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Showing posts with label Hotel RPF. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hotel RPF. Show all posts

Sunday, September 26, 2010

Investigation requested into death of Lt. Abdul Ruzibiza, key witness in the genocide-trigger assassination of President Habyarimana in 1994

Abdul Ruzibiza, key witness in Habyarimana assassination

Kigali – A lawyer for Rwandan officials indicted by French judge Jean-Louis Bruguiere for assassinating ex-President Juvenal Habyarimana is of the view that the death of Joshua Abdul Ruzibiza may not be due to natural causes.
Belgian attorney Bernard Maingain has asked Marc Trevidic, the judge who took over the case from Bruguiere, to request more details on the circumstances of Ruzibiza’s death.
Lt. Ruzibiza, 40, died Thursday in Oslo where he has been living for over a decade. The former RPF lieutenant claimed in a book that he was part of the commando unit that shot the President Habyarimana plane down and became the key witness in the investigation launched in 2006 by the French anti-terror judge.
Ruzibiza had retracted several of his claims when he was heard in France following the arrest of former chief of protocol Rose Kabuye. He said then that he made up the claims to get close to the French to “understand why they hated Tutsis”.
Ruzibiza was heard again recently by Trevidic in Norway and, according to an excerpt of the hearing published by French magazine Mariannne, Ruzibiza claimed he had gone back on his earlier revelations following intimidation from Kigali.
Now the defense wants answers.
I have asked Trevidic to contact the police and judicial authorities in Norway and demand that it be urgently established whether the death was of natural causes,” Bernard Maingain told French news agency AFP by phone.
I had not heard anything about him being sick,” he said.
Maingain was part of a group of experts, including Judge Trevidic, who were in Rwanda earlier this month to hear witnesses and visit sites related to the Habyarimana plane shooting.
He told AFP that there was much more to the hearing than what was published by the magazine ‘Marianne’ and said of Ruzibiza: “We have lost somebody who could have provided very interesting explanations on how the investigation was manipulated under Bruguiere.

Saturday, July 17, 2010

Spanish Reject Criminal Paul Kagame

Demonstrators display fake blood on their hands and a poster of Rwanda's President Paul Kagame during a protest against his presence in Madrid on Friday, July 16, 2010.

Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero has refused to meet Rwandan President Paul Kagame at a U.N. meeting here following protests against the African leader.
Zapatero was to meet Kagame and U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon at government headquarters Friday for a first session of the Millennium Development Goals Advocacy Group.

Ban chose Zapatero and Kagame to preside over the group as part of preparations for a September U.N summit on reducing poverty.
Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero pulled out of a United Nations meeting in Madrid Friday after human rights groups protested the attendance of Rwandan President Paul Kagame, whom the Spanish judiciary has accused of genocide.

Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero pulled out of a United Nations meeting in Madrid Friday after human rights groups protested the attendance of Rwandan President Paul Kagame, whom the Spanish judiciary has accused of genocide.
The meeting was also moved from the seat of government, Moncloa palace, to a hotel, he said.

A man with a gag stands in front of a 'Wanted Poster' of Rwanda's President Paul Kagame during a protest in Madrid on Friday, July 16, 2010.

The meeting was the first to be held by a group of experts named last month by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to supervise the UN’s Millenium Development Goals (MDGs), which aim to halve extreme poverty by 2015. Ban named Kagame and Zapatero as his co-chairs. Controversy has surrounded a UN meeting in Madrid.
The Spanish Prime Minister met separately with UN Secretary General Ban ki-Moon, leaving the other dignitaries to attend a meeting hosted by a government minister.
Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero pulled out of the UN meeting due to political pressure over the presence of Paul Kagame, the President of Rwanda.
Parties had asked Zapatero not to meet Kagame due to ongoing Spanish legal proceedings linked to the 1994 genocide.

War criminal paul kagame leaving in shame!!

A U.S. lawsuit accuses Kagame of ordering the downing of a plane carrying Rwanda’s president in 1994. The crash sparked a genocide that left at least 500,000 people dead.
Spain’s judiciary says that Kagame established a reign of terror in Rwanda in the 1990s, committing crimes against the civilian population in which at least nine Spaniards were also killed.
In 2008 an investigating judge issued international arrest warrants for 40 members of the east African country’s military.
There was also enough evidence to start criminal procedures against Kagame, it was said at the time. As a head of state, however, Kagame enjoyed immunity. Human rights organizations including Amnesty International as well as several political parties had protested Kagame’s attendance at Friday’s meeting.

Friday, July 16, 2010

Kagame yaba ashaka kwica Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza? Is Kagame Planning to Kill Victoire Ingabire

Du Forum: Kagame yaba ashaka kwica Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza?
Kwica Rwisereka ni test yo kwica Ingabire!!!

Iyo ndebye ubwicanyi bubera mu Rwanda muri iyi minsi, mbona ababikora bihishe inyuma y´ubutegetsi bwa FPR-inkotanyi bwimirijwe imbere na Paul Kagame ka Rutagambwa barimo kubumenyereza abanyarwanda, abanyamahanga ngo bakunde bazobene uko bica Madamu Victoire Ingabire-Umuhoza maze bizabe nk'ibisanzwe byabaye ku bandi.

Muribuka mu myaka yashize mbere ya 1994 ukuntu Inkotanyi zishe ba M.Bucyana , ba E.Gapyisi, ba F.Rwambuka, abanyaruhengeri na za Byumba, naho burya barebaga uko bigenda ngo nyuma barebe uko byazagenda nibikuza Yuvenali Habyarimana. Ubu rero njye ndasanga biriya ari ibitambo bibanziriza Ingabire-Umuhoza, mu gihe bakimenyereza abanyarwanda bahora babeshya na polisi kimwe n´amahanga ngo amenyere buriya bwicanyi. Dore aho nibereye.

Njye nabasaba gukanguka mukamenyesha bose ko Kagame ashaka kwica Ingabire-Umuhoza , kimwe nuko abamurwanyaga bose bari bakomeye benshi yarabafungishije nka Bwana Dr Ignace Murwanashyaka na Straton Musoni ba FDLR birirwaga batwumvisha kuri BCC Gahuzamilyango ukunru ubutegetsi bw´igitugu n´ikinyoma bwa FPR buteye, Umugabo w´intwari De´Mushayidi utararya indimi mu gukangurira abanyarwanda ababwiza ukuri ku mitegekerere ya giswa na kigome ya FPR ko izabasubiza muri 1959, iraswa rya jenerali kayumba Nyamwasa wumvishije abanyarwanda bose babaishaka ndetse nabatabishaka ko Paul Kagame ari umujura w´umucanshuro udafite gahunda yo kugira icyo yageza ku byanyarwanda, ....abandi benshi barimo kwicwa muri ino minsi, byose birategura ishyirwa mu bikorwa by´iycwa rya Madamu Ingabire-Umuhoza kandi plans zo kumuhitana zarangijwe gupangwa kera.

Ntimuzavuge ngo muratunguwe umugani wa babandi bo muri 1990 babeshya abaturage ngo batwe batunguwe. Ese ubundi barinze batungurwa inzego zibishinzwe zarakoraga iki?


Harahagazwe!

Friday, June 25, 2010

Rwanda: two steps forward, three steps back?


Rwanda: two steps forward, three steps back?

By Alec van Gelder & Timothy Cox


We are amongst the first to laud Paul Kagame’s economic reforms that have propelled Rwanda’s Doing Business rankings straight to the top of the “best reformers” list. Slashing the cost of registering new businesses and removing other bureaucratic and administrative barriers to raising capital, making investments and trading domestically and internationally are the reforms other African governments must emulate if they are to escape the poverty and aid trap.

Yet these business-friendly reforms have come at a steep price for political freedom and civil liberties in Rwanda. Kagame looks certain to win yet another seven-year term in August and there is every indication that he is becoming more authoritarian by the day, using state powers to make life a living hell for political opposition and trampling over the freedom of speech that forms the backbone of civil and open society. News of the assassination of Jean Leonard Rugambage, Editor of a Rwandan newspaper that was critical of Kagame before authorities mysteriously forced it to shut its operations, does little to suppress many fears that Rwanda is spiralling towards a political dictatorship.

Another Kagame Opponent Chrged,Who Will Save Rwandans?


Friday, June 25, 2010
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Another opponent of Rwandan President Paul Kagame has been excluded from running in the upcoming elections.

According to opposition officials, Victoire Ingabire, an ethnic Hutu candidate has been denied the right to appear on the ballot following charges of denying the country's genocide.

In Rwanda this is a punishable offense and Ingabire, who returned to Rwanda in January after 16 years in exile, could face up to two decades in prison.

Kagame, an ethnic Tutsi, submitted his papers Thursday to run in the August election while Ingabire was refused.

Recently there have been allegations that Kagame is linked to the alleged assassination attempt on General Faustin Kayumba Nyamwasa, the former Rwandan army chief turned diplomat. He was shot by a gunman in Johannesburg,South Africa. Nyamwasa is currently in exile after fleeing Rwanda in February after falling foul of Kagame.

According to the BBC Kagame has repeatedly made disparaging remarks concerning Nyamwasa and the former head of external military intelligence, Patrick Karengeya. Both men, former close allies of the president, have repeatedly attacked his integrity claiming that he was using front companies to enrich himself.

This seems to follow a worrying trend in that all political opponents of Kagame appear to meet an unfortunate fate.

In 2000 Kagame took over from deposed President Pasteur Bizimungu. The latter had been “President” from 1994 but it was always suspected that - as Kagame’s deputy in the Rwandan Patriotic Front and a Hutu - he was simply a figurehead to give comfort to the majority of the population. When he began raising concerns over political crackdowns he was tossed aside and later imprisoned.

In 1994 the assassination of Juvénal Habyarimana, - President of the Republic of Rwanda from 1973 to 1994 - whose plane was shot down close to Kigali International Airport was attributed by French judge Jean-Louis Bruguière, to orders given by Kagame. As a result he issued international indictments against nine of President Kagame's senior aides, and accused Kagame of ordering the assassination of the two African presidents but this never resulted in him being prosecuted. That assassination sparked the Rwandan genocide.

It might be coincidence but all those who stand in the way of Kagame achieving or retaining power come to grief.

Either they are charged, imprisoned or shot

Monday, June 21, 2010

Former Rwandan army chief shot in South Africa. Was it an assassination attempt?

Former Rwandan army chief shot in South Africa. Was it an assassination attempt?

Former Rwandan army chief Faustin Kayumba Nyamwasa - a top critic of Rwanda's authoritarian leader, Paul Kagame - was shot Saturday in Johannesburg, South Africa, in an apparent assassination attempt.


General Nyamwasa as the Rwandan Army Chief Of Staff for the Rwandan Patriotic Army.He was part of the Tutsi rebel movement that invaded Rwanda in 1990s to topple the Hutu government led by the late President Habyarimana Juvenal who was assassinated along with his Burundian counterpart while they were from peace initiative in Arusha to end the civil war.

Rwandan President Paul Kagame (r.) at the nation's parliament on May, 17. One of Kagame's biggest critics, former Rwandan army chief Faustin Kayumba Nyamwasa, was shot Saturday in Johannesburg, South Africa. It is currently being called an assassination attempt.

Jason Straziuso/AP

By Scott Baldauf, Staff writer / June 20, 2010
Johannesburg, South Africa

A top critic of Rwandan President Paul Kagame, the former Rwandan army chief Lt. Gen. Faustin Kayumba Nyamwasa, was shot Saturday in front of his house in what police are treating as an assassination attempt.
The Rwandan government told the BBC that it “does not condone violence” and would trust the South African police to investigate the shooting.

Gen. Nyamwasa has been living in exile in South Africa since February, when President Kagame’s government accused him of launching grenade attacks in Rwanda's capital, Kigali, and also masterminding a failed coup attempt back in 2001. Nyamwasa, who was shot once in the stomach, is reported to be in stable condition in a Johannesburg hospital.

The apparent assassination attempt comes just months before Rwanda’s second set of scheduled elections since Kagame came to power, sweeping aside a Hutu majority government that is blamed for launching a genocide that killed 800,000 Rwandans, most of them ethnic Tutsis.Kagame, Nyamwasa, and much of his ruling party, the Rwandan Patriotic Front, are members of the ethnic Tutsi minority.

The shooting also comes after a series of troubling events – the banning of two independent newspapers, the arrest of Kagame’s chief opponent in the presidential elections for “genocide denial,” and the defection of several high-level RPF members – that call into question Kagame’s credentials as a democratic leader.

Kagame’s 16-year rule over Rwanda has created a state where there is very little political space for opposition and dissent, says Jason Stearns, an independent analyst and former UN panelist on Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

“The biggest danger isn’t the Hutu opposition, and it isn’t even the FDLR,” says Mr. Stearns, referring to the Congo-based Hutu-led rebel group whose leaders are blamed for the genocide. “The dissent that Kagame fears is within the RPF itself. What he worries most about is a coup from within.”

The shooting of Nyamwasa occurred outside the general’s house in the posh Johannesburg suburb of Melrose Arch, after a shopping trip with his wife. According to Nyamwasa’s wife, Rosette, who was in the car, a gunman approached Nyamwasa’s car as it waited to get in through the security gate of their high security residential complex. The gunman shot once through the window, and then attempted to finish the job with a second shot, when the gun apparently jammed. The gunman then jumped into a waiting car and escaped.

“When we got to the gate, a black man with a pistol came to the driver’s window... and he fired a shot,” Mrs. Nyamwasa told the South African Press Association. After the shot, Nyamwasa got out of the car and began to struggle with the shooter. It was certainly an assassination attempt, she said, because the shooter made no demand for money.

Kagame himself is regarded by many Western leaders as one of Africa’s more economically enlightened reformers.

Rwanda has reformed its laws to make foreign investment easy, and the time it takes to set up a business in Rwanda is a mere 3 days, compared to 14 days in the past. Kagame has also pinned his country’s hopes not on natural resources, which Rwanda sorely lacks, but instead on its educated workforce. Rwanda recently became the first country to be completely connected to a fiber optic internet connection.

Yet these reforms come at a heavy political price, say Kagame’s critics.

“Rwanda is the most secure country, but it is also one of the more repressive,” says Col. Patrick Karegeya, Rwanda’s former head of external intelligence from 1994-2004, who has also fled into exile in South Africa. “This country is a one-man show. It’s obvious even to people who support him. Nobody can talk to him. Nobody can write what they feel. Can you imagine reconciling with people who you don’t talk to?”

S.Africa arrests 6 in attempt on exiled Rwandan

SAfrica arrests 6 in attempt on exiled Rwandan

By LESEGO MOTSHEGWA (AP) – 1 hour ago

JOHANNESBURG — Police have arrested six suspects after an exiled Rwandan general accused of grenade attacks in his homeland was shot in South Africa over the weekend, authorities said Monday.

Lt. General Kayumba Nyamwasa and his wife were returning to the upscale gated community where they live in northern Johannesburg when a lone gunman fired on him Saturday. Rosette Nyamwasa said her husband was shot in the stomach and would recover.

Police spokesman Govindsamy Mariemuthoo would not say whether the suspects arrested were Rwandan, nor would he discuss possible motives in what he described as a murder attempt.

Nyamwasa's wife has accused Rwandan President Paul Kagame of being behind the shooting, a charge the Rwandan government denies.

"The Government of Rwanda does not condone violence, and we wish the family strength and serenity," said government spokeswoman Louise Mushikiwabo. "We trust in the ability of South African authorities to investigate the incident thoroughly."

Nyamwasa and Kagame were once allied but have fallen out, reportedly because Kagame sees his former military chief as a political rival. Nyamwasa came to South Africa earlier this year.

Rwandan officials have accused Nyamwasa of trying to destabilize their government. The Rwandan government says it has linked Nyamwasa to three grenade attacks in Rwanda's capital Feb. 19 that killed one person and wounded 30 others.

South African police said earlier this year they had not arrested Nyamwasa because they do not have an extradition treaty with Rwanda.

Rwandan opposition leader Victoire Ingabire, who wants to challenge Kagame in the Aug. 9 presidential election, said Saturday's shooting was a "planned assassination attempt."

"This incident is a nefarious conspiracy for disruption of peace in Rwanda, a country sinking deeply into a political and military crisis," Ingabire said in a statement. "The lack of political space, the arrest of opposition leaders, lawyers and senior military officers, the use of violence and all kind of intimidation of dissenting voices are obvious signs of a country on the brink of chaos."

Ingabire was arrested in April and charged with promoting a genocidal ideology. She was freed on bail but her passport was seized and she cannot leave Kigali. Critics of Kagame's government argue the ruling party has used the concept of genocide ideology to discredit detractors and defeat political opponents.

