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Aho gahunda yo guhatira Abahutu bose gusaba imbambazi si intambwe ya mbere y’umushinga wo kubarimbura ?

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Nk’uko byatangijwe n’umukuru w’igihugu Paul Kagame afatanije n’umufasha we kuwa 30/06/2013 mu ihuriro ry’urubyiruko ryiswe Youth connekt, basanze inzira nziza ari uguhatira umuntu wese wo mu bwoko bw’Abahutu gusaba imbabazi ku byaha byakorewe abavandimwe babo b’Abatutsi. Handitswe byinshi mu gihe iri jambo ryiswe “ijambo rutwitsi” ryari rimaze kuvugwa. Cyakora, nunvaga ibyavuzwe n’ibyanditswe bihagije, cyane cyane ko nibwiraga ko ari ijambo ryamucitse (Perezida), nuko aribeshya kandi nta muntu bitabaho. Iyo biba ibyo, ntacyo byari kuba bitwaye cyane. Nyamara, siko biri ahubwo gahunda yo kugereka “Genocide” ku bahutu bose bigahamywa no kuzasaba imbazi kwabo ngo ni umushinga wizwe neza n’Abambari b’Agatsiko. Iki gikorwa kikaba kigomba gukurikizwa vuba na bwangu guhera mu tugali, imirenge, uturere n’intara zose z’igihugu.

None se kuki Leta y’Agatsiko ihisemo ko umuhutu wese asaba imbabazi ku cyaha cya Genocide?

Impamvu ni nyinshi ariko reka turebe zimwe murizo cyane cyane izishamikiye ku mahame n’amategeko bigenga icyaha cya ‘Genocide’:

Impamvu ya 1:

Ubusanzwe, icyaha cya «Genocide» ni icyaha gikorwa na Leta. Ibi ntibivuga gusa ko Leta iriho igomba kuba ibyemera kandi ibizi neza. Oya! Birashoboka ko byategurwa n’igice kimwe cy’abenegihugu kikiyemeza kurimbura ikindi gice cy’abenegihugu ariko Leta ntishobore gukumira uwo mugambi mubisha kubera impanvu zinyuranye. Imwe muri izo mpanvu ni uko Leta ishobora kuba iri mu bihe by’ amage n’imidugararo ku buryo ntacyo ishobora gukora ku kaga kose gashobora kugwirira abenegihugu. Aha Leta iba igaragara nk’aho itakiriho (Anarchism).

Ibi kandi nibyo byabaye mu Rwanda kuko Leta y’Agatsiko ntako itagize mugutekinika uko “Genocide yateguwe”: kubihamya Leta ya Habyarimana byarananiranye, kubigereka kuri Leta y’inzibacyuho nabyo byabaye nko gukama ikimasa. Ibi byose byararuhanyije kuko Leta ya FPR yigizaga nkana. Ukuri ni uko ubwicanyi bwo mu Rwanda bwabuze gikumirwa kuko FPR yari yarabuteguye neza, ibikora ibizi neza, yapanze ko nyuma y’urupfu rw’Umukuru w’igihugu Leta itazabasha kwisuganya mugukumira ibikorwa byose bizakurikiraho. FPR yari izi ko Abatutsi bazapfa ari benshi kubera ibihe by’imidugararo igihugu kizaba kirimo.

Ibi kandi nibyo abasirikare benshi ba FPR bahamya. Nyakwigendera Lt Abdul Ruzibiza ati: «Kagame yiyita umucunguzi w’abatutsi kandi ariwe watumye kubarimbura bishoboka, ndetse akanatubuza kubatabara twari tubishoboye ». Abandi bati twibarije Nyakubahwa Paul Kagame kubw’igikorwa kigayitse yateguraga asubiza ko « nta batutsi bakiba mu Rwanda, bose babaye abahutu ». Abasangirangendo be kandi bemeza ko ngo yivugiye ko « nta warya umureti atamennye amagi ». Ikindi FPR yari izi kandi yateguye neza ni iki : n’ubwo Abatutsi bari gupfa ari benshi ariko n’urupfu rw’Abahutu batagira ingano rwagombaga gukomerezaho. Aha nta gihamya idasanzwe dukeneye kuko uko byagenze byabara umupfu!

Impamvu ya 2:

Icyaha cya Genocide ni icyaha kidasaza. Kwikoreza iki cyaha Abahutu bose rero ni imwe mu nzira zo kujijisha no guhunga ubutabera. Kagame azi neza ko iki cyaha hatabonetse abakemera mu buryo budasubirwaho cyazamugarukaho n’abambari be maze bakaryozwa ibyo bakoreye abanyarwanda byose. Nanone kandi azi ko ushyizweho icyaha cya « Genocide » kizamukurikira kuva mu bwana bwe kugeza ashaje. Azi kandi ko abahutu bose nibemera icyo cyaha, bizaba bimuhaye indi ntwaro azakomeza gukoresha igihe cyose ashatse kwikiza bamwe muri bo azaba ahararutswe cyangwa ashaka kugirira nabi mu buryo ubwo aribwo bwose!

Impamvu ya 3:

Kwikoreza icyaha cya «Genocide» Abahutu bose ni imwe mu nzira zo kubatera ipfunwe no kubakumira (Marginalisation) mu gihugu cy’amavuko. Bityo umwana w’umuhutu narerwa apakirwamo ko afite icyaha cy’inkomoko, cyangwa akwiye kwikorera ibyaha byose by’Abahutu ntazigera agenda yemye (azahorana complexe d’infériorité) kandi ntazigera agira imbaraga zo kubaza impanvu uburenganzira bwe buri guhonyorwa n’abakaburengeye! Azunva buri gihe ko ibyo akorerwa ari impuhwe, nta burenganzira bimukwiye. Ushaka kubyumva neza azongera atege amatwi inkuru y’Umusore Bamporiki.

Impamvu ya 4:

Umugambi nk’uyu w’iteshagaciro ukorewe bamwe cyangwa bose mubagize ubwoko, ushobora kuganisha akenshi ku irimburwa ndakumirwa rishobora gukorerwa igice cyangwa bose mubagize ubwo bwoko. Ni ukuvuga ko kwigisha no kunvisha ko Abahutu bose ari ruvumwa, ibyihebe, bavukana icyaha cy’inkomoko, badakwiye kubaho muburenganzira busesuye nk’ubw’abandi beneguhugu; bishobora kubaviramo kurimburwa cyangwa kwicwamo benshi. Iri rimbura bwoko rero niryo abahanga bagenekereza bakita « Genocide » kuko riba ryizwe neza kandi rigashyigikirwa na Leta. Ibi kandi birunvikana kuko aho Agatsiko gahatira Abahutu gusaba imbabazi, kurundi ruhande kaba gatungira agatoki Abavandimwe babo b’Abatutsi ngo «dore ababarimburiye imiryango nta n’umwe uvuyemo». Ikizakurikira ibi mugitege amaso !

Impamvu ya 5:

Kugereka‘Genocide’ ku Bahutu bose ni igikorwa cy’iterabwoba. Iyi ni intwaro ikomeye Agatsiko gashaka gukoresha mugucekekesha Abahutu bose. Kagame yemeza ko n’uwakwanga icyo cyaha agashaka kubaza impamvu uburenganzira bwe buri guhonyorwa atazigera amenya ikimukubise. Birababaje!

Impamvu ya 6:

Iyi kandi n’intwaro ivuguruye mu gutoteza no guhindura ruvumwa umuhutu wese. Duhereye 1994, FPR yazanye gahunda yo gufunga umuhutu wese itarobanuye kandi ibikora ntabutabera igamije. Ihame ry’uko umuntu wese afatwa nk’umwere rihinduka ko umuhutu wese aba ari umu «Genocidaire». Ibyo byarangiye, Abahutu bose bategetswe gusaba imbabazi, utabikoze akazagwa muri gereza. Dore uko byagenze: abakoze ibyaha bararekuwe, abere baguma mu buroko ! Ndahamya ko n’uyu munsi hari abakiborera muri za gereza hirya no hino bazira ko banze kwemera icyaha cy’inkomoko! Ntibyarangiriye aho kuko hahise haduka indi ntwaro yaje ifite ubukana burenzeho abatekinisiye bise «Gacaca». Ubwo kandi nibwo icyaha kitabaho mu mateka n’amategeko cyadukaga: « Ingengabitekerezo ya Genocide ». Ibyo ntibyarangiriye aho, ahubwo TIG n’Urugerero rurageretse. Twizere ko « Saba imbabazi niwanga wicwe ! » ariryo turufu rya nyuma. Umunyarwanda we ati nyamara « wirukankana umugabo cyane iherezo ukamumara ubwoba ».

Impamvu ya 7:

Gutwerera iki cyaha Abahutu bose bakagisabira imbabazi ni uburyo bwo guhishira amateka. Amateka nyakuri y’u Rwanda ateye inkeke Agatsiko Sajya kubera ibyo kakoreye abanyarwanda. Kuvuga ukuri ntibabishobora n’ubwo byabavura! Kubeshya nibyo bashoboye. Ariko se kugeza ryari? Kugeza ubu ikinyoma cy’ Agatsiko cyemeza ko mu Rwanda habaye «Genocide yakorewe Abatutsi » hakajyaho akadomo. Ibyo kandi niko biri ariko hariho akitso, kuko “Genocide” yahekuye u Rwanda ntiyarimbuye Abatusti ngo isige Abahutu ndetse n’Abatwa. Aho rero niho ihurizo ribuza u Rwanda n’Abanyarwanda kwibohora inzigo n’inzangano rizingiye. Ibi sinabitindaho kuko n’ubwo umuco w’ikinyoma wahawe intebe, kujijisha amahanga bikagirwa iturufu ry’ubutegetsi, ariko ngo «amaherezo y’inzira ni mu nzu».

Impamvu ya 8:

Izi ngirwa-mbabazi kandi ni ryaturufu ryataye agaciro mu ruzungu bita « Diviser pour régner ». Agatsiko karitegereje gasanga ubwo Abatutsi n’Abahutu bazaba bamenye neza ukuri kubyaye mu Rwanda bazarara bagakubise hasi. None dore bamwe baguye muri uwo mutego ngo aha Agatsiko ni abacunguzi ! Hari n’abandi bemeza ko ukuri bakavugishije ariko bazahakishwa; bene abo nibo baheze mugihirahiro aka ya mpyisi bahaye ibuye rishyushye igirango ni inyama, ikabura ubucira n’ubumira! Cyakora hariho abandi benshi cyane ubu bicecekeye kubera kwanga kurigiswa, dore ko byabaye umuco. Nyamara hari n’abandi biyemeje kujya ahagaragara bagaharanira ukuri kabone n’iyo byaba ngombwa ko bakuzira. Kuko ngo kuratinda ntiguhera. Ukuri ntikujya gupfukiranwa ! Guca muziko ntigushya ! Wica ukuvuga hakavuka babiri. Iherezo rero ukuri kuzaganza kandi Abanyarwanda bose bakugire intwaro irwanya ikinyoma Agatsiko kicaje ku ntebe. Umunsi ibyo byabaye kandi si kera, amagambo azaba ashize ivuga, Agatsiko bazagatsinsura kandi ntikazongera kuvugwa ukundi, uretse kuvumwa ubuziraherezo !

Impamvu 9:Guhunga imbabazi nyakuri.

