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Parliament was
instructed by the RPF/RPA to use all
types of fabricated reasons to pass a vote of no confidence in the President. But many Rwandese knew that you had wished to get rid of the President for many months and finally when it happened, some of us were not so surprised. We were more surprised by the lies and the viciousness of your apostles ! However, even after you completed the coup d'état against the President, you remained with a Constitutional obstacle for you to be able to take over the Presidency without appearing to have violated the Constitution are in conflict. While it is this true that the RPF declaration prevails in the hierarchy of laws of Rwanda, this is only correct when two parts of the Constitution are in conflict. In this case however there was no conflict. The RPF declaration established the post of Vice Presidency but is silent on its powers and responsibilities as well as on possibilities and modalities of succession to the Presidency. On the other hand Arusha peace agreement is clear about the replacement of the President and provides for the Speaker of National Assembly as the successor. What is appalling however is that the International Community , political parties in the Country, the Media and the civil Society groups all remained silent, when the intimidated Constitutional Court declared Major General Paul KAGAME the rightful successor to H.E. President Pasteur BIZIMUNGU. Thanks to all the manipulations, you now appear set as the incumbent President, to finally push your way through the coming election as the sole presidential candidate come the year 2003. However, it should be clear to clear to all that what the RPF/RPA you lead has actually done is to a carry gradual and peace full coup d'état against H.E. President Pasteur BIZIMUNGU and to violate the Constitution. Sham elections. Your Excellency, you are making Rwandese and the International community to believe that you have finally opened up the way for democratization. But you and me very well know this is yet an an other wild goose chase for our people. You and your team have planned, and you are executing sham elections aimed at bringing to Office members of the RPF/Clique around you, and come the year 2003, the sham elections must give you, and come the year 2003, the sham elections musty give you an election landslide presidential mandate. The sham Electoral Commission has not as yet come up with guidelines on the elections to come. Neither has the Parliament passed any electoral laws and yet your Government has gone ahead to fabricate electoral procedures and constituencies deliberately demarcated to favor the RPF/RPA supported candidates. You have barred all political forces in the Country from campaigning and yet your RPF/RPA has launched a clandestine national compaign program that is now several months old. Candidates in all communes have been identified, compaign resources are being supplied and rival candidates are being intimidated. The RPF/RPA is busy intimidating and /or bringing candidates so as to make them join the RPF/RPA camp or to simply keep away. This applies to most Communal Leaders who are members of other political parties. The RPA has been brought in to give full support to the RPF/RPA candidates countrywide. The RPA Army Hqs, Brigade and Battalion Commanders as well as Intelligence Officers, have all been briefed and facilitated to ensure RPF/RPA victory at any cost. Dictatorial Leadership Style You will no doubt he existing power vacuum in the RPF/RPA, to gradually and unfairly strengthened your position by distancing those you were not sure of and dividing others by crating artificial conflicts. In the process you developed your own personal style of leadership ; a dictatorial type of leadership, in many ways akin to the rule of Rwanda's pre-colonial despotic kings. You surround your self with and only trust your childhood friends, former classmates those who have ever served under you or in any case those who have served under you or in any case those willing to bringing you information about others however biased the information may be . You coerce, intimidate and even physically assault those who work with you. Extreme out of anger ; some times even on national radio and television are common occurrences in your day to day running of state affairs. In military circles such moods are some times accompanied by physical assault of those close to you. Indeed senior army officers, military assistants and escort have often become victims of your moods by for example being slapped, punched, whipped or at least insulted and threatened in the process of executing their duties or even in meetings. You remember one senior officer recently escaped to Brussels after such treatment in an Army Council meeting. You believe you know and understand every thing much better than all other people and consequently you assume you do not be advised by any body. You do not entertain debate and those around you do not dare venture into raising controversial matters. Your word irreversible. You kill and save at will ! You entertain meetings only to monitor tendencies and people's inclinations with a view to assessing how to enforce your positions. You take all the important decisions in the RPF/RPA Government. Any body else's initiative, which indeed is a very rare occurrence, must carefully be sold to you to have it approved. The entire Rwandese Community is aware of this kind of leadership style and this is why none dares cross your way even in words. Those close to you what they know for sure you would like to hear. Those in your company only dare laugh when it is your pleasure and who they raised provocative questions. This being the case, there is no simple program, policy