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Rose Kabuye - Rwanda Written on September 13th, 2006 in Personalities
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Linked with Assuming Authority.
She says: At some point, I realized that other women were not therethat I
was alone in all the meetings. And: Why should their (womens) ideas be left
behind? I always remind people that we cant ignore 54 percent of the
countrywhether in the army, in the police, in decision making. We are leaving
a big part of the population out. I say all the time, dont look at them as
women, look at them as
people! As Rwandans. (See on women waging peace).
Rose Kabuye - Rwanda
go to Harvards JFK Jr. Forum Video and Podcast Archive, click there on the
Nov 13, 2001 video: Transitional Justice in Post-Conflict Societies, and
listen to it (1h 21 minutes).
A difference that Kabuye has already made is with talking to women from other
conflict areas. In the course of a day, I work with women from both [Hutu and
Tutsi] groups. We get new ideas and hear about new ways to tackle the obstacles
we face. Rwandans throughout the country have been trying to bridge the divide
between Hutus and Tutsis.
The governments Unity and Reconciliation Commission sets up regular meetings
for people of all ethnic groups where they eat, sleep, and share ideas
together. We learn about each others history, about the experiences of the
other side, Kabuye explains. (Read all on Hunt Alternatives Fund).
Rose Kabuye was raised in a Ugandan refugee camp following her parents
flight from Rwanda because of Hutu-Tutsi violence. Upon finishing her
university studies in 1985, she joined the fighting forces of the Rwandan
Patriotic Front, an opposition movement and guerrilla army. She was appointed
mayor of Kigali after the 1994 genocide and later served as a member of
Parliament for two years, chairing the Security and Defense Committee. In
charge of supplies and stores in the Rwandan army, Lieutenant Colonel Kabuye is
also the chair of the Political and Judicial Commission of the Rwandan
Leadership Conference, a domestic spinoff of the Women as Partners for Peace in
Africa program. This initiative of the US Department of State brought together
women from Angola, Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, South
Africa, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe in pursuit of peace and regional
stability. (Read all on Orwell Today).
One of the legacies of the 1994 genocide, in which as many as 800,000 people
were killed in an ethnic holocaust pitting the dominant Hutu group against the
less populous Tutsis, is that Rwandan women are now a majority making up 56
percent of the population and have more political power than they ever had
before the war. But for every Rose Kabuye, there are thousands of genocide
widows, many of whom were brutally raped and beaten during the war, who
continue to suffer trauma and isolation. Its an odd paradox: being victimized
yet empowered. For the first time in the countrys history, women now have
rights of inheritance, and a gender task force in parliament systematically
reviews past and pending legislation to see whether the needs of women are
reflected. (Read all on SFgate.com).
Today I had lunch with Rose KABUYE (they always alphabetize family names in
Rwanda). She sent her car, with a soldier and personal assistant, to pick me up
and deliver me to where she was having her hair done. Then we proceeded to her
lovely house to have a nice meeting and lunch. I must interject that she pays
half of what I pay a month for a beautiful house for her family. Next time I
will have to get my own set-up. Back to Rose - I was very pleased to see her
after a long hiatus. I was most appreciative because she gave me some clarity
with regard to the work I am doing with the AIDS commission and I now have a
plan of action for the remainder of the time
(Read all on the blog Always
Rwanda, by Kelly, and go to Sept. 26, 2003).
Bio: Rose Kabuye was raised in a Ugandan refugee camp following her parents
flight from Rwanda because of Hutu-Tutsi violence. Upon finishing her
university studies in 1985, she joined the fighting forces of the Rwandan
Patriotic Front, an opposition movement and guerrilla army. She was appointed
mayor of Kigali after the 1994 genocide and later served as a member of
Parliament for two years, chairing the Security and Defense Committee. In
charge of supplies and stores in the Rwandan army, Lieutenant Colonel Kabuye is
also the chair of the Political and Judicial Commission of the Rwandan
Leadership Conference, a domestic spinoff of the Women as Partners for Peace in
Africa program. This initiative of the US Department of State brought together
women from Angola, Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, South
Africa, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe in pursuit of peace and regional
stability. (Read this and an interview on women waging peace).
sharangabo rufagari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
French judge issues warrants as Rwandans protest
Thu 23 Nov 2006 12:38 PM ET
(Releads with protests, pvs PARIS)
By Arthur Asiimwe
KIGALI, Nov 23 (Reuters) - Thousands of Rwandans protested on Thursday against
a French judge's call for President Paul Kagame to face a U.N. court over a
1994 plane crash which killed the country's leader and sparked a genocide.
A day after Paris issued arrest warrants for nine Kagame associates over the
crash, up to 25,000 demonstrators, including genocide survivors, gathered in
Kigali's Amahoro stadium chanting anti-French songs and burning French flags.
