New York Times: Grenade Attacks Shake Capital of Rwanda (Video)

May 17,2010
Posted by NY Times

[Since 1994, the world witnesses the horrifying 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), and mass-arrests and mass-murder by the RPF criminal organization.=>ASIF]

KAMPALA, Uganda — Nearly simultaneous grenade attacks in the Rwandan capital, Kigali, killed at least two people and wounded 32 on Saturday evening, the police said Sunday.

The grenades were thrown into crowds at a popular market and the city’s busiest bus station.

The attacks, which occurred within an hour, were the third set to rock Kigali since February. They came as political tension has risenahead of a presidential election in August. The police said they were investigating.

While past grenade attacks have been aimed mainly at genocide survivors or genocide memorials and were often blamed on rebels, the recent ones have struck at commercial areas, creating a new level of tension in the capital. Kigali residents said Sunday that some roads had been closed and that there was an increased army presence there.

In March, President Paul Kagame blamed two senior army officers who fled Rwanda for being behind the attacks. Since then, two high-ranking generals have been
arrested and others dismissed, and security forces have swept the country for arms and ammunition. Two newspapers that reported on a possible coup attempt were suspended. Scholar Gus Martin describes state terrorism as terrorism “committed by governments and quasi-governmental agencies and personnel against perceived enemies,” which can be directed against both domestic and external enemies.

[2] The original general meaning of terrorism was of terrorism by the state, as reflected in the 1798 supplement of the Dictionnaire of the Academie Francaise, which described terrorism as systeme, regime de la terreur.

[3] Similarly, a terrorist in the late 18th century was considered any person “who attempted to further his views by a system of coercive intimidation.

“[4] The terms “establishment terrorism,” “terrorism from above” (as opposed to “terrorism from below” (terrorism by non-state groups) and “structural terrorism” are sometimes used to denote state terrorism.

In a recent phone interview, one general blamed for the attacks, Lt. Gen. Kayumba Nyamwasa, said that Mr. Kagame was using security forces to protect his hold on power. “The army, the police, the intelligence, these are personal institutions,” he said. “It cannot be like this forever.”