IYICWA RYA KAREGEYA, INDUNDURO YO GUCUMBAGIRIRA KU MAGURU YOMBI.

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

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

 1. Byose bijya gutangira, habanje kwica no kwivuga.

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

2. FPR mu mucuri wa “ndumunyarwanda”.

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

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

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

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

3. Gucumbagirira ku maguru abiri mu butabera birarangiye.

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

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

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

                

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

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

Edmond Munyangaju

Central African Republic interim President Michel Djotodia resigns

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

PM Nicolas Tiengaye also resigned at the meeting in Chad.

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

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

The UN has warned of an impending humanitarian disaster.

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

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

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

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

French tanks were quickly deployed around the presidential palace.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Source: bbc.co.uk

DRCongo: Goma rejoices as Kagame is said dead!

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

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

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

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

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

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

Luanda: 5è sommet de la CIRGL sur la paix, la sécurité et le développement dans la région

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Le thème de ce 5 ème sommet est : « Promouvons la paix, la  sécurité,  la stabilité et le développement dans la Région des Grands Lacs. »

Les Etats de la Conférence internationale sur la région des Grands lacs (CIRGL) ouvrent vendredi 10 janvier à Luanda (Angola) leur 5è sommet consacré à la paix, la sécurité, la stabilité et le développement dans la région. Ce forum de six jours débute au Centre de conférence de Talatona par une réunion des chefs d’Etat-major général des forces armées et chefs de services de renseignement des pays des Grands Lacs, indique le communiqué du secrétariat exécutif de la CIRGL à Kinshasa.

Les ministres des Affaires étrangères de la CIRGL se réuniront mardi 14 janvier à la veille de l’ouverture du sommet des chefs d’Etat et de gouvernement de la région.

Durant ce sommet, premier de l’an 2014, les Etats membres de la CIRGL devront envisager des solutions adéquates pour continuer à promouvoir la paix, la sécurité, la stabilité et le développement dans les Grands lacs.

La création de la CIRGL résulte de la reconnaissance de la dimension régionale de multiples conflits armés et de la nécessité d’un effort concerté en vue de promouvoir la paix dans la région.

Le sommet de Luanda intervient deux mois après la victoire des FARDC sur les rebelles du M23.

La CIRGL compte douze membres qui sont : l’Angola, le Burundi, la RCA, le Congo, la RDC, le Kenya, l’Ouganda, le Rwanda, le Soudan, Le soudan du Sud, la Tanzanie et La Zambie.

Ces pays avaient signé, en février 2012 à Addis-Abeba (Ethiopie), un accord pour restaurer la paix dans l’est de la RDC et dans toute la région.

Source: Radio Okapi

Rwanda : Assassinat du Colonel Patrick Karegeya. Quels enseignements ? Par Emmanuel Neretse

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Le 01 janvier 2014 dans l’après-midi, la nouvelle de l’assassinat du colonel Patrick Karegeya qui vivait en Afrique du Sud fut répandue comme une trainée de poudre. Son corps inanimé venait d’être retrouvé dans une chambre de l’hôtel Michelangelo Towers sis dans le quartier huppé de Johannesburg. Ces proches révéleront qu’il s’était rendu à cet hôtel le soir du 31 décembre 2013 pour y rencontrer un de ses contacts venu du Rwanda,  un certain Apollo Kiririsi et avec qui ils s’étaient donnés rendez-vous. La police sud africaine se contenta de dire que les enquêtes se poursuivaient mais précisait que le colonel Patrick Karegeya avait été retrouvé étranglé et que son corps inanimé était étendu sur le lit de cette chambre de l’hôtel Michelangelo Towers où il était descendu la veille. Il avait été dépouillé de ses téléphones portables.

Qui était Patrick Karegeya ?

Jusqu’en 2014, Patrick Karegeya avait été Chef des Renseignements Extérieurs du régime du Front Patriotique Rwandais (FPR) qui a conquis militairement le pouvoir en 1994 venant d’Ouganda. Comme la plupart des combattants tutsis du FPR, Patrick Karegeya avait servi dans l’armée ougandaise avant de rejoindre le FPR en 1990. Il gravira alors tous les échelons de la hiérarchie militaire de façon qu’en 2004 il avait atteint le grade de colonel. Il faisait donc, jusqu’à cette date,  partie du cercle restreint de l’élite tutsi née ou ayant grandi en Ouganda et qui contrôle le pouvoir tant politique qu’économique et surtout militaire au Rwanda d’après 1994. Il est subitement tombé en disgrâce sans que l’on sache exactement pourquoi et a  subi plusieurs sévices dont des détentions dans des lieux secrets, la dégradation, avant d’être  rayé des cadres militaires. Il parviendra à quitter le pays et trouver asile en Afrique du Sud. C’est d’Afrique du Sud qu’avec un autre ancien officier du FPR le général Kayumba Nyamwasa, lui aussi exilé dans ce pays, avec d’autres anciens dignitaires du FPR, ils fondèrent le « Rwanda National Congress »  (RNC) un parti politique qui entend mener un combat démocratique pour débarrasser le Rwanda de la dictature du FPR personnifiée par le général-président Paul Kagame. Dès le lancement de leur mouvement politique, le RNC, les deux compagnons d’infortune connaîtront des ennuis divers de leur exil sud africain. Le général Kayumba Nyamwasa, ancien Chef d’Etat-major de l’Armée Patriotique Rwandaise échappera à deux tentatives d’assassinat. L’affaire est toujours en cours devant les tribunaux sud africains mais les premiers éléments d’enquêtes montrèrent clairement que le régime de Kigali fut le commanditaire de ces tentatives d’assassinat. Ce 31 décembre2013, le colonel Karegeya n’a donc pas eu autant de chance que son collègue Kayumba Nyamwasa et est donc tombé dans les mains des tueurs téléguidés de Kigali.

Qu’implique cette croisade meurtrière contre les anciens collaborateurs de Paul Kagame ?

