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Rwanda: Kagame’s daughter unleashes “her war dogs” against Ingabire Victoire!

On March 21, 2020; Victoire Umuhoza received in her residence Aimable Karasira, a university professor who also manages a Youtube channel during his spare time. In his videos, Mr KARASIRA carries analyses on social phenomena, and counts many followers.

A gesture of washing hands

Before granting an interview to Karasira, Victoire Ingabire washed her hands with soap, following the example of President Paul Kagame, who in a video, had invited Rwandans to protect themselves against the corona virus by washing hands regularly.

The journalist filmed this sequence before he, himself washed his hands. The interview focused on a unique topic: The corona virus and its consequences in a country like Rwanda in general and in the city of Kigali in particular. Karasira made it clear that he is not in politics, that he does not belong to Ingabire’s DALFA (Development And Liberty For All) party or to Paul Kagame’s RPF. He invited Victoire Ingabire to limit herself only on this one topic in her statements.

During the interview, Victoire Ingabire drew attention to the damage caused by the corona virus to the Rwandan economy. She notably pleaded in favor of small self-employed people (hairdressing saloons, motorcycle and car taxis, repairers of all kinds, vendors at markets, etc.) who saw their activities closed while tha was their onlys source of income and daily bread. She suggested that the state provide assistance unto them.

In fact, the quarantine measures decreed by Rwanda are extreme since they go as far as the closing of all borders, which will weigh heavily on the supply of essential goods from neighboring countries. Meanwhile, the authorities are asking traders not to raise prices and have even ordered rationing.

War dogs unleashed

Instead of criticizing this proposal by Victoire Ingabire, the presidnt’ daughter, Ange Kagame and her team, via Twitter, launched an action to denigrate the political opposition, focusing on the gesture of washing their hands made by Victoire Ingabire. The attacks were virulent and some suggest that Victoire Ingabire be taken to the psychiatric hospital for examination (1).

Among the eminent members of the team include not only Ange Kagame but also another figurehead of the entourage of the president, a certain Yolande Makolo, ex- director in charge of communication of president Kagame ; Lucy Mbabazi, another important woman in Kagame’s system; or Edwin Mukiza, a lawyer and legal adviser to cabinet offices.

Like father like daughter ?

Since her arrival in Rwanda in January 2010 to stand for the presidential elections, Victoire Ingabire has been designated as the person to be killed by all means. It didn’t take long, and in his official speeches, President Kagame verbally attacked her, calling her a hooligan in particular and predicting her imprisonment. It didn’t take long, Ingabire was taken into prison the same year. The appeals were unsuccessful and in 2013 the Supreme Court sentenced her to 15 years of prison, for “conspiracy against the authorities by terrorism and war”, inter alia. She was released after eight years by presidential pardon. Recently, she founded a new political party: DALFA (Development And Liberty For All) but her troubles are far from ending. In fact, in one of his legendary angers, the president threatened to have her put back in prison.

It is worrying that Ange Kagame joins his father in harassing political opponents. Young, and holder of American universities degrees, one would wonder what what she has learned from the country pionneer of the modern democracy. How comes she cannot understand and measure the importance of political opposition in a country for the promotion of a true democracy and a real respect for human rights?

B. Ndengeyingoma (left) and A. Kagame (right)

But the dice are loaded and therefore it cannot be otherwise. Isn’t Ange Kagame’s husband Bertrand Ndengeyingoma (2) cited in the Panama Papers, an investigation in which the world press denounced the owners of bank accounts hidden in tax havens! The couple therefore rolls on gold. The couple has millions of dollars in blocked bank accounts, especially in Panama. Ange Kagame has an interest in seeing no political changes in Rwanda, scared that she migh lose her colossal fortune stolen from Rwandan taxpayers. If Ange Kagame unleashes her war dogs to silence any dissident voice according her father’s policy, she knows that by the time she won’t be in power any longer, the castle will collapse. When that time comes, it will be “la fin des haricots”!

Jean-Charles Murego

Source: http://www.echosdafrique.com

A free translation from French by Chaste GAHUNDE

(1) This means a lot to Rwandans, since recently another political opponent was sent to the mental health facility and injected drugs in order to silence him. A new strategy to fight the dissenting views.

(2) There are unverfied information that Ndengeyingoma cited in the Panama Papers might be Ange Kagame’s brother-in-law, not her husband.

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Kagame Quarantined Me. Covid-19 Quarantined Him.

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Kagame Quarantined Me. Covid19 Quarantined Him.

Kagame is a club member of billionaires who fly the Gulfstream G650ER jet including Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, Larry Ellison, co-founder and chief executive of Oracle Corporation, and Laurene Powell Jobs, the widow of Steve Jobs, Apple’s cofounder.

I have lived under General Paul Kagame’s quarantine for a decade since 2010 when I fled Rwanda to South Africa. The year 2010 was when hell broke loose in Rwanda. A year of presidential elections which Kagame won by 95%, many Rwandans were jailed, others simply disappeared, fled, or died mysteriously. Among those who died in 2020 were opposition leader, André Kagwa Rwisereka, vice-chairman of the Democratic Green Party of Rwanda. He was found murdered and partially beheaded near a wetland in Butare on July 14, 2010.

In South Africa where I fled, I was quarantined in my house, especially after I was almost kidnapped to Rwanda in 2012. On the New Year’s Day of 2014, the exiled former Rwandan intelligence, Patrick Karegeya, was murdered in Johannesburg, which led me to flee to Canada. Once there I was quarantined once again – I couldn’t travel least of all to Africa.

Fast forward to 2020. Kagame who is a club member of billionaires who fly the Gulfstream G650ER jet – including Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, Larry Ellison, co-founder and chief executive of Oracle Corporation, and Laurene Powell Jobs, the widow of Steve Jobs, Apple’s cofounder – is quarantined.

Coronavirus has trapped Kagame in Rwanda. As the saying goes, God works in mysterious ways.

David Himbara, PhD

Source: https://medium.com

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Colloque du 09 mars 2020: Licra a menti!

