Under the slogan of “Choose Peace,” Rwandan President Paul Kagame was re-elected for a second seven-year term. Praised by his supporters for building new roads and health clinics across the country, developing a national health insurance plan and attracting millions of dollars’ worth of foreign investment, Kagame won the election with a convincing 93 percent of the vote. His detractors, however, such as Frank Habineza, founder of the unregistered Democratic Green Party, alleged that conditions in the country limited freedom of press, association and expression.
The election period was also marred by the death of Andre Kagwe Rwisereka, vice-president of the Democratic Green Party, whose nearly beheaded body was found along a river near the southern town of Butare. A police spokesman suspected that Rwisereka had been killed for his money, but Habineza said that the killers had not taken Rwisereka’s wallet, keys or car and suggested the murder was politically motivated.
On Election Day, however, Commonwealth observers, who were among the 1,394 accredited observers, 214 of them from abroad, said voting had been peaceful. However, they noted “a lack of critical opposition voices,” during the campaign: “A number of opposition parties had earlier stated their intention to stand, but faced either legal or administrative problems, which resulted in their non-participation,” a statement said. “Each case appears to be different, but the overall impact is a concern.”
Assassination attempt and assassination
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| Jean Leonard Rugambage’Assassination deputy editor of the banned newspaper Umuvugizi |
Late on June 24/10 Leonard Rugambage, the outspoken deputy editor of Umuvugizi newspaper was shot outside his home in Kigali just hours after he allegedly posted a contentious story online about an assassination attempt on a dissident Rwandan general in South Africa. The contentious newspaper had been forced to publish solely online after authorities suspended its print operation. Although police initially didn’t know who was behind the attacks, Umuvugizi editor Jean Bosco Gasasira, who himself fled Rwanda in April, accused the Rwanda Security Service of masterminding the attack. “I’m 100 percent sure,” he told Voice of America. Nevertheless, more than four months later, the Rwandan High Court convicted Didace Nduguyangu of homicide and Antoine Karemera as an accessory to homicide in Rugambage’s death. The men admitted that they killed the journalist as revenge for Karemera’s brother who was allegedly killed by Rugambage during the genocide. Critics of the government, however, remained sceptical that justice had been served.
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| Gen. Kayumba Nyamwasa escape Attempt murder in South Africa RPF death squad |
The dissident in Rugambage’s story was General Faustin Kayumba Nyamwasa who had been shot outside his home in Johannesburg on June 19. His wife claimed the attack had been politically motivated because the assassin did not have any demands. The Rwandan government said they had nothing to do with the attack and that it does not condone violence. Nyamwasa fled to South Africa in February after falling out with President Kagame. In March the government accused him of being behind a spate of grenade attacks in Kigali, a charge that Gen. Nyamwasa vehemently denied. Since arriving in South Africa the dissident general has accused President Kagame of corruption and has argued that the Rwandan judiciary is compromised.
Mapping exercise
In early September relations between the Kigali government and the UN deteriorated precipitously after a leaked draft emerged of a UN report accusing Rwandan troops of having killed and raped Hutu refugees in the DR Congo. The Kigali government called the report, “flawed and dangerous,” that applied, “the lowest imaginable evidentiary standard,” and was an “insult to history.”
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| First Hutu victims of RDF in DRC camps |
The report details crimes committed by the Rwanda, Uganda, Burundi, Angola, Zimbabwe and DR Congo armies in DRC between 1993-2003, but pays special attention to crimes perpetrated by Rwandan troops, which the report says could count as possible acts of genocide. The accusations were met with fierce resistance in Kigali because the government there has drawn much of its legitimacy from being the force that ended the genocide in Rwanda. The government also said that claims of genocide “are directly contradicted by Rwanda’s extensive and coordinated efforts to repatriate, resettle and reintegrate 3.2 million Hutu refugees.”
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| Mass-murder of Hutu in Mbandaka Dem. Rep. of the Congo 2000 km away |
The Kigali government subsequently threatened to withdraw 3,500 peacekeepers from UN missions in Sudan if the report’s final version was published unchanged. However, after a series of meetings with UN officials, including a visit to Kigali by UN Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon, Rwanda went back on its threat. When the report was finally published on October 1, a few amendments had been made, but the essence of the report remained intact. In its official 30 page response, Rwanda lambasted the report’s lead investigator Luc Cote of trying to compare the deaths of tens of thousands in the DRC over a decade with those of “a million in 100 days” in Rwanda.
Re-engaging the French
On February 25, French President Nicolas Sarkozy admitted that his country had made “grave errors of judgement” during the 1994 genocide. The comments were aimed at repairing the longstanding rift between the two countries that had developed since a 2006 French ruling implicated top Kagame aides of being involved in the untimely death of former president Juvenal Habyarimana.
Sarkozy’s visit to Rwanda marks the first from a French head of state since the genocide. “We want to turn the page,” he said, during the visit that included a meeting with President Kagame and a tour of the genocide memorial in Kigali. “France will construct a relationship of confidence.”
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On December 16 relations between the two countries were further strengthened after a French judge placed Rwanda’s defence minister and five other aides of President Kagame under investigation for the assassination of Habyarimana, marking an end to an earlier arrest warrant by French judge Jean Louis Bruguiere. The men are now free to roam and the judge can now decide whether to pursue the investigation and eventually send the suspects for trial, or drop the case.
“The Rwandan Government has welcomed this development and hopes that this is the first step towards the comprehensive conclusion of this unfortunate case based on political manipulations by people interested in destabilising Rwanda,” said Justice Minister Tharcisse Karugarama.