Ntarujijo rurimo, iyi gahunda yo guhatira Abahutu bose gusaba imbabazi ntigamije imbabazi nyakuri. Iyo haza kuba hashyizwe imbere imbabazi nyakuri iyi gahunda ntiyari kugirwa gahunda y’ubwoko bumwe gusa ahubwo yari kuba gahunda y’Abanyarwanda bose. Umwana umwe yabwiye Kagame muri ririya huriro ko nawe agiye gusaba imbabazi Abahutu ariko igisubizo yahawe kirababaje. Ahari mwakongera mukiyunvira.( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pI2GhnIHbKs ). Gusaba imbabazi nyakuri rero ntawabirwanya, ariko bigakorwa n’uwakoze icyaha kandi akazisaba uwagikorewe.

Nyamara, twabonye ko “Genocide” ari icyaha cya Leta kandi tuzi ko Leta ikomeza igihe cyose (Principe de continuité de l’Etat). Umukuru w’igihugu rero ushaka kubaka no kunga abanyarwanda akwiye gufata iyambere agasaba imbabazi z’ibyaha ndenga kamere Leta iba yakoreye abenegihugu bose. Ikindi mu muco w’Abanyarwanda bemeza ko umwera uturutse i Bukuru bucya wakwiriye hose. Umukuru wigihugu afashe iyambere agasaba imbabazi abanyarwanda bose mw’izina rya Leta, yaba atanze urugero rwiza kubanyarwanda bose. Ibisigaye byakwikora. Ibi Umukuru w’igihugu yakwiye kubikora atitaye ko ibyaha asabira imbabazi yaba yarabigizemo uruhare , ahubwo akabikora kuko ariwe uhagarariye Leta nyuma y’amarorerwa yahekuye Abanyarwanda twese.

Umwanzuro

Izi mbabazi rero, Agatsiko kibutse guhatira Abahutu gusaba Abatutsi nyuma y’imyaka 20 bakorewe Genocide, si impuhwe keretse niba ari zimwe za Bihehe. Agatsiko kagamije kurangaza Abanyarwanda twese. Kagamije kwereka Abatutsi ko kabitayeho cyaneee, bityo ntihazagire ubaza uwakomye imbarutso ya Genocide yabahekuye. Agatsiko Kagamije kandi gutera ubwoba Abahutu bose ngo hatazagira ubaza aho imirambo y’abatikirijwe i Kibeho n’ahandi henshi iba ngo bayishyingure mucyubahiro gikwiye ikiremwamuntu. Agatsiko kagamije ko Ababyeyi batazigera bibaza icyo abana babo baziraga kandi bakomeje kuzira mu mashyamba ya Kongo. Ibi ariko ni ukwibeshya. Umuntu wese akwiye kwibaza impamvu y’iri terabwoba ridashira.

Mu Rwanda hari akarengane kandi kagomba guhagarikwa mu maguru mashya. Umuntu wese ufite gukunda u Rwanda (Patriotisme) akwiye kureba icyo yakora. Kuko nukomeza kurebera iherezo nawe akarengane kazakugeraho kandi ntuzabona n’uwo kubara inkuru. Abanyarwanda barananiwe, « Inzira y’ umusaraba » bashowemo ikwiye guhagarara hagatangira « inzira y’urumuri ». Igihe kirageze ngo Agatsiko kavugirizwe induru ! Indirimbo ibe « turambiwe ikinyoma, akarengane n’amacakubiri mu bana b’u Rwanda»

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Rwanda Defense Forces recruit anew

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Rwanda Defense Forces (RDF) recruit anew

Since 1995, the Rwandese Patriotic Army (RPA) never stopped being involved either directly or indirectly in numerous wars that claimed lives to over 6 million people, Rwandans and Congolese. It was by the military and logistic support of RPA that Kabila senior was able to dethrone Mobutu. It was by RPA machine that the same Kabila perished shot by one of his body guards. It was by the RPA bombs and mortars that the UN Mapping report has concluded that what happened to Hutu in Congo could be termed genocide. Even today Rwanda Defense Forces (RDF) are still in Congo fighting along with a rebel movement known as M23 after other pro- RPA armed groups have expired or metamorphosed. It is not a secret.

Since last July, fights have resumed between the Congolese Army (FARDC) and the same armed group, M23. Different UN reports have repeatedly urged Rwanda to stay away of the Congo’s situation, but in vain. The US has expressed its dissatisfaction with what is happening in that region and said that further measures could be taken against M23 and those who support it (referring to Rwanda). Stubbornly, Rwanda did as if nothing happened. Testimonies from eye witnesses confirm that on Tuesday 27, 2013 about 2000 soldiers of RDF crossed the border from Rwanda into Democratic Republic of Congo. Concomitantly, the Ministry of Defense has called youngsters between the age of 18 and 23 to enroll in the army. The announcement from the ministry of Defense stipulates that the eligible are those who have finished their education at Ordinary level ( tronc commun) and A level( Senior 6).

Given the high rate of unemployment among the youth, and given that the government scholarship scheme has been rearranged to favor mostly those children from genocide survivors’ families, in other words Tutsi; it is robustly probable that a big number of recruits will be registered. Another analysis would lead the reader to wonder why the ministry has now decided to make it public that is recruiting after being accused of, and denied fighting in DRC with M23 troops. Two main reasons are put forward: One, some sources say that RDF has lost so many fighters during these last confrontations especially because FARDC have been backed by the UN intervention brigade. And two, the ministry of defense and the RPF government by extension, wants to bring a new item into discussion after having recruited so many youngsters by force, Now, the new argument that is expected to be used more or less favorably to RDF is that all new recruits joined the army voluntarily. Nevertheless, tremendous evidence of forced recruitment including recruitment of child soldiers has been documented and it is up to the observers to decide what they want to believe. I say this because, it is not the first time Kagame and his army has been alleged of atrocities, war crimes and crime against humanity. Usually these crimes are punished everywhere in the world else except when they are committed against some Rwandans. Even when it is well recognized that the terrorist act of April 6, 1994 has sparked genocide, some great decision-makers judge it appropriate to try cases of alleged authors of genocide, leaving intact authors of the cause of that genocide. Very, very bizarre, isn’t it? Therefore a limited hope exists as to how RDF and its high naughty commanders will be dealt with. Notwithstanding the situation and its unclear possible outcomes, my message to the young men and women of Rwanda is that they should restrain and stay far away from these unending wars of Kagame’s.

While according to some observers Rwanda wants to have enough number of soldiers after hundreds of RDF men succumbed miserably since last July, for some others, this war might be the last engaged and fought during Kagame’s lifetime.

Qui vivra verra!

Statement on Situation in Eastern Congo, Sunday 25, 2013

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The United States is alarmed by the escalating fighting between the M23 armed group and the armed forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (FARDC) in eastern Congo. We condemn the actions of the M23, which have resulted in civilian casualties, attacks on the UN peacekeeping mission (MONUSCO), and significant population displacements. We are also concerned by reports of shelling across the Rwandan border, including credible UN reports that the M23 has fired into Rwandan territory. We call on the M23 to immediately end the hostilities, lay down their arms, and disband, in accordance with UN Security Council resolutions.

We commend the actions of MONUSCO to protect civilians in and around Goma. Attacks against UN installations and personnel are unacceptable. We are deeply concerned about evidence of increasing ethnic tensions in Goma and call on all parties to avoid any actions that could exacerbate such tensions.

We urgently call on the DRC and Rwandan governments to exercise restraint to prevent military escalation of the conflict or any action that puts civilians at risk. We reiterate our call for Rwanda to cease any and all support to the M23 and to respect DRC’s territorial integrity, consistent with U.N. Security Council resolutions and its commitments under the Peace, Security, and Cooperation Framework. We also call on the DRC to take all prudent steps to protect civilians and to take precautions that FARDC shells do not inadvertently land in Rwandan territory. We urge MONUSCO and the Expanded Joint Verification Mechanism to promptly and thoroughly investigate charges of cross-border shelling. We urge all parties to facilitate access for humanitarian organizations assisting populations in need.

The United States fully supports the Peace, Security, and Cooperation Framework signed by the DRC, Rwandan, and neighboring governments in February 2013 as the basis for a political dialogue to resolve the longstanding conflict in the region. We also believe any political settlement of the conflict must include accountability for human rights atrocities committed by leaders of the M23 and other armed groups, including the FDLR. The United States stands ready to consider further targeted sanctions against the leaders of the M23 and other armed groups and those who support them.

Signed by

Marie Harf
Deputy Spokesperson, Office of the Spokesperson

Washington, DC

Source:US Department of State

Umunya Uganda Andrew Mwenda ashobora kuzabazwa ibyo Perezida Kagame akora.

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Umunya Uganda Andrew Mwenda ashobora kuzabazwa ibyo Perezida Kagame akora.

Mu gihe hashize iminsi itari mikeya U Rwanda rurebana ay’ingwe na Tanzania, hakomeje iterana ry’amagambo hagati y’ibyo bihugu binyujijwe mu binyamakuru ari ibya Leta ari n’ibyigenga. Mu gihe ku ruhande rwa Tanzania usanga hari ukwifata no gukoresha ubwitonzi ku bategetsi, siko bimeze ku ruhande rw’u Rwanda. Nyuma y’aho Ministri w’ububanyi n’amahanga yatangiye kuvuga nabi Tanzania na Perezida wayo, cyakora akaza gusa n’ushaka kwihohora, ubu noneho Abajyanama ba Perezida Kagame ni bo bagezweho mu gukora uwo murimo kandi ngo urimo akamiya gatubutse. Gusa rero bashatse barya bari menge.

Andrew Mwenda ni umwe mu Bajyanama ba Perezida Kagame

Abinyujije ku rubuga Tweeter ku wa 19 Kanama 2013, umujyanama wa Perezida Kagame uvuka muri Uganda, Andrew Mwenda, yagaragaje ibyo atekereza kuri iki kibazo. Mwenda atangira avuga ko yatangaye cyane ngo amaze kuvumbura ko Kikwete afitanye isano ya hafi n’abo yise aba genocidaires. Avuga ko mu nyandiko yasohowe na Wikileaks bigaragazwa ko umugore wa Perezida Kikwete ari mubyara wa nyakwigendera Perezida Habyarimana! Si Mwenda wenyine wavuze iyi nkuru kuko no mu binyamakuru byinshi bisohokera mu Rwanda iyi nkuru yatangajwe. Ikindi ngo byavuzwe ko Kikwete yajyaga yohereza intwaro mu Burundi aziha Abahutu mu gihe barwanyaga Leta. Aha umuntu akibaza impamvu uyu mujyanama ashaka kwigira injiji ku ngufu. Aba genocidaires avuga ni bande? Ni Abahutu bo mu Burundi byabaye ngombwa ko bafata intwaro ngo birwaneho mu gihe bari bagiye gushirira ku icumu bicwa umusubizo nk’udushwiriri? Umu genocidaire se ni Habyarimana wapfuye na genocide itaraba? Andrew Mwenda yanteye kwibaza byinshi.

Andrew Mwenda akomeza avuga ko Kikwete mu kwirukana Abanyamahanga batagira ibyangombwa yari agambiriye Abatutsi, ngo na ho abandi bose ni ibitambo (collateral). N’ubwo atari we wa mbere ubikemanga, uburyo Mwenda yabyanditse arasa n’uwerekana ko hari isano hagati ya genocide y’Abatutsi yo muri 1994, intambara zo mu Burundi n’iyirukanwa ry’Abatagira ibyangombwa muri Tanzania. Bityo kuri Mwenda wa Independent, Tanzania irimo gushyira mu bikorwa umugambi wateguwe neza kuva kera akawugereranya na genocide. Twibutse ko kugeza n’ubu FPR ihora yemeza ko genocide yateguwe igihe kirekire nyamara urukiko rwashyiriweho kuburanisha abaregwa genocide rwa Arusha rukaba rutarabashije kugaragaza ko uwo mugambi wabayeho. Ibi ntibivuga ko wenda utabayeho, ahubwo bivuga ko abaciriwe imanza bose batagize uruhare mu gutegura uwo mugambi. Bityo ubwo umugambi utagaragariye ku baregwa kwica Abatutsi umuntu yawushakira mu kindi gihande, ni ukuvuga FPR n’abafasha bayo.