Hutu militias killed more than 500,000 ethnic Tutsis and moderate Hutus in the 1994 Rwandan genocide. Rwanda's current president, Paul Kagame, ended the killing when he led a Tutsi-dominated force into the country. Critics say his rule since then has been authoritarian but Kagame argues strict measures are necessary to prevent a repeat of the violence.

The U.S. State Department said in a March report on Rwanda that citizens' rights to change their government are "effectively restricted" and cited limits on freedoms of speech, press and judicial independence.

Nyamwasa's shooting is not the first time Rwanda has been accused of attempting to kill or killing a prominent Rwandan exile.

Former Rwandan Interior Minister Seth Sendashonga was killed in May 1998 in Nairobi, Kenya. His widow later testified that she believed Rwanda was behind her husband's killing. She claimed he had been set to testify before the U.N. International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, which is trying the suspected masterminds of the genocide.

A Kenyan judge acquitted the three suspects in Sendashonga's killing, saying the prosecution failed to prove beyond reasonable doubt that they committed the crime. The judge went further to say that the Rwandan government's refusal to waive diplomatic immunity for some of its embassy officials suggested that there was a political motive behind the killing.

Associated Press Writer Tom Maliti in Nairobi, Kenya contributed to this report.

Copyright © 2010 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

Sunday, June 20, 2010

Exiled Rwanda general wounded in SA shooting

Exiled Rwanda general wounded in SA shooting
PATRICK MUIRURI

An exiled Rwandan general was shot and wounded in South Africa on Saturday in what his wife called a Rwandan-backed assassination attempt, a charge the Kigali government dismissed as "preposterous".

Lieutenant-General Faustin Kayumba Nyamwasa was in the intensive care unit of a Johannesburg hospital after being shot in the stomach, Rosette Kayumba told Reuters Television.

Once a close confidant of President Paul Kagame, Nyamwasa fled to South Africa this year after falling out with the president, later accusing him of using an anti-corruption campaign to frame opponents.

Nyamwasa's wife said she, her husband, their children and a driver had returned home from a shopping trip when an armed man approached their car and shot her husband.

Her husband and the driver got out of the car and scuffled with the gunman before he fled, she said. She said doctors told her her husband would survive.

Kayumba said she believed Kagame was behind the attack, and ruled out an attempted robbery or car hijacking because the gunman targeted only her husband and did not try to steal the car.

"He must be behind this, I don't have proof ... but we've been harassed for such a long time," she said of Kagame.

Louise Mushikiwabo, Rwandan foreign minister and government spokesperson, told Reuters by telephone: "Not only do I deny it, I think it's preposterous for Mrs Nyamwasa to be making that kind of comment."

She added: "The Rwandan government does not go around shooting innocent citizens ...The time when presidents and governments went around assassinating their citizens is over in Rwanda."

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Top aide
The flight of Nyamwasa, who fought alongside Kagame to end the 1994 genocide in the central African nation, was a sign of a growing rift between the president and some of his top aides.

During and after the war to end the genocide, Nyamwasa held a number of key positions, including army chief of staff and head of the country's intelligence services.

Rwanda is due to hold a presidential election in August, which Kagame is widely expected to win. The United States has toughened its stance on the country, saying it is concerned about democratic freedom there.

In the run-up to elections, Rwanda has suspended two independent newspapers, arrested a high-profile opposition figure and prevented two opposition parties from registering, US Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Johnnie Carson told the US Congress this year.

Rwandan authorities link Nyamwasa and another fugitive senior officer in South Africa to a series of deadly grenade attacks in the capital this year, and accuse him of nepotism and unlawful accumulation of wealth.

He has rejected the charges and said the president has used his anti-corruption campaign to frame opponents.

"If accountability is going to be used as a political weapon to frame perceived opponents, then it ceases to be meaningful or useful," Nyamwasa said in a statement printed in the Ugandan newspaper the Monitor in May. - Reuter

Saturday, June 19, 2010

A former Rwandan army chief of staff, Faustin Kayumba Nyamwasa, has been shot in South Africa and taken to hospital in a critical condition.


A former Rwandan army chief of staff, Faustin Kayumba Nyamwasa, has been shot in South Africa and taken to hospital in a critical condition.

His wife told the BBC the couple had been returning from shopping when a gunman opened fire on the car.

She said it was an assassination attempt as there had been no demand for money or goods.

Lt Gen Nyamwasa, an outspoken critic of President Paul Kagame, fled from Kigali in February.

He was shot in the stomach during the midday attack and is now undergoing surgery in a Johannesburg clinic.

Mrs Nyamwasa said the gunman had shot at them until his gun jammed.
Military reshuffle

BBC Africa analyst Martin Plaut says Lt Gen Nyamwasa was one of President Kagame's closest confidants, until they fell out.
Rwanda's President Paul Kagame at a political rally by the the ruling Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) in the capital Kigali, 15 May 2010 President Paul Kagame is a seeking a second presidential term in August

Since arriving in South Africa, the former army chief has accused the president of corruption, accusations the Rwandan authorities have denied.

He also claimed the judiciary were compromised and told the BBC in a recent interview that the judges were now "President Paul Kagame's property".

A couple of months after he went into exile, along with another top military officer, President Kagame reshuffled the military leadership ahead of elections due in August.

At the time, two high-ranking officers were also suspended and put under house arrest.

The elections will be the second presidential polls held since the 1994 genocide in which 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus were killed.
Arrest warrants

Lt Gen Nyamwasa played an important role in the rebel Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF), led by Mr Kagame, which put a stop to the killing and which is now in power.

But France and Spain have issued arrest warrants against Mr Nyamwasa for his alleged role in the lead-up to and during the genocide, along with other senior RPF figures.

He has also been blamed for a series of grenade attacks in Kigali in recent months, something he vehemently denies.

Mr Kagame, in power for the last 16 years, is viewed by many in the West as one of Africa's more dynamic leaders.

However critics have raised concerns about his more authoritarian tendencies and the government has recently been accused of harassing the opposition ahead of the elections.

Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Exclusive withdraw change: The Green Democratic Party of Rwanda is still a full member of the CCP.

Exclusive withdraw change: The Green Democratic Party of Rwanda is still a full member of the CCP.
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Kigali, 16th June 2010.

PRESS RELEASE

The Green Democratic Party of Rwanda is still a full member of the CCP.
The members of the Permanent Consultative Council of Opposition Parties in Rwanda discussed
the content and the statement by the President of the Green Democratic Party of Rwanda
informing that his political party left the permanent consultative council.
In this respect, the political parties United Democratic Forces (FDU–Inkingi), The Democratic
Green Party of Rwanda, Le Parti Social Imberakuri take this opportunity to inform Rwandans,
friends of Rwanda and the media society that:

- Our political parties continue together the permanent consultative council of the
opposition and renew their commitments to a peaceful solution in Rwanda;

- Our political parties condemn any military or violent solution to the Rwandan crisis. We
reprove the activities of the so-called CDF rebellion and the like, wrongly associated to
the political opposition by the regime;

- Our political parties welcome the decision by The Green Democratic Party of Rwanda to
withdraw the 15th June 2010 press release claiming that the party left the consultative
council.

Ms Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza
Chairperson, United Democratic Forces

Mr. Frank Habineza
Chairman, Democratic Green Party of Rwanda

Me. Bernard Ntaganda
Chairman, Parti Social IMBERAKURI

****Note they are not hooligans like Kagame said! They are just politicians. And Politic is the game. You have to play it, you have to play it with in it or the politic will play you without you! Turikumwe

Is it possible to dismantle the RPF criminal organizations around the world?

By J.Christophe Nzeyimana,

Since 1994, the world witnesses the horrifying Tutsi minority (14%) ethnic domination, the Tutsi minority ethnic rule, tyranny and corruption in Rwanda. The current government has been characterized by the total impunity of RPF criminals, the Tutsi economic monopoly, the Tutsi militaristic domination with an iron hand, and the brutal suppression of the rights of the majority of the Rwandan people (85% are Hutus), and mass-arrests and mass-murder by the RPF criminal organization.=>ASIF]

The Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) is a criminal organization primarily national and international, well structured and very hierarchical, directed from Rwanda and active mainly in Europe and North America. Each organization is headed by regional managers to oversee the crimes of the RPF in different forms and crimes committed by members who also collect contributions made for the criminal case at the regional level.
Will it be possible one day to open an investigation by police against a number of people from Rwanda, especially those who present themselves as students, researchers, members of the Rwandan embassies not enjoying any diplomatic immunity and organizations that defend the tyrannical regime of the RPF?

Yes, it is necessary to speak about these criminal organizations inspired and directly controled from Rwanda. Yes, it is necessary to speak about these criminal organizations in the African Great Lakes region. Yes, it should be about these criminal organizations globally at the international level if they exceed the boundaries of Rwanda, but become transnational organizations working in synchronization with the central power of the RPF in Kigali. To understand the center of this great crime whose victims are often opponents of the regime, members of the exiled Hutu and living abroad.

The majority of Rwandans hope General Kagame, the bloody dictator of Rwanda and his created puppet Ms. Rakiya Omaar will be arrested this year 2010 for the sake of Reconcilation and Happyness of all Rwandans.

At European level, the organization's activities are directed from Belgium by individuals responsible for overseeing individuals based in different countries of Western Europe as well as cash income for a criminal case referred to as name "IBUKA. In Canada and the United States is the same structure but with slightly different names or added as the Rwandan community in one place or another, etc..


If you approach these organizations, you will find them with names that seemingly have nothing to do with the RPF. They are individuals who declared themselves as asylum seekers, students, etc.. This is actually the backbone of the RPF, the RPF ramifications subservient, its subsidiaries who will emerge as an organization or association or humanitarian purpose defense of human rights, organization for the promotion Women, an organization for orphaned children, survivors, victims of genocide, and not just any one of Tutsis as recently wanted dictator Gen. Paul Kagame. As you know, the planning of the genocide and wants as a springboard, the bridge was built the RPF or rather its spiritual leader Paul Kagame, open quotes, strategist, close violently quotes.




Member or Associate shall mean an individual member or not of Umuryango the RPF, organization involved in the activities of a criminal organization or associated with it on behalf of the dictator Paul Kagame and his Akazu. This organization includes the followers and sympathizers of the RPF, affiliates or associates of the RPF, greedy people who invite at any time the bloodthirsty dictator of Rwanda, others who undertake to make cans reports, distributing doctorate Honoris Causa all this is done in order to whitewash the crimes of the bloody dictator Paul Kagame, the RPF General.

Basically, that means `` Criminal Organization: It is an association or group continuously engaged in criminal activity at all levels. It includes media groups or not, individuals / terrorists or sponsors of terrorist acts, organizations and associations that are established in the community in the country.
Distinguishing marks of RPF criminal organizations :

These organizations or associations and have a structured organization, difficult to recognize as criminal organization. They often refer to human rights, put their heads of foreign criminals usually women. These associations will require organizations are composed mainly of victims of the Rwandan genocide of the Tutsi genocide now become as Ibuka, Survival, FIDH. They write articles for the vigilance of the international law, have false documents or water bottle, doing activities related to human rights, etc..
***
“If FDLR is a terrorist organization, General Paul Kagame would be the first to be prosecuted for standing with the terrorists. General Rwarakabije and Col. Murenzi Evariste were the high ranking military officers of the FDLR.

That is the most disgusting political rhetoric (rhetoric of shame) when Kagame accuses Ingabire for being linked to terrorism. Also leave aside the painfully simplistic and New Times -mimicking characterization of the Hutu opponent as “genocidaire, enemy and terrorist”. That demonstrates indeed the central prong of Kagame’s current strategy to "win" the August elections. What is particularly bothersome about Kagame’s attacks against his political opponents is the premise that it is improper, unpatriotic and even terrorist mimicking to arrest a mother of three children only because she challenges him by announcing to run for President of Rwanda. Such a behavior is unacceptable and will absolutely lead to the RPF peril”.
Jean-Christophe Nizeyimana
Chairperson
African SurviVors International
***They compile lists of enemies of the RPF regime, that is to say, those who are potential murderers, deniers, the divisive and those who eventually genocidal ideology! Who are in fact their victims? These are the Hutu intellectuals, Hutu businessmen, students, former members of the Rwandan government, the former FAR soldiers. This categorization affects all segments of the population or the exiled Hutu ethnic group for a better demonizing and discrediting pushed to the maximum. Behind this plot, there is the idea that many will have noticed a purpose: the day the murders will be committed against the Hutus, there will be nobody to talk or cry, and demand an investigation because enough singled out by the so-called humanitarian groups or design the defense of human rights!


To recognize them, these criminal organizations are fleeing the televised debates with organizations or individuals who oppose the neo-Nazi regime installed in Kigali. To initiate such debate is as if a you initiate a undesirable direct confrontation between fire and water. To recognize those organizations RPF, you will have their spheres of action everywhere, to hold meetings with slogans that have nothing to do with the work they accomplish in general while hiding their crimes. They have codes of groups, photos, training materials, clothing, appropriate literature, publications and other internal communications of a specific group apparently aimed to enhance humanitarian activities and defense of human rights while in fact, it is a criminal organization syndicated to large organized crime.
Let mention some of them:
DMI, Ibuka, Local Defence Forces (LDF), Africa Rights of Ms. Rakiya Omaar, Survie whose members include Survival Tutsi extremists and foreigners or whose wives are of Tutsi origin. Carbonare, Verschave Rutaysire Francis, Augustine Gatera, Yolanda Mukagasana Jose Kagabo (now Senator as a recompense for having enough discredited France), members of Ibuka scattered across Europe, Alain Gautier and his wife Dafroza Mukarumongi Jean Paul Gouteux, Jean-Pierre Chretien, who refused Madeleine Mukamabano adversarial on RFI, Monique Mas, Marie-France Cros and Colette Brackmann Their role is known as the RPF propaganda. In addition, you will have experienced the RPF propaganda sympathizers like Imma, Gourinovitch, Linda, Mr. FIDH that facilitated and assisted to speed u p the assassinations and mass-murder of Hutus. There are some of them like Le Soir, La Libre Belgique, RFI, Goliath, Do not touch Cain,etc.
There is no need to conclude that RPF is a 100% criminal organization. It has a government and a state used for criminal purposes and which protects the Mafioso existing in all RPF sub criminal organizations both at national and International levels. To get there, General Paul Kagame dictator uses his power to his advantage to control the entire socio-economic and cultural life in Rwanda.


As we mentioned earlier, all these organizations, is it necessary to repeat together form a community of criminals, supporters or not but greedy for money, all under the authority of the Führer and which are subordinate to intermediate between the RPF and the organization. In fact, there is a division of labor coruscated for the lobby of the RPF, to help the RPF death squads dotted around the world, wherever and whenever necessary, each member playing a specific role and adjusting other roles that are assigned by the RPF Head Quarters in Kigali, here you see the real pattern of “a regulated corruption”.

As if that was not enough, you will recognize these organizations for a considerable social harm as African Rights and Survie, organizations which are not afraid of receiving millions of dollars for this dirty work of laundering money from the Crusades of Kagame, whose professionalism and efficiency has been demonstrated. However, these groups operate on both level of propaganda and intimidation, /assassinations (including the use of poisons).
The international mafia (linked to Kagame and his sponsors) works through the infiltration and disinformation, uses dirty milled money, prostitutes, etc.. You will recognize the organizations when they claim to be the spokesperson of the of all Rwandans in the region where they are installed. These organizations have the ability to escape national and international criminal penalties when it becomes necessary to analyze the specific nature and the illegality of their activities. This loophole is normally due to their internal structure and relations of interests with the company linked to local mafia they operate with.
For example, just take Ms. Rakiya Omaar of African Rights and Survie. Like other RPF criminal organizations, both were created to be manipulated by political and military leadership of the RPF. That allows the RPF leadership to better infiltrate and participate in political processes, diplomatic and military at the regional and international levels. Their role is mainly to stigmatize all Hutu ethnic members outside of Rwanda. Thoughtlessly, observers have found out that it is ultimately the main activity to which they are relegated.
We saw amalgamation of collaboration between the RPF sub-organizations at all levels and in almost all Western countries organized again by the politico-administrative leadership of the RPF. This way the RPF leadership coordinates and controls the whole system under labels "wealth management networks, in public and private sectors , through legal denominations allowing them to carry out illegal activities nationally, regionally and internationally.
According to some of the organizations RPF sources, they have the ability to multi-level intervention that takes the redundancy of crimes between the protagonists of this mafia system. The recruitment might be on a transnational basis and network members may occupy several positions in different areas at different levels of the social system for the Kagame’s strict control of the entire life of Rwandans.

The structure also varies and depends on the position of the network in relation to politics, NGOs and pressure groups recognized in North America, the United Kingdom and in general operating abroad. Meaning that a network of actors pursue more effectively to serve the interests of the top Rwandan Nazi who has solid support in the diplomatic, political mafia at the international level especially in the West.


