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Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza
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Chairperson of UDF, the international Rwandese oppostion. She resides in the Netherlands since 1994. She intends to participate in the presidential elections in Rwanda, august 2010
The next presidential elections in Rwanda are about two years away but the opposition in exile is already getting ready for them.
The Unified Democratic Forces (UDF) have already announced their participation and are even optimistic. Mrs Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza heads that organisation and has been presented by Dutch and Belgian media as UDF candidate.
“RPF backers don’t stop praising him while most of Rwandans suffer injustice, daily imprisonment, rape and assassinations… For those who visited Kigali, it looks Rwanda’s economy is booming.
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shiny surface, however, hides a gloomy reality, with Kagame accused of war crimes committed before and during the 1994 genocide, denying political and press freedom in Rwanda subtly recomposing the old power-structure in favor of the Tutsi ethnic group”.
Kagame is also accused of denying political and press freedom in Rwanda. According to the
Economist , “He allows less political space and press freedom at home than Robert Mugabe does in Zimbabwe.”
“There is no press freedom in Rwanda,” Timothy Spence, press and communication manager of the International Press Institute (IPI), told ISN Security Watch.
“Over the past few years, journalists have continuously been arrested and harassed because they are accused of fuelling the genocide ideology.”
“What I can tell about this guy is that Tutsis will rig elections over and over because there aren’t any Hutus with sober minds who would vote for Kagame after he has killed all the Hutu scholars and jailed everyone due to allegations of genocide that he himself started”. “Kagame has rigged and he will rig if we don’t remove him now”. 
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“There are tremendously good things happening in Rwanda, but much more could happen if Kagame and RPF were removed”.
The removal of street kids and jailing them is pathetic. But that’s exactly how far Kagame will go to reach his ends. He will kill, jail, torture and rape the masses in order to get what he wants. Ask our Congolese neighbors. Kagame rigs every election and does not allow any independent politicians to operate in Rwanda.
This also goes for journalists and anyone else who does not agree with him. The amount of death and suffering he has caused far exceeds that of the genocidal government. Just like the genocidal government, the blood he spills will come back to haunt him no matter how systematic and methodical he is in killing the masses, looting, raping and torturing.
© Edoardo Totolo for International Relations and Security Network (ISN)
The Truth can be buried and stomped into the ground where none can see, yet eventually it will, like a seed, break through the surface once again far more potent than ever, and Nothing can stop it. Truth can be suppressed for a “time”, yet It cannot be destroyed. ==> Wolverine
The Truth can be buried and stomped into the ground where none can see, yet eventually it will, like a seed, break through the surface once again far more potent than ever, and Nothing can stop it. Truth can be suppressed for a time, yet It cannot be destroyed => Wolverine