Aussi paradoxale que ceci peut paraître, Paul Kagame craint plus les opposants issus des rangs du FPR et de ce cercle restreint des tutsi venus d’Ouganda que toute autre opposition surtout hutu. Il sait qu’il peut à tout moment se débarrasser de n’importe quelle personnalité hutu sans même devoir faire recours à son élimination physique mais tout simplement en l’étiquetant « génocidaire ». On sait que par le passé il n’avait pas hésité à éliminer les Hutu ayant appartenu au FPR avant de s’en écarter comme l’ancien ministre Seth Sendashonga ou le colonel Théoneste Lizindetous les deux abattus dans les rues de Nairobi la capitale du  Kenya à la fin des années 90. Il semble que depuis lors, Paul Kagame ait réservé à ses opposants des deux bords (les Hutu comme les Tutsi) de les éliminer pour les uns par l’accusation de « génocidaires » et s’il le faut physiquement et pour les autres purement et simplement physiquement car l’accusation de « génocidaires »  ne prendrait pas pour ses frères tutsi. La seule mesure pour les faire taire est de les tuer. Au-delà des divergences politiques qui opposent Kagame à certains de ses anciens camarades et qui le pousserait à vouloir coûte que coûte les faire taire, il faudrait aussi y voir la dimension internationale du cas rwandais. Certaines puissances ayant été complices de Paul Kagame et craignant que certains secrets ne soient révélés par certains qui les détiennent et qui ne sont plus sous le contrôle de leur poulain, le pousserait à tout faire pour faire taire ces voix. Ce n’est peut-être pas Kagamé seul qui a intérêt à ce que ses anciens proches qui l’ont fui soient éliminés avant qu’ils ne parlent. Ainsi depuis deux ans, le colonel Patrick Karegeya clamait partout qu’il voudrait témoigner devant le juge français dans le cadre de l’attentat du 6 avril 1994 car il affirmait connaître exactement le « tracing » des missiles jusqu’à leur site de tir… mais en vain. Il a été tué le 31 décembre 2013 et donc ne parlera jamais.

D’où le dictateur Paul Kagame tire-t-il son impunité et pourquoi le silence de la communauté internationale face à ses crimes ?

Paul Kagame est dans ce domaine particulièrement bien conseillé. Il s’est, pour ce faire, fait entourer de personnalités du monde de la presse et des finances , deux domaines qui à eux seuls mènent le monde au bout de leur baguette. Il a mis la presse internationale sous son boisseau en achetant certains organes connus pour leurs rapports avec l’argent (comme Jeune Afrique) ou en engageant directement des journalistes chargés de promouvoir son image (comme l’ougandais Andrew Mwendwa) ou alors en associant dans son fameux « Presidential Advisers Council » (PAC), le véritable gouvernement qui dirige le Rwanda, des magnats de la presse internationale. C’est dans ce gouvernement-bis (PAC) que l’on retrouve les milliardaires qui sont à la tête de la finance internationale, ou des anciens dirigeants des puissances capitalistes comme Bill Clinton ou Tony Blair. Avec une protection pareille, toute critique contre le dictateur Paul Kagame sera inaudible et quand bien même elle passerait, elle serait qualifiée de non sérieuse et traitée comme telle par les décideurs de ce monde.

Des précédents

Face à ce sombre tableau, les Rwandais peuvent penser que leur cas est unique et qu’ils sont donc condamnés à subir la dictature de Paul Kagamé jusqu’à la fin des temps.  Pourtant, l’histoire nous apprend que plusieurs dictateurs ont bénéficié du même traitement de la part des puissances occidentales avant d’être lâchés par ces mêmes puissances. Sans remonter plus loin dans l’Histoire, le maréchal Mobutu du Zaïre fut, pendant une longue période, choyé par les mêmes puissances qui ont précipité sa fin dans les conditions que nous savons. De même Saddam Hussein ne pouvait jamais s’imaginer qu’il serait un jour pendu sur ordre de la même Amérique qui fut longtemps son allié contre ses voisins. Plus près de nous, l’égyptien Moubarak se demande encore s’il est tombé sur la tête quand il découvre que c’est l’Occident, qui a encouragé et applaudi sa chute, lui qui a œuvré pour ce même occident contre vents et marrés au Moyen Orient pendant quatre décennies.

Un cri d’espoir

Paul Kagame est une créature de l’Occident. A lui seul il ne peut rien ni au Rwanda et encore moins dans la région. Il n’est pas de la trempe d’un Mobutu, ou d’un Saddam Hussein et encore moins d’un Hosni Moubarak lâchés par les mêmes Occidentaux laissant les peuples conduire leurs destinées. Il n’arrive même pas à leurs chevilles. Le moment n’est donc pas au défaitisme mais le peuple doit garder l’espoir que l’accident de l’histoire que constitue le FPR de Paul Kagame sur le chemin du peuple rwandais sera bientôt surmonté et qu’il ne sera plus qu’un triste souvenir.

Emmanuel Neretse
06/10/2014

Madame President? No, Madame Prisoner: Rwanda’s Victoire Ingabire

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by Ann Garrison

Victoire Ingabire, imprisoned Rwandan woman leader sentenced to 15 years of jail

Victoire Ingabire, imprisoned Rwandan woman political leader who was sentenced to 15 years of jail on 13/12/13.

The Obama administration and its European allies lavish praise, weapons and money on Paul Kagame’s military and ethnic dictatorship in Rwanda. Meanwhile, Victoire Ingabire, a woman of peace, languishes in Kagame’s prisons. If she were president, “there would be a major change in how Rwandans and Congolese live as neighbors, because that would be the end of Rwanda invading Congo.”

 “Why have President Obama and the U.S. State Department remained so silent about her case?”

