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RNC nigire icyo itangariza Abanyarwanda

Nk’uko tubikesha ikinyamakuru Umuryango.com, ngo umenya Kayumba Nyamwasa amaze kumanika amaboko akaba yiyemeje gutaha mu Rwanda agakorana na FPR. N’ubwo bwose nta wizeye ukuri kw’iyi nkuru, RNC nitagira icyo itangaza birafatwa nk’ukuri.

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Dore uko iyo nkuru ibivuga.

Kayumba Nyamwasa wigeze kuba umugaba w’Ingabo z’u Rwanda, nyuma akaza guhungira muri Afurika y’Epfo, aho hamwe na bagenzi be bashinze Ishyaka RNC ritavuga rumwe n’ubutegetsi bw’u Rwanda, biravugwa ko yaba ashaka kugaruka gukorera mu gihugu imbere.

Inkuru dukesha africanudo.wordpress.com ivuga ko Kayumba Nyamwasa yagiye yohereza Intmwa ahantu hatandukanye nko muri Leta zunze ubumwe za Amerika, mu Bwongereza ndetse no mu Karere ka Afurika y’Uburasirazuba, aho izo ntumwa ngo zabaga zifite ubutumwa bwihariye bugenewe Perezida Paul Kagame mu rwego rwo kwiyunga.

Nk’uko icyo gitangazamakuru cyakomeje kibyandika, ngo byari bitegnyijwe ko ibisabwa kugirango Kayumba abe yagaruka mu Rwanda byaba byatunganye mbere y’impera z’ukwezi kwa Gashyantare uyu mwaka.

Iki kinyamakuru kandi cyakomeje kivuga ko umushinga wa Kayumba Nyamwasa wo kugaruka mu Rwanda, waba ushyigikiwe kandi ukanaterwa inkunga na ANC ishyaka riri ku butegetsi muri Afurika y’Epfo, aho Cyril Ramaphosa Umuyobozi mukuru wungirije w’iryo shyaka ari we wahawe inshingano zo kumugeza mu Rwanda.

Cyril Ramaphosa umwe mu banyemari bakomeye muri Afurika y’Epfo, bivugwa ko yaba yaragiranye amanama atandukanye na Kayumba Nyamwasa hamwe na Patrick Karegeya kuva muri Nyakanga kugeza mu Gushyingo 2013, aho ngo baganiraga ku kuntu yatera inkunga inama idasanzwe ya RNC (Rwanda National Congress) yari iteganyijwe mu Gushyingo.

Iyo nama yari iteganyijwe muri Afurika y’Epfo, ngo yari kubera igihe kimwe n’izindi nk’iyo zagombaga kubera i Londres mu Bwongereza, i Washington muri Leta zunze ubumwe za Amerika , i Parismu Bufaransa, i Bruxelles Mu Bubiligi ndetse n’i Sydney muri Australia.

Gusa ngo kuwa 18 Ugushyingo umwaka ushize w’2013, Minisiteri y’Ububanyi n’amahanga muri Afurika y’Epfo yashyikirije kayumba Nyamwasa na Patrick Karegeya ibaruwa ibamenyesha ko batemwerewe gukoreshereza iyo nama ku butaka bw’icyo gihugu.

Ngo ku munsi wakurikiyeho (ubwo ni kuwa 19 Ugushyingo 2013), Kayumba na Karegeya batumije abanyamuryango bakuru ba RNC baba muri Afurika y’Epfo, mu nama y’igitaraganya yabereye muri hoteli ya Protea Hotel Centurion i Johannesburg.

Ngo iyo nama yamaze amasaha ari hagati ya 18 na 21, aho Kayumba na Karegeya basobanuriye abandi banyamuryango kuri iyo baruwa, maze Kayumba ababwira ko nta cyo izahungabanya kuri gahunda y’iryo shyaka, yemeza ko inama izaba nta kibazo.

Kubera icyizere gicye cy’uko iyo nama yazaba ku banyamuryango bamwe, Kayumba yahise ahindura inyito y’iyo nama, maze ayita “Ingando”, bateganya ko yazamara iminsi ibiri mu mpera z’ukwezi kw’Ugushyingo, ariko yimurirwa kuwa 21 na 22 Ukuboza, ariko birangira ikozwe mu munsi umwe kuwa 21 Ukuboza 2013.

Gusa kugeza ubu impamvu ifatika yatumye Cyril Ramaphosa yemera gushyigikira uwo mugambi wa Kayumba wo kugaruka mu Rwanda ntiramenyekana.

Kayumba Nyamwasa yahoze ari umusirikare mu ngabo z’u Rwanda ku ipeti rya Jenerali (Gen.) akaba yaranazibereye Umugaba wa zo, nyuma aza no guhagararira igihugu cye (Ambasaderi w’u Rwanda) mu Buhindi mbere y’uko ahungira muri Afurika y’Epfo muri Gashyantare 2010.

Yaje kurusimbuka kuwa 19 Kamena 2010, ubwo yagabwagaho igitero, maze nyuma aza kwishyira hamwe na Patrick Karegeya na we wari umusirikare w’u Rwanda ku ipeti rya Koloneli (Col.) mbere y’uko yamburwa amapeti, akaba yarigeze no kuyobora ubutasi bwo hanze y’igihugu.

Aba bombi hamwe na Dr Théogène Rudasingwa na we wari umuyobozi w’ibiro bya Perezida Paul Kagame ndetse na Dr Gerald Gahima wari Umushinjacyaha mukuru, bahise bashinga Ishyaka Rwanda National Congress RNC, ritavuga rumwe n’ubutegetsi bw’u Rwanda.

Nk’uko africanudo.wordpress.com yakomeje ibyandika, uwatangaje gahunda ya Kayumba yo kugaruka mu Rwanda ntiyagaragaje niba hari isano byaba bifitanye n’urupfu rwa Karegeya.

Source: http://www.umuryango.rw/spip.php?article10526

PAUL KAGAME YAVUGISHIJE UKURI , ati: « Mwakoze ikosa ryo kungira umuyobozi wanyu »!

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Paul Kagame afite byinshi cyane abanyarwanda bamunenga ! Ariko hari kimwe yakemuye . N’ubwo ari umukuru w’igihugu, arivugira ubwe ko nta « diplomatie » agira, kandi ntabeshya ! Bisobanuye ko yivugira ibimujemo byose nta rutangira, akagaragaza imigambi ye mibisha mbere y’uko ayishyira mu bikorwa na nyuma yo kubikora akaza kubyemera , mu gihe abavugizi be baba benda gushiramo umwuka bagerageza kumukingira ikibaba no guhishira amahano adasiba kubakoresha ! Niko bihora bigenda, tumaze imyaka 20 tubibona.

