, the judiciary, civil society and the media, as well as the executive, when considering how to secure objectives encapsulated in goal 16.

A report by Civicus called for new forms of representation and oversight, such as citizens’ panels. Institutions should be “tested on their ability to respond to and achieve progress on issues identified by people rather than just governments”, it added.

The sentiment certainly reflects the level of concern many people feel about traditional representative institutions. Building common ground on what democracy means, and helping to improve the quality of representation in our countries, go hand in hand and are both worth pursuing.

Goal 16 is imperfect and is almost at the bottom of the list of proposed SDGs. But the glass is half full. Politics and the development community have been uncomfortable partners in many ways, and this is a chance to work together to help political systems do a better job. If we succeed, then we will have fulfilled the promise of the Millennium Declaration – citizens of all countries working together to put sustainable development at the centre of the agenda and hold governments to account for their actions.

Anthony Smith

Anthony Smith is chief executive of the Westminster Foundation for Democracy

Source: Guardian Global Development

Kuki abavoka batinya kuburanira Green Party niba u Rwanda rutarimo iterabwoba ?

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Nyuma yo kumva ko Green Party yageze imbere y’urukiko ikabura uyiburanira ku munota wa nyuma kandi ikaba yaranyuze ku bavoka barenze bane, bose bakagira ubwoba, bakanga kunganira abarega, negereye impuguke mu mategeko Maître Innocent Twagiramungu mubaza niba amahame y’umwuga w’abavoka yaba yemera kwanga kuburanira ubisabye. Mbere na mbere ariko twibukiranye iby’iki kirego n’ingorane ba nyrikurega bari guhura na zo.

Abavoka bari mu bantu b’ibanze bo kwitabaza imbere y’ubutabera haba kuwaba aregwa cyangwa arega. Umwavoka arengerwa n’mategeko by’akarusho kuko muri rusange ntashobora kuzira icyo avuze mu rukiko mu gihe kigamije kurenganura uwo aburanira. Nta rwitwazo rusobanurwa rwatuma umwavoka yanga kuburanira ubimusabye.

Mu Rwanda ho, kwanga kuburanira ubisabye birakorwa. Byaba biterwa ni iki niba atari ubwoba bw’inkurikizi mbi byagirira umwavoka ? Niba atari iterabwoba ni iki ? Kubera ko nta gaciro ikirego gifite ? Mu gihe urukiko rwakiriye ikirego, rugasanga cyujuje ibisabwa n’amategeko ngo cyakirwe kinaburanishwe, hari impamvu yindi ifite ishingiro yatuma umwavoka yanga kuburana ?

Mu ntangiriro za Kamena uyu mwaka, ishyaka riharanira demokarasi no kurengera ibidukikije, (Green Party), riyobowe na Dr Frank Habineza ryagejeje ikirego imbere y’urukiko rw’ikirenga, aho rwasabye ko rutakwemerera Intekonshingamategeko guhindura ingingo y’101 y’Itegekonshinga aho ivuga ko manda za perezida wa Repubulika zidashobora kurenga ebyiri.

Kuri uyu wa gatatu tariki ya 08 Nyakanaga 2015 ni bwo urukiko rw’ikirenga rwari rwatumiye abareze ngo baze imbere y’abacamanza basobanure binononsoye ikirego cyabo. Dr Frank Habineza, perezida wa Green Party n’abo bayoboranye bagaragarije urukiko ko bakomeje kubura umwavoka wemera kuza kubaburanira ndetse basaba ko bakongerwa igihe kugira ngo bamushakishe kuko mu rukiko rw’ikirenga ntawushobora kwiburanira kabone n’aho yaba ari impuguke cyangwa inzobere mu mategeko.

Inshuro enye zose, Green Party yashatse abavoka bakisubiraho nyuma

Ku nshuro ya mbere, umwavoka wagombaga kuburanira Green Party, yabwiye Dr Frank Habineza ko yashyizweho iterabwoba n’abantu banyuranye, ngo banarimo na bamwe mu bo bahuriye mu rugaga rw’abavoka i Kigali.

Ku nshuro ya kabiri, umwavoka wari wemeye, yaje kwisubiraho, maze abwira Dr Frank Habineza ko yavuze amasengesho ni uko ngo Imana imwereka ko adakwiye kuburana urubanza rufite aho ruhuriye na perezida Kagame!

Ku nshuro ya gatatu, umwavoka wundi Green Party yari yizeye na we yaje kubatenguha ndetse arababwira ngo n’aho bamwishyura miliyoni ntiyaburana ruriya rubanza.