Nearly 60% of Rwanda’s Members of Parliament are women, and the country is commonly praised for empowering women. In October 2011,

Rwandan President Paul Kagame’s delirious state newspaper even suggested that he deserved that year’s Nobel Peace Prize more than the three African women who won, because of his “good practices” to “guarantee a future devoid of gender imbalance.” Trouble with this theory is that Madame Victoire Ingabire, the one woman who dared to challenge Paul Kagame by attempting to run against him in 2010, has been in prison ever since. On Friday, December 13th, while Kagame was in South Africa to pay his last respects to Nelson Mandela, his Supreme Court upheld Victoire’s conviction and extended her sentence from eight to fifteen years.

Rwanda’s Supreme Court justices, 42% of whom are women, agreed with the lower court’s ruling that Victoire conspired to form an armed group to overthrow the government of Rwanda, but Human Rights Watch and many others called the charges politically motivated and the European Parliament called for justice and said that the lower court had not met international judicial standards. I myself spoke to Victoire for Pacifica’s KPFA Radio-Berkeley many times in 2010 and I’ve never known anyone so opposed to armed conflict or committed to the rule of law.  Her conviction for this would be a howler if she weren’t facing another twelve years in prison and her family weren’t facing their fourth Christmas without her.

Victoire speaks fluent Dutch, French, Kinyarwanda, and English, but pronounces “dialogue” and “debate” with a distinct and adamant French accent.  After the 2010 release of the UN Mapping Report documenting President Kagame’s army’s war crimes, crimes against humanity, and even genocide against Hutu refugees in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, she told KPFA that the mandate of the International Criminal Tribunal on Rwanda should be expanded to include crimes in Congo. Instead, she herself went to prison five days later.

Other prisoners who testified to joining her in a conspiracy to form an armed group were granted release for time served on the same day her own conviction was upheld.

President Obama?  

No one would seem to be more respectful of the West’s nominally revered democratic institutions and civil liberties than this Rwandan political prisoner, Victoire Ingabire, so why have President Obama and the U.S. State Department remained so silent about her case?  Neither President Obama nor British Prime Minister David Cameron hesitated to make it known that they had warned President Kagame not to send reinforcements across Rwanda’s western border to his M23 militia in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), when M23 finally faced defeat by the Congolese army and UN Force Intervention Brigade.  So why have they not, like the European Parliament, called on Rwanda, their longstanding ally and “military partner” to respect  judicial standards in Ingabire’s case?

“Victoire stands for negotiation with armed Rwandan refugees in Congo.” 

Many reasons, no doubt, including former President Bill Clinton’s determination to protect his longtime friend Paul Kagame and their mutual determination to preserve the received history of the Rwandan Genocide and ensuing Congo wars and conflict.  Another may be Victoire’s opposition to their longstanding plan to make Rwanda, or at least its modern capital city Kigali, the “Singapore of Africa,” a banking, technology, and minerals processing hub and multinational corporate gateway to the resource riches of the DRC.  In 2010, during her thwarted attempt to run for president, Victoire said:

“The rural population in Rwanda has been neglected for the last 16 years and, instead of the Singapore model of development, which gives the lion’s share to a tiny, urban privileged elite, I would invest in agriculture, I would invest in rural roads and health networks. I would review the land management and I would give priority to the subsistence food crops, rather than cash crops which benefit mostly traders from urban areas. For example, if people cultivate only maize – if you ask them to cultivate only maize for export – what will they eat? This is why I will give priority to enough food to my people.”

Like Tanzanian President Jacaya Kikwete, Victoire stands for negotiation with armed Rwandan refugees in Congo, who have been the Kagame regime’s excuse for invading and plundering that country for years.

“Victoire Ingabire does not believe in invading the neighbors,” said Rwanda Genocide survivor and Friends of the Congo activist Claude Gatebuke.   “So Victoire’s case is very significant, not only for Rwanda, but also for Congo.  If Victoire Ingabire were allowed to run for president in Rwanda, and she won, there would be a major change in how Rwandans and Congolese live as neighbors, because that would be the end of Rwanda invading Congo.”

Imagine that.  After almost 20 years, and millions of Congolese and Rwandan refugees dead.

Speech crime 

The lower court also upheld Victoire Ingabire’s conviction for several speech crimes.

1) “Spreading false rumors” intended to incite the public to rise up against the state.
Enough said, I hope, for anyone who believes in free speech.  Or anyone who understands that Rwanda is an authoritarian spy state that has engaged in a war of aggression in neighboring Congo for nearly 20 years.

2)  “Minimizing” the 1994 Rwandan Genocide.

In 2010, Victoire went to the Kigali Genocide Memorial Centre, and said that Hutu as well as Tutsi victims should be remembered there.  The history of the Rwandan Genocide, codified in Rwanda’s Constitution, is that it was only Hutu extremists’ “Genocide Against the Tutsi.”

Before she went to prison, Victoire told KPFA listeners,“ My party and I have never denied the genocide, by the UN understanding, because the Resolution 955 from UN says that in Rwanda was genocide against the people of Rwanda . . . there was genocide against Tutsis and moderate Hutus. We don’t have to forget that. Yes, there was genocide and all people involved should be brought to the court. But, before, during, and after the genocide, other Rwandese people were killed. Hutus and Tutsis were killed. Is this denying genocide? I don’t feel so.”

It’s difficult to rationally argue with this, because the 1991 Rwandan census, as documented by Ed Herman and David Peterson in The Politics of Genocide, reported a Rwandan population of 7,590,235, including 645,170 Tutsis, more than 300,000 fewer than the million Tutsis commonly reported to have died in the genocide.  And because Ibuka, Rwanda’s Tutsi genocide survivors group, has claimed that some 300,000 of these 645,170 Tutsis survived. President Kagame would therefore seem to have a lot of bones on display in his genocide memorial sites that he can’t properly account for as the result of his Constitutionally codified “Genocide Against the Tutsi.”

“Rwanda is an authoritarian spy state that has engaged in a war of aggression in neighboring Congo for nearly 20 years.”