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Lundi le 09 mars 2020 au Palais de Luxembourg dans les locaux du sénat français s’est tenu un colloque intitulé “« L’Afrique des Grands Lacs, 60 ans de tragique instabilité ». Un peu avant le jour du colloque, l’esprit de peur et de panique a envahi Kigali. Le régime en place à Kigali s’inquiétait beaucoup quant à ce qui pouvait se discuter au sein du sénat .

Kagame et ses hommes ont tenté d’infiltrer l’auditoire, mais en vain. Il était trop tard, les places étant limitées. Et puis, une tentative de bloquer le colloque a été lancée. En même temps le président du sénat rwandais s’est adressé à son homologue français pour demande l’annulation du colloque. Une pétition a été mise en ligne pour forcer le président du sénat d’abandonner son soutien au colloque. Ça n’a pas toujours pas marché. Les intervenants ont subi de chantages et menaces pour qu’ils ne participent pas, sauf que certains sont trop forts pour céder.

LICRA s’en mêle, maladroitement

Licra a écrit une lettre au président du sénat pour plaider au côté des Kagamistes, sauf que les maladresse, mensonge et turpitude sans précédent en inondaient le contenu. D’abord, le titre de la lettre : “génocide des Tutsi: le colloque de la honte”. Le signataire de la lettre voulait jouer avec les sentiments en évoquant ce malheur qu’a connu le Rwanda et dont personne n’ose parler et débattre en profondeur. Or, le thème du colloque tournait autour de l’instabilité qui a eu lieu pendant 60 ans! Et puis, délibérément ou manipulé, l’auteur de ladite lettre s’aventure: il commence par créer un prénom d’Adrien qu’il colle à l’un des intervenants, Charles Onana. Et sans vérifier ses sources ou pour se ridiculiser gratuitement ( il y en a qui aiment ça), l’auteur annonce un procès qui aurait été intenté à l’encontre de Charles Onana, soi-disant, suite aux propos négationnistes tenus à la chaîne LCI en 2019.

Vincent Herouët, de la LCI contacté par LACROIX à ce sujet met à nu Licra: “nous n’avons pas reçu l’ombre d’une plainte à ce sujet : cette phrase est sortie avec malhonnêteté de son contexte. Charles Onana n’a jamais nié sur notre antenne la réalité du génocide des Tutsi au Rwanda en 1994. On comprend bien dans cet entretien, qu’il parle de la période qui précède ce génocide”.

A la question de ce fameux procès à son encontre, Charles Onana réplique à Réveil FM International : “n’importe quoi”, avant d’ajouter: “le ridicule ne tue pas et que rien ne les arrête dans la diffusion du mensonge!”.

Enfin, Charles Onana lance un défi à Licra: “Ils seraient bien inspirés de s’intéresser à la situation dramatique de mon ami Déo Mushayidi, victime Tutsi du génocide de 1994, condamné à perpétuité parce qu’il a réclamé, comme moi, vérité et justice pour les Tutsi et les Hutu. Demandez à tous les journalistes et associations qui ont diffusé cette rumeur à quelle date se tient le procès ? C’est hallucinant ! Ce sont des méthodes de voyous. Le droit français reste tout de même précis. Vous aurez remarqué qu’ils m’ont même baptisé « Adrien » pour l’occasion. Je n’ai jamais vu ce prénom dans mes papiers d’identité. Cela vous donne une idée du niveau de rigueur de ceux qui me poursuivent. S’ils en sont à ne même pas savoir comment je m’appelle alors que mon nom est sur tous mes livres, je serais tenté de dire qu’ils vont jusqu’à nier publiquement le nom que m’ont donné mes parents… N’est-ce pas du « négationnisme » ça ?”

Rappelons que dans le passé le régime de Kagame avait porté plainte contre Charles Onana pour diffamation, plainte qui a été retirée par peur que toute la vérité éclate devant les juges, et le public, ce qui servirait de jurisprudence.

Chaste Gahunde

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A son tour, Mushikiwabo crucifie Kizito Mihigo!

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Le contraire aurait été étonnant. Après quelques semaines de silence imposé, Mushikiwabo ne va pas échapper à la question sur la mort de Kizito Mihigo. Comme on l’aurait deviné, Madame ne se donne pas la peine de feindre l’empathie envers celui qu’elle déshumanise pour le seul fait d’avoir réclamé la reconnaissance des victimes de crimes commis par le Front Patriotique Rwandais (FPR).

L’on reconnait la maîtresse de la diplomatie rwandaise au lendemain de la strangulation dans une chambre d’hôtel Sud-africain de l’ex chef espion rwandais, Patrick Karegeya. Comme tout âme bienveillante attribuait l’assassinat de Karegeya aux escadrons de la mort de Kagame, Mushikiwabo a fustigé ces accusations, sans pour autant manquer d’exprimer l’excitation (ou plus) que la mort de “l’ennemi” de son pays l’avait procurée.

Et qui pourrait oublier son arrogance inégalée lors du sommet France – Afrique tenu à Dakar en 2014? Lors de ce sommet le président français , François Hollande dans le temps, avait critiqué les dirigeants qui manœuvrent les Constitutions de leurs pays en vue de s’éterniser au pouvoir. Mushikiwabo a vu le doigt pointé à Kagame, et a évacué les propos qui ne pouvaient que l’abaisser, sauf qu’elle s’en tapait, aussi longtemps qu’elle faisait plaisir à son chef. Une année plus tard Kagame a changé la Constitution pour se faire réélire président en 2017. Une autre histoire!

Cette fois-ci, Mushikiwabo tente de justifier l’assassinat de Kizito : “Ce jeune homme avait basculé dans une sorte de recherche de célébrité auprès de toute sorte d’individus qui n’étaient pas des gens qui voulaient du bien au pays”1. En d’autres termes, la peine de mort “par pendaison” est décrétée à quiconque tente de (1) être une célébrité et/ ou (2) parle aux gens qui ne veulent pas du bien au pays. C’est bien noté Madame. Vous me rappelez un truc: j’ai entendu dire que le prétexte avancé lors du génocide contre les Tutsi était qu’ils s’associaient aux “individus qui n’étaient pas des gens qui voulaient du bien au pays” et que, de ce fait, leur mort était justifiée. Je n’ai pas été d’accord avec ce prétexte, tout comme je n’achète pas vos conneries sur Kizito.

