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Western donors must also encourage Kagame to engage the diverse political views of the Rwandan diaspora.

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In her article, “Rwanda don’t let the good trump the bad”, Prof Susan Thomson advises ways through which Kagame can be dealt with:

RPF Gicumbi 2010

An RPF rally in Gicumbi, Rwanda. August 2, 2010. Image: Graham Holliday.

There was no doubting that Paul Kagame’s Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) would handily win September’s parliamentary elections, which it did with 76% of the vote. His party has ruled the country since July 1994, when it successfully ended the genocide of more than 500,000 ethnic Tutsi. In theory, the RPF was contending with nine other parties. In practice, Rwanda’s nearly six million voters had little choice on the ballot. A total of 98% of the votes went to the RPF and its four coalition parties. The additional five parties were not allowed to participate.

Once-cozy relations with donors have begun to sour because of Rwanda’s increasing authoritarianism at home as well as its continued involvement in neighboring eastern Congo.  The United Nations has systematically documented war crimes and other violations of international law by both the Rwandan army and its Congolese proxies. Since 2009, the RPF has worked with American and British public relations firms whose primary task is to drown out the voices of foreign critics and bury evidence of the RPF’s human rights abuses at home and in the Congo under rosy language about stability, economic growth, and commitments to help the poor. A democratic façade is essential to reassure foreign investors and Western donors that their money is being stewarded well.

This raises the question of how Rwanda’s donors can best work with the incumbent president, mindful that Kagame is constitutionally mandated to step down in 2017 with the next round of scheduled presidential elections. Rwanda’s main donors, notably the United States, the United Kingdom, and the European Union, must continue to nudge the RPF towards a real democratic opening. This must include more than the usual calls for free and fair elections or symbolic stoppages of their foreign aid, such as the Americans’ recent suspension of $200,000 in military aid due to Rwanda’s sponsorship of the now-defunct M23 proxy rebel group.

Rwanda’s influential friends—such as Britain’s Tony Blair and America’s Bill Clinton—must stop extolling president Kagame’s performance on economic policies so that they may hold his RPF government accountable for its lack of political freedoms and human rights abuses. Cutting aid in symbolic amounts will not result in policy changes, but conditioning aid could. Rwanda depends on foreign aid, which currently accounts for more than 40% of its budget. General support for the budget must be withheld until President Kagame demonstrates a sincere willingness to give his political opponents more space and adopts policies that reflect rather than exploit rural realities.

Donors must first evaluate the government’s ability to manage its only natural resources—people and land. The U.S. State Department estimates that by 2020, Rwanda will be home to some 13 million people. This will be the highest population density in Africa, with 225 people per square mile. Some 80 percent of Rwandans seek out their existence as subsistence farmers, living on less that $1.50 a day. The government requires rural farmers to grow coffee and tea instead of the crops they need to feed their families. A new land policy has decreased peasant holdings to less than half an acre, which is far from enough to produce crops for subsistence. International donors can withhold their general support to Rwanda’s budget to press for more equitable land and agricultural policies.

Rwanda’s donors can also encourage open dialogue and a culture of constructive criticism and debate of government policies amongst the political class. Foreigners write most of the academic and policy literature on Rwanda, because Kagame does not allow for thoughtful analysis that is remotely critical of his government’s current policies. Western donors can use their already-existing relationship with Rwanda’s Ministry of Education and other institutions of higher learning to sponsor and protect intellectuals whose ideas differ from those of the government as a way to spur openness and dialogue.

Western donors must also encourage Kagame to engage the diverse political views of the Rwandan diaspora. This is not to suggest that he reach out to those who claim that the RPF organized and implemented the genocide, or hold other extremist views. But he does need to acknowledge that sincere dissidents exist alongside political extremists. Kagame should not be allowed to lump together the good with the bad as a way to justify not including any outside or competing opinions in the Rwandan political sphere.

Without an open political sphere nudged and nurtured along by Rwanda’s Western donors, there will few other potential leaders to succeed Kagame in 2017; his rivals have died, are jailed, or have fled the country. Expect the lack of qualified political leaders to be Kagame’s rationale for amending the constitution to allow him to run for a third term.

Susan Thomson is assistant professor of peace and conflict studies at Colgate University. She has published articles in African Affairs, The International Journal of Transitional Justice and The Journal of Modern African Studies. She is also author of “Whispering Truth to Power: Everyday Resistance to Reconciliation in Postgenocide Rwanda” (Wisconsin UP, 2013). 

Source: http://journal.georgetown.edu/2013/12/16/rwanda-dont-let-the-good-trump-the-bad-by-susan-thomson/

Kuki Ubushinjacyaha bw’u Rwanda buhishira abanyereza umutungo uva mu misoro ya rubanda?

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Tumaze gusoma inkuru yasohotse mu kinyamakuru igihe .com kuri uyu wa 15 Ukuboza 2013, igira itiIkoreshwa nabi ry’umutungo wa Leta, miliyari 136 ntiziragaruzwa  ,  twibajije impamvu amafranga angana na miliyari 136 yose aburirwa irengero nyamara nyuma y’iperereza ubushinjacyaha bukanga gutangaza abakekwaho icyo cyaha. Ikintu cyonyine ubushinjacyaha buvuga ni uko ngo bamwe ari abasirikare bityo amadosiye akaba yarashyikirijwe ubushinjacyaha bwa gisirikare.

