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
11 comments:
Hola! I've been following your web site for some time now and finally got the bravery to go ahead and give you a shout out from Austin Texas! Just wanted to tell you keep up the great job!
my site :: how to get followers on instagram
My web page: how to get more followers on instagram
Quality content іs the key to be a foсuѕ for the usегѕ
to pay a quіck vіsіt the web site, that's what this site is providing.
my web site: payday loans
my web site: payday loans
5zvmo6k0o
Feel free to surf to my web site - electric toothbrush reviews
I blog quite often anԁ I seriously appгeсiate
yοur content. The article has truly peaκed mу inteгest.
I аm going to take a notе of уоur blοg
and κeеρ checking for new dеtailѕ about onсe рer weeκ.
I opted in for your Fеed toо.
Here іs my web sіtе; Same Day Payday Loans
It's really a great and helpful piece of info. I'm happy thаt you shared this uѕeful information with us.
Please kеep us informed like this. Thanks for sharіng.
My ѕite - New Bingo Sites
I really liκе lookіng through a pοst thаt can mаke peoрle think.
Also, mаny thanks for pеrmitting me to сomment!
My blog рοѕt New Bingo Sites
Eхсellеnt waу оf telling, and gоod poѕt to obtain ԁаta οn the tοpic of
my presentatiοn foсus, which i am goіng tο present in
сοllеge.
Alsо visіt my ωeb-site ..
. payday loans
Even with his genius for online marketing, john reese failed to make the
twitter platform work for his business. Online Loans
Have you not started playing Game of War - Fire Age? Download GAME OF WAR - FIRE AGE Right Now (Works on Android & iOS)
Coach Outlet Business Bags, 2. Of a type that you do not have a right to transmit under any law or under contractual or fiduciary relationships, such as proprietary and confidential information;5. Software viruses or any other computer code, files, or programs designed to interrupt, destroy, or limit the functionality of any computer software or hardware or telecommunications equipment;.
Small accessories make great gifts for the girl who has everything. If your budget will not allow for you to buy a handbag,Replica coach carley handbags, go for an accessory, because most of us have handbags that can carry tons of accessories. Whether you are in school or just the gal with the agenda that is attached to your hip,Replica coach carley handbags, the Fendi Selleria Pencil Case is a cute little pouch that is quite feasible. (Black Leather Tote Bag Michael Kors)
Among the imprisoned in a second stadium, Estadio Chile, was prominent social activist and folk singer Victor Jara, a fierce supporter of Allende. They smashed Jara's hands, then mockingly asked him to play the guitar. He responded by singing Allende's campaign song, "Venceremos" ("We Will Overcome"). (Michael Kors Black White Bag)
Small White Coach Bag, LSU has a nasty schedule too, including a neutral site game againstMiami and trip to Auburn in the first three weeks. October features crossover games against Florida and Georgia. All that comes before tough games against Mississippi State, Alabama and Texas A Assuming the other five games are wins, how many of those seven games mentioned do you think the Tigers win?.
Numbness is well known to happen in the face of persistent and horrific information, especially when no real hope is in sight. Numbness is a central symptom, an enveloping experience, for people who have been traumatized. I'm not arguing that the reading public suffers from collective PTSD with its constellation of symptoms like nightmares, flashbacks, and being easily startled but I fear that our numbness, nevertheless, may close us off from taking action as a country to rein in the deaths and destruction caused by disease.. (Michael Kors Black And Neon Bag)
Solid Figures The figures which occupy space are called solids. There are two important facts related to solids a. Every solid has a surface area. (He is in a hotel room). Then go back to Sandgem town and talk to Professor Rowan. Professor Oak will give you the National Dex and Rowan will give you the PokeRadar.
Some, like solar flares or EMP Coach Outlet Online 80 OFF weapon attacks, can even take down the power grid and leave you completely in the dark. MK Outlet Online The larger the disaster, the more time it takes for help to arrive, and in a truly Coach Outlet Purses On Clearance catastrophic disaster, you are on your own!After clean water and shelter from extreme weather, organic emergency food is the most important things to have in a crisis. It keeps you fed, energized, alert and motivated.
Sure, you could just use your old Jansport, but if you throw your $900 camera and $300 lenses into a bag that offers no protection and drop it or even bang it against something, you in a real bind. A camera backpack is insurance against your future mistakes and for your future success. For people who value their gear, having the right bag is critical..
The First World War was sparked by the shooting of Austria Hungary heir Archduke Franz Ferdinand on 28 June 1914, with war officially Cheap Nike Air Force 1 declared a month later. It drew in all the world's major economic powers. The war ended at 11am on 11 November 1918 an armistice was declared.
This particular group doesn follow hospital rules anyhow. Security came and Cheap Air Forces asked them to leave, finally because during 3PM 5PM the unit needs all visitors out. I acquired a staph infection from this hospital ER 4 yrs ago via a tetanus shot.. Yes, the burgers are simple Jordan Shoe Stores and the soup all comes straight Coach Outlet Clearance Sale from Campbells, but you certainly know what you're getting here: Southern hospitality and a reliable lunch counter. On your way out, pick up a box of Chapel Hill Toffee ($6.95 for a five ounce package). Franklin St., 919 969 8846) has an Asian fusion menu, it's one with a North Carolina pedigree, because chef owner Andrea MK Outlet Sale Reusing emphasizes its farm to table, locally sourced and seasonal menu, which might include pork or vegetable dumpling appetizers (appetizers from $7 to $14) or chaat, an Indian savory snack with roasted carrots, lentils and cauliflower, served with mint chutney ($12).
Post a Comment