You know how these organizations operate, defend the RPF regime whenever it runs into difficulty at the international level. When the international community is questioning the legitimacy of the RPF regime's repressive government which is composed of Tutsi extremist criminals based on the German Nazi system’ methods. As a result, RPF crimes make difference in comparison with other atrocities known up to date. To be humble, the Rwandan dictatorship is known to be the best "criminal-political hierarchy well organized group ever in Africa and whose tentacles are worldwide." This criminal and Stalinist regime installed in Rwanda makes clear on one hand the configuration of power of the central government and the RPF on the other hand. These criminal organizations are also partitioned into grids under total control of the intelligence organizations like DIM and CID with the help of the RPF militia known as Local Defense forces (LDF).
Error: 103It is therefore necessary to emphasize that these other organizations include corrupt individual personalities and, who corrupt then after the media which replaced in many cases judges and courts to malign and portray the exiled Hutu community members worldwide. The case demonstrates the harmfulness of this system and the profound hypocrisy of some Western countries particularly the Anglo-Saxon that refuse in this case to comply with human rights and fight the existing terrorism (chosen one, which benefits the fuzzy definition to favor the RPF terrorist organization) and respect for individual freedoms.
In this context, the corrupt media that we find here and there in Europe and North America in this type of staging does not contradict us. To carry out this goal, multinationals responsible for plundering the natural resources of the African Great Lakes region are buying the media as a reward to the heinous crimes they arrange with the RPF, both nationally and internationally. Also in this same vein, RPF will have financial, diplomatic and political support to do everything possible to make them as legally recognized organizations. At the same time, these organizations hide their primary objective by using fake denominations to ensure `the well-being of criminals RPF` is maintained.
On the other hand they are to discredit ALL OF THOSE WHO REFUSE TO COOPERATE WITH THE NAZI REGIME AND THE RPF SYSTEM INSTALLED UNDER THE AEGIS OF THE RPF HEADED BY THE PRESIDENT PAUL KAGAME. These organizations are IN CHARGE of demonizing all of those who negatively react to the RPF crimes and prefer to denounce the RPF system. On the other hand, the mafia’s network has a clear objective of discrediting various internationally renowned researchers and famous investigation journalists who unmasked the criminal mafia in charge of convincing the entire the main donors and world decision-makers by all means with the screenplay of Paul Kagame about the Rwandan tragedy.
On the other hand, there is no denying that General Kagame is undoubtedly the mastermind and the schemer of all the incomparable massacres experienced by the people of Rwanda and Congo.

Saturday, June 12, 2010

BUSH AND OTHER WAR CRIMINALS MEET IN RWANDA : THE GREAT “ RWANDA GENOCIDE”-- COVERUP

BUSH AND OTHER WAR CRIMINALS MEET IN RWANDA : THE GREAT “ RWANDA GENOCIDE”-- COVERUP



Prof. Peter Erlinder, ICTR Lead Defense Counsel

President ADAD, the ICTR Defense Lawyers Association ©

As George Bush begins his much bally-hooed African safari, he has already begun to heap praise on Rwandan President Kagame as a “model for Africa .” But, recently issued French and Spanish international “war-crimes” warrants and new evidence at the UN Rwanda Tribunal have exposed Kagame as the war-criminal who actually touched-off the 1994 “Rwanda Genocide” by assassinating the previous President and who is benefiting from a decades-long U.S.-sponsored “cover-up” of Pentagon complicity in massacres committed by Kagame’s regime, which even Britain’s Economist has called “the most repressive in Africa.” [1]



Multiple “War Crimes” AWarrants Issued for Rwanda ’s Leaders



Just last week, a Spanish Judge issued 40 international warrants for current and former members of Kagame’s government, including senior staff at Rwanda ’s Washington Embassy. The warrants charge Kagame’s clique with war-crimes and crimes against humanity, that may even fit the definition of “genocide.” But, these are not the only international arrest warrants issued for Rwanda’s current leaders.

French Judge Bruguiere (famous for indicting “the Jackal”) has also issued international warrants against nearly a dozen members of Kagame’s inner circle, too. Bruguiere also met with Kofi Annan in late 2006 to personally urge the U.N. Rwanda Tribunal to prosecute Kagame for the assassination of Juvenal Habyarimana, the war-crime that re-ignited the four-year Rwanda War and the massive civilian killings in the war’s final 90-days.

Could it be that no-one in the Bush Administration was aware of these pending charges against their Rwandan hosts….or is it that they just don’t care? In either case, the French and Spanish international arrest warrants have pierced the wall of U.S./UK/Rwandan propaganda about who bears responsible for the massive tragedy that unfolded in Rwanda …but the “official story” has actually been unraveling for some time (although largely un-reported in the U.S. media).



Chief UN Prosecutor del Ponte in 2003: “ Rwanda ’s Leaders Guilty of War Crimes”



In the summer of 2003, Chief Prosecutor for the United Nations International Criminal Tribunals for Rwanda (ICTR), Carla del Ponte, publicly announced that she would soon begin prosecuting members of Kagame’s Government for the same kinds of crimes charged in the French and Spanish warrants. But, nearly 5 years later not one case has been filed against one member of Kagame’s government, nor against Kagame himself.


The del Ponte announced prosecutions did not go forward because she was replaced, within 90-days of her announcement, by Abubacar Jallow, a US/UK-approved Prosecutor who pledged not to prosecute on Kagame’s side….no matter what the del Ponte and the European judges’ findings! Prosecutor del Ponte’s long-time press-aide, Florence Hartmann, published a book in Paris in September 2007, that explains exactly how del Ponte was replaced.

Chief UN Prosecutor del Ponte was called to Washington just after her 2003 announcement and threatened with removal from office by Bush’ “war-crimes ambassador”, Pierre Prosper, because of the political quid pro quo between Washington and the Kagame regime that is spelled out in detail in the book. (Ironically, Prosper was a former ICTR prosecutor under del Ponte, and must have had access to the same information motivated her announcement) . When she refused to ignore her UN-mandate, to prosecute all crimes committed during the 1994 Rwanda War, she was sacked by the U.S. and U.K. [2]





ICTR Chief Investigator in 1997:

“ Rwanda ’s Kagame Assassinated Previous President”

But this is not the first time that crimes of Kagame have been “covered-up” at the ICTR. According to sworn affidavits placed in the ICTR record in early 2006, more than 10 years ago, ICTR Lead Investigative Prosecutor, well-respected Australian QC Michael Hourigan, recommended that Kagame, himself, be prosecuted for the assassination of Habyarimana. But, in 1997, then-Chief UN Prosecutor Louise Arbour of Canada ordered him to drop the Kagame investigation; to forget it ever happened; and, to burn his notes ! Hourigan resigned rather than comply and copies of his original notes are now part of the ICTR public record for all to see. [3]



The “ Rwanda Genocide” Cover-up on Clinton ’s Watch

The Hourigan affidavit makes clear that the “Rwanda Genocide”-- Cover-up has been going on for at least a decade…but the reasons for the cover-up did not become clear until late 2007, when a senior Clinton Administration diplomat, Brian Atwood, was confronted with UN documents describing a 1994 “cover-up” meeting with the Rwandan Foreign Minister in Kigali and the UN’s Kofi Annan. According to the UN documents, U.S.-sponsored human rights reports by investigator, Robert Gersony, had documented massive military-style executions of civilians by Kagame’s troops, during and after the final 90-days of the four-year Rwanda War. [4]



The former Rwandan Foreign Minister at the meeting, Jean Marie Ndagiyimana, testified at the ICTR that, rather than participate in the proposed “cover-up,” he resigned and went into exile where he remains today. His ICTR testimony confirmed that Clinton’s USAID Chief for Africa, Brian Atwood, and the chief of the UN Department of Peace Keeping Operations Kofi Annan, were both in his office in late October 1994 urging him to assist in the “cover-up” the war-crimes committed by Kagame’s forces. [5]



The “Inconvenient Truth” Behind the Cover-up :

Pentagon Complicity in the 1994 Rwanda War



The damning “Gersony Report” included first-hand evidence of tens of thousands of civilians being massacred by Kagame’s troops in eastern Rwanda, later confirmed by similar reports by Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International. The U.N. Document (also in the ICTR record) says that Annan told the Foreign Minister that public knowledge of the Report would be “embarrassing to the UN” and the U.S. Former Clinton-diplomat, Brian Atwood, not only confirmed he was at the meeting, but explained that he had engaged Gersony, and that Gersony’s findings of war-crimes being committed by Kagame were “…an inconvenient truth” for both the United States and the UN.


According to Atwood, unknown to the State Department, “the Pentagon had been supporting Kagame since before the 1990 invasion, when he was the head of Military Intelligence for the Museveni government of Uganda.” The “Gersony Report” tied the Pentagon to the crimes of Kagame’s invading, Pentagon-trained and funded forces. More UN documents in the ICTR record reveal that the State Department was negotiating for a peaceful settlement of the war at the same time the Pentagon was supporting Kagame’s invasion. The Clinton Administration to enlisted Atwood and Kofi Annan in keeping evidence of Kagame’s crimes from ever seeing the light of day, to prevent Pentagon involvement in the “Rwandan Genocide” from ever coming to light. [6]


The existence of a separate Pentagon foreign policy on Rwanda also tallies with the ICTR testimony of former Ambassador Robert Flaten, who testified that he seriously doubted that Habyarimana’s supporters planned to kill civilians on a massive scale because the CIA and other intelligence agencies would have reported it when he was in Rwanda from 1990 to late 93. [7] He said that his requests for Pentagon-DIA spy satellite photographs showing the progress of the war in the countryside were turned down because of “clouds over Rwanda,” during his entire 3-plus years in Rwanda. [8] He also noted that support from Uganda for the 1990 Kagame invasion coincided with increased Ugandan military funding by the U.S./U.K. Flaten also testified that he personally warned Kagame that “he would be responsible for massacres like just happened in Burundi, if Kagame broke the cease-fire and re-started that war.

In short, the evidence that now is in the public record shows that during the 1994 Rwanda Genocide, the Pentagon could have stopped the carnage with a phone call….and the State Department apparently did not know enough about the Pentagon’s close ties to Kagame to ask them to do so, at least until USAID’s Atwood was informed of Pentagon reaction to the “Gersony Report,” in the summer of 1994.

Other de-classified State Department documents show that it was the invading Kagame forces that were the aggressors, and were blocking the State Departments efforts to implement the Arusha Accords, peace agreement. [9] The UN’s General Dallaire has testified that Kagame would not agree to a ceasefire to use troops to stop the massacres because “he was winning the war.” [10] And, now we know what Dallaire may not have known, until later…Kagame was winning with the Pentagon’s help.



The Great “Rwanda Genocide” Cover-up Continues under Bush

The “Rwanda Genocide” – Cover-up of Pentagon complicity in Kagame’s crimes is almost complete, as the U.S. cuts Rwanda Tribunal funding to shut it down by the end of 2008. Carla del Ponte’s replacement, Abubacar Jallow, will be conveniently unable to carry out the prosecutions that del Ponte urged in 2003, or those initiated by Judge Bruguiere in 2006, or Judge Ag____, just last week.

However, the international warrants are still in effect, the del Ponte book and Hourigan’s affidavit have begun to unravel the whole sordid manipulation… .but, unless the “Rwanda Genocide” Cover-up makes it onto Page One in Europe and North America, it may be too late for the ICTR detainees….who are being held responsible for the crimes of the Kagame regime, a bit like the UN holding the Japanese responsible for Hiroshima and the Germans for the fire-bombing of Dresden.

With U.S. and U.K. support, Kagame’s government is actively campaigning to have all ICTR matters transferred to Rwanda and has issued 40,000 warrants for Kagame’s Hutu and Tutsi opponents in the worldwide Rwandan diaspora. (A movement that includes such as figures Paul Rusesabagina, the real hero of the Hotel Rwanda ).


Correcting the Historical Record and Ending the Cover-up


But, I have to disclose my own bias because, under the laws of Rwanda , I too am a criminal “negationist” for writing this essay and President Kagame has personally denounced me as a “genocidaire” for my work as an ICTR defense lawyer. My former investigator is seeking asylum in Europe and the ICTR Prosecutor who replaced Carla del Ponte is now prosecuting defense investigator for asking too many questions in Rwanda, but denounced Judge Bruguiere’s request for the UN to prosecute Kagame and Spanish Judge Abreau, as well.



An ICTR defense lawyer, like me, has to hope that, despite all that is now known about the manipulations of the ICTR by the U.S. and U.K. for their own political purposes, the ICTR Judges will not be influenced by the sacking of del Ponte and that they will carefully evaluate the evidence in my client’s case….but it is hard to be too optimistic.


At least my conscience is clear, now that the Great “Rwanda Genocide”— Cover-up has been exposed. But, I wonder if the Judges, Prosecutors, other UN-ICTR officials (who now know about the manipulation of their best efforts) will be able to say the same, if they allow the ICTR “Rwanda Genocide”- Cover-up to continue?

During the week’s festivities in Rwanda, the Presidents Bush and Kagame are sure to find much in common, as would Tony Blair, who has recently signed-on as an “unpaid”-advisor to Kagame. All three stand accused of war crimes, and are mutually benefiting from the US/UK/Rwandan “cover-up” of their own complicity in the “Rwandan Genocide” tragedy….that should put all three in the dock at the UN-ICTR.



© Prof. Peter Erlinder, Wm. Mitchell College of Law, St. Paul , MN 55105 (651-290-6384) peter.erlinder@ wmitchell. edu . Past- President of the National Lawyers Guild and is Lead Defence Counsel for former Major Aloys Ntabakuze in the Military 1 Trial at the ICTR, the central case in the Tribunal. All of the documents and testimony referenced above are in the court record at the ICTR, except for the interview of Ambassador Brian Atwood, which occurred in December 2007 at his office at the University of Minnesota , Humphrey Institute.


[1]
The Economist , April, 2004

[2] Hartmann, Paix et chatiment: les guerres del la politique (2007 Flammarion, Paris)

[3] See Hourigan Affidavit and related documents in Miltary 1 record at the ICTR.

[4] See, UN documents in the Military 1 trial record at the ICTR.

[5] See ICTR Testimony of Ndagiyimana, November 2006, and related documents

[6] Interview with Dean Brian Atwood, Humphrey Institute, University of Minnesota , December 22, 2007.

[7] See Flaten ICTR testimony, July 2006.

[8] Interview with Robert Flaten in Arusha TZ, July 2006.

[9] See, April 1, 1994 Cable from U.S. Embassy in Kigali to Kampala Uganda in the ICTR Military 1 Trial Record.

[10] See ICTR Testimony of Gen. Romeo Dallaire and associated documents, January 2006.



Global Research Articles by Peter Erlinder

Rwanda takes its media persecution online

Persecution of independent newspapers extended to online versions

Published on 11 June 2010
In the same country

26 April 2010 - Editor of bi-monthly acquitted on appeal

14 April 2010 - Two leading independent weeklies suspended for six months

23 February 2010 - Court sentences three journalists to imprisonment

Reporters Without Borders reiterates its concern about the harassment of independent newspapers in Rwanda after learning that access to the Umuvugizi news website has been blocked in Rwanda since 3 June on the orders of the Media High Council.

Umuvugizi editor Jean Bosco Gasasira launched the website on 21 April, one week after the Media High Council suspended the print version of his fortnightly newspaper for six months on 13 April. The weekly Umuseso was suspended at the same time.

The executive secretary of the Media High Council, which regulates the media under the supervision of the president’s office, had announced that the Umuvugizi website would be blocked shortly after its launch, arguing that banned newspapers were also banned online.

“The censorship of these newspapers, whether they appear online or in print form, constitutes a crude act of manipulation in the run-up to the presidential election scheduled for 9 August,” Reporters Without Borders said.

“President Paul Kagame’s government, which had already deployed a large arsenal of measures to gag the press, has set a disturbing precedent by blocking this website,” the press freedom organisation added. “The regime has shown it is able to innovate in order to pursue its long-standing obsession about controlling news and information.”

Gasasira told Reporters Without Borders: “Blocking Umuvugizi’s website very clearly shows that President Kagame does not want independent media in Rwanda and will not allow his own people to express views or publish independent news reports by means of journalism.”

He said he thought the site was blocked as a result of an article portraying Kagame as one of the world’s most corrupt dictators and contrasting his acquisition of two jets for 100 million dollars with the fact that 60 per cent of the government’s budget comes from foreign donations while the population is hit by poverty and AIDS.

When the Media High Council suspended Umuseso and Umuvugizi in April, it accused them of “inciting insubordination in the army and police regarding orders from superiors,” publishing “information that endangers public order,” rumour mongering, defamation and invasion of privacy. But it did not cite any articles to support these charges.

Gasasira set up the website after moving to Uganda because he was being harassed and was getting threatening letters in Rwanda. The website is being blocked inside Rwanda by Internet Service Providers such as MTN and Rwandatel, but it is still accessible outside the country.

