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To H.E.Paul
Kagame,
Also RPF CHAIRMAN, and Chairman RPA Command Kigali, Rwanda Your Excellency, Ref : RPF/RPA Performance in the last ten years (1) ------------------------------------------------------ Justification Twenty years ago, the Rwandese Alliance For national Unity (RANU) was formed. It is about thirteen years ago since we transformed RANU into the " Rwandese Patriotic Front " and the "Rwandese Patriotic Army" ( RPF/RPA). It is about ten years ago since we launched the armed struggle against the dictatorship of Juvenal Habyalimana and about six years since the RPF/RPA Government was sworn in, while for four years now, Rwanda has military intervened In the Democratic Republic of Congo. After all these years of work members of RPF/RPA needed to have sat together like it used to be, to share achievements, appreciate _____________________________________ 1.I shall continue to avail more detailed information on major issues raised in this letter. __________________ failures, share experiences and chart out the way forward. Unfortunately such opportunities no longer exist, if they do you only share them with around you, whose pre-occupation is to tell you what they know you would like to hear. However we must hear in mind the fact that there are millions of Rwandese who are not members of the RPF/RPA and who out of no noise of theirs have been subject to RPF/RPA policies for the last six to ten years. There are also our Neighboring Countries, which have and continued to feel the direct impact of that happiness on our soils day by day. This is not to mention the Democratic Republic of the Congo in which our forces have been operational for several years. There is also the International Community, which for obvious reasons we cannot afford to ignore. To all these, to all of us and for all the years, the RPF/RPA leadership must be accountable. Background I am sure you will remember that post independent Rwanda had a problem of successive un democratic regimes, which among other things had deliberately denied sections of the population fundamental rights. You will also recall, that when : we conceived and launched the RPF/RPA way back in 1987, we had the task to build a mass based political movement and a pro-people national army. The RPF/RPA Apolitical program, constitution and code of conductor all clear testimonies to our vision of the struggle we wanted to wage and the kind of society we wanted to build. We all know that it was in this spirit that the RPF/RPA continued to work up to 1990, whether in recruitment of cadres, recruitment of soldiers, in mass mobilization, in fundraising or any other activity. Indeed, I am reliably informed that in the same spirit that the RPF in the region and abroad continued to work up to July 1994 when the RPF /RPA led Government was sworn in. However, allow me to state very categorically that with the on set of the armed struggle in Northern Rwanda, the strategy of forging a genuine broad based movement, the building of a pro-people army, mass empowerment and popular participation all become things of the past. On the contrary, as the years passerby, militarism, terrorism, killings, elimination of political opponents, systematic looting and economic plunder, finally assumed dominance over what should have been our pro-people political ideology and propeople military doctrine. After the capture of State Power, the negative tendencies and practices become generalized, institutionalized and regionalized. There is also the personality cult that has been created around you. In typical Rwandese ancient fashion culture, you have y omission or commission allowed your self to be taken and all knowing and infallible. This mystification combined with your terrorist methods, has reduced Somme of our people to silence and passivity ; rather than staying up to meet their daily challenges, rather than raising up to challenge some of your excesses, they simply sit out the days waiting for some one to miraculously come to their rescue. Some even naively believe that without you and your regime, their lives would come to a sudden and tragic end. The situation therefore demands that you personality and your regime become publicly demystified as part and parcel of the process of empowerment of our people. The purpose of this letter is to highlight the fundamental weakness and failures of the RPF/RPA leadership over the last ten years. Early Years It has over the years surgically been observed that the RPF/RPA current leadership only pays lip service to the RPF/RPA Political Program and the Programs of the respective Governments of National Unity. It indeed appears that the RPF/RPA leaders shared with the rest of the members only one of the several points of 5 the RPF/RPA Political Program; the point concerning statelessness but as the events continue to prove, even this seems to have been purely from as the events continue to prove, even this seems to have been purely from a selfish point of view. It has in fact been established beyond any reasonable doubt, that your leadership has no fundamental differences with previous dictatorial regimes ; and that the differences if any, are only quantitative. By the fall of Kigali, only a handful of Hutu leader were members of the RPF/RPA. Evidence bears witness to the fact that the opportunities were deliberately limited , the pretext being that every Hutu could be an enemy. This parochial approach created mobilization and recruitment difficulties from as way back as 1997. To date the Hutu who are members of the RPF/RPA can still be counted off on ones fingertips. Part 2 coming up.
The Mulindwas Communication Group
"With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in anarchy" Groupe de communication Mulindwas "avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est dans l'anarchie" |
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