Chaste Gahunde

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Rwanda : Kizito Mihigo was killed for acknowledging that Hutu are human.

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Rwanda: Kizito was not killed for preaching the sole peace and recociliation, rather for acknowledging that Hutu are humans.

How many sang peace and reconciliation and were killed for it? No one. The message from National Unity and Reconciliation, isn’t about peace and reconciliation? Pastor Rutayisire doesn’t teach peace and reconciliation? How about Gitwaza and all churches, etc ? Aren’t they safe?
Now it must be clear in all your heads.

Kizito Mihigo was not killed because he sang peace and reconciliation. His only sin was that he dared say ” Na bo ni abantu, ndabazirikana” Meaning, they are also humans, I think of them.
Rwandans from hutu families are not allowed to express their sufferings and their mistreatment. Not only Kizito Mihigo, whoever else will say it openly, will face consequences.

Because that is the political pillar of the RPF: dehumanize the Hutu, negate their existence, diabolize them in order to control the power. Kizito was killed for the sole reason that he acknoweledged that Hutu are human, that their victims must be commemorated as it is done for Tutsi victims, no matter what kind of death they faced.

I call on all citizens of goodwill to distance themselves from this satanic mindset, rebuke the RPF regime, and know that our diversity constitutes more an advantage than a disadvantage.

Being Hutu or Tutsi is not a crime, it is rather our social construct on which we can build an equal and equitable society by cooperation and “comparative advantage”.
May the blood of Kizito Mihigo help us grasp this great principle.

Chaste Gahunde

Rwanda:umunyagitugu (Paul Kagame) ashobora guhindanya ate imitekerereze y’umunyabwenge (Jean Damascène Bizimana)?

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Uhereye ibumoso: Dr Jean Damascène Bizimana, Bwana Paul Kagame na Madamu Jeannette Kagame.

Dimitri LUKIC-GONFRIER wabaye inshuti ya Jean Damascène Bizimana yamwandikiye kuwa 31/04/2019. Dore ibyo Dimitri Lukic Gonfrier, ukomoka mu gihugu cya Serbiya, yandikiye Jean Damascène Bizimana biganye i Toulouse mu Bufaransa:

Muvandimwe Jean Damascène Bizimana, Umunyamabanga mukuru wa CNLG,

Mbanje kukuramutsa mbikuye ku mutima!

Nategereje igisubizo ku ibarwa nakwandikiye igihe mwiteguraga kwibuka ku nshuro ya 25, ariko ndaheba. Byanteye kwibaza, ariko ntibyantangaje kubera ahantu n’ibihe (environnement) ukoreramo muri iki gihe. Ndizera ko iyo uguma mu Bufaransa wari gukomeza kuba wawundi namenye ku ntebe y’ishuri. Mbere yo kukwandikira nabanje gushidikanya no kwibaza ibibazo byinshi, ariko nyuma niyemeje kukubwira ibyo mbona bidasobanutse kuri wowe. Wowe munyabwenge twasangiye ubumenyi bwo mu ishuri, tukigishwa gushyira mu gaciro, gusesengura, gushishoza no kutabogama; wowe Munyarwanda washenguwe n’agahinda ko kubura abawe, inshuti zawe z’Abatutsi, ariko cyane abo mu muryango wawe w’Abahutu, bishoboka bite ko wagera aho kwibagirwa iby’ingenzi amategeko ashingiyeho?

Namenye bimwe mu byaranze amateka y’igihugu cy’u Rwanda, mbikesha wowe. Wadusobanuriye amahano yagwiriye u Rwanda igihe wakoraga ubushakashatsi utegura impamyabushobozi y’ikirenga mu by’amategeko mpuzamahanga, uyobowe na Mwalimu Jean Marie Crouzier.

Nshuti yanjye, uribuka, igihe wandikaga igitabo cyawe muri 2004, aya magambo y’ingirakamaro kandi yuzuye ubushishozi wanditsemo, wagize uti: “Byongeye, kubera ibyemezo byafashwe mu manza, Urukiko Mpuzamahanga rwashyiriweho u Rwanda rw’Arusha rukora akazi k’ingirakamaro mu bijyanye n’amahoro n’umutekano mu rwego mpuzamahanga. Ariko uru rukiko rwahuye n’ingorane mu nzego zarwo no gufata ibyemezo bibangamiye inyungu z’ubutabera.”

Mu byakemanzwe, watubwiye ko wababajwe, kandi nibyo, nuko ruriya rukiko rutaciriye imanza Abatutsi bo muri FPR batsembye Abahutu, ndetse rukananga gukora iperereza ku ihanurwa ry’indege yari itwaye Perezida Habyarimana, ihanurwa ryategetswe na Perezida Kagame.

Mbese hagati aho byakungendecyeye bite mumyumvire yawe? Mbere wagayaga abanyabwenge b’Abanyafrika bize i Burayi na Amerika ariko nyuma ntishobore gukoresha ubumenyi n’ubumenyi-ngiro bize ngo bateze imbere ibihugu byabo; none ubu urakora kimwe nabo, ndetse urakora bibi kurushaho kuko watatiye amategeko ukora ibinyuranije nayo!

Reka twigarukire ka mateka yawe yakuranze.

Wabaye imfubyi ukiri muto cyane. Igihe wabitubwiraga, byagaragaraga ko uvugisha ukuri n’agahinda kenshi; natwe byaratubabaje cyane kugeza naho kurira. Ntabwo nzi niba uri Umuhutu cyangwa Umututsi, ariko ndibuka ko warezwe mu muryango w’Abahutu. Kwibuka ibi ningombwa. Wonkejwe n’umubyeyi w’Umuhutukazi. Uwo muryango utagereranwa warakureze, wakujyanye mu ishuri, urakubaka ukugira icyo uri cyo ubungubu. Ndizera ko wawurwanyeho, ukawurinda urwango n’umujinya w’abahezanguni b’Abatutsi.

