Thursday

12-06-2025 Vol 19

Ms. Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza – The Icon of the Struggle for Freedom and Democracy in Rwanda

 

 [Since 1994, the world witnesses the horrifying Tutsi minority (14%)
ethnic domination, the Tutsi minority ethnic rule with an iron hand,
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, and the brutal suppression
of the rights of the majority of the Rwandan people (85% are Hutus)and
mass arrests of Hutus by the RPF criminal organization =&g
t;AS International]
 

Ms. Ingabire Victoire
The Would-Be President of Rwanda
Now in Kagame’s prison

For politically motivated reasons

 We urge General Paul Kagame to immediately release all political
prisoners and withdraw the charges against them. We are convinced that
prosecutions over the Ingabire and other political opponents and journalists are not in keeping with international
standards for a fair trial, and the sentences passed for other political opponents were politically
motivated.


 Not to release Ms. Ingabire reflects the obvious inefficiency of the judicial process as a whole. There is no doubt the Rwandan judicial system serves the interests of the repressive RPF ruling government. Postponing Ingabire’s judgment is exactly one of the Rwandan dictator’s weapons used to break the law, an act which is destructive and does not help to solve the conflict and avoid the opportunity that would lead to the reconciliation among Rwandans and the fact that Paul Kagame wants Ms Ingabire in prison is again and again kagame’s way of blackmailing the world community and that has much to do with the US along waited measures to isolate the Kagame regime. More of that to put off the judgment shows up again Kagame’s involvement in the Rwandan judicial system aiming not to heal internal wounds of millions of Rwandans.
Ms. Ingabire Victoire Umuhoza is alone in a cell in the
infamous 1930-prison of Kigali, in Rwanda, where her hijackers are General Kagame and his RPF Tutsi-led government. Her sister with her one-year child, many of relatives were slaughtered by RPF fighters not only before during 1994 but also the remaining brothers and sisters were slaughtered in 1997 and during the infamous period of January, February, March and April months during the very well planned assassinations and massacres took place particularly in Ruhengeri and Gisenyi prefectures.

Since 1997, Umuhoza has been involved in the struggle of the Rwandan political opposition in exile. Umuhoza has been quoted as saying “My objective is to introduce Rwanda to the rule of law and a constitutional state where international democratic standards are respected, where nationalism will at last be the cornerstone for all public institutions.” Her political activities are centred around the idea of a state of justice where individuals choose their associations based on their shared political aspirations rather than their ethnic or regional background. She has also been vocal in calling for more women’s empowerment in Rwanda.

In 1997, Umuhoza joined the Republican Rally for Democracy in Rwanda. A year later, she became the president of its Netherlands branch and in 2000, she was nominated president of RDR at the international level.

Ingabire was placed under house arrest in April 2010. She was arrested on 14 October 2010. She appeared in court and was charged alongside four alleged co-conspirators (Colonel Tharcisse Nditurende, Lieutenant Colonel Noel Habiyaremye, Lieutenant Jean Marie Vianney Karuta and Major Vital Uwumuremyi).
Rwandan prosecution accused her of “Forming an armed group with the aim of destabilising the country, complicity to acts of terrorism, conspiracy against the government by use of war and terrorism, inciting the masses to revolt against the government, genocide ideology and provoking divisionism”. She denies all the charges which she claims are politically motivated.

Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza is a founding member of many associations and foundations in the union sector: Association Contact, Dialogue et Actions Caritatives (CODAC) which seeks to give moral, legal advice and material support to the survivors of the Great Lakes region in the Netherlands or in their region; Association URAHO of women refugees from Rwanda in the Netherlands, focusing on getting Rwandese women out of isolation and helping them integrate into Dutch society, to assist non-accompanied children and asylum seekers; Fondation PROJUSTITIA-Rwanda, committed to fighting in favour of fair justice for all victims of the Rwandan tragedy; HARAMBE, platform of African women’s associations in the Netherlands committed to promoting development of African women on the continent. Umuhoza was also member of the executive committee of ZWALU, a platform bringing together foreign women in the Netherlands to promote their emancipation.

Ms. Ingabire
 


UMUHOZA
WACU



Mother, Daughter and Sister

 ****

The best friend of mine

We always think of you at each passing night and day

Three years have come to an end there.

What crime did You commit to deserve prison?

Because of your love to all of us

Within these walls of Kagame’s prison

Your mind and thoughts run free.

At the other side, inside and outside of our mother’sland

We think of  you, Ingabire Umuhoza wacu and days gone by

 We feel so helpless, so weak. Most of our relatives were mass-slaughtered

The RPF impunity for millions of crimes still flourishes in our lovely country

If you were here, We would have Freedom and democracy,

What you always dreamed for.

We wonder how life of all Rwandans would have been

if you weren’t jailed by the Rwandan criminal still at large

And we ask the world community why you remain behind these bars

If you were free today

How would our life be different? !

And of what You mean to us.

Would this be considered a miracle ?? Just have a look:

Your last name       :   INGABIRE
Your middle name      :    UMUHOZA
Your First name       :   VICTOIRE

We began to hope it might be possible.

The Rwandan youth has risen like lions

Determined to free their country’s daughter and mother

We”ve asked a million times, sending letters, by visits and demonstrations

Multiple  signs were sent throughtout  the world

Still no reaction to our tears with no sun in sight

If we could only freely talk to you, if you were released

You might have stopped RPF and Kagame’s crimes.

We are thankful for the time we had

But you know all about Rwandans’ thoughts

They seek for the truth and happiness, as you do

In the years since you’ve been imprisoned.

We need you and miss you so much

We love you for a fact: You happened to be Ndabaga wacu

But we know our life is different as you still in your hijackers’hands

Many of exiled Rwandans and your cocitizens

won’t stay abroad, we all need you and our daily tears won’t stop
We know You have been betrayed.
The obstacle that we will encounter on the path to freedom is betrayal

We need to survive it and we will.

God, the defender of our cause, is answering us

We cannot control or hide, we still have hope and dreams

You are’ a prisoner but not alone, all of us think of you and are with you

With each passing day, we grow stronger

No one in this world can comprehend how hard it is

But We will win !

To have you in Kagame’s jail, because of your thoughts

and goowill to set us free.

Still We put all of our faith in the Lord  who looks after you

We are wating for you,as as israelis did for Jesus

But Still It is True.


We know that changing the world is not easy

but it remains necessary nonetheless.

And We will win !

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

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

Malcom

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