Nk’uko amwe mu mashyaka atavuga rumwe na Leta y’agatsiko ka FPR akunze kubivuga, cyane cyane ishyaka ISHEMA ry’u Rwanda, ubutegetsi bw’abasirikare bwagiye bubaho mu Rwanda nta cyiza bwazanye uretse kwikanyiza no kunyunyuza imitsi ya rubanda, ariko byageze kuri FPR yo isya itanzitse. Uku guhishira abanyereza umutungo wa leta bivuga ko amakuru aba yerekanye ko abariye aya mafranga ari ba babandi bo mu nda y’ingoma bityo bikaba ” atari ngombwa ko bashyirwa ahagaragara”!!!.

Kuba imicungire mibi igaragara muri leta ya FPR ni ikimenyetso gifatika cy’uko amafranga yakwa abaturage hatabanje kwerekanwa uko azacungwa aba ari agacuzo. Urugero ikigega cyiswe Agaciro Development Fund kikajyaho nta mategeko azwi akigenga, nta we ugishinzwe uzwi, none amafranga arimo kubura ubushinjacyaha bukinumira ngo si ngombwa kuvuga amazina yabo? Koko? These people are not serious!

Nta n’uwabura gukeka ko aya mafranga aba yafashwe na Kagame ubwe , dore ko itangazamakuru riherutse kumutera imboni aho yari arimo kugura umutamenwa muri Leta zunze ubumwe z’Amerika mu gihe abandi ba  perezida bari mu muhango wo gusezera kuri Mandela.

Nawe isomere iyo nkuru ya Deus ugire icyo ubivugaho:

Ikoreshwa nabi ry’umutungo wa Leta, miliyari 136 ntiziragaruzwa

 

Ubushinjacyaha bukuru bwashyize ahagaragara raporo y’ibyo bwakozwe kuri raporo y’Umugenzuzi Mukuru w’imari ya Leta y’umwaka w’ingengo y’imari 2010-2011 bugaragaza ko muri miliyari 160 zaburiwe irengero hagarujwemo miliyari 24.

Ubushinjacyaha bwagiranye ikiganiro n’abanyamakuru ku itariki ya 12 Ukuboza 2013, bugaragaza ko dosiye zimwe z’abakekwaho kugira uruhare mu gucunga nabi umutungo zashyikirijwe inkiko.

Miliyoni 160 yaburiwe irengero ku buryo budasobanutse kuva Umugenzuzi Mukuru w’Imari ya leta yatangira kugenzura ikoreshwa ry’amafaranga yayo.

Ubushinjacyaha bukuru mu guhangana n’iki kibazo cy’icunga nabi ry’uyu mutungo wa rubanda, bukurikirana ibyaha birimo ibiboneka mu micungire mibi y’imari ya leta nko kunyuranya n’itegeko n’amabwiriza bigenga amasoko ya leta, gusonera no kunyereza imisoro mu buryo bunyuranyije n’amategeko, ubuhemu, gutangira ubusa ibya leta n’ubujura.

Ikurikiranwa ry’amadosiye

Muri iyi raporo, Ubushinjacyaha bwagaragaje ko ibigo 107 byagenzuwe, 90 muri byo byakorewe iperereza, 2 muri byo raporo zabyo zoherezwa mu Bushinjacyaha bwa gisirikare kuko zarimo abasirikari.

Amadosiye 93 yagombaga kwigwa, 35 aregewe muri yo yaregewe inkiko, 56 arashyingurwa, abiri yo yoherejwe mu Bushinjacyaha bwa gisirikari.

Amafaranga yaburiye mu itangwa ry’amasoko ya Leta

Mu masoko ya leta yatanzwe nabi akubiye muri miliyari zisaga 7, gusa ngo si ukuvuga ko aya mafaranga ashobora kuba atarageze mu isanduku ya leta, ahubwo ngo hari zimwe mu ngingo zagiye zirengagizwa mu gutanga aya masoko, aho abakekwaho uruhare bagiye bashyikirizwa inzego zibishinzwe.

Muri aya mafaranga harimo abakozi 37 baciwe ihazabu ingana na miliyoni 14 n’ibihumbi 200, hakabamo n’abandi bakozi ba leta 34 basubije umusoro n’andi mafaranga ategetswe angana na miliyoni 11 n’ibihumbi 266. Bose hamwe aba bakozi bakaba ari 47 basubije amafaranga y’u Rwanda asaga miliyoni 25.

Mu yagarujwe, harimo ayari yarakoreshejwe nabi n’abayobozi bakuru muri leta, ni ukuvuga kuva ku rwego rwa Minisitiri kuzamura, hakabamo n’abatarakurikije inzira zisabwa mu kwishyura imisoro isabwa ku kintu runaka.