Nyuma wakomeje kubana n’inshuti zawe z’Abahutu. Watubwiraga uwitwa Alexis Twagirayezu, icyo gihe wari Umuyobozi mukuru muri Minisiteri y’Igenamigambi ndetse n’umuyoboke w’Ishyaka rya Habyarimana. Usibye no kuba inshuti yawe, Alexis Twagirayezu yaje no kuba muramu wawe. Ubwo rero warongoye Umuhutukazi, kandi sobukwe Twagirayezu, wari umwe mu bayoboke b’imena ba MDR Parmehutu, yarafatanije n’abandi mu kuvana Abatutsi ku ngoma no kubirukana mu gihugu. Kuri wowe, byarumvikanaga icyo gihe ko Abahutu bigobotora ingoma y’igitugu y’ubwami bw’Abatutsi. Ndibuka akababaro kawe igihe wamenyaga ko Alexis Twagirayezu yari yishwe kuri 06/04/1994, nyuma y’ihanurwa ry’indege ya Perezida. Nyuma yaho watubwiye ko uzi uwamwishe, ariwe Karenzi Karake, wayoboraga Batayo ya FPR yari ifite ikicaro cyayo muri Hoteli Méridien! Wabwiraga umuhisi n’umugenzi ko uzamuhorera. Waba ubigeze hehe?

Igihe watuganirizaga ibijyanye n’intambara mu gihugu cyawe, watubwiraga ko hari Abahutu b’imfura n’Abahutu b’abicanyi, harimo abaciriwe imanza. Ntabwo wiyumvishaga ukuntu ubutabera mpuzamahanga bwafunze amaso ku bicanyi ba FPR b’Abatutsi. Kuri ubu bwicanyi, igihugu cyanjye cya Serbiya cyatangwagaho urugero. Muri iki gihe nagize ubwoba budasanzwe menye ko abo bicanyi bakugize umwe mu babo, ko ubakorera. Urabona ibi bitababaje ku muntu waminuje?Bishoboka bite ko umunyabwenge nkawe yatwarwa n’amafaranga n’ubutegetsi witaga ubw’abicanyi wamaganaga kubera ubuhezanguni bwabwo? Uzi neza nkanjye ko igihe kidasibanganya icyaha, cyane ikibasiye inyokomuntu!

Nshuti yanjye, ntabwo tuzibagirwa ukuntu wemeraga Perezida Pasteur Bizimungu w’Umuhutu kubera ubutwari bwe, urugamba rwo kubanisha Abahutu n’Abatutsi. Icyo gihe wamaganaga Paul Kagame n’ingengabitekerezo ye yo kwigira igitambo (victimaire) no kwihorera asagarira Abahutu yari yaragize abaturage bo mu rwego rwo hasi (seconde zone)!Kugeza magingo aya kandi Kagame ntarahindura politiki ye na gato! Ariko wowe wiyibagije ibyo wemeraga!

Muri ibi bihe, namenye ko Perezida wawe Pasteur Bizimungu washimagizaga yahagaritswe, Kagame akaba yaramwigijeyo. Wakoze iki? Watubwiraga kenshi abantu b’iwanyu i Gikongoro barimo inshuti zawe, nkaBernard Makuza wanengaga ubushobozi bwe buke, ariko akaba yari afite umwanya wo hejuru muri Politiki. Watubwiraga ko icyo yagenderagaho ari uko yari mubyara wa Perezida Kagame. Ibi bigaragaza icyenewabo wamaganaga wivuye inyuma igihe wigaga muri Kaminuza. Ubwenge bwawe wabukoresheje iki?

Mbese amakuru ki ya muramu wawe Norbert Muhaturukundo wari superefe igihe cy’ubutegetsi bw’Abahutu? Ndizera ko mutacanye umubano. Naho se bite bya bishywa bawe b’Abahutu ko watubwiye ko wari ufite benshi? Bafata bate imihindukire yawe muri Politiki? Reka turangirize ku mibare. Numvise ko ukoresha imibare mu kugaragaza jenoside yakorewe Abatutsi. Ariko rero nk’umunyamategeko, biroroshye kwerekana ko iyo jenoside ntawayihakana. Yarabaye bidasubirwaho.

Mbese aho imikorere yawe ntiyaba ipfobya jenoside?Charles Maurice yavuze ko ibintu byose bikabije, birenze urugero bihinduka impfabusa. Mukomeje guhuzagurika mu mibare mukibagirwa ko ukuri kudahinduka. Numvise ko, muri 1991, mu gihugu cyawe imibare y’abaturage yari iteye itya: Abahutu bari 6.467.958 (91.1%), Abatutsi bari 596.387, naho Abatwa bo bari 35.499 (0.5%).

Namenye kandi ko Ibuka na CNLG ubereye Umunyamabanga Mukuru, babaruye mu rwego rw’igihugu, Abatutsi 1.685.784 bishwe kandi Abatutsi bose hamwe bari 596 387 dukurikije imibare y’umuryango udaharanira inyungu w’Abanyamerika USAID. Ese birashoboka ko hashobora kwicwa abarenze umubare w’abariho? Nsobanulira mucuti wanjye?

	*Abaturage babaruwe muri 1991*	*Abaturage bishwe muri 1994 (imibare yatanzwe na Leta)*	*Abaturage barokotse*	*Umubare w’abantu bishwe bashyinguwe mu nzibutso (CNLG et IBUKA)*
Abatutsi	596 387	800 000	400 000	1 685 784
Abahutu	6 467 958	0	0
Abatwa	35 499	0	0

Mfite utubazo tubiri nifuza ko unsobanulira:
1° Ushobora gusobanura ute ko iki kinyuranyo ari cyo :596 387 – 800 000 = 400 000?
2° Umuryango wawe CNLG, Ishyirahamwe IBUKA na Leta y’u Rwanda babaruye abantu 1 685 784 bishwe. Abo bishwe ni bande kuko wemeza ko Abahutu n’Abatwa batapfuye (nubwo binyuranije nibyo wemezaga mbere)?

Pierre DAC yaravuze ati: «Amategeko ahana ntavuga ko umuntu afite uburenganzira bwo gukora ibyaha». Muvandimwe, si ngombwa kukwibutsa ko mu bijyanye n’ibyaha byibasiye inyokomuntu, aho akababaro k’uwiciwe karenze ukwemera, birahagije kurega kugirango ukuri k’uwareze gutsinde, ariko ibyo akaba ari iby’igihe gito!

