RWANDA: Theogene Rudasingwa Says Truth Can Be Both Powerful and Dangerous

Theogene Rudasingwa

Here is a lesson we learn from this episode: truth is both a POWERFUL and DANGEROUS weapon. It is dangerous because it is disruptive. Once we speak truth to power-as in 1959, 1973,1990 and now in 2012-our society is gripped with fear and change. It is also dangerous because if often has unintended consequences. It is powerful because in face of truth, empires and tyrannies have finally crumbled as a stack of cards.

My lesson from the temporary presence on a list of the accused in the Iowa case against Kagame, is that truth is also a liberator. It sets us free. That in itself is powerful. The families of the victims of the crime stood in for me, and said, "Theogene is a witness, not a criminal." Yet, we were formerly enemies. My former friend, Paul Kagame is the accused and I bear witness against him. Such is the irony of life.

This could only happen when we begin to embrace truth and invest in a "trust account" among us Rwandans. Truth is a multiplier that increases trust among us. With trust, together we can imagine and build a better future for all of us-Hutu, Tutsi and Twa: one united nation, of free men and women, democratic, peaceful and prosperous. That is what our children and grandchildren expect from us. Nothing less.

This is what RNC and the peaceful revolution we are involved in is all about. Previous revolutions have produced winners and losers, but at the end we have all become losers. We are trying to convince Kagame and a small group of people under him to make a choice. They can abandon the fruitless and dangerous course of resisting peaceful change. Together, we could become the most free and the most forgiving nation in history. Alternatively, Kagame et al might choose to continue to resist peaceful change, and rely on brutal force, deception and lies like all dictators before him. This path leads to unnecessary and preventable violence and bloodshed. Even on this violent path he will inevitably emerge as the loser, and , like all dictators before him, he will be assigned a shameful seat on the dung heap of history.

Can we unleash maximum peaceful revolutionary energy to make all Rwandans winners?

YES , WE MUST, NOW!!

Rwanda: Ikinamico rirakomeje/ Uyu mubyeyi arazira ko yagaragaje ko mu Rwanda hari abakene kandi FPR ishaka ko bitavugwa !

FROM VERITAS NEWSONLINE

Nyuma y’aho imbuga zinyuranye cyane cyane izikorera hanze y’u Rwanda zitangarije ibitekerezo by’abamagana ibyakorewe umubyeyi  Mukarukundo Chantal byo kumwandagaza no kumukubitira mu ruhame mu isoko ngo ni uko ari umukene udashoboye kurera umwana we, ubutegetsi bw’igitugu bwa FPR bwiyunguye inama ya kibwa, naba mbeshye nyise iya kigabo. Aho kweguza vice mayor Clotilde Mukaneza wayoboye akanahagarikira iryo honyorwa mu ruhame kandi ngo ashinzwe imibereho myiza, hihutiwe kubwira ibinyamakuru byose  byo mu Rwanda ngo bisibe iyo nkuru ku mbuga zabyo vuba na bwangu.

 

Ubwoba bumaze kwigarurira abanyarwanda n’ihahamuka baterwa n’ubutegetsi butazuyaza kwica bwatumye bamwe babyuka iya rubika (za saa cyenda z’ijoro) ngo basibe inkuru. Urugero rutari kure ni igihe.com. Icyateye umujinya ubutegetsi cyane cyane ni amafoto yerekanaga icunaguzwa n’ihohoterwa ry’umubyeyi Mukarukundo mu ruhame.

Aho kugira ngo umuyobozi wakoze ibara akambika ubusa umubyeyi mu isoko ngo ni uko ari umukene, aho kugira ngo uriya vice mayor Clotilde yeguzwe, igisubizo ni ukuniga ukuri. Nyamara ngo guca mu ziko ntigushye.Ku uwaba atarabonye kuri amwe muri ayo mafoto, turayamugezaho muri iyi nkuru kugira ngo bititwa impuha. Aya mafoto yose mu Rwanda yaraciwe ngo bitanduza isura, ubutagatifu n’ubutungane bwa FPR yera de!!! Nyamara ikiri ukuri ni uko ubu buyobozi bwuzuye abagome kuva ku nzego zo hasi kugera mu bushorishori. Iyo bitaba ibyo, icyari kwihutirwa ni ukurenganura umubyeyi Mukarukundo no guhana umugome wakoze ishyano ari we vice mayor Mukaneza Clotilde. Si ko bimeze. Aganje mu ntebe y’ubuyobozi, FPR imukingiye ikibaba ahubwo akaba akomeje kwiyama no gutera ubwoba abagaragaza ubugome ayoborana.

 

Ngiyo imiyoborere myiza ya FPR. Ngicyo icyerekezo 2020 iduteganyirije. Kera ku ngoma ya cyami umukobwa wabyaraga ikinyendaro bamwoheraga ku kirwa. Ku bwami bushya bwa FPR, bamukubitira mu isoko bakamuziringa mu byondo.

Banyarwanda ngaho aho tugeze. Umwanzi w’u Rwanda si gahutu, si gatutsi, si gatwa. Ni abagome bo mu gaco ka FPR. Bazi ko batazi gutandukanya kuyobora igihugu no kuba inyeshyamba. Imyaka ibaye cumi n’umunani bagifashe, ariko n’ubu barakitwara nk’abari mu ishyamba.

Niba muri FPR hakirangwamo umuntu n’umwe ushyira mu gaciro, ishyano ryakorewe Mukarukundo ryagombye kwamaganirwa ku karubanda. Niba atari ko bigenze, ni ikimenyetso cy’uko FPR yimirije imbere kumara abakene n’abatishoboye. Iki ni cyo yita iterambere!

 

 

Mukaneza Clotilde :“Umugore utambariye ububyeyi, arutwa n'imbyeyi ikamirwa ibibondo”. Ian Niyikora.

 

Uku ni ko abanyarwanda bagenuye ikiranga umwari n’umutegarugori ubereye u Rwanda. Mu muco munyarwanda, umugore n’umubyeyi biratandukanye. Iyo tuvuze umubyeyi, tuba tuvuze agaciro umugore wese akomora ku kuba inganzo y’ubuzima. Hirya yo gutanga ubwo buzima, umubyeyi arangwa n’impuhwe, ubwizige n’umutuzo bituma mu muryango aba ikiramiro cya benshi, ndetse bigakosora amashagaga abagabo dukunda kugira muri byinshi. Ingaruka ya mbere y’ububyeyi, ni uko umubyeyi iyo ava akagera ari nyina wa bose. Umunyarwanda warezwe, iyo abonye umubyeyi, kabone n’aho yaba atanamugwa mu ntege, aragira ati : « tambuka rugori rwera, ungana mama ». Ingaruka ya kabiri ni uko ububyeyi butagirwa n’uwabyaye gusa. Burya n’umwari w’umutima, cyangwa umubyeyi w’ingumba, iyo yuje ububyeyi mu mutima no mu mico, tumuherereza ku ruhimbi, tukamunganya uwatubyaye.

 

1.Umugore utambariye ububyeyi ntakayobore mu Rwanda.

 

Kuri uyu wa mbere, tariki 21/05/2012, ishyano ryaguye mu karere ka Ngororero, riririrwa none riraraye. Ejo rizaramuka kuko ariko bigenda mu gahugu katagira mukuru. Muti bite. Hatawe muri yombi umubyeyi witwa Mukarukundo Chantal azira ko yahaye ikibondo cye umugiraneza kuko we nta mikoro yo kurera uwo mwana afite. Uyu yatangarije ubuyobozi ko nta mikoro, akaba ari yo mpamvu yitandukanyije n’ikibondo cye atacyanze.Dore amagambo yabivuzemo ubwo yaganiraga n'umunyamakuru wa igihe.com :

"Mu by'ukuri sinanze umwana wanjye kuko kuba byonyine nararuhanye nawe kugeza aya magingo ntaramuta cyangwa ngo mwice ni gahunda y’Imana yashatse ko abaho; ndi imfubyi itagira shinge na rugero, nta n’umwe kugeza ubu mfite nkomokaho, sinifashije ndi umukene wo kugirirwa impuhwe, n'ubu tuvugana naraye mu musarane ahantu kuko ntaho mfite ho kwikinga ngo mbashe no gusinzira, none rero ubuzima nk’ubu ndabona ko ntabushobora ndi n’umwana, aho kugirango rero mwice nahisemo gushaka umugira neza wakwemera kurerera Imana maze nkamumwihera ».

