The Spanish Platform "Stop Impunity in Rwanda" and their delegates Juan Carrero, and Senator Pere Sampol in New York This Week

by Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza

A coalition of organizations in Spain with the platform “Stop Impunity in Rwanda” is sending two of their delegates to New York this week to discuss violence and impunity in the Great Lakes Region (Congo/Rwanda) and the the leaked ROUGH DRAFT: Report of the Mapping Exercise documenting the most serious violations of human rights and international humanitarian law committed within the territory of the Democratic Republic of the Congo between March 1993 and June 2003. The report indicates that Rwanda may have committed genocide in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) in 1996, as well as military crimes against humanity against refugees.

The two delegates include Juan Carrero Saralegui, promoter of International Forum for the Truth and Justice in the Great Lakes Region. He is the soul of the campaign and has been working for years against the impunity in the Great Lakes Region. He was proposed as a candidate for the 2000 Nobel Prize for Peace. He has written books, articles, and he did a hunger strike in Brussels towards the involvement of the EU in the DR Congo to stop the atrocities. The second member of the delegation is the Spanish Senator Pere Sampol i Mas, PSM-EN (GPMX), that supports fully this Campaign and has been very active in demanding official answers to the Spanish government on this issue.

Website: http://www.bastadeimpunidadenruanda.org/

Below are a series of events in which the two delegates will be involved. Please join them and support them if you can.

Thursday September 16

Violence and Impunity in the Great Lakes Region of Africa
6:30pm
Brecht Forum (Library Room)

A coalition of Spanish activists have been working to bring an end to impunity for the crimes of President Kagame of Rwanda, and successfully pushed for a lawsuit against members of Rwandan government in Spain on behalf of Spanish victims who died in Rwanda After the genocide. The lawsuit on their behalf resulted in the indictments of 40 of Rwanda's current top and former military officials including James Kabarebe, and Kayumba Nyamwasa for genocide crimes, and other human rights abuses. Two of these activists will provide information on their campaign and will discuss the recently leaked draft UN report indicating that Rwanda may have committed genocide and crimes against humanity in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)
 Website:  http://www.bastadeimpunidadenruanda.org/

Saturday September 18th

Afrobeat Radio Interview 2:30PM
http://afrobeatradio.net/

Monday September 20th

UN Demonstration demanding the immediate withdrawal of Paul Kagame as Co-Chair of the Promoter Group of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)Ralph Bunch Park10:30AM

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Please join us for this late-breaking opportunity to greet distinguished rights activists Peter Erlinder,  Juan Carrero Sarlegui and Spanish Senator Pere Sampol and for questions and answers on the most recent initiatives toward ending impunity in the Great Lakes Region.
Former National Lawyers Guild president Peter Erlinder; founder of VeritasRwanda Forum Juan Carrero Sarlegui and Spanish Senator Pere Sampol will be looking to meet with U.S. counterparts to discuss the latest developments in the Rwanda/Congo region.

“With the strong conviction that the truth is history’s most powerful force and that its might is independent from the smallness of the messenger, we firmly resolved to investigate and analyze what had really happened in Rwanda and in the Democratic Republic of Congo in the last fourteen years.”

Messrs. Carrero and Sampol successfully pushed for a lawsuit against members of Rwandan government in Spain on behalf of Spanish victims who died in Rwanda after the genocide. The lawsuit on their behalf resulted in the indictments of 40 of Rwanda's current top and former military officials including James Kabarebe and Kayumba Nyamwasa for genocide crimes, and other human rights abuses.
These activists will provide information on their campaign and will discuss the recently leaked draft UN report indicating that Rwanda may have committed genocide and crimes against humanity in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)
Since May 2010 and the arrest of Minnesota-based professor Peter Erlinder in Rwanda, there has been a surge of international attention to Rwanda's "genocide ideology" and the limits placed on freedom of speech.

Juan Carrera of the International Forum for the Truth and Justice in the Great Lakes Region has been working for years against the impunity in the Great Lakes Region, trying to bring Hutus and Tutsis together to rebuild the country. .
Spanish Senator Pere Sampol of PSM-Entesa Nacionalita, fully supports this Campaign and has been very active in demanding official answers from the Spanish government on this issue.
Please join us in welcoming these distinguished guests.