Nshuti yanjye Jean Damascène, nkwifurije urugendo rwiza; ukore uko ushoboye ntuzatwarwe n’inkubi y’umuyaga kandi ugarukire vuba amategeko-remezo .

Byanditswe mu rurimi rw’igifaransa na Dimitri LUKIC-GONFRIER

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LOUISE MUSHIKIWABO YATUTSE ABANYARWANDAKAZI BOSE BA RUBANDA RUGUFI NGO NI ABAROZI !

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Diane Shima Rwigara witangiye kuvuganira rubanda rugufi, Mushikiwabo aramwita Umurozi(Sorcière)

Ku cyumweru gishize, taliki ya 29/10/2017, Louise MUSHIKIWABO yagiranye ikiganiro kidasazwe n’ibitangazamakuru mpuzamahanga bya TV5, RFI na Le Monde bikoresha ururimi rw’Igifaransa. Muri icyo kiganiro hari ibintu bitatu bikomeye MUSHIKIWABO yavuze byateye benshi kumirwa:

Yaratinyutse, yigira umucamanza, asimbura urukiko, aca iteka ko Diane Shima Rwigara yagombaga kubuzwa kwiyamamaza ndetse agafungwa kuko ngo yarimanganyije (« elle a trichee ») mu kubona umubare w’abashyigikira Kandidatire ye mu matora ya Perezida yari ateganyijwe muri Kanama 2017! Uyu Mushikiwabo se yaba asigaye ariwe bucamanza mu Rwanda? None niba Diane Rwigara yarahamijwe icyaha byararangiye aracyaruhira iki ngo araburana! Icyakora ntiyabuze byose, imvugo ya MUSHIKIWABO yashoboye kongera kumvisha Umuryango mpuzamahanga ko mu Rwanda ruyobowe n’Agatsiko k’Abanyamurengwe bitwaje imbunda nta Butabera buhaba, ko ibyo Diane Shima Rwigara n’umubyeyi we Adelina Mukangemanyi bari gukorerwa ari ukugaraguzwa agati mu buryo bwo kubihimuraho no kubishima hejuru, urwabo rukaba rwaraciwe kera! Ko kandi nta kindi bazira uretse kuba barabaye intwari bagatinyuka kwamagana akarengane kagirirwa rubanda bugufi.
MUSHIKIWABO yesheje umuhigo mu kwerekana ko « Agatsiko k’Abanyamurengwe bitwaje imbunda » gatinya ubutabera kurusha abazima n’abapfuye!

Mu gutumira Abanyamakuru ba biriya bitangaza makuru ngo baze i Kigali, nta wundi mugambi wari ubyihishe inyuma uretse kubona uburyo bwo kubihererana hagamijwe kubaguyaguya no kubasaba ubufasha mu gutakambira Abategetsi b’Ubufaransa ngo bakore ibishoboka byose banige Ubutabera bwabo ntibukomeze gukora anketi ku cyaha gikabije Kagame yakoze cyo guhanura indege ya Perezida Habyarimana mu ijoro ryo kuya 6 rishyira iya 7 Mata 1994. Twibuke ko icyo gikorwa cy’iterabwoba aricyo Loni yafashe nk’imbarutso ya jenoside yatsembye abenegihugu basaga miliyoni ! None Mushikiwabo ati « Ces enquêtes n’ont pas de raison d’être » . Bishatse kuvuga ngo Abafaransa nibagire impuhwe, urwo rubanza barwihorere, baruburizemo, nibyo byiza !!! Koko rero Kagame n’Agatsiko ke bazi neza amahano ndengakamere bakoze. Kandi ntibayobewe ko umunsi uzaba umwe, byose bikabagwa hejuru, bakayozwa ibyaha bidasaza bakoreye Abanyarwanda . Ubu kandi bagomba kuba batangiye no kubona ko iminsi basigaranye ibarirwa ku ntoki. None dore ga batangiye gusaba uwo bimye: Umufaransa !!!

Niba se nyine ntacyo ba Kagame bikeka, baratinyira iki ubutabera! Baratinyira iki Anketi ku rupfu rwa Habyarimana! Bazi guhimbukira ku baturage batagira kirengera, bakabica urubozo barangiza bakabacira urwa Pilato kandi mu by’ukuri aribo ba Nyirabayazana bikoreye ibyaha byoretse igihugu!! Ngaho nibakomeze bigire ishyano, amaherezo y’inzira ni munzu!

Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza, intwari yitangiye rubanda, Mushikiwabo ntatinya kumwita Umurozi(Une Sorcière)

Ariko icyarushijeho kubabaza abantu benshi kikanatera umujinya abumva ururimi rw’Igifaransa ni aho Louise Mushikiwabo yageze akihenura biteye ishozi, akumvikanisha mu gasuzuguro kenshi ko ngo abo bagore bibona nk’INKUNDWAKAZI z’ « Agatsiko k’Abanyamurengwe » (muri iki gihe!!!!) ari ABAMIKAZI( des Reines) naho abagore n’abakobwa bose ba « RUBANDA IGOOKA » bakaba ari ABAROZI (des Sorcières) uhereye kuriDiane Shima Rwigara na Victoire Ingabire bahisemo gufata iyambere mu kwitangira impinduka yazana umukiro wa rubanda!

Abavugana n’uyu mugore , ndabingize rwose muzamumbwirire ngo azatubere imfura maze ajye ahagaragara yereke Abanyarwanda igitangaza akenyereyeho gituma yishyira mu bicu akiyita « Umwamikazi » kikanamutera kwita abakobwa ba rubanda rugufi ngo ni « Abarozi »(des sorcières)! Ishyano riragwira ni ukuri kw’Imana !