Mu giterane (ngo cy’amasengesho da!)cyitwa National Prayer Breakfast cyabaye kuri iki cyumweru taliki ya 12 Mutarama 2014, nanone Paul Kagame yafashe iminota 40 n’amasegonda 13 yo kwivuga ibigwi, yivuga ko ari umwicanyi kabuhariwe utagira icyo yikanga , ntagire n’uwo atinya ; yaboneyeho no kwemeza ko we ubwe yiyumva nk’umuntu « wasinyiye guhangana », gukomeretsa no kwica abo batabona ibintu kimwe.

1.Ikibazo ni ikihe ?

IKIBAZO GIKOMEYE abantu bagomba kumva neza, kugira ngo basobanukirwe neza amagambo ya Kagame , dore aho kiri : nk’uko akomeje kubigaragaza , Paul Kagame afite INDWARA IKOMEYE mu myumvire ye ya politiki kuko hari ibintu bibiri yitiranya ku buryo buteye inkeke :

Perezida Paul Kagame yumva ko igihugu cy’u Rwanda ari WE ubwe. Hanze ye u Rwanda ntiruriho. Ashobora kuba anibwira ko umunsi yapfuye azamanukana n’u Rwanda mu kuzimu !
Paul Kagame yumva ko umunyarwanda wese utemera imiterere n’imikorere y’ingoma y’igitugu cy’Agatsiko n’akarengane yubakiyeho ; uwemeza wese ko hari ukundi u Rwanda rushobora kuyoborwa mu nzira nziza abanyarwanda bose bibonamo agomba gufatwa nk’INGAMBANYI n’UMWANZI W’IGIHUGU, agakanirwa urw’abagome.
Ni ukuvuga ko hanze y’ishyaka rye , nta wundi mwenegihugu ufite uburenganzira bwo gutekereza no kugirira igihugu akamaro. Amahano Kagame akora ni aha ashingiye.

2.Uwo iyi diskuru igamije kubwira ni nde

Paul Kagame ntabwo yari azinduwe no kubwira abari mu giterane, abanyamahanga cyangwa abanyarwanda bose muri rusange !

Ubutumwa bw’iyi disikuru Kagame yabugeneye abo yita « Abanyamurengwe bibagiwe icyabakuye mu buja », « ingambanyi zibagiwe ko icyo baricyo ari iki gihugu cyabibagize » , ni ukuvuga :

*By’umwihariko : abakoranye na FPR , cyane cyane abahawe imyanya ikomeye mu gihugu nyuma y’uko FPR ifashe ubutegetsi ku ruhembe rw’umuheto mu 1994.

*Ababwirwa mu by’ukuri : ni Abenegihugu bo mu bwoko bw’Abatutsi bashaka impinduka mu butegetsi bwa Kagame, kuko bamaze kubona ko akarengane ingoma ya Paul Kagame yubakiyeho amaherezo kazashyira Abanyarwanda mu mwiryane uzongera ugashora igihugu mu makuba arushije ubukana ayo twanyuzemo.

Umaze kumva izi ngingo tugaragaje haruguru, ashobora kongera agatega amatwi Ijambo Perezida Paul Kagame yavugiye muri kiriya giterane, yarushaho gusobanukirwa.

Amagambo Kagame yakoresheje si ay’umukuru w’igihugu, ni ay’Umuterabwoba (Terroriste) wabigize umwuga !

Koko rero nyuma y’iminota 21 avuga ubusa, Paul Kagame yageze aho agusha ku ntego, agaragaza icyo atekereza ku rupfu rwa Koloneli Patrick Karegeya bakoranye igihe kirekire akaba aherutse guhotorerwa mu gihugu cya Afurika y’Epfo anigishijwe ikiziriko ! Iki gikorwa cy’iterbwoba kikaba cyarasakuje cyane mu mahanga kigatera n’abanyarwanda benshi agahinda kavanze n’ubwoba .

Paul Kagame yeruye avuga ko mu by’ukuri ari we wivuganye Nyakwigendera Patrick Karegeya, kandi ngo akaba yumva abifitiye uburenganzira, ndetse ngo akaba yiteguye kwivugana n’abandi bose bashaka impinduka nziza mu gihugu , ngo mu rwego rwo “kurinda ibyo amaze kubaka”, ni ukuvuga ko yiteguye gukoresha ingufu zose z’igihugu mu kurengera imitungo ye bwite amaze kurunda abikesheje gusahura igihugu na Kongo:

(1)Kagame yanenze « Intore » ze zagize ubwoba bwinshi muri iyi minsi, zigatitizwa n’iki gikorwa cy’iterabwoba zari zimaze gukora mu gihugu cy’abandi, bityo ngo zikaba zimaze iminsi zititira , zikirirwa zandika utugambo mu bitangazamakuru zigerageza kwikuraho icyaha hagamijwe kwikura mu isoni no gukingira ikibaba umutware wazo Paul Kagame.

(2)Kagame yashimye abantu ba « Birihanze » nka Ministri w’Intebe Petero Damiyani (na Louise Mushikiwabo) , (babandi bamenyereye kwiterera mu mata nk’isazi, bakarwana urwo batashoje), wanditse kuri Twitter yigura ngo arebwe neza ngo« uwo ari we wese wagambanira u Rwanda » agomba kwitegura ko bizamugiraho ingaruka ! Kandi nyine uwo yitagaga ingambanyi ni Patrick Karegeya wari umaze guhotorwa!

Umugabo mbwa aseka imbohe, none ni Karegeya mu kiziriko ,ejo ni Damiyani ! Ari Kagame ubikoze ! Ntawe utabinona keretse Damiyani !

(3)Kagame yatoboye yemeza ko ikibazo atari uko « Leta y’u Rwanda » yaba yarivuganye Patrick Karegeya mu buryo buteye isoni nka buriya , ko ahubwo ikibazo gikomeye ari uko « Intore ze zananirwa gukora ibikorwa by’iterabwoba »nk’ibyo.

