[Since 1994, the world witnesses the horrifying Tutsi minority (14%) ethnic domination, the Tutsi minority ethnic rule with an iron hand, 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, and the brutal suppression of the rights of the majority of the Rwandan people (85% are Hutus)and mass arrests of Hutus by the RPF criminal organization =>AS International]
Nothing but the regime change in
Rwanda
They know that they are on the wrong side of history. But,
it’s hard to control their greedy and material advances which come at
free, courtesy of the criminal ruler.
Below, on Wednesday – in Brussels, a bus carrying criminal Paul
Kagame’s hired mercenary crowd passed in front of pro democracy and
human rights activists who were demonstrating; only for the criminal
ruler’s mercenaries to hide their faces from the scrutiny of suffering
Rwandans who were demonstrating for their basic human rights.
Are dictators retards?
Just imagine a ruler of a 3rd world country,
hiring a batch of jobless individuals and who have been trained for criminal acts to come to cheer, clap and admire
him. This is exactly what is happening in Brussels.
We demand Ingabire’s freedom and Democracy
Rwanda’s criminal ruler has spend tax payer’s money to transport,
cater and pay individuals to come to cheer and demonstrate in his
support. But what they saw – met was a wave of pro – democracy and human
rights activists who had come to denounce the butcher of the great lakes
region. Below are photos of criminal Kagame’s hired crowd.
Poor diplomatic relations between Rwanda and the European Union have
reached fever pitch, as Rwandan politicians discuss banning eight MEPs
for allegedly interfering with national sovereignty. EU lawmakers,
meanwhile, accuse the Rwandan government of running a dictatorship. EURACTIV Germany reports.
At the heart of this spat is Victoire Ingabire, an opposition leader with
the Unified Democratic Forces who was sentenced for inciting revolt,
forming armed groups to destabilise the country and denying the 1994
genocide against the Tutsi.
In 2013, the country’s Supreme Court
quashed her appeal and upheld her 15 year prison sentence. Immediately
after the ruling was made, the European Parliament issued a scathing
response accusing the Rwandan courts of not observing the principle of
presumption of innocence of the accused and disregard for international
judicial standards.
It further urged the Rwandan government to
show commitment to investigating suspected abuses against journalists,
opposition leaders and ensure that military detention centres were in
tandem with international standards.
Memorandum from the Rwandan community of Europe
on the invitation of President Paul Kagame to the European Development
Days from 7 to 8 June 2017
Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you’re a man, you take it.
But what is the reality of this development success put forward by
the media and lobby groups pro FPR (Rwandan Patriotic Front, ruling
party since 1994)?What is the true nature of the regime led by Paul
Kagame?
For the period 2016-2030, the United Nations has adopted 17
sustainable development goals, including objectives to combat poverty,
hunger, inequality or injustice, and to promote peace, Education,
health, or decent work. Bearing in mind these objectives, in this
memorandum, we aim to draw your attention to some of the essential facts
relating to the current socio-economic and political situation of
Rwanda, that are beyond misleading rhetoric developed by RPF lobbyists,
Manipulation of economic data.
The rhetoric around the Rwandan economic miracle is not supported by
empirical evidence. Several researchers and scholars such as F.
Reyntjens, A. Ansoms, E. Marijnen, G. Cioffo, J. Murison, D. Himbara and
many others have shown that the data on poverty reduction and
inequality provided by the Rwandan regime have been manipulated in
recent years in order to keep a good image in the eyes of investors and
aid donors.
Food Insecurity and Growing Poverty.
Rwanda is now experiencing rural poverty, food insecurity and an
unprecedented unemployment rate. In Rwanda, several households are
currently experiencing hunger. According to the report of the World Food
Program in 2015, there are currently more stunted children than there
were 10 years ago due to malnutrition. The situation of famine that has
already lasted too long is so dramatic and above all leaves no hope to
the Rwandans to such an extent that they have had to find a fairly
explicit name ‘’NZARAMBA’’ (meaning, literally, “I will live longer”).
The Rwandan authorities attempt to deny that reality and choose to
speak of a simple passing crisis. “Nzaramba” rages throughout the
country and affects a large segment of the population. Many Rwandans
flee to neighboring countries, mainly to Uganda. According to many
observers, analysts and researchers, this famine is one of the direct
consequences of the cynical political choices concerning in particular
the agrarian reforms imposing, among others, single crop farming. These
reforms have benefited a very small number of wealthy producers and have
caused rising food prices and thus malnutrition among the masses of
small farmers and the less affluent.
Important gaps in the health system.
The Rwandan regime portrays the ‘Mutuelle de Sante‘’ as an innovative
and success national health insurance scheme. But the reality is that
this scheme is poorly managed, inefficient and not at all sustainable.