 

Ibi birababaje, ariko ibyakurikiyeho birushijeho gutera agahinda. Umuyobozi ushinzwe imibereho y’abaturage, umugore utambariye ububyeyi, Mukaneza Clotilde yasanze umuti w’ikibazo ari akunzegurutsa uyu mubyeyi mu isoko rya Ngororero aboshye n’amapingu, bamukomera, ndetse ab’imigirigiri bagacishaho imigeri n’inshyi. Ababibonye, n’ababona amafoto ye asohoka mu binyamakuru murebe uko asa ku ntugu no mu bitugu. N’uko yakurunzwe mu mukungugu. Ngicyo igisubizo cy’ushinzwe imibereho myiza mu karere ka Ngororero. Ngiyo imihigo yo guteza akarere imbere, ngiyo imiyoborere isesuye twabwiwe.

 

2.Hagati ya Mukarukundo Chantal na vice mayor Mukaneza Clotilde, ni nde utambariye ububyeyi, ni nde ukwiye induru?

 

Nta washima Mukarukundo kudashobora kurera uwo abyaye. Ariko burya ngo uburiye mu kwe ntako aba atagize, kandi nta wanga ibyiza, arabibura. Icyo yashimwa ni ukuba atarishe umwana cyangwa ngo amute nk’uko benshi babigenza. Ni umukene, ariko si umutindi ku mpuhwe n’ububyeyi. Ikibazo gisigaye ni vice mayor Clotilde Mukaneza. Ni ishyano i Rwanda, kubona umugore twakekagaho ububyeyi, ubyiruye, atinyuka gukora ibidakorwa i Rwanda. Gufata umubyeyi, n’aho yaba adashoboye kurera umwana abyaye, ukamuzengurutsa Ngororero yose, ushishikariza abaturage cyane cyane insoresore kumuhundagazaho ibitutsi, amacandwe n’imigeri n’ibindi birebire tutarondoye, bigaragaza ko uriya muyobozi yifitemo umurengwe urenze igipimo. Ese ye, iri tambagira rigamije fundarizing yo kumufasha kurera umwana? Ese rigamije kumuremamo ubushobozi? Ariko se itegeko riteganya ko umubyeyi udashoboye kurera ikibondo akubitirwa mu isoko ryatowe ryari? Genda Rwanda ugeze aharindimuka!

 

Akarere ka Ngororero ngo kabwiye uriya mubyeyi gusubirana umwana kakaziga uburyo yazafashwa. Iyo bamubwira bati “turagufashisha iki”, byari kuba intangiriro nziza. Naho “tuziga” na “tuzagufasha”, ni inzagihe itajya mu gifu ku mukene waburaye. Ibiri amambu, akarere na ko gasa n’akemeza ko adafite koko ubushobozi kuko umwana bamusubije umugiraneza wemeye kumurera.

 

Mukarukundo Chantal watanze umwana kubera ubukene: Ese adoption ntiyemewe mu Rwanda ?

3.Ese nta zindi nzira zari zihari zo gushakira ikibazo umuti?

 

Inzira ya mbere yari ukumenya uwo babyaranye, bakareba niba afite ubushobozi bwo gufasha Mukarukundo kurera umwana. Iki ni inshingano y’ubuyobozi gutegeka uwo mugabo kuzuza inshingano z’umubyeyi. Iki ubuyobozi bw’akarere ka Ngororero ntibwakitayeho kuko icyo bashinzwe atari ugushaka umuti w’ikibazo, ni ugucunaguza no kwandagaza ABAKENE. Ngiyo imihigo y’iterambere! Iyo inzira yo kumenya se w’umwana idatanga umuti, biri mu nshingano z’akarere gutanga ubufasha bw’ibanze mu gihe hategerejwe ko hashakwa umuti urambye. Akarere katabishoboye, hari abafatanyabikorwa bakwitabazwa, nka Caritas n’abandi, dore ko ako kareke kubatse ku kilometero kimwe cya Paruwasi Rususa y’abagatolika, kakaba gakikijwe na Paruwasi y’abapantekoti n’iya ba Anglikani. Iyo hataba himirijwe imbere guhinda, guhubuka no gutesha agaciro uyu mukene, inzira zari nyinshi zo gushakiramo umuti wihuta nyuma hakigwa uburyo ikibazo cyakemurwa mu nzira zirambye. Ubuyobozi bwa Ngororero ntibubikozwa.

 

Umwanzuro.

 

Niba FPR yamamaje ikanatoresha Mukaneza Clotilde ku mwanya w’umuyobozi wungirije ushinzwe imibereho myiza mu karere ka Ngororero ari na yo yamutumye kwimiriza imbere intwaro y’agahotoro, yuje ubugome n’ubwenge buke, nimwambike umudende acanye uruti.

Ubwo byaba bivuga ko aho ibihe bigeze, politiki rusange  y’igihugu ari uguhata ABAKENE ( 80% y'abaturarwanda !) ikiboko, inshyi n’imigeri kandi icyabahejeje mu butindi kigaragara: abategetsi batitaye ku bibazo by’abaturage !

Niba atari uko bimeze, nimusabe Mukaneza Clotilde gusezera no gusaba imbabazi abategarugori kuko yakoze ishyano i Rwanda. Niba ibyo bidashobotse, nahigikwe asimbuzwe imbyeyi ikamirwe kiriya kibondo. N’ubusanzwe, ngo umugore utambariye ububyeyi arutwa n’imbyeyi ikamirwa ibibondo.

Niba atari uko bimeze, nimusabe gusezera no gusaba imbabazi abategarugori kuko yakoze ishyano i Rwanda. Niba ibyo bidashobotse, nahigikwe asimbuzwe imbyeyi ikamirwe kiriya kibondo. N’ubusanzwe, ngo umugore utambariye ububyeyi arutwa n’imbyeyi ikamirwa ibibondo.

 

 

 MIZERO Athos  na Ian Niyikora (leprophete.fr)

RWANDA:When suicide becomes only way out of Kagame’s dictatorship

By Nelson Gatsimbanzi , Sweden
As he continues to receive awards of recognition fordevelopment and good governance, those inside the country continue to decry Kagame’s dictatorship to the extent of opting for death.
With the government  claiming to be working towards a sound media industry, there are still some important issues that are intentionally left out of public attention.

Dictator Kagame

Such issues include one deciding to take away his life that standing continued abuse by Kagame’s “Interahamwe”. One of such unfortunate incidences happened on May 8, 2012 when a young man Mutabazi Sadiki 18, from Gakeri village of ,  Kavumu cell, Ruhango sector in Rutsiro district set himself ablaze after beatings and confiscation of his merchandise and money by members of the reserve forces with the help of the local defense unit
The local defense unit now acts as a paramilitary force working to reign enforce Kagame’s dictatorship as it comes from top to village level .
 Mutabazi who grew up as an orphan had been living in Rubavu district where he survived as  a vendor dealing in groundnuts and other petty merchandise in a box. It during one of hawking routine that these security operative arrested him, confiscated his merchandise and the little money he was trying to save for his dream of owning a driving permit as the only way out poverty.
when he (Mutabazi) realised his dream had been shattered he decided to get petrol and set himself alight he was rushed to Rubavu hospital from where he was transferred to Kigali university hospital. On realising that the information had leaked to the public, the government stepped in banned any media coverage about the issue. He is said to have burned up to 95% and is kept under intensive care.
With mockery, the mayor of Rubavu district, Bahame Hassan, told journalists that Mutabazi had burned himself after an overdose of marijuana but Mutabazi’s mother Zura Nsekambabaye  refuted the mayor’s allegations saying her son had set himself on fire saying was fed up continued confiscation of his merchandise and paying bribe to the security operatives.
Mutabazi is not the first to choose death due to Kagame’s dictatorship, on January 31 last year a second year university student Eugene Uwambajimana 20 committed suicide after he discovered that his name had been scrapped off the list government sponsored students at Kigali Institute of Education.

On October 13, 2011, Serugendo Justin another third year university student at the school of finance and Banking also had opted for death when he climbed a tall tree and tried to let himself fall only to be rescued before time, he had been indefinitely suspended from the school.

RWANDA-UKI:BRITISH SECURITY AGENTS HAVE BEGUN STRIPPING KAGAME’S SPY AGENTS OF BRITISH NATIONALITY AND “REFUGEE CLAIMANT” IDENTITY PAPERS.

Rwanda's head of military intelligence , Gen Rutatina and Kagame's spies . .