Mu yandi magambo Perezida Paul Kagame arahamagarira abicanyi ba FPR gushishikarira kumara abandi benegihugu bita “abanzi n’ingambanyi” bahorwa gusa ko bamagana akarengane ;Kagame arizeza “Intore ze” ko ubwicanyi bwabo n’iterabwoba ryabo bitazahanwa n’inkiko ahubwo ko bizafatwa nk’ibikorwa cy’Ubutwari ! Undi mugabo ni uw’iki !

(4)Kagame yagaye abategetsi b’abanyamahanga bakomeje kumucyaha no kumushinja kuba inyuma y’ibikorwa by’iterabwoba bibangamiye Abanyarwanda n’ubusugire bw’ibindi bihugu ; we abona ngo nta somo bakwiye kumuha kuko nabo ubwabo bakora ibikorwa by’ubugizi bwa nabi bikubye incuro 1000 ibye mu nyungu z’ibihugu byabo. Icyo ashingira yemeza ko nawe afite uburenganzira bwo kungikanya ibikorwa by’urukozasoni ngo kuko n’ubundi “iyi si nta kuri ikoresha” !

Iyo ingoma nk’izi zigeze mu marembera, kimwe mu bimenyetso zitanga ni uku kwisumbukuruza kw’abayobozi bazo : hari n’abaryama bakarota ko bahindutse “Imana Ishoborabyose”(Toupuissant), bugacya bategeka abaturage babo gupfukama bakabasenga! Paul Kagame niryo korosi ariho akata !

Ibi birerekana ko nta garuriro, Kagame nta cyo agitinya : abaturage, amategeko, amahanga…. nta kigishoboye kumukoma mu nkokora mu migambi ye mibisha, icyo ashatse cyonyine niryo gikwiye gufatwa nk’itegeko rivuye mu ijuru ! Iyi ngingo irakomeye cyane Abanyarwanda bakwiye kuyumva neza , bakamenya n’inyenga umuyobozi nk’uyu abaganishamo ! Aho ubu sibwo nyine bakwiye kugira bwangu bakamubwira bati « slow down » (genza make) nk’uko atahwemye kubyisabira muri iki kiganiro ?

(4)Kagame yatangaje ko abirirwa bidegembya hanze babiterwa n’umurengwe wabibagije ko u Rwanda arirwo rwabagize icyo baricyo.

Aha Kagame yaguye ku ijambo. Icy’ukuri muri ibi avuga ni uko Kagame ari we koko wabagize icyo baricyo ubungubu : IMPUNZI !

Umwanzuro

(1)Tutabiciye ku ruhande, Paul Kagame akomeje kwibwira ko abenegihugu bo mu bwoko bw’Abatutsi ari ingaruzwamuheto ze zikwiye kwemera kuba ibikoresho by’inyungu ze gusa , ubutarora ku ruhande. Kuva ku italiki ya 1/10/1990, yarabashumuye ngo barimburwe(reba igitabo : Kagame a sacrifié les Tutsi) agira ngo akunde yifatire ubutegetsi mu nyungu ze, none n’abagerageje bose kumubwiza ukuri, bakagaya akarengane akorera abenegihugu, nibo yita « Abanyamurengwe bibagiwe icyabakuye mu bucakara !

Nyamara UBUCAKARA nibwo Kagame akomeje kubatebezamo kandi nyine nibwo barambiwe, bakaba bifuza kubwibohoza!

(2)Kagame arashyira nkana Abatutsi mu mayira abiri :

Kuri we (1)bagomba kwemera kumuyoboka buhumyi, akabagaraguza agati uko yishakiye, akabicamo abo adakeneye nk’ubaga amatungo yiyororeye, akabateranya na bagenzi babo b’Abahutu hagamijwe inyu ze bwite n’iz’umuryango we gusa , (2)babyanga bakaba bahisemo ko abamarira mu kiziriko nka Patrick Karegeya. Kandi si ubwa mbere abicisha ! nabo ntibabiyobewe.

(3)Igikomeye kurusha byose mu byo Kagame yatangaje, ni uko yerura akagaya “abakoze ikosa ryo kumugira umuyobozi w’igihugu », (ari nabo yiyemeje kurimbura!) kuko mu by’ukuri ngo yiyiziho ko atari umuntu wifitemo ubushobozi bwo kubaka igihugu “gituje”ahubwo akaba yaragaragaje kenshi no mu buryo bunyuranye ko ari umuntu ufite gahunda imwe rukumbi yo guteza amacakubiri n’imiborogo mu bana b’u Rwanda : arigamba ko ngo « yasinyiye GUHANGANA »!

Guhangana na nde ? N’abenegihugu batemera ko ahombora igihugu cyabo barebera ! Ishyano riragwira, u Rwanda rurongeye rurarigushije !

(4)Biragaragarira buri wese ko “Inzira imwe isigaye” yo kugoboka u Rwanda ari uko abenegihugu b’intwari kandi bashyira mu gaciro, Abahutu n’Abatutsi, bagomba kwiyumvamo ko IGIHE KIGEZE ngo bashakane , bicarane, baganire, bisuganye(organisation), maze hamwe no gushushanya umushinga ubereye u Rwanda rwa twese, bafatanye :

(a)kwereka Abanyarwanda n’amahanga ukuntu Kagame n’Agatsiko ke, mu mvugo no mu ngiro, bibumbiye mu muryango wa FPR bahinduye « Umutwe w’iterabwoba » ukwiye kongerwa ku rutonde, ugaseswa n’ingufu z’Umuryango w’Abibumbye;

(b)gutobora bakemeza ko Leta iyobowe na Paul Kagame , itakiri Leta ikwiye kwizerwa n’umuryango mpuzamahanga, ko ahubwo ari « un ETAT VOYOU », ni ukuvuga igisa na Leta cyaguye mu maboko y’abantu bakora nka « Mafia », bibereye muri « business » yabo bwite, bakifashisha izina n’inzego zakabaye iza Leta y’u Rwanda, mu kwiba, kwica, gukwirakwiza ibikorwa by’iterabwoba mu Rwanda, mu Karere k’ibiyaga bigari no mu bindi bihugu by’amahanga . Ibimenyetso birahari. Harabura Abanyarwanda bahagije bazi ubwenge kandi barwiyemeje ngo babibyaze umusaruro muzima!

Padiri Thomas Nahimana,

Umuyobozi w’Ishyaka ISHEMA ry’u Rwanda.

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.