Usesenguriye hafi inyandiko za Andrew Mwenda, urasanga avuga ko mbere hariho umugambi wa Tanzania wo kwirukana Abatutsi hanyuma ijambo rya Kagame rikaba imbarutso, kimwe n’uko ihanurwa ry’indege ya Habyarimana ryabaye imbarutso ya genocide. Aho ibi byombi bihuriye ni uko iyo migambi yombi (uwa genocide n’uwo kwirukana Abatutsi muri Tanzania) nta gihamya ko yabayeho. Ikindi iyo migambi yombi ifite imbarutso zikomoka kuri Perezida Kagame. Ibi ni byo Andrew Mwenda atsinda kuvuga ariko uwumva aba yumvise !

Mwenda arahunga nkana impamvu yaba yaratumye Tanzania yirukana Abanyarwanda akavuga ko abari bagenderewe ari Abatutsi abandi bakaba ibitambo. Usesenguye amagambo ya Mwenda urasanga abwira Abahutu ati mwe ntacyo mubaye n’ubundi mwamenyereye kubungera mu mashyamba, abababaje ni izi mfura ! Mu by’ukuri Andrew Mwenda agaragaje ingengabitekerezo y’ivangura. Abaye nka wa wundi (Mukagasani Yolanda) uherutse gusetsa imikara ngo ko Human Rights Watch itavugira abari kwirukanwa, nyamara sinigeze numva muri 1996 hari utabariza abirukanwaga. Cyakora sinamurenganya niba yaravutse nyuma ya 1996 da ! Ubu mu Banyarwanda birukanwa muri Tanzania haravugwa bakeya bakorewe urugomo, nyamara muri Congo ho imirambo ntigira ingano. Nanjye naraketse nti wenda Human Rights Watch itaragize ubutwari bwo kuvugira abicwa ntiyabona ubutwari bwo kuvugira abakomeretswa !

Andrew Mwenda na we arirengagiza ko atari ubwa mbere Tanzania yirukana Abanyamahanga. Ntiyigeze agira icyo avuga ubwo Abarundi birukanwaga. Ese aho Mwenda ntiyaba ari muri ba bacurabwnge n’abashyushyarugamba ba wa mugambi wa Empire Hima ushaka kwerekana ko Abatutsi basumba Abahutu ? Nawe se, arongera kuri tweeter ye akavuga ko ibyo Tanzania irimo gukora ngo bisa n’iby’Abanazi bakoreye abayahudi. Mwibuke ko muri wa mugambi wa emprie Hima, Abatutsi bemeza ko aribo Bayahudi bo muri Africa.

Uko byagenda kose dukwiye gushishoza tukanga kwigira injiji ku ngufu. Uwo ari we wese agira ububabare kandi igikorwa cyose kigira icyo giturukaho. Niba igikorwa cyo kwirukana impunzi cyaraturutse ku ijambo ruvumwa rya Perezida Kagame, Andrew Mwenda akaba ari we mujyana wa Kagame, ni ukuvuga ko ibi byose Andrew Mwenda nawe azabibazwa.

Kagame body guard goes missing!

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There is still no information on the whereabouts of Lieutenant Joel Mutabazi, a former body guard to Rwandan President Paul Kagame, who was reportedly kidnapped in Kampala on Tuesday.

Mutabazi, who worked as Kagame’s body guard for 20 years, went missing from his United Nations High Commission of Refugees—UNHCR rented home in Kawempe, a Kampala suburb. It is alleged that the now critic of Kagame’s leadership was kidnapped from his home and whisked to an unknown location.President Kagame: A man who is alleged to have Death Squads all over the world.

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Police Spokeswoman Judith Nabakooba confirms that there was a kidnap complaint of a Rwandan National filed at the Kawempe police station and that investigations had commenced into the matter.

According to Inyenyeri News, an online news agency in Rwanda, the Israeli-trained Rwandan commando was allegedly kidnapped by a group of five men comprising of two Ugandan police officers and three other Rwandan security agents. Inyenyeri News says the five men stormed Mutabazi’s home at about 4pm and sprayed him with a substance that weakened him before whisking him away to an unknown location.

UgandaPolice spokesperson Judith Nabakooba

Police spokesperson Judith Nabakooba confirms that there was a kidnap complaint of a Rwandan National filed at the Kawempe police station and that investigations had commenced into the matter. She however declined to give details.

Rwanda’s High Commissioner to Uganda, Major General Frank Mugambage, when contacted on phone told URN that he was busy to comment on the matter. He referred our reporter to the High Commission offices to make an appointment to meet him. At the High Commission the URN reporter was told to go there on Monday next week.

Mutabazi had earlier last year survived an attack at his former home in Kasangati after unknown assailants attacked his house and shot bullets that missed him and his family. He was then placed under police protection until the UNHCR got him a new home that he was staying in till yesterday’s attack.

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The news agency in their article claimed that a witness to the kidnap managed to identify one man among the attackers as Rene Rutagungira. Documents from the Rwanda National Human Rights Commission identify Rene Rutagungira as a retired army Sergeant, who was prosecuted in 2000 in connection with the mysterious death of a Rwandan Businessman identified as Victor Bayingana. He was however acquitted of the charge.

The disappearance of Mutabazi comes at a time when Rwandan asylum seekers in Uganda are increasingly lodging complaints of being haunted by suspected hit-squads.

In June this year, some 16 students from Rwanda escaped to Uganda and asked for asylum alleging harassment by their home government. They also claimed that they were being conscripted into the ranks of the M23 rebel group in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, a claim dismissed by Ambassador Mugambage, who said the students were misled into committing crimes back home.

Mugambage also dismissed allegations that the Kigali government was operating a hit-squad in Kampala targeting critics of President Kagame’s leadership. The students have since been taken and temporarily resettled in Arua.

On December 2, 2011, Charles Ingabire, a journalist who was living in Uganda as a political refugee, was gunned down while hanging out at a bar in Kampala. He was editor of Inyenyeri News, an online publication critical President Paul Kagame’s government. Ambassador Mugambage later described the slain editor as someone who fled from justice in his home country into Uganda.

Though Mugambage regretted Ingabire’s death, he was quick to dismiss him as someone not worth the kind of media attention and titles that did not suit his background.

A few months after Ingabire’s death, another Rwandan asylum seeker, Sergeant Dominic Sabagasani was also gunned down in Kampala. The murders remain unresolved to date.

Source:http://www.redpepper.co.ug/former-kagame-bodyguard-goes-missing-in-kampala/

Ihigwa bukware ry’Abanyarwanda muri Tanzania: Aho kwica Gitera wakwica ikibimutera.

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Bamwe mu Banyarwanda birukanywe muri Tanzania

Mu gihe ubu Abanyarwanda benshi barangamiye ibiri kubera ku mpunzi zirukanwa muri Tanzania, habuze umuyobozi muri Guverinoma ugira ijambo mbwirwaruhame ngo agaragaze icyo leta ya FPR ibitekereza ho. Ubusanzwe Leta ifite inshingano zo kurinda no kuvugira buri Munyarwanda wese aho ava akagera, ibi bigakorwa binyujijwe muri Ministeri y’Ububanyi n’amahanga na yo ikoresheje za Ambassades zayo hirya no hino. Ndetse FPR yo yemeza ko hari n’igihe ikoresha intwaro kugira ngo irwanire abantu n’ubwo baba atari Abanyarwanda ariko bakaba bavuga ikinyarwanda! FPR ivuga ko ibi ari byo byakuruye intambara zo muri Congo. Uretse ubu buryo bwa za ambassades kandi, Perezida wa Repubulika ni we wa mbere ushinzwe diplomacy y’igihugu cye. Ibi bisobanuye ko Perezida Kagame ashobora kubazwa icyo yakoze cyangwa se atakoze kuri ibi biri kuba ku Banyarwanda yari ashinzwe kurinda. Ahari wenda ashobora kuba atekereza ati ubundi se ko nta wantoye ndarwana n’iki? Namenye ko iyo wibye ubuyobozi uba wibye n’inshingano zabwo hamwe n’imvune zose zijyana na bwo.

Kuki FPR yaruciye ikarumira?

Ukurikiye ibivugwa n’Abategetsi ba Kigali urasanga nta kintu kigaragaza ko Leta yababajwe n’uko izi mpunzi zirukanwa igitaraganya. Ikivugwa ngo ni uko n’abasigaye bagomba kuza hakiri kare nyamara bakongeraho ko bazi neza ko impunzi zahawe igihe gitoya. Niba koko bizwi ko izi mpunzi zahawe igihe gitoya, Leta ikaba izi ko ibi bibangamiye Abanyarwanda, hakozwe iki kugira ngo nibura bahabwe igihe cyiyongereyeho? Leta yanze kugira icyo ibitangazaho ngo hato itaza kwitwa ko idashaka ko Abanyarwanda bagaruka mu gihugu cyabo. Nyamara iyo umwe mu bayobozi twavuze haruguru asaba Leta ya Tanzania guha igihe cyiyongereyeho kugira ngo Abanyarwanda babanze bitegure, abagurisha inka zabo babikore, abasarura imyaka yabo babone akanya,… nta cyemeza ko Tanzania itari gusuzumana ubwitonzi icyo cyifuzo. Iyo ibi biba Tanzania ikabyanga byari kujya ahagaragara nabyo tukabimenya. Ikintu kiri mu mitwe y’Abategetsi ba Kigali ni “ Perezida Kikwete waTanzania ni umugome”.

Commission y’uburenganzira bwa Muntu yasuye Umunyarwanda warasiwe muri Tanzania

Ikintu Abanyarwanda ari aba barimo kwirukanwa ari n’abandi babikurikiranira hafi bakwiye kwitondera ni uko bigaragara ko Perezida Paul Kagame yamaze gukora imibare ye neza. Ashaka kubiba urwangano hagati y’Abanyarwanda n’Abanyatanzania kugira ngo igihe yashaka abandi yohereza guhungabanya Tanzania bitazamurushya. Aha birumvikana ko uwo ari we wese azaba avuga ati tugiye kurwanira imitungo yacu Abanyatanzania basigaranye, tugiye kugaruza amasambu yacu, n’ibindi. Mu by’ukuri mu gihe ku bareba hafi cyane bakeka ko barimo kurenganywa ndetse na Leta ikabumvisha ko barenganyijwe koko, hari ababifitemo inyungu kandi bafite umugambi mutindi bateguye. Dore uko uyu mugambi mutindi njye nywubona:

Amakuru aturuka ahantu hizewe yerekana ko u Rwanda rwohereje Abantu bagera ku bihumbi 35,000 mu gihugu cya Tanzania bagamije guhungabanya umutekano w’icyo gihugu bitwaje ko ngo FDLR ishobora gutera ariho iturutse. Guhakanira FPR ntibyoroshye bitewe n’amateka ya vuba twese tuyiziho cyane cyane ashingiye ku kinyoma n’urugomo. Icya mbere FPR ifite ibibazo byo kuyoborwa n’umuntu umwe kandi bamwe mu bahoze bayirimo mu nzego zo hejuru bemeza ko uwo muntu atagira umugira inama. Yewe n’Abazungu bikekwa ko ari bo bamushyize ku butegetsi agera aho akabatuka akabandagaza. Yanashwanye na Museveni wamufashije igihe kitari gitoya. Ibi byose ikabihishira ikwiza ikinyoma cyaminuje. Icya kabiri ni uko FPR yakomeje kurangwa n’ubushotoranyi mu bihugu duturanye ku buryo nta wakwizera ko akabaye icwende ubu noneho kamaze koga.

