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Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2003 5:15 AM
Subject: [rwanda-l] LOVE IS IN THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER isn't
Nikozitambirwa & Byilingiro? From The East African, Sept 16-22, 2002 By Charles Onyango-Obbo ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------- Some years ago my managing director travelled to a big conference of newspaper executives in London organized by the Financial Times. One of the sessions was a presentation on global newsprint price trends. So on flashed the giant electronic board, showing newsprint consumption in the world. There were buttons blinking on many countries and continents except one � Africa. As if to make the point that it was the Dark Continent, it was an unlit block. Going by the proud swagger of some of the African newspaper CEOs and editors whose publications sell over 200,000, you might be tempted into considering that a remarkable achievement. Don't. There are simply too few such papers, definitely less than ten � lower than the combined daily circulation of the British tabloid The Sun. The one place I didn't expect to find Africa dealt with so dismissively was in the scenic resort Indonesian island of Bali. So many tourists troop through the island's Denpasar airport, you can feel your head turn at the numbers. In the departure lounge is a huge board indicating the times of the major cities on each of the continents. Nothing is shown in Africa, not even the usual suspects - Nairobi, Johannesburg, Cairo, or Lagos. That's strange considering that the founder of modern Indonesia, Surkano Sukarno, was one of people who inspired the Cold War Third World political bloc, the Non-Aligned Countries. And of its East Asian neighbours like Singapore and Malaysia, Indonesia bears the closest resemblance to Africa with its ruinous ways, and squandered opportunities to move in the newly industrializing countries league. On the first anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks by Islamic militants in the USA, the American embassy in Indonesia, the country with the world's largest Muslim population, was closed. US ambassador Ralph Boyce was summoned by Indonesia's acting foreign minister to explain why the action had been taken without consulting the Jakarta government, in a manner that was reminiscent of Kenyan President Daniel arap Moi's famous diplomatic scuffles with the late- 80s abrasive American envoy Smith Hempstone. It's corruption, however, that still has the Indonesians� hopping mad. A court recently sentenced House of Representatives Speaker Akbar Tandjung to three years in jail for embezzling Ushs 9bn (US5m). Under Indonesian law, Tandjung would have had to resign or go to jail if the verdict was considered strong. But apparently because the verdict is considered weak, the Speaker has appealed, and remains in office. His Golkar Party supports him, and the opposition, though it has the numbers to unseat Tandjung, has failed to find the stomach to get rid of him. The air is filled with angry denunciations of Tandjung by commentators who argue that he only confirms Indonesia as one of the world�s most corrupt countries, and its politicians crooks without a sense of shame and honour. Indonesia is a country of a mind-boggling 14,000 islands, and possibly near 40,000 if you throw in the rocks and miniscule islets. Jakarta alone has 13 rivers running through it. And now it's choking with a very East African problem � the water hyacinth that has been largely conquered in Uganda. Among Indonesia's redemptions is that it has a lot of common sense marketing its tourism. Tourism has fed a culture that is polite to the point of being embarrassing. The tourists are returning the compliments by spending big. So guess where the Indonesian cinematic society is planning to hold its 2002 film festival? In Melbourne, Australia. Indeed the irony of the blank Africa at the Denpasar airport time map struck me when I learnt that tropical plants, some of them from Africa, are being sold to tourists for a fortune. Some of the tree seedlings are selling for; you can understand why an East African won't believe this, the equivalent of Ushs 7.2m ($4,000) apiece. That is 102,000 percent higher than a Ugandan school teacher's monthly salary! LOVE IS IN THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER (that's why we can't love ourselves, as we are so dark no mirror can't reflect our own image to ourselves!) The Hawker (the bird eye) --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], "Zephanie Byilingiro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On me dit que le sommet etait en francais et que donc Kagame peut beneficier > des circonstances attenuantes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! > Kagame etait-il le seul au sommet a ne pas comprende le francais?