IYICWA RYA KAREGEYA, INDUNDURO YO GUCUMBAGIRIRA KU MAGURU YOMBI.

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Mu Kinyarwanda iyo umuntu afite akaguru kamwe kadashinga ngo gafate, bavuga ko acumbagira cyangwa atera isekuru, bakamwita agacumba. Iyo bibaye ku maguru yombi, biba byarenze ibyo gucumbagira, uyu bamwita akarema cyangwa akajyo. Ni na ho haturuka wa mugani wa Kinyarwanda, uvangana amagambo ubuhanga, ngo “akamuga karuta akajyo”. Baba bafashe agacumba nk’inkono yamenetse ariko igifite uruhengekero (byombi mu Kinyarwanda byitwa akamuga cyangwa ikimuga), bakabigereranya n’akajyo (bivuga uwaremaye amaguru yombi, ariko bikanakoreshwa mu kuvuga akamanyu ko ku nkono yajanjaguritse burundu). Mu Kinyarwanda rero cya gihanga, bemezaga ko nta we ucumbagirira ku maguru yombi. Ashobora gusa gucumbagirira kuri kamwe, bivuze ko akandi kaba kagishinga. Iyo rero umuntu acumbagirira ku maguru yombi, bifatwa mu nzira ebyiri, zombi ziganisha ku kuyobya uburari. Mu nzira ya mbere, ashobora kuba ari agacumba kajijisha. Akaguru kazima aba yakaremaje ku bwende, mu nyungu zitazwi, nko mu guhunga inshingano (responsabilité). Mu rundi ruhande, ashobora kuba ari akajyo kagerageza gucumbagiza amaguru yombi mu by’ukuri adashinga, ngo bagire ngo hari icyo agishoboye (ngo bakeke ko atari akajyo ari akarema gusa). Mu kinyarwanda gucumbagirira ku maguru yombi bivuga kuyobya uburari, ugahisha ubushobozi ufite, cyangwa se ukiyerekana nk’ufite icyo ushoboye kandi mu by’ukuri uri akajyo. Bivugwa iyo umuntu ageze imbere y’ikibazo kigomba umuti kandi kidashobora gutegereza no kwirengagizwa, nyamara akananirwa gufata umwanzuro uhamye.

Aho ibintu bigeze muri politiki y’u Rwanda, hatangiye igihe cyo kureka gucumbagirira ku maguru yombi, mu nzego nyinshi. Reka tubirebere hamwe.

1. Byose bijya gutangira, habanje kwica no kwivuga.

Kuva kera, abanyarwanda bamye baha “ijambo” agaciro gakomeye. Ibi tubisanga no mu yindi mico ku isi. Si ku busa abakirisitu bise Yezu “Jambo” w’Imana. Abagereki na bo ni uko, izingiro ry’ibintu baryise “ijambo” (logos). Wakomeza n’ahandi. Mu kinyarwanda cyacu, ijambo ni ryo risozera rikanasenengera ibikorwa. Muri make, nta gikorwa kidaherekejwe n’ijambo: Ntawe uroga acecetse (ngo ntihica uburozi hica umutukiro); ntawe uvura nta jambo (ngo havura umutongero)…nta wica nta jambo (uwishe arivuga). Ni yo mpamvu umunyarwanda wese w’ingabo yagiraga icyivugo. Nka Nyarwaya Karuretwa yivugaga ati: “Ndi imanzi ya Burunga, umugabo wishe abapfumu ba Gogo, umugaragu ahuruje ingoma ingwe iramumira…umugabo uvoma urugina mu magara y’undi mugabo”. Gusa rero, abanyarwanda ibi ntibabiterwaga n’ubugome bwabaritse (sadisme). Ahubwo bubahaga ubuzima, bityo bakumva ko no kwica umwanzi ari amaburakindi. Kwivuga byari ukuyobya uburari ngo amaraso y’umwanzi atabasama. Ni yo mpamvu nta wivugaga mu izina rye bwite, ngo agire ati ndakwishe njyewe Kalinijabo, cyangwa Rwubusisi. Kwivuga byari nko kuyobya umuzimu w’uwishwe, ukivuga mu izina ritari iryawe bwite, ngo umuzimu natera ayoberwe uwo afata. Nk’uwitwa Rukara aho kwivuga mu izina rye bwite yashoboraga kwivuga ati: “Muyumbu utarushya isiga”, bityo izina rye bwite akaba ararikikiye mu mayeri. Umuzimu ntiyashoboraga kurabukwa.

2. FPR mu mucuri wa “ndumunyarwanda”.

Muri iyi minsi igikomeje gutungura abantu, si uko Karegeya yishwe (na we yari azi ko rumugera amajanja kuko FPR yarimo yari azi uko ikora). Igitangaje kurusha ibindi ni ibyivugo FPR yakurikije urupfu rwe. Uwabimburiye abandi ni Olivier Nduhungirehe, uyu wihesheje agaciro agahembwa kujya muri Loni ku izina ry’u Rwanda. Kuri Twetter yifatiye ku gahanga uwashinje Kagame urupfu rwa Karegeya, abikora mu cyivugo kivanzemo ubuswa n’ubuhake bucanira intozo (mu kinyarwanda umugaragu utiyizeye yarangwaga no guhuzagurika bikabyara gukabya mu buhake, agacanira inka, agakabya agacanira n’imbwa za shebuja kandi ubundi kizira).Nduhungirehe rero yarihanukiriye ati “Ese ko wita Kagame umwicanyi, uwo Kayumba wamamaza ni we mwicanyi gahoro” (ubwo aba arikocoreyemo, ko na we azi ko Kagame ari umwicanyi, gusa icyo ahakana kikaba ukuba yaza imbere ya Kayumba muri uwo mwuga)! Murabona ko birenze kuba ubuhake. Aho bukera burabyara ubucanirambwa!

Nduhungirehe muvandimwe, ndabona aho bukera ruri bukubone. Abakubanjirije mu buhake bw’ubucanirambwa reka nkubwire uko barangije. Afandi Rutaremara Jules mu guhakwa yarihanukiriye ngo Rudasingwa yamye ari umusazi. Twerekanye ko uwo bisebeje ari FPR ubwayo ku kuba uwayiyoboye mu ikubitiro ari umusazi…Rutaremara ntiyamaze kabiri adakubuwe. Mukuru we Rutaremara Tito ati Ncuti Manasse nta gitangaje ko yatunga miliyari 160 kuko yabaye minisitiri imyaka 8. Tumweretse ko n’aho yaba minisitiri imyaka 800 atayabona atayibye, yahunze ku buvunyi ubu yihishe muri Sena. Yewe ubuhake buravuna, ariko ubucanirambwa bwo ni akumiro. Twikomereze.