News reaching our newspaper Umuvugizi’s desk indicate that the National British security Agency has began the process of stripping all Rwandan nationals identified as President Kagame’s spy network of all their documents supporting their refugee claimancy or British residential status. Many of these Rwandans had claimed persecution by the Rwandan State in order to receive British national status but in actual fact they are Rwandan spy agents sent by the Kagame regime. The first casualty of this exercise is Jimmy Kanyambo who was denied refugee status upon arrival from Kigali. His passport was stamped with a “rejection” stamp and subsequently stripped of the basic rights accorded to refugees upon arrival on British soil.
In the same news cable to umuvugizi.com, another Kagame-spy by the name of Kageruka Appollinare is undergoing the same investigative process after his passport was confiscated by the British Security Agency while they conclude their findings. Appollinare kageruka has been spying on other Rwandan refugees particularly those in opposition to the Kigali regime.
Another master Kagame-spy who goes by the alias Tom Ndahiro but whose real name is Tom Rwabugiri was rejected and stripped of all refugee claimant documents because of the serious charges leveled against him such as spying on Britain and other legitimate Rwandans living in Britain.
In other reliable news, another Kagame-spy has suffered the same fate as his predecessors.
Richard Ntukura was summoned by the same British Agency and interrogated at length about his spying activities on the Rwandan community in Britain. His case is still under investigation.
Information reaching our desk attests to the continued and persistent spying activities carried out by these people and others at large that the Kigali regime has bankrolled to gather information, harass and threaten innocent Rwandans living in the UK.
Notably among them are, Abera Yvonne, Nzigamasabo Chouchou, Kazungu Eugene Muhumuliza, Bamurange Grace and Kagabo Alex alias Rwabuhihi Stanislas. This group is notoriously known for working closely with the Rwandan Intelligence both in Kigali and with the Rwandan Embassy in the UK.
In order to verify the credibility of this report, Umuvugizi called and spoke to Bamurange Grace by telephone and asked her about the alleged charges against her if she truly is a spy agent working for the Rwandan intelligence in Britain. In her words, she replied, “I am a Rwandan spy even though I am not paid for my services. I will not tolerate anybody speaking ill of my country. The mere fact that I choose to spy for my country is testament that I love my country!”
Asked why she continues to carry out spying activities yet she claims to be a refugee claimant she responded that “everyone who is critical of Kagame’s rule is an enemy of the state and I will not tolerate them”. An anonymous man by her side hastily helped her respond to our queries telling her that she should not be ashamed of hiding the fact that she is a known spy, “tell them the truth that you are a spy, what does it cost you?”.
We tried calling all the above mentioned people who have been implicated in these spying activities to no avail.
Gasasira, Sweden.
Contact us at : info@umuvugizi.com

RWANDA:Intore za FPR Zongeye Kubura Umutwe: Noneho Imigambi Niyo Guhurira Munsengero Mu’bwongereza

From Rwandanziza News:Inkuru itugezeho iragaragaza ko Intore za FPR inkotanyi zongeye kubura umutwe mu’bwongereza, ubu noneho zikaba zizahurira murusengero ahitwa Oxford mu’Bwongereza. umwaka ushize ubwo Ambassade yu’Rwanda yashakaga gukresha ingando z’Intore mu rwego rwo gufasha leta ya Kigali gutoteza abatavuga rumwe nayo ntibyashobotse, byabariye munda bafata icyemezo cyokuyobya uburari batangira gukoresha insengero nabanya madini. Mubihe bishize bagerageje gukoresha itorero ryitwa Zion. Iritorero bakaba baribube banyuze murya Pasteli Gitwaza rikorera London mu Ubwongereza. Bamwe mu bayobozi burwo rusengero babanje kubyanga, banasobanura ko ingoro yimana itakorerwamo ibintu bijanye na politikki. Ambassaderi wu Rwanda mu’Bwongereza bwana Ernest Rwamucyo, yahise yiyambaza uwitwa Oze wahoze akorera mu Itorero rya Pantekote akiri mu rwanda, mbere yuko ahunga Imanza zirebana na Genocide yabaye mu’Rwanda mumwaka 1994, akaba yaraje hano ahunga Gacaca, doreko yari yaranakorewe Dossiye y’ibyaha bya Genocide. Bwana Oze rero yaje guhungira mu Igihugu cy’Ubwongereza akaba atuye aho bita Plymouth aho ni mu ma jyepfo y’Ubwongereza. Oze rero akora ukwo ashoboye kugirango Imanza ashinjwa mu’Rwanda zizamuhanagurweho, muminsi ishize Ambassade yu’Rwanda mu Ubwongereza yifashishije uyu Oze wigize Pasteli hariya Plymouth, maze atumira bamwe mu abanyarwanda baturutse hirya no hino mu bihugu byu burayi, bishyurirwa amatike,amafunguro, ndetse n’amacumbi, bakaba rero bamaze iminsi biga uburyo bafasha leta ya Kagame kurwanya abatavuga rumwe nayo batuye mu bihugu byu Uburayi. Ibi byose bakabikora bikingirije insengero no gusenga.
None ubu banyuze mu Itorero ry’Abadivantiste batuye Reading, Babifashijwemwo na, Bwana Sam Rwigamba nawe wimpunzi, Peterson Sentenga waje mubwongereza aturuka mugihugu cya Kenya, aha muri Kenya akaba yarahamaze igihe kinini cyane, akaba ariho yavuye ahungira mu’Bwongereza. Yaje gukandagira mu’Rwanda nyuma yimyaka myinshi inkotanyi zimaze gufata ubutegetsi. Ubwo umunyamakuru wacu yavuganaga nabwana Sentenga yamutangarije ko nyuma yaho umukobwa we agiriye i Rwanda kwiga umuco wakinyarwanda na ngwino urebe, yaragarutse amwereka aho U’rwanda rugeze ndetse akaba yaramusobanuriye ko President Kagame yahuye nabanyeshuli bavuye Iburayi akabumvisha impamvu bakwiye kurwanya Oppsostion iyo ariyo yose. Ikindi cyamushimishije ngo namafoto umukobwa yifotoranije na Kagame ngo afite iwe, ati Umuyobozi nkuyu wanifotoranije numukowba wange wamukurahe? niko yabajije nubwuzu bwinshi. Sentenga yasobanuye ko agomba gufasha intore yivuye inyuma, twamubajije kubirebana nisubiranamo rya FPR, ubwicanyi burimo noguhotora ingabo zabohoje igihugu, cyakora we avuga ko umuntu uwo ariwe wese utumva Kagame agomba gufatwa ‘agahanwa’, Bwana Sentenga rero na Bwana Rwigamba bombi nabagabo basheshe akanguhe basanzwe bayobora bamwe mu ba kiristo ba Oxford,basengera muri St Clement Family Centre OX4 1DA. Kuruyu wa Gatandatu tariki 26/05/2012 Bitwaje kwibuka abazize Genocide yo muwi 1994 bakaba rero bateguye iminsi mikuru.
Ubundi aba bagabo bombi ntibari basanzwe bazwi hano mu Ubwongereza mubategura Icyunamo cya Genocide, ubwo Ambassade yu’Rwanda yifashishije na none undi muryango uba hano mu Ubwongereza wa Bwana David Gahungu n’Umugore Lilian Teta, gufatanya na Sam, na Sentenga, muribyo bikorwa. uyu David Gahungu hano azwi nk’umurundi murwego rwo gushaka IBYANGOMBWA BY’UBUHUNZI. Ibi bikorwa byose kandi inzego za Abongereza zishinzwe umutekano zikabazimaze kubimenyeshwa, nkuko twabitangarijwe nabashinzwe umutekano mukarere ka Oxford. Leta ya Kigali Ikomeje kubeshya impunzi izizeza ijuru kandi bikazangiriza umubano mubihugu zituyemo, Ikibabaje nuko iyo umuntu bamutahuye ntabwo Leta ya Kigali yongera nokumureba irihumye. Ibibikorwa bya ambassade yu’Rwanda yihisha inyuma yo gushaka guhungabanya umutekano wabatavuga rumwe na Leta ya Kagame kandi bimaze igihe kinini, aliko kandi bagatahurwa mubihugu bitandukanye.UWANZE KUMVA NTIYANZE NO KUBONA. Biracyaza.
Karanga
Plymouth

RWANDA-CANADA:Jeannette Kagame funding spying acts in Canada!

Jeannette Kagame uses Rulinda Joseph to spy on Rwandans living in Canada

Information reaching Umuvugizi.com confirm that Rwanda’s First Lady Jeannette Kagame comes on top of those spying Rwandans living in Canada by using Rulinda Joseph . Rulinda Joseph is one of the long serving Rwandan diplomats attached in Canada before declaring himself as a political refuge there.