Tuesday September 21st

WBAI Radio Interview10:00 AM
http://wbai.org/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=389

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The Dictator General Paul Kagame should be expelled from Spain immediately.

The Dictator General Paul Kagame should be expelled from Spain immediately.

By Turikumwe

Can someone who killed your sisters and brothers come into your house?
Can you shake the hands of someone who killed your sisters and brothers?
Can you share a meal with someone who killed your sisters and brothers?
Can you sit in the same room with someone who killed your sisters and brothers?

Will Kagame apologise for the killings of Spanish people while for the last 16 years, he has been demanding the apologies from the international community for the Rwandan genocide that Kagame triggered himself.

The UN decision to impose PM Zapatero to co-chair the UN meeting with the Dictator and killer General Kagame is lack of respect of Spanish families whose relatives were killed by Kagame.

Kagame should be expelled immediately from Spain. Then UN should find immediately someone to replace Kagame. No-one can comprehend the rationale behind the choice of Kagame to co-chair this meeting. This choice demonstrates how the UN Secretary General is not a wise man. This demonstrates his lack of experience. He does not know who take decisiosn on his behalf. He is just a follower of the decisions taken by his staff.

Kagame did not complete the secondary school education. Being the President of a tiny country like Rwanda does not give you the knowledge, skills and experience necessary to
to deal with the issues regarding international development.

The so-called economic achievements in Rwanda are based on fake statistics. We all know that in Africa and most other developing countries, having accurate statistics that show the true picture of socio-economic development levels is impossible. Even when few statistics exist, they are exaggerated for political reasons. NGOs and other development agencies (mainly the British ones) exaggerate the statistics to justify the need for more funding to dump in some developing countries. This is really the case in Rwanda.

ZAPATERO WILL SHARE U.N. HONORARY POST WITH THE CRIMINAL KAGAME

ZAPATERO WILL SHARE U.N. HONORARY POST WITH THE CRIMINAL KAGAME

“The biggest criminal on active service” is nominated by the U.N. to serve as example of the struggle against hunger and discrimination

This past June 7, Soraya Rodríguez, secretary of State for International Cooperation, took pleasure in explaining to the Spanish senate that, in recognition of Spain’s commitment to the Millenium Development Goals, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon had just appointed José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero to chair the international group that will ensure the implementation of these goals. In this role, Rodríguez Zapatero will serve as the representative of the developed countries and will share this honorary position with the representative of the developing countries.

In a solemn assembly entitled Declaration of the Millenium and held in New York in September 2000, the 192 member countries of the U.N. had set out to achieve these 8 goals by 2015. The Declaration of the Millenium sought to accomplish goals yearned by millions of people, noble goals such as eradicating poverty and hunger, ensuring primary school education around the globe, reducing infant mortality, establishing gender equality, and achieving environment sustainability.

So far, so good – yet a surprise lies in store. Hidden inside the respectable present our president has received lurks a surprise “little gift”. This time, however, it bears no resemblance to the traditional practise on the feast of Epiphany dating back to the second century whereby the lucky person who found a bean in his ‘King’s cake’ was crowned almighty king for a couple of days. This time, rather, it is a poisoned gift which will turn Zapatero into a pitiful universal symbol of the unthinkable degree of corruption that the U.N. has now reached.This U.N. is being manipulated by a small, dark and extremely powerful international elite which is directly responsible for establishing a global situation which has brought about highly criminal and mass collateral impact. This corrupt U.N. which some parties want to establish as the new and sole Global Government. This gift is no other than the fiend who has been chosen to co-chair the group, as representative of the developing countries: Paul Kagame, president of Rwanda.