Icyiyongera kuri ibi ngo ni ishyari Perezida Kagame yaba yaragiriye Perezida Kikwete kuva mu mwaka ushize aho yasabaga Perezida Obama kuzasura u Rwanda nyamara aho gusura u Rwanda akihitiramo gusura Senegal, Afurika y’epfo na Tanzania. Kagame we yifuzaga ko ari we mu Perezida ufatwa nk’inkundwa y’Amerika kugira ngo birusheho kumwongerera ubuhangange. Kagame amaze kubona ibi byose yaba yiteguye bidasubirwaho guhungabanya iki gihugu kandi kizwi ho kuba cyarabereye umuturanyi mwiza u Rwanda kuva mu mateka ya kera. Uyu mugambi wa Kagame nta muntu wo muri FPR washoboraga kuwushyigikira mu gihe barimo banamubaza impamvu bakomeje kohereza ingabo gupfira muri Congo. Maze kugira ngo Kagame ashake amaboko mu Banyarwanda aba yifashe ku gahanga ajya muri “mpangara nguhangare” yibasira Perezida wa Tanzania. Ibi Kagame si ibyamugwiririye kuko yabikoze inshuro zirenze imwe, iya mbere akaba yarabivugiye imbere y’Abasirikare mu Nyakinama, akomerezaho imbere y’urubyiruko i Kigali ari naho twese twaje kumenya ko Kagame umugambi yawurangije. Aha benshi mu ntore bamuhaye amashyi kuko mu byo batojwe harimo ko Intore nkuru yavuga ibyiza, yavuga ibibi, igomba guhabwa amashyi n’impundu.

Perezida Kagame yagaragaje ko ibyo yavuze bitamucitse ngo asabe imbabazi dore ko we ahora abwira abandi ngo bazisabe n’ubwo baba batarakoze icyaha. Ndizera ko ba babandi bamaze kuminuza mu gusabira imbabazi abatabibasabye bakwiye kuzisabira Paul Kagame. Paul Kagame yari azi neza ko Tanzania izagira icyo ikora kandi ko bizahungabanya Abanyarwanda benshi. Nyamara nyine ni byo yashakaga. Tanzania yo yakoze akazi kayo ko kwirinda. Biragoye ku muntu utari Umunyarwanda kumusobanurira ko hari Abanyarwanda babi n’Abanyarwanda beza. Ku baba mu mahanga ngira ngo mwarabibonye. Ube Umututsi, ube Umuhutu, ube Umutwa, mu gihe cyose ufite Ubunyarwanda kuri wowe ntukibeshye ko bazakwizera, bazahora bagukeka ko ushobora kugira nabi. Ibi bituruka ku mateka yacu atari meza y’ubugizi bwa nabi n’ubwicanyi bwaranze Abanyarwanda. Kuri Tanzania biragoye kumenya abari muri bya bihumbi 35 byoherejweyo. Ikindi kibishimangira ni gahunda zimaze iminsi zikorwa mu Rwanda aho Abasore baba mu mahanga binyabya mu Rwanda bagakoreshwa imyitozo ya gisirikare bakongera bagasubizwa aho batuye mu mahanga. Ibi na byo birakemangwa cyane kandi aba basore si Abatutsi gusa si n’Abahutu gusa, bose baravanze. Birakomeye rero kugira ngo Tanzania imenye gutoranya ufite imigambi mibisha n’utayifite.

Icyo Abanyarwanda bakwiye kwirinda muri iyi minsi ni ukugirira inzika Abanya Tanzania kuko ibibabayeho bifite imvano. Ku mugani wa wa mukurambere aho kwica Gitera wakwica ikibimutera.

Ese imyifatire ya H.E Paul Kagame ni inzira yo gukemura ikibazo cy’ubuhunzi?

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Ese imyifatire ya H.E Paul Kagame ni inzira yo gukemura ikibazo cy’ubuhunzi?

Kuva mu mpera z’ukwezi kwa gatanu uyu mwaka umubano hagati ya Tanzania n’u Rwanda warahungabanye cyane ku buryo byageze n’aho Perezida w’u Rwanda avuga ko azubikira uwa Tanzania akamukindura. (I will wait you at the right place and I will hit you). Ubundi ntibisanzwe ko umuperezida w’igihugu avugira ku Karubanda ko azagirira nabi mugenzi we w’ikindi gihugu. Iri jambo rya perezida Kagame ryakoze amateka ku Banyarwanda ndetse n’Abatuye akarere k’ibihugu bituriye ibiyaga bigari. Inzego z’ubutasi za Tanzania zabihuje n’amakuru zari zisanganywe ko u Rwanda rwohereje abantu benshi muri Congo, Tanzania na Uganda guhungabanya umutekano w’ibyo bihugu ngo hagamijwe kugira ngo u Rwanda rwonyine ruzagaragare ko ari cyo gihugu gifite umutekano usesuye mu karere.

Abagerageza gukora isesengura basanga Perezida Paul Kagame ashobora kuba ananiwe cyane akaba atagishobora gupima uburemere bw’amagambo ye mbere yo kuyavuga. Ndetse hari n’abavuze ko yaba afite uburwayi butuma umuntu atagira ibanga (ngo ubu burwayi akaba anabufatanyije n’uburwayi bwa Cancer y’uruhu). N’ubwo nta gihamya ihari yemeza iby’ubu burwayi, ibikorwa Perezida Paul Kagame akora byatuma koko abantu batekereza ko yaba afite ikibazo, bityo kugeza igihe nta kimenyetso kibivuguruza kandi Kagame agakomeza gukora nk’ibyo akora, benshi bazagera aho babifateho ukuri ko igihugu cy’u Rwanda kiyobowe n’umurwayi. Iyi si inkuru ishimishije kubona igihugu gifite abaturage barenga miliyoni 11 badashobora kwibonamo umuyobozi ufite ubuzima buzira umuze. Ikindi Perezida Kagame yagombye guhabwa umwanya wo kuruhuka dore yakoze byinshi byiza cyangwa bibi kandi bitoroshye ku buryo ikiruhuko ari ngombwa. Indi mpamvu uyu musaza yagombye gufata ikuruhuko cy’izabukuru n’ubwo yari akiri mutoya cyane ugereranyije na Mugabe cyangwa Museveni, ni ingaruka ibikorwa bye bigira kubo yari akwiye kurinda.

Kagame ngo yatekerezaga ko Tanzania yaba ifitanye umubano n’Abarwanya Leta y’u Rwanda ngo kuko yemeye kohereza ingabo mu gikorwa cyo kugarura umutekano muri Congo ikaba izacakiranirayo n’ingabo z’U Rwanda bizwi neza ko zifasha imitwe ihungabanya umutekano cyane cyane umutwe wa M23. Tanzania ntiyigeze ibifata nk’ibyoroshye ahubwo nayo yatangiye gufata ingamba zo kwirwanaho amazi atararenga inkombe. Ingamba ya mbere ni ukwirukana Abanyarwanda bose baba muri Tanzania batujuje ibyangombwa. Amakuru dukesha ibinyamakuru byo muri Tanzania agaragaza ko mu by’ukuri n’ubwo perezida Kikwete yihanganye ntagaragaze uburakari ndetse ntapfe kuvuga irije nka mugenzi we w’u Rwanda, Abasirikare ba Tanzania bo bagize umujinya mwinshi cyane. Perezida Kikwete ubwo yatangaga itegeko ngo bakore operations zo gushakisha abahungabanya umutekano, Abasirikare babonye urubuga rwo kwihimura ku muntu wese uvuka mu Rwanda. Abahunze u Rwanda mu mwaka wa 1959 n’imyaka yakurikiyeho bavuga ko bahunze ubutegetsi bwa Parmehutu nibo Tanzania yahereyeho bacuzwa ibyangombwa bahambirizwa nabi. Abahunze muri 1994 bo n’ubundi abenshi nta byangombwa bari bafite abenshi bafashe inzira bashyira akarago ku mutwe berekeza iya Uganda. Ibi byose bibaye kubera umuyobozi mukuru w’u Rwanda.

Perezida Kikwete yahaye Abanyarwanda ibyumweru bibiri ngo babe batakiri ku butaka bwa Tanzania

Ubusanzwe si ikibazo ko impunzi itaha iwabo. Ariko rero gutaha ntibyoroha cyane cyane ko impunzi igomba kwizera ko hari umutekano. Ikibazo Abategetsi b’u Rwanda bakunze kwirengagiza ni uko umutekano atari ukuba nta masasu avuga mu gihugu gusa. Habaho n’umutekano w’ubukungu. Bityo dore ibibazo Abategetsi ba Kigali bari bakwiye gusubiza mu gihe cyose bavuga ko ibyangombwa byuzuye kugira ngo ushaka gutaha aze :

1. Ese uwo muntu mushaka ko atahuka mufite aho mugiye kumutuza ?

2. Muzamuha akazi cyangwa mumufashe kwihangira umurimo ?

3. Muzamubonera isambu akeneye yo gukoreramo ibikorwa yakoraga?

4. Abana be se muzabarihira ishuri kandi n’abo mufite mwananiwe kubaha bourse ?

5. Ese umutekano we urarinzwe bihagije ?

Rero ngo ni uko bitaye ku Banyarwanda kandi bakaba bashaka ko bose baba mu gihugu. Aha siho hari ikibazo. Nta we urusha Abanyarwanda kumenya igihugu cyabo ndetse no kugikunda. Abanyarwanda bazi ubwenge kandi bazi aho bashaka gutura. Mu buzima umuntu afata ibyemezo akurikije aho inyungu ze ziri. Bityo rero mu gihe mu Rwanda inyungu z’Umunyarwanda zitaruta izo afite ahandi, bazajya bahatira abantu gutaha ndetse bananyuzemo bakoreshe amasasu ariko nta gisubizo kirambye kizagerwaho. Niba umuntu yumva adatekanye, nta mpamvu yahatirwa gutura aho umutima we udaterera mu gituza.

Uretse Tanzania imaze kohereza abarenga 2000 mu Rwanda, mu gihugu cya Repubulika iharanira Demokarasi ya Congo na ho Abanyarwanda ntiborohewe kuko inzego zishinzwe iperereza zatanze itegeko ryo gukora umukwabo wo gushakisha abakekwaho gucura umugambi uherutse kuburizwamo wo kwica Perezida Kabila. Ntibyoroshye kumenya niba Kabila yari agiye kwirenzwa n’Abanyarwanda cyangwa se n’aboherejwe na Perezida Kagame nk’uko bikemangwa kubera ko ubundi Kabila asanzwe yigaragaza nk’umuntu ukorera inyungu za FPR yabereye umuyoboke n’umusirikare igihe kitari gitoya. Gusa rero bamwe mu babikurikiranira hafi basanga Kabila asigaye ashaka kumvira umuryango wa SADC kurusha FPR kandi uyu muryango Tanzania ikaba iwufitemo ijambo rikomeye, dore ko Perezida Kikwete ari we ushinzwe ibijyanye na Politiki muri uyu muryango. Ibi rero ngo byaba byaratumye Kagame atangira kwishisha Kabila akaba akeka ko batakomeza gukorana. Abanyarwanda hafi ibihumbi bitatu ubu bafungiwe I Kinshasa bazira gusa kuba bafitanye isano n’u Rwanda kabone n’aho baba batazi iby’umugambi wo kwivugana Kabila. Ese ibi hari icyo bibwiye Abategetsi b’u Rwanda?

