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Demonstrators rallied in Toronto Saturday against a private visit to Canada by Rwandan President Paul Kagame, urging his arrest.
Shouting “No more killing!” and “Kagame is an assassin!” through megaphones, protesters brandished placards with photos of bloodied victims outside a luxury hotel where Kagame and his delegation were believed to be staying ahead of a meeting to mark Rwanda Day.
Paul Kagame déchaîne les mêmes passions qu’à sa première visite au
Canada, en avril 2006. À Montréal, où il participait à une conférence
sur l’éducation et le développement économique en Afrique, des centaines
de personnes l’avaient pris à partie.
Le collectif, qui
considère que M. Kagame a commis des crimes de guerre lors du génocide
rwandais, demande au Canada de le déclarer persona non grata.
Si
aucune accusation n’a formellement été déposée à ce jour contre Paul
Kagame, plusieurs le soupçonnent d’avoir commandité l’attentat contre
l’avion de l’ancien président rwandais, Juvenal Habyarimana, alors qu’il
était le commandant des principales forces rebelles du pays. La mort du
président Habyarimana a déclenché le génocide.
« Il soutient le
mouvement rebelle, qui a eu lieu depuis 1994. Et de cela, huit millions
de personnes sont mortes et plus de deux millions de femmes ont été
violées », indique l’un de ses opposants.
Pour ses partisans, Paul Kagame, au pouvoir depuis 1994, est plutôt le héros qui a ressoudé le Rwanda à la suite du génocide.
Le
collectif souligne que le Canada a adopté, en 2000, la Loi sur les
crimes contre l’humanité et les crimes de guerre, qui permet d’exercer
des poursuites contre toute personne retrouvée au Canada après avoir
commis les infractions visées par la loi, sans égard à sa nationalité ni
au lieu où les crimes ont été commis.
The protesters also carried signs and shouted chants accusing Kagame of the murders of millions of Congolese. One common chant was, “Kagame, genocidaire.” Genocidaire is a term for a perpetrator of genocide. In 2009, the United Nations released a report that alleged that Rwanda may have committed genocide on the Hutu people during its 1996–97 pursuit of Hutu perpetrators of the 1994 genocide who had fl ed to the neighboring Democratic Republic of the Congo, then called Zaire. The report said that the large numer of innocent Hutu civilians who were killed or harmed suggested that they were not merely collateral damage, and that the intent of the Rwandan military may have been to destroy the Hutu people “in whole or in part,” in accordance with the definition of genocide in international law. However, the report also raised doubts about this inent, noting that the Rwandan military also spared Hutu lives and helped many Hutu back into Rwanda. The Rwandan government issued an official rebuttal of the report, denying any claims of genocide and saying that the report used “fl awed methodology and application of the lowest imaginable evidentiary standard.” There have also been allegations that Rwanda is exploiting Congolese mineral resources. According to Cech, the amount of minerals which have recently been officially exported from Rwanda does not physically exist within the country. “Part of [the success of Rwanda] is that it’s built on the backs of the Congolese, who have really paid the price in human life,” Cech said.
President Kagame in Toronto
Emmanuel Hakizimana, Ph.D. and Gallican Gasana
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While the Syrian civil war remains on the front pages of the major
world newspapers, the war in the African Great Lakes region continues
unabated with its death toll since twenty years, and Western media
outlets keep scrambling for hot stories, unmoved by the African
bloodletting.
perpetrators of the foolish massive human slaughter, which has already
taken more than eight million lives, are touring Western capitals and
cities with utmost delight, while their handy-men go on rampage,
slaughtering entire families.
looking forward to. According to an announcement by the Embassy of
Rwanda in Canada, the President of Rwanda is to visit Toronto on
September 27 -28, 2013.
concerned citizens of African Great lakes region, from Rwanda, Burundi,
Congo and Tanzania to send letters to the Government of Canada, to
express their protest against the visit.
entry on Canadian territory, in consideration of charges which have been
leveled against him, his fiery speeches and other serious violations of
human rights violations by his regime.
insecurity risks that visit could trigger, as President Kagame is known
to travel with handy-men whose task is to hunt down members of the
opposition.
are also getting ready to face the possible arrival of President
Kagame, and they have vowed to converge to Toronto from all over Canada
and America, in order to stage a mammoth protest against the man who is
regarded as the world greatest criminal still in power.
open, the fact that Rwanda has been supporting M23 Congolese rebels who
have been ransacking Eastern Congo (DRC), by supplying men, weapons and
ammunitions.
systematic gang rapes and forceful recruitment of children, to be used
as soldiers. Evidence of the involvement of President Paul Kagame’s army
in those crimes has led several donor countries, including UK, the USA,
and Germany, the Netherland and others, limit their financial
assistance to Rwanda.
chief, stands accused by the UN Mapping Report,of the most serious human
rights violations committed between 1993 and 2003 on the territory of
the Democratic Republic of Congo.
human rights and international humanitarian law against the people of
Congo and Rwandan Hutu refugees all along the mentioned period, and the
report states that these crimes would amount to genocide if evidence
thereof were to be presented before a competent jurisdiction.
denounced by major human rights and freedom of expression organizations
such as Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International and Reporters Without
Borders, for victimization, imprisonment and murder of members of
political opposition and independent journalists.
of Rwanda, André Kagwa Rwisereka, was beheaded a few months in the
runoff of the presidential elections in August 2010.
Leonard Rugambage and the imprisonment of Ms Ingabire Victoire, Mr.
Deogratias Mushayidi and Attorney Bernard Ntaganda, who are respectively
Chairpersons of political parties FDU Inkingi, PDP Imanzi and PS
Imberakuri.
also sends hit squads abroad, tasked with killing opposition leaders
and independent journalists who have fled the country. Journalist
Charles Ingabire was gunned down in Uganda, but an attempt on the life
of General Kayumba Nyamwasa has failed in South Africa, as were the
attempts by the same hit squads to kill Jonathan Musonera and René
Mugenzi in Great Britain.
2013, he declared that he would “lie in wait for President Kikwete to
hit him at the right moment”. This threat was directed at the Tanzanian
President, following his advice, during the 21st summit meeting of the
African Union on May 26 in Addis Ababa, to get the incumbent governments
of countries involved in the Eastern Congolese crisis, to sit down and
negotiate with their rebel forces. According to President Kikwete, if
Kinshasa government can negotiate with M23 rebels, Kigali and Kampala
should also engage rebels opposed to their regimes.
who have immigrated to North America from Congo, Rwanda, Burundi and
Tanzania, are mobilizing for a mammoth protest against President Kagame
in Toronto in case Canada would grant him an entry visa.
That being the case, it remains difficult to understand why Canada
would, as a principle, deport immigrants suspected of genocide, war
crimes or crimes against humanity or even persons who are accused of
having made hate speeches, and then turn around and welcome on its
territory a person, head of state or otherwise.
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