Ibya Nduhungirehe twabanje kubikekamo intore yahushije umudiho, ariko bwakeye wabaye rusange. Intore yo ku ruhembe Damiyani Habumuremyi ati : “Kugambanira igihugu cyakugize uwo uwo uri we bigira ingaruka umuntu agomba kwirengera”.Birakomeza biratutumba bigera no mu bagore! Abanyarwanda burya bari inararibonye. Banze ko umugore ajya ku rugamba, ngo atazivuga ko yishe kandi baramufataga nk’igicumbi, igicaniro cy’ubuzima. Gusa iyo urugamba rugeze iwa Ndabaga, ruharirwa abagore. Mushikiwabo ati natanzwe. Yivuga kubahiga bose. Ati“iyo umuntu ahagurutse akemeza ko agiye kurwanya ubutegetsi akoresheje uburyo bushoboka bwose…, leta na yo igomba kumurwanya ni ko bimeze”. Umunyamakuru wa Contact FM baganiraga ati ni ukuvuga ko kwica Karegeya byari muri Gahunda za Leta? Dore igisubizo kidaca iruhande cya Mushikiwabo: “Byaba kuri gahunda bitaba kuri gahunda, icyo mvuga ubundi se nka Leta njyewe undwanyije nabuzwa n’iki kukurwanya ?”. Kuri Twetter umwana wa Karegeya aramubaza ati “Guverinoma yanyu rero ishyize imbere ko uyirwanya gomba kunigwa kugeza yishwe?”. Mushikiwabo ati“ibiba ku banzi bacu ntibitubuza gusinzira”. Ababisesengura nabonye bemeza ko atagira impuhwe za kibyeyi kuko atabyaye. Biranashoboka ahubwo ko kutagira impuhwe ari byo bizatuma ahambanwa ikara. Wasanga kutagira impuhwe za kibyeyi ari byo byamubujije gusiga ishibu.

Abiru ba ndi umunyarwanda bagomba kuba bakungurira FPR. Barajombora umuco ariko bakabikora intambike. N’abagore bageze aho kuvuga amacumu yacuze inkumbi!Simbabujije kwivuga, ariko ni ubwa mbere twumva uwivuga amaraso y’umuvandimwe kandi akivuga mu izina rye. Abanyarwanda baraziririzaga, n’amaraso y’umwanzi w’umuvamahanga bayivugaga barenza ijambo. Ubwo rero n’abagore bageze aho kuvuga amacumu, kandi bakavuga icumu ryikoze mu nda, mukenyere ibintu byageze iwa Ndabaga. Hari byinshi bigiye gusobanuka.

3. Gucumbagirira ku maguru abiri mu butabera birarangiye.

Imyaka ibaye mbare na mbariro hasabwa ko ubutabera mpuzamahanga bwakora umurimo wabwo. Igihe cyabwo cyo gucumbagirira ku maguru abiri kirarangiye. Ubwo FPR yahushaga Kayumba, abantu bagize ngo biracogoye. Biragaragara ko ahubwo yagiye kunoza uburyo mu kuba rudahusha. Mu gihe abahoze bakorana na yo badahwema kuvuga ko bafite ubuhamya shingiro ku bikorwa byayo, uyu ni umwanya wo kwerekeza mu ngeri (mu mazi magari). Bitabaye ibyo, barashira urusorongo tureba, amabanga bayajyane ikuzimu dore ko ari cyo Kagame yambariye. Gucumbagirira ku maguru abiri nibirangire mu butabera. Nibitaba, turamenya ko bwahindutse “hushi guruka kanyoni kanjye”. Ni ukuvuga kubeshya abantu ko uzinduwe no kwirukana ibyonnyi kandi ugenzwa no kubishingira umuhati. Seti Sendashonga yatwaye amabanga atari make; Lizinde biba uko; Ruzibiza ataho; hiyongereyeho na Karegeya. Ni nde utahiwe? Turabizi ko ubutabera mpuzamahanga bwamye bucumbagira, gusa igihe kirageze ngo bureke gucumbagirira ku maguru abiri. Niba hari akaguru gashinga, nibutere intambwe tubimenye. Niba kandi yombi yararemaye, tureke kwizera akajyo, dushake andi majyo.

4. Gucumbagirira ku maguru abiri birarangiye mu Ihuriro- RNC.

Ku bahoze bakorana na Kagame abenshi bahuriye muri RNC, na bo ihurizo riratangiye. Inzira ni nyinshi. Hari ugutegereza Kagame akajya ashotora uwo yagennye guturaho igitambo mu gihe abishakiye, cyangwa se bagatera intambwe nshya mu kumurwanya. Umugambi wa Kagame utekerejwe bicukumbuye. Kagame aragira ati “ abandwanya bari bateze byinshi kuri aba bantu kuko twakoranye bakaba bazi “système”, ndetse hakaba n’abemeza ko aribo bayihanze n’ubu bakaba bayifitemo ibyitso n’amaboko”. Ngicyo icyo yashatse kuvuguruza mu iyicwa rya Karegeya: gukoresha inzego Karegeya yasize yubatse ndetse hagakoreshwa n’umuntu bemeza ko ari Karegeya ubwe wamwinjije muri “système”, ni uburyo bwo gutanga akabarore ko abahoze bakorana na we “système” yabasize. Ni ho aba aganisha iyo abita“Ibigarasha”, ni ukuvuga ibintu bitagifite agaciro. Ubu rero hageze igihe cyo gufata umwanzuro no gutera indi ntambwe. Igihe cyo gucumbagirira ku maguru yombi kirarangiye. Niba hari akaguru gashinga, haraterwa intambwe. Bitabaye ibyo, inkuru iraharirwa urujyo. Mu mezi abiri gusa ari imbere niba ntacyo RNC igaragaje , “mythe” yubakiragaho kugeza ubu izaba yahindutse impitagihe, kuko bizaba bigaragaye ko koko Kagame yayikubise mu cyico.

Umwanzuro: FPR na Afurika y’Epfo mu ihurizo rigikomeza.