Membership is mandatory. Those who lack sufficient income with no money
to pay, are threatened with imprisonment or forced to sell what they
own, including their land, food, shelter or livestock. Moreover, despite
all these sacrifices, many of them do not find the health care or
medicines they need, either because the government does not pay the
necessary matching funds, or because these funds are diverted or poorly
managed.
Furthermore, the health system in Rwanda is still rudimentary:
insufficient of trained personnel (doctors, nurses, midwives, dentists
…)
Monopoly and inequalities.
The RPF companies, such as Crystal Ventures, which includes Ruliba
Clays Ltd, Inyange Industries, Mutara Enterprises, East African Granite
Industries, Bourbon Coffee, CVL Developer, Real Contractors, Intersec,
GPS Ltd, NPD Cotraco, MSG. and others monopolies in almost all sectors
of the Rwandan economy. This creates a situation of unfair competition
in which local businesses, in particular small businesses and SMEs,
cannot develop. A small group of people close to the government are
taking advantage of the country’s economic space.
The public policies that the regime is putting in place aim to
perpetuate this system of privileges, which makes its protected, already
rich, richer and the poor poorer. One of the illustrations of these
profound and dangerous disparities in wealth is the personal case of
President Paul Kagame, who owns, among other things, private jets rented
to the state at a high price, which he himself fixes in order to gain
incredible financial benefit while famine wreaks havoc across the
country, students without scholarships, medicine lacking in hospitals …
Another example illustrating the deliberate policy of
institutionalizing deep inequalities is the shabby wage which the regime
has decided to give to teachers.
A primary school teachers who has just started his or her career
receives only a salary of 44,000 FRW, ie less than 50 euros per month 1
euro = 943 FRW at 28-05-2017). A minister receives a salary of more than
3,000,000 FRW, if one considers all the other advantages like the rent
of the house, communication costs … which are granted to him or her.
This is more than 68 times the salary of a teacher.
Social exclusion.
The RPF regime led by Paul Kagame excludes part of the population on
ethnic basis. The Hutus and the Twa are excluded from real power (apart
from some political posts without real power).
A small group of Tutsis gravitating around the dictator monopolized
military, political and economic power. A recent study by the University
of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) led by Professor Andreas Wimmer
revealed that Syria, Sudan and Rwanda were the most discriminatory
countries today. This study draws attention to the fact that the
exclusion of ethnic groups from power is a breeding ground for civil war
and violent conflict. It should be noted that this social exclusion
affects women even more fundamentally.
Unfair, too high, arbitrary taxes.
Many SMEs are forced to end their activities because of high taxes.
In addition, the regime obliges Rwandans to make so-called voluntary
contributions. These actions are not new. Already in 2012, US Department
of State’s Country Reports for Human Rights Practices for 2012 reported
these forced contributions to funds like Agaciro.
Rwandans fear the period of the presidential elections, because of
forced contributions they are requested to do, to fund elections while
they have no sufficient means.
In this regard, RPFregime has recently ordered Rwandan employees to
pay 50% of their salary as a “special contribution” to the campaign of
Paul Kagame, RPF candidate for the of presidential elections scheduled
for the next August. Meanwhile large amount of money is being paid to
private lobby groups around the world to continue to sell Paul Kagame’s
image as an excellent leader.
Poor quality education and mass unemployment:
Education and training, which are normally major pillars of
development, are neglected in Rwanda. The quality of education in public
schools that accommodate the majority of Rwandan children is very poor.
Primary school teachers are poorly paid deliberately. Rich parents send
their children to expensive private schools and / or to universities in
the West.
The UK Department for International Development, which provides
considerable financial support to the education sector in Rwanda, is sad
to say that ‘’achieving a level of schooling for almost all
children, the vast majority of whom have no level of literacy or basic
calculation is not, in our opinion this is a sign of successful
development. This represents a low return on investment … “
This low level of education exacerbates the problem of unemployment.
According to the report of the African Development Bank 2012, 42% of
young people are unemployed or underemployed in rural areas. This rate
of unemployment has never ceased to increase.
Refugee problem:
Rwanda now has the largest number of refugees abroad in its history.
These refugees are excluded from their country’s benefits. The Kigali
regime continues to pursue the political refugees in their countries of
exile. For example, Mr Sendashonga, former Minister of the Interior
under the presidency of Mr Kagame, was assassinated in Nairobi in May
1998. More recently, in January 2014, Mr Karegeya was assassinated in
South Africa.
Totalitarian regime, lack of rule of law, lack of freedom of expression, unpunished crimes:
The principle of separation of powers remains utopia in Rwanda. All
powers (executive, legislative and judicial) are concentrated in the
hands of a dictator and his protégés. They exercise them through the
security services. Political space is locked.
As in all totalitarianisms, the regime seeks to control everything.
Laws on the crimes of divisionism or genocidal ideology are implacable
weapons against those who dare to criticize power. Opposition leaders
like Mrs Ingabire, Mr Mushayidi … are in prison.
