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08-09-2025 Vol 19

[Since 1994, the world witnesses the horrifying reality : the Tutsi minority (14%) ethnic domination, the Tutsi minority ethnic rule, 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 with an iron hand, and the brutal suppression of the rights of the majority of the Rwandan people (85% are Hutus), mass-arrests and mass-murder by the RPF criminal organization.

So long as justice and accountability for RPF past and current crimes are ignored and delayed, Peace and Stability will remain illusive and impossible in Rwanda=>ASIF]

NEWS ADVISORY

International Humanitarian Law Institute
Prof. Peter Erlinder, Director
875 Summit Av.
St. Paul, MN 55102/651-290-6384

WHEN: Friday, October 22, 2010, 10 am.
WHAT: Press Conference, Prof. Peter Erlinder
WHERE: Wm. Mitchell College of Law, 875 Summit Av., St. Paul, MN

St. Paul – Oct 21 – After arresting would-be Presidential candidate Victoire Ingabire six days ago, Rwanda’s Chief Prosecutor Martin Ngoga announced he intends to prosecute her former lawyer and UN Rwanda Tribunal Defense Counsel, U.S. Law Prof. Peter Erlinder, for “genocide denial” based on articles written in the U.S. and published on the internet (AP 10/21). Rwanda jailed Erlinder in May, who was released after an international campaign. Ingabire is now in the same cell.
“Before my arrest, Bill Clinton and Tony Blair helped create the myth that the Kagame dictatorship had changed. Both Madame Ingabire and I were misled, reality of the situation in Rwanda has become clear.”



“After my release, the banning of all serious political opposition, the beheading of the vice-President of the Green Party, Madame Ingabire’s arrest, the assassination of journalists, the attempted assassination of Mr. Kagame’s former Chief of Staff who defected to South Africa, the assassination of another ICTR defense counsel and Kagame’s “election” with 93% of the vote caused the Obama White House to question the state of democracy in Rwanda for the first time:

‘…a series of disturbing events prior to the election including the suspension of two newspapers, the expulsion of a human rights activists, the barring of two opposition parties from taking part in the election, and the arrest of journalists…[S]tability and prosperity will be difficult to sustain without broad political debate and open political participation…” Democracy is about more than holding elections…’”

“On August 28, LeMonde and the New York Times leaked a 600-page UN report detailing crimes of Kagame’s troops in the Congo between 1993-2003, including genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity. The same crimes Chief ICTR Prosecutor Carla Del Ponte’s says were committed by Kagame’s troops Rwanda in 1994. Her 2009 memoirs explain how she was fired by the State Department in 2003 when she refused to follow U.S. orders not to prosecute Kagame’s RPF, despite having evidence of their crimes, including the assassination of two presidents.”“These UN documents also confirm that the evidence that acquitted my client of ‘conspiracy and planning to commit genocide’ in a Feb. 2009 ICTR Judgment, described a much larger reality about the actual source of 30 years of violence in Central Africa. And, if there was no long-term planning and conspiracy, the victor’s story of the “Rwandan genocide” must be re-examined. This is my ‘crime.’”


“But, my prosecution has larger implications, as well. If UN immunity does not apply to any prosecution of defense counsel by the Kagame government, a government the former Chief ICTR Prosecutor and the UN, itself, both confirm is led by criminals and has been committing mass crimes for decades, meaningful representation of any UN Tribunal defendants will be impossible.”

Peter Erlinder

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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