Critics of the Rwandan government are urging the Obama administration to withdraw support from President Paul Kagame

[Since 1994, the world witnesses the horrifying Tutsi minority (14%) ethnic domination, the Tutsi minority ethnic rule, 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 with an iron hand, and the brutal suppression of the rights of the majority of the Rwandan people (85% are Hutus), mass-arrests and mass-murder by the RPF criminal organization.

So long as justice and accountability for RPF past and current crimes are ignored and delayed, Peace and Stability will remain illusive and impossible in Rwanda=>ASIF]

Relations between Rwanda and Uganda – former allies in the 1990s – have become increasingly strained because of personal clashes between Kagame and Uganda’s leader, Yoweri Museveni.
That, in turn, has strained relations with the Democratic Republic of Congo. And South Africa recently recalled its ambassador to Rwanda for consultations, in protest at the apparent assassination attempt on South African soil of a top Rwandan dissident.

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Such apparent disregard for democracy and rule of law has analysts questioning the West’s continued economic dealings with Rwanda and support for Kagame. “My concern is not what the West has done in Rwanda, it’s what [it] didn’t do, and [how it] didn’t think about the consequences of [its] actions” for not taking a harder line on Kagame’s anti-democratic practices, says Henri Boshoff, a military analyst for the Institute for Security Studies in Tshwane, as South Africa’s capital of Pretoria is now called.
Rwanda has intervened several times in the civil conflicts of the larger but weaker Democratic Republic of Congo, fueling wars that killed millions in the past decade alone.

Closer to home, Kagame has maintained control by cracking down hard on critics and journalists. By doing so, he may be forcing his opponents to seek other means of expression, including violent ones.
In recent months, opposition leaders, journalists and dissident military officers have been jailed, injured or murdered. On 25 June, Jean-Léonard Rugambage, the acting editor of the Umuvugizi newspaper, was shot dead in front of his house in Kigali.
Rugambage had written several articles criticising the pre-election crackdown by President Paul Kagame and the ruling Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF). A month before Rugambage’s murder, the government suspended Umuvugizi and another critical newspaper, Umuseso, on grounds of inciting public disorder. Kagame’s main opponent, Victoire Ingabire, leader of the FDU-Inkingi party, and her American lawyer, Peter Erlinder, were arrested and locked up.

Human rights groups have accused Kagame and the RPF of authoritarianism and of rigging the election. However, simply labelling the Rwandan government as authoritarian shrouds the complexity of political and social divisions in Rwanda and provides little insight into the future directions of the country.


“How long can he keep a lid on the opposition?” says Boshoff. “That’s the question.
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