Last year, Gasasira was convicted on charges of defamation and invasion of privacy. He was also attacked and beaten unconscious.

Rwanda has the fourth lowest ranking in Africa in the Reporters Without Borders press freedom index while President Kagame is on the Reporters Without Borders list of “Predators of Press Freedom.

Wednesday, June 9, 2010

Rwanda:FDU-Inkingi, PS-Imberakuri, Rwanda Green Party Letter to EAC

Open Letter to, The Secretary General, East African Community Secretariat (07.06.10)

Dear Sir,

Re: Growing Social and Political Tension in Rwanda Ahead of August 2010 Elections

We the undersigned, representatives of the Permanent Consultative Council of Opposition Parties in Rwanda which brings together, the United Democratic Forces (FDU–Inkingi), the Democratic Green Party of Rwanda, the Parti Social IMBERAKURI would like to draw your attention to the growing social and political tension in Rwanda in the run up to the planned elections in August 2010. We would like to request an urgent action from the part of the East African Community to use its influence to stop the situation from degenerating further, so that it does not threaten peace and security in Rwanda and indeed in the sub region.

It is our very considered view that the tension which is now felt both in the military and in the civil society in general is a result of the government’s repressive measures against those who do not toe the government line and a purge in the army where some of the most senior military officials have fled the country and others have been arrested just because they hold different views from that of the President, who is the commander in chief of the Army.

Rwanda being a member of the East African Community, our political organisations, would like to convey to you its serious concerns over the situation and over the violation, by the Rwandan government, of one of the fundamental principles that underpin the objectives of the Community as provided for under Articles 6 and 123 (3) (c) of the Treaty for the Establishment of the East African Community. The latter calls for the development and consolidation of democracy, respect for the rule of law and respect for human rights in respective countries as a solid basis for peace and sustainable development.

What we are observing is that the Rwandan government is systematically closing down any avenues for transparent, free and fair elections during the presidential elections due in August 2010. The government is taking every step to rule out any serious political contest against the incumbent President by trumping up false charges against the FDU-Inkingi political party and her chairperson, interfering in the running of opposition political party PS Imberakuri and refusing to register the Democratic Green Party of Rwanda ever since it started in August 2009, as well as suspending newspapers that are critical of the government.

In this respect we hold the view that a proper process in the conduct of the forthcoming elections is a turning point in deciding the future political and social development in Rwanda. Supporting, condoning or turning a blind eye to a process that denies Rwandans a freedom of choice between different political programs through transparent competitive elections will be tantamount to complicity in creating seeds of political and social instability in Rwanda. We hold the view that the cycle of political violence in Rwanda whether under the monarchical regime or under republicanism has been due to repressive systems of government and lack of a democratic and transparent competition for and peaceful transfer of power.

In this regard we request your Excellency to use your personal influence and powers that your position, as Secretary General, gives you to safeguard the values of the EAC and request the government of Rwanda to take all measures to:

* Require the government to register the political parties ( FDU-Inkingi and Democratic Green Party of Rwanda) without any condition;
* Require the government to create an independent electoral commission in which opposition parties are represented as key actors in electoral process
* Stop the use of national resources to fund the campaign of the candidate of the regime in power
* Postpone elections until the political situation is conducive to holding free and transparent elections where all political parties are given the right to exercise their civil and political rights fully.
* Be on the side of the Rwandan people during these difficult times that the state is oppressing dissenting voices in an attempt to end the democratic process that had started.
* End all intimidation tactics against opposition political leaders and their members

We would like to reiterate the commitment of our political organisations to peaceful democratic process in the competition for and transfer of power and call on the international community and all well wishers for peace and stability in Rwanda to support our efforts by putting pressure on the Rwandan regime to respect the principles of the East African community and behave accordingly.

Our political parties are seriously concerned that flawed elections will further increase the social tension with unforeseeable consequences on the political and sustainable economic development of the country.

Yours sincerely,

Mrs. Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza

Chairperson, United Democratic Forces

Mr. Frank Habineza

Chairman, Democratic Green Party of Rwanda

Me. Bernard Ntaganda

Chairman, Parti Social IMBERAKURI


C.C: All members of the EAC in Rwanda

Tuesday, June 8, 2010

THE TRUTH BEHIND THE ORIGIN OF THE RWANDA TRAGEDY

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THE TRUTH BEHIND THE RWANDA TRAGEDY
By
Mr. Remigius Kintu
The Following Document was prepared upon request and presented to the U.N. Tribunal
on Rwanda, Arusha, Tanzania
March 20, 2005
I come before you, Ladies and Gentlemen of this noble Tribunal which was instituted to
search for the truth behind the heinous crimes committed in Rwanda. And upon you
was charged the noble responsibility of dispensing justice where it is due. If I could
borrow from the wisdom of great men and women of long ago, truth is not a function of
public opinion or majority vote, nor does it stem from the wishes of the mighty and
powerful, but rather it stands in its absolute properties regardless of opinions, purposes or
values of anyone and transcends time and space.
I want to borrow from the Greek play OEDIPUS REX by Sophocles. King Oedipus was
disturbed by the immense suffering taking place in Thebes. The calamity in that land of
Thebes was caused by the innocent blood of its King Laisos who was killed many years
ago. Kreon told Oedipus what he heard from Delphi that the gods demand we expel from
the land of Thebes an old defilement we are sheltering.
As a result, Oedipus made the following pledge: If any man knows by whose hand king
Laios son of Ladbakos met his death, I direct that man to tell me everything no matter
what he fears for having so long withheld it. Let it stand as promised that no further
trouble will come to him but he may leave the land in safety. And for the criminal, I pray
to God that that man s life be consumed in evil and wretchedness. And as for me, this
curse applies no less.
He further stated that the god Apollo sent us word that this great pestilence would lift,
only if established clearly the identity of those who murdered Laios. None of the wise
men and priests could reveal the secret of the calamity that befell the land of Thebes.
Choragos suggested that there is one man who may detect the criminal. This is Teirsias, a
blind holy prophet in whom alone, of all men, truth was born.
Teirsias was brought before the throne and revealed to Oedipus: I say that you are the
murderer whom you seek. I say you live in hideous shame with those most dear to you.
You cannot see the evil. It is the truth that sustains me .

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BACKGROUND
The Hutu vis-à-vis Tutsi Relations
The Tutsi vs. Hutu relationship in Rwanda has been marred with gruesome human rights
violations committed and perpetuated by Tutsis for centuries. Belgian colonialism did
very little to alleviate the brutality, enslavement, dehumanization and all sorts of
suffering which Hutus endured for centuries at the hands of Tutsi minority who
controlled that country with an iron hand. Hutus were nothing but slaves of Tutsis. Each
Hutu was obliged to perform UBURETWA which was labor performed by Hutus
which symbolized the most degrading and humiliating form of servitude. Hence, a Hutu
was required to put in a day s work at a property of a Tutsi master without pay. The
harvest of the land belonged to Tutsis who had the right and privilege of enjoying
whatever the Hutu labor produced. Yet the Hutus could use left-overs at the discretion of
the Master Tutsis. Needless to say, land belonged to Tutsis and Hutus had one duty and
that is of working on it for the benefit of the masters. Such institutionalized
impoverishment forced many Hutus to seek paid employment in Uganda. Others sought
labor jobs in Congo. Whenever a Hutu slave/servant failed to perform his duties at the
Tutsi master s property, the punishment was 8 lashes by kiboko (a whip made out of a
dry skin of a hippopotamus).
Educational opportunities were for only Tutsis, thus creating a mass of ignorant and
uneducated population of Hutus. Only at the discretion of a Master to his extraordinarily
obedient and docile slave, could a Hutu s child be permitted to attend school but only up
to a certain level, as may be wished by the masters. Government positions, from the King
down to the lowest level, were exclusively for Tutsis.
The brutality of Tutsis over Hutus had no limits. It became their second nature that
neither human decency nor moral/spiritual values could influence the way Tutsis treated
Hutus. For instance, Umwami, (king) official drum and symbol of royalty, called
KALINGA, was decorated with the dried penises of Hutu men. The Queen Mother, who
wielded significant power, had her two spears symbols of authority anchored in two
Hutu babies or adults.
A Tutsi had a right to kill a Hutu for any reason, including simple displeasure of a Hutu s
looks. Sometimes such killing could be done by parents to please their child who may
have expressed a hatred of a Hutu for any reason.
The dehumanization process reached a terrible depth that Hutus were barred from crying
if and when such atrocities were inflicted upon them. The consequences of shedding tears
at the presence of such brutal injustices were fatal. As a result of centuries of
dehumanization and odious brutalization, Hutus do not cry but rather freeze or become
petrified and weep internally. These are but a few examples of the brutality Tutsis
exercised over Hutus for centuries.

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THE HUTU REVOLT
In 1948, the UN reports expressed shock at the inequalities in Rwandan social and
political structures and called upon the Belgian colonial administration to prepare the
population for self-government. The Tutsi did not agree with the UN recommendations
and so wanted to keep their status of being superior to Hutus.
The first blows of the Hutu revolution were struck in 1959 when a gang of Tutsi youths
attacked one of the few Hutu sub-chiefs. The news of his death spread across the country
and Hutu moved to retaliate. The Hutu uprising of 1959 was important because it
demonstrated the depth of rural discontent with the Tutsi domination and mistreatment of
Hutus. This revolution ended in 1961 when democratic elections and a referendum on the
monarchy were held under the UN supervision. The Hutus won by an overwhelming
majority vote. The referendum delivered a decisive rejection of the monarchy. Under the
leadership of a charismatic Gregoire Kayibanda, democratically elected Hutus took
control of government and Parliament.
That revolution which abolished the monarchy, established for the first time in the history
of Rwanda a government run by majority Hutus. As a result, thousands of Tutsis who
were members of the repressive regime including their Umwami (King) fled to
neighboring countries of Uganda, Congo, and Tanzania and beyond.
The Catholic Church in Rwanda played a significant role in abolishing the Tutsi slavery
of Hutus in the late 1950s. Tutsis regardless of their religious affiliation have harbored a
deep resentment against the Church since then. In particular, retired Archbishop Andre
Perraudin who in 1959 wrote a pastoral letter in which he asked, in the name of charity,
that an end be put to the privileges of one ethnic group over another, suggesting social
reforms and greater democracy. Prior to his becoming a Bishop, Fr. Perraudin had been
one of a few Missionaries who taught, believed and lived the doctrine of social justice in
Rwanda.
That diabolic hatred of the church by Tutsis was vividly demonstrated by RPF when they
accused Bishop Augustin Misago of the so called genocide of 1994. Bishop Fokas of
Ruhengeri was taken away by police and presumed killed. A government sponsored
campaign to demean the Catholic Church in Rwanda has been going at the highest level
of RPF administration. What is even more shameful is to see that Tutsis raided a church
to demonstrate at on April 4, 1999 in Veyras, Switzerland when the retired Bishop was
celebrating his 60 years of priesthood. They accused him of the 1994 genocide. The
Bishop served Rwanda for 38 years and retired to his home country of Switzerland on
September 15 1993. His legacy of emancipating Hutus from Tutsi enslavement is the
crime Tutsis can never forgive him.

TUTSI REFUGEES IN UGANDA
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The UNHCR set up refugee camps for Tutsis soon after they arrived in Uganda in 1960,
at Rwimi and Base Camp Kasese in Toro, Kamuhingi and at Rukinga Valley in Ankole.
Rukinga Valley was a sparely populated area. It provided excellent grazing grassland for
those that came with their livestock. The UN agency took full responsibility for those
people. Uganda, as a young nation, had never experienced such an influx of refugees and
did not know how to handle such problems.
It is important to remember that Tutsis made no secret of their intentions to return to
Rwanda as rulers. We cannot accept to be ruled by Hutus who are supposed
to be our slaves , so they declared. Soon after they settled in those camps, they
devised plans of taking back power in Rwanda through force. In the 1960s Tutsi refugees
made several attempts to capture power by force. There were about 5 attempts during
Kayibanda s reign, when Tutsi militant groups made unsuccessful attempts to attack
Rwanda from Uganda and Congo. At the same time they were accusing Rwanda of being
undemocratic. They continued waging a two prong attack: accusing the Hutu regime in
Kigali of being undemocratic and repressive, while at the same time mobilizing an armed
invasion of Rwanda. While still under the UNHCR supervision in Uganda, those refugees
tried to mobilize their youth into an armed guerilla group. The militant group was called
THE BANYRWANDA YOUTH ASSOCIATION. A. Milton Obote s first regime
prevented them from using Uganda as a military base for an attack on a neighboring
country because it was a violation of both the U.N. and OAU Charters. That did not go
well in the minds of a people who were obsessed with taking power at any cost. They
worked around it by undermining the very country which gave them refuge.
At that time their efforts were thwarted but their conviction to regain power in Rwanda
did not die. They continued to use other avenues including negotiating with the Kigali
regime for their return to Rwanda, which could give them an opportunity to maneuver to
regain power, by any means, from within the country. There were several negotiations
sponsored by OAU and UN to work out a compromise of returning refugees back to their
country. Each time a compromise was reached; the Tutsi side undermined its
implementation and quickly blamed the Hutu side for the apparent failure. It was self
evident that the Tutsis wanted nothing short of taking total control of the country and
return to the old ways of Tutsi domination and enslavement of Hutus.
They resented the fact that Rwanda was under the control of a majority group a people
they deemed not fit to rule. That sentiment was confirmed many years later when Paul
Kagame s junta officially condemned retired Archbishop Andre Parraudin for his
pivotal role in the emancipation of Hutus in 1950s. The then Fr. Parraudin (who was a
Missionary teacher at a Seminary in Rwanda during the 1950s) expounded to his students
the Catholic doctrine of SOCIAL JUSTICE and HUMAN RIGHTS. On that basis the
Diocesan newspaper called Kinyamateka was entrusted to Gregoire Kayibanda, an exseminarian,
who wrote extensively on social reform, condemning Tutsi brutality against
the Hutus. Kayibanda, backed by the Church through Bishop Parraudin, vehemently
preached justice and human rights for all. It was from that standpoint that Hutu liberation
blossomed and formed a political party PARMEHUTU which waged a victorious
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campaign against the Tutsi dynasty, overthrowing the monarchy and deposing all Tutsi
rulers in 1959/60

END OF REFUGEE CAMPS IN UGANDA
Under the influence of some powerful Hima politicians from Ankole District, namely
Grace S. Ibingira, C.B. Katiti and W.W. Rwetsiba, who were intimately conjugated with
Tutsi refugees, Obote was persuaded to undermine the UNHCR and closed the camps.
Many refugees got off the UNHCR sponsorship at the dismay of UN officials. Uganda
government, working in conjunction with local authorities, settled many Tutsi families at
Namutamba, Kiboga, Mawogola and many parts of Ankole.
He recruited many of the young men and women to serve in his newly created spy and
torture Gestapo-like GENERAL SERVICE UNIT (GSU). They had over the centuries
perfected the skills of spying, torturing and brutal subjection of Hutus in Rwanda. Such
work was their second nature. They learned quickly the Bantu languages of southern
Uganda, particularly, Runyankole, Rukiga, Luganda and Lusoga. Obote s regime was
destined to survive many years in power since it had a monopoly of military power, using
his northern tribesmen combined with an effective but dreaded spy and torture network
manned by Tutsi mercenaries, who had no loyalty to any tribe and could intermingle
freely and effectively among the Bantu tribes of the south, where opposition to his regime
was strongest. Many girls including Tutsis were deployed to work as spies in bars, hotels,
restaurants and even as wives.
Many GSU agents were deployed in various ministries and state controlled corporations
from which they spied on civil servants and the general public. Among GSU agents of
Rwandese extraction were Yoweri Museveni (who as a young boy grew up in the family
of Boniface Byanyima and attended Ntale High School) worked in the Prime Minister s
office. Chris Katsigazi joined the Foreign Affairs Ministry and served in many posts
overseas, including in Washington DC and New York.
GSU became a notorious and dreaded agency causing Obote s regime to be hated. Many
people, especially from the opposition party (Democratic Party), were tortured and
imprisoned by GSU agents. Most of those atrocities were committed by Tutsi agents
purporting to be Banyankole. That insecurity created a paralysis in the country and
disrupted political, social and economic progress.
IDI AMIN AND TUTSIS
General Idi Amin overthrew Obote on January 25, 1971. The population was jubilant
because they expected to see an end to GSU spies. Idi Amin tried to rid Uganda of those
dangerous elements, but unfortunately that was not the case. Many GSU personnel fled
the country, but a significant number of them remained and eventually infiltrated Amin s
regime serving as spies and killers under a new organization called STATE
RESEARCH BUREAU (SRB).