Due to the special interest that Jeannette Kagame had in Rulinda Joseph, basing on his popularity among Rwandan refugees especially those who originate from Ruhengeri plus his popularity among them because of being a relative to famous Mpakaniye Lazaro , former minister during Kayibanda’s regime, this made Jeannette Kagame to send Mukayuhi Constance a parliamentarian who is a friend to Rulinda and assigned him different spying missions in Canada using his under cover of having a political asylum status .
Just as predicted by Jeannette Kagame to have Rulinda performing better than others, It’s exactly the same way it went to an extent that Rulinda’s progressing spying in Canada against Rwandan Refugees has granted him being a channel of both operational funds and intelligence information than other embassy renown spies.

Sources confirm Rulinda now competes with Rutsindintwarane Eric the official embassy spy in Canada in carrying out such controversial spying activities against Rwandan refugees living in Canada.

Among other duties, Joseph Rulinda has been tasked with buying off Rwanda’s opposition figures living in Canada , also tasked to defame and destroy Umuvugizi news and it’s Journalist plus paying off Victor Munyarugerero to defame Rusesabagina Paul.
Apart from spying in Canada, Rulinda was also given assignments of arranging different meeting between Victor Munyarugerero , the Rwandan ambassador to Canada Eda Mukabagwiza and the Rwandan ambassador to the USA Kimonyo James, in order to compromise Munyarugerero and in return gave him instructions to defame and decampaign Rusesabagina Paul and his Hotel Rwanda film. Munyarugerero Victor was engaged in those deals because of having worked with Rusesabagina Paul when he rescued Rwandans at Hotel des Mille Colines in 1994 genocide .
This comes in the same time when Rulinda Joseph coordinates his spying activities with Victor Ntezirembo, the husband to Ambassador Eda Mukabagwiza, to destroy Umuvugizi news by using different malicious and hateful articles published in different Rwandan forums with intentions of destroying it among it’s readers , while at the same time making efforts to fail it’s journalists. All this sabotages are orders of Jeannette Kagame and the Rwandan spies .

Johnson, Europe.

RWANDA:Rwanda Sends 3 Thousand Troops in DRC

by AfroAmerica Network
 Sources in Kigali and Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) inform AfroAmerica Network that the Rwandan Government has sent more than three thousand troops into the DRC over the last three days.
The deployment of Rwandan troops into DRC follows an agreement between the intelligence services of the two countries and the meeting between the Defense Ministers.
The Defence Ministers met last week in the Rwandan border town of Gisenyi, whereas the intelligence services met in Kigali on May 3, 2012.
According to the sources, the two intelligence services and the ministers agreed on two points:
* Rwanda will send troops into the DRC to prop up the beleaguered FADRC troops. FARDC have been faced with massive defections, rebellions and mutinies. The largest group of defectors are led by General Bosco Ntaganda, an accused war criminal who has mainly been the proxy warlord of the Rwandan military in Eastern DRC. The DRC authorities believe that with the Rwandan troops in DRC, General Bosco Ntaganda’s rebellion may be tamed.
* DRC Government agreed to open negotiations with General Bosco Ntaganda. At least, the DRC Government promised to push that General Bosco Ntaganda be tried in the DRC for crimes he is accused of by the International Criminal Tribunal (ICT). The hope is that if tried in the DRC, he may not be found guilty of the grave crimes by Congolese judges. The Congolese judiciary system has been accused of being mostly run by the DRC Government and being notoriously ineffective and corrupt.
The intelligence services of the government of DRC and Rwanda held the talks at the Serena Hotel in Kigali. The delegation of the DRC included Col Kalev Mutond, Director of the National Intelligence Agency (ANR), and Colonel Jean Claude Yav Jean, Chief of Military Intelligence (DEMIAP).
Meanwhile, the mutiny continues. The latest was on Thursday night May 3, 2012 by the former second in command of FARDC in North-Kivu, Colonel Makenga. He was based in Mugunga, a few miles from Goma, the capital of the province and the headquarter of MONUSCO.
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RWANDA:Paul Kagame and Rwanda's Faux Democracy

By Ruth Wedgwood from The New Republic Newspaper

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If you’re a betting person, here’s a safe bet: On August 9, the balloting in the east African state of Rwanda will give world-famous military leader Paul Kagame yet another seven-year term as president. The astonishing margin of victory will impress even the modern grand viziers of Central Asia. The outcome is quite easy to predict, when no other candidates are allowed to campaign.
Given this and much else besides, it’s time Washington began to create some distance from a man who has earned his reputation as a de facto despot who terrorizes critics and does not shrink from political violence.
Kagame revels in his fame as the strategist who led a Tutsi invasion force from Uganda in 1994, pushing back the Hutu army and Hutu militia, though not before they perpetrated a shocking genocidal slaughter of hundreds of thousands of the country’s Tutsi minority, as well as moderate Hutu. Washington, reeling from Somalia and fearing another Black Hawk Down, refused to intervene. Madeline Albright was directed to inform the U.N. Security Council that, no, we would not reconstitute the U.N. peacekeeping force in Rwanda, and, further, the United States would veto any resolution that authorized other countries to do so. It was the season of peacekeeping misadventures, and the Clinton White House decided, as one former National Security Council official recalls, that it could not afford to intervene both in Haiti and Rwanda. Presidential Decision Directive 25, drafted by Richard Clarke as a white paper for peacekeeping, morphed into an excuse to “just say no.”
For the last 15 years, Kagame has at every turn invoked these memories to shoehorn the West into a nearly reflexive support for his government. Even Bill Clinton came back to apologize. Kagame has become a fixture at the United Nations in New York, regaling delegations in the Indonesian Lounge, extolling his vision of benevolent autocracy, claiming to admire Singapore as his model for economic growth and insisting that he and only he can keep Rwanda’s torn society knitted together.
In truth, the Rwandan leader presides over nothing more than hollow democracy. He has attacked and exiled any and all viable political opponents. The local press, as well as international journalists, have been bludgeoned and harassed. The regime uses the Stalinist crime of “divisionism” as a pretext to silence and prosecute any critic who dares question its policies or the state sanctioned version of the 1994 conflict.
Unsurprisingly, the intimidation extends to international institutions. President Clinton supported the effort to create an international war crimes tribunal to mete out justice for perpetrators and victims alike. The U.N. court was tasked to investigate the behavior of both sides in the 1994 conflict, operating from a neutral perch in Tanzania. Prosecutors decided first to take on the crimes of the prior Hutu government and militia, since the scale of its violence was larger and the cooperation of Kigali was necessary to obtain witnesses from Rwanda. A decade later, with numerous convictions under its belt and dozens of Hutu defendants still on trial, the U.N. tribunal turned to smaller-scale allegations against the Tutsi invasion force, Kagame’s Rwandan Patriotic Front—including alleged massacres of civilians in the northeast and northwest of the country, as well as attacks on mostly Hutu refugee camps.
At this point, the Bush administration decided, unwisely, to pull the plug—repudiating the Hague prosecutor who planned to bring the cases, and insisting that the RPF cases could be entrusted to Kagame’s national courts as part of a “completion strategy.” Needless to say, that was the last of the investigations.
This was unfortunate, and not just for history’s sake. The West’s failure to address Tutsi violations of the laws of war has allowed Kagame to conclude, justifiably, that he can do nearly anything with impunity. He certainly hasn’t been intimidated by the observation of the U.N. Human Rights Committee in May 2009 that it was “concerned at the large number of persons, including women and children, reported to have been killed from 1994 onwards in the course of operations by the Rwanda Patriotic Army, and at the limited number of cases reported to have resulted in prosecution and punishment by the Rwandan courts.”
Nor has there been any penalty for Kagame's destructive expedition into the Eastern Congo. The cross-border intervention gave the regime access to minerals ripe for extraction and valued in the hundreds of millions of dollars. Millions of civilians have been killed in the Eastern Congo conflict, and while Kagame was not the only culprit, his troops hardly quelled the violence.
At the same time, Kagame’s domestic critics have met with unfortunate fates. An outspoken political rival was recently shot and wounded in South Africa. A prominent newspaper editor was gunned down at the end of June, and the deputy president of the Democratic Green party was decapitated in July. Public meetings of rival parties have been banned. Kagame felt audacious enough to jail and threaten a 10-20 year sentence against an American lawyer and law professor—who hails from former Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger’s alma mater in Minnesota—when he went to Rwanda to consult with one of Kagame’s political rivals.
Other smash-mouth ironies abound in this muzzled state. In 2007, President Kagame offered to contribute 3000 Rwandan troops to the peacekeeping force in Darfur, but only if his former chief of military intelligence, Emmanuel Karenzi Karake, was brought on as deputy U.N. force commander for the entire mission. Though Karake’s earlier career was dogged by unresolved allegations of atrocities against civilians in the northwest and northeast regions of Rwanda, the State Department’s Africa desk reportedly vouched for Karake and he got his appointment. In the middle of the mission, a Spanish court indicted Karake for war crimes, and still, he was reappointed to a second term. (Karake has now apparently broken with Kagame; he was arrested in April on "serious charges of immoral conduct.")
Even Rwanda’s celebrated “gacaca” process—sending accused genocidaires to be tried and sentenced in local settings, rather than molder without trial in inconceivably overcrowded prisons—has not lived up to its reputation. The U.N. Human Rights Committee recently noted the “lack of legal training for judges and reports of corruption” in the Gacaca courts—along with impairment of “the rights of defence” even “in cases where sentences of up to 30 years’ imprisonment may be handed down.”
In promoting humanitarian and democratic ends abroad, the Obama administration initially got off to a slow start. The ideals of Eleanor Roosevelt took a back seat to the desire to be “not Bush.”
But the record has lately improved. With this new moral realism, the Obama team ought to take a close and critical look at its erstwhile friend in Africa. He is not what he seems.
Ruth Wedgwood is a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution and a professor of international law at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies

RWANDA:The Intrinsically Defective ‘Rwandan Despot Leader-Brand’ The Uganda Journalist, Mwenda is Struggling to Market

The ‘Rwandan Despot Leader Brand’

(NEW YORK ) – The Rwandan tyrannical ruler, General Paul Kagame, is known for his excessive and brutal control of the media for his warfare.

The former rebel leader will stop at nothing to grab ‘international recognition’ thanks to his complex and exorbitant public-relations and lobbyists network. General Kagame considers it a favor to Rwandans for his government to perform the basic functions of government.

The General’s public-relations team and lobbyists must find a Western university to decorate their principal with an honorary doctorate, for as minor a government function as repairing a 25km road. One of General Kagame’s public-relations agents is Andrew Mwenda, a prominent and respected Ugandan journalist.

It is well-documented that General Kagame cuts Mwenda’s pay-checks from Rwandan government “classified” expenditures. There are various disturbing phenomena in the Kagame-Mwenda illegal and unethical transaction.

First, it defeats all principles of public finance management for an individual journalist like Mr. Mwenda to receive from public coffers huge amount of money under the guise of a ‘classified’ expenditure. Second, it borders insanity for a journalist of Mr.Mwenda’s caliber to justify even the most obvious corrupt, immoral and unethical conduct of General Kagame, including the alleged Hollywood-like decapitating of the General’s critics in Kigali, other parts of the country and some neighboring countries. Mr. Mwenda forgets that General Kagame has often made adoptive admission to these wicked assassinations.

Unsubstantiated attack on international human rights organizations

In his most recent piece entitled “Rwanda’s Brand Problem”, Mwenda argues that international human rights organizations, some media house and some foreign academics exploits what he calls “Rwanda’s positive brand to build their own.” Mwenda does not address his mind to the international human rights organizations’ concerns over Kagame’s style of government.

Most international human rights organizations’ issues with Kagame’s regime include: violation human rights and freedoms, militarizing and personalizing public institutions, suppressing the media, personalizing public finance and other resources. General Kagame is accused of destabilizing society, killing people and stealing the Congo’s natural resources through his proxy warlords.

Kagame’s critics accuse him of maintaining a Tutsi minority dominated army, national police, security organs and government. The United Nations Mapping Report accuses General Kagame of war crimes, crimes against humanity and possibly genocide. A French Court has General Kagame’s arrest warrants sealed for war crimes, mass murder, crimes against humanity and terrorism. A Spanish Court issued international arrest warrants for similar crimes committed by the General’s top aides. General Kagame’s Spanish international arrest warrant is pending his exist from presidency. General Kagame’s court case in the US is pending for the same reason.

Andrew Mwenda argues that international human rights organizations, some media houses and some foreign academics exploits what he calls Rwanda’s positive brand to build their own because “… many visitors to Rwanda are impressed by what they see. Physical observations – clean and well paved streets, manicured flowers, working street lights, mowed lawns, functional hospitals and schools and well-constructed pedestrian sidewalks strike a visitor’s eye. However, these visual observations tell of something profound about post genocide Rwanda – the construction of a functional state and one which has a strong commitment to serving the public good”.

First, the Ugandan journalist appears to have a very limited view of “functions of a State”. The entire litany of what the Ugandan journalist equates with ‘functions of the State’ is actually proper functions of private persons in a nation-state.

Second, it is evident that Mwenda’s response to the human rights organizations’ concerns is fallacious. It is not logical to liken physical infrastructure with respect for human rights.

Third, Mr. Mwenda does not inform his audience that most of the new Plazas in Kigali city belong to General Kagame and his personal business empire. Mwenda does not tell his readers that most of the “new” buildings are in the sea of dreadfully poverty stricken Kigali town neighborhoods. For well known reasons, Mwenda does not inform his readers that some of the General’s “excellent” buildings in Kigali city stand on grabbed land.

Fourth, Mwenda does not inform the public that in the suburbs of Kigali city, Kagame’s security organs engage in a systematic selection of who should be allowed to set-foot in the “clean city”. Whenever a poor, untidy-looking Rwandan attempts to set-foot into Kagame’s ‘clean city’, jail is inevitable. It is public knowledge that over 40% of Rwanda’s children suffer malnutrition related diseases yet Mr. Mwenda shows no concern for their plight.

Further, close to 65% of Rwandans are said to leave under abject poverty living on less than one USD per day. Mwenda must have forgotten that Libya and Egypt had better cities and, certainly, more physical infrastructure under their respective previous dictators.

Mwenda’s fallacious argument

Mwenda argues that the international human rights organizations, journalist-defense associations (Reporters without Borders) and sections of the regional and international press are ignorant of what happens in Rwanda because “many of these people have never visited Rwanda or have done so only occasionally”.

This argument is invalid. First, Mwenda seeks to limit knowledge to physical space. In this century of advanced information technology, space is no limit to what people can know about places. Secondly, Mwenda appears to think that participant observation is the only data collection method. Third, Mwenda’s argument is faulty because he gives an impression that knowledge about what happens in Rwanda is limited to inhabitants of, or people who live in, Rwanda. Mwenda’s argument, at this level, fails on the basic principles of epistemology, logic, common sense and decency.

Andrew Mwenda seeks solace into frantic sophism.

As if it would save his flawed arguments, Mwenda argues that “democracy and human rights are abstract issues where conjecture, prejudice and bias tend to work better. Thus, rumors, hearsay, idle gossip or out-of-context accusations can easily mislead an observer”.

This argument is disturbing in a number of aspects. First, even the least scientific relativist ought to be aware of the universal human rights and democratic principles. Human rights and democratic principles have gained universal acceptability and application. It appears Mwenda’s confusion strategy to go sophist on this. Second, Mwenda is on record for attacking President Museveni of Uganda for human rights violation, corruption and nepotism among other serious breaches of democratic values. If Mwenda is convinced that human rights and democracy are abstract concepts, why does he accuse Museveni of violating human rights? Are human rights and democracy abstract only when it involves General Kagame?

Mwenda on the alleged General Kalama sponsored assassination plots

Mr. Mwenda argues that Gen. Kagame is wrongly accused of assassinating his critics and real or perceived political opponents. Mr. Mwenda opinioned that: “for example, the death of a journalist or an alleged threat to assassinate an opposition politician in exile immediately prompts human rights groups to take on the issue and even without a whit of evidence accuse the Rwanda government of being the perpetrator”. First, Mwenda is probably not aware that a Criminal Court in South African is yet to rule on an attempted murder of General Kayumba Nyamwasa, General Kagame’s former Military Chief. In this case, all evidence point to General Kagame. In any case, prosecution educed a prima facie case against General Kagame’s suicidal security agents.

Mr. Mwenda does not seem to know that the United Kingdom Police revealed a secret plan in which Kagame’s suicidal security agents wanted to assassinate some critics of Kagame regime living in UK. The Swedish government recently expelled a Rwandan diplomat for what the Swedish government termed ‘getting involved in spying and harassing some Rwandan refugees in Sweden’. The Green Party Vice President was butchered in a Hollywood-like incident.

