The U.S. has a moral and legal responsibility to change course and support the brave and resilient movement for democracy in Rwanda.
The US and EU political systems must immediately cut off all funding for Kagame (secret) police, military and militia, who continue to abuse their power without consequence. And US court system must allow Individuals, US citizens who claim to proceed in situations where justice is not possible in the country where the abuse takes place.
We hope the Kagame case will help bring justice where it has been denied. Instead:
GOMA – A rebel faction spokesman says his armed group has regained control of all of the M23 rebel territory in eastern Congo, and the leader of the other faction “has been arrested” in Rwanda.
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| Jean-Marie Runiga Arrested in Rwanda |
KINSHASA (Reuters) – Congolese rebels loyal to warlord Bosco Ntaganda have fled into neighboring Rwanda or surrendered toUnited Nations peacekeepers after being routed by a rival faction, rebel and U.N. sources said on Saturday.
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| General Nkunda Also arrested or fled to an unknown destination? |
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| Gisenyi/Rwanda: A kind of mis-en-scène: JM Runiga’s rebels or RDF soldiers?? Check it out ! |
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| General Nkunda Also arrested in Rwanda |
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| General Mutebusi Also arrested in Rwanda ! |
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| Bizima ou Bizimana? Why are U lying? Karaha or Karahamuheto?? |
(Reporting by Jonny Hogg; Editing by Daniel Flynn and Andrew Heavens)
Lusaka peace accord signed
The leader of the Rassemblement congolais pour la democratie (RCD-Goma), Azarias Ruberwa, who has been one of the four vice-presidents, left the capital, Kinshasa, last week for Goma, his stronghold in the east, and then this week announced that he was suspending his participation in the country’s one-year old transitional government of national unity. But party members are divided over the decision and Ruberwa, himself, seems deeply ambivalent about the action he has taken.
“The situation at the moment is tense and fragile,” Jacqueline Chernard, a UN information officer in Goma, said. “This is a difficult period and indeed some hard-line elements might seize the opportunity to continue rebelling,” she told IRIN.
The current crisis was precipitated by a massacre on 13 August of 160 Congolese Tutsis, known as Banyamulenge, who in June had fled across the border into neighbouring Burundi. Ruberwa, who is also a Banyamulenge, described the massacre as “a genocide” and said the transitional process needed to be paused and re-assessed.
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| Ruberwa or Ruberwankiko? Why are U lying?? |
Ruberwa said he suspended his participation in the transitional government because the peace accord that brought it about may need to be redesigned. However, according to Information Minister Henri Moya Sakanyi, President Joseph Kabila has said renegotiating the agreement was “out of the question”. Moya Sakanyi said the signatories of the accord had met earlier this year and agreed that the accord should stand.
Senior MPs in RCD-Goma based in Kinshasa and the majority of RCD-Goma members are also opposed to withdrawing from the transitional government. “We feel that pulling out of the institutions of the republic at this time is not going to resolve any of the contradictions we are denouncing,” Emile Ilunga, a former chairman of the RCD who is the deputy speaker of parliament, said.
“We should rather go to the elections,” Ilunga said of the nation’s first ever-democratic elections scheduled for 2005. “It’s from the inside that we can influence the course of events rather than being on the outside.”
But the massacre in Burundi has hardened the position of hard-liner Banyamulenge within the RCD-Goma who have long opposed the transitional government and who now accuse the Kinshasa government of supporting the massacre.
| General Kagame Monsters don’t sleep under your bed They sleep inside your head |
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| I hate liars, hypocrits, backstabbers..Huum From Kigali. They keep their eyes open to assure themselves that you believe their tale. |
In an interview with IRIN following the recent massacre, Nkunda vowed to invade Bukavu again. “If the peaceful means of solving the problem have failed we shall resort to forceful measures,” he said. “Unless our demands are met of protecting our people, then we will certainly pick up our guns and fight on.”
Now, according to a number of officials in Goma, a coalition is emerging between Nkunda and former foreign affairs minister Bizima Karaha who was among eight RCD-Goma MPs in the interim parliament who failed to take up their seats recently when the assembly went into session.
Many observes say that Ruberwa is caught between showing his colleagues in Kinshasa that he is serious about the peace process and showing his fellow Banyamulenge in Goma that he will stand up for them.
Reflecting the competing pressures Ruberwa is under, one of his last acts as vice-president was to issue a decree calling for Nkunda’s arrest. Then, the next day, he announced his withdrawal from the government, a position that effectively supported Nkunda.
One official within RCD-Goma told IRIN that Ruberwa had wanted to return to Kinshasa but had been overpowered by elements opposed to the transition. An expatriate in Goma agreed. “Ruberwa is seen as a traitor from both sides no matter which decision he takes,” he said.
Ruberwa openly admitted the dilemmas he faces when speaking last week at the memorial service in Goma for the Banyamulenge massacred in Burundi. “We are divided at the moment,” he said of party members. “Some are for Karaha, others for Ruberwa, others for Nkunda. If we do not unite and speak as one, then we will perish.” 
Ruberwa’s pullout will result in a slow down in the Kinsaha’s ability to expand its authority to the east as well as a halt in economic reunification and the reintegration of the armed forces. It also reduces the effectiveness of the parliament and the senate.
Heightened tensions also make the job harder of the 10,800-strong UN peacekeeping force currently spread throughout a country the size of Western Europe.
An international committee supporting the transition called on RCD-Goma to lift its suspension. In a communiqué on Tuesday, it stated that there was no viable alternative to the transition process. The committee is made up of the ambassadors of Angola, Belgium, Britain, Canada, China, France, Gabon, Russia, South Africa, USA, Zambia, the European Union, African Union and the UN mission in the DRC.
Many observers say that war is again a possibility. “This is a stark reminder that events could spiral into large-scale war again at nearly any time,” says a UN official in Goma. A South African diplomat in the Rwandan capital, Kigali, agrees. “The position taken by RCD-Goma is definitely a terrible blow to the peace process and could lead this country into renewed war,” he said. South Africa brokered the peace agreement that led to the formation of the power-sharing transitional government.
In a letter addressed to the UN Security Council, the International Crisis Group appealed to Western countries to act to save the DRC from being plunged into a new war.
Most dangerous are the threats, accusations and counter-accusations between the governments of the DRC and its eastern neighbours, Burundi and Rwanda.
and terror of Rwanda’s genocide.
All manner of Kigali residents pass their time by the pool of the
Mille-Collines hotel: aid workers, Rwandan bourgeoisie, expatriates, UN
peacekeepers, prostitutes. Keeping a watchful eye is Bernard Valcourt, a jaded
foreign journalist, but his closest attention is devoted to Gentille, a hotel
waitress with the slender, elegant build of a Tutsi. As they slip into an
intense, improbable affair, the delicately balanced world around them–already
devastated by AIDS–erupts in a Hutu-led genocide against the Tutsi people.
Valcourt’s efforts to spirit Gentille to safety end in their separation. It
will be months before he learns of his lover’s shocking fate.(less)
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