Ever since I began to try to untangle this story, with my own focus on U.S. responsibility for backing the Kagame regime, Rwandan Hutu people have told me that they simply want to be able to bury and openly mourn their dead, that this is what they must do to heal and reconcile.  Others have told me that they want all the bones buried, not displayed in memorial museums, because it’s not normal in Rwanda to display the bones or body parts of the dead for tourists or anyone else.

To many Rwandans, that is what Victoire Ingabire represents.  Acknowledging, remembering, mourning, and burying all the dead.

Quite a few Rwandans appeared out of cyberspace to respond to my 2010 report,Rwanda’s packed prisons and genocide ideology law.  Some were absolutely furious, others deeply relieved, just because another writer in the U.S., which has been the dominant power in the region since the Rwanda Genocide and Congo Wars, was trying to make sense of this. At that point I realized how bitterly ethnically polarized Rwanda remains, despite the government’s claim that ethnicity no longer exists there.  One reader who appreciated the report left this unforgettable statement in the comments section:

“I am from Kiyombe in Byumba. RPF [Rwandan Patriotic Front] came in 1991 and called all the people from our village for a security meeting.  After people had gathered at the soccer pitch of Kiyombe, Mr. Hitler Kagame ordered his military to bomb the gathering. I escaped and went through the tea plantation and found my way to Uganda.  Ever since I have never returned to Rwanda but I am still considered a genocide denier or genocidaire.  Why? Simply because I am a Hutu and I don’t even have rights to go back to Rwanda and bury my family and relatives in dignity. Do you know how old I was then?  Just 16.  I survived but it is me and me alone.”

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After reading that, I turned to maps and found Kiyombe and Byumba, near the Ugandan border which the RPF, led by General Paul Kagame, had crossed in 1990.  And, which this young man then crossed all alone a year later, running in the other direction as a refugee. I also found the tea plantation that he said he had escaped through, and the tea processing plant nearby.

Source: Black Agenda Report

Ubutumwa Paul Mbangurunuka yageneye Paul Kagame

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Kagame Paul,

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

-Rekeraho gutoteza umuryango wa Gasasira na Ingabire

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

Kuendelea Sir, nahanuraga sinaraguraga!

Paul Mbangurunuka

Rwanda: Agasongero k’ikinyoma n’akarengane twasigiwe na GACACA

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Mw’izina ry’Abaturage b’u Rwanda (au nom du Peuple Rwandais), Inkiko GACACA zasize zimitse mu Rwanda akarengane, urwango, ubujura no guhonyora uburenganzira bwa muntu. Porofeseri wo muri Kaminuza (Université Catholique) ya Kabgayi MUBERUKA Pascal azitaba kuri tariki ya 09/01/2014 Urukiko rwisumbuye rwa Muhanga. Ntazi niba azaba agiye kuburana urubanza rwerekeranye n’ifungwa ry’Ibyitso muri 1990-1991 cyangwa azaburana urupfu rwa Mbaraga Rayimondi, ukiriho akaba akorera Leta y’u Rwanda.

Muberuka yafunzwe arengana ku wa 24/12/2008 yagambaniwe na MBARAGA Rayimondi wamushinjaga ko yafungishije Ibyitso by’Inkotanyi muri za 1990-1991 akiri Umushinjacyaho (IPJ) wa Komini Mushubati. Mbaraga yongeye kumushinja ko ngo yaje mu bitero byo kwica abatutsi bahungiye i Kabgayi akahica abantu batazwi muri jenoside ya 1994. Nyamara abarokokeye i Kabgayi batinyutse kwemeza ko Muberuka atigeze ahakandagira. Mukumufungisha, Mbaraga yabifashijwemo na MUNYAKAYANZA Gonzalve, wari umuhuzabikorwa w’Inkiko Gacaca mu murenge wa Nyamabuye (Muhanga-Gitarama). Bombi bifashisha Madamu MURORUNKWERE Alexia wari Perezida w’Urukiko Gacaca rw’Akagari ka Murama (Muhanga-Gitarama).

Abashinjabinyoma bifashishijwe rugikubita ni : Bakundukize Vestine, Nibaseke Viateur na Mpambara Wenceslas. Aba batangabuyamya baje gushinjwa ubugambanyi na NIYISENGWA Paulin wari warafunzwe mu byitso. Uyu nawe yunganiwe n’umugore we MUKAGATANA Anyesi wahamije mu ruhame ko dosiye ya Muberuka ihimbwa yari ahari. Murumuna wa Niyisengwa witwa NIYIRIMBERE Martin baramwitabaje ngo ashinje Muberuka kandi we atarigeze afungwa mu byitso. Nubwo ariwe wagombaga kuburana na Muberuka ntabwo yigeze aboneka m’uru urubanza kugeza ruciwe  tariki ya 14/02/2009.

Taliki ya 14/08/2012, MUBERUKA yatanze ibirego bibiri (2) mu Rukiko Rwisumbuye rwa Muhanga agira ngo arugaragarize ko afungiye kwica umuntu uriho ari we MBARAGA Rayimondi. Byongeye kandi yashakaga kurugaragariza ko, nubwo nta byo yakoze, gufunga ibyitso by’inkotanyi atari icyaha cya jenoside ku mukozi wa Leta, nkuko byemejwe mu rubanza RP 87/GIT/CH.S/3/99 rwaciwe n’Urukiko rwa mbere rw’iremezo rwa Gitarama kuwa 30/05/2000 no mu rubanza RP 89/GIT/CH.S/3/99 rwaciwe n’urwo rukiko ku wa 08/04/2002 haregwa umushinjacyaha (IPJ) Sibomana Jean Baptiste.