Ubushinjacyaha bwagaragaje ko ubusanzwe abayobozi bakuru hari amafaranga babwa nyuma bakazerekana uko bayakoresheje mu gihe baba bari mu butumwa mu mahanga.

Muri abo, Umushinjacyaha mukuru, Muhumuza Richard, yabibwiye abanyamakuru ko hari bamwe muri bo batabashije kwerekana ku gihe ibyo bakoresheje aya mafaranga, bategekwa kuyagarura mu isanduku ya leta.

Umushinjacyaha mukuru, Muhumuza Richard (hagati) mu kiganiro n’abanyamakuru

Amatsiko y’abanyamakuru yarapfukiranwe

Muri aba bayobozi ngo harimo abakuru, ubwo abanyamakuru babazaga mazina yabo, umushinjacyaha mukuru Muhumuza Richard yavuze ko atari ngombwa gutangaza amazina yabo ahubwo ko icya ngombwa ariko abagaruye aya mafaranga.

Muhumuza yagize ati “Dusanga atari ngombwa ko ikigo runaka gishyirwa ahagaragara kuvuga ngo bigaragare mu itangazamakuru, bibaye ngombwa twabigaragaa ariko tubona ntacyo byakongera kuri makuru tuba twatanze cyane ko barimo gukurikiranwa”.
Yakomeje avuga ko n’abagize amakosa muri iki kibazo barimo abayobozi nabo bagiye bayagarura.

Abanyamakuru bakomeje kubaza impamvu aba bayobozi badatangarizwa abanyamakuru ndetse n’abakozi mu bigo bya leta baterekwa itangazamakuru bikozwe n’Ubushinjacyaha nk’uko urwo rwego rujya ruubikora ku bayobozi bo mu nzego z’ibanze nko ku Kagari, Umurenge n’Akarere.

Umwe muri aba banyamakuru yagize ati “ Mwatubwiye aba bayobozi tukabamenye, kuki baterekwa itangazamakuru nk’uko Ubushinjacyaha bujya burihamagara abayobozi runaka b’inzego z’ibanze hari ibyaha bakekwaho, yaba ruswa n’ibindi.”

Abanyamakuru basaga icya kabiri cy’abari bitabiriye inama yo kumurikirwa iyi raporo bakomeje babaza impamvu aba bayobozi badashyirwa ku karubanda.

Kuri iki kibazo bakomeje kubwirwa ko atari ngomba kuko bayasubiza, gusa ngo baba bagaragajwe muri rusange.

Urwego rw’Ubushinjacyaha bukuru buvuga ko ibi byaha bihangayikishije kuko akenshi usanga amafaranga aba akoreshwa ari ay’abaturage.

Muri rusange ngo amakosa yagiye akorwa yaragabanutse kuko mbere yo gutangaza iyi raporo hari hari abantu 192 bakoze ayo mu rwego rw’akazi barahanwa, ariko ubu muri raporo iheruka babaye 42 ikibazo cyabo cyashyikirijwe ibiro bya Minisitiri w’intebe yasabye ko bahanwa ku rwego rw’akazi.

Hashingiwe kuri iyi raporo, ibigo n’imishinga 35 byaregewe inkiko, 78 baregerwa inkiko ku rwego rw’igihugu, ku rwego rw’uturere baba 80, abarezwe bose hamwe baba 158 bagaragaye muri iyi micungire mibi. Kuri ubu ngo imanza zikaba zaratangiye.

Itsinda rikurikirana imari ya leta ryashyizweho n’icyemezo cyo mu mwaka wa 2007 ni itsinda rigizwe n’abashinjacyaha 19 rigamije gukurikirana imari ya leta.

Ubushinjacyaha bwagaragaje ko kunyuranya n’itegeko n’amabwiriza bigenga amasoko ya leta ni byo byagaragaye cyane ko biri ku kigero cya 55,9% ugereranyije n’ibindi mu kumunga ubukungu bw’igihgu.

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ISHYAKA ISHEMA RITUMIYE ABATUYE MURI BRETAGNE(FRANCE) MU KIGANIRO-MPAKA, taliki ya 22.12.2013

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Mu rwego rwo gukomeza kuganira no kungurana ibitekerezo ku byerekeye:

  • Ibibazo byugarije u Rwanda

  • Gusezerera ubutegetsi bw’igitugu mu Rwanda hagamijwe gushyirwaho ubutegetsi butanga amahirwe mashya kuri buri Munyarwanda nta vangura.

  • Inzira zanyurwamo mu gutinyura abanyarwanda bashegeshwe n’iterabwoba bashyirwaho n’ubutegetsi bw’igitugu n’iterabwoba bwa Paul Kagame n’Agatsiko ke;

Ubuyobozi bw’Ishyaka ISHEMA butumiye Abanyarwanda , Abarundi, Abanyekongo ndetse n’abandi bose babyifuza batuye muri BRETAGNE n’inkengero zayo, mu kiganiro kizayoborwa na Padiri NAHIMANA Thomas, Umunyamabanga Mukur w’iryo shyaka, mu mujyi wa RENNES (Ille-et-Vilaine).

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Which part of Victoire Ingabire’s speech is evidence of divisionism?