When the Green party and the family of the deceased mobilized resources to have the beheaded Green Party Vice President’s body flown to a neutral country for postmortem, General Kagame’s government said that would violate the country’s Sovereignty! The list of broad-day assassination of Kagame’s critics in Rwanda, Congo (DRC) and other countries is inexhaustible. The US envoy to the United Nations, while on official visit in Kagali, told General Kagame that the General’s obstinate violation of human rights and freedoms were making Kagame a liability for all friends of Rwanda.

On some occasions, General Kagame is confronted by foreign journalist to explain the suspected insane assassinations of the General’s critics and journalists. General Kagame’s demeanor and the comic responses to inquiries about his critics assassination is, by all standards, adoptive admission. While responding to the concern that he had been behind the attempted murder of his former right hand military boss in South Africa, General Kagame said, “My security or military agents never miss their victims when they shoot.” Isn’t this adoptive admission and admissible evidence by and sober court of law?

Mwenda’s mission impossible

The Bill Clinton and Tony Blair mixIt is well documented that Mr Mwenda is on Kagame’s payroll for marketing the General’s intrinsically defective ‘brand’. However, Mr. Mwenda folds his circus tent saying that “The Rwandan Government is good in many things. But it is shambolic in public relations. In almost all cases, human rights groups out-punch it, outmaneuver it and out-talk it leaving it bruised”.

Mr. Mwenda forgets that lobbyists and public-relations agents do not make miracles. The “brand” they are marketing must be reasonably good. General Kagame’s domestic and international criminal record is beyond repair. It is only natural and prudent that Mr. Mwenda feels frustrated about marketing the ‘Kagame defective brand’, not-withstanding the pay-check this Ugandan journalist receives from the atrocious Rwandan tyrannical ruler. What is disturbing is that Mr. Mwenda does not resign his public-relations job for Kagame even when he knows his job adds no value to Rwanda people’s welfare.

Mr. Mwenda like many of Rwanda’s despot lobbyists constantly argue that the General is a great leader because he is advised by former US President (Bill Clinton) and the British ex-Prime Minister (Tony Blair). The fallacious nature of this argument is disquieting. Whether or not former President Bill Clinton and the British ex-Prime Minister Tony Blair are clean is not the primary concern. However, Mr. Mwenda like other exorbitant public relations agents and lobbyists for General Kagame never bother reminding their audience that the British ex-Prime Minister was also a close friend to former Libyan despot ruler.

Is it a coincident that Former US President (Bill Clinton) and the British ex-Prime Minister (Tony Blair) sit on the advisory board of Teneo Holdings which was paid at least $625,000 to do public-relations and financial consulting work for Jon Corzine brokerage that went down the cliff amidst horrible scandals? Is being advised by the former US President and British ex-Prime Minister a guarantee that General Kagame is doing well? No matter how Mr. Mwenda paints the ‘Rwanda Brand” no amount of coverage can erase the legacy of death that President Kagame will leave to the world.

By: Charles KM KAMBANDA, Dip.Phil., BA., LLB., MA.ETPM., MBA., MA.HRTs., LLM., PhD

Edited by: Jennifer Fierberg, MSW

From : www.salem-news.com

RWANDA:Karuranga Attacks Kagame At RPP 2nd Anniversary

By Edison Akugizibwe
Karuranga Attacks Kagame At RPP 2nd Anniversary
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UK-based Rwanda opposition figure John Karuranga has criticized President Paul Kagame for harassing his rivals and orchestrating a mandatory sterilization policy in the tiny country.

“On this momentous occasion, the party would like to remember and salute those party members who lost their lives through RPF’s assassination policy and I would like to reiterate that, in spite of harassments and intimidation, our party will not be deterred from carrying out our historic mission on behalf of the Rwandan people,” says Karuranga.

The Rwanda People’s Party (RPP) was formed two years ago. Majority of its members live overseas.

“18 years ago, the RPF/A of President Kagame captured power in Rwanda. This regime has now been in power since then and was re-elected for another 7 years in 2010, an election that most independent observers consider flawed and illegitimate,” says Karuranga.

He further says RPF’s rule has not brought any iota of peace and political stability in Rwanda.

“Instead it has inflicted one catastrophe after another on Rwanda and its people. While, foreigners are happy with a so-called economic boom, and some of the foreign cult evangelical religious leaders have been guaranteed Rwandan citizenship, 99% of Rwandan people still live in abject poverty, below the UN designated poverty level for human subsistence.”

He says most Rwandans survive on less than $0.15 per day, which ranks it as one of the poorest countries in the world.

“Children and elderly people die of hunger, starvation and neglect. There is credible evidence that female orphans of genocide placed in foster homes have been systematically emotionally, physically and sexually abused by the people who fostered them and were therefore supposed to protect them,” says Karuranga.

“They are made to do menial domestic tasks like cooking and looking after children and their living condition is surely akin to slavery.”

Rwanda not democratic

He further disputes the “assertion by some elements of the international community that Rwanda is a democracy and is somehow a role model for Africa.”

Karuranga affirms democracy in Rwanda and freedom of association is virtually non-existent.

Late last year, Kagame said freedom of speech and association is flourishing in Rwanda.

He gave an example of the annual National Dialogue Conferences held in Kigali where all Rwandese participate in deliberating on issues that affect their country.

Kagame further denied having a hand in the murder of critical journalists. He described such allegations as baseless.

Karuranga says Rwandan people live a hand to mouth existence and we challenge anyone to say they are free.

“President Kagame’s regime can only be best described as Animal Farm re-incarnated. In fact President Kagame could have written Animal Farm himself,” charged Karuranga.

“His MPs have neither backbone, nor authority to challenge him and the fact that he has many female MPs in his government is simply meant to dupe his international backers because they have neither power nor authority.”

He describes the politicians as mere cheerleaders who are more interested in their buttered bread and bacon rather than the interests of the Rwandan people.

“They see their constituents (more victims) in four wheel air-conditioned driven cars while their victims hardly have any porridge or milk with which to feed their malnourished children, while orphans of genocide have continued to be systemically raped and destroyed on daily a basis.”

FORCED STERLISATION

Karuranga condemns RPF’s policy of what he describes as forced sterilization of Rwandan poor.

“This is a crime under international law and violates the human rights of the person and of their unborn child if they are forced to carry out an abortion or sterilisation against their will. There exists more egalitarian programmes of population control today and most of these are achieved on the basis of public education and consensus, not force.”

He says sterilization of 700,000 Rwandan poor is totally unnecessary and is both cruel and barbaric

RWANDA-USA: President Paul Kagame Served With Class Action Suit In Iowa

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    PRESS RELEASE:
    Correction: Please note the correction that the Africa Great Lakes Coalition did not serve the summons nor that it is associated with the plaintiffs or the lawyers of the plaintiffs. The summons and complaint were indeed served. Questions regarding the case must be addressed directly to the lawyers of the plaintiffs.
    President Paul Kagame Served With Class Action Suit In Iowa

    May 14, 2012 – A coalition of social justice organizations descended upon William Penn University on Saturday, May 12, 2012 to protest the honoring of General Paul Kagame by inviting him to give the commencement speech and awarding him with a honorary doctorate in Human Letters. The Coalition notes that General Kagame’s thirty-year career dominated by war, invasion and iron-fisted dictatorship, cannot be something that William Penn would have admired. Honoring that career violates those broader Quaker principles that we deeply admire—simplicity, peace-making, integrity, community and equality.

    In addition to the protest, President Kagame was served with a law suit. The summons and complaint filed with charges against "President Paul Kagame et al." were served at William Penn University's campus during his commencement speech on May 12, 2012 in Oskaloosa, Iowa. Paul Kagame is the current president of the Republic of Rwanda.

    In this Case "4:12-cv-00191 - Habyarimana and Ntaryamira vs. Kagame et al., " Paul Kagame is being sued on 8 counts of "Wrongful Death and Murder, Crimes Against Humanity, Violation of the Rights of Life, Liberty and Security of Person, Assault and Battery, Intentional Infliction and Emotional Distress, Violations of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization Act, Torture, Conspiracy to Torture" for his criminal activities in Rwanda and the Congo. He is being sued in this civil case for $350 million by the wives of former Rwandan and Burundian presidents Habyarimana and Ntaryamira.

    Kagame's co-defendants are William Penn University President Ann Fields (invited Kagame to speak, provided him with honorary degree, has business ties to Rwanda), former Rwandan ambassador Theogene Rudasingwa, and Pierre-Richard Prosper (American lawyer who defended Kagame in similar Oklahoma case, former prosecutor at the ICTR, former government official, former advisor to Mitt Romney).

    As Dr. King presciently noted, "The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice!"

    You can contact the legal team for the plaintiffs at the info below.