6 FRONASA AND TUTSI PLAN

Those GSU Tutsis who fled Uganda after Idi Amin took over, organized an exile group
names FRONASA. Its leader was Yoweri Museveni, and it was based in Dar es Salaam.
Although that group attracted a number of hard core leftist UPC supporters, its core
members and main objective was to consolidate Tutsi power, according to information
from an ex-wife of one of the inner circle members of the organization. A network of
Tutsis purporting to be Banyankole or Bakiga used that organization to mobilize and
crystallize their political agenda for the entire region.
Within FRONASA a group of militant Tutsis working jointly with Himas was formed to
organize and carry out a grand plan of taking power in countries of the Great Lakes
Region starting with Uganda which was to be used as a base and spring board. That
group included the following: Yoweri K. Museveni, Fred Rwigyema. Paul Kagame, Ezra
Bunyenyezi, Emmanuel Bunyenyezi, David Tinyefunza, Jimmy Muhwezi, Otafire,
Barihona, Rwandali, Rwehibanda, Keitonga, Ghashizi, Ezra Suruma, Muchunguzi,
Kaharwa, Ruhakana Rugunda, Mathew Rukikaire, Perez Kamunanwire, and many others.
Ahmed Sseguya, a Muganda, led the FRONASA military trainees at Nachingweya. He
was later killed at the order of Yoweri Museveni in Luwero during the war. The people
he ordered to kill Sseguya were Muchunguzi, Julius Ayime and Mugume.
The political disintegration in Uganda, to which those killer squads contributed
significantly, opened up new opportunities for Tutsis to take advantage of the situation in
their long term plan of taking political power, commencing with Uganda which they were
to use as a staging point to capture neighboring countries. Under the banner of
FRONASA, Tutsis purporting to be Banyankole or Bakiga, participated in the Moshi
Conference which created Yusuf Lule s regime after the fall of Idi Amin in 1979. While
in a Da es Salaam hotel, Yoweri Museveni gave Yusuf Lule a list of 18 people out of
whom he could pick 14 Ministers; all names were of purportedly Banyankole . His
justification for that glaring bias was, Those are the only people I know . Subsequently
Museveni became Minister of Defense a position he used to plant his fellow Tutsis into
positions of control but he was quickly disarmed by a stronger Nilotic power clique led
by Oyite Ojok.
It is important to remember that soon after Idi Amin was overthrown in 1979, Yoweri
Museveni became Minister of Defense. His FRONASA clique in the National Liberation
Army (NLA) recruited many Tutsi/Hima from Ankole and Kigezi area. Those were
strategically stationed at Lubiri Army Barracks and Makindye Military Police Barracks
from where Rwandali and Rweibanda conducted a random killing rampage of civilians.
They utilized a bus which was called Mpawo Atalikaaba in which the killers rode every
night, picking up their victims and smashing their heads with hoes and littering the
surrounding areas with corpses.
Although Museveni was removed from the Ministry of Defense, his other comrades who
had infiltrated other newly formed security organizations remained and continued their
acts of sabotage which undermined and weakened Yusuf Lule and G.L. Binaisa regimes.
Those crimes of random killings of civilians terrorized the country at the same time
discrediting and weakening Binaisa rule.
In 1980 Baganda political militants started a guerrilla war which eventually overthrew
Obote s second regime. At that time Museveni was Vice Chairman of the ruling Military
Commission. Repressive policies of terrorizing and torture, mysterious and random
killings of civilians, robbing and stealing from the public were daily occurrence. Forcing
people onto trucks (Panda Gali) to be taken to be tortured and others killed was common
in and around Kampala under the watchful eyes of a consenting Museveni. In 1981,
Muuseveni was ousted by the Muwanga/Obote/Oyite Ojok camp. He, together with a
number of Tutsis whom he had groomed joined the ongoing bush war which had started a
year earlier.
Their first action was to steal weapons from other fighters by pretending to join together
and share whatever equipment they had. They then started killing the leaders and finally
took over the operation. That is why Museveni has always lied that the bush war started
in 1981 when it started in 1980. That war against Obote s repressive regime was very
popular among Ugandans. Tutsis saw this as a golden opportunity to take over the
liberation struggle and eventually claim to be the ones who saved Uganda from Obote.
Then they can rule Uganda and eventually use it to conquer other countries, starting with
Rwanda. They made no secret of their regional plan to dominate and control the entire
Great Lakes Region. People who were with them during the fighting recall that
Tutsi/Hima High Command frequently discussed plans to invade Rwanda after they
have taken over Uganda. After that, Congo/Zaire was next and be followed by Tanzania
in that order. Among their objective was to eliminate and /or reduce the numerical
superiority of Hutus through mass killings and any other means, to wipe out the Nilotics
of Northern Uganda who they called Obusoro (little animals), and turn all other Bantu
tribes into a controlled mass of servants or slaves. The plot against Nilotic tribes was also
revealed to me by the late Grace Ibingira in 1986 just before he joined NRM s regime as
Special Advisor to Museveni.

TUTSI INTEGRATION IN UGANDA
Uganda has always been a country founded on an unwritten policy of inclusion; not
exclusion. Museveni s era has forced many Ugandans to wonder what went wrong. Tutsis
were well received by the people and were rendered assistance and acceptability more
than any immigrant group could ever expect. They quickly established themselves,
acquired land for settlement and intermarried. Educational and employment opportunities
were open to all without any discrimination whatsoever. Some attended Makerere
University in Uganda and other universities in Kenya and Tanzania and abroad as
Ugandans camouflaged as Banyankole or Bakiga. Case in point is Edith Ssempala, now
Ugandan Ambassador to USA. She studied Engineering at Lumumba University in Moscow on a Ugandan scholarship. Yet when she was in Moscow, she did not want to
identify herself as a Ugandan but rather as a Rwandese.
There were many Tutsi families who came to Uganda prior 1959. Many of those families
had established themselves among Ugandans. Teacher Karugendo of Kyakanyomozi
village comes to my mind. He was my schoolmate at Busubizi Teacher Training College
from 1955 till 1958. His children participated in the RPF invasion of Rwanda in 1990.
Mr. Nyakamwe raised livestock at Kasali village where he lived till death. His children
were also among those who invaded Rwanda in 1990. Why should their children who
were borne in Uganda, whose parents migrated before the Kayibanda revolution, join
RPF in the invasion of Rwanda?
The integration of Tutsi refugees was thorough and comprehensive. Each person had an
opportunity to make the most out of life according to his/her ability. There were many
refugees who had good education and training. Among them was Mr. Avigimana who
later shortened his name to Avigima and taught at numerous Secondary schools in
Masaka area starting at Bikira Junior Secondary School. He later became Headmaster of
Kabwoko and Kyamulibwa Junior Secondary schools. Mr. and Mrs. Leo Magulu are
rural people who obtained land at Bikira village where they live up to now in total
harmony with the local Baganda.
There is a Tutsi I met in Boston, MA who had a good job with Uganda Coffee Marketing
Board. He purchased a profitable ranch in Mawogola. He is among those who invaded
Rwanda in 1990 together with his children and relatives. At the request of Fred
Rwigyema, his ranch was used as military training and supply base for RPF.
The Catholic Bishop of Kigezi, Rt. Rev. Barnabas Halem imana used his residence as a
safe haven for the officers of RPF during the invasion of Rwanda and also as a training
camp for RPF spies and torture agents. One of the people who trained at the Bishop s
residence informed me what she witnessed. She narrated about their evening discussions
with the Bishop and other RPF officials discussing the glory and destiny of Tutsis and
why they must struggle hard to regain power, not only in Rwanda but throughout East
and Central Africa because they were destined to be rulers. Hutus and other Bantu
people, according this doctrine, were created to be servants. The people of Kigezi were
angry at the Bishop when they found out his involvement with RPF. First, there were
clandestine letters from priests and lay people complaining to high Church officials in
Uganda and to the Vatican. That was followed by a popular revolt which drove him out
of the Diocese for his safety and sought refugee in Kampala from where he officially
requested the Pope to accept his resignation from the post of Bishop of Kabale. His
request was granted.
Obote s regime in the 1960s needed the Tutsis to carry out the bulk of his secret agency
work because of their callousness, adaptability and propensity to brutality with a straight
face. Obote recruited many of them into the infamous GENERAL SERVICE UNIT, a
spy and torture arm of his regime similar to the GESTAPO of Adolph Hitler. Tutsi girls
together with numerous Ugandan girls, who were selected for their loose morals or wickedness, were deployed in strategic places to spy on the public. Others were assigned
to foreign visitors and diplomats.

TUTSI CRIMES IN UGANDA

Uganda has had her share of political upheavals since independence. Human rights
violations in that country have received worldwide publicity until Museveni came to
power. There have been more heinous crimes during Museveni s rule than during Amin
and Obote combined and yet the self-appointed policemen of the world keep silent. Is
this an accident or intentional?
In the mid 1960s, Obote s regime established a spy and torture organization called
GENERAL SERVICE UNIT (GSU) headed by his cousin Akena Adoko and mostly
staffed with Tutsi men and women who could easily mingle with the Bantu tribesmen and
speak their languages. Their lack of loyalty to any tribe and a deeply rooted second nature
of brutality peculiar in them made the Tutsis the best choice to employ in that new
GESTAPO. Many Ugandans, particularly those belonging to the opposition Democratic
Party were tortured and/or imprisoned. Properties were looted. Many people were
unfairly fired from their jobs because GSU spies found them not to be UPC supporters.
Those acts of sabotage and brutality which Obote introduced in the Uganda body politic
caused his regime to be abhorred. By 1970, the country had come to a virtual standstill,
polarized by terror, insecurity and tribal hatred. During all that time, Tutsis in GSU were
camouflaging as Hima of Ankole others as Bakiga. Little did the world know that on
August 6 1962, a TUTSI DYNASTY PLAN was made to colonize the Central African
countries. 1
Idid Amin overthrew Obote on January 25, 1971 in a coup. Many Ugandans were
exuberant because they anticipated the end of GSU terrorists. Obote and his men fled to
Tananzia. Among the many that fled with him were GSU agents including Yoweri
Museveni. However, many other Tutsis did not leave the country but rather joined
Amin s new and notorious STATE RESEARCH BUREAU (SRB). It came to light
much later that many bizarre atrocities which took place during Amin s reign were
conducted done by SRB under directives from FRONASA without Amin s knowledge
and consent, according to well placed sources in Amin s regime.
There was a Tutsi man who lived at Bayitababiri on Entebbe-Kampala road. He went by
the Baganda name of Mukasa. He also claimed to be a Munyoro. He was an officer in
Amin s SRB and was implicated in numerous murders including that of Anglican
Archbishop Janan Luwum and Mr.Oboth Ofumbi. He sarcastically told some neighbors
about the death of Archbishop Luwum on February 17, 1977, less than an hour after the
crime had been committed and before anybody knew of it. He further bragged that he was
going to State House to report the matter to Idi Amin. Many Tutsis were active in State.Research Bureau. Many atrocities were carried out without Amin s knowledge, according
to one former Advisor to the dictator. Frank Kalimuzo was by a Tutsi SRB agent who is
presumed to have received orders from FRONASA. The same agent is also noted as
having been the driver who took Ben Kiwanuka from the High Court building to
Makindye Barracks where he was killed. The same former advisor to Amin identifies a
technical officer in SRB responsible for bombs, poison etc.. was a Frank Terpil who had
connections with the CIA.
During that era, many people especially prominent politicians, professionals and
businessmen were killed by SRB Agents. Among them were Ben Kiwanuka, Joseph
Mubiru, Frank Kalimuzo, Rev. Fr. Clement Kiggundu, and Rev. Fr. Clement Mukasa.
This era will always be remembered as the dark ages when Uganda was deprived of her
trained and experienced personnel. A well known lawyer and politician, Mr. Abubaker K.
Mayanja, was picked up by those killer squads. One of his wives immediately rushed to
the house of Umwami Kigyeri who was by then a refugee in Uganda. She tearfully
pleaded to Kigyeri for the life of her husband. In a telephone call, Kigyeri ordered the
immediate release of Mr. Mayanja. The question which one would ask is how would an
exile king of Tutsis have known who had taken Abubaker Mayanja and where he
currently was in order for him to make a phone call to secure his release? Amin s
personal friend, Aneil Clarke vanished without a trace. All the blame fell on Idi Amin,
but Mrs. Mayanja knew better where the real cobra was.
One of the Tutsi tactics was to infiltrate the regimes of Obote and Amin, creating havoc
by committing crimes against the people and they blame the government leaders for those
crimes. Such activities weakened the regimes creating an easy way for the Tutsis to
emerge later as liberators of the masses. Mr. Paul Kagame, as Director of Military
Intelligence, ran a notorious slaughter house where hundreds of Ugandans were tortured
and brutally killed. His headquarters was at Basiima House near Mengo. The death of
Andrew L. Kayiira on March 7, 1987 falls squarely on the hands of Paul Kagame and his
killer squad from Basiima House, according to informers who were in the intelligence
service at the time. A Ugandan Army officer registered number R00007, Paul
Kagame, must be Court Marshaled for the death and torture of many people in Uganda
and Rwanda.
David Tinyefunza was Commander of Eastern Region and slaughtered many people
during his stay in Eastern Uganda. The most pronounced incidence of his brutality was
the roasting of people in train wagons in Teso in 1987.
Bayingana, who was in charge of Prison medical services, was responsible for the killing
of many prisoners at Luzira between 1986 and 1990. Hundreds of people particularly
from Buganda and northern region were detained as squatters and many did not come
out alive. He was among the invaders of Rwanda under RPF banner. Bayingana was
responsible for injecting political prisoners with slow killing poison. Such prisoners
would be released and only to dies a few days or weeks later. Consequently they would
claim death as being due to natural causes. That poison was imported from Cuba and Rumania, according reliable sources. Among such victims were Lt. Namiti, Paulo
Muwanga, Col. Otto, Henry Bwambale, A. Bazira.
One of the greatest lies of the 20th century was that those Tutsis were refugees in
Uganda. They ceased to be refugees in the mid 1960s when the camps were closed and
UNHCR closed shop. Those people were integrated thoroughly into the Ugandan society.
Refugees do not hold ministerial posts in their host country like Rwigyema was. When
Paul Kagame traveled to USA for military training, he did not use a U.N. Refugee Pass,
but a genuine Ugandan passport. He is a genuine Uganda military officer with
registration number R00007. It has been recently revealed that Paul Kagame used to
visit his aunt in Butale during the Habyarimana s reign. He traveled as a Ugandan of
Rwandan extraction.

THE POST AMIN ERA AND MUSEVENI S CONTRIBUTION
FRONASA Group and mobilization of Tutsis in Uganda
THE 1980 ARMED STRUGGLE IN UGANDA AND INFILTRATION
Soon after the political turmoil its lowest level Obote s group stole the election,
Ugandans wedged an armed struggle and a civil broke up. At that time Yoweri Museveni
was co-chairman of the ruling Military Commission which in turn paved the way for
second return of Milton Obote into power. In 1981, Museveni and his Tutsi clique, which
was hatched in FRONASA and later merged into UPM, infiltrated the ongoing armed
struggle against Obote s forces. They joined the fighting with a hidden agenda of taking
over and killing off its original leadership. Indeed the Tutsi clique successfully carried
out their dual plan. Over the course of 5 years of fighting Obote s regime, the original
true Ugandan leaders were systematically killed. Among those they killed were, Robert
Sserumaga, Bazil Mumanya, George Nkwanga, Bernard Buzabo, Kiwanuka, Waswa,
Yusuf Lule, among others. One unique case of their killing strategy is the death of
Ahmed Sseguya a Muganda. Sseguya led the FRONASA military group that trained
Nachingwera in Tanzania. He was a staunch supporter of FRONASA, and a well trained
military commander. He stayed with the Tutsi/Hima group not knowing their secret
plans. Museveni ordered Muchunguzi, Julius Ayime and Mugume to kill Mr. Sseguya so
as not to allow a Muganda among their midst.
Museveni and his clique of Tutsi/Hima tribesmen established named itself THE
NATIONAL RESISTANCE MOVEMENT/ARMY and monopolized the bush war
that ousted Obote in 1986. The following were its members:
High Command were: Yoweri Museveni, Salim Sareh, Fred Rwigyema, David
Tinyefunza, Jim Muhwezi, Eri Tumwine, Paul Kagame, Moses Kigongo, Mugisha
Muntu, Kiiza Besigye. Senior Officers were: Kahinda Otafire, Benon Tumukunde, P. Kutesa, Julius Ayine,
Mugume, Frank Guma, Stephen Kashaka, John Kyaakuta, Barihona, Rwandari,
Rweyibanda, Muchunguzu, Gasinzi, Amanya Mushega, Amama Mbabazi, Fenehams
Katirima, Mathew Rukikayire, Eriya Kategaya, Byemalo, Shef Ali, Kasigazi, Kihanda,
Sande Mukulu, Monday, James Kazini, Makanga Bogere, PeterKerimu Kazora,
Ruhakana Rugunda, Stephen Kwiringia, Kasula Kyomuhendo, Kashilingi Lubaramira,
David Ndyayondi, Fred Kagonyera,, Kyakabare, Samuel Kaka and many others.
As soon as they started fighting in Luwero triangle, their first strategy was to kill as many
civilians as they could and destroy their properties, and put the blame on Obote s
soldiers. They often bragged about this trick as one they learned when training with
FLERIMO of Mozambique.