or major activity that has been carried out in the RPF/RPA and in the respective Governments of National Reconciliation without either your personal initiative or direct approval. I therefore give you credit for good that the RPF/RPA has achieved and hold you responsible for its omissions and wrong actions. What went wrong ? While there is not doubt that the RPF/RPA struggle in Rwanda and in the war in DRC were justified, and despite apparent military victories, there is overwhelming evidence to the effect that in the conduct of the armed struggle against the Juvenal HABYALIMANA's regime and the war to stop genocide, the management of State Affairs in Kigali, the conduct of the on going war in the DRC, there has been continuous failure to evolve a correct political line, a correct organizational line and a correct military line. Over the years the RPA has militarily been guided by trial and error and as situations change there is no serious efficient to adopt a military line that is in harmony with situation ; that ensures the harmony between our aims and available resources ; that avoids militarism and adventurism. In particular, our experiences in late 1990, 1991, and early 1992, are clear illustrations of this point. The RPF/RPA wars in the DRC have continued to follow the same pattern, thereby proving that the RPF/RPA has not up to day not appreciated the necessity to adopt scientific and tested approaches to war. As a consequence the RPF/RPA has always paid dearly in human life (4) You of course let no body know your death and casualty rates. But these rates we know any way and may be you should endeavor to know, the amount of bitterness among your senior officers whenever there is talk about those who «perished» and those who «survived». You will remember that despite the RPF/RPA political program ; which is progressive and patriotic ; which supports the right and condemns the wrong , which aspires to work with and for the masses, the RPF/RPA leadership had by the end of 1990, totally given up the necessity to follow a broad, patriotic, nationalistic, progressive and anti-sectarian political line. The weakest link in this connection is the sectarian character of the RPF/RPA leadership, which is based on the assumption that all Tutsi must be allies, all Hutus must not be trusted and other nationalities in the region are politically and militarily inferior. In the DRC for example, we developed the naïve belief that all Congolese are politically useless and born cowards. We have consequently refused to empower the Congolese people so as to transform them into self-sustaining political and military fighters. 4 . When time comes, this shall be discussed in amore detailed form and giving specific example _________________________________________ We naively think we can substitute them in their own liberation struggle. Or may be as some quarters have always suggested, the RPF/RPA has a hidden agenda for the DRC. The RPF/RPA organizational line; the ability to maintain the equilibrium between various military, political, economic and other forces and factors, whether at home or in the DRC, whether in the military, in Government or else where has and remains most haphazard. The internal and inter-institutional contradictions and problems highlighted earlier, serve as clear illustrations of the RPF/RPA failure to evolve a correct organizational line over the years. The instability characteristic of the RPF/RPA organizational plane. Lack of political education and political work. It is unbelievable that with the RPF political program by the side, and with flesh NRM/NRA experience, the presence of intellectuals among its ranks not withstanding, 33 that the RPA leadership could have failed to appreciate the necessity to adopt a correct military line, a correct organizational line as the sine qua non for waging a successful liberation struggle. However to the RPA insiders, this was and is no surprise. The culture of study whether of political matters, military strategy and tactics, organizational problems and opportunities was never given a platform. In particular political education was slowly stifled and political work in the armed forces was reduced to welfare issues, while political work among the population was the exception rather the general rule. This is how you destroyed political education and marginalized political work in the RPF/RPA is dead. On the contrary, people joke about your intelligence service to effect that you will soon have an operative for every citizen. The fact that you personally believe in mechanical discipline rather than conscious discipline was no justification for you to marginalize political education and political education and political work both in the armed forces and among the population. Indeed the RPF/RPA survives, thanks to much weakens enemies ! Observations What ever has been described above has evidence. If you or anybody else in your regime wishes to challenge any one of these facts, it shall be ready to provide names, numbers, dates and places. All of us who were in the RPF/RPA know the above as facts. Some NGOs and UN Agencies witnessed and some of these atrocities. Even the RPF/RPA Hutu members could not be shielded from these realities irrespective of how much those concerned tried to hide evidevence. (5) In any case there are survivors of these killings who could give evidence if they were given security guarantees. Here above-mentioned tendencies and practices were at some stage or another raised and discussed in appropriate fora. Those who raise the issues were considered as negative elements and treated as enemies. It is regrettable that paving the way to the Presidency should have n ccitated the destabilization of Institutions of Governance and t.. se of all types of dirty stricks even within the RPF/RPA. In popular it is a shame that attempts should have been made by RPF/RPA elements to unfairly tarnish the image of H.E. President Pasteur BIZIMUNGU. These Rwandese what matters is not whether the next President is Tutsi or a Hutu, or whether he/she shall be from this party or that other party, but rather whether the next President shall have an appropriate program and the capacity to champion the implentation of such a program. 