Igihugu cya Uganda cyo kiratangaza ko gikomeje kwakira impunzi nyinshi cyane zivuye muri Congo, mu Rwanda no muri Tanzania. Impunzi ziturutse muri Congo ziravuga ko zafatiwe mu Rwanda zikajyanwa kurwana muri M23 zitabishaka. Izituruka mu Rwanda zirimo ingeri nyinshi. Hari abahunga ubukene, hari abahunga itotezwa bakorerwa na FPR, ariko abenshi bakaba ari abahunga kubera icyoba ubu kirangwa mu gihugu.

Ubu noneho ngira ngo Minisitiri Mukantabana yishimye ko ikibazo cy’ubuhunzi Tanzania igikemuye. Ariko nanone ubu buryo gikemuwemo ni inzira y’ubusamo kandi huti huti akenshi ibyara shishi itabona. Iyi nzira y’ubusamo yageragejwe muri 1996 ubwo ibitwaro bya rutura n’abasirikare benshi boherejwe mu nkambi za Congo ngo bice impunzi izidapfuye bazicyure. Uyu mugambi ntiwapfubye uko wakabaye kuko hapfuye impunzi zitagira ingano hagatahuka n’izindi nkeya. Perezida Kagame we yigambye ko ababazwa n’uko hari abamucitse. Nyamara rero inzira y’ubusamo ntitanga igisubizo kirambye. Impunzi zarishwe izindi ziracyurwa ariko ubaze abamaze kongera guhunga wakwibaza icyo FPR yaruhiye! N’ubu haracyariho umugambi wo kurimbura impunzi, aba mbere ngo bashakishwa akaba ari abatavuga rumwe n’ubutegetsi bwa Paul Kagame. Kayumba Nyamwasa ni umwe mu barusimbutse.

Igisetsa na ko igiteye agahinda ni uko abategetsi babwira abantu ngo nibatahe bahora barwanira kohereza abana babo mu mahanga. Kagame yajyaga avuga ngo Abategetsi ba mbere boherezaga abana kwiga mu mahanga kandi aba rubanda batiga, none na we abe bibera muri America mu gihe abo mu gihugu bambuwe bourse yo kwiga. Ubu mu Rwanda umwana wemerewe kwiga muri Universite ni uwarokotse genocide cyangwa se ufite ababyeyi bayirokotse. Utararokotse cyangwa uwarokotse ubwicanyi bwa FPR we ntashobora no guhabwa icumbi, ahubwo hejuru yo kwiyishyurira amafaranga y’ishuri agomba no gutanga umusanzu wa FARG no mu kigega Agaciro Fund. Ese nk’uyu mwana uba adafite akazi baba bumva azatanga amafranga ayakuye he koko? Ariko se abategetsi b’u Rwanda bagira umutimanama koko? Bamwe muri aba bana na bo ababishoboye berekeza iy’ubuhungiro bakajya kongera umubare w’impunzi, uwo ni wo musaruro wo kunyura inzira y’ubusamo.

Ubu Abanyarwanda bakeneye ko Perezida Kagame ajya ahabona akavuga niba yishimiye ibiri kuba ku benegihugu bari batuye muri Tanzania na Congo nyuma y’imyitwarire ye idahwitse, ubundi bakamubaza utundi tubazo tw’amatsiko ariko tutoroshye kubonera ibisubizo.

Bimwe by’ingenzi byaranze politiki y’u Rwanda muri Nyakanga 2013.

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Bimwe by’ingenzi byaranze Politiki y’u Rwanda mu kwezi kwa Nyakanga 2013.

1. 1. Ubwigenge bw’U Rwanda.

Taliki ya 1 Nyakanga 1962- Taliki ya 1 Nyakanga 2013, imyaka 51 irashize u Rwanda rwigenga. Mu gihe ibi byagombye kuba ibyishimo ndetse n’ibirori bikomeye ku gihugu cyose, mu Rwanda si ko byagenze. Ahubwo Perezida Kagame yifatiye indege yigira mu Burundi ngo gufatanya na bo kwibuka ubwigenge. Ibi byavuzweho byinshi: Bamwe bati Kagame agomba kuba adasobanukiwe n’icyo ubwigenge busobanura, abandi bati Kagame abikora abizi agamije kwemeza Abanyarwanda ko nta Rwanda rwigeze rubaho mu gihe Abahutu bayoboraga. Ibi bikajyana na ya ideology imaze iminsi itwibutsa uburyo Abahutu batewe ipfunwe kuva FPR yafata ubutegetsi. Kuri Kagame ubwigenge bw’U Rwanda bwajyaga kugira agaciro iyo buza igihugu kitari mu maboko y’ Abenegihugu bagitsindiye nyuma ya Kamarampaka! Ibi biracyagibwaho impaka nyinshi.

2. 2. Umunsi w’ifatwa rya Kigali

Taliki ya 4 Nyakanga ni umunsi u Rwanda rwibukaho ifatwa ry’mujyi wa Kigali na FPR mu mwaka wa 1994. Kuri FPR n’abambari bayo uyu munsi witwa umunsi wo kwibohoza ndetse wo ukorerwa ibirori bidasanzwe, ibi bigasobanura ko uruta umunsi w’ubwigenge! Nyamara benshi mu Banyarwanda siko babibona. Kuri bo uyu munsi usubiza inkovu z’agahinda ibubisi. Benshi bibuka imbaga itagira ingano yatikiriye mu gikorwa cya gitwari cyo gusohoka muri Kigali muri operation yiswe champagne, aho FPR yashakaga kumarira ku icumu abantu bose bari mu mujyi ariko ingabo za FAR zikabasha gusohora abaturage mu mujyi zinyuze mu Nzove. FPR yo icyo gihe yarimo yohereza ama bombes y’urufaya ntacyo yikoma. Abandi kandi basanga ifatwa rya Kigali ryarakurikiwe n’ubuzima bubi batigeze batekereza, bityo kubabwira ko babohowe uba ubakina ku mubyimba. Aya ni amateka y’igihugu cyacu atumvikanwaho n’impande zombi akaba ariyo mpamvu ibiganiro bikwiye kubaho ngo abantu babashe kugira icyo bumvikanaho, naho ubundi kwishima kwa bamwe(RPF/RPA) ni ugushenguka kw’abandi(FAR). Ibi bishobora kuzagira ingaruka zikomeye cyane mu gihe kiri imbere. Ntawe nabyifuriza.

3. 3. “Kuba Minisitiri mu Rwanda ni nko gusoma urupfu”

Uyu ni umutwe w’inkuru yanditswe n’umwe mu bahoze ari abafasha ba hafi ba Kagame(David Himbara) ashaka gusobanura uburyo Kagame ahinduranya Aba minisitiri nk’uhinduranya imyambaro y’imbere(amakariso cg amasutiye). Mu kwezi kwa Nyakanga Kagame yirukanye Minsitri ushinzwe imirimo y’Afurika y’Uburasirazuba Monika Mukaruriza n’umunyamabanga we uhoraho Bill Kayonga ngo ku mpamvu zo kugaragaza ubushobozi bukeya. Nyuma yaho Monika yagaragaye mu nama ya FPR, yateshejwe agaciro cyane, ategekwa gusaba imbabazi mu ruhame. We na Musoni Protazi ndetse na Kayonga Bill bacishijwe bugufi basaba imbabazi, ikibazo kikaba ari ukumenya impamvu Tharcisse Karugarama we atahahingutse ! Iyi style ya Kagame yo gutegeka abantu gusaba imbabazi bamwe babibonamo nk’uburwayi bukomeye bwo mu mutwe aho umuntu ubufite aba ashaka kubona abandi bamupfukamira bamwereka ko ariwe munyamaboko. Ibi bigereranywa n’abana batoya bakirana maze umwe yajya hejuru y’undi akabwira uri hasi ngo emera ko uri imbwa unsabe imbabazi nkuve hejuru. Nuko uri hasi akemera ati ndi imbwa wowe uri umugabo bikaba birangiriye aho. Ikigaragaza ko Perezida Kagame ashobora kuba afite ubu burwayi koko, ni uko umaze gusaba imbabazi akenshi ahabwa akandi kazi kandi mu by’ukuri yari yirukanwe bivugwa ko nta bushobozi afite. Bityo umuntu akibaza niba gusaba imbabazi ukazihabwa bihita bituma ubushobozi bwiyongera ! Ku muntu udasabye imbabazi we ahita abuzwa ubwinyagamburiro no kubona akazi bimubera ikibazo kitoroshye. mbese kimwe n’uko uwamaze gusoma urupfu bitamworohera kugaruka i buntu.

4. 4. Intambara ya Congo

Ikindi cyagaragaye muri uku kwezi ni intambara M23 yongeye gushoza ku ngabo za Congo, FARDC. Intego y’iyi ntambara ngo kwari ugufata umujyi wa Goma mbere y’italiki ya 30 Nyakanga mbere y’uko Brigade d’intervention y’umuryango w’abibumbye itangira akazi kayo ko kurwanya no kwambura intwaro imitwe irwanira mu karere k’uburasirazuba bwa Congo. Iyi ntambara rero ntiyaguye neza M23 kuko yahakubitikiye ndetse bikaba byaratangaje abantu benshi. Ubusanzwe FARDC yari isanzwe itazwiho ubutwari bwinshi ariko byaragaragaye ko ubu atari bwa bundi. Kabila yagerageje guhagarika FARDC ngo ntikurikirane M23 ariko FARDC yanga kumwumvira ngo kuko baje kuvumbura ko Kabila afatanyije na Kagame mu mugambi witwa Havila cyangwa se Empire Hima –Tutsi. Uyu mugambi ngo uteganya ko ibihugu bya Uganda, Rwanda, Congo, Uburundi na Tanzania bigomba kuyoborwa n’Abatutsi kandi bikagira umwami w’Abami umwe (Emperor).

Icyagaragaye muri iyi ntambara ni uko ari umuryango mpuzamahanga, ari ihihugu by’ibihangange, ari n’itangazamakuru , bamaganye M23 n’igihugu cy’u Rwanda kiyifasha muri iyi ntambara igiye kumarira abana b’u Rwanda mu rugamba rutabafitiye akamaro na busa. Mu nama yabereye ku cyicaro cy’umuryango w’Abibumbye ku itariki ya 25 Nyakanga, ibihugu byose byashyize umukono ku masezerano yo kugarura amahoro mu karere byibukijwe ko bigomba kuyubahiriza. U Rwanda narwo rwavuze ko ruyashigikiye maze ako kanya Congo ihita irushyira mu kizamini cyo guhita rufata abayobozi ba M23 bahungiye mu Rwanda. Dutegereje uko U Rwanda rugiye kubyitwaramo cyane cyane ko bamwe muri abo bayobozi ngo bashobora kuba baremerewe gusubira ku rugamba ndetse bakaba bashobora kuba bararuguyemo. Niba ariko bimeze, Kagame afite ikibazo cyo kuzura abamaze kwigerera mu bundi buzima kandi bakaba badashaka kugaruka mu ntambara z’urudaca yabashoyemo !