Who is this man? Paul Kagame is the man who, according to countless witnesses, snatched power as head of the Rwandan Patriotic Front which had just invaded Rwanda from Uganda, following the assassination of his colleague, moderate general Fred Rwigema in October of 1990. Kagame’s new strategies focused on sowing terror among the large Hutu majority and on instigating an exodus from a large part of the country in order for him to get a hold of power more easily in the capital city of Kigali. Under his command, to cite just an example, hundreds of Hutu peasants were slit open and tied to an object with their own guts in order for relatives and acquaintances to find them in such state. Kagame is the man who ordered the assassination of nine Spanish nationals who had been inconvenient witnesses of his misdeeds. Kagame is the man who ordered the assassination of three bishops and dozens of people with them, and told his subordinates who, taken aback, didn’t know whether they had correctly understood his instructions: “I’ve already told you to get rid of that scum.” Kagame is the man who, amid loud guffaws, fired a powerful machine-gun himself, murdering dozens of Hutu civilians at a market. He is the man, who even recently, in the midst of an impassioned speech, regretted only having murdered some hundred thousand Hutu refugees in Congo and not all of them…A list of similar examples could go on forever. But anybody can find these examples in the February 5 2008 judicial order, issued by Judge Fernando Abreu Merelles, which holds Kagame responsible for the most serious crimes in international law and has issued arrest warrants against 40 of his closest associates. As Filipe Reynjens and many other experts who know him well point out, Kagame is, in short, the world’s “biggest criminal on active service.”

The Millenium Development Goals have thus been undermined to such an extent that they now appear as a mere masquerade, as a philantropic facelift of the immense pillage that a powerful elite of our globalized world, using monsters like Kagame, is carrying out in countries like Congo, countries which this elite moreover claims to be helping out. I can’t think of a metaphor which could more powerfully reveal the pitiful state of things in the world today than this mass criminal’s philantropic chairmanship at the U.N. Mr. Zapatero, is that what you are willing to stand for alongside Kagame? Being the new international public face of a philantropic farce which now sinks its roots in secret societies that date back centuries? The public face of a criminal farce which is today one of the main strategies vying to establish a New World Order in which the U.N. must be the main “charitable” agent?

Who are those people who, having so much power as to be able to dictate a criminal agenda to the U.N., are capable of debasing what is holiest, all the deepest yearnings of humankind? How have we possibly been able to sink to such a level of collective perversion and madness? How have we gone so far as to accept, as paradigm of the Millenium Goals, an individual who is responsible, not only for the great impoverishment of Congo and the mass of Hutu peasants in Rwanda, but also for the devastation of these two countries where millions of Rwandans and Congolese have died? What important stakes do these elites hold in Congo and in all of Central Africa that they can act with such blatant shamelessness and put forward to the world such a fiend as guide? It’s now clear why Ban Ki-moon never responded to Judge Fernando Andreu Meralles who at the beginning of 2009 issued another resolution demanding that he hand in the evidence of the pillage that Kagame had carried out in Congo. It’s also clear why in its report dated November 2009 the U.N. panel of experts accused us, the small organization that initiated such lawsuit, of being the leading financial backer of the huge conflict in Congo. How outrageous is everything in this incredible story!

Mr. Zapatero: this denunciation is not against you, but rather for your sake. It’s the denunciation made by people who are deeply disappointed with your behavior concerning this current major conflict, a conflict in which nine Spanish nationals were murdered following orders from Kagame. It’s the denunciation by people who back then voted for you and even now don’t want to see you stoop so low. Don’t yield once again, Mr. President. Not this time, please. It would be far too humiliating. Be wary of those people who, whether outside or even inside your inner circle, lead you to such embarrassing situations. Don’t insult so many of us Spaniards who understand the meaning of what you are about to do. Now you can’t say you weren’t informed. Or is it, rather, that you are paying off some ‘favor’ to those who call the shots in the world? Mr. Zapatero, don’t be co-chair of the Millenium Goals with Kagame, don’t go down in history as the accomplice of such a fiend and his extremely powerful godfathers in their operations of global pillaging and deceit. They will be brought to light in the short run. Don’t lend them a hand, don’t stain your own hands with innocent blood. This attempt to clean up the image of this thug Kagame and of his criminal pillage of Congo is so blatant and preposterous that it will most certainly backfire.