Tariki ya 21/12/2012, urwo Rukiko rwafashe icyemezo cy’uko rwiyambuye ububasha kuri urwo rubanza, rwemeza ko ruzaburanishwa n’Urukiko rw’ibanze rwa Nyamabuye ruhita rurwoherezayo. Kugeza na nubu ntabwo Muberuka arahamagarwa ngo aruburane. Maître Julien Ngabonziza umwunganira amaze kwandikira kabiri urwo rukiko ariko ntiruramusubiza.

Ifatwa kuwa 24/12/2008, ifungwa n’imanza Gacaca za Porofeseri MUBERUKA Pascal (wigishaga muri Kaminuza ya Kiliziya Gatorika i Kabgayi) zagaragaje ibikurikira :

1.      Akarengane n’ikinyoma n’ibyorezo bikomeje kuvuza ubuhuha mu Ubucamanza bw’u Rwanda. Ikinyoma cyahawe intebe n’amashyirahamwe y’ABASHINJABINYOMA  bashyigikiwe na Leta yayogoje Inkiko Gacaca n’Inkiko zisanzwe mu Rwanda.

2.      Komisiyo y’Igihugu y’Uburenganzira bwa Muntu (CNDP) yateshejwe agaciro kayo. Kuko yatakambiye abategetsi bakuriye Inkiko GACACA, Minisitiri w’Ubucamanza n’inzego zose zishinzwe kurenganura abaturage biranga biba iby’ubusa. Muberuka afunzwe arengana cyane. Ndetse n’abacikacumu b’abatutsi bamushinjuye barabifungiwe kuko bamaganye kandi bakitandukanya n’udutsiko tw’Abashinjabinyoma bagambaniye Muberuka agakatirwa gufungwa burundu by’umwihariko ku wa 16/09/2009 kandi arengana nkuko tugiye kubibagaragariza muri iri tangazo. Abamushinjura bakatiwe igifungo cyo kubacecekesha n’aba : NIYISENGWA Paulin (yakatiwe umwaka umwe), GASHUGI Oswald (amezi atatu) na SEKAGENGE Claude (amezi atandatu).

3.      Itegeko Nshinga ry’u Rwanda, mu ngingo zaryo zirenganura abanyarwanda ryararibaswe biratinda. Amategeko n’inzego byose byagenewe kurenganura MUBERUKA Pascal byarasuzuguwe, himikwa gusa Akarengane, Ikinyoma, Urwango no guhonyora Ukuri.

MUBERUKA Pascal arashinjwa Ibyaha bitatu :

1.      Icyaha cy’isakwa n’ifungwa ry’ibyitso by’inkotanyi muri Segiteri Kagarama mu 1990 ;

2.      Icyaha cy’isakwa n’ifungwa rya Kamuhinda Gaspard na bagenzi be muri 1991 ;

3.      Icyaha cy’uruhare mu rupfu rw’abantu batazwi baguye i Kabgayi muri 1994.

Ibyo byaha bibiri byo gusaka no gufunga ibyitso

Urukiko rwa Mbere rw’Iremezo (Tribinstance) rwa Gitarama rwaciye urubanza RP 87/GIT/CH.S/3/99 kuwa 30/05/2000 maze rugira umwere uwaregagwa ko yafunze ibyitso. Uwo ni uwari Burugumesitiri wa Komini Mushubati, Bwana Munyankumburwa Emmanuel, wahise afungurwa. Urukiko rwemeje ko gusaka no gufunga ibyitso by’Inkotanyi mu rwego rw’akazi nku’uko n’ubu bikorwa atari icyaha cya jenoside. Amaze kuba umwere, MUBERUKA wari Umushinjacyaha IPJ (Inspecteur de la Police Judiciaire) wa Komini Mushubati muri 1990-1991) aregwa ibyo Burugumestri bakoranye yagizweho umwere.

Mu batangabuhamya bamushinjura abatutsi batatu (3) barafashwe bakatirwa ibihano bikomeye bigamije gucecekesha burundu n’undi muntu wese w’inyangamugayo watinyuka gushinjura ababeshyerwa cyangwa ababorera muri za gereza z’u Rwanda barengana

Umugore wa Muberuka nta bategetsi n’imilyango irengera abantu atatakambiye. Kuva kuri Perezida Paul Kagame, ugaca kuri Domitila MUKANTAGANZWA n’abandi bayobozi bari bakuriye GACACA. Abarenganije umugabo we Muberuka bahisemo kwimika umuco wo kugambanira no kurenganya inzirakarengane.

Abatangabuhamya bashinja MUBERUKA bahawe umwanya munini wo kuvuga icyo bashaka byose. Abashinjura Muberuka benshi ntibatumijwe, n’abaje bamburwaga ijambo kimwe n’umuburanyi MUBERUKA wanditse amabaruwa arenga 40 (mirongo ine) kuva yafungwa asaba kumurenganura. Yandikiye abategetsi n’inzego nyinshi z’ubutegetsi n’imilyango irengera ikiremwamuntu biba iby’ubusa na nubu aracyafunzwe arengana.

Dore ibyiciro byinshi by’ako karengane nkuko tubisoma mw’ibaruwa n° CNDP/OCT/576/09 yo kuwa 30/10/2009 Komisiyo y’Uburenganzira bwa Muntu (CNDP) yandikiye Umunyamabanga Nshingwabikorwa w’Urwego rw’Igihugu rwari rushinzwe Inkiko GACACA muri icyo gihe ariwe Madamu Domitila MUKANTAGANZWA :

1.      Ku wa 31/12/2008, MUBERUKA Pascal, ukomoka mu Murenge wa Cyeza yandikiye Komisiyo asaba ko yamufasha akarenganurwa kuko avuga ko yafunzwe binyuranyije n’amategeko kubera akagambane.

2.      Ku wa 24/12/2008, Muberuka Pascal yafatiwe ku kazi aho yigishaga muri Kaminuza gatolika ya Kabgayi ashinjwa kuba yaragize uruhare muri jenoside yakorewe abatutsi mu mwaka w’1994, no kuba icyitso muri iyo jenoside.