Ntabwo Green Party yacitse intege, yakomeje gushakisha ibona uwa kane, cyakora ku munota wa nyuma nawe yabatengushye kuko ntiyakandagiye mu rukiko kandi uyu munsi aribwo hari hategenyijwe urubanza. Imbere y’abacamanza, uhagarariye Green Party yavuze ko uwari kubaburanira yagize ubwoba bwo kuza kuburana.

Ishyaka riharanira demokarasi no kurengera ibidukikije ryasabye kongererwa igihe kugira ngo rishakishe undi mwavoka. Itariki bahawe yo kuburana ni 29/07/2015.

Ese hari impamvu amategeko yemera zatuma umwavoka yanga kuburanira ubimusabye?

Iki ni ikibazo nabajije Maitre Innocent Twagiramungu. Yansubije ko hari impamvu ebyiri
1. Kuba umwavoka yaba asanga atemera ibikubiye mu kirego. Yagize ati : « Iyo utemera sa cause kuko amategeko adusaba gufata les causes que nous croyons en âme et conscience juste ».
2. Umwavoka ashobora no kwanga bitewe n’ingaruka zikomeye abona byamukururira. Yagize ati : « Ushobora no kwanga bitewe na risque auquel l’affaire t’expose ».

Nabajije kandi Maître Innocent Twagiramungu, akurikije uko akurikirana n’ibibera mu Rwanda, niba asanga bishoboka ko ikibuza abavoka kuburanira Green Party niba umuntu yagishakira muri ziriya mpamvu ebyiri. Yansubuje agira ati : « Aucune des deux raisons navuze n’est valable ». Mu kinyarwanda ncishirije ni nk’aho yavuze ko ikibuza abo bavoka kuburana nta ho gihuriye n’izi mpamvu yasobanuye.

Bikomeje kuriya, umwavoka bashatse wese akagira ubwoba bwo kubunganira imbere y’urukiko, ni ukuvuga Green Party ishobora gutsindwa itanaburanye. Mu gihugu kivuga ko kigendera ku mategeko n’ubwisanzure birakwiye ko inzego bireba zibaza niba ubutabera butabangamiwe iyo habaye ibintu nk’ibi. Urugaga rw’abavoka mu Rwanda na rwo rukwiye kwibaza rukisubiza. Ese rwarebera gusa aho umunyarwanda yiruka imisozi akayirangiza akabura utinyuka kumuburanira kandi hari abavuga ko biyemeje ndetse barahiriye kunganira ababurana.

Ikirego cyarakiriwe, kirasuzumwa, inzego z’urukiko zemeza ko gishobora kuburanishwa. Iyo kiba kitujuje ibisabwa n’urukiko, ntirwari kucyakira. Kubura umwavoka bishobora gutanga isura mbi y’uko mu Rwanda hariho iterabwoba, ko mbese ari nko kwihararukwa kuburana imanza zifite aho zihuriye n’abakomeye muri Leta. Nyamara Itegekonshinga rivuga ko abantu bareshya imbere y’amategeko.

Jean-Claude Mulindahabi

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Norvege: Mu nama Perezida Kagame yagaragaye asinziriye

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Paul Kagame yakase igitotsi karahava.

Mu gihe yari yicaranye n’umunyamabanga mukuru w’umuryango w’abibumbye ONU Ban Ki-Moon hamwe na ministre w’intebe w’igihugu cya Norvege, Madamu Erna Solberg; Perezida Kagame yafashwe n’ibitotsi ku buryo butunguranye.

Bari mu nama yari yatumijwe mu rwego rwo gusuzuma ibyagezweho ku rwego rw’isi mu bijyanye no kugera ku mihigo yahizwe n’umuryango w’abibumbye izwi ku izina rya MDG (Millenium Development Goals). Iyi nama yibandaga ku ruhare rw’uburezi mu iterambere. isa nk’aho itakurikiranywe na Perezida w’u Rwanda kuko wabonaga ahari adahari.

Nyuma y’aho gato Paul Kagame yakomeje guhunyiza mu nama kandi wabonaga afite ibibazo byinshi cyane ku buryo umunyamabanga wa LONI byamuteye akantu!

Ibi byarakomeje no mu mubonano n’abandi kuko wabonaga Kagame ameze nk’udahari, ndetse agera aho yifata ku munwa nk’uwo byayobeye.

Perezida Kagame mu by’ukuri wasangaga inama ayirimo atayirimo cyakora hari ubwo yanyuzagamo agashikagurika nk’uko bigaragara ku ifoto ikurikira.