N’ubwo FPR yivuga amacumu, hari byinshi itazi kuko bitayiturukaho. Yapanze kurasa Kayumba mu myiteguro y’igikombe cy’isi, igisebo kuri Afurika y’Epfo itifuza ko isura yayo mu mahanga yakwangirika. Nyuma y’aho abareba hafi bagize ngo birarangiye. Kwari ukwibeshya. Murabaze Kagame n’ingabo ze (RDF/M23) urufaya rwabirukanye ejo bundi muri Kongo niba rutaravugaga Ikizulu (Zoulou)! Ihurizo rero ntaho riragera. Ubu Kagame arivuga ko ashinga agahamya, agahanantura abo yita abanzi. Amaherezo ariko, azasitara ku ucumbagirana amayeri. Maze agahuru gahure n’umunyutsi. Na we arabizi. Hagati aha yatangiye umwaka ateguza intore ze ko bazahura n’ibikomeye. Tubitege amaso.

Edmond Munyangaju

Central African Republic interim President Michel Djotodia resigns

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Central African Republic’s interim President Michel Djotodia has resigned at a regional summit aimed at ending violence that has engulfed the country.

PM Nicolas Tiengaye also resigned at the meeting in Chad.

Thousands of people took to the streets in CAR’s capital, Bangui, most of them celebrating the news.

Mr Djotodia, CAR’s first Muslim leader, seized power last year. Since then 20% of the population have fled fighting between Christian and Muslim militias.

The UN has warned of an impending humanitarian disaster.

Since December and the arrival of more regional peacekeepers and French troops, 1,000 people have died in sectarian clashes.

Many villages are deserted and in the past month the number of those who have fled their homes has doubled – including almost half of those living in the capital, Bangui.

Following the announcement from Chad, there were jubilant scenes in Bangui.

Carine Gbegbe, who has been living in a displacement camp, told Associated Press: “Finally we are free. We are going to return home at last.”

French tanks were quickly deployed around the presidential palace.

French Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian called for a replacement for Mr Djotodia “as soon as possible”.

Flown in

Mr Djotodia’s resignation was made in a statement by the 10-nation Economic Community of Central African States (Eccas).

The whole of CAR’s National Transitional Council (CNT) had been flown in at short notice to decide the leadership of their nation.

The lawmakers met regional leaders while Mr Djotodia held separate talks with allies from his former Seleka rebel alliance, AFP reported.

Under a deal brokered by regional powers last year, the CNT was charged with choosing a transitional leader to take CAR to elections due at the end of 2014. It formally elected Mr Djotodia to his position as interim president last April.

Seleka seized power last March overthrowing the then-President Francois Bozize, from CAR’s majority Christian population.

Although Mr Djotodia officially disbanded the Seleka rebels, he has proved unable to keep them in check.

Their actions have prompted Christians to form vigilante groups, sparking a deadly cycle of revenge attacks.

The African Union now has some 4,000 peacekeepers in the country and France has deployed 1,600 troops to try to restore peace.

Source: bbc.co.uk

DRCongo: Goma rejoices as Kagame is said dead!

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President Kagame is accused of having destabilized Congo through proxy wars he created, but no one expected that a rumor if his death could cause such a joy!

On this Friday January 10 , 2014, streets of Goma were full of Congolese marching, dancing and singing hymns of joy as a rumor said that President of Rwanda Paul Kagame was dead. They carried a coffin and palm branches to mean that peace will now prevail since Kagame is dead.

In their songs and chants, demonstrators repeated that Kagame is dead and gone, and that now Congo and the region will have peace. Kigali has denounced the death of President Kagame saying that the man is healthy and is on his duties.

This has sparked so much fear among Rwandans especially those who are superstitious. One old man told me on phone that “such things don’t go without effect, if Kagame is not going to die, something bad is going to happen in Rwanda”.

This happens two weeks after Kagame told his army that this year will not be easy!

Click here to watch the scene was: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=L9EPcUOpT1M#t=22

Ubutumwa Paul Mbangurunuka yageneye Paul Kagame

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Kagame Paul,

Reka nguhe icyubahiro cyawe nk’umukuru w’Igihugu, umwishi n’umwanzi w’abahutu, bikugira intwari. Ariko kuba ukomeje kwikora munda, ntabwo ukiri hero uri zero. Karegeya wamwiciye iki kweli? Kayumba se wamurasiye iki? Ngoga wamuhoye iki? Ndugute ibyo wamukoreye ubu umutima ntukurya? Kayitare ko wamwishe na Kamaliza akabigenderamo byatubujije kumuhoza kumutima? Uremeye ubaye kivumwa peeee?!! Bagire umwicireko yagaragaje agahinda n’amarira mwishyingurwa rya Kayitare, uburakari n’inzika bikwibagiza ineza yakugiriye akuvana murutoki we na Kayumba umwanzi ashigaje amasegonda gusa ngo akumire bunguri. Abana b’abasore nka ba Lt Col Karangwa wabiciye iki?

Ese iyo upanga kwica Nyamwasa, nibura ntagatima nagato ugira kakwibutsa uko yakurokoye. Ko yabikozese, niki cyatuma atakongera kubikora, ko nubundi yabikoze abizi neza ko utari mwiza? Ntacyo twagukoraho nyine kuko amateka y’Igihugu cyacu akugira icyo uricyo ubu. Dohora Afande, nukuri nushaka ntukomeze gufunga no kwica abo bantu wasanze muri contacts za RIP Karegeya kuko ntabwo wakwica Abanyarwanda ngo ubamare. Ubuseko wibuka neza uko twishe abahutu, imitutu igashyuha, ibyobo bikuzura, byababujije gukomeza kuba amamiliyoni?

Ndakumva rwose ufite raison yo kutava kubutegetsi kuko wakwisanga urikumwe na Ntaganda, ariko uburambe bwa kinyeshyamba no kuyobora ufite ubu, wagerageza kwifashisha ibitabo byabimwe mubihangange ukareba strategies bagiye bakoresha maze nawe ugakoporora, utitaye kuri capitalisme cg Communisme. Ngirango, Mao Tse Tung, Chiang Kai Shek, ba Stalin, Churchill, Roosevelt n’abandi bagufasha kubona umurongo ugenderaho mukuyobora atari uwubuhotozi . Erega buriya na Museveni haricyo yagufashaho , kuko igipimo cy’ubwicanyi ugezeho gikubye amagana, ubwicanyi bwaranze Museveni kandi we agukubye inshuro mukuyobora.