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download (2)On the 16th January 2010, Mrs Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza, having stayed abroad for 16 years, returned to her country to register her political party and run for presidential elections. It was her first time back in Rwanda since the genocide committed against Tutsi people. On her very first day in Rwanda, she went to lay a wreath of flowers at the Gisozi Genocide Memorial Centre and made a speech on unity and reconciliation.

Her speech, translated in English below, has been submitted as evidence in the court of law on divisionism and revisionism charges leveled against her. We took a close look at the content of her speech and we are asking our readers which part is really evidence of divisionism.

“I would like to say that today, I came back to my country after 16 years, and there was a tragedy that took place in this country. We know very well that there was a genocide, extermination. Therefore, I could not have returned after 16 years to the same country after such actions took place. They took place when I was not in the country. I could not have fallen asleep without first passing by the place where those actions took place. I had to see the place. I had to visit the place.

“The flowers I brought with me are a sign of remembrance from the members of my party FDU and its executive committee. They gave me a message to pass by here and tell Rwandans that what we wish for is for us to work together, to make sure that such a tragedy will never take place again. That is one of the reasons why the FDU Party made a decision to return to the country peacefully, without resorting to violence. Some think that the solution to Rwanda’s problems is to resort to armed struggle. We do not believe that shedding blood resolves problems. When you shed blood, the blood comes back to haunt you.

“Therefore, we in FDU wish that all we Rwandans can work together, join our different ideas so that the tragedy that befell our nation will never happen again. It is clear that the path of reconciliation has a long way to go. It has a long way to go because if you look at the number of people who died in this country, it is not something that you can get over quickly. But then again, if you look around you realize that there is no real political policy to help Rwandans achieve reconciliation. For example, if we look at this memorial, it only stops at people who died during the Tutsi genocide. It does not look at the other side – at the Hutus who died during the genocide. Hutus who lost their people are also sad and they think about their lost ones and wonder, ‘When will our dead ones be remembered?’

“For us to reach reconciliation, we need to empathize with everyone’s sadness. It is necessary that for the Tutsis who were killed, those Hutus who killed them understand that they need to be punished for it. It is also necessary that for the Hutus who were killed, those people who killed them understand that they need to be punished for it too. Furthermore, it is important that all of us, Rwandans from different ethnic groups, understand that we need to unite, respect each other and build our country in peace.

“What brought us back to the country is for us to start that path of reconciliation together and find a way to stop injustices so that all of us Rwandans can live together with basic freedoms in our country.”

Since the day she made this speech on January 16th 2010, Ms. Ingabire Umuhoza continued to draw sharp criticism with regard to her position on the country’s law on genocide as well as being accused of inciting the public with inflammatory remarks.

In an interview accorded to News Time Africa, she commented on her own speech and stated that  ”the big problem we have in Rwanda; and that’s the difference between us and the regime of general (President) Paul Kagame, we think if we are to really achieve reconciliation of the Rwandan people, we need to fully talk about what happened, why genocide was committed in the country, why the crimes against humanity were committed, whose responsibility was it and what we have to do together as Rwandan people to avoid the same problem in the future. Talking about it, we trust it is the only way to achieve total reconciliation.”

In an article on The Rising Continent, the author raises the same question about the speech and “ had most of the difficulties trying to find in above text some even far related invocations or references which could direct the prosecutor to any of the crimes Victoire Ingabire is accused of. My efforts remained futile. I had only to guess. Since she is clearly talking of Tutsis and Hutus, the two main Rwandan ethnic groups, and what happened in 1994, or before and even after, I had only to use my imagination and come to some conclusion that she must’ve stated something that the Rwandan government did not want to hear publicly.”

“Victoire Ingabire was and still is publicly requesting punishment for all the criminals who saddened Rwandans (Tutsis as well as Hutus), and sincere reconciliation among citizens from all ethnic groups. Unless the Rwandan government and its ruling party – Rwandan Patriotic Front, don’t want any of these for the population, there would be serious doubts about what they have been preaching inside the country and to the rest of the world on these specific issues.” (read The Rising Continent here)

Source: http://www.theproxylake.com/2011/10/ingabire-divisionist-speech/#

 

Paul Kagame, the man of the season: by sentencing Ingabire Victoire to 28 years of jail, he is putting Mandela back to the cross.

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kagame-2-edKagame has broken the record in killings: More than 8 million Rwandans and Congolese have been murdered. Scared of democracy, he sends the main political opponent into jail. This is the most shameful wound of our time, and the complicated scar in our future.

For some time a certain circle of her supporters compares the imprisoned Rwandan woman politician Victoire Ingabire to the Thai political figure Aung San Suu. However, what is sure is that the sentence given by the Supreme Court in Kigali to that opposition leader might give her a status more close to Nelson Mandela than anybody else.

In fact, the judge presiding on the verdict explained that if it was not for the family of the accused living in The Netherlands she would have received 28 years of imprisonment instead of 15 years announced by the court.

It was on Friday December 13th, 2013. Probably if the verdict had been pronounced at a different time, its dimension could’ve been something else. The timing between the passing of Nelson Mandela and the sentencing of Victoire Ingabire can undoubtedly link the two personalities.