    Contact:
    International Humanitarian Law Institute
    Prof. Peter Erlinder, Director
    Email: peter.erlinder@wmitchell.edu
    Phone Number: Available only to journalists requesting an interview with the legal team

    Here are the legal documents being used for the case

    Summons
    http://kambale.com/pdf/kagame_case_iowa_summons_may11_2012.pdf

    Complaint/Case file
    http://kambale.com/pdf/kagame_case_iowa_complaint_may11_2012.pdf

    Letters sent to William Penn University President Ann Fields by the Africa Great Lakes Coalition
    http://congofriends.blogspot.com/2012/05/protesting-wpus-decision-to-honor.html
    http://kambale.com/pdf/kagame_case_iowa_summons_may11_2012.pdf
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        Free-Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza and Agaculama Mu Ikibunda like this.
            Ibuka Bose by da way how did the lawsuit in Okla State end?
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            Agaculama Mu Ikibunda Good question, JMD. I'll ask it to Prof. Peter Erlinder. It is not important that the Okhlahoma lawsuit ends, but it is mandatory that such lawsuits start somewhere and everywhere in the world, in Iowa, Madrid, Paris, Okhlahoma, Arusha... in order to finally destabilize this criminal Kagame Banana Republic regime. Best regards.
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            John Mukasa Some times i wonder what happened to civility with famous persons.Not in America,UK and not even in the third world. Hon-our has become a myth in that the future generation will classify it as we talk global warming.Extinct completely ...........
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            Andrew E. Mathis Case with dismissed in Oklahoma because Kagame is a sitting head of state; thus, he has immunity from prosecution.
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            Agaculama Mu Ikibunda ‎@Andrew. Is there a single exception of immunity for somebody who's accused of War Crime, Crime against Humanity and Crime of Genocide, in both US Laws and Constitution? Thanks for detailed answer.
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            Andrew E. Mathis Don't know. The closest case I can think of is Pinochet, who was accused of most of that. But he was not a sitting head of state when he was arrested in Spain about a decade ago.
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USA-RWANDA:War Tribunal Finds Bush, Cheney Guilty of War Crimes

Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal orders reparations be given to torture victims

From Common Dreams staff

Former US President George W Bush, his Vice-President Dick Cheney and six other members of his administration have been found guilty of war crimes by a tribunal in Malaysia.
Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal president judge Tan Sri Lamin Mohd Yunus (center) delivering the verdict yesterday. He is flanked by says reparations should be given to the complainant war crime victims. With him are Prof Salleh Buang (left) and Datuk Mohd Sa’ari Yusof. (Photo/Hasriyasyah Sabudin) Bush, Cheney, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and five of their legal advisers were tried in their absence and convicted on Saturday.
Victims of torture told a panel of five judges in Kuala Lumpur of their suffering at the hands of US soldiers and contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Among the evidence, Briton Moazzam Begg, an ex-Guantanamo detainee, said he was beaten, put in a hood and left in solitary confinement. Iraqi woman Jameelah Abbas Hameedi said she was stripped and humiliated in the notorious Abu Ghraib prison.
Transcripts of the five-day trial will be sent to the chief prosecutor at the International Criminal Court, the United Nations and the Security Council.
A member of the prosecution team, Professor Francis Boyle of Illinois University’s College of Law, said he was hopeful that Bush and his colleagues could soon find themselves facing similar trials elsewhere in the world.
The eight accused are Bush; former US Vice President Richard Cheney; former US Defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld; former Counsel to Bush, Alberto Gonzales; former General Counsel to the Vice President, David Addington; former General Counsel to the Defense Secretary, William Haynes II; former Assistant Attorney General Jay Bybee and former Deputy Assistant Attorney General John Yoo.
Tribunal president judge Tan Sri Lamin Mohd Yunus said the eight accused were also individually and jointly liable for crimes of torture in accordance with Article 6 of the Nuremberg Charter. "The US is subject to customary international law and to the principles of the Nuremberg Charter and exceptional circumstances such as war, instability and public emergency cannot excuse torture."

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The Star (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia) reports:

Bush Found Guilty of War Crimes

KUALA LUMPUR: The War Crimes Tribunal has convicted former US President George W. Bush and seven of his associates as war criminals for torture and inhumane treatment of war crime victims at US military facilities.

However, being a tribunal of conscience, the five-member panel chaired by tribunal president judge Lamin Mohd Yunus had no power to enforce or impose custodial sentence on the convicted eight.

“We find the witnesses, who were victims placed in detention illegally by the convicted persons and their government, are entitled to payment of reparations,” said Lamin at a public hearing held in an open court at the Kuala Lumpur Foundation to Crimi­na­lize War yesterday.

He added that the tribunal’s award of reparations would be submitted to the War Crimes Commission and recommended the victims to find a judiciary entity that could enforce the verdict.

The tribunal would also submit the finding and records of the proceedings to the Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, the United Nations’ Security Council.

On Thursday, head of the prosecution Prof Gurdial Singh Nijar said Bush had issued an executive order to commit war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Five former Iraqi detainees, who were tortured while being detained in various prisons, including Guantanamo Bay, were called to give their testimonies before the Tribunal during the trial which started on May 7.

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The Malaysia Sun reports:

[...] In a unanimous vote on Saturday the symbolic Malaysian war crimes tribunal, part of an initiative by former Malaysian premier Mahathir Mohamad, found the former US President guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity.

Former Malaysian Premier Mahatir Mohamad  said of Bush and others: "These are basically murderers and they kill on large scale."Seven of his former political associates, including former Vice President Dick Cheney and former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, were also found guilty of war crimes and torture.

Press TV has reported the court heard evidence from former detainees in Iraq and Guantanamo Bay of torture methods used by US soldiers in prisons run by the American forces.

One former inmate described how he had been subjected to electric shocks, beatings and sexual abuse over a number of months.

A high ranking former UN official, former UN Assistant Secretary General, Denis Halliday, who also attended the trial, later told Press TV that the UN had been too weak during the Bush administration to enforce the Geneva Conventions.

He said: "The UN is a weak body, corrupted by member states, who use the Security Council for their own interests. They don't respect the charter. They don't respect the international law. They don't respect the Geneva Conventions... A redundant, possibly a dangerous, and certainly corrupted organization."

Following the hearing, former Malaysian premier Mahatir said of Bush and others: "These are basically murderers and they kill on large scale."

It was the second so-called war crimes tribunal in Malaysia.

The token court was first held in November 2011 during which Bush and former British Prime Minister Tony Blair were found guilty of committing "crimes against peace" during the Iraq war.

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RWANDA:'President Paul Kagame is to Blame for the Humanitarian Crisis in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo'

From Salem-News.com

Open memo to the UN Secretary General, G8 Members, UN General Assembly, EU, AU, and all Representatives to the UN Security Council.

Courtesy: theburningsplint.blogspot.com

(WASHINGTON DC) - The following is an Open Memo to the UN Secretary General, G8 Presidents and Prime Ministers, President of the UN General Assembly, EU President, AU Chairman and President, and all Representatives to the UN Security Council.

MAY 11, 2012

PRESIDENT PAUL KAGAME IS TO BLAME FOR THE HUMANITARIAN CRISIS IN EASTERN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO(DRC)

On behalf of the Rwanda National Congress (RNC), let me take this opportunity to bring to your kind attention concerns regarding the deepening humanitarian and security crisis in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). It has been reported by the United Nations Office for Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs that there have more than 300,000 internally displaced people in North and South Kivu in the first quarter of this year alone. In the last few days, escalation of fighting has led to more internally displaced people, and refugees fleeing to Rwanda and Uganda. Many millions, including women and children have died, displaced and raped in eastern DRC since 1994.

In the May 3, 2012, statement the U.N. Security Council expressed concerns over recent attacks by armed groups in eastern DRC, in particular the former elements of CNDP under General Bosco Ntaganda, against the Congolese armed forces and called for immediate cessation of the rebellion. The U.N. Security Council statement further called for “ all crimes, including crimes against women and children, to be expeditiously investigated and the need for all the perpetrators of those crimes, in particular Ntaganda, to be brought to justice.”

THE CONTEXT

You might recall that the 1990- 1994 war and genocide in Rwanda resulted in millions of Rwandan refugees in the region, mostly in DRC, including thousands of Rwanda government military forces (FAR) and militia (interahamwe). The Government of Rwanda attacked the refugee camps in Congo in October, 1996 under the pretext of a ‘Abanyamurenge rebellion’. The war culminated in the overthrow of President Mobutu in May, 1997.