The 2017 Freedom House report considers Rwanda to be “a non-free
country” where political rights and civil liberties are flouted.
The Reporters Without Borders report of 2017 indicates that Rwanda
ranks 159 out of 180 countries in terms of media freedom, behind
countries that have been devastated by war like Liberia 94, Sierra Leone
85, Afghanistan 120, South Sudan 145, Palestine 135, Central African
Republic 113, DRC 154, Angola 125 and Iraq 158. According to this report
of 2017 “censorship and self-censorship are omnipresent in Rwanda”.
Journalists critical of the government run the risk of being labelled
“divisionists”, a crime punished by several years of imprisonment.
President Kagame is trying to stay in power for as long as possible to
avoidto be held accountable for countless atrocities and crimes he is
suspected to have committed against Rwandan people and the African Great
Lakes region. Expert reports, such as the Gersony report or the UN
Mapping report, are well documented. This latest UN report, published in
2010, refers to crimes that could be described as “genocide” in the
following terms: “The widespread and systematic attacks described in
this report targeting many Rwandan Hutu refugees and members of the Hutu
civilian population and their deaths, reveal several damning elements
which, if proved in a competent court, could be classified as crimes of
genocide “
Repression, terror, violence against women, children …:
To remain in power, the RPF and its president resort to violence,
terror and torture. In addition to numerous spies, policemen and
soldiers, the government “uses” state security agents, better known
under the acronym “DASSO” (District Administration Security Service
Organ) which monitor every 10 household units. These agents, as well as
the military and the police, cause terror among the citizens. They
regularly resort to torture. One of the photos dated in 2015 and was
even published in a pro-government newspaper “IGIHE”.
This violence affects all segments of the population, especially
those who dare to criticise authorities, those who are considered
second-class citizens, or as “messy” people who make capital look
uncleanbecause it must remain “very clean”to impress western aid donors.
Women street vendors are among those “unwanted messy”. They are
regularly molested and sometimes beaten to death. C. Tertsakian senior
researcher of Human Right Watch writes: “
In May [2016], members of the Inkeragutabara, a part-time component
of the Rwandan army, tried to seize the vending possessions of Ms
Theodosia Mahoro at the Nyabugogo bus station, she was beaten until she
dies. “This is surprising if we know that Rwanda is presented as a model
country because it has the highest percentage of parliamentarian women
in the world. Informed work by scholars and academics shows that the
high number of women in parliament unfortunately does not mean the
development of women’s rights or empowerment, that this is merely a PR
stunt. Street children are also among the “undesirables”.
On April 28, 2017, the Kigali City Health and Hygiene Services, while
sanitising one of the city’s gutters, doused with gasoline street
children “who sheltered there before burning them alive. Two of them
died there, the third one seen in the photo below, was seriously wounded
and with life threatening injuries.
With all these atrocities how can we, honestly, regard Rwanda as a
model country for peace and development? One can also ask why a regime
that prides itself on having established peace and stability in the
country, is constantly deploying armed soldiers to the teeth on every
street corner. The answer is obviously simple, the regime is aware that
the people it oppresses are not content, that its silence is not worth
consent. The regime which has imposed itself by violence knows that it
can only maintain itself by terror.
CONCLUSION
The ideology and practices of the RPF regime and its leader Paul
Kagame are incompatible with the principles of sustainable development
and peace. Some of the main foundations for the achievement of the
objectives of sustainable development adopted by the United Nations for
the period 2016-2030 are respect for human rights, the rule of law,
strong and fair institutions … These are also indispensable conditions
for security, stability and civil peace.
In Rwanda, the lack of freedom of expression, non-respect for civil
liberties, violence, terror, discrimination and social exclusion are all
obstacles in contradiction with the essence of sustainable development.
Supporting or encouraging a totalitarian regime such as the one led by
Paul Kagame, on the pretext that the economic growth figures he displays
are positive, while very strong inequalities in the distribution of
wealth are plaguing the country, and while it is proven that these
figures are manipulated in several ways is to become an accomplice in
depriving the Rwandan people of an authentic development they deserve.
To support the RPF regime and its absolute leader is to condemn the
future generations of Rwandans not to be born or not to live in a
society of peace and prosperity. The development model promoted by the
RPF regime is not sustainable because it is brutal, inequitable, unjust,
discriminatory because it excludes, marginalises and impoverishes a
large part of the population. Such development carries within it the
germs of social conflagration and violent conflict that peace-loving
women and men must prevent.
Our associations appeal to the international community and on the
Belgian as well as European authorities to stop supporting the
totalitarian regime of General President Paul Kagame.
We ask you to use your diplomatic, political and financial
influence to support the Rwandan people in their struggle for the rule
of law and for the establishment of fair and democratic institutions,
which alone allow sustainable development.
Done at Brussels, this 31th day of May 2017
Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you’re a man, you take it.
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
