Don’t think that this is history. It is not. It is happening right here, and it’s happening right now in Rwanda.
Abuses of Human Rights in Rwanda – January to July 2010
Commonwealth to monitor Rwanda’s 2010 election? Which election, a one-man-show?
Number of people executed:Since 2003, Kagame dispatches th elocal defense forces throughout the country and proceed to execute hundred thousands of having ties with the FDLR or acused of carrying out the genocidal ideology. Many are subsequently shot dead .
My brother Kyomuhendo-Ateenyi posted on his face book wall a link to a profile of Gen. Kagame of Rwanda who is milking life from all Rwandans who attempt not to think like him. On following this link; http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/africa/10479882.stm , the BBC story shocked me by the level of repression being practiced in Rwanda. The story lists the individuals that have been assassinated or harassed for opposing Kagame. I will adopt the list as it is;
◦1995: Journalist Manasse Mugabo disappears in Kigali; not seen again
◦1996: First post-genocide Interior Minister Seth Sendashonga and businessman Augustin Bugirimfura shot dead in Nairobi
◦1998: Journalist Emmanuel Munyemanzi disappears from Kigali; body spotted in city but not returned to family
◦1998: RPF MP and government intelligence chief before the genocide Theoneste Lizinde assassinated in Nairobi
◦2000: First post-genocide President Pasteur Bizimungu’s adviser, Asiel Kabera, shot dead in Kigali
◦2003: EX-RPF officer and top judge Augustin Cyiza and magistrate Eliezar Runyaruka disappear from Kigali; not seen again
◦2003: Opposition MP Leonard Hitimana disappears from Kigali; not seen again
◦2010: Ex-RPF officer Faustin Kayumba Nyamwasa shot and wounded in Johannesburg
◦2010: Journalist Jean-Leonard Rugambage gunned down in Kigali
◦2010: Reporter Dominique Makeli survives abduction in Kampala
Source; BBC.
In May, Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Johnnie Carson announced that the U.S. government plans to send a dozen teams of election observers to Rwanda before the Aug. 9 polls, but many Rwandans now say they will only be wasting U.S. taxpayers’ money.
“There is no reason to vote if you don’t have a choice.” – Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza
“Why do people seriously think of going there to observe elections?” asked Charles Kambanda, an American of Rwandan origin, former member of Kagame’s RPF Party and former professor at Makarere University in Kampala, Uganda. “Which elections are they going to observe? There is nothing to be observed, because what we have is a one-man show. What we have is a situation where the government has created the so-called opposition.
In this pre-1997 map, Congo is shown as Zaire.“The RPF has kicked out all the real opposition leaders. They are either under house arrest, like Ms. Victoire Ingabire, or in prison like Me Ntaganda Bernard or they are already dead or they are in exile.”
“Foreign election observers planning to go to Rwanda to observe the ‘election’ this August are wasting time and money,” said Aimable Mugara. “I would recommend that they stay in their countries and write their reports based on all the insane actions Gen. Kagame’s ruling party has taken since the beginning of this year, actions that make this so-called election null and void.”
The United States government has provided not only election observers but also over $1,034,000,000 in United States taxpayer-funded foreign assistance to Rwanda since 2000. An additional $240,200,000 is proposed in the president’s fiscal year 2011 budget.
Purge of the the intellectuals: most of them accused of gencide ideology. Widespread arrests and arbitrary executions of the Hutu intellectuals. Many books and writings were destroyed (large numbers were burnt) to make easier the re-writing of the Rwandan History. RPF deputy chair Tito Rutaremara and Antoine Mugesera have ordered the destructions of all books contrary to the RPF ideology and Kagame’scenario of the chronological events of the Rwandan History.
Political Repression in Rwanda: Widespread Arrests of Journalists and Opposition Politicians
Many are imprisoned and 1,500died in prisons and 8,000 to 21,000 in concentration camps. Repression and Terror: Kagame in Control as he said nobody can’t make a coup d’Etat. Kagame set the stage for gaining absolute power by employing police repression against opposition elements within the RPF organization. The machinery of coercion had previously been used only against Hutus, not against RPF members themselves. We saw execution of the interior Tutsi and recently the attempt of assassination of the General kayumba nyamwasa, ….who are expelled from the party.
Paul Kagame eliminates all likely potential opposition to his leadership and is the unchallenged leader accross the country. Nevertheless, he proceeds to purge the RPF rank and file and to terrorize the entire country with widespread arrests and executions. During the ensuing Great Terror, which includes the notorious show trials of General Nyamwasa and reaches its peak recently, millions of innocent Hutu Rwandans are actually sent off to labor camps or killed in prison.
Since 1994, Kagame manages to bring both the RPF and the public to a state of complete submission to his rule. The RPF regime is so atomized and the people so fearful of reprisals that mass arrests are no longer necessary. General Kagame rules as absolute dictator of Rwanda throughout 1994-2009.
Other victims are nobility and political and academic figures, along with some ordinary Hutu ethnic menbers. Mass graves containing hundreds of executed Hutus monks and civilians are discovered daily in different places.
Condition for “confessing”
The wide purge :
Although the trials of Hutu intellectuals are widely publicized, the hundreds of thousands of other arrests and executions are not reported to the public opinion.
Kagame is personally and intimately involved in the RPF terror against the Rwandan Hutu and interior Tutsis. The arrested are accused of conspiring with the terrorist groups namely FDLR and the genocide deniers to assassinate Kagame and other RPF leaders, dismember the RPF government and restore the democratic regime.
We have a duty to act. The international community could wait no longer to achieve peace, end tragedy in Rwanda, and fight the RPF terrorism. “We can wait no longer.”
Mass graves and memorials.
United Nations soldiers believe they have uncovered mass graves in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), where hundreds of civilians executed by Rwandan soldiers were buried.
The discovery of those mass graves of the assassinated of Hutu refugees did not destroy Rwanda’s image as a country that recovered from genocide to become one of east Africa’s most benign and stable regimes.
These mass graves, the largest of their kind so far found in the region, are expected to provide evidence of the atrocities carried out by the Rwandan army and put international pressure on the Rwandan and Congolese governments to investigate the killings.
JUSTICE, TRUTH SEEKING, PEACE LOVING PEOPLE OF THE GREATLAKES REGION OF EAST AND CENTRAL AFRICA, AND ALL WELL WISHERS LIVING IN THE UNITED KINGDOM; IT IS YOUR TURN TO COME OUT AND BE COUNTED!
Rwanda’s Tutsi-led government is oppressing Hutus in throughout Rwanda and in the neighboring Uganda and the ethnic divisions that sparked Rwanda’s 1994 genocide have re-emerged.
“They squeezed my neck attempting to strangle me. I pretended that I was dead,” he said. “They moved a short distance from me and one of them made a phone call.”
Speaking in Rwanda’s Kinyarwanda language, the attacker reported that Uwimana was dead, and “they should send a vehicle to take away my dead body.”
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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