3.      Ku wa 28/12/2008, Muberuka Pascal yafungiwe muri Gereza ya Gitarama ari naho agifungiye kugeza ubu. (Ubu asigaye afungiwe muri gereza ya MPANGA hafi ya Nyanza).

4.      Komisiyo yakurikiranye urubanza rwa Muberuka Pascal rwaciwe n’Urukiko Gacaca rw’Umurenge wa Jabana, Akarere ka Gasabo mu Mujyi wa Kigali rwabereye i Kabgayi ku wa 08 Nyakanga 2009, n’urubanza rwaciwe n’Urukiko rw’Ubujurire rw’uwo Murenge (Jabana) rwaciwe ku wa 15 no ku wa 16/09/2009. Izo Nkiko zombi zikaba zarahanishije Muberuka igifungo cya burundu y’umwihariko.

5.      Komisiyo ibandikiye kugirango ibagaragarize ibitagenze neza mu rubanza rw’Ubujurire rwabereye i Kabgayi ku wa 15 no kuwa 16/09/2009 byerekana ihohoterwa ry’uburenganzira ku rubanza ruciwe mu mucyo.

Ibyo Komisiyo yabonye byabangamiye ubwo burenganira nibi bikurikira :

1.      MUBERUKA Pascal ntiyahabwaga ijambo ngo abone uko yisobanura neza. Wasangaga Inteko imwaka ijambo atarangije gusubiza icyo yabajijwe bakamujyana ku kindi kibazo, yatangira kuvuga Inteko ikamubwira ko ibizi atari ngombwa kubisubiramo ko iby’inama batabireba cyane ahubwo ko bareba ibyabereye i Kabgayi.

2.      Perezida w’Inteko wasangaga abogamiye ku buryo bugaragara ku ruhande rwa Mbaraga Raymond aho kuba hagati y’ababuranyi bombi. Aha twatanga nk’urugero rw’uko iyo Mbaraga yahabwaga ijambo, yahabwaga umwanya uhagije wo kuvuga. Muberuka Pascal yavuga akamuca mu ijambo.

3.      Abatangabuhamya ba Muberuka Pascal ntibigeze bahamagazwa, n’abari bahari bakurikiraga urubanza gusa. Iyo basabaga ijambo ibyo bavuze ntibyahabwaga agaciro cyane cyane iyo babaga bavugira uregwa.

4.      Abatangabuhamya ba Mbaraba Raymond, bagaragaye mu rubanze bagahabwa n’ijambo ni abo mu muryango we gusa barimo muramu we n’umugore we.

5.      Kuba mu Rubanza hari uwabajije ati ko i Kabgayi hari abandi bantu baharokokeye, habura n’undi waba yarahabonye Muberuka Pascal. Perezida w’Urukiko amusubiza avuga ko afite ingengabitekerezo ya jenoside. Ibi bishobora gufatwa nka « intimidation ».

6.      Ikindi kitagenze neza n’uko wasangaga Muberuka Pascal asa n’aho aburana na Perezida w’Inteko aho kuburana n’uwamureze.

7.      Ikindi cyakwibazwaho ni uko dosiye ya Muberuka Pascal yavanywe mu buryo butunguranye mu rubanza yari ahuriyeho na Hategeka Augustin na bagenzi be bagombaga kuburanishwa n’Urukiko Gacaca rw’Ubujurire rw’Umurenge wa Kicukiro nk’uko byari mu ibaruwa n° Réf 1521/MDMD/2009 yo ku wa 27/12/2009, Urwego rw’Igihugu Rushinzwe Inkiko Gacaca rwandikiye Urukiko Gacaca rw’Ubujurire rw’Umurenge wa Kicukiro rusaba kuburanisha Hategeka Augustin na bagenzi be. Yaje (Muberuka) kuburanishwa wenyine n’Urukiko rw’Ubujurire rw’Umurenge wa JABANA.

8.      Madamu Munyamabanga Nshingwabikorwa, Komisiyo isanga Muberuka Pascal yaravukijwe uburenganzira ku rubanza ruciwe mu mucyo (privé d’un procès équitable).

Iyi baruwa n° CNDP/OCT/576/09 yo kuwa 30/10/2009 Komisiyo y’Igihugu y’Uburenganzira bwa Muntu (CNDP) yasinywe na Perezida w’iyo Komisiyo, Madamu KAYITESI Zaïnabo Sylvie, irasobanura bihagije akarengane kakorewe Muberuka Pascal.

Komisiyo yasabye Madamu Mukantaganzwa Domitila ko urubanza rwa Muberuka rusubirwamo nkuko na nyirubwite yabisabye mu ibaruwa ye yo ku wa 29/09/2009 yandikiye Perezida w’Inama Rusange y’Umurenge wa Gihuma, rugahabwa indi nteko kandi rukaburanishwa mu mucyo no mu butabera. Nkuko byagaragaye, Madamu Mukantaganzwa yasuzuguye Komisiyo y’Uburenganzira bwa Muntu. Bityo Muberuka akaba yarakomeje gufungwa kugeza na n’ubu. Ikigo CLIIR ntikiramenya niba MUBERUKA Pascal azahabwa umwanya wo kwisobanura maze agahita afungurwa nkuko byakagombye kugenda mu gihugu kivuga ko kigendera ku mategeko.

Nkuko twabisobanuye mw’Itangazo ryacu n°80/2005 ryasohowe ku wa 18/03/2005, abategetsi ba gisilikare cyangwa bo mw’ishyaka rya FPR-Inkotanyi biyemeje kuyobya imikorere y’Inkiko Gacaca bagamije kuzikoresha mu guhohotera abahutu b’inzirakarengane.