Sigaho rwose, tanga imbabazi ku banyapolitiki bafunzwe, uhe agahenge abaguhunze ushishikazwe imbere heza h’abaturage. Erega burya umunyapolitiki uri danger ni umuturage, yabyukiye mumuhanda ntawumutanga imbere kandi abitwa inararibonye muri politiki (Rukokoma Faustin) wabakomye munkokora ubabuza gutaha! Nsoza reka nkubwire ko uburakari ufite ubungubungubu nutabwivanamo buri buhitane benshi butagusize. Gerageza izindi nzira witega amatwi cyane umugore wawe, ite cyane kuri future y’abana bawe. Erega uzica, wibe, wubahwe, usuzugurwe, hanyuma usaze upfe maze abana bawe basigare bishyura bya factures umurundo uzaba usize. Nyamara Byumvuhore ni umuhutu wumuhanga aho yaririmbye ngo “uzishyura iyo fagitire”(Cyomoro Ivan Kagame). Uramenye ntuhite ujya guhiga Byumvuhore doreko ihiga ryawe ari umunsi.

Ndangiza reka ngusabe guhagarika imigambi ufite kuri aba bakurikira( urabiziko mbizi neza) :

-Hagarika gahunda yo kwica Nkusi Joseph ( bitarenze May 2014)

-Hagarika abahungu bawe wamaze guha umugisha wo kwica Thomas Nahimana bitarenze March2014.

-Rekeraho gupanga uburyo wahitana Jeniffer Fierberg, urabizi ko gahunda muzirimo.

-Rekeraho gutoteza umuryango wa Gasasira na Ingabire

Nkwifurije kwisubiraho mbere y’igihe kuko iyicwa rya Karegeya haricyo rinuganuga iyo ukurikiranye ubuhanuzi bwa Magayane nawe uzi nezako wizera ugerageza no guhindura kandi bidashoboka, aho akubwira ko mbere yuko wicwa uzabanzirizwa n’urupfu rw’inshuti yawe magara(Karegeya). Ngirango nubushuti yarafitanye na Kikwete, bikiyongera kurwango ufitanye avec ce dernier, bikajyanishana n’ibya Nyirabiyoro ko Tanzania nayo izagaragara mubihe byawe byanyuma, dore ko na FDLR yaraguwe igeze aho kwifuriza Abanyarwanda umwaka mushya ikanabihanganisha mukababaro wabateje wica Afande Karegeya , nkubita muguru sawa, kuriya na kushoto nkaguterera isaluti nti kuendelea Afande(Urugendo rwawe mumuriro niba utihannye inzira zikiri nyabagendwa), narangiza nkikubitira nyuma jeuka, nkakomezanya urugendo nabazaba bakubohotse usize kungoyi Nyiramongi na Cyomoro. Ariko uzabanza ubarase tu, ndakwiyiziye cyane rwose.

Kuendelea Sir, nahanuraga sinaraguraga!

Paul Mbangurunuka

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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Good’ survivors of genocide and ‘bad’ survivors in the hands of Rwanda’s dictator and his agents by Frank LeFever

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In 1994, while working with head-injury patients at Helen Hayes Hospital and preparing to present some of my research at the next meeting of the International Neuropsychological Society, I heard of a genocide in Africa – in Rwanda, a country previously unknown to me – brutal and face-to-face, neighbor against neighbor, unlike the more systematic “impersonal” genocide in Germany a half-century before. I knew enough to reject the idea that it was a primitive “tribal” vendetta and suspected political manipulations exploiting some kind of social-economic rivalry but really could not focus on the details: I had trouble remembering from day to day which group was “Hutu” and which group was “Tutsi.” However, in my retirement (2003), largely through my involvement in the WBAI-FM, the NYC station of the Pacifica Foundation, I have focused a great deal of attention on Rwanda and on what happened and why – as a scientist, going to original sources whenever possible.

Among other things, I have learned how the 1994 Hutu genocide against Tutsis began in 1990 with an invasion by a specific group of Tutsis who grew up in exile in Uganda, an invasion with Uganda’s cooperation. I will not attempt to outline all the complexities of what happened between Oct. 1, 1990, and April 6, 1994, except to say that the story we have been told is incomplete and that Paul Kagame did not ride in like a knight in shining armor to end a genocide; indeed, some, including his former bodyguards and his former chief of staff, have even argued that he caused the genocide. The record is clear that he killed many who stood between him and his goal in his drive to seize Kigali, the capital – Hutus and Tutsis alike. Moreover, he killed more people subsequently in Rwanda and in eastern Congo – typically women, children, sick and elderly – in refugee camps or fleeing through the jungle.

I am moved to write this now because Kagame, having jailed or killed people in Rwanda for saying even less than I have said about this history, is sending his agents to pursue others in Europe and here in the U.S. for the crime of simply saying that not only Tutsis but also Hutus died in 1994. In this pursuit ofdissidents, a disturbing trend has been developing, both within Rwanda and within the Rwandan Diaspora: Kagame’s agents pit survivors of the Rwandan genocide against each other, creating a class of “good” survivors as well as “bad” survivors; I know by name several survivors and have met and come to respect one young man who is now under attack as a “bad” survivor – Claude Gatebuke.

Kagame, having jailed or killed people in Rwanda for saying even less than I have said about this history, is sending his agents to pursue others in Europe and here in the U.S. for the crime of simply saying that not only Tutsis but also Hutus died in 1994. One young man who is now under attack as a “bad” survivor is Claude Gatebuke.

Within the “good survivor” vs. “bad survivor” framework, certain stories from survivors are encouraged, welcomed and embraced. More often than not, these are stories that reinforce the official image of leadership and benevolence of the current Rwandan regime. They praise the current president with having stopped the genocide against Tutsis but dare not mention his crimes prior to the 1994 genocide, his crimes during that period, nor his subsequent crimes, such as genocidal crimes in later years within the Democratic Republic of Congo. Acceptable survivor testimonies are ones that dare not raise the issue of war that was being waged by the current Rwandan ruling party, a war that claimed countless Rwandan lives over the course of four years leading up to the genocide of 1994.

The “bad” survivors are individuals who raise concerns about the current regime’s status as a benevolent hero. They challenge the current regime’s stance on democracy and raise issues of human rights abuse both within Rwanda and outside of Rwanda. Susan Rice, U.S. representative to the U.N., recently told Rwandan authorities that Rwanda is not a democratic country and needs to allow basic freedoms.