Thereafter, Laurent Desire Kabila succeeded Mobutu as President with the help of the Rwandan Armed forces. The alliance between Paul Kagame and Laurent Desire Kabila could not last more than two years and both countries were again involved in war in August 1998.

First, then Vice President Paul Kagame expected to control the new government of DRC and believed President Kabila would always solicit political direction from Rwanda. To ensure this, Rwanda deployed LTC James Kabarebe (now General) as Chief of Staff of the Congolese Army to keep President Kabila on the leash. This was detested by Kabila and his followers which resulted in friction and conflict in the Congolese Army.

Second, then Vice President Kagame demanded mineral concessions to be granted to Rwanda as compensation for expenses of the war and as a personal reward for installing President Kabila in power. This did not happen and Paul Kagame hatched a plan to remove President Kabila through a coup d’etat, which failed. President Kabila retaliated by expelling LTC James Kabarebe together with all Rwandan troops in DRC, precipitating the all-out war into which several African countries, notably Zimbabwe and Angola, were sucked. President Laurent Kabila was assassinated, and succeeded by his son, Joseph Kabila.

Third, a reason had to be found to begin a war and the EX-FAR was a perfect excuse, although at the same time the war was waged under the pretext of a mutiny by the Congolese army, with President Kabila being accused of allying himself with the EX-FAR. At first, Rwanda concealed its involvement. As the conflict intensified and drew many African countries, Rwanda’s deceptions had reached a limit and had to create a proxy politico-military organization. Thus was RCD born. The war ended in a stalemate, and a negotiated political settlement led to the establishment of a broad-based government that included all fighting forces. However, against all advice, Paul Kagame dissuaded some political and military elements of the RCD from joining the new broad-based government in Kinshasa. Out of these former RCD elements, a new proxy force, CNDP, was established under the leadership of General Laurent Nkunda.

CNDP, GENERAL LAURENT NKUNDA AND GENERAL BOSCO NTAGANDA

The justification for creation of the CNDP was to fight the FDLR and “protect the Tutsi community in Kivu.” However, the true objective was to keep the government of DRC weak through endless war. Like many millions of Congolose who have died due to the unending conflict and its consenquences, the Congolese Tutsi have been both tools and victims of President Kagame’s policies and actions in DRC. Furthermore, the proxy forces facilitated resource plunder by President Kagame’s ruling RPF companies and associates. At a personal level, President Paul Kagame became the focal diplomatic contact about the security situation in DRC. While he precipitated this horrendous humanitarian situation and should have been held to account, he has on the contrary been viewed in many capitals as the solution and indispensable interlocutor for the realization of security in DRC and the Great Lakes region.

In 2009, Gen Laurent Nkunda was “arrested” (President Kagame said on BBC that he is his guest) and was replaced by Gen Bosco Ntaganda by the government of Rwanda. Gen Bosco Ntaganda was integrated in CNDP after the war in Ituri in DRC and was helped by the government of Rwanda to depose Gen Nkunda.

It is well known that Gen Bosco Ntaganda is a Rwandese from Masisi, and should have had no interest in the “Ituri wars” between the Balendu and Bahema in Kivu. The Ugandan rebels of ADF were allegedly operating among the Ituri tribes and Rwanda sought to exploit the situation by arming Thomas Lubanga and seconded Bosco Ntaganda as his military Commander. Thomas Lubanga has been convicted by the ICC and Bosco Ntaganda is being hunted by the ICC. It is only fair that President Paul Kagame on whose behest these two individuals committed war crimes should be part of the indictment.

EMERGING SCENARIOS

After the conviction of Thomas Lubanga in the ICC, international pressure has mounted on President Kabila to arrest Gen Ntaganda. For President Kabila, it is a perfect opportunity to dispense with an officer in his Army who takes orders from another country, Rwanda in this case. The problem however, is that President Kabila does not control the CNDP because, as Rwanda’s proxy force, they have never been fully integrated in the Congolese Army and he cannot transfer any of them from Kivu. The government of Rwanda would do whatever it takes to make sure that Gen Ntaganda is not arrested because of the information that implicates President Kagame he would divulge at the ICC.

Some of the likely scenarios include the following:

1. The government of Rwanda will arm and help Gen Ntaganda fight the Congolese government forces until President Kabila realizes that he will have to negotiate a peaceful settlement.

2. If international pressure continues for the arrest of Gen Ntaganda, the government of Rwanda will offer to assist ( already doing so), by sending its Special Forces or use elements within CNDP to kill Gen. Ntaganda to make sure he is not taken to the ICC.

3. As the war rages on and the international community needs assistance, President Kagame will, as usual, reposition himself as the regional leader and savior for resolving this stalemate, in the “interest of regional stability.” As political crisis looms large in Rwanda and the Kivus, he will use the opportunity to conceal and deny his own misdemeanors while dictating his own terms of any new arrangements.

4. Like in 2009, under the ‘Amani Leo’, this situation may provide a perfect opportunity for another deployment of Rwanda government forces into the DRC.

5. A wild card triggers a worst-case scenario, in which full-fledged civil wars erupt in Rwanda ( as mounting domestic pressures lead to implosion) and DRC, with grave consequences for the whole fragile region, thus perpetuating the cycle of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity.

IMPLICATIONS

Due to President Paul Kagame’s policies in Rwanda and the DRC, the Tutsi community of DRC are frequently singled out and blamed to a larger extent by other tribes for atrocities in DRC since 1996. The Rwandan community in DRC (Hutu and Tutsi) in general has been drawn into a conflict among themselves and against all other tribes who view them as proxies of a foreign government. Since 1996, the proxy wars in DRC especially in both North and South Kivu have resulted in millions of deaths, displacement and refugees, which occasionally President Kagame deceptively justifies as “collateral damage” for hunting down FDLR, whose numbers have in any case diminished over the years.

The endless conflicts in DRC have resulted in uncontrolled proliferation of arms from the governments to militias over whom they have a lose control. Some of these militias have been involved in massive rape of women and deaths of children.

Most importantly, as we all have witnessed during the last two decades, crisis in any one country poses great risk to the whole Great Lakes region. Crisis in the Great Lakes region has before escalated to a “continental” war when several African countries intervened in the 1998-2002 Congo war. Already there are several millions who have died in this region due to genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity, other gross abuses of human rights, and the consequences of humanitarian catastrophe. Clearly, the current escalating situation in the Great Lakes region has serious implications for international peace and security.

At the center of endless conflict and humanitarian crisis in DRC and the Great Lakes is lack of accountability and the impunity it fosters. For example, In the United Nations Human Rights Commission Mapping Report on DRC of October, 2010, the Government of Rwanda under President Kagame is implicated in war crimes, crimes against humanity, and even “possible acts of genocide.” The crimes have been investigated but the perpetrators are yet to be brought to account. Why would the U.N. Security Council seek accountability from Thomas Lubanga General Bosco Ntaganda alone, and fall silent on President Paul Kagame and his other accomplices, who have created the conditions and organization that sustain the crimes?

Furthermore, President Kagame seeks to draw attention away from his human rights abuses in Rwanda by diverting the international community and media to focus on DRC. Since 1994, the Rwandan armed forces have been kept at war both in DRC and recently in peace keeping missions. This facilitates President Kagame to blackmail and manipulate domestic and international opinion that the country is at war. Depicting himself as indispensable to Rwanda’s and regional security, he uses the pretext of war to close avenues for peaceful reform and to brand his critics as accomplices, terrorists or sympathizers of rebels.

RECOMMENDATIONS

The events unfolding in eastern DRC have the potential to trigger massive violence and humanitarian tragedy of catastrophic proportions.

Dr. Theogene Rudasingwa

The greatest danger, recent history shows, is that the international community may be silent, indifferent, act in an unfair or timid fashion, or rather too late.

The international community must engage President Paul Kagame and other stakeholders candidly and forcefully to halt the current escalation and work towards sustainable peace and security.

Since President Paul Kagame’s policies and actions in DRC are conditioned by his domestic requirements in Rwanda, the international community should insist that the government in Rwanda immediately and unconditional release all political prisoners, end persecution (including arbitrary arrests and detentions, torture, involuntary disappearances and extra-judicial killings) of government opponents and critics and their relatives, engage in comprehensive and unconditional dialogue with the opposition to resolve the political and security impasse engulfing Rwanda and the Great Lakes region, and stop proxy wars in eastern DRC.

The international community should be even and act fairly by using international mechanisms to ensure that all those who have committed crimes, including President Kagame himself, are held accountable and brought to justice.

Dr. Theogene Rudasingwa
Co-ordinator
Rwanda National Congress (RNC).