Rebels hunted down by ICC while Kagame overplays the FDLR card
FDLR, a Terrorist group? Click on the link to get the point : Last week Colonel Bizimana left the FDLR rebel group and returned from the DRC. So General Rwarakabije, Ndahimana, …Bizimana anre no longer terrosits because they gave up to fight the Rwandan evil?
Kagame’s Terrorists Are Rwandan Freedom Fighters.
The word “terrorist” doesn’t have a single, universally-accepted definition. The most commonly accepted definition is “a person who uses political violence to achieve a political end.” The problem is this: people who engage in a guerrilla war against an oppressive government can also be described as using political violence to achieve political ends. Another definition of terrorist is “one who uses terror as a means to achieve a goal.” The problem with that definition is that includes state terrorism (that is, terrorist acts committed on behalf of or directly by a government, although no government on the planet defines its own policies as such), any policeman who scares a witness or a suspect into cooperating, and your Wounded Gazelle Gambit-loving little sister. The government of France once planted a bomb on a ship owned by Greenpeace. Israel sent hitmen into various countries in Europe to avenge the murders of their Olympic team in 1972.
Part of the problem is that, since at least the 9-11 attacks (and in some cases, even before then), it became fashionable to use the word “terrorist”as a sort of blanket label for any person or group working against the interests of a national government… especially if that enemy was actively fighting a military action against that State, regardless of methods (which resembles the usage of the word ‘communist’ in the McCarthy’s era). The FBI, for example, has in the past labeled war protesters as “potential terrorists”, while the Department of Homeland Security has currently labeled tax protesters and some military veterans as “potential terrorists”.
Then, there is the association of certain ethnic groups with terrorism. Islamic groups have always been branded as terrorist soon after they emerge, communist guerrillas not so, in fact the Naxal movement in India has fought a war against the state for the past 20 years without being branded as Terrorist. To further muddy the waters, some governments may state that a group is a terrorist movement, but others may not. China considers the Tibetan separatists to be Terrorists, most of the world did not. Pakistan maintained ties to the Taliban until 2001 invasion, but the world never recognized the regime.
Lastly, there is the common confusion regarding the meaning and use of the term “illegal combatant”. (Not all illegal combatants are terrorists, for example, though they tend to be labeled as such by the people they are fighting, e.g. Kagame vs FDLR).
On October 11 Callixte Mbarushimana, a senior Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR) rebel leader, was arrested in France on a warrant by the International Criminal Court (ICC). Mbarushimana, 47, faces five crimes against humanity, and six war crimes for murders, rapes, torture and the destruction of property in eastern DRC in 2009. Rwanda had also issued an arrest warrant for Mbarushimana for his alleged involvement in the 1994 genocide. “This is a welcome development. The FDLR is a movement bent on genocide,” said Martin Ngoga Rwanda’s chief prosecutor. “We believe it is an international obligation to hunt its members wherever they are.”
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In mid-December Rwandan authorities also received word from Canadian officials that a Canadian federal court ruled that Faustin Rutayisire, a former mathematics teacher and sous-prefet of Butare prefecture, used his position to influence militias to hunt down Tutsis. Rutayisire applied for refugee status in Canada and was granted permanent residence in 2003. However, two years later Canada began trying to extradite him under the Crimes against Humanity and War Crimes Act.
However, in Zimbabwe, Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) has accused the Zimbabwean government of protecting suspected genocide planner, Protais Mpiranya. Mpiranya, who was the commander of the Presidential Guard during the genocide, also has a five million dollar bounty on his head under the US-funded Reward for Justice Programme.
Ingabire behind bars
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| Ms Ingabire Victoire, the would-be President has spent her life under judicial surveillance then in prison for humiliation proposes |
Victoire Ingabire, the leader of the unregistered United Democratic Forces (FDU), has spent a good part of the year either in detention or under judicial surveillance. In April she was arrested on accusations of associating with a terrorist group, denying genocide and promoting genocide ideology and division. After being released, she was barred from travelling outside Kigali and was placed under police investigation. On October 14 she was arrested again, this time on the basis of information provided by Major Vital Uwumuremyi,a former military officer, who himself was arrested on October 13 on the Rwanda-DRC border. Uwumuremyi said he had received Ingabire’s assistance to “set up a military wing of the FDU.” The charges against the pair include “buying and distributing arms and ammunitions to the terrorist organisation and threatening national security and public order.”
On July 14, amid escalating election violence and repression, Democratic Green Party of Rwanda Vice President Andre Kagwa Rwisereka was found beheaded (as strong sign to the opposition), with a machete left nearby, in the wetlands of the Makula River in Rwanda’s Butare Province, his grisly murder reminiscent of the Rwanda genocide, in which upwards of a million people were killed, many with machetes.
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| Rwandan Green Party VPAndré Kagwa Rwisereka Murdered by Kagame’s death squad |
Ingabire then appeared in court on October 26 but was denied bail. “In public Victoire Ingabire masquerades as a politician. But behind the scenes she operates as a terrorist leader and finacier,” chief prosecutor Martin Ngoga was quoted as saying. On November 12 Rwanda’s high court rejected Ingabire’s appeal against detention, leaving her lawyer, Gatera Gashabana, with no choice but to fix a date for the substantive trial as soon as possible. Meanwhile, on December 13, Ingabire’s home in the Netherlands was cordoned off and searched by Dutch police under a request by Rwandan authorities that had been submitted in February. Some materials were removed from the house and more evidence is now expected from Europe and America. Ingabire’s FDU party accuses Rwandan authorities of fabricating evidence against its leader to deny her from participating in politics.
NDLR : some of the pictures were added to illustrate Kagame as a cold killer.
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
