The unemployment rate for the Hutu young people rises to its highest recorded level (a rise of 15% per cent), and is expected to continue increasing. Main reason: Discrimination, genocide idelology and hatred between the main ethnic groups in Rwanda feuled the hatred speech by the RPF leadership and government.
ASI strongly believe that there is no political problem, ethnic hatred issues included, for which peaceful solution does not exist.
The logic behind the tensions from the Hutu side is mainly the fact that the majority Hutu is totally marniginalized both politically and economically. Contrary to expectations, Tony Blair is fueling hatred between both ethnic group as the main Kagame advisor, an extremist Tutsi, who took power in in 1994 by a bloody coup.
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Instead of wasting billions of dollars in sponsoring the Tutsi minority rule and RPF criminals, it would be much more sensible to invest in negotiations between both parties in the conflict. [ASIF]
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Freedom of expression in Rwanda has been unduly restricted for many years. The months leading up to the August 2010 presidential elections were marked by a clampdown on freedom of expression, which still shows no sign of abating. In this campaign digest Amnesty International calls on the Rwandan authorities to allow opposition politicians, journalists and human rights defenders and others to express their views without fear for their safety and to accelerate the review of the “genocide ideology” law and the 2009 media law. |
| Youth unemployment at highest recorded level In Rwanda |
Restrictions on freedom of association and expression prevented new opposition parties from contesting the August 2010 elections. During this period, journalists were subjected to criminal sanctions for defamation. The Rwandan government did not respond constructively to criticism but rather tried to stamp it out.
CRIMINALIZING CRITICISM
Vague and sweeping laws on “divisionism” and “genocide ideology” were introduced in Rwanda in the decade after the 1994 genocide. Up to 800,000 Rwandans were killed in the genocide, mostly ethnic Tutsi, but also Hutu who opposed the organized killing. The laws prohibit hate speech, but are broadly drafted so
that they criminalize expression that does not amount to hate speech, including legitimate criticism of the government. The laws contravene Rwanda’s regional and international human rights obligations and commitments to Amnesty International June 2011 Index: AFR 47/002/2011
UNSAFE TO SPEAK OUT RESTRICTIONS ON FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION IN RWANDA
Freedom of expression in Rwanda has been unduly restricted for many years. The months leading up to the August 2010 presidential elections, which President Paul Kagame won with 93 per cent of the vote, were marked by a clampdown on freedom of expression. The Rwandan government has expressed a commitment to review laws which criminalize criticism, but recent trials of journalists and opposition politicians suggest that Rwanda’s clampdown on critics shows no sign of abating.
Read more on : The Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF), in power since the 1994 genocide, tightly controls political space, civil society and the media, contending that this is necessary to prevent renewed violence.
African SurViVors International (ASI) is an international nonpartisan charity organization devoted to defending human rights. It’s an organization working to promote democracy and national reconciliation, inside countries of the African Great lakes Region.
ASI centers its work on the twin concepts of freedom of self-determination and freedom from tyranny. These ideals include the belief that all human beings have the rights to speak freely, to associate with those of like mind, and to leave and enter their countries. Individuals in a free society must be accorded equal treatment and due process under law, and must have the opportunity to participate in the governments of their countries;
ASI’s ideals likewise find expression in the conviction that all human beings have the right to be free from arbitrary detainment or exile and from interference and coercion in matters of conscience. ASI does not support nor condone violence.
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