5. 5. Kagame yanze kwakira Intwarane za Yezu na Mariya

Muri Nyakanga kandi indi nkuru yavuzwe ni iy’ifatwa n’ifungwa ry’itsinda ryitwa Intwarane za Yezu na Mariya zahohotewe na Polisi y’igihugu zizira ko zavuze ko zifite ubutumwa buvuye mu ijuru bugenewe umukuru w’igihugu. Ubu butumwa nta wigeze ashaka kubutega amatwi ngo kubera ko Intwarane zisanzwe zigira ubuhanuzi buteye ubwoba. Bityo ari Polisi ari n’umukuru w’igihugu bahisemo kureka ubuhanuzi bukabasohoreraho (bakarimbuka) aho kugira ngo bumve ubutumwa bubafashe kwirinda kurimbuka. Umupadiri witwa Eugene Murenzi wo muri paruwasi ya Kibuye nawe yasogongeye ku bubisha bw’igipolisi cya FPR ubwo yabazwaga niba azi Intwarane. Yapfuye kuvuga ko na we ari Intwarane bamushushubikanya shishi itabona no muri cachot ya Kicukiro ngo ba! Ibi byagaragaje ko hashobora kuba hari ikindi Polisi yashakaga kwerekana kuko Padiri Eugene atigeze ajya ku rugo rwa Paul Kagame. Hari n’abaketse ko ubutegetsi bw’agatsiko bwashatse kwibasira uyu mu padiri kubera ko yashinze ikigo KOMERA cyita ku bana bafite ubumuga muri Paruwasi ya Mushubati mu karere ka Rutsiro. Ibi nabyo nta wabihakana cyane kuko ubundi Agatsiko katishimira kubona umuntu yitangira rubanda kuko ko kagamije gutindahaza Abanyarwanda. Aha abantu benshi bibaza aho ubutegetsi butubaha abakozi b’Imana buzageza Abanyarwanda ndetse bamwe bagashimangira ko ubutegetsi butoteza intumwa buba bugeze mu marembera.

6. 6. Kikwete yashubije Kagame

Muri Nyakanga kandi ubwo Tanzania yizihizaga umunsi w’intwari, mu karere k’Akagera Kikwete yavuze ijambo benshi bemeza ko yasubizaga perezida Kagame wari umaze iminsi acitswe akinyuramo agatangaza umugambi mubisha afite wo kwirenza Kikwete. Twibutse ko mu minsi yashize tariki 30 Kamena aribwo Kagame yavuze ijambo benshi bise rutwitsi ryari rikubiyemo ibintu ubundi umukuru w’igihugu atari yitezweho. Mu iryo jambo niho Kagame yahishuye umugambi wo guhoza Abahutu mu ipfunwe kugeza igihe ngo basabiye imbabazi( bijyana na bwa burwayi twavuze haruguru). Kagame ni na bwo yavuze ko azubikira Kikwete akamukubita! Abazi uko Kagame akubita ntibafashe iri jambo bikino ahubwo bahise baryoherereza Kikwete. Umukozi wa ministeri y’ububanyi n’amahanga wa Tanzania yasubije ko ko Kagame aramutse yibeshye yakubitwa inkoni nk’akana gatoya! Yongeyeho ati “niba umuntu adashaka kugirwa inama yicecekeye akareka utugambo yaba iki?”

Ni uko Kikwete nawe mu kwibuka intwari ati “uzadukinisha wese tuzamwereka uko twagize Idi Amin”. Abazi amateka ya Idi Amin baribuka uburyo yashatse gufata akarere k’ Akagera ngo akomeke kuri Uganda. Yongeyeho n’agasuzuguro kenshi cyane yandika ibaruwa we yise iy’urukundo ayoherereza Nyerere. Iyo baruwa yagiraga iti: “Nshuti nkunda cyane Nyerere, ndagukunda cyane ndetse ndashaka no kukurongora…”. (Documentary The Rise and Fall of Idi Amin). Aha Idi Amin yemeje ko yabonaga Nyerere ari umugore mu bandi bagore! Ibi byatumye Nyerere agira umujinya cyane yohereza ingabo ze ati “muzagaruke mwakuyeho uwo mwirasi”. Abantu benshi bibaza niba Kikwete nawe yaracaga amarenga ko azohereza ingabo ngo zikureho umwirasi!

Ikinyamakuru Igihe.com cyo, mu ijwi rya Kubwimana ngo gisanga Kikwete yarabwiraga Malawi, cyakora kinavuga ko ngo Tanzania yaba iri kurwana muri Congo ifatanyije na FARDC na FDLR ngo bagamije gufata u Rwanda, nyamara benshi bakaba bakeka ko ukuri kwabyo kugerwa ku mashyi.

Dukomeze turebe aho byerekeza.

Five illusions a naïve visitor to Rwanda falls for

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Five illusions a naïve visitor to Rwanda falls for

ILLUSION 1: Rwanda is an environmental haven

By David Himbara

Hey, I admit it. I am some kind of addict. But not to drugs or ganja or booze as my Rwandan biographers would have it. I am addicted to writing about development and to my family. So here I am writing away for a few minutes in the middle of my sunny holiday.

Upon arrival at Kigali International Airport, and the short drive from there to downtown Kigali, a naïve visitor will have gulped down five illusions. But first, what is an illusion? An illusion refers to perception of something that does not correspond to what exists in the real world. Illusions fool people, including you and me! Magicians use illusions. That is why they are also known as illusionists. Magicians do not perform miracles —they just appear to do so via clever tricks. So what the illusions does the naïve visitor to Rwanda fall for — the things that appear real but are actually fake?

At the airport, plastic bags are taken away from everyone. The justification for this is that Rwanda is an environmental haven and example of best practices to the rest of world on saving mother earth. Even the Doubting Thomas among the visitors gets impressed by the time he/she has reached the Serena Hotel, not least the palm tree-covered highway, and the neat and orderly passers-by and the incredibly clean-looking environment of city of Kigali.

THE REALITY:

The Rwandan Capital City of Kigali is an environmental catastrophe waiting to happen. A city of about one million people, the size of Detroit in United States or Birmingham in the United Kingdom, Kigali does not have a central sewage or a single treatment plant. Every private, commercial and industrial building still uses latrine either in its primitive form of a hole in the earth, or in its modern form – the septic tank, itself often shoddily-constructed. In either case, the human refuse ends into the soil, and subsequently dumped into River Nyabugogo/River Akagera system and off to Uganda, Sudan and Egypt. The Rwandan countryside repeats the pattern sending tons of human refuse into national, regional and international water systems.

WHAT TO DO?

President Paul Kagame, please find US$50million to acquire a treatment plant and a centralized sewage system for Kigali City. As you are well aware, various studies have made convincing options to get the job done. Meanwhile, as you know Your Excellency, the open sewers in parts of Kigali City often send unfortunate old and young Rwandans to their death during the rainy seasons as they become raging rivers. Stop being an illusionist Sir – make this thing a reality. Why don’t you use part of the US$400 million bond to fix this disaster? The Kigali Convention Centre can wait a bit longer and come later into a genuinely clean city after this thing has been fixed. Otherwise right now Kigali is in reality the most environmentally-degraded and dirtiest habit even by regional standards. Right next door in Burundi, Bujumbura has a centralized sewage system – Kigali is a latrine city by contrast. Of course, Sir, the Sewage thing may not be clamorous and show-and-tell kind of thing, but it is essential. Don’t you agree?

ILLUSION 2: Rwandans are now reconciled

On arrival, our gullible guest to Rwanda has been received by highly courteous immigration officials. And after collecting her luggage downstairs, her plastic bags have been taken away to protect mother earth. And once outside, her taxi drives away towards Serena Hotel on a palm-tree lined boulevard without a single pothole. Who indeed would not be impressed by these things?

The visitor then poses to her taxi driver the one question she has been dying to ask since she set foot on the Rwandan soil. “So tell me, are you a Hutu or Tutsi?” The reply stuns her. “Look Madam, this is a new Republic of Rwanda. We are only Rwandans here. You can in fact go to jail for asking that. We do not tolerate divisionism and such mindsets that breed genocide ideology.” The naïve lady visitor happily settles in the back seat of her taxi, satisfied that a miracle has happened in a country that almost self-destructed via ethnic hatred and genocide back in 1994.

ILLUSION 2:

Rwandans are now reconciled, freed from divisive ethnic labels by a progressive government that is successfully building a united and prosperous future for all Rwandans. Ethnic divisions in Rwanda are no more.

REALITY:

Beyond the generic rhetoric of today’s Rwandan leadership, no one really knows the extent of reconciliation. How can anyone assess and know such a thing in an atmosphere in which almost all issues are deemed taboo to talk about?

Nonetheless, we have a sense of what Rwandans may be feeling. A snap review of the past 19 years since President Paul Kagame has been at the helm of Rwandan political economy, illustrates an unattainable political environment for reconciliation:

RPF commits itself in 1994 to power-sharing both inside the party and nationally, with the victorious General Paul Kagame making a strategic concession by taking a position specially created for him – Vice Presidency – which he held together with Minister of Defense, making the General the king-maker;
Pasteur Bizimungu becomes President of Rwanda;
Things soon unravel by 1997-8;
RPF chairman Kanyaregwe is unceremoniously dumped;
Vice President Kagame takes over as chairman;
Pasteur Bizimungu, the head of state, reduced to Kagame’s deputy in the party;
To grasp the absurdity of this machination, imagine Yoweri Kaguta Museveni who is the president of Uganda reduced to deputy president of NRM and Edward Ssekandi, who is the vice president of the country, grabbing party presidency;
Fast-track to 2000, President Bizimungu is finally removed (and later imprisoned), Paul Kagame becomes head of state and party;
Once Paul Kagame is in the presidency, the post of vice president mysteriously vanishes into thin air never to be heard of again;
Fast-track to 2013, no significant senior ministerial post, besides the Presidency, remains in the hands of Hutu leaders – including Finance, Defense, Foreign Affairs, Cabinet Affairs, Justice (both the Minister and Chief Justice), Central Bank, Health, Education, and Local Government. Throw in the chief of police and head of prosecuting authority!

It would be a grave mistake to see the current rule simply as a Tutsi regime, however. It is President Paul Kagame’s regime, a one-man thing demanding total allegiance in which a single diverging/independent thought is enough ground to become ruthlessly purged. The recent removal of former Justice Minister Kagarugama is further evidence, if any were still needed. Karugarama’s crime was, apparently, to hold fast to the Rwandan Constitution which does not allow any head of state to hold power longer than two 7 year terms – 14 years in all.

The post-1994 Rwandan history hardly paints a journey to reconciliation and long-term stability.

ILLUSION 3: Rwanda is a role model in empowering women

As our gullible visitor moves steadily from the airport and reaches the Nyarutarama junction, she is shown by the taxi driver a magnificent set of buildings sitting on top of an imposing hill. The taxi man explains to the visitor that what she is now looking at is the parliamentary complex – the sitting of Rwandan parliamentarians and senators. Excitedly, the lady visitor asks the driver: “is it true women are so empowered and even determine the legislative direction of your country?” To which the taxi driver proudly responds: “Madam – I may not know some of these things, but thanks to our visionary leadership, women are not only empowered, they also form the majority of our representatives in parliament. I hear this over and over again on the radio.”

ILLUSION 3:

Because the majority of Rwandan parliamentarians are female – at 56% – an even higher percentage than in Sweden which is globally recognized for its leadership in this cause, Rwanda is a role model in empowering women.

A real parliament normally has at least four functions – (1) representing the constituency, civil society and citizens at large, including the downtrodden; (2) consolidating the national interest via bipartisanship by giving voice to all its members, regardless whether they are drawn from the ruling party or the opposition; (3) improving governance by legislating and drafting laws; and (4) holding the executive branch accountable in management of public affairs including budgetary resources and public assets.

So now, does it follow that because the Rwandan parliament has female majority, it is somehow an inclusive and innovative legislative body that meets these basic responsibilities, including competencies to improve the lives of women? Whoever answers this in affirmative, he/she should seek immediate mental care.

Who do Rwandan parliamentarians represent – their own local constituencies, women, civil society, or Rwandan citizens at large?
What type of bipartisanship, pluralistic and tolerant culture is the Rwandan parliament building – if any?
Which parliamentary committee is genuinely led by the opposition – including those aspects assigned to the opposition in accordance with Commonwealth practices which Rwanda supposedly adheres to due to its membership of this grouping?
What progressive laws, comparatively, has Rwandan parliament passed in favor of women – laws that, for example, have far-reaching impact than in neighboring countries whose parliaments have fewer female legislators?
Who controls whom in Rwanda – does parliament oversee the operations of the executive branch or is it the reverse?