- N'etait-il > pas lui qui avait declare que le Rwanda est membre de la famille > francophone? > Pourquoi a-t-il attendu la fin du sommet pour se dissocier avec les > autres?-Quel est le bilan qu'il peut tirer de ce somment apres ces > tergiversations et le NIET sur l'impunite? > Savait-il qu'au moment ou il se trouvait a Paris pour plaider en faveur de > l'impunite, un membre des FDLR enfoncait le clou a BARCELONA ou Africains, > Europeens et Americains defenseurs des droits de l'homme s'etaient > rassembles "to find out who was responsible for the death of more than 5 > million people in the Great Lakes Region of Africa"? > Savait-il que "the Bigest Crimes Against Humanity case was to be opened in > Spain against him? > savait-il que cette volte face diplomatique etait non seulement "irrelevant" > mais aussi contre lui? > Comment, de Paris a Bruxelles, charles Muligande, est-il alle s'engager dans > le sens du sommet contre ce que Kagame contestait la veille? > Zephanie > > ----- Original Message ----- > > Babyita volte face diplomatique.Abajyanama be bamugiriye inama mbi.Iyo areka > umuhutu we Makuza akajyayo we agakomeza gahunda i Washington yaliku > byivanamo neza atanduranije.Niko zitambirwa nyine.C�est tr�s amusant. > Alphonse > > "Zephanie Byilingiro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > > Paul Kagame ne pouvait pas dire autrement car, Jacques Chirac n'a pas �t� > tendre a son endroit, en lui signifiant que le temps de l'impunite etait > fini. De plus, cette d�claration de Paris n'est pas bienvenue a Washington, > derniere �tape de la tourn�e de Paul Kagame. Il ne charche qu'a sauver sa > face devant l'administration Americaine mais il a oublie qu'on ne court pas > deux lievres a la fois. Il a choisi d'aller a Paris au mauvais moment et a > Washington, il ya risque qu'on lui dise que le temps du mensonge est fini. > Kagame, en effet, savait que l'Union Africaine a pris position sur cette > question; le sommet France-Afrique avait �t� pr�par� par les ministres (dont > le sien), - et il avait Bihozagara comme Ambassadeur aupres de Jacques > Chirac pour �tre inform� en avance sur tout ce qui se rapportait a ce > sommet, y compris la d�claration finale sur tel ou tel sujet brulant du > moment. > > > > Notre communaut� FOJUPET veut promouvoir la Justice, la Paix, l'unit� et > l'Egalit� pour tous les rwandais d�cid�s a se r�concilier avec eux- m�mes. > Nous sommes convaincus que seules la tol�rance et la r�conciliation peuvent > garantir cette Justice sociale,Unit�, Paix et Egalit� pour Tous apres tant > d'ann�es de haine et d'autodestruction injustifi�es. > > FOJUPET > > www.groups.msn.com/FOJUPET > > > > ZEPHANIE BYILINGIRO > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: john kagabo > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Saturday, February 22, 2003 8:43 AM > > Subject: [rwanda-l] D�claration pas discut�e - P.Kagame > > > > > > > > > > > > Netters, > > > > Ampayinka ! > > > > None se baliya ba Perezida baba barabasinyishije ibyo batababwiye neza? > Birabe ibyuya ! > > > > J.K > > > > ___________ > > > > �D�claration� de Paris : les Africains forc�s � signer ? > > > > Par Christophe AYAD > > > > samedi 22 f�vrier 2003 > > > > > > imprimer l'article envoyer l'article articles les plus envoy�s > > > > aul Kagame a jet� un pav� dans la mare vendredi en affirmant, peu apr�s > la cl�ture du sommet France-Afrique, que la �d�claration� de soutien des 52 > pays africains � la position fran�aise sur l'Irak n'avait pas �t� discut�e > par les chefs d'Etat : �Je n'ai rien sign�. Nous n'avons m�me pas d�battu du > probl�me (...). Peut-�tre certains leaders ont �t� contact�s mais pas moi.� > Le pr�sident rwandais laisse entendre que Paris a impos� cette �d�claration� > sans consulter les Africains. Le S�n�galais Wade a affirm� au contraire > qu'un �vote� avait eu lieu. Une chose est s�re : le sujet a �t� longuement > �voqu� lors de la r�union minist�rielle de pr�paration du sommet, mercredi. > L'Union africaine s'est prononc�e sur ce sujet, le 3 f�vrier � Addis-Abeba : > la �d�claration� de Paris, qui estime qu'�il y a une alternative � la > guerre�, reprend les termes de la position arr�t�e par les Africains. Une > position que ne partage pas Kagame, pour qui le choix n'est pas entre guerre > et paix mais entre une guerre aujourd'hui et une guerre dans quelques ann�es > contre un r�gime �quip� d'armes de destruction massives. > > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------- > > With Yahoo! 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