Hagambiriwe kubafungisha no kubacuza imitungo yabo. Gukenesha imilyango y’abahutu mu buryo bunyuranye. Kuyobya Gacaca babigezeho binjiza ba Maneko ba DMI benshi muri izo Nkiko. Babigezeho birukana Inyangamugayo zitorewe n’abaturage zirenga ibihumbi 45 (45.000 juges) nkuko Madamu MUKANTAGANZWA Domitila yabyivugiye mu kiganiro yagiranye na BBC tariki ya 15 Nyakanga 2006.

Uwo mubare w’Inyangamugayo Gacaca zirukanywe ungana n’ibice 25 kw’ijana (25%) by’Inyangamugayo zisaga 200.000 zari zaratowe. Inyangamugayo zirukanywe zari zaranze kwinjira muri gahunda y’abamaneko ba DMI (Directorate of Military Intelligence) bashakaga kubashora mu kagambane ko gufungisha abahutu b’inzirakarengane babahora ko ari abahutu gusa.

Ba maneko DMI bamaze kwigarurira Inkiko Gacaca, nibwo abahutu benshi mu bize amashuri menshi, mu bakozi ba Leta, mu bacuruzi, mu barimu no mu baganga b’abahutu, baciriwe imanza n’Inkiko Gacaca hagambiriwe kubafungira ubusa no kubacuza imitungo yabo. Gacaca yatumye abaturage benshi bahunga igihugu cy’u Rwanda. Benshi bahungira za Burundi, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzaniya, RDCongo no mu Burayi.

UMWANZURO :

Nkuko Ikigo kirwanya Umuco wo Kudahana no Kurenganya mu Rwanda (CLIIR) kitahwemye kwamagana uburyo abagome, abagambanyi n’abajura bakoresheje Inkiko GACACA bagahohotera abaturage batagira ingano babafungisha, babacuza imitungo yabo. Uruhare rw’abategetsi b’inzego zinyuranye narwo rwaragaragaye mu kwimika ubwo bugome n’ubujura bwakorewe mu Nkiko GACACA.

Ikindi cyagaragaye kandi kibabaje n’uruhare rukomeye, Madamu Domitila MUKANTAGANZWA (Umunyamabanga Nshingwabikorwa wari ukuriye Inkiko Gacaca) yagize mu KURENGANYA abantu bashowe mu manza za Gacaca bazira gusa ko ari abahutu bafite amashuri cyangwa imitungo igaragara. Byari byoroshye kwitabaza udukipe tw’abantu bashonje (kandi mu Rwanda abashonji ni benshi) ukabashora mu manza zo gushinja ibinyoma, ubizeza inyungu bazabona mu gihe Imitungo y’abarengana itejwe cyamunara bagahabwa ku mafaranga avuye muri ubwo bujura bushyigikiwe n’abategetsi.

Turasaba ko Porofeseri MUBERUKA Pascal yafungurwa nta yandi mananiza bamushyizeho.

Bikorewe i Buruseli kuwa 08 Mutarama 2014

Yozefu MATATA, Umuhuzabikorwa w’Ikigo CLIIR.

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Leta ya Kagame irahakana ikanapyobya jenoside yakorewe Abatutsi.

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louise“urupfu rw’umuntu wigaragaje nk’urwanya igihugu nta mpuhwe ruteye” 

Hon. Louise Mushikiwabo

Minisitiri w’ububanyi n’amahanga akaba n’umuvugizi wa Guverinoma y’u Rwanda

 

Kuva aho FPR ifatiye ubutegetsi yahuye n’ikibazo kitoroshye cyo kwemeza isi yose ko koko ubwicanyi bwakorewe abatutsi ari jenoside. Abaregwaga mu rukiko mpuzamahanga na bo akenshi bakomezaga gushimangira ko nta jenoside yabaye kugeza aho mu mwaka wa 2006 icyo kibazo gikemuwe bidasubirwaho ko ubwicanyi bwakorewe abatutsi mu Rwanda ari jenoside. Kugeza na n’ubu ubwicanyi bwakorewe abahutu bwo kuva ku itariiki ya 1 Ukwakira 1990 buracyagibwaho impaka, nta rukiko rubifitiye ubushobozi rwari rwafata umwanzuro ko ari jenoside n’ubwo bwose hari ibimenyetso bifatika byerekana ko ari jenoside koko! Ni ukuvuga ngo ni jenoside ititwa jenoside.

Jenoside yakorewe abatutsi ikimara kwemezwa ku buryo budasubirwaho, leta y’u Rwanda yatangiye urugamba rwo kwibasira abantu bakoraga commentaire iyo ari yo yose kuri jenoside. Utararezwe kuyihakana yarezwe kuyipfobya. Guhakana jenoside umuntu agenekereje yavuga ko ari ukuvuga ko itabayeho cyangwa se kwerekana ko yari ngombwa. Cyakora gupfobya byo igisobanuro gikunze kugorana. Mu Kinyarwanda gupfobya bisobanura gusuzugura ikintu, ukakigira gitoya ugamije kwerekana ko nta gaciro gifite.

Imanza zagiye zicibwa zo gupfobya jenoside akenshi wasangaga umuntu aregwa icyo cyaha byo nyine kuko yavuze ko n’abahutu bishwe kandi bakeneye ubutabera.Icyo kikaba icyaha cyo gupfobya jenoside ngo kuko ugereranyije ubwicanyi bwakorewe abatutsi n’ubwakorewe abahutu. Cyakora hari n’ibindi byagiye bifatwa nko gupfobya jenoside: urugero nko kugerageza kwumvikanisha ko ubwicanyi bwakorewe abatutsi bwari bufite ishingiro. Iyo witegereje neza usanga nta tandukanyirizo risobanutse hagati yo guhakana no gupfobya jenoside. Kubera kudasobanuka byageze aho umuhutu wese yirinda gukora commentaire ijyanye na jenoside kuko yashoboraga guhita ashinjwa ibyo byaha twavuze haruguru, ni uko jenoside iragenda iba tabou ku bahutu, ntawe ushobora gutanga igitekerezo.