This is what Jean Bosco Mutarambirwa is saying on the two political figures:

“[…]the reporter tried to ask the right questions. Kagame mumbled throughout like a retard. The guy has nothing to say! Seriously! You can tell Kagame is ashamed of himself because he knows he stands against everything Mandela stood for.

… Why 15 years of jail? Simply because Ingabire wants justice for all Rwandans, tutsis and hutus alike. She’s the Madiba of Rwanda.

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Ingabire Victoire  (in pink) jailed to have reminded Paul Kagame that like killed Tutsis, killed Hutus must be commemorated.

Kagame is basically torturing and putting Mandela him back to the cross, while pretending that he’s mourning. Mandela must have been turning in his coffin when he saw Kagame in the room today.

Kagame is accusing Madame Ingabire of exactly the same crimes PW Botha was accusing Mandela when he robbed 27 years of his life, taking him away from his beautiful wife and young children. Kagame is doing exactly the same to Ingabire, a wife, and a young mother of three. If the world believed Mandela was really a criminal, then the world wouldn’t be mourning Mandela. But if the world stands with Mandela today, the world will stand up for Ingabire as well. Kagame is the ultimate loser which he doesn’t seem to realize.

– Mandela formed a coalition government with his jailers; Kagame is murdering, sending to refuge, and throwing in jail those who dare to speak against his evil actions.

– Mandela negotiated peace with his jailers for the sake of a reconciled nation; Kagame is too busy calling FDLR names such as terrorists, genocidaires, etc, and has categorically refused to talk to them despite their expressed interest in negotiating a peaceful repatriation.

– Mandela has lived a simple life; Kagame is too busy collecting expensive private jets, filling his offshore bank accounts, buying mansions overseas, etc, while the average Rwandan citizen is literally crippling in poverty.

– Mandela put South Africa to the path of democracy through free elections, and left power in time to preserve a legacy; Kagame is busy crashing his opposition and rigging elections every time he organizes one, and has no plans to leave power.

I can go on and on and you would get tired of reading the differences between Kagame and Madiba. Long story short, Kagame stands against everything Mandela stood for. If you agree to some extent that Mandela deserves to be named a saint, then you would agree to some extent that Kagame deserves to be called a devil.

If you want to learn more, all you need is search the web. There’s ample evidence online about Kagame’s crimes and have let to the loss of over 6 million lives of Rwanda’s and DRC’s people, close enough to breaking Hitler’s slaughtering record. For a more comprehensive summary, check out Newsweek at http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2013/01/13/the-case-against-rwanda-s-president-paul-kagame.html”

At the end of her sentencing on Friday 13/12/13, Victoire Ingabire had this to say:  “Do not be afraid, we continue our struggle. Time and History are on our side (…) so do not get discouraged, the fight continues.”She addressed her supporters while leaving the court in handcuffs, greeting them with her thumbs up as usual.

Congolese historian and activist BK Kumbi expresses the African dimension of Victoire Ingabire case this way:

“When Kagame will fall and Victoire will be out, most of the people will come and say what a great woman she was. If we don’t understand that this woman is hope for Africa, if we don’t understand that we as a people, as Congolese, Rwandans, Ugandans, we should support this woman and ask this criminal to set her free, is that we don’t understand the essence of the heart of Africa that beats in that woman’s body. The day Victoire set a foot back in Rwanda she became a hero and we should celebrate our African heroes when they are still alive.”

Kambale Musavuli, also Congolese activist and spokesperson of the Friends of the Congo raises a question and expresses his solidarity:

“It is still sad that the many organizations working in Africa, pushing for women leadership, are all silent on the unjust imprisonment of Victoire Ingabire. As a Congolese human rights activist, I stand in solidarity with her and the many Rwandans fighting to have a representative government in their country, despite US interference in supporting dictator Paul Kagame.”

Source: http://therisingcontinent.wordpress.com/2013/12/15/kagame-gave-ingabire-an-african-hero-status-unwillingly/

IKATIRWA RYA VICTOIRE INGABIRE UMUHOZA : Ifirimbi itangiza Revolisiyo idasesa amaraso !

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ingabiNyuma yo kumenya igifungo cy’imyaka 15 Urukiko rw’Ikirenga, rwakatiye Nyakubahwa Madame Victoire INGABIRE UMUHOZA, ku byaha by’ibifitirano ku buryo buzwi na bose, numvise mbabaye cyane mu mutima wanjye kuko numvise bidasubirwaho ko gukomeza kwizera ko Perezida Paul Kagame yaba agifite agatimanama kagikora “kimuntu” ari ukwibeshya bikabije.

