Declaration of the FDLR N°04/CD/SEPTEMBER/2008
Considering that on the 1st October 1990 an organised group of Rwandan refugees called Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF-Inkotanyi) attacked Rwanda, a country at the time where harmony, peace and national unity prevailed;
Considering that the RPF-Inkotanyi had justified the invasion in the name of establishing democracy and good governance in Rwanda, although Rwanda had already made remarkable strides in creating democratic institutions and good governance;
Considering that the RPF-Inkotanyi was already guilty of crimes against peace, crimes against humanity, war crimes and genocide in territories under its control in northern Rwanda between the 1st October 1990 and the 5th April 1994;
Considering that between the 1st October 1990 and the 5th April 1994 the RPF-Inkotanyi was already guilty of terrorist acts committed to make the entire territory of Rwanda uncontrollable by the then Rwandan government;
Considering that between the 1st October 1990 and the 5th April 1994 the RPF-Inkotanyi had trained commandos who assassinated many Hutus leaders and their killings falsely attributed to President Habyarimana and his close aides by RPF-Inkotanyi and its lobbyists;
Considering that between the 1st October 1990 and the 5th April 1994, in order to divert the attention of keen observers, the RPF commandos maliciously assassinated some Tutsis and the RPF-Inkotanyi and its lobbyists falsely attributed these killings to President Juvenal Habyirimana and his close aides;
Considering that these murders of Hutus and Tutsis have contributed to the deepening of regional and ethnic divisions in Rwanda;
Considering that those murders of Hutus and Tutsis have contributed to exacerbate tensions and hatred between the different components of the Rwandan society
Considering that these ethnic divisions, tension and hatred were in the plan of RPF-Inkotanyi in order to create chaos in Rwanda and seize power by force;
Considering that the RPF-Inkotanyi, the true founder of Interahamwe militia, has maliciously been able to endorse the activities of those militia on the accounts of MRND and CDR political parties;
Considering that the RPF-Inkotanyi has always controlled the activities of the Interahamwe militia through the many linkages and networks that the RPF-Inkotanyi had woven within the militia throughout the whole country of Rwanda;
Considering that many members of the leadership of the Interahamwe were at the same time members of the RPF-Inkotanyi;
Considering that the President Juvénal Habyarimana had good faith in negotiations for power sharing between the various components of the Rwandan society;
Considering that RPF-Inkotanyi was acting in bad faith and had already conceived the plan to kill the President Juvénal Habyarimana in order to seize power by force;
Considering that the RPF-Inkotanyi, prior to the invasion Rwanda, had planned the genocide of Tutsis who grew up in Rwanda and the endorsement of that genocide on the Hutu population in order to legitimise and monopolise its power in the country;
Considering that the RPF-Inkotanyi knowingly killed President Juvénal Habyarimana to provoke inter-ethnic massacres and use these massacres as a justification to oppress the Hutu population;
Considering that the RPF-Inkotanyi, after 14 years in power in Rwanda, has categorically refused to allow a neutral investigation on the terrorist attack that claimed the lives of the democratically elected presidents of Rwanda and Burundi and their close collaborators on the 6th April 1994;
Considering that after the 6th April 1994 the RPF-Inkotanyi rejected various ceasefire offers and unilaterally breached various ceasefire agreements it had already signed;
Considering that after the 6th April 1994 the RPF-Inkotanyi and its networks within the militias of different political parties massacred innocent citizens of all ethnic groups (Hutu, Tutsi and Twa) in a planned manner throughout the territory of Rwanda and that all these killings fall in the category of genocide;
Considering that RPF-Inkotanyi has pursued the Rwandan refugees in neighbouring countries, especially in Zaire (now Democratic Republic of Congo) where the FPR-Inkotanyi committed a genocide on the Rwandan Hutu refugees in the DRC before the eyes of the entire international community;
Considering that the RPF-Inkotanyi is a criminal and hegemonic regime fully determined to perpetrate ethnic wars in neighbouring countries in order to take advantage of those wars and chaos in those countries to dominate them and plunder their wealth;
Considering that the RPF-Inkotanyi has established in Rwanda a bloody dictatorship that kills, oppress or excludes any person who does not adhere to its hegemonic and racist ideology;
Considering that the RPF-Inkotanyi has introduced in Rwanda a policy of impoverishment of the majority of Rwandans and results of that wicked policy are now evident through unacceptable level of poverty, malnutrition and famine that have become endemic in Rwanda;
Considering that 14 years after the seizure of power by RPF-Inkotanyi, theft of public property and corruption have become common currencies in Rwanda,
Considering that the RPF-Inkotanyi exclusively controls the entire apparatus of the State (security forces, economy, justice, public administration, education, the so-called parliament etc.);
Considering that 14 years after the seizure of power there is no true democratic institutions in Rwanda but “caricatures” of democracy; the Parliament being an institution set up, controlled and manipulated by the clique of RPF-Inkotanyi to make the international community believe that a legislative power separate from the executive exists in Rwanda;
Considering that in Rwanda the whole judiciary machinery is an instrument completely under the control of the clique of RPF-Inkotanyi, designed for the oppression of Hutus in general and Tutsis who dare to criticize the regime;
Considering that the RPF-Inkotanyi, in order to stay on power forever in Rwanda, uses an apartheid system whereby The Hutus are excluded, oppressed and discriminated in all sectors of the national life of the country;
Considering that the RPF-Inkotanyi came up with laws that make impossible the existence of a democratic opposition;
Considering that the so called “opposition parties” inside of Rwanda and now participating in the so-called election are nothing more than branches of the RPF-Inkotanyi;
Considering that every Hutu in Rwanda is indiscriminately accused of genocide when he formulates political claims;
Considering that Kagame and his clique of RPF-Inkotanyi consider and treat Hutu children also as “génocidaires” as their parents;
Considering that there is no more doubt that the current regime in power in Rwanda has prepared and executed the genocide of Tutsis who had not grown up in the Diaspora, especially in Uganda;
Considering that there is no more doubt that the RPF-Inkotanyi prepared and executed the genocide of Hutus before and after the 6th April 1994;
Considering that there is no more doubt than the RPF-Inkotanyi has committed genocide on Hutu refugees in the Democratic Republic of Congo;
Considering that the RPF-Inkotanyi has never respected the human rights stipulated in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights;
The FDLR declare the following:
The elections organized by the RPF-Inkotanyi can never be democratic;
The FDLR will never recognize the institutions resulting from those so called elections organized by RPF criminal regime;
Those fake elections organized by the bloodthirsty regime in Kigali engage only this regime and its sponsors.
The RPF-Inkotanyi is a criminal organization whose leaders must be prosecuted for war crimes, crimes against humanity, crimes against peace and crimes of genocide;
The RPF-Inkotanyi is an organization whose leaders must appear before justice for looting the Rwandan heritage and the natural resources of countries of the African Great Lakes region;
The RPF-Inkotanyi is a criminal organisation whose leaders don’t have the legitimacy to lead the people of Rwanda;
The leaders of the RPF-Inkotanyi, first and foremost Paul Kagame and his close aides, must be arrested and brought to justice;
The countries and multinational corporations that continue to support the criminal regime in Kigali should know that one day they will respond to justice for their acts of collaborating with a group of criminals.
The FDLR call on the people of Rwanda to exercise restraint and patience since the end of the bloody dictatorship of the RPF-Inkotanyi will come when nobody expects it.
Together we will win!
Done in Germany on the 12nd September 2008.
Dr Ignace Murwanashyaka
President of the FDLR
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