Icyakora nkomeje kwizera ko Abanyarwanda bateze amatwi ibyishongoro bya MUSHIKIWABO bashoboye gusobanukirwa neza ko IKIBAZO gikomereye u Rwanda muri iki gihe gishingiye ku bice bibiri by’abenegihugu bihanganye kandi amaherezo bigomba gusakirana :

(1). Hari AGATSIKO K’ABANYAMURENGWE bitwaje intwaro, kakaba kagizwe na bariya banyamaboko barya ibyabo bakongeraho n’ibyo bambuye rubanda bityo bagakungahara , bakagura amadege,amazu y’akataraboneka iyo mu mahanga, bakohereza abana babo kwiga amashuri za Bulayi na Amerika….mu bya rubanda! Niyo mpamvu bagundira ubutegetsi ndetse bakaba badateze kuburekura ku neza, kuko nta mutima mwiza bigiramo! Bakeneye gukomeza kubwifashisha mu gusahura ibyarubanda!

(2)Hakaba n’igice cyitwa RUBANDA IGOOKA kigizwe na miliyoni cumi n’imwe (11/12) z’ abaturage bakora bakagooka ariko bakaba bicwa n’inzara kuko bamburwa ibyo bakoreye, bagacibwa imisoro n’amahoro by’urudaca, bakamburwa uturima twabo cyangwa bagahatirwa gusorera gakondo, bagasenyerwa amazu, bakarandurirwa imyaka, abana babo bakagirwa abashomeri, bagakeneshwa , bagatindahazwa bitavugwa.

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Biragaragara neza ko nta kundi umuti w’iki kibazo cy’Agatsiko k’Abanyamurengwe bigize ibimanuka by’indakoreka ushobora kuzaboneka uretse mu gihe « Rubanda igooka » yakwiyemeza guhaguruka ikihagararaho, igasumira bariya Banyamurengwe, ikabambura ubutegetsi, ikabahatira gusubiza imitungo yose bambuye rubanda. Ngiyo Revolisiyo ya rubanda yifuzwa kandi mu by’ukuri biragaragara ko yatangiye gututumba . Diane Shima Rwigara yarayitangije, Rubanda nibe maso, yitegure kwirwanaho. Igihe cyageze…Ntawe usogongera ku ntsinzi ahunga imirwano!

Padiri Thomas Nahimana

Perezida wa Guverinoma ya rubanda ikorera mu buhungiro.

Our african friend, the mass murderer

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A bad man (THOMAS SAMSON/AFP/GETTY IMAGES

“It is high time for a fundamental rethinking of U.S. relations with Rwanda’s leader. Military and diplomatic collaboration should halt. Kagame should be banned from entering the United States or participating in international fora. Humanitarian aid should continue, but other assistance should be curtailed now until he leaves office”.

Maybe we shouldn’t care that Rwanda’s recently reelected president is a mass murderer.

After all, he has become a reliable partner, who welcomes U.S. investors, improves public health, and sends peacekeeping forces to hellholes where we won’t, like Darfur.

Admittedly, he jails or kills his political opponents, but that eliminates the destabilizing uncertainty of elections.

Yes, he modified his country’s constitution to allow him to rule for up to 40 years, until 2034, but who expects true democracy in that part of the world anyway?

Of course, it’s unfortunate that his ethnic Tutsi minority holds all key positions in Rwanda, repressing the overwhelming majority ethnic Hutu in a black-on-black version of apartheid, but some Hutu committed genocide in 1994, and so their children and grandchildren must be denied basic rights.

Call me a grudge-holder, but I just can’t forgive and forget that Paul Kagame ordered the killing of approximately 350,000 ethnic Hutu, in Rwanda and Congo, in the 1990s. This puts him in the pantheon of post-WWII murderers, alongside Pol Pot and Idi Amin.

Is there a statute of limitation for genocide? Should subsequent good deeds be exculpatory? By treating him as a valued ally, do we dishonor his victims? Do we violate the Genocide Convention? Do we encourage repetition of such crimes?

For the uninitiated, here’s Kagame’s abridged rap sheet. Starting in 1990, he led a Tutsi invasion of Rwanda that displaced a million civilians and knowingly provoked the retaliatory carnage for which Rwanda is most famous.

In 1994, as his forces seized control of Rwanda, they slaughtered an estimated 100,000 Hutu civilians. After many surviving Hutu fled to Congo, he pursued them in 1996, murdering another 200,000. When remaining domestic Hutu resisted his ethnic dictatorship in 1998, he ordered a brutal counterinsurgency that killed 50,000 more.

The only thing more despicable than the magnitude of this killing was its tactics. Kagame typically started by chasing Hutu civilians into harsh territory. As his victims confronted starvation and hunger, his officials would come forward with offers of humanitarian aid.

Gradually, the displaced would trickle in for food and water. When the desperate Hutu had fully assembled, his troops opened fire and killed them all. For more gruesome details, see authoritative reports by the United Nations and Human Rights Watch.

Why do we treat war criminals so disparately? In Libya, Muammar Khaddafy’s forces killed barely 1,000 people in February 2011, including armed opponents, according to judicial investigations. This equates to approximately one-third of one percent of Kagame’s victims.

Yet in response, the International Criminal Court indicted Khaddafy for war crimes, and NATO led an intervention that bombed his forces and assisted his rebel opponents until they captured, sodomized, and executed him. By contrast, Kagame is rewarded with honorary degrees and hundreds of millions in annual foreign aid.

I am not a naïf. I accept that world politics sometimes requires deals with the devil as the lesser evil. Perhaps it is understandable that Washington embraced Kagame in 1994 despite his crimes, in hopes of stabilizing a post-genocide situation.

But such exigency disappeared long ago. Kagame has proved anything but a force for stability. He invaded Congo twice, spurring wars that resulted in an estimated 5 million fatalities. He continues to undermine democracy by hunting opponents and overriding term limits. Most perilously, he marginalizes Rwanda’s Hutu majority, brewing the next eruption of ethnic violence.

It is high time for a fundamental rethinking of U.S. relations with Rwanda’s leader. Military and diplomatic collaboration should halt. Kagame should be banned from entering the United States or participating in international fora. Humanitarian aid should continue, but other assistance should be curtailed now until he leaves office.

A hardline stance would also send a salutary message to the region’s other aspiring presidents-for-life: Our indulgence has limits.

Isolating Kagame will not by itself resolve the problems of Rwanda or its neighbors. But there can be little hope for peace or justice in central Africa so long as we embrace its worst war criminal.