Muri make, iri katirwa rya Victoire Ingabire risobanura kimwe muri ibi bikurikira cyangwa byose hamwe :

  1. Iki gihano cy’igifungo cyahawe Victoire Ingabire, si icyemezo gisanzwe cy’ubutabera ahubwo ni icyemezo cya poliki ishingiye ku ihame rya « Munyumvishirize ».
  1. Paul Kagame asuzugura abenegihugu bo mu bwoko bw’Abahutu kandi akabanga urunuka ku buryo, kuri we , kubarenganya si ikibazo kuko ari nko kurenganya ibisimba bidafite akandi gaciro.
  1. Paul Kagame arashaka gushotora Abanyarwanda kugira ngo ahari muri bo hagire abarakara maze bahaguruke buhumyi birohe mu nzira y’imidugararo isesa amaraso(violence) kubera amaburakindi bityo abone urwitwazo rwo kwigundiriza ku butegetsi , dore ko manda 2 gusa yemererwa n’itegekonshinga ryatowe n’abaturage mu mwaka w’2003 zamurangiriyeho adashize irari ryo gutegeka.
  1. Paul Kagame arashaka kubwira abandi banyapolitiki barwanya ingoma ye y’iterabwoba ko nta mwanya bazigera bagira mu buyobozi bw’igihugu cyabo, kandi ko uzatinyuka wese kumuhangara azakatirwa urwa INGABIRE. Nyamara aribeshya cyane, kandi si ubwa mbere yibeshye.
  1. Paul Kagame agamije kumvisha Abanyarwanda bose muri rusange ko U Rwanda ari we wenyine, n’umugore we n’abana be gusa  abandi benegihugu bose bakaba ABAGARAGU n’Inkomamashyi ze, agaraguza agati uko abyishakiye!
  1. Paul Kagame afite ubwoba ko iminsi ingoma ye y’igitugu n’AKARENGANE isigaje ibarirwa ku ntoki bityo akaba atinya ko Victoire Ingabire aramutse arekuwe yakwegera abaturage, akabaganiriza,bakamwumva bityo bakiyemeza kumujya inyuma muri gahunda yo kuzana impinduka nziza mu gihugu.

Kubera izo mpamvu :

1)Twamaganye twivuye inyuma icyemezo cy’Ubucamanza bwateshutse ku nshingano yo guha rubanda ubutabera nyabwo , ahubwo bukaba bwarahindutse igikoresho cy’inyungu z’umuntu ku giti cye ari we Paul Kagame.

2)Turasaba Abanyarwanda aho bari hose, mu buryo bashoboye bwose, kwitandukanya n’icyemezo cya« Politiki mbisha y’iterabwoba » Paul Kagame n’Agatsiko ke bahaye intebe mu Rwanda. Turabasaba kandi buri wese kunyura mu nzira zose ashoboye (mu ishuri, ku kazi, muri bus, mu rugo …) agashishikarira gusobanurira Abanyamahanga ubumara n’ubutindi buri mu cyemezo nk’iki kigamije gusenyagura nkana umubyeyi nka INGABIRE Victoire wagaragaje ubutwari budasanzwe bwo gushaka kugoboka Abanyarwanda bari mu kaga gakomeye baroshywemo n’umunyagitugu Paul Kagame.

3)Biragaragarira buri wese ko mukutarekura Victoire Ingabire ufunzwe arengana , Paul Kagame yibujije amahirwe ya nyuma yo kuba yakwigorora na rubanda . Nta mpamvu n’imwe isigaye yo kongera kumucira « akarurutega ».

Umwanzuro

1)Gukatira Victoire Ingabire nibifatwe nk’AKARUMBETI karangurura cyane katumenyesha ko isaha yo gutangira Revolisiyo idasesa amaraso igeze .

2)Turasaba Abakunzi ba Madame Victoire Ingabire kudacika intege no kutiheba ahubwo bakarushaho kwisuganya no kuba Abarwanashyaka baharanira ukuri n’ ubutabera ku buryo bwisumbuyeho.

3) Mboneyeho akanya ko kumenyesha Abataripfana bose bo mu Ishyaka Ishema ko igihe kigeze cyo guhaguruka natwe tukajya ku itabaro : MU RWANDA. Intwari ibonekera mu irasaniro. Ndabasaba gushyira ku murongo w’ibyigwa iki kibazo, kuzagisuzumana ubushishozi no kuzagifataho umwanzuro ukwiye muri Kongere yo muri Mutarama 2014.

4)Ikatirwa rya Victoire Ingabire nirifatwe nanone nk’IKIMENYETSO cyohererejwe Abanyapolitiki bose batavuga rumwe n’ « ubutegetsi butunzwe » bwa Paul Kagame n’agatsiko ke, kibamenyesha ko bakwiye gukora ibishoboka byose bagahura mu maguru mashya, bakungurana ibitekerezo, bakagira igikorwa biyemeza : Ko Ingoma yacyuye igihe kera, harabura iki ngo haramvurwe indi ?

Harakabaho u Rwanda rutera ISHEMA abana barwo bose, nta vangura.

Harakabaho ubutabera bubereye Abanyarwanda.

Padiri Thomas Nahimana,

Umuyobozi wa ISHEMA PARTY

 

 

The Rwanda National Congress (RNC): history, justice and the acceptance of its leaders

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Rwandan political and judicial recent news lead us to attempt a better understanding of the political situation of the political opposition group RNC, headed by former senior officials of the RPF (Rwandan Patriotic Front).

rnc_kagame_nyamyasaLeadership and its past in the RPF

The RNC core leaders include former high officials of the current regime in Kigali; some of them are prosecuted for crimes allegedly committed under their responsibility. This is the case of General Nyamwasa, who is under the scope of arrest warrants of three countries (chronologically France, Spain and Rwanda).