Joan Carrero, president, Fundació S´Olivar

Bernat Vicens, president, Drets Humans de Mallorca

General Nyamwasa Is Wanted in Three Countries

General Wanted in Three Countries
Jul, 09, 2010 03:33 AM - AllAfrica.com

Johannesburg, Jul 09, 2010 (Business Day/All Africa Global Media via COMTEX) -- FRANCE, Rwanda and Spain had lodged extradition applications with SA for Rwandan Lt-Gen Kayumba Nyamwasa, justice and constitutional development spokesman Tlali Tlali yesterday confirmed.

SA had previously refused to confirm the identities of the countries that applied for an extradition order for the Rwandan general. SA does not have an extradition treaty with the Rwandan government.

"The matter is currently under consideration and there is no decision as yet," Mr Tlali Tlali said.

It is unclear on what grounds the Rwandan government wants the general to be extradited.

Lt-Gen Nyamwasa formed part of the inner circle of Rwandan president Paul Kagame before the fallout that led him to flee that country earlier this year.

SA has since granted the general asylum - to the fury of human rights groups.

Calls to the Rwandan embassy went unanswered yesterday.

It is generally understood that Spain and France want to try the general for his alleged role as one of the key perpetrators of the 1994 Rwandan genocide.

The French and Spanish embassies yesterday refused to confirm or deny the motivation for the extradition requests.

The South African Police Service (SAPS) said Lt-Gen Nyamwasa had been discharged from hospital after being shot by alleged foreign intelligence operatives.

SAPS spokesman Brig Govindsamy Mariemuthoo refused to divulge details of his whereabouts. He said the police were still investigating the circumstances that led to the assassination attempt.

"The suspects will be appearing in court in two weeks' time (on July 27)," he said.

Earlier this week, SA's envoy to Rwanda, Dumisani Gwadiso, was summoned by the Rwandan foreign ministry to convey a message to the South African government, but i nternational relations and c o-operation director-general Ayanda Ntsaluba yesterday refused to give details.

Dr Ntsaluba said the government was preparing a response to the concerns raised by Rwanda.

He reiterated SA's position that strong action would be taken against foreign intelligence operatives who were conducting surveillance without the government's permission.

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Spanish President Zapatero Warned Against Working with Criminal Kagame

Spanish President Zapatero Warned Against Working with Criminal Kagame

by David O'Brian

Madrid, Spain.

by AfroAmerica Network

http://www.afroamerica.net/AfricaGL

Spanish Citizens have asked their President, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, to decline his appointment by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon to serve as Co-Chair of the UN Millennium Development Goals Initiative along with the Rwandan Dictator, General Paul Kagame. The key initiators of the petition against the appointment, Joan Carrero, president, Fundació S´Olivar and Bernat Vicens, president, Drets Humans de Mallorca, argue that the UN is a corrupt institution and that President Zapatero risks to go down in history as the President of Spain who shook the bloody hands and sat the same table with one of the worst criminal in human history.

The authors of the petition to the Spanish President write: “Mr. Zapatero: this denunciation is not against you, but rather for your sake. It’s the denunciation made by people who are deeply disappointed with your behavior concerning this current major conflict, a conflict in which nine Spanish nationals were murdered following orders from Kagame. It’s the denunciation by people who back then voted for you and even now don’t want to see you stoop so low. Don’t yield once again, Mr. President. Not this time, please. It would be far too humiliating. Be wary of those people who, whether outside or even inside your inner circle, lead you to such embarrassing situations. Don’t insult so many of us Spaniards who understand the meaning of what you are about to do. Now you can’t say you weren’t informed. Or is it, rather, that you are paying off some ‘favor’ to those who call the shots in the world?

Mr. Zapatero, don’t be co-chair of the Millenium Goals with Kagame, don’t go down in history as the accomplice of such a fiend and his extremely powerful godfathers in their operations of global pillaging and deceit. They will be brought to light in the short run. Don’t lend them a hand, don’t stain your own hands with innocent blood. This attempt to clean up the image of this thug Kagame and of his criminal pillage of Congo is so blatant and preposterous that it will most certainly backfire.”