Tugendeye kuri logique y’uko kugerageza kwerekana ko ubwicanyi bwakorewe abatutsi bwari bufite ishingiro bikaba gupfobya cyangwa guhakana jenoside, turasanga ibyo leta ya Kigali irimo ikora ubu nabyo bihakana cyangwa se bigapfobya jenoside. Reka tubisesengure:

  1.  “Umwanzi w’u Rwanda n’iyo yapfa ntibikwiye kutubuza gusinzira” 

Aya ni amwe mu magambo yavuzwe n’umuvugizi wa guverinoma y’u Rwanda, ministre w’ububanyi n’amahanga Louise Mushikiwabo avuga ku byerekeye urupfu rwa Koloneli Karegeya Patrick. Mushikiwabo avuga ko Karegeya nk’umuntu wagaragaje ko arwanya Leta y’u Rwanda adakwiye kuririrwa n’ubwo yapfa. Ikindi Mushikiwabo yemeza ko Karegeya ari umuntu mubi cyane kuko yafatanyaga n’abarwanya u Rwanda aribo ba FDLR ndetse ngo bakaba barateraga ama grenades mu gihugu bagahitana abanyarwanda. Musihikiwabo yanageze aho avuga ko umuntu urwanya Leta nayo igomba kumurwanya nta kundi byamera.Mu kuvuga ibi Mushikiwabo arerekana ko iyicwa rya Karegeya nta kibazo riteye ndetse ibinyamakuru bitandukanye byo byavuze ko Leta y’u Rwanda irimo guca amarenga ko ariyo yishe Karegeya

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“Kugambanira igihugu cyakugize uwo uwo uri we bigira ingaruka umuntu agomba kwirengera”

P. Damien Habumuremyi, Ministre w’intebe w’u Rwanda.

Mushikiwabo yunganiwe na Ministiri w’intebe mu kwemeza ko kugambanira igihugu bigomba kugira ingaruka ku muntu wese. Aba bombi bafite imyanya ikomeye muri Leta ni ukuvuga ko ibyo batubwiye ari na byo umukuru wa yo Paul Kagame atekereza. Iyo bitaba ibyo aba yabasabye guhita begura. Byumvikane neza ko iyo Mushikiwabo na Habumuremyi baza kuvuga ko Leta yashakishaga Karegeya ngo arangize ibihano yakatiwe cyangwa se aburane ibirego byo gushaka kuvutsa igihugu umudendezo byari kuba bitandukanye n’uko byitwaye ubu. Reka ibyo tube tubiretse dusubize amaso inyuma gatoya mu myaka 20 ishize.

2. “Umwanzi w’u Rwanda ni Inyenzi Nkotanyi zateye u Rwanda hamwe n’ibyitso byazo”

Iyi ni imvugo yakoreshejwe mu gihe cya jenoside yakorewe abatutsi akenshi yari igamije kwereka abantu ko umututsi wese( icyitso) ari umwanzi w’igihugu bityo akaba nta mwanya afite mu Rwanda. Ni ukuvuga ngo umwanzi w’igihugu aramutse apfuye ntibyabuza igihugu gusinzira. Na nyuma y’uko FPR ifata ubutegetsi abantu benshi ntibigeze bumva impamvu baregwa jenoside kandi nyamara bo barabwiwe ko barimo gutabara igihugu bagikiza umwanzi n’ibyitso bye.

3. Mushikiwabo arahakana akanapfobya jenoside yakorewe abatutsi

Ndabivuga ntya kuko Mushikiwabo asubiye mu mvugo FPR ivuga ko ariyo yakoreshejwe mu gukangurira abantu jenoside. Iyi mvugo yerekanaga ko kwikiza umwanzi (Inkotanyi) n’ibyitso byazo (Abatutsi) nta kibazo cyarimo kabone n’ubwo bwari ubwicanyi. Uwasubira muri aya magambo muri iki gihe cya FPR nta shiti yashinjwa guhakana no gupfobya jenoside kandi koko yaba abikora. None dore Mushikiwabo niyo magambo asubiyemo mu rwego rwo kwerekana ko umwanzi(Karegeya) yagombaga kwicwa. Gukoresha aya magambo ni ukwerekana ko n’amagambo yakoreshwejwe mu gukangurira abantu gukora jenoside yari afite ishingiro. Par conséquent, ni ukwemeza ko jenoside yari ifite ishingiro kuko abantu bikizaga umwanzi n’ibyitso bye.

Aha hari uwavuga ati abatutsi ntibari abanzi. Igisubizo ni ukubanza kumenya ni nde ugena umwanzi w’igihugu. Iyo igihugu cyatewe ubusanzwe leta igira ijambo igeza ku baturage ikanavuga icyo amaperereza yagaragaje ku bijyanye n’umwanzi. Niba Leta yaravuze ko umwanzi ari FPR n’ibyitso( njye sinabyiyumviye) ni ukuvuga ko abavuzwe bafatwa nk’abanzi koko kabone n’aho byaba atari ukuri. Uyu munsi niba umuvugizi wa guverinoma avuze ku mugaragaro ko Karegeya na bagenzi be ari abanzi ndetse leta igomba kubarwanya ni uko bifatwa nyine n’ubwo byaba atari ukuri.

Gushyigkira imvugo abakoze jenoside bitwaje kandi bakaba barumvaga ko bakoraga ibikwiye, ukayisubiramo nawe wemeza ko kwica bikwiye kuko wikiza umwanzi nk’uko abakoze jenoside babivugaga, nta kundi njye nagufata uretse kuvuga ko nawe uhakana jenoside ukanayipfobya.

Namwe mumbwire uko mubyumva.

Chaste Gahunde

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Kagame dictatorship’s agents do not limit themselves to verbal smears, vilification and outright lies in public forums and incessant propaganda encouraging hatred for dissidents – especially “bad” survivors. The regime in Kigali led by Paul Kagame is notorious for brutal attacks against those who disagree with them or denounce their crimes.

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

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

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