Nyamwasa is prosecuted in France for the April 1994 plane crash that killed two Heads of State, Burundian and Rwandan, their fellows and the French crew. He is one of the nine personalities of the Rwandan regime against whomFrench justice issued arrest warrants in 2006. He also appears on the list of forty Rwandan officers suspected by Spain over the deaths of Spanish nationals.Similarly,  Dr. Théogène Rudasingwa (former Secretary General of the RPF, former Paul Kagame’s Chief of staff Paul Kagame and currently Coordinator of the RNC),  used to be the most popular general in the army of the Rwandan Patriotic Front. Both generals claim to have information concerning  President Paul Kagame’s involvement in the attack that killed his predecessor and say they are ‘ready’  to transmit it to justice.

Barriers to justice: the Nyamwasa and South Africa case

General Kayumba Nyamwasa, former Defense Chief of Staff has been since the day of his exile in South Africa an element of diplomatic discord, legal or national security since the Rwanda would attempt on his life in 2010 in the middle atmosphere of the Football World Cup.

As RFI revealed on Friday, October 18, for a year and a half, French authorities unsuccessfully asks South Africa to extradite the General forhis alleged participation in the attack against former Rwandan President’s plane.  Mr. Meilhac, Habyarimana family’s lawyer, told Jambonews that “the procedure is being hindered by several kinds of barriers. According to him there are at least three arrest warrants against him; secondly, we cannot consider him as a simple witness for the judges to go in the South Africa to hear him because he is personally accused. Finally, there are also political and diplomatic issues that can explained the willingness of the South Africa to remain “neutral” in its relations with the applicant countries and their respective interests. In addition to these specific difficulties, we have to remember that even among countries that have a traditionally cooperation in judicial matters, extradition requests take long procedural time. Mr Meilhac pointed out.

Mr.Meilhac questions their reliability, the credit to be given to the testimonies of these former RPF’s leaders.Nyamwasain particular regarding the attack that triggered the 1994 genocide. He would have been himself at the heart of this crime and would have interest to blacken some truths.

Still according to Habyarimana family’s lawyer, regarding the possible arrival in France of Nyamwasa, is now question of relations between two States where judges do not have much room for maneuver.

The opposition movement and rehabilitation in the same opposition

Men, once pillars of the RPF system, including a former Chief of Staff and former intelligence chief, a former General Secretary, a former attorney general and a former chief of foreign intelligence ended their collaboration with General Paul Kagame and were “forced” to exile. Finding a political disorder and the absence of a strong political opposition in the Rwandan diaspora, they took advantage of their personalities and the positions they occupied to impose themselves as leaders who can be the alternative to Paul Kagame. However, they struggle to be accepted as trusted leaders in terms of their long history within the RPF organization, which they do not question practices, preferring to put its wrong doings on the account of one man without ever raising substantive issues regarding the collective movement aims, manners and many crimes committed when they were still in high responsibilities. These crimes include killing of civilians in areas occupied by the RPF during the 1990-1994 war, those of Kibeho in 1995, massacres of refugees in the Cathedral of Byumba, those of Rwandese refugees in the DRC or those committed in the Northern Rwanda in 1997-98 against civilians taken hostage in the crossfire.

The influence of the past on the present

If RNC’s top head is experiencing difficulties to emerge as popular leaders, this is also the case for most people who have been involved in Rwandan politics in the past. This also explains the absence of an experienced political class that would be an alternative to the RPF. Indeed, nearly all senior Rwandan politicians were involved, to some extend / or due political parties to which they were affiliated, in the descent into hell of Rwanda.

On September the 30th, 2013  Dr Rudasingwa complained at a conference held in Brussels that, on the one hand, the opposition audience constantly ask RNC leaders accounts of their past in the RPF – although they are denouncing  crimes that RPF has done and apologized for their responsibilities in that. On the other hand, however, he observed that to former officials in the reigns of Juvenal Habyarimana ‘s MRND and Kayibanda’s MDR, public do not do the same. At the same time, do note that leaders of those regimes are no longer interested in politics wanting to lead the opposition. This is explained by the fact that most of those who had political responsibilities in the 94 genocide are brought to justice or have been convicted, others took their pensions. For those who are still active in political parties, most of them are also still facing their political past.

Promised revelations only in front of judges

These former Rwandan strong man’s fellows say they know a lot about the crimes of a person, Paul Kagame, and promise to deliver content only to justice. Yet, the citizens for whom they spend their time explaining that they have to resist the dictatorship needs to know the truth about their past in the RPF. Why then give priority to the judges to find facts, which, if proven true, would highly be historical?

Although Théogène Rudasingwa now seems to want a different path in order to know the truth about the 1994 attack, namely to be submitted with Paul Kagame to a lie detector (polygraph) under international supervision, it rather seems to be an impractical approach.