The answer to each of these questions, for all intents and purposes, confirms the near-total dominance of the executive over other branches of government in Rwanda, especially the subservient Rwandan parliament.

THE REALITY:

Rwandan parliament, its women majority notwithstanding, is a toothless rubber stamp of the one-man iron-fist rule. This is the very same parliament that shockingly gave President Paul Kagame an ovation in 2010 when he violently stated that he would kill a fly with a hammer referring to exiled former Rwandan army chief of staff and former intelligence chief. Where else but in Kagame’s Rwanda would a head of state openly talk of killing people right inside the very assembly that makes laws against such behavior – and instead receive a prolonged applause and enthusiastic response! Among those cheering-on the Rwandan ruler was the 56% female majority and the female speaker of the lower chamber of the Rwandan parliament, Rose Mukantabana, who was little known when she mysteriously acquired the post in 2008, remains undistinguished in 2013.

The current President of the Rwandan Senate, Jean Damascene Ntawukuriryayo, best illustrates the wretchedness of Rwandan politics. This man has held various ministerial portfolios in the Kagame-led government, including higher education, infrastructure, and health before transiting to parliament as one of its vice presidents. Ntawukuriryayo was one of the few politicians allowed to run against the incumbent Paul Kagame on an essentially same political platform in both the presidential elections of 2003 and 2010. This is why Ntawukiriryayo earned the nickname “the stooge.” The incumbent won the elections by a shocking 93% in 2010 while the stooge came second with 5%. Ntawukuriryayo hastened to congratulate Paul Kagame. President Kagame returned the stooge’s favor by nominating him to the Rwandan Senate where he was soon crowned its president. Guess what!? Under the strange Rwandan Constitution, this unelected stooge would be the ruler of Rwanda, were the incumbent to become incapacitated. Hallelujah, Amen! Meanwhile the former President of the Senate, Vincent Biruta, has been recycled back into the Kagame cabinet, as Minister of Education.

For inspiration in female parliamentary leadership, look across the border – the Republic of Uganda – where women form a mere 31% in parliament. Led by Rebecca Alitwala Kadaga, Ugandan parliament continues to challenge and change the political status quo since Kadaga made history by becoming the first female speaker in May 2011.

Kadaga’s long public service as a member of parliament, minister, deputy speaker and now speaker gives her considerable exposure and experience at both the national and international spheres. Kadaga’s strength radiates primarily from the very constituency whose lives she is determined to improve – Ugandan women.

Kadaga does not blindly obey the orders of President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni – on the contrary she stands up to the Ugandan ruler in defence of parliamentary responsibilities, even though she is a member of the president’s ruling party, the NRM. Speaker Kadaga’s insistency to preserving neutrality in moderating debates between her own party and the opposition is becoming legendary – and a continuous irritation to the ruling elite. And as is widely reported, Kadage has a formidable informal committee of advisers, including sector experts, lawyers, media professionals, MPs, influential religious leaders, and cultural leaders, whom she regularly consults – which provides the Speaker with a knowledge-base that enables her to withstand executive power plays.

No equivalency of a Rebecca Alitwala Kadaga exists in the so-called female-majority Rwandan parliament. What you have in Rwanda instead is yet another PR-inspired fake branding shamelessly masqueraded as “women empowerment.” A Kagada would simply not happen in Rwanda whereby the Constitution makes the head of state quite literally a monarch who determines almost every career and livelihood in public service on the basis of obsequiousness, as laughably illustrated by the case of the President of the Rwandan Senate.

President Paul Kagame personally launched the “the National Information Communication Infrastructure (NICI) Plan” in 2000, which aimed to transform Rwanda into a knowledge based-economy by the year 2020. Phase 1 of NICI (2000-2005) was to create the enabling environment for building a knowledge economy; Phase 2 (2006-2011) was to build the required IT infrastructure and human capital base; in Phase 3 (2012-2016) IT-based services and products would begin to enter the global market place; Phase 4 (2016-2020) would see Rwanda cruising towards becoming a knowledge-based economy with a middle-income status of US$900 GDP per capita – a figure later increased to US$1,200 GDP per capita.

ILLUSION 4:

Our naïve guest nearing her hotel in downtown Kigali had learnt with great admiration of President Kagame’s tireless efforts in transforming Rwanda into a knowledge-based economy. She has over the years followed with great interest the extensive coverage the Rwandan president receives in global media, not least about the many deserving awards he regularly wins for his remarkable efforts. Now to be in Kigali, in the land of a great African IT head of state was so exciting.

She remembered especially how a leading American journal, Fortune, described the Rwandan President when back in 2007 he had lunch with senior Google executives including CEO Eric Schmidt at the company’s campus in Mountain View in California. That is when the Internet giant announced its plans to make available to Rwanda free of charge its Google Apps-web-based applications – something that would change the face of Rwanda in such critical areas as training staff server-maintenance, in buying PC-based software and in developing and maintaining e-mail systems. Who indeed would not be impressed that a country generally known for violence had already by 2007 achieved such an amazing feat – not only computers but also broadband connections previously unheard of in this part of the world.

REALITY:

Unknown to the gullible visitor, most of this was propaganda hot air. In fact Google never set foot in Rwanda – it went to neighboring Kenya instead. For one thing, a Google server/station would probably need some 50 megawatts of electricity which would have plunged Rwanda into darkness as that was the equivalent to total installed power in the country at the time. Worse still, there were hardly any broadband connections in 2007 – In fact, while President Kagame was having a photo opportunity with Google executives, behind the scenes he was busy sacking Terracom, which was supposedly building “the fastest communications backbone in Africa.”

Here is the Rwandan IT reality and the key stages/outcomes in the implementation of President Kagame’s infamous NICI since he launched it 13 years ago.

2000 – NICI Plan launched; Rwanda Information Technology Authority (RITA) later becomes the implementing agency, located directly in President Kagame’s office;
2003 – New NICI Plan driver installed; this is Sam Nkusi, minister of communications supported by Sem Ochuodho as head of RITA – Nkusi is sacked in 2004;
2004 – Preparations for building IT infrastructure begin; Greg Wyler buys Rwandatel with the goal of using it as a backbone to create Africa’s fastest broadband connections, including the infrastructure on the top of Mt Kalisimbi – Greg Wyler is sacked in 2007 when he tries to team up with ‘the father of telecommunications in Africa’ Miko Rwayitare;
2004 – New NICI Plan driver installed; this is Albert Butare, the new minister in charge of communications – RITA’s Ochuodho sacked in 2006;
2006 – Rwanda’s IT Park for creating IT entrepreneurs, start-ups, IT-bases services and products is established at Telecom House supervised by RITA and Minister in-charge of communications;
2006 – President Paul Kagame begins his global campaign to drum support for his transformation agenda towards knowledge-based economy – wins first award for best head of state in Africa in support of ICT – again in 2007 and after; many awards follow;
2007 – New NICI Plan driver installed as Minister Butare is purged of the communications portfolio for ‘poor performance’ – Romain Murenzi becomes the Minister of IT in Office of the President and David Kanamugire as his Permanent Secretary; Nkubito Bakuramutsa becomes head of RITA;
2007 – Rwandatel, after being re-nationalized after the Greg Wyler disaster, is now sold to the Libyans. The determining fact is not IT but to make more cash for building IT infrastructure;
2007 – Korea Telcom begins to build a 2,300 kilometer fiber-optic cable and Kigali Wireless Broadband;
2009 – New NICI Plan driver installed; Romain Murenzi crashes out and resigns – Ignace Gatare becomes the Minister of IT in Office of the President, with David Kanamugire his PS;
2009 – RITA scrapped as a free standing agency; it is incorporated into the Rwanda Development Board – Nkubito Bakuramutsa sacked and replaced by Patrick Nyirishema;
2011 – The Kagame government announces that it is looking for a private operator to manage the completed IT infrastructure worthy over US$100million;
2011 – Rwandatel collapses and is liquidated to pay back debts worth US$89 million;
2012 – Rwandatel’s masks are purchased by Airtel;
2012 – The post of Minister in the Office of the President in-charge of IT is scrapped – Ignace Gatare reduced from minister to Director General of Science and Technology Commission; strangely, IT is at the same time transferred to Ministry of Youth, and Information, Communication and Technology headed by Minister Jean Philbert Nsengimana;
2013 – Remains of Rwandatel , namely its copper wire and fibre as well as customer base are purchased by Liquid Telcom, whose representative in Rwanda is no other than Sam Nkusi;
2013 – RDB announces that the ICT Park at Telecom House “was really a small level pilot” and that the real ICT city will soon be built at the Kigali Special Economic Zone.

According to NICI plan, Rwanda should right now be exporting IT-based services and products. The then RITA’s head, Sem Ochuodho had claimed in 2006 that “By the time the NICI program concludes, we hope to be able to export software and systems worth $50-100 million every year.”

What sort of export software, systems, or outsourced work then is presently being performed in Rwanda after 13 years of implementing President Kagame’s NICI Plan? How many IT entrepreneurs or start-ups have emerged and distinguished themselves in the domestic or foreign markets? Zero! Zilch! Nothing beyond your routine sim-card selling and internet-surfing services led by RPF’s own MTN Rwanda which continues to thrive, while Rwandatel was sold, re-owned and sold again to provide funds for implementing the juvenile NICI Plan.

Now folks, if you wish to cry for your country, read what the current Rwandan officials in charge of IT are telling you with regards to where the 13 years of NICI Plan have taken Rwanda.

What you read on the RDB website confirms one’s worst fears of who is running Rwanda.

Here are the highlights of what they are saying:

“Information and Communication Technology is a central engine to driving Rwanda’s transformation to a knowledge based economy”;
Rwanda is “acknowledged by allocating a budget to ICT – as a percentage of its GDP – that is at par with OECD countries.”
“Rwanda continues to be one of the fastest growing African countries in ICT;”
Rwanda’s ICT Competitive advantage includes “cheap labor compared to other countries in the Region”, “low levels of corruption – Zero tolerance” and “strong & visionary leadership;”
Total IT infrastructure investment so far is “US$ 150million.”

Surely assure me that these are not April Fools’ Day sick jokes. How can IT possibly be “the central engine” in the current IT shambles in Rwanda? How can “cheap labour” be a competitive advantage in IT? What has “strong” leadership or “zero tolerance for corruption” have to do with IT? And with a mere US$150million IT infrastructure assets, how can Rwanda possibly belong to the same league as OECD countries – do the people running RDB even understand the term ‘OECD’? I doubt President Kagame’s planners – whom he changes like underwear – have even visited their own East African neighborhood, let alone OECD countries. Let them visit Kenya which is currently building ‘Silicon Savannah’ as a regional hub for the next generation of digital industry leaders.

Nairobi is already a hub in its own right – hosting the biggest brands in the world of technology, including Google, Intel, and Microsoft and doing thriving business in millions of dollars. These global players join local actors, not least Safaricom and its innovative invention of M-Pesa to take advantage of the existing hi-tech entrepreneurs and venture capitalists ready to become part of Konza Technology City, soon to be the home of Silicon Savannah some 60 outside Nairobi. And while Kagame’s Rwanda talks of US$150million IT development, Konza will swallow no less than US$14.5 billion-worth of infrastructure.

Perhaps the biggest insult to Rwandans by Kagame officials is the lie that the IT Park at Telecom House implemented since 2006 “was really a small level pilot” and that the real thing is about to happen in the Kigali Special Economic Zone.”