THE GRAND PLAN TO CONTROL AND DOMINATE THE EAST
AND CENTRAL AFRICAN REGION.
In 1979, another development was taking place in Rwanda. A group of Rwandese
(mostly Tutsis) in Rwanda launched an opposition party named RWANDESE
ALLIANCE FOR NATIONAL UNITY (RANU) calling for national unity and the
return of exiled Rwandese. That party was forced to go underground and was maintained
by Rwandese exiles. In 1987, a year after Museveni took power; it changed its name to
RWANDESE PATRIOTIC FRONT (RPF). It enjoyed support from many Tutsis in
Museveni s regime who were at the same time camouflaging as Banyankole or Bakiga.
Tutsis occupied strategic and controlling positions in Museveni s regime, thus achieving
their primary objective: that of controlling Uganda and using it as a staging ground to
take over other countries. Fred Rwigyema (first leader of RPF) was Minister of Defense;
Paul Kagame was Director of Military Intelligence, and responsible for exterminating
Ugandans who could be real or imaginary opposition. He operated his death camp in
Basiima House at Mengo and at various other locations. Other Tutsis in the control of
Uganda was Pierre Kabatzi. Peter Bayingana was Chief of Medical Service for Uganda
Prisons. Chris Bunyenyezi was Administration Chief at Army Headquarters.
Soon after Museveni took over, he lured the Rwandan leader J. Habyarimana to accept
lifting travel document requirements for citizens of Uganda and Rwanda. A special bus
service between Kampala and Kigali was established by Tutsis in Museveni s
government. Its daily runs from Kampala, in most cases, went half full and always
returned full of people from Kigali. This activity went on till shortly before October 1,
1990, when the RPF commenced their invasion.
It later became evident that the bus passengers coming from Rwanda to Uganda were
recruits for military training for the eventual invasion of Rwanda in 1990. The recruits mostly came from Tutsi families. Others were from various parties opposed to J.
Habyarimana s regime. The destination was Kabamba Military Training Camp, others
were sent to a secret training camp at Karugutu in the Rwenzori Mountains. Its Chief
Commander was Mr. Biganja.
Among the many recruits brought in from Rwanda was a young lady I interviewed. She
was brought first for military training and then she underwent Intelligence Work training
at the residence of the Catholic Bishop of Kabale, The Right Rev. Barnabas
Halem imana. That lady informed me that many recruits had their initial training in spy
work and other related activities at the Bishop s residence. The instructions included RPF
plans and dogma which emphasize, among other things, that Tutsis, not Hutus, were
destined to be rulers of Rwanda but not Hutus. They also undertook training in spying
and torture techniques. After graduating from there, they were sent to another location on
the Uganda-Zaire border near Kasese to the home of a wealthy Tutsi trader. There, they
had additional training before deployment. That lady recalls many conversations in the
evenings with the Bishop as he sipped Scotch whisky, telling the young recruits that
Tutsis were created to be rulers. The RPF officers were free to use the Bishop s vehicles.
One morning, those guys returned from their night expedition in the Bishops pick-up
truck. It was stained with blood. The people of Kabale recognized the Bishop s vehicle
being driven by strange faces. The information became known among the people. Secret
letters of complaint to the higher authority in the Church were written by priests and laity
alike to no avail. The Catholic population of Kabale revolted forcing him to run for his
life to Kampala from where he requested the Pope to accept his resignation as Bishop of
Kabale Diocese, a request which was immediately granted. We have learned that
Museveni has rewarded him with the political post of Director of HIV/AID Prevention
Program. This organization is charged, among other things, with the duty of distributing
condoms. RPF and THE INVASION OF RWANDA (Oct. 1, 1990)
The decision to invade Rwanda was made soon after Tutsis were dethroned in 1959/60
and arrived in Uganda as refugees thereafter. From that time, they carried numerous
attempts to take over power by forces. At the same time they tried galvanizing public
opinion against the Hutu dominated regime, but yield limited results. The FRONASA
groups which was formed in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania was the one to come up with a
winning strategy when it took advantage of political anarchy, to which they significantly
contributed, in Uganda and thus opted to taking over that country and in turn use it as a
staging ground to invade Rwanda.
The actual preparation for the RPF invasion of Rwanda started in 1985 while NRM was
still fighting in Luwere before taking power in January 1986. The NRA High Comand
composed of Yoweri Myseveni, Salim Sareh, Fred Rwigyema, David Tinyefunza, Jim
Muhwezi, Paul Kagame, Moses Kigongo, Kiiza Besigye, Kahinda Otafire, formed a
committee which will organize the invasion of Rwanda soon after NRM/NRA takes over
Uganda. That committee included the following: Fred Rwigyema, David Tinyefunza,
Mugisha Muntu, Jim Muhwezi, Paul Kagame, Shef Ali,Matteka, Byensi, and Biganja. By the end of 1985, more than 3,000 Tutsi/Hima had completed their military training at
Mulima Barracks, a secret place in the Rwenzori Mountain.
After Museveni took over power, he invited President Habyarimana to be the guest of
honor at a military ceremony whereby ranks were awarded to senior NRA officers.
During that meeting, Museveni asked Habyarimana to allow three senior NRA military
officers to join the Rwandan Army but that request was rejected. The officers were Fred
Rigyema, Mugisha Muntu and Paul Kagame. Museveni furtherrequested Habyariman to
allow ordinary Tutsi soldiers from the NRA to join the Rwandan Army; that too was
turned down. Finally Museveni asked Habyarimana to allow ordinary Tutsi civilians to
return to Rwanda on a gradual basis. That was accepted on the basis that that those
returnees have no criminal record.
Towards the end of 1986, Museveni deployed into Rwanda the 3000 soldiers who were
trained in Mulima Barracks. They were disguised as civilians and each one was given
300,000 Uganda Shillings as a resettlement fund. This advance team was constantly
sending back information about the Rwandan Army and Government.
In 1987, Jim Muhwezi, Director of Internal Security Organization (ISO), appointed Mr.
Stehen Ndawula Ssennoga, a Kyambogo Technical College graduate in Communication,
to recruit former Kyambogo students into ISO. All recruits were sent to East Germany
and Cuba for training in how to operate sophisticated spy equipments. Mr. Kibuka was
the leader of those who went to East Germany and Mr. Kayemba led the team that went
to Cuba. The two groups returned after 6 months of training and with them were lots of
spy equipment which were stored at the ISO headquarters, Nakasero. Stephen Nadura, S.
Kweringira, David Kasula and Bosco Kiviri were in charge of those equipments. In
December of 1987, ISO bought twelve (12) mobile radios and IFA vehicles which carried
them. They also bought 20,000 walk talkies and bugging equipment from East Germany
plus 20,000 pistols, 6.71 mm. All those equipments were destined for Rwanda. In early
1987, a Bulemezi farmer who had been put in charge of NRA farms was ordered by Fred
Rwigyema to buy machetes, axes, hammers, hoes, spades, slashers and knives from Jinja
Steel Mills, Ssembule Investments and Uganda Bati Co. LTD with labels reading Made
in Rwanda . He was also ordered to hand all the purchase to Paul Kagame and Mugisha
Muntu. Byemalo and Kalyegyeya took charge of the delivery.
In 1987 Jim Muhwezi and Moses Kigongo started a clandestine program of recruiting
Tutsis and Hima from Bulemezi, Singo, Gomba, Butambala, Mawogola and other areas
of Buganda who were trained at ISO school near Entebbe. At the same time, Kahinda
Otafire, Kiiza Besigye, Amanya Mushega and Kale Kahihura were recruiting Tutsis and
Hima in Bushenyi, Ntungamu, Mbarara, Rukungiri and Kabale and training them at
Mirama Hills Detach Center where Mr. Fuluma was in charge of training.
In 1987, the NRA High Command gave two buses to a Mr. Samuel Black, a Kasese
businessman, to transport all the trainees from Milima Barracks of Rwenzori Mountain to
Kabale where they were received by Mr. Batuma to distribute them in different places inside Rwanda. Another Kasese businessman, Mr. Katoto, was given two buses by NRA
to transport trainees from Milama Hills into Rwanda with the help of Mr. Batuma.
Between 1987 and 1989, Moses Kigongo, Mathew Rukikaire, Kakwano and Kaka were
authorized by Uganda Government to transport people, weapons and all equipment which
were kept at ISO stores and at Basiima House from Uganda to Rwanda. Those
equipments were distributed to their men who were already stationed inside Rwanda.
Museveni took power in 1986. He placed Tutsi men in total control of the Ugandan
military which was going to be used as staging ground. They control numerous other
strategic and powerful positions in Uganda, so that neither political nor military
opposition could rise up against their sinister plans. On the military side, many of their
commanders received advanced military training abroad, particularly the USA and UK.
RPF collaborating with a cadre of Tutsis inside Rwanda scouted the countryside. They
took young Tutsi kids out of school and brought them to Kigali for the purpose of
agitating for jobs. Those kids were anywhere between 11 and 17 years old. They were
promised, according to eye witnesses, to return to their schools after RPF takes power.
Those young people terrorized Kigali in many ways demanding employment which the
Habyarimana Government could not offer. That gave the Tutsi political opposition more
ammunition against the Hutu leadership for having failed the economy.

THE CONQUEST OF UGANDA
The reign of Idi Amin exasperated a political decadency which started in the 1960s. It
exploded with the fall of Amin s regime. A country cannot experience stability and
progress when ruled by a minority regime. The Tutsi planners knew this very well and
indeed one could argue that their effort to contribute to the internal insecurity, political
murders, and polarization of the general population against the ruling groups of Obote
through GSU and Amin s State Research was towards this aim.
Some people have claimed that Museveni volunteered to fight for FRELIMO in
Mozambique and later underwent military training in North Viet Nam. While this could
make him look like a macho fighter, there is no concrete evidence to support that claim.
We know from first hand witness that President Nyerere was a strong supporter of
FRONASA and so permitted them to send their trainees to Nachingweya Military
Training Camp in southern Tanzania where FRELIMO trained their men. The team
which went there for training included:
Ahmed Sseguya (leader)
Sallim Sarey, Fred Rwigyema, Jim Muhwezi, Muchunguzi, Kihanda, Rwandali,
Keitongwa, Rweibanda, Muwanga Jackson, Yoweri Museveni, Kashaka Shaban.
Could this have been part of the Tutsi Dynasty Plan of 1962 to train their youth in
military tact for eventual take over of the Great Lakes Region?One of the strategies which NRA used extensively and effectively in Uganda s bush war
against Obote was to kill thousands of civilians at night and by daytime fabricate stories
that Obote s soldiers massacred innocent civilians. Such a trick caused the civilian
population and world community to turn their sympathy from Obote s government to the
rebel group. In 1983 a German Journalist, Mark Schumdt, went to the war zone in
Bulemezi to investigate what was going on as news of mass killings in the Luwero
triangle were spreading worldwide. Mr. Schumdt met with Museveni and his high
command who told him what they wanted him to hear. They then chose David
Tinyefunza and Jim Muhwezi to escort him to places where they had piled up dead
bodies of civilians whom NRA themselves had killed. The same killers blamed Obote s
soldiers for their crimes. When Mark saw those bodies, he became suspicious and asked:
Why would Obote s army collect dead bodies and not bury them knowing this could
implicate them for killing innocent people? He also asked them how they knew that dead
bodies are collected in that place since there was nobody in that area other than the NRA
soldiers. He insisted that he wanted to interview civilians in the area so as to get their
views about these killings. Museveni s officers did not like Mark s approach because he
had become suspicious that Obote s army may not have killed those civilians, but NRA
did the killing for the purpose of tarnishing Obote s image with the population and the
international community. Hence, they ordered that Mark Shumidt be sent back
immediately. While on his way back, they killed him and confiscated his camera and
notes.
In 1984, the NRA got a British reporter, William Pike, who is suspected of having more
connections than a telephone line and was also broke and had all the tendencies of a
mercenary journalist to NRM. NRM cut a deal with Mr. Pike to run their propaganda in
the world media. He was willing to do anything for money. He successfully used his
journalistic skill to fabricate favorable reports for the NRA, galvanizing tremendous
sympathy for Museveni and his men. Upon NRM/NRA victory, William Pike was
awarded the position of Managing Editor of NRM government newspaper, The New
Vision. That paper became the mouthpiece of NRM/NRA regime in a manner to what
PRAVDA was to the Soviet Union and Mr. Pike s fortune skyrocketed.
We see a parallel in later years when RPF invaded Rwanda, killing people by the
hundreds in the northern part of the country. Alison DeForge, Catherine Watson, Colette
Brackman and Roger Winters were the most notorious propagandists for RPF, fabricating
favorable stories and covering up RPF s crime. Alison DeForge in particular crisscrossed
the English speaking world spreading RPF s mendacious flatteries.
During the bush fighting to overthrow Obote, Tutsis including Museveni, used to
brainstorm their plan of taking control of Uganda first using it as a staging ground to take
over Rwanda and other neighboring countries. They used to claim that only Tutsis were
destined to rule and despised Hutus and other Bantu tribesmen as inferior objects whose
role in society was but to follow orders. This same sentiment was to be echoed later at
RPF training of their intelligent operatives in the Catholic Bishop s house in Kabale,
Kigezi some years later. Soon after Museveni took over power in 1986, he imposed on the people of Uganda the
nonsectarian law which forbids calling any person by his tribal affiliation. It was later
discovered that such law was intended to forbid Ugandans from complaining about the
excessive number of Tutsis in high positions of government. Fred Rwigyema was
Minister of Defense and the entire Command and control of that ministry was in the
hands of a Tutsi/Hima clique. Uganda Commercial Bank under a Hima Frank Mwine was
totally bankrupted; so were all the parastatal corporations. The funds which were
channeled through fictitious personal loans may have ended up in financing RPF
operations. The Uganda Treasury accumulated foreign loans supposedly for development
projects which are non-existent in Uganda.
Perez Kamwinanwire became Ambassador to the U.N. and later to Germany. Ezra
Surumana alias Suruma was Deputy Governor of the Bank of Uganda. Emmanuel
Ndungutse headed the Uganda Investment Authority an agency he mismanaged and
robbed thoroughly. With millions from the UIA, he went to Rwanda after the RPF
conquest and invested in a number of business ventures in addition to serving RPF
regime.
It is important to recall that the bulk (80% to 90%) of the fighting force which toppled
Obote s regime were Baganda. By the time of capturing Kampala and taking over the
reign of power, most Baganda fighters of officer material had been killed in mysterious
circumstances. Hence, the control of the NRA was in the hands of Museveni s Tutsi men.
He further purged the skewed number of Baganda in the military by dismissing hundreds
of them in order to create room for other tribesmen. While that move gave him temporary
political credit, the actual results were different. Instead, he recruited thousands of your
people from Ankole and Kigezi areas to the total exclusion of the entire northern region
plus other areas of the country.