The stake: the choice between the opposition and the RPF

The real dilemma for RNC leaders is the one consisting to choose for their side between RPF and the opposition. On one side there is the RPF that they have built and served with dedication, on the other side there is the opposition denouncing the RPF regime and its crimes, not only those of one man. This is also the reason why the public has trouble trusting people who want to lead them but do not say or think quite the same thing as them. For most of opposition voices in fact, the RPF is a criminal organization while for RNC leaders, Kagame hijacked the RPF,diverted its good intentions and its well doing ways. It is therefore to this question that these officials should clearly answer: their relationship with the RPF and the perception they have of it.

Habimana Pacific

Jambonews.net

Victoire Ingabire vs Kagame apartheid like Rwandan system

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victoire-ingabire-rwandan-political-prisonerdownloadUnderstandably there can only be one Mandela and one only, particularly if one considers the 27 years he spent in prison. No cloning of his experience appears possible. The closer the Rwandan political prisoner, Victoire Ingabire, can get to the real Mandela is only in terms of similarities of segregation system she is up against.

The Rwandan apartheid led by extremist Tutsi elites around its president Paul Kagame seems to be worse than the South African one. The difference between them is mainly that the former does not say what it is on the tin. It is subtly covered up under oiled tuned schemes that its millions of hutu victims experience harshly every day since 1994. It is more real than the South African one in the sense that it kills in millions, it imprisons in tens of thousands. It rapes in hundreds of thousands of Congolese women and girls to occupy and plunder Eastern Congo mineral resources. It excludes every hutu it despises. It persistently kidnaps every young male and adult hutu and forces them into military training to defend its political and economic interests nationally and regionally.

However, like the South African one of the recent past, it has its neo-liberal sponsors in US, Britain, Israel and other western countries. They are all interested in material wealth. Lives of Africans are the least of their preoccupations, as long as they are able to access the mineral resources especially of the Democratic Republic of Congo they envy and pursue now for more than a century. No matter how many millions of Africans they want killed, nothing seems to ever stop them in their obsessive pursuit.

This Friday 13/12/13, many South Africans and other people around the world are still mourning the passing of Nelson Mandela. Victoire Ingabire, another African hero for millions of Rwandans is faced with an apartheid like system, which oppresses the hutu majority [85% of the population] in an unprecedented way hard to understand if you are not one of them. Whatever the verdict that the High Court in Kigali will give today on her case [she has been imprisoned since October 14th, 2010] might only be a minor event in that Rwandan apartheid of tutsi rulers against oppressed, exploited and excluded hutu. As I finalized this note, I learnt that she was given 15 years of imprisonment.

As people continue keeping alive the memory of Mandela, they should not forget also that Rwandan and African woman prisoner who left everything, her family and her professional comfort and devoted her life to fight the Rwandan apartheid institutionalized by Paul Kagame as a system of government against the majority hutu population.

Source: http://therisingcontinent.wordpress.com/2013/12/13/victoire-ingabire-vs-kagame-apartheid-like-rwandan-system/

How western powers profit from genocide?

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“Keith Harmon Snow is an independent journalist and former genocide investigator for UNICEF… He has worked tirelessly to change the mainstream narrative about the notion [of genocide].”

Keith Harmon Snow:

“We have to be careful by what we mean by the word genocide. I mean Norman G. Finkelstein has published this book called – The Holocaust Industry -, which makes it clear that there is an industry that profits from the holocaust versus the real holocaust against the Jewish people that occurred. We have the same thing in Rwanda today. We have the Rwandan genocide industry which is an industry international global industry which benefits from the calling claiming and labeling genocide in Rwanda a specific kind of genocide, meaning what we have been told there was a genocide against the tutsi people committed by the hutu people.

The standard propaganda line is that there is 800,000 people to 1,500,000 tutsi were killed in 100 days in 1994. There is nothing about that story that is true. The true story is that the hutu people had been suffering a genocide. The United States government, the British government and the Israeli government backed the invasion of Rwanda in 1990; the war concluded in August 1994 when the US side won.

And then we blame the other side, the losers, meaning the former [French supported] government, who at this point had been decapitated anyway because we assassinated the two presidents of Rwanda and Burundi in April 1994. So anyway we blame them, the losers, with genocide. And that became the biggest propaganda line. The truth is US, Britain and Israel invaded, overthrew the government of Rwanda and concluded that war. And we have been in power, controlling Paul Kagame since….”

Source: http://therisingcontinent.wordpress.com

US supports regional dialogue to uproot causes of conflicts in Great Lakes region of Africa.

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usdos-logo-sealMedia Note

Office of the Spokesperson
Washington, DC
December 3, 201

Special Envoy for the Great Lakes Region of Africa and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (D.R.C.) Russell D. Feingold will travel to Kigali and Paris to meet with government representatives and Great Lakes heads of state this week. He intends to discuss next steps in the implementation of the Peace, Security, and Cooperation Framework, including the possibility of a regional mediated dialogue aimed at resolving the root causes of conflict in the region. The United States stands ready to support the region in launching such a dialogue and advancing the Framework peace process.

 

PRN: 2013/1515

Source: US Department of State