Monday, February 8, 2010
By Ann Garrison
Kigali. – On February 7, 2009, I spoke to the Rwandan FDU-Inkingi Party’s presidential candidate Victoire Ingabiré Umuhoza, on the phone from San Francisco, California, U.S.A., to Kigali, Rwanda, for KPFA News.
The Colored Opinions column width doesn’t make quite enough space for the images in this video, so I recommend clicking twice to watch on the Youtube.
Since 1994, the world witnesses the horrifying Tutsi minority (14%) ethnic domination, the Tutsi minority ethnic rule, tyrany 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), by the RPF criminal organization.
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Rwanda: Criminal Investigations Department (CID) summons Ingabire for Wednesday
February 9, 2010
A day after President Kagame said the honeymoon of opposition critic Ingabire Victoire was not open-ended, she has now been summon to appear at the Criminal Investigations Department (CID), RNA can reveal.
A written summon was delivered to Ms. Ingabire summoning her to appear at 14:30 Tuesday at the CID Headquarters in Kacyiru an upper class suburb of Kigali. The CID HQ is within walking distance from the American embassy, the Office of the President and several ministerial offices. The time has been changed to Wednesday [but according to Mrs. Ingabire’s Facebook website the reason why she has to go there is still unknown].
President Kagame indicated Monday that at some point, Ingabire could be held responsible for what she has said and done since her arrival January 16, from exile. Mr. Kagame accused her of trying to provoke the authorities so she may be arrested. This, the President said, would of course attract sympathy for the fiery politician.
The latest developments also come in the wake of the jailing for 19 years of Ms. Ingabire’s aide Joseph Ntawangundi over Genocide. However, the group has brought in Dutch lawyers to plead his case, with the defense that Mr. Ntawangundi was actually in Sweden during the time of the Genocide.
Meanwhile, RNA has also established that Ms. Ingabire has recovered the documents she lost last week when a gang of youths supposedly attacked her at the Kinyinya sector office.
Information available to RNA suggests that the CID summon has been changed to 10am on Wednesday. It is not yet clear why there has been a change to the summon. RNA will bring details as they emerge.
Rwanda’s Kagame warns critical presidential rival
By Hereward Holland
Reuters
KIGALI
February 9, 2010
KIGALI (Reuters) – Rwandan President Paul Kagame said an outspoken presidential aspirant could be prosecuted for inflammatory remarks about the 1994 genocide.
Victoire Ingabire, a Hutu who was living abroad during the 100-day slaughter, returned to Rwanda last month to launch a bid in the August presidential elections, in which analysts expect Kagame to win a second 7-year term.
“I think this individual is going too far in abusing the country’s goodwill and attempting to destroy the positive steps that have been established, but eventually the law will catch up with her,” he told reporters in Kinyarwanda on Monday.
Since her return Ingabire’s public comments, saying that the memory of Hutus killed during the genocide had not been fully acknowledged, have prompted heavy criticism from Rwanda’s largely pro-government media.
They accuse Ingabire of flouting the country’s post-genocide constitution which bans sectarianism and acts that could incite conflict or disputes. Rights groups say the law is vague and ill-defined and could be used to suppress views the government deems inappropriate.
Ingabire denies accusations that she is using ethnicity to garner support for the elections and says Rwanda needs to open the political space to defuse ethnic tension through discussion.
“I do not think it is wrong to talk about what is happening in our country and how we can avoid making the same mistakes,” she told Reuters by telephone.
“I am not worried because I know that I did not do anything wrong… everybody knows that they use this law against everybody who is in opposition.”
Ingabire, who worked as an accountant for nine years in The Netherlands, heads the yet to be registered United Democratic Forces (UDF).
“She does not have political status according to the law,” Kagame said.
“This is a person who actually counted on being immediately apprehended upon arrival at the airport – this was what she hoped for, so that it would serve her interests. But there is no need to play into that situation.”
Last week a mob attacked her, stole her handbag and injured her personal assistant. Police say her aggressors accused her of ethnic divisionism.
Kagame’s government has suppressed ethnic debate in an attempt to forge a national identity and move away from tribal politics which led to the genocide of 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus.
Ingabire denies allegations made in a 2009 U.N. report linking some UDF members to Rwandan Hutu rebels in eastern Congo, some of whose leaders were responsible for the genocide.
(Editing by Tim Pearce)
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