Ababikurukiranira hafi basanga Kagame yaba yaratewe ikibazo n’imyigaragambyo y’abanyarwanda b’ingeri zose bamusanganiza aho agiye hose ku isi. By’umwihariko mu gihugu cya Norvege abigaragambyaga bashyikirije Polisi ikirego cy’umucamanza wa Espagne gisaba ifatwa ry’abayobozi ba FPR bagera kuri 38. Iki kirego cyatanzwe mu mwaka wa 2008 ariko nticyahita gihabwa agaciro kubera ibibazo bya politiki na dipolomatie ndetse ku buryo byabaye ngombwa ko ubucamanza bwa Espagne bwongera kukivugurura kugira ngo mandats d’arrets zijyana nacyo zemerwe na Interpol.

Hagendewe kuri izo mandats , uwahoze ashinzwe ubutasi w’u Rwanda Lt Gen Karenzi Karake yatawe muri yombi ubu akaba afungiye mu gihugu cy’Ubwongereza ategereje koherezwa mu gihugu cya Espagne ngo yisobanure ku byo ashinjwa.

Imiryango iharanira uburenganzira bw’ikiremwamuntu ikomeje gutanga izo mandats hirya no hino no gusaba ko abo zireba bafatwa bagashyikirizwa ubucamanza. Muri bo hari nka Gen Ceazer Kayizari ubu uhagarariye u Rwanda mu gihugu cya Turukiya ndetse na Gen Charles Kayonga uhagarariye u Rwanda mu Bushinwa. Gen Kayonga ari ku mwanya wa 9 naho Kayizari akaba kuwa 11 mu gihe Karake we yari ku mwanya wa 3 ku rutonde rw’abashakishwa na Espagne.

Kuri aba bombi (Kayonga na Kayizari) imiryango mpuzamahanga iharanira uburenganzira bw’ikiremwamuntu isaba u Rwanda hamwe n’ibihugu baherereyemo kubambura ubudahangarwa bagafatwa bagashyikirizwa inkiko. Cyakora u Rwanda rwakomeje kubyanga.

Twibutse ko muri raporo y’umwaka wa 2014 ya Leta zunze ubumwe z’America ku bijyanye n’uburenganzira bw’ikiremwamuntu, ishimangira ko nta rukiko rwigeze ruburanisha abasirikare ba FPR bishoye mu byaha by’intambara haba mbere ya jenoside ndetse na nyuma yaho aho benshi bishoye mu byaha by’ubwicanyi bitwaje ko bahorera abishwe muri jenoside.

Ubwanditsi.

Ese yaba ari FPR ikeneye abayibeshya cyangwa ni Nduhungirehe Olivier wiyemeje kuyibeshya?

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Vestine Umugwaneza

Ni FPR ikeneye abayishya cyangwa ni Nduhungirehe Olivier wiyemeje kubeshya FPR ngo ayirohe? Arabeshya abanyarwanda ngo bizere ibitangaza? Ibaze nawe!

Ku cyumweru saa munani z’i Kigali nakurikiye ikiganiro kuri radiyo Isango Star aho Nduhungirehe Olivier yasobanuraga iby’itabwa muri yombi rya Karake Karenzi. Akihagera yatangiye asobanura ko mandats z’aba Espagnoles intepol yazanze kubera ko ari politiki nsansa, avuga ko ngo ari FDLR iziri inyuma, ndetse avuga ko n’urukiko rukuru rwo muri Espagne rwazitesheje agaciro. Solange Ayanone wamubazaga ati ibyo byanditse he, Nduhungirehe ati ni ko bimeze, Ayanone ati ubwo urumva, u Bwongeleza, igihugu cy’inshuti, niba gifata umuntu ukomeye nka Karenzi, usanzwe ajyayo, ubwo urumva diplomatie y’u Rwanda idakora nabi?

Olivier Nduhungirehe ni umukozi wa Ministeri y’ububanyi n’amahanga

Nduhungirehe ati hari byinshi byakozwe ni na yo mpamvu izi mandats zateshejwe agaciro. Umunyamakuru ati kuki se ziteshwa agaciro abantu bagakomeza gufatwa? Nduhungirehe arya iminwa. Kera kabaye Ayanone Solange yaje gusoma ubutumwa bw’abakurikiye ikiganiro, avugamo uwitwa Nkubito wari wanditse ko Nduhungirehe abeshya, iyo avuga ko ko interpol yanze ziriya mandats, avuga ko nta nyandiko n’imwe formel yigeze isohorwa na interpol yamagana mandats z’aba espagnoles, ndetse Nkubito yongeyeho ati: Nduhungirehe ni umuhanga, aramutse afite inyandiko nk’iyo ntiyaza mu kiganiro nk’iki atayitwaje.