Kuperman is associate professor at the LBJ School of Public Affairs, University of Texas at Austin.

Source: New York Daily News

Rwanda : meurtres, répression… le système Kagamé

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Les Rwandais sont appelés aux urnes pour élire leur président… ou plutôt réélire Paul Kagamé, en place depuis 2000.

Les bureaux de vote ouvrent, vendredi 4 août, à Kigali au Rwanda et dans tout le pays. Ils vont attendre patiemment que les électeurs s’y pressent pour réélire le président sortant Paul Kagamé, pour un troisième mandat, qu’il a annoncé comme son dernier en mai. Le suspense n’est, en effet, pas de mise. Seuls deux opposants politiques ont été reconnus candidats officiels : Frank Habineza pour le Parti démocratique vert (PVD) et Philippe Mpayimana, candidat indépendant.

Pour les autres, la Commission électorale nationale les a écartés ou alors ils ont été victimes de campagnes de diffamation et de menaces. Mais finalement peu importe les opposants et leur nombre pour Paul Kagamé, qui répète à l’envi que l’élection est jouée depuis le référendum du 15 décembre 2015. Celui-ci l’a autorisé à se représenter jusqu’en 2034, avec 98,3% des voix. Un score impressionnant dans un pays connu pour sa répression politique.

Campagnes d’intimidation et menaces

Seuls deux opposants politiques ont donc réussi à braver les obstacles et à se faire reconnaître comme candidats officiels pour cette élection présidentielle. D’autres candidats en ont été empêchés. Le 3 mai dernier, Diane Rwigara par exemple a annoncé qu’elle se présenterait en tant que candidate indépendante. Dans les mois précédents, elle avait dénoncé publiquement la pauvreté, l’injustice, l’insécurité et l’absence de liberté d’expression au Rwanda. Une attaque directe envers le pouvoir. Quelques jours seulement après l’annonce de sa candidature, cette fille d’un financier du Front patriotique rwandais (FPR), parti de Paul Kagamé, mort dans des circonstances troubles, a fait l’objet d’une campagne de diffamation. Des photos où elle apparaissait dénudée ont circulé sur les réseaux sociaux. Elle et Philippe Mpayimana se sont également plaints que leurs représentants avaient été victimes de harcèlement et de manœuvres d’intimidation pendant qu’ils recueillaient les signatures nécessaires à la validation des candidatures.

Pour contrer cette répression, certains opposants vivent à l’étranger, comme l’abbé Thomas Nahimana. Ce candidat déclaré s’est pourtant vu plusieurs fois empêché de revenir d’exil. Même à l’étranger, il est donc difficile d’échapper à Kagamé. L’ancien chef des services de renseignements, Patrick KAREGEYA, a ainsi été retrouvé étranglé dans une chambre d’hôtel d’Afrique du Sud en 2014.

Deux décennies de répression politique

Deux décennies d’attaques contre les opposants politiques, les médias indépendants et les défenseurs des droits humains ont créé un climat de peur au Rwanda. C’est ce que dénonce Amnesty International, dans un rapport publié vendredi 7 juillet. L’ONG a donc décidé d’alerter sur le manque évident d’opposition politique et sur les dérives répressives du pouvoir.

Parmi les cas cités par le rapport, on trouve l’assassinat en mai de Jean Damascene Habarugira, un membre du parti non reconnu des Forces démocratiques unifiées (FDU), présidé par l’opposante Victoire Ingabire. Cette dernière a été condamnée en 2010 à quinze ans de détention pour “minimisation du génocide”.

“Depuis que le FPR est arrivé au pouvoir, il y a vingt-trois ans, il est difficile pour les Rwandais de participer à la vie publique et de critiquer ouvertement les politiques gouvernementales ; certains le paient même de leur vie”, a déclaré Muthoni Wanyeki, directrice du programme Afrique de l’Est, Corne de l’Afrique et Grands Lacs à Amnesty International.

Dans son rapport, Amnesty international exhorte donc l’Etat rwandais à entreprendre des réformes ambitieuses qui élargiront l’espace politique avant l’élection de 2024. Ce qui permettrait un débat véritable et l’expression d’opinions politiques diverses. Un travail de fond sur la liberté d’expression doit notamment être entrepris.

Répression médiatique

La liberté d’expression, c’est justement ce dont manquent les médias, fortement réprimés. Depuis des années, des journalistes sont emprisonnés, harcelés, parfois tués, et beaucoup ont été contraints à l’exil. En 2010, les journaux indépendants “Umuvugizi” et “Umuseso” ont été suspendus de parution pour avoir critiqué le régime, en pleine campagne électorale de réélection. Jean-Léonard Rugambage, alors rédacteur en chef adjoint del “Umuvugizi”, a été tué par balle à Kigali en 2010, alors qu’il enquêtait sur une tentative d’assassinat contre le général Kayumba Nyamwasa, passé dans l’opposition. En 2015, c’est le service rwandais de la BBC qui a été bloqué, l’un des seuls médias à délivrer une information indépendante. En 2016, au moins trois journalistes ont été arrêtés après avoir enquêté sur des sujets sensibles, comme la corruption et les morts suspectes.

Dans son rapport, Amnesty International invite le gouvernement à créer un mécanisme juridique pour enquêter sur les violations des droits de l’homme. Un défi, tant que Paul Kagamé reste au pouvoir.

Un bilan contrasté

Malgré l’utilisation d’un régime répressif toujours plus violent pour se maintenir en place, Paul Kagamé possède un bilan jugé positif sur le plan économique : croissance de 7 %, population couverte à 91 % par l’assurance-maladie, politiques efficaces de lutte contre la corruption. Ce qui corroborerait pour certains la popularité “indéniable” du président. Paul Kagamé, à la tête du Front patriotique rwandais, a contribué à mettre fin au génocide qui a fait plus de 800.000 morts 1994. “The Boss” comme on l’appelle à Kigali, a toujours été élu avec plus de 90 % des voix, dans ce pays de 11,5 millions d’habitants.

Mais la répression en vigueur va une fois encore empêcher de connaître la vraie valeur de ce vote : vote d’adhésion, de peur ou de dépit ?