MASS KILLINGS IN RWANDA
In an ethnic conflict such as is the case in Rwanda, truth is the first victim especially,
regarding the accused. We do not have to wait hundreds of years like Oedipus Rex to be
told the bitter truth.
Thousands of innocent people were killed in Rwanda since October 1, 1990 when RPF
invaded that country from Uganda. Between October 1, 1990 and April 1994, over
140,000 people were systematically killed by RPF/NRA in northern Rwanda, and over a
million people were displaced rendering them to excruciating suffering without help from
anywhere. That baleful killing of the innocent has continued up to today and also
extended into Congo when RPF/NRA assisted by US Commandos, invaded Zaire
slaughtering thousands of refugees in camps. The cabal went to great length to cover up
their crimes as has been demonstrated over the years. Their lies have fooled the entire
world community up to this very day, including the UNO. Nobles, intellectuals and
commoners alike have come to believe the fabrications generated purposely to give
legitimacy to a criminal gang dressed in the banality of evil so as to give them legitimacy,sympathy and acceptability, while covering up their heinous crimes against humanity
which superseded those of Pol Pot of Cambodia and Salvadore Ayende of Chile.
The evidence, based on revelations from NRA military and intelligence officers plus
interviews of peasant refugees which our organization has collected point to Tutsis. The
RPF, together with NRA and the United State are implicated very clearly as the
greatest criminals of the Rwanda genocide.
Because of the lies and cover-ups which have been thoroughly concocted and
orchestrated ever since the invasion started on October 1, 1990, the victims have been
made to look like the criminals. This criminal cabal has utilized tactics common to
typical compulsive liars. The former UN Secretary General, Butros Butros Ghali, has
often lamented over the fact that on many occasion he wanted to convene the Security
Council to look into the Rwanda Crisis as it was unfolding in order to protect the lives of
innocent civilians. Each time his efforts were thwarted by the USA and UK for reasons
only known to their leaders. The USA went as far as training, arming, financing, and
manipulating the international media in order to make the cabal s criminal agenda prevail
and succeed.
One does not have to graduate from a Military Academy to know that in war, the victor
wins if it kills more of the enemy. If RPF and NRA defeated the Rwandese army, it goes
without saying who killed more of whom. Regarding the theory of winning a war,
General Patton said that, Let the other son of a bitch die for his country ? How can
then any person be fooled to believe that the defeated Hutus killed that many Tutsis and
stilllost the war? The campaign to demonize all Hutus as genociders an accusation
which was never applied to Germans after WW II has been effectively applied to Hutus
and has demonized the entire ethnic group, including those who lived abroad during those
years. This kind of blanket accusation which is intended to protect the true criminals in
this horrendous crime of invasion and mass murders and ethnic cleansing, which Tutsis
are committing in Rwanda up to now, paints a an unbelievable picture of Hutus as being
sophisticated in the art of war and so highly organized that they had the capability of
amassing their enemies and slaughtering them in a matter of days. Not even a fool could
believe that. It is sad to admit that that Hitler and Goebbels ingenuity in twisting facts and
truth have made believers among today s world s greatest democracies.
Secondly, we look at the population of Rwanda which was about 7 million people at that
time. Tutsis were about 10% about 700,000 people. Is the cabal s propaganda machine
trying to convince us that all Tutsis in Rwanda were mobilized to be in accessible
locations so that murderous thugs could butcher them in a matter of days? Depicting
Hutus as a collection of murderous thugs, when in fact they are the victims, and yet the
German population was not so depicted after WWII is not only a skillful cover up of the
truth but also an abomination of human reasoning. The Tutsis were always a minority in
Rwanda. During the Hutu rule of Kayibanda and Habyarimana, there were many Tutsi
attempts to invade and take power by force. There was no single time when Hutus
ordered their army of civilians to butcher Tutsis. Yet in neighboring Burundi where Tutsi
minority control the country, since 1960, there have been numerous pogroms of Hutus by ruling Tutsis which have claimed thousands of innocent Hutus. The UN has done nothing
to bring the killers in Burundi to justice. Why?
Now that we know what NRA did in Uganda during the war that ousted Obote s regime
and brought Museveni to power. The same tricks were repeated in Rwanda when the
same group NRA/RPF invaded Rwanda and overthrew Habyarimana s government and
established a Tutsi dominated junta. Former NRA intelligence officers reveal that in
January of 1994, NRA deployed 950 soldiers from Uganda to Kigali in civilian clothes to
take up positions in preparation for the planned mass killings that were to take place soon
after the Rwandese President was killed by NRA/RPF in collaboration with Belgian
troops, both of which had full control of the airport. They later sent another force of 5000
soldiers in other localities in the country to carry out the same job on a simultaneous
basis. We have also learned that machetes, pangas, axes plus mobile radio transmitting
units were brought in from Uganda to be used in the mass murders of civilians who
happened to be Hutus, not Tutsis as the cabal wants us to believe. Those tools were
returned to Uganda as soon as the job was finished. Could this have been a nasty way of
paying back the Hutus for their 1959/60 overthrow of the Tutsi monarchy when no guns
were used?
The same tactic has been effectively applied in northern Uganda where for nearly 20
years, NRA original goal of wiping out the Nilotic tribes are conducted with impunity. It
is inconceivable that the Lords Resistance Army or Lakwena, who do not exceed two
thousands, can prevail over NRA for all these years when operating inside Uganda which
is under Museveni s full controls. NRA successfully invaded Rwanda and Zaire and also
gave the Sudanese army a hard time but cannot clean up an area as narrow as Acholi?
According to local people in northern Uganda s and also people inside NRA, There are
reports which have been suppressed by the western media to the effect that the so called
crimes of mutilating people in Acholi, abducting children etc.. are all the works of NRA
in order to justify their ethnic cleansing in northern Uganda.
The Tutsi controlled radio MUHABURA was spreading ethnic hatred of Hutus and
never received criticism from either the USA or the UK. The Voice of America also set
up a special Kinyarwanda Broadcast reporting the Tutsi side of the Rwanda crisis. The
game of demonizing Hutus as mass killers was orchestrated at maximum speed by the
western media, utilizing reporters and human rights watchers who were censored by USA
or UK and had to go through Uganda to reach Rwanda. Roger Winters of the U.S.
Committee for Refugees, plus another hired gun, William Pike, played a key role that
made those two white men look like twin sons of Joseph Goebbels. We learned later that
RPF/NRA had portable radio transmitters which broadcast their messages over the same
channels of Hutu radio and spread murderous messages as part of the wider scheme to
demonize Hutus. For outside listeners, all that sounded as the work of a highly organized
Hutu killing machine. Yet indeed, the Hutus as a people were in total disarray and
confusion at that moment in time. This assertion does not deny a fact that Hutus killed
Tutsis. However, the organized killing of thousands of innocent civilians was the work of
Kagame and Museveni. The greatest majority of the victims were Hutus but not Tutsis as
the cabal propagandists want us to believe. The USA had already supplied RPF with radio jamming technology to block Hutu broadcasts to the masses. This was confirmed
by a State Department person at a meeting of The Rwanda Forum that I attended in
Washington DC in 1993.
If in fact the death toll was anywhere between 500,000 and a 1,000,000 people, and most
of that killing took place in and around the city of Kigali, it absolutely impossible to have
had that many Tutsis in the area. I personally visited Kigali and Ruhengyeri twice in
March and August of 1993. I drove thorough the markets, hospitals, public car parks and
around town. I could hardly count ten (10) Tutsis among those crowds much as Tutsis
are very conspicuous when among Hutus. The Hutus who reacted and indeed did kill
some Tutsis could have responded to the misleading radio massages given out by the RPF
killing machine which I have outlined above. Others may have reacted in anger in a
manner no different from that of Black Americans after the killing of Dr. Martin Luther
King Jr. in 1968 or the barbaric treatment of Mr. Rodney King on April 29, 1992 in Los
Angeles. We cannot blame the US government for both of those riots since they were
natural reaction to a provocative tragedy. Besides, what would anyone expect people to
react like when they are slaughtered by invaders and their government leaders have been
killed by the enemy who is clearly known?
As soon as RPF came into power, they exhumed the skeletons of their victims from
where they had hidden them. They collected the skeletons and paraded them all over
Kigali and on roadsides throughout Rwanda to impress outside investigators so as to
justify their criminal invasion of a Free State and murdering her citizens.
Foreign journalists, human rights investigators and foreign policy makers who went to
Rwanda during the fighting and after RPF took over, had to go through Uganda from
where they were escorted by NRA or RPF agents. They were managed thoroughly as to
which places they can visit, whom to interview etc. In some of those interviews that were
broadcast abroad, the local people who were interviewed could speak English with a
Ugandan accent while others could be overheard speaking broken Swahili. We already
know that Tutsis from Uganda, Congo, USA, Tanzania, Belgium and elsewhere flocked
back to Rwanda after RPF conquered the Hutu army. They took over homes, farms and
other properties that belonged to Hutus who were either killed or fled into exile. There
are cases where Hutu families who returned home to find their family home occupied by
Tutsis were permitted to build grass shanty nearby instead of reclaiming their original
nice houses which they had built with their own labor. Their only role in life is to be
slaves of the Tutsis.
No one has ever questioned what could have motivated an entire population to run off
from their land into exile, as was the case in Rwanda during those dark days. The cabal s
propaganda has blindfolded to believe what is unbelievable. Only fire at each one s rare
end can force a people to flee for their lives in such huge numbers. I find it very difficult
to believe that all those skulls are what they claim to be. After all, no one can tell the
difference between the skull of a Tutsi and that of a Hutu or a Chinese or German for that
matter. This trick of fabricating facts to favor NRA in Uganda was done to the maximum
and served Museveni very well to convince the world that the Luwero Triangle skeletons he paraded were victims of Obote s soldiers while in actual fact it was NRA who killed
the citizens of that area and put the blame on Obote s government. The same people who
did that in Luwero repeated it in Rwanda and, unfortunately, it worked for them both
times.
The cabal fabricated and carried out a well managed media campaign to demonize Hutu
people as murderers while covering up the crimes of the real murderers. The crimes of
NRA and RPF, first of invading another country have been swept under the rug for all
these years. Yet, when Iraq invaded Kuwait a few years ago, the USA and Britain
mobilized other nations to drive the invaders out of Kuwait. RPF/NRA crimes of
murdering thousands of innocent civilians and displacing nearly a million people from
the day of invasion in 1990 to April of 1994 have been ignored tactfully.
Contrary to public lies which have been spread all over the world that Hutus massacred
nearly a million Tutsis right after the RPF killed President Habyarimana we have
information from people who were inside Museveni s military/security system bringing
new revelations that the so called genocide was planned by the Museveni/Kagame group
to justify their attack on Kigali and win sympathy for their monolithic Tutsi regime, and
also enable them to mobilize foreign aid without anyone questioning their barbaric
brutality and gross human rights violations.
Kagame and Museveni knew and planned the mass killings of innocent people who were
to be predominantly Hutus, right after the President s plane was shot down by RPF.
Kagame is quoted as saying that about 500,000 people will be slaughtered during that
period of confusion. Hose people who did not know that Kagame was behind the planned
genocide have accused him of being callous because he did not take steps to protect those
many innocent lives, but rather was merely interested in taking power. We can now
understand why he was not concerned about the loss of innocent lives if, in fact, he was
responsible for their death. Second, the people who got killed were predominantly Hutu
civilians as he had done in Northern Rwanda since October of 1990 and especially in
Byumba and Ruhengeri in February of 1993. However, this time around Kagame had
already set in motion media propaganda to claim that the people hacked to death were
Tutsis and their killers were Hutu thugs.
In March of 1994 a team of Tutsi/Hima soldiers from NRA were sent into Rwanda in
civilian clothing. They went into Kigali proper. Their mission was to carry out mass
killings of civilians in Kigali and the surrounding areas. Another group of 5000 soldiers,
all in civilian clothes, were subsequently sent into other populated areas of Rwanda to
carry out the same mission of mass killings soon after President Habyarimana has been
killed. Kagame armed all those men with machetes and pangas delivered to them directly
from Uganda, their supply headquarters. In addition to those tools, they had portable
radios and broadcasting units which transposed their messages onto the regular radio
channels of Rwanda. The message was for Hutus to kill Tutsis who had killed the
president. To any outsider monitoring those radio broadcasts, the killers were obviously
assumed to be Hutus while in actual fact it was Tutsis and Himas from Uganda who were
carrying out the killings so as to tarnish the image of Hutus in the world community. Soon after the killings had been done, all the equipments (radios, pangas and machetes)
were returned to Uganda, lest they be noticed by investigators for they were all brand
new and had markings identifying them as coming from Uganda.
For any person to claim that between 800,000 and 1,000,000 Tutsis were slaughtered
begs the question. Most of that killing was in the city of Kigali. What was the population
of Kigali and how many of those were Tutsis. Interviews with refugees tell stories of
many Hutus who lost their family members, and those were not necessarily opposition
party members.
Another area of concern for any person who wants to obtain the hidden truth would be to
ask RPF leaders what may have caused a whole population of people to run away as the
Rwandese did into exile. There must have been a thorough and well organized attack on
the entire population to cause them gets into flight. The only force which could possibly
do that was RPF invaders. In September of 1992, I received information from sources in
the Uganda military stating that Tutsis were planning to bulldoze Hututs off the land and
replace them with Tutsis. I shared that information with some people, but they responded
with laughter and scorn saying that it was impossible to bulldoze an entire population
from their land, especially since the targeted population was the majority. The RPF
crimes against the population have tactfully been swept under the rug for all these years.
In January of 1990 a team of 150 mostly Tutsi men from the NRA and ISO were sent to
Rwanda to survey (in military terms WRECK the situation prior to the proposed
invasion which took place on October 1 of the same year.
The RPF is committing atrocities of genocide in Rwanda from the day they invaded that
country October 1, 1990 up to the present which have been ignored by the biased western
media for reasons only known to themselves. The U.S. government, Britain and Belgium
are equally as guilty in the crimes of genocide in Rwanda. The participation of USA in
the RPF crimes deserve its leaders to be tried before a Court of Justice if there is any in
this world.

SKULLS OF HUTUS KILLED BY RPF:
The RPF massacre of innocent people in northern Rwanda in February of 1993 claimed
over 25,000 civilian lives and displaced more than 100,000 people from their home area.
At one location near Byumba, in a football stadium built by Mr. Kabuga, RPF massacred
about 2000 people, cutting off their heads which they then buried in pits. After the
conquest of Rwanda, the RPF junta dug out all the sculls of their own victims and
paraded them in Kigali and everywhere as skulls of Tutsis who were killed by Hutus.
Such calculated and blatant lies horrified the local people who witnessed those crimes
being committed and also witnessed the actual unearthing of the skulls and skeletons for
display in Kigali and on roadsides for the world to further condemn the Hutus en masse.

CORPSES IN THE RIVER KAGERA AND LAKE VICTORIA:
RPF has become a master of deception and lies which have gone on unabated for years.
One should look at the way RPF entered Rwanda in two columns. One column followed
eastern route along the Rwanda Tanzania border. That area was already under RPF
control. It is through that swampy area that River Kagera passes and has a bridge that
crosses into Tanzania. During that time many Hutu civilians fled their homes and country
as RPF invaders were on a wild rampage of killing any person in sight. Those who
attempted to enter Tanzania via the only crossing there is met RPF invaders waiting for
them at the bridge. Thousands of Hutus were thrown into the raging river by RPF men.
Others drowned in the attempt to cross the river away from the bridge where certain
death awaited them. It is important to emphasize that all those corpses which floated into
the river and eventually reached Lake Victoria were of Hutus and their killers were RPF.
The Tutsi propaganda twisted the facts claiming those floating corpses as being of Tutsis
killed by Hutu extremists. The world community and you here in this Tribunal have
swallowed those fabrications up to this very day.
How could intelligent people in the UN and western governments be so myopic and not
ask a simple question: if Hutu rioters in Kigali were killing any people I am not
denying the killings which took place mainly in Kigali did they have any reason or
means to transport their victims as far away as to dump those bodies in the river where
there were columns of invading RPF on the move towards the capital?
Now we know who was killing and who were being killed. It is obvious that the people
who were being killed were the ones on the run for their lives. That is why the world
witnessed in horror a tremendous exodus of Hutus fleeing to Congo, Burundi and
Tanzania but not to Uganda where the killers were coming from.