Ku kibazo cy’urukiko rwatesheje mandats agaciro, Nkubito yari yanditse ko nta rukiko rwavanyeho mandats, ko urukiko rwahagaritse gukurikirana abanyamahanga bishe abanyamahanga keretse baramutse bari muri Espagne. Akongeraho ko urukiko ruzakurikirana uwo ari we wese uzaba yarishe umu Espagnole aho yaba ari hose, ati izi mandats rero zifite agaciro, ndetse zishobora no gufatisha umuntu igihe cyose abishwe, victims ari aba espagnoles. Ayanone yasomye umwanzuro w’urukiko mu gifaransa uko nkubito yari yawutanze avuga ko “Désormais, la justice espagnole ne sera compétente que dans le cas où il existe des victimes espagnoles ou que les responsables suspectés se trouvent en Espagne. ”

Ku ifatwa rya Karenzi Karake, Nkubito yavugaga ko Karenzi yaje mu Bwongeleza kabiri mu kazi, ariko ko ejo bundi yafashwe yaje kwivuza.

Nduhungirehe aho gusubiza, yahise atera hejuru ngo bamwe mu banditse ndanabanzi, Nkubito Jean Claude ndamuzi, ngo we se ni iyihe nyandiko afite yemeza ko interpol yemeye izo mandats.? Ahita asakuriza hejuru kubera ikimwaro sans doute,(dore ko atava ku izima) agerageza gupfukirana ibinyoma yari amaze gukwiza mu banyarwanda ngo mandats zarahagaritswe kandi arabizi neza arabeshya. N’ikimenyimenyi, Karenzi Karake se ubu ntari mu kagozi kubera zo? Nduhungirehe yanavuze ngo mandats z’abafaransa na zo zavuyeho ra? ! Uriya muhungu agomba kuba afite mission yo kubeshya HE Paul Kagame si gusa! Ariko se akaba yarabitumwe na nde koko?Ese yaba agamije iki? Yaba ari gahunda yihaye se yo kwimika ubujiji?
Uwo Nkubito avuga se yaba ari JC Nkubito w’umunyamakuru?

Vestine Umugwaneza

President Paul Kagame’s Behaviour In Rwandan Parliament Proves He Is Unfit For High Office

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“We have the power of anger…”

June 25, 2015 will be remembered as a sad day in the history of Rwanda. Speaking in Parliament, Rwandan President Kagame addressed the arrest of General Karenzi Karake at the United Kingdom’sLondon Heathrow Airport on June 20. The arrest was executed under European Warrant provoked by the 2008 Spanish indictment of Rwandan military officials for ordering massacres and the killings of Spanish and other European aid workers between 1997-2000. Kagame called both the Spanish and British authorities as “rubbish” for their respective roles in Karake’s arrest.

The President then unleashed his anger at the U.S. Congress’ House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, for holding a hearing on May 20 to examine Rwanda’s deteriorating human rights record. Kagame described businessman Tribert Rujugiro and David Himbara as “petty criminals and thugs” for allegedly financing and organising the congressional hearing.

Sadly, on the same day Rwanda President was abusing the British, Americans, and fellow Rwandans, the U.S. State Department released its “2014 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices.” The Report is further indictment of the Kagame government. According to the Report, “The most important human rights problems in the country were disappearances, government harassment, arrest, and abuse of political opponents, human rights advocates, and individuals perceived to pose a threat to government; disregard for the rule of law among security forces and the judiciary; and restrictions on civil liberties.”

Adds the Report: “Other major human rights problems included arbitrary or unlawful killings, torture, harsh conditions in prisons and detention centers, arbitrary arrest, prolonged pretrial detention, and government infringement on citizens’ privacy rights.”

President Kagame resorts to the old ploy of attacking the messenger and not the message. Kagame should face the reality that he is unfit to govern. A government that is reported to kill, torture, and arbitrarily detain citizens has no redeemable qualities whatsoever. And rather than engineer the scheme of ammending Rwanda’s Constitution to enable himself to cling to power for life, Kagame should peacefully exit the political scene to allow fellow Rwandans to move on.

Source: NEWSWIRE CANADA

Rwandans forced to fund Gen Karenzi bail

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Lt Gen Karenzi Karake was arrested by British police on war crimes and genocide charges pending his extradition to Spain.

There are unverified facts about the arrest of Karake Karenzi saying that he sought it to embarrass president Kagame, as did for example the production of BBC Rwanda Untold Story, so he cannot pretend to run for a third term.