34 You have turned the RPF/RPA into monolithic institutions serving individual elements at the detriment of the people of Rwanda and neighbors. The RPF/RPA has narrowed down rather than buriened out. It has finally turned out to be an RPF/RPA clique raser than a mass organization. It has ended up top heavy rather true grassroots based. The RPF/RPA should not only apologize to the people of Uganda and the DRC for having made the initial military attack on the Uganda Peoples Defense Forces in Kisangani, but individuals resensible should be tried for crimres against humanity. The RPF/RPA leadership should be investigated for having illegally appropriated DRC's wealth. The same leadership must declare and account for what ever funds that have been siphoned out of the DRC. The RPF/RPA leaders must account to families for all RPA soldiers who have died and got buried in the DRC since the RPA entered Congo. The remains of these late comrades should be brought back home and given appropriate burial. Rwandese soldiers cannot continue to be sacrificed in the DRC, so as to enrich individuals in the RPF/RPA leadership. Rwanda must support fully the Lusaka Cease Fire Agreement so that our soldiers can come back home and ensure our national defense and territorial integrity from within our boarders. The RPF/RPA did not over come the genocide forces and gallantly taken over state power as alwas been claimed, rather the RPF/RPA in the process, become overwhelmed by the situation ; the genocide, state-power and abandoned properties to the extent of having made fundamental errors even at that very early stage of the struggle. To date, the RPF/RPA leadership has not even appreciated such errors. The RPA has not defeated the Ex-Far and Interahamwe Milicians as is often claimed because these forces have only been pushed away and the fighting continues close to our boarder and may in fact as pointed out earlier, spill over into Rwanda if regional security issues continue to be mishandled. Your Government is politically bankrupt ; it has no direction and its leadership has totally betrayed the people of Rwanda by failing to implement the RPF/RPA political Program and the Programs of the respective Governments of National Reconciliation. Conclusion You and your Government must make immediate arrangements to hand over State Power to popularly elected Government. The struggle continue Sé Major Alphonse FURUMA Major Alphonse FURUMA (Biographie) Names : Alphonse Furuma (Major) 1953 : Born in Commune Kinyami Byumba Prefecture, Republic of Rwanda 1962-1969 : Primary Education, Juru Primary school, Nakivaralen Ankole, Uganda 1969-1972 : Secondary Education, Kitabi Seminary, Bushenyi ;Uganda : Higher Education, St. Peter's College Tororo, Uganda. 1975-1978 : University Education (B.A. Econs & Rural Econ), Makerer University, Kampla Uganda. 1979-1983 : Economic Teacher/Examiner, Kenya national Examination Council. : Member of Rwandese Alliance for National Unity, Kenya . (Commissioner). : Post Graduate Education, Kenyatta University, Nairobi, Kenya. 1983-1987 : Institutor, NRA School of Political Education. 1987-1987 : Founder Member, RPF School of Political Education, Uganda 1987- 1998 : Commandant ; NRA 5th Division School of Political Education, Lira, Uganda. 1989-1990 : Division Political commissar, NRA 4th Division 1990-Oct. : Officer's Basic course, Bombo Uganda. : RPF/RPA, Aemed Struggle, Political Commissar & Administrator, : RPF, Commissioner for Inspectorate "From the time Arusha Peace Agreement was being negotiated up to as late as 1996 you carried out a deliberate policy of using all means possible to reduce the Hutu Population in the Umutara, Kibungo and Bugesera regions. These areas were deliberately resettled by old caseload returnees from Uganda, Tanzania and Burundi respectively. Families of many top RPF/RPA leaders are among those who were resettled in this manner. Certainly all Rwandese deserve to be settled but your Government could have carried out these resettlements without violating the spirit of the Arusha Peace Agreement and without having to terrorize, displace or kill fellow Rwandese. Having signed the Arusha Peace Agreement, the RPF/RPA, supposedly to maintain the Hutu-Tutsi power sharing equation, found it convenient to liquidate the only few Hutu fighters who had been previously recruited from the demilitarized zone. You remember, these criminal operations were code-named " fanyiya ". Some of those who survived could give evidence if given certain guarantees. When the RPF/RPA launched the Offensive to stop genocide, every Hutu was assumed to be a killer. For moths and from one boarder to another, Hutus were chased and massacred on sight. Where it was not possible to kill, there was no opportunity lost to arrest, torture and detain a Hutu at the slightest provocation. There was thus every raison for every reason for even the moderate Hutus to find it safer to flee the country with the killers. Indeed some of the bodies, whish continued to float in the Akagera River towards the end and shortly after the genocide, included those of Hutus massacred by some RPF/RPA elements." (Major Alphonse FURUMA, Open Letter to H.E.Paul Kagame, Also RPF CHAIRMAN, and Chairman RPA Command, Kigali, Rwanda, 23/01/2001) (END OF THE DOCUMENT)
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