Justine Benoit

Source: L’OBS

‘Rwanda is like a pretty girl with a lot of makeup, but the inside is dark and dirty’

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Diane Rwigara asks to postpone the interview. “My personal adviser is missing,” explains the text message. This is the new normal for Rwigara, who was until recently a loyal scion of Rwanda’s ruling elite.

Since the death of her father in 2015, the 35-year-old businesswoman has become a fierce critic of Paul Kagame, the country’s all-powerful president, and the ruling Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF).

In May she announced her intention to run against him in the country’s electionon 4 August. For this, she has paid a heavy price.

In her grand, heavily fortified home in the heart of Kigali, the Rwandan capital, the interview goes ahead after her adviser – a close friend – turns up safe.

“He didn’t come home last night,” she explains. A stranger had called the night before and asked him to come for a drink. “He said he could give him some publicity for his newspaper. And you know how it is here: if you’re not part of the government, it’s hard to get publicity.”

He woke up the next day in a hotel room, his phone missing, remembering nothing from the previous night. “I’m used to it,” Rwigara says. Her best friend disappeared last December after she started speaking out against Kagame and the RPF. He has still not reappeared. “That’s life here. I’m just happy this one came back.”

Rwigara’s presidential bid was stillborn. On 7 July the National Electoral Commission barred her from standing on technical grounds, a move that came as little surprise to most. Kagame has ruled the country with an iron fist since sweeping to power after the genocide against Rwanda’s Tutsi minority in 1994. Criticism is barely tolerated, and the history of the past 15 or so years is littered with the names of opponents silenced and dissenters muzzled. To that list Rwigara adds her father, a prominent Tutsi businessman known to have been close to the RPF, at least early on.

The US-educated Rwigara publicly accused the government of foul play after her father died in a road accident, contacting foreign embassies in Kigali and international human rights organisations, as well as petitioning the president. Many question the allegation, but there has been no official investigation. It is the family’s word against that of the police.

Rwigara’s thwarted candidacy was a brief flash of colour in the otherwise drab landscape of contemporary Rwandan politics. Kagame’s re-election is so certain that he himself claimed victory on the first day of campaigning, citing the overwhelming verdict of a controversial constitutional referendum in 2015 that permitted him to stand for a third term.

The proposed changes passed with a thumping 98% majority. “Pretending not to know the will expressed by the people during the referendum would be a lie, not democracy,” he told cheering crowds at a rally.

But Rwigara exposed cracks in the RPF’s confident facade. Most doubt that she would have been a significant electoral threat, but the lengths to which the authorities went to frustrate her – she claims her supporters were repeatedly threatened, beaten and jailed as they toured the country drumming up support – suggested a nervousness that belied Kagame’s breezy rhetoric.

“The RPF are scared,” Rwigara says. “If they are loved by the people, as they claim, why is that when someone like me announces an intention to run they resort to all these dirty tricks to try to discourage me and silence me? If they were really popular, then they would have let me compete.”

Many in Kigali agree. “Every week that she is not in trouble is progress,” confides one foreign diplomat. “She, not the official opposition, is the ultimate test for them.”

Rwigara represents young, prosperous urbanites who grew up under the RPF and whom it sees as essential to the country’s future. The busloads of young Rwandans who arrived to watch her announce her candidacy, and her packed press conferences, unnerved Kagame and his allies, according to insiders. Nude photos, apparently of her, soon flooded the internet – assumed to be a well-orchestrated smear.

She believes her fearlessness in speaking out is a headache for the RPF, which fastidiously cultivates a rosy image of Rwanda for the outside world. “Rwanda is like a very pretty girl with a lot of makeup,” she says. “Perfect teeth, perfect hair, perfect everything. They spend so much time on the image because they know the inside is dark and dirty.”

Since her candidacy failed, Rwigara has launched what she calls a “movement” to challenge the regime on its human rights record. While her political awakening could be attributed to her father’s death, she makes allegations that go beyond personal grievance. Nobody else inside Rwanda has spoken more frankly about the extrajudicial assassinations that exiled critics and international organisations such as Human Rights Watch claim the government frequently carries out against its enemies.

“Everybody knows somebody who has disappeared, who has been killed,” Rwigara says. “The personal doctor of the president and an army major both died in the same week as my father. And those are the well-known people. You don’t hear about the other people.”

Yet she is also a former insider, and her candidacy could be seen as evidence of emerging fractures within the Tutsi elite who dominate politics and business. The government has made enemies of some of its natural supporters, such as the Rwigara family. After her father’s death, the family’s properties in central Kigali were seized and their hotel demolished.

Diane Rwigara gives a press conference after announcing her plans to run for president — Diane Rwigara gives a press conference in May after announcing her plans to run for president. She was later barred on a technicality. Photograph: Cyril Ndegeya/AFP/Getty Images

If she makes an unlikely spokesperson for the poor farmers who make up the majority of Rwandans, she may be more persuasive as an advocate for women. Kagame is something of a “donor darling” for his commitment to gender equality – half of the supreme court judges are women, and the country’s parliament is 61% female, the highest proportion in the world – but Rwigara dismisses such headline achievements as window-dressing.

“So what if Rwanda has the highest percentage of women in parliament? It’s really just part of the image. Because what do these women do?” she asks.

She says the parliament is little more than a rubber-stamp. There are women in senior positions in government, but none wield real power. And despite its impressive strides, academics have questioned the substance of Rwanda’s gender-equality drive, especially for unmarried women.

Rwigara doesn’t see her gender as a hindrance. “They used my being a woman to get to me,” she says. “But even if I’d been a man they’d have found other ways.” In fact, it was her family that had the problem with the idea of women in politics. “Growing up I remember my family members – my mum and my aunt – saying that a girl should not have a political opinion; that a girl should not be politically active. It took me a while to make peace with being a girl who likes politics.”

Is Rwanda ready for a female president? “I think Rwandans themselves are,” she answers. “Because if the regime thought the people would not listen to me because I’m a woman, then they would not have tried to find all these ways to stop me.”

She says she doesn’t fear for her life. “Not for the moment. They know killing me will make too much noise. It’s harder to kill you once you are known, once you’ve been seen.”

Source: The Guardian