However, whatever the circumstances of the Rwandan general’s arrest in LONDON, the entire Rwandan population inside is being affected because they are being forced to contribute to the £1,000,000 bail that has been requested by the judge to allow the suspect to be available for the court without staying in prison.

Boniface Twagirimana, who is in Kigali, is reporting that in Matimba of Nyagatare, every household is being asked to contribute 4000 RWF to KK Bail Fund, on top of which they have to add another 2,000 RWF to pay for a motorcycle for the police force.

The irony of the request is that, in that area of Byumba, that is where General KK and his killing squads started in 91/92 ethnic cleansing and sweeping it of hutu population to give space to his tutsi community.

Many people are being seriously harrassed and treated as enemies of state in case they show any reluctance to contribute, particularly because they don’t have the means. There is also fear that corrupt officials might use KK Bail Fund to exhort money from the population. Apparently there isn’t even any receipt being provided to prove that someone has contributed.

Rwandans have for many years been squeezed financially by many demands from RPF system without this one even giving them the means to earn a decent income from their labor. There are times that enough becomes enough and one needs to take a step to refuse from being indefinitely exploited.

Like in 1959 when the hutu majority made an end to its centuries-long exploitation by the tutsi monarchy, I think the time has come to end also the RPF discrimitaive and repressive system which uses all means to impoverish the population and keeps it constantly under the lowest of the aspirations: survival.

Forcing Rwandans to fund KK bail might trigger a social revolution.

Ambrose Nzeyimana

United States has suspended upcoming training for the Burundian military

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Press Statement

John Kirby
Department Spokesperson

Washington, DC

July 2, 2015

Burundian President Pierre Nkurunziza’s continued disregard for the Arusha Agreement has resulted in dozens of deaths, the exodus of over 144,000 Burundians to neighboring countries, and a freefall in the Burundian economy causing suffering to millions of Burundians. The Burundian Government’s decision to push forward with the June 29 parliamentary elections despite the complete absence of the necessary conditions for credible elections and widespread calls, including from the African Union and United Nations, to delay the voting further exacerbated an already dire situation.

With presidential elections now scheduled for July 15, the United States joins with the African Union, the United Nations, the European Union, and other regional bodies and leaders in urging President Nkurunziza to place the welfare of Burundi’s citizens above his own political ambitions and participate in dialogue with the opposition and civil society to identify a peaceful solution to this deepening crisis. This solution should include the delay of the July 15 presidential elections until conditions are in place for free, fair, and peaceful elections.

Due to the precarious political and security situation in Burundi and the Government of Burundi’s unwillingness to engage in good faith efforts to negotiate a solution, the United States has today suspended several security assistance programs on which it has cooperated with Burundi. In response to the abuses committed by members of the police during political protests, we are suspending all International Law Enforcement Academy and Anti-Terrorism Assistance training that we provide to Burundian law enforcement agencies.

Recognizing that Burundi’s National Defense Force has generally acted professionally in protecting civilians during protests, the United States continues to value our partnership with the Burundian military and urges them to maintain professionalism and respect for the rule of law. However, due to the instability caused by the Burundian Government’s disregard for the Arusha Agreement and its decision to proceed with flawed parliamentary elections, the United States is unable to conduct peacekeeping and other training in Burundi. As a result, the United States has suspended upcoming training for the Burundian military under the Department of Defense’s Section 1206 Train and Equip program, as well as training and assistance under the Africa Military Education Program. We remain deeply concerned that the current crisis will further hamper our ability to support the important contribution of the Burundian military to international peacekeeping.

Finally, during our upcoming review of Burundi’s eligibility for the trade preferences available to it under the African Growth and Opportunity Act, we will be taking into consideration ongoing violence and instability and the Government of Burundi’s lack of respect for the rule of law in determining their eligibility for these trade preferences moving forward.

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Press Statement

John Kerry
Secretary of State

Washington, DC

July 1, 2015

On behalf of President Obama and the people of the United States, I congratulate the people of Rwanda on the 53nd anniversary of your independence on July 1.

Rwanda is a leader in advancing opportunities for girls and women by expanding access to secondary and higher education, particularly in the sciences. Your soldiers promote stability around the globe, with more than 5,000 troops and police participating in peacekeeping missions in countries such as Mali, Central African Republic, Darfur, and South Sudan.

The United States values our partnership in trade, investment, and economic development. We will continue to work with you to advance health and food security, build regional security and cooperation, and promote democracy, human rights, and civil society in Rwanda.

On this joyous day, I wish all Rwandans peace and prosperity in the year ahead.

Source: US Department of State