Within Rwanda, genocide survivors saying this are targeted with smear campaigns, often exiled and – worse – imprisoned. Deo Mushayidi, a lone survivor from his entire family, an individual with no connection to the current military dictatorship, is serving a life sentence within Rwanda. His crime? Creating a political opposition party. Raising concerns regarding countless deaths committed by the ruling regimes. Speaking out against injustice, in a stifling atmosphere, and having little or no significant community to back him up.

Many other critics have fled to exile, including journalists of independent media. One of the most high profile exiles from Rwanda is Joseph Sebarenzi, former speaker of the House, whose book Claude praises as one of the fairest among many books written about Rwanda.

The Rwandan dictatorship has gone so far as to apply their typical charge of genocide denial against “bad” survivors to descendants of survivors of the Nazi genocide against Jews. The Kigali regime dictates to descendants of Holocaust survivors that they dare not defend “bad” Rwandan survivors, as in the case of the Lantos Foundation’s award to Paul Rusesabagina.

Tom Lantos, the only Holocaust survivor to serve in the U.S. Congress, knew what it means to be imprisoned and beaten because of his ethnic classification, knew the kindness of strangers who sheltered him when he escaped, knew the risks of venturing out of a safe house to serve the underground opposition, and knew the pain of learning that his mother and other family members had been killed, along with 450,000 other Hungarian Jews. His daughter, Katrina Lantos Swett, continues to uphold her father’s human rights legacy through the Lantos Foundation.

Rwandan agents have engaged in a campaign calling her a genocide denier for simply stating the obvious – that the Rwandan government is an authoritarian dictatorship that does not tolerate freedoms. The hate for human rights activists comes from the top, as Paul Kagame has said that he doesn’t “give a damn” about organizations such as Human Rights Watch.

Clearly, Katrina Lantos Swett knows something about genocide and about shielding targets of genocide and has been quick to spot the origins and motives of the smear campaign, saying: “I think if Paul Rusesabagina had not had the determination to draw attention to some of the concerns about what’s happening in Rwanda today, none of this outpouring would have taken place. It didn’t take place when the movie came out … it’s when he began to speak out that suddenly many really questionable and unsubstantiated charges were raised.”

She is also firm in stating that the award was given not only for his doing what he did in 1994, but also for his “continued courage” in speaking out about political oppression in Rwanda: “When you have someone who emerges as a compelling voice that is an irritant to a regime, very often the regime or their supporters or proxies will go to great lengths to discredit that individual.”

“Bad” genocide survivors from Rwanda, without any political baggage or connection to the military dictatorship of Rwanda, are bullied, intimidated and harassed. They are attacked by diplomats at forums and constantly have to deal with questioning of their legitimacy as survivors, despite the trauma they’ve faced and despite the difficulty of speaking out against the regime.

“Bad” genocide survivors from Rwanda, without any political baggage or connection to the military dictatorship of Rwanda, are bullied, intimidated and harassed.

For example, the hero of “Hotel Rwanda,” who saved many Tutsis from attacks by Hutus, Paul Rusesabagina, became Public Enemy No. 1 for simply saying that Hutus also died and for speaking out against the repressive measures of the new regime. He is vilified as a “genocide denier” and as a “double genocide” revisionist – and even as a “genocidaire” intent on overthrowing Kagame and renewing the genocide!

Another on Kagame’s hit list is a much less known genocide survivor whom I have heard speak on panels in New York City and have met personally, Claude Gatebuke. Claude’s personal history and consistent antagonism to all forms and locations of genocide, his passion for peaceful resolution of conflicts and reinstatement of a democratic society in Rwanda and elsewhere – Congo, especially – are impressive.

The agents of the Rwandan government targeting Claude include a Rwandan “diplomat” at the U.N. by the name of Olivier Nduhungirehe, who also goes by the name of Theoneste Rwemalika (translated in English to mean one who kills instantly with one shot). The reasons for attacking Gatebuke include his criticism of the dictatorship in Rwanda as well as his vocal support for peace in the DR Congo and his denouncing of perpetrators of war crimes, crimes against humanity and even possible genocide against more than 5 million Congolese people. The U.N. Mapping Exercise Report for DR Congo released on Oct. 1, 2010, provides evidence for every claim Claude makes about the atrocities in Congo.

Gatebuke demands justice for the victims no matter who they are or where they are from and regardless of the perpetrators and is consistent in this in every forum. This is exactly the reason why the government of Rwanda and their supporters are targeting Gatebuke and denying his story of survival. Had he praised the policies of the Rwandan government or at least remained silent, no one would target Claude with hate speech in an attempt to stop his work.

The Kagame dictatorship’s agents do not limit themselves to verbal smears, vilification and outright lies in public forums and incessant propaganda encouraging hatred for dissidents – especially “bad” survivors. The regime in Kigali led by Paul Kagame is notorious for brutal attacks against those who disagree with them or denounce their crimes. In May of this year, the British police caught assassins sent by the Rwandan government to kill critics of the regime. Similarly, there have been three attempts to assassinate Rwanda’s former army chief of staff in South Africa. In June of 2010, he survived a shooting that lodged a bullet in his stomach.

Many other critics have fled to exile, including journalists of independent media. Those who are in Rwanda are not as fortunate. Journalist Leonard Rugambage was shot dead as he was planning to break a story of the Rwandan regime’s involvement in the assassination attempt in South Africa, while Andre Kagwa Rwisereka, vice president of an opposition party, was found with his head severed and a machete lying next to his dead body. Journalists Agnes Nkusi Uwimana and Saidath Mukakibibi are in jail for 17 and seven years respectively for writing critical reports of the president, while virtually every opposition leader is in jail, including genocide survivor Deo Mushayidi, Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza and Bernard Ntaganda, among others.

The question before us now is: How can we help Claude and Joseph and Paul and Deo and so many other courageous “bad survivors” survive Kagame’s current and future deadly attacks?

Frank LeFever is a retired neuroscientist, a director and past-president of the New York Neuropsychology Group, a non-profit scientific and educational corporation which he helped found in 1979, a member and frequent presenter at annual meetings of the Society for Neuroscience and of the International Neuropsychological Society. He is also active in the governance of Pacifica Foundation’s New York City station WBAI-FM and of The New York Academy of Sciences Psychology Section. He can be reached at fflefever@yahoo.com.

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