Hutu President Juvenal Habyarimana's plane was hit by a missile as he flew to
the Rwandan capital Kigali after a summit in April 1994. His killing triggered
the massacre of 800,000 minority Tutsis and politically moderate Hutus in 100
days of bloodletting.
French anti-terrorism magistrate Jean-Louis Bruguiere has filed a document at
the Paris prosecutor's office, citing evidence that accuses Kagame and members
of his military staff of devising the 1994 operation to destroy Habyarimana's
plane.
Survivors accused Rwanda's former ally of complicity in the central African
country's 1994 genocide. Some protesters held placards that read: "French
government stop your petty politics and genocide ideology."
The backlash came after Bruguiere issued the international warrants for
Kagame's associates on charges of "murder" and "complicity in murder", a
judicial source in Paris said.
Under French law the warrants, to be passed on by Interpol, mean the suspects
have been placed under official investigation and now face questioning by the
French judge.
Bruguiere earlier this week called for Kagame to be brought before a U.N.
court, a move the Rwandan president has denounced as "bullying and arrogant".
Kagame has said French judges have no authority over judges in Rwanda.
Under French law, a warrant cannot be issued for Kagame, who enjoys diplomatic
immunity as a serving head of state. But a judicial source said Bruguiere had
written to U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan asking for Kagame to be brought
before the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda.
Business came to a halt in the Rwandan capital on Thursday afternoon as
government offices and banks closed their doors to take part in the protest.
"The French trained Interahamwe (Hutu militias) everywhere in the country but
it did not stop them from losing," Francois Ngarambe, president of Ibuka, an
umbrella organisation that groups together genocide survivors told
demonstrators.
Bruguiere issued warrants for James Kabarebe, military chief of staff; Charles
Kayonga, army chief of staff; Faustin Nyamwasa-Kayumba, ambassador to India;
Jackson Nkurunziza, a Ugandan working for the Rwandan presidential guard;
Samuel Kanyamera, an FPR deputy; Jacob Tumwime, an army officer; Franck Nziza,
a presidential guard officer; Eric Hakizimana, an intelligence officer; and
Rose Kabuye, nee Kanyange, director general of state protocol.
sharangabo rufagari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Full government statement
The attention of Rwanda Government has been drawn to the fact that the
French Magistarate Jean Louis Bruguière is about to issue indictments
against senior Rwandan government military officers under the allegations
that they shot down former President Habyarimanas plane leading to the
death of 3 French citizens.
Government would like to make it categorically clear that there is no basis
whatsoever to these allegations. It appears to government that this is an
attempt to intimidate Rwanda using strong arm tactics and to use the
superpower position to hide the truth of Frances involvement in the
Genocide. It also is an unfortunate attempt to pre-empt the findings of a
Commission set up in Rwanda to investigate the role of France in the 1994
Rwanda Genocide.
This is not the first time that some in French official circles have
designed a plan to hide their known responsibility in the genocide of 1994.
Under the guise of judicial independence, Magistrate Bruguière working
together with other French organs of the state have organized genocide
denials and revisionists and have provided them a platform for their
political agenda and propaganda.
It is well known that France actively supported the Genocide and armed and
fought along side the forces that committed genocide in Rwanda. When they
faced imminent defeat she intervened through Operation Turquoise to save
them from total defeat and to preserve them so they can fight another day.
There are strong indications that some in the French official circles were
involved in the military and political reorganization of these genocidal
forces.
Rwanda is owed an explanation as to what the French citizens who perished in
Habyarimanas plane were doing in Rwanda in company of the planners and
authors of the Genocide, given the fact these were French military officers
on a mission to Rwanda during the planning and execution phase of the
Genocide.
Government believes that Frances role needs to be fully investigated and
fully exposed. This is why it set up the commission to investigate the role
of France in these events. The work of this Commission is expected to
clarify the role of individuals in the French establishment played, and
whether their activities are criminally indictable. Understandably, such a
prospect has made many in certain French circles extremely worried.
Judge Bruguières reported attempt to indict the Rwandan officials is aimed
at diverting international opinion from the emerging clarity about therole of
France. Moreover it is unprecedented in the history of judicial
proceedings for investigation, indictment and all processes to be carried
out and concluded outside of the country where the crime is alleged to have
been committed.
It is absurd that a foreign judge could issue an indictment against
officials of a sovereign state for crimes committed on the soil of that
sovereign state without going through either diplomatic channels or judicial
institutions of that sovereign state. This political game and drama in
judicial matters is a dangerous path and is inimical to international law
and order. Those involved are advised to desist from it.
Done in Kigali, Rwanda
November 21, 2006.
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