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
Africa Round Table
Venue: Global Information Network, 146 W. 29th St Suite 7E6:30 – 9 p.m.RSVP: 212-244-3123 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 212-244-3123 end_of_the_skype_highlighting begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 212-244-3123 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 212-244-3123 end_of_the_skype_highlighting end_of_the_skype_highlighting
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
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