THE U.S. ROLE IN RPF/NRA CRIMES IN RWANDA AND
CONGO
If this Tribunal and/or any other Court of Law is seriously committed to seeking the truth
and justice, the crimes committed in Rwanda starting on October 1, 1990, and indeed in
the region must be fully and thoroughly investigated and their perpetrators brought to
justice. The U.N. and O.A.U. Charters both declare it illegal for one country to invade
another, except under specific circumstances. None of those specific circumstances ever
existed as far as Uganda-Rwanda relations were concerned. There were no Tutsi refugee
camps in Uganda, as defined by the UNHCR, since all Tutsi former refugees had been
settled and intermingled in the Ugandan society. Some Tutsis were already holding high
government positions in their newly adopted country. Therefore, President Museveni
bears full responsibility for allowing his army to invade a sovereign nation without
provocation. When Iraq invaded Kuwait, the world community rightfully amassed troops
to repel the invaders. Unfortunately, that was not the case for Rwanda. Instead, the cocalled
defenders of peace and democracy (USA and UK) were sending more than a
bravo message to the invaders of Rwanda.
There was no time when United States and Britain ever condemned Uganda for invading
Rwanda or Congo/Zaire. Instead, each subsequent year, the United State in particular increased her military training of the so called Ugandan officers, who ended up beefing
up the troops that were involved in the invasion. The invaders continued to milk Uganda
of her meager resources, equipment, funds and manpower for the duration of the
invasion. World Bank and IMF loans to Uganda skyrocketed purportedly for
development projects which never existed. All that money went into financing the
invasion of Rwanda. War is expensive in every aspect and not many countries, specially
in Africa, can afford such costly undertaking.
It is now coming to light that the then UN Secretary General tried on many occasions to
convene the Security Council on Rwanda during the invasion, but was repeatedly blocked
by the United States and British Ambassadors to the UN.
The United States played a significant role in the Rwanda tragedy and therefore should
not and cannot be overlooked if justice is to be sought in all earnest. The triad of
murderers is none other than: RPF leaders and Museveni s government and the USA.
The American plan to control Africa s resources is well documented. When Africa was
getting out from under European colonialism, America was plotting how to take over.
Various strategy planning meetings took place in Washington DC. At a meeting of the
U.S. National Security Council of January 14, 1960, it was discussed, ..since we must
have strong men of Africa on our side, perhaps we should develop military strong men. A
special Africa Fund for Technical Assistance was set up to finance those who were
anxious to establish control of Africa through military dictatorships.. 2
A new program was introduced in the 1970s solely for training African military officers
in America called IMET (International Military Educational Training). This training was
designed to be similar to the infamous School of the Americas. The main purpose was to
groom African military dictators similar to what the School of the Americas achieved in
Latin America.
At the core of this is as Zbigniew Braezinski noted in a secret memo to the President on
March 17, 1978, The mineral resources of the area continue to be of great value to the
normal functioning of industries in the United States and allied countries. He goes on to
express serious concerns over the growth of African nationalism and its potential effect
on American interests, particularly the country of Zaire, to which he cautioned that the
administration would have to take specific steps to stabilize the situation .
Specific steps take on different forms of operation since the Washington planners already
outlined the strategies when they agreed that, Sensitive operations would be disguised
as multilateral programs or even private activities, and eventually the most
objectionable of these actions would come to be conducted in such a secretive way as to
conceal the fact that they even existed at all. The insatiable greed of U.S. corporations to control and loot Africa s enormous natural
resources is very much at the core of this tragedy as the unfolding events have
subsequently proved. Prior to the fall of President Mobutu, American corporations were
already inside rebel-controlled eastern Zaire devouring large tracts of mineral-rich areas.
Neither the survival nor the welfare of the African people were or are ever considered.
US Training RPF of Officers. It has been expounded time and time again that
United States was involved in training RPF invaders long before 1990. A colleague and I
went to the Pentagon and met with Major Tony Marley who was in charge of the IMET
training for RPF/NRA. We informed him of what was taking place in Rwanda and he
promised to relate the matter to the appropriate officials. We learned later that the
training increased in size since our visit and more money was allocated to Uganda,
presumably to finance the invasion.
Lies and Cover-ups. In early March of 1994 a team from the U.S. Administration
went to Uganda and met with Museveni and RPF leaders. According to intelligence
sources, their mission was to tell Museveni to convince President Mwinyi of Tanzania to
convene a conference of Heads of States from the region to discuss the Rwanda crisis.
That resulted into the fateful Summit conference which President Habyarimana attended
and met his death upon his return to Rwanda. That team comprised of Ms. Prudence
Bushnell, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Africa; Ms. Arlene Render, Director of
Central African Affairs Bureau at State Department; Ms. Patricia Irvin, Assistant
Secretary of Defense for Humanitarian Affairs. They also visited Rwanda, Burundi and
Zaire.
The meeting of regional leaders took place in Dar es Salaam as planned and President
Habyarimana attended as expected. His plane was shot down RPF in collaboration with
Belgian troops as it was about to land at Kigali Airport returning from that meeting. We
learned later that General I. Kombe, head of Tanzanian Intelligence who was privy to the
fateful events surrounding the shooting of the airplane carrying Rwandan and Burundian
Presidents told his subordinate officers that these orders came from high up and we have
only on thing to do and that is of carrying out the technical work. One of the junior
officers expressed a feeling that this could ignite a fire in the region which we cannot
extinguish. President Moi and Mobutu were invited but declined to attend after
receiving tip of a pending danger. Nevertheless, US war ships with hundreds of Marines
were already on standby near Matadi, Zaire and near Mombasa, Kenya, just in case there
could have been a fire the local puppets could not extinguish.4
In June of 1994, a reporter asked Ms. Bushnell if the State Department knew about the
RPF invaders, where they were trained, who financed and armed them? Her answer was,
we do not have that information. The same person who had met with RPF leaders and
Prsident Museveni only 3 months earlier was denying knowledge of RPF. AS a high
ranking official in the State Depart Africa Bureau, Ms. Bushnell was privy to the
information that her government was heavily involved in the training of RPF and was arming them from their stockpiles in Europe. U.S. military C130 transport planes used to
make daily landings at Entebbe Airport every night.
After RPF took power in Kigali, a U.S. Commando force of bout 800 men were secretly
stationed in Rwanda, where they have jointly participated with RP soldiers I military and
criminal activities. According to one U.S. soldier from Texas who was stationed in
Rwanda, we are not supposed to let our families know that we were sent to Rwanda .
Another soldier who served there and now lives in Connecticut said, human rights and
democracy are none of our concerns. We are concerned with making sure that Kagame s
regime is well planted and can survive.
A former U.S. A.I.D. official, Mr. Harald Marwitz writes as early as 1989, U.S.
Embassy reported to the State Department from reliable sources in Rwanda such as
foreign military observers, confirming Ugandan involvement in incipient border
skirmishes and the subsequent invasion of Rwanda. He further reveals that, between
1989 and 1992, the U.S. alone provided almost $183 million in economic aid enabling
Uganda to finance the invasion. This sum was as much as all the U.S. aid to Uganda in
the previous 27 years.
Asst. Secretary of State for Africa, George Moose, informed the Africa Subcommittee of
the U.S. House of Representatives on May 4, 1994 that, in conformity with our policy of
promoting democratization, we shall never recognize a government which takes power by
force. A few weeks later, the same Mr. Moose was in Kigali raising the U.S. flag onto a
building that was to house the U.S. Embassy in Rwanda. Ms. Bushnell was promoted to
Ambassadorship to Kenya.
The old Entebbe Airport became an American military base. Locals who lived in nearby
homes were driven out and replaced by either U.S. military personnel or NRA officers.
Was this intended to cover up the trafficking of weapons which USA military was giving
to Museveni and RPF which were used in the invasion of Rwanda and Congo/Zaire?
The U.S. participation in the RPF invasion of Rwanda reached the highest officers of
government. In a Memo of May 5, 1994 written by Frank G. Wisner titled:
MEMORANDUM FOR DEPUTY ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT FOR
NATIONAL SECURITY AFFAIARS, NSC
Subject: RWANDA, JAMMING CIVILIAN RADIO BROADCASTS.
It explained a discussion that took place between NSC and Secretary of Defense, William
Perry about the feasibility of jamming civilian radios of Hutus.
The Pentagon has been heavily behind RPF as shown in numerous correspondences
between Secretary of Defense, William Perry, to Paul Kagame. On August 7, 1995
Defense Secretary Perry wrote:
I am pleased with the progress you have made and I am especially happy that the U.S.
has been able to play a role in that reconstruction. When we met in August and again
when you visited me last December, I said that I would do what I can to help. You asked me to assist you win support within my government for lifting the arms embargo I have
done so.
I said that I understand and strongly support your request for training to help
professionalize and downsize your country s army. Our training of your soldiers at
Newport and soon in Kigali regarding the role of militaries in civil societies is an
important first step.
I fully agree with Ambassador David Rawson s request for training in such areas as
intelligence, counterinsurgency, leadership development, logistic, management and
administration. I intend to advocate initiating such training as soon as possible. The next
logical step to this training would be a series of combined exercises and I will pursue that
with General Joulwan at the appropriate time.
On November 6, 1995 Mr. Perry sent another letter to Mr. Kagame saying:
Over the past several months, we have worked very hard with our colleagues both in the
Executive Branch and in Congress on the resumption of a formal IMET program this
coming year. I am confident that Rwandese officers and soldiers will enjoy the fruits of
formal training alongside American soldiers at U.S. military schools next year. We have
also arranged for our European Command to offer you a Joint Combined Exercise for
Training (JCET) for next year in Rwanda.
It is important to remember that this military preparation and support preceded Rwanda
and Uganda s invasion of Zaire. When RPF victory was consolidated and US commando
forces were sent to assist the Tutsi junta, some, U.S. leaders were calling for the virtual
extermination of Hutus. Congressman Harry Johnston, D-Fla who was Chairman of the
Africa Subcommittee commented on the Hutu refugees in Congo as follows:
Stop feeding them, move your feeding facilities back within the borders, try to get the
Rwandan and Tanzania armies to insert discipline, a security force that will personally
escort the refugees across the border back to the feeding station.
Many Hutus who were lured back into Rwanda from the Goma as a result of radios
announcements and pamphlets distributed in refugee camps were slaughtered by RPF
soldiers soon after they entered the country. Others who made it to their original homes
found their houses occupied by Tutsis and were forced to be slaves or servants of the new
owners. At Kibeho in southern Rwanda, many returning refugees were slaughtered by
RPF under the command of James Ruzibiza, who later went to Congo with Kabila and
headed Agence Nationale de Renseignement, a killer squad that massacred thousands of
Hutu in refugee camps in Eastern Congo burying them in mass graves.
Such mass killing of civilians continued during the period of invasion while the world
community, and especially Uganda, USA and Britain were amassing more support,
training, arms, funds and favorable propaganda and disinformation campaign for RPF.
The U.S. Committee for Refugees Inc. (a misnomer name) based in Washington DC run by Roger Winters, became a virtual command post for RPF external operations. It
was the center of external operations conducting logistical management, disinformation
propaganda and all sorts of political intelligence activities for RPF with almost unlimited
funds from dubious sources in the USA. Professional liars, such as Ms. Alison DeForge
were constantly paraded by this agency of deception. Another person with excellent
connections was Catherine Watson who wrote beatifying articles for RPF. The RPF
propaganda arsenal included Ms. Monique Mujawamariwa, who was seconded to Roger
Winters by RPF high command. She was launched on speaking tours by Roger Winters
which culminated into an audience in the White House on April 22, 1994 with Mr.
Anthony Lake, National Security Advisor to the President. She used to show a scar in her
face which she got some years back as a result of a car accident. She claimed that is was
caused by a machete attack by Hutu killers, which she survived!
CREMATORIUMS IN RWANDA. In April of 1996, a British investigative journalist
and author of Murders in the Mist , Nick Gordon, revealed that the RPF regime of Paul
Kagame was operating petroleum-fueled crematoriums at several locations in Rwanda.
The victims were Hutu men women and children. This revelation was later confirmed by
a highly placed official in Kigali, when I asked him during his visit to USA late that year.
Unfortunately that person was later killed by RPF because he was a high ranking official
in the Judiciary. They were incinerating over 2000 bodies a day. The U.S. military which
is stationed nearby knew of it but has kept silent. What is even more frightening is the
revelation that the crematorium at Nyungwe forest is run by a garrison who were trained
by U.S. military officers. It is further alleged that the crematorium at Byumba, which is
disguised as a Water Supply and Rehabilitation of Refugees Project was built by
Americans as was the one at Gabiro. In an interview with a former prisoner who escaped
from Kami military prison said that soon after he escaped, he hid in the homes of local
people nearby who told him of a horrible stench which smells like burning flesh was in
the air daily.5
Consequently, the Clinton Administration proposed to set up a so called RAPID
DEPLOYMENT FORCE (RDP), a roving army of foot soldiers from various African
countries which shall be trained, armed and commanded by Americans. This force was
intended to remove undemocratic dictators and those brutes who violet human rights.
Who would decide which dictator to be removed and under which criteria could such
determination be based? Nonetheless, this is similar to what Amin Parsha and Capt.
Lugard had at the time of colonizing Africa.
While the RDF did not receive wide acceptability as was anticipated, the Tutsi Armies of
Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi, which derive their survival from America s support, are
playing the same role as RDF was intended for. They were deployed into Congo to serve
American interests. They were sent to Iraq when most nations of the world felt there was
no justification for war. Recently Rwandan troops were sent to the troubled region of the
Sudan purporting to be peace-keepers. A human rights investigator from Canada
informed me that Rwandese troops posing as peace-keepers in Darfur region raid refugee
camps in the night killing people and put the blame on the Sudanese army.The U.S. sent a Commando Force of about 800 soldiers to assist RPF army to consolidate
and pacify Rwanda. We also learned that U.S. soldiers stationed in Rwanda are not
supposed to inform their families where they are stationed. The ones who have died in
action in Rwanda and Congo are reported as having died accidentally in military
exercises at U.S. bases in Italy or other countries.
The American corporate/military role in the criminal cabal operating in Africa has
performed a marriage of convenience with the Tutsi junto. Each side is vehemently
protecting the other, manipulating the media and international organizations, including
the UN. They distort facts and truth to cover up their criminal actions, and also carry out
joint adventures, as we have mentioned above.
Case in point is the U.S.A. putting a $25 million bounty on the head of Mr. Felicien
Kabuga, using American taxi payers money for no legitimate reason other than serving
Kagame s criminal interests, and possibly American interest, to loot Kabuga s property in
Kigali. Mr Kabuga owns a nice 5 story office building in Kigali which houses the U.S.
Embassy, and the UN offices and other international organizations. It is indicated that
U.S. Embassy wants to own the entire building and has no intention of paying rent to a
Hutu who is disliked by a Tutsi regime which they came to protect at any cost. They
falsely accused Kabuga of financing Hutu resistance and exile political opposition to RPF
regime.
At the same time, the U.S.A. has Mr. Valens Kajeguhakwa in a Florida prison on charges
ofoffinancing a rebel group called RPF with funds from his former commercial activities
and recently from a commercial bank he controlled in Kigali. Interestingly, Mr.
Kajeguhakwa is a rich Tutsi who was a close friend of President J. Habyarimana. Mr.
Kajeguhakwa s business interests included a major import of fuel into Rwanda
competing with BP-FINA. He controlled one of the Commercial Bank which in turn
invested heavily in Kigali real estate. Hence many posh homes in Kigali were financed
by this man s bank, most of which have not been paid for but their original owners.
Those owners are either dead or in exile causing a reversion of the titles to the bank
which held the mortgages. Mr. Kajeguhakwa also used his friendship with President
Habyarimana to feed RPF invaders with valuable information on the Kigali regime. Upon
RPF victory in 1994, many of those Tutsis took those nice homes without paying for
them. The owner tried to claim his lawful dues but to no avail. One of those houses was
taken by Mr. Kagame s mother. That man fled Rwanda because he insisted on
demanding his lawful financial dues from Kigali rulers whom he accuses of embezzling
his properties. In turn the USA has silenced by fraudulently charging him with stealing
money from a commercial bank in Kigali and financing a criminal organization called
RPF .
If indeed the US court in Fla. believes that financing RPF was criminal, then American
officials themselves plus Museveni of Uganda for their extensive support of RPF
criminal organization which includes its financing. Their contribution to the crime includes training, arming, supporting in every away including sending their own soldiers
to assist in carrying out criminal acts jointly with RPF.CONCLUSION
I commend the UN for establishing this Tribunal for the purpose of seeking the truth and
rendering justice in the Rwanda tragedy. In a country like Rwanda which has been torn
apart by ethnic violence, any attempt to find a lasting solution cannot serve its purpose
without revealing the total truth.
In pursuit of this noble mission, it is not only fair to the people of Rwanda but also to the
whole world community and Africa in particular, to admit that the first crime committed
against the country of Rwanda and her people was the RPF invasion which started on
October 1, 1990. The people who carried out that invasion plus Ugandan leaders who
sponsored it and the United States who collaborated substantially in this criminal act
must answer for their actions. The world community and UN in particular should have
responded to this invasion in the same manner and style as it did when Iraq invaded
Kuwait if it is going to live up to its name and mission in the world community.
Otherwise the UN is like what I read in that old book Animal Farm : all comrades are
equal but some are more equal.
Thousands of innocent civilians were slaughtered by RPF invaders, particularly in
Northern Rwanda, between October 1990 and April 1994. The killers cannot and should
not be bypassed from facing justice.
We have seen highly fabricated and orchestrated piles of lies concocted by men and
women in high positions of leadership with a chorus of field operatives whose sole
objective to sodomize truth, protect the criminals and demonize the victims.
The true criminals who should be tried here are the members of the criminal cabal,
namely: Museveni and his NRM government, Kagame and his RPF junta, the United
States Government under President Bill Clinton and his vanguard which includes
William Perry, Mardelene Albright, former Congressman Harry Johnston, Roger
Winters, Alison DeForge who was their Senior Propagandist.

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Mr. Remigius Kintu
P.O. Box 8174
Langley Park, MD 20787
USA
Email: Bikira10@hotmail.com
5 UDC Newslletter, November 1997.
4 WHO ARE BEHIND THE RWANDA CRISIS, UDC News Release, April 12,1994 . 3
2 Elizabeth Liagen, Excessive Force, Power, Politics and Population Control, (Washington DC, 1996) 12-
13
3 Ibid 17
1 UDC Newsletter, Vol. 4, No.3, 1994