Where in the world did you ever hear of a seven-year IT pilot project “which would give us an idea of how an ICT city would be”? The arrogant infant abusing our intelligence by feeding us such trash is not aware that great IT companies started in garages, including Amazon, Apple, and Hewlett-Packard. Somebody tell this would-be public servant that it is the brainpower and innovation, stupid – not space!

Our gullible visitor has over the years swallowed the idea that Rwanda is zero-tolerant for corruption.

ILLUSION 5:

That is because every year you see screaming around the world such headlines as “Rwanda is the least corrupt state in the East African Community.” Rwanda’s Public Procurement Law is also said to be the most stringent in Africa. Passed in 2007, this law enforces transparency, competition, and fairness in tendering and procurement processes, making conflict of interest nearly impossible in Rwanda.

REALITY:

Paul Kagame plays three dominant roles that render him quite literally the ‘owner’ of Rwanda thereby making the conception of “conflict of interest” a sick joke:

He is President of the Republic of Rwanda.
He is the Chairman of RPF, the ruling party and in this capacity, the boss of RPF’s business empire; in other words,
He is the real Chairman of RPF’s Crystal Ventures Ltd, the conglomerate that dominates almost all aspects of Rwandan economy.

This is how Crystal Ventures limited describes itself:

“Crystal Ventures Ltd (CVL) is an investment company established in 2009 and it acquired most of the assets of another local investment company which was founded in 1995.”

“The company is wholly owned by Rwandan business people who pooled resources together to meet challenges of economic recovery and take advantage of growth opportunities in a virgin environment.”

“Having made a few good investments especially in telecoms, the company earned decent returns that were reinvested to create what is now the biggest investment company in the country.”

“In the beginning the company enjoyed monopoly power in some of its businesses but over time this has diminished.”

“The sectors currently invested in include civil works and concrete products, construction and real estate development, telecommunications, agricultural value addition, aviation charter services, security services, printing and publishing, furniture trading and manufacturing, building materials, media systems, property management and engineering services and diversified investment groups.”

“CVL employs over 7,000 people of whom over 4,800 are permanent employees.”

But here is the bombshell. President Kagame’s three roles have merged to such outrageous extent that conflict of interest in Rwanda has lost any meaning – conflict of interest in now ‘normal.’ It is therefore no surprise that Crystal Ventures’ wealth mainly comes from Rwandan taxpayers’ money entrusted to Paul Kagame as the President of Rwanda. In other words, Paul Kagame, the corporate giant, makes of almost all his money from Paul Kagame, the President of Rwanda.

These are a few examples that have made the Rwandan President laugh all the way to the bank:

ILLUSION 5: Rwanda is zero-tolerant for corruption

CENTRAL BANK OF RWANDA: Crystal Ventures Ltd is renovating the Central Bank of Rwanda – a government entity;
NATIONAL STADIUM IN HUYE DISTRICT: Crystal Ventures Ltd has been sub-contracted to build the National Stadium in Huye, Southern Province;
KIGALI CAPITAL CITY STREET LIGHTING: Crystal Ventures Ltd was contracted by the Kigali City Council to install street lights in the Rwandan Capital City;
KIGALI-RUBAVU HIGHWAY LIGHTING: Crystal Ventures Ltd is installing Kigali-Rubavu highway lighting under ‘rural electrification’ program;
BANK OF KIGALI MUHANGA BUILDING: Crystal Ventures Ltd built a five-storey Bank of Kigali building – Bank of Kigali is government-owned; http://www.realcontractorsltd.com/
AVIATION CHARTER SERVICES: Crystal Ventures’ executive jets are chartered by the Rwanda government to shuttle President Kagame around the globe.

A key question to ask is this: How does the Rwandan Treasury approve and get away with such expenditures that shockingly contradict every norm and practice of ending the cancer of conflict of interest?

That is easy to answer!

The famously women-dominated parliament is dead. And the Rwandan treasurer and the accounting officer/Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Finance, Ms Kampeta Sayinzoga, is a scandalous conflict of interest herself – she is the wife of President Paul Kagame’s nephew Byusa, who doubles as the President’s business partner. It is all in the family.

Folks, such acts would, anywhere else in the world, make a government fall.

Dr David Himbara was the Principal Private Secretary to President Paul Kagame in 2000-2002 and 2009. He was the founding chairperson of the Strategy and Policy Unit (SPU), the founding chairperson of Rwanda Development Board (RDB) and the founding chairperson of the Institute for Policy Analysis and Research (IPAR). A Rwandan-Canadian, David Himbara is an independent reform strategist and an Adjunct Professor at the University of the Witswaterand, South Africa which he has been associated with on-and-off since 1994. Himbara left Rwanda and returned to South Africa in January 2010.

The State Department briefing on Democratic Republic of Congo of July 23rd, 2013

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Ms Jen Psaki is the spokesperson of the United States of America State Department and the former spokesperson for Barack Obama.

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QUESTION: Can I follow up on yesterday’s question about the Thursday UN meeting on the Great Lakes and —

MS. PSAKI: Absolutely.

QUESTION: — what you might be able to tell us about the violence in Congo that has driven refugees, to Goma specifically, between the Congolese forces and the M23?

MS. PSAKI: Yeah.

QUESTION: What’s your understanding of that situation?

MS. PSAKI: I can give you an update on that. Thanks for your patience. Let’s see here. I just want to make sure I give you the most up-to-date here, Scott.

Well, let me say first that we, of course, condemn M23’s latest round of attacks on the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s military. M23’s renewed fighting seriously undermines regional and international efforts to peacefully resolve the situation in eastern D.R.C. The Secretary, as you mentioned, is going to be heading to New York on Thursday to chair a meeting of the National Security Council focused on the Congo and focused on the situation in the Great Lakes. I expect I’ll have more to say on that tomorrow in terms of the agenda and what he’s hoping to accomplish while he’s there.

QUESTION: Has the Obama Administration approached its allies in Kigali about their support for the M23?

MS. PSAKI: I just don’t have any update for you on that in terms of contacts.

QUESTION: Well, it’s the allegation of Human Rights Watch that the Rwandan military is directly supporting the M23 both in training —

MS. PSAKI: Mm-hmm.

QUESTION: — and in the recruitment of demobilized Rwandan soldiers. Is that a view that is shared by the United States?

MS. PSAKI: Well, we believe there is a credible body of evidence that supports the key findings of the Human Rights Watch report, including support by senior Rwandan officials to the M23 and of Rwandan military personnel in the D.R.C. We call upon Rwanda to immediately end any support to the M23, withdraw military personnel from eastern D.R.C., and follow through on its commitments under the framework.

QUESTION: Is it your understanding that President Kagame is aware of that, or is this just being done by some senior Rwandan officials?

MS. PSAKI: I don’t have any more specifics on it for you.

QUESTION: I just want —

QUESTION: Call on the senior Rwandan officials to stop – et cetera, et cetera, et cetera – I’m not trying to – I just don’t remember exactly what it was —

MS. PSAKI: To end its —

QUESTION: Yeah.

MS. PSAKI: — to end any support to the M23.

QUESTION: Right. Or what?

MS. PSAKI: Well, that’s what we’re calling for, Matt.

QUESTION: Just out of the goodness of their hearts they should stop doing this, because they’re nice guys?

MS. PSAKI: That’s not at all what I’m suggesting. That’s what we feel needs to happen.

QUESTION: Well, what’s the – I understand. And then how are you prepared to make the case that – how are you prepared to punish them or use leverage to – what kind of leverage are you using to make your case here?

MS. PSAKI: I don’t have any leverage to outline for you today.

QUESTION: In other words, none. It’s kind of just an empty appeal, an empty call.

MS. PSAKI: Well, it was a very powerful case made in the Human Rights Watch report.

QUESTION: Right.

MS. PSAKI: I’m sure it was – raised the eyebrows of others as well. So we’re continuing to call on them to take action.

QUESTION: Do you know if this – if the view that you just expressed is shared over at the White House?

MS. PSAKI: Yes, it is.

QUESTION: It is shared at the White House.

MS. PSAKI: Mm-hmm.

QUESTION: Then why has this Administration not done anything to pressure President Kagame into ending the support for M23?

MS. PSAKI: Well, Matt, I don’t have any context to outline for you. This is a position that’s shared broadly in the Administration. Obviously, the Human Rights Watch report is something that we – I just stated we agree with and we share the concerns with it. But beyond that, I don’t have much more for you.

QUESTION: Jen, can I ask – in the past —

MS. PSAKI: Sure.

QUESTION: — the Administration, and particularly from this podium, you’ve been quite careful to not single out any of the (inaudible) players in that region.

MS. PSAKI: Mm-hmm.

QUESTION: Is it – what is it in the Human Rights Watch report that has led you to this conclusion today that you can specifically call on Rwanda to end any support for the M23?

MS. PSAKI: Well, the Human Rights Watch report was specific about support by senior Rwandan officials to the M23 and Rwandan military personnel in the D.R.C. That’s something, obviously, that raises concerns for us. And that’s why we are calling for Rwanda to immediately end any support to the M23. So it was specific about that issue.

QUESTION: And you believe, generally, that the Human Rights Watch has produced a credible and —

MS. PSAKI: We believe there’s a credible body of evidence presented in the report.

QUESTION: That the – then the – that that – of their report that they compiled that they put together. So in other words, you take them seriously, you take this organization – you respect this organization as a credible rapporteur on human rights issues?

MS. PSAKI: Well, Matt, I know where you’re going with this —

QUESTION: Do you?

MS. PSAKI: — and I’m speaking specifically to this report —

QUESTION: Okay.

MS. PSAKI: — and our agreement with the credible body of evidence —

QUESTION: So – so —

MS. PSAKI: — in this report.

QUESTION: So any concern they might have about other cases – individuals stranded in Russian airports, for example – you wouldn’t necessarily agree with.

MS. PSAKI: I’m not making a sweeping claim here, Matt. I’m speaking to this specific report.

QUESTION: Can I return to that question?

MS. PSAKI: Mm-hmm.

QUESTION: Was so you’re saying that the military believe that the military is supporting these armed rebel – the M23, and that it’s not that Kagame himself does not have a role?

MS. PSAKI: I wasn’t speaking to Kagame himself. I don’t have anything more on that.

QUESTION: Right.

MS. PSAKI: I’m speaking specifically to support by senior Rwandan officials to the M23.

QUESTION: So it’s officials within the military.

MS. PSAKI: And of military personnel.

QUESTION: So usually when the U.S. makes that kind of statement, I mean, it does affect aid to these countries.

MS. PSAKI: Mm-hmm.

QUESTION: I mean, would there be some – would the Secretary be rolling out some kind of plan or warn Rwanda during the Congo – during the Security Council meeting that if they continue doing that, you could withhold aid? Because last year – I just brought up the story on July the 1^st – the U.S. called on Rwanda to stop supporting. And they clearly have not.

MS. PSAKI: Mm-hmm.

QUESTION: So this would be the second one in a year —

MS. PSAKI: Mm-hmm.

QUESTION: — that you’d actually warned. Does it have implications for aid?

MS. PSAKI: I don’t have any update on next steps. Obviously, this is of concern. But beyond that, I don’t have any update for all of you.

QUESTION: It might be worth looking at, because Lesley’s absolutely right.

MS. PSAKI: Sure.

QUESTION: You did call for this to happen —

MS. PSAKI: Mm-hmm.

QUESTION: — it didn’t happen. And one of the – and potentially you might want to look at whether one of the reasons that it didn’t happen was that because you didn’t threaten them with anything, you didn’t use any leverage. You just issued this empty call that has no teeth behind it.

MS. PSAKI: We will take that all into consideration.

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Source: The State Department, the United States of America.