Fact is, it is your President who created this butcher - if at all.
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Peter-Rhaina Gwokto
Remember: "LRA leader Joseph Kony is named in 12 counts for crimes against
humanity and 21 counts for war crimes. His deputy, Otti, is named in 11 counts
for crimes against humanity and 21 counts for war crimes. Alleged crimes
include rape, murder, enslavement, sexual enslavement and forced enlisting of
children". ICC must not withdraw its indictments.
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Subject: [Ugnet] FACE TO FACE WITH THE BUTCHER OF KIGALI
FACE TO FACE WITH THE BUTCHER OF KIGALI
Rwandan President Paul Kagame, responsible for crimes against humanity in
Rwanda his own country and in the Democratic Republic of Congo, paradoxically
was invited on 4.10.2007 by the London School of Economics’Centre for the Study
of Human Rights to give a public lecture on “The Challenges of Development and
Environmental Sustainability in Africa: The case of Rwanda”.
Kagame of course repeated the same mantra of the “1994 genocide” in Rwanda, 14
years after which he had strived to rebuild a “prosperous and reconciled Rwanda
after bad leadership (under a Hutu government) and a genocide during which one
million Tutsi were killed; building democratic institutions, boosting the
private sector, so that Rwanda can play an effective role in the regional,
African and global level.
Kagame also said that his government has enacted environmental and conservation
laws to protect Rwanda’s biodiversity and natural resources and will host an
international conference on this subject in Kigali next year.
Let us note first of all that Rwandan President Paul Kagame is a manipulator
who is using the 1994 genocide as a trump card!
1. Kagame goes to the Western powers and tell them: where were you when the
Hutu nearly exterminated us, and they feel guilty, apologise and keep quiet,
give him all the means possible (money and arms) to loot the mineral wealth of
Congo.
2. Kagame goes to the Tutsi survivors of the genocide and tell them that they
owe their lives and survival to him because he saved them from the Interahamwe,
the Hutu genocidaires. And they keep quiet, vote for him, no opposition. But we
know that Kagame was only interested in taking power, not saving the Tutsi, as
General Dalaire revealed. Under President Kagame’s “Imidugu” policy or the
“Politics of villagisation”, most of the villagers have been forced to built
their huts along the main roads so that the notorious Local Defense Forces will
keep a vigilant eye on them and to wield off infiltrators. The countryside is
therefore deserted and Catholic missions there forced to close. Survivors of
the genocide feel abandoned to themselves. Ordinary Rwandans say their leaders
all returned from exile do not identify with them. In fact the new regime keeps
a grudge against Tutsi who stayed behind and never went into exile, accusing
them of having
collaborated with the former Hutu regime.
3. Kagame goes to the Hutu in Rwanda and say, it was me who restrained my men
from exterminating all of you in a gush of revenge, and they keep quiet and
dare not oppose him. Yet we know that when accompanying Laurent Kabila to
power, Kagame ordered his men to exterminate all the Hutu in refugee camps in
eastern Congo, which they did. Nick Gordon, a BBC reporter investigated and
reported that the Kigali regime has built crematorium at Bugasira, Ruhengeri,
Byumba, Kibungo, Inyungwe and other locations where thousands of Hutus and
Congolese deportees (80 Congolese youth were deported from Uvira, South Kivu
into Rwanda in January 2001 and are unaccounted for today, according to the
Missionary News Agency MISNA), were killed daily and their bodies are
incinerated under the program called "MANPOWER DUTIES" while US officials are
looking the other way. The Tutsi regime is conducting genocide in Rwanda to
reduce the Hutu population to a “manageable level”.
Any Tutsi minister or politician who disagreed with the policy is either in
exile or has been assassinated.
4. Kagame goes to the Tutsi living in Congo and say, if you do not do anything
for yourself, the Congolese will exterminate you. You know what happened in
1994 in Rwanda. It is not a surprise that The Economist in London called the
Tutsi, the Jews of Africa. Bolstered by western support, Kagame branded the
Congolese “the Ibicucu” in his native Kinyarwanda language – which means, the
“nobodies, good for nothing, therefore kill them as many as you like”. Hence
the a war of invasion (1998-2003) carried out by troops from Rwanda, Uganda and
Burundi and orchestrated by Britain, America and South Africa and with the
complicity of the so-called Congolese of Tutsi origin in Rwanda and the
so-called congolese rebels; and in which more than 5 million congolese have
been massacred and Congo's natural and mineral resources systematically looted!
Ando so you have Tutsi warlords like Nkunda, a so-called Tutsi congolese
killing, raping and looting under the
pretext of protecting his own Tutsi community in Congo, you see! Where does he
get guns from? From top Business people in Europe and America with the tacit
blessing of their governments in return for looted minerals. Kagame and
Museveni should be tried for crimes against humanity in the region.
Secondly, Rwanda and Uganda invaded Congo with the full backing of Britain and
America, raped millions of women, killed 5 millions Congolese and
systematically looted Congo’s natural and mineral resources. Rwandan elite’s
money is blood money looted in Congo and it does not benefit the ordinary
Rwandans, let alone the victims of “the genocide” who are left to fend for
themselves.
Kagame systematically looted Congo’s fauna and flora. And now to portray
himself as an environmentalist is foolish but Kagame will only fool those who
choose to be fooled.
I gathered the courage to go and to sit in the same room with the butcher of my
people instead of demonstrating outside to prove that I was more civilised than
he is and so "I gave him back his humanity", as Mugabe would say.
I was the second person to be given the microphone by he chair Professor Conor
Gearty.
I began by saying how interesting it was, if not a paradox that Kagame of all
people should be the first person to address the first lecture of the Centre
for the study of Human Rights!
I reminded the audience that I stood day and night outside the London School of
Economics (LSE) to campaign against “this man” whom you have invited here to
talk about human rights, development, peace and environment .
“There will never be peace and development in the Great Lakes Regon, in Rwanda,
in Congo or anywhere else in the world without justice,” I said, “devastated by
the crimes of Museveni and Kagame.
Then I turned to Kagame and asked him:
“When are you going to apologise to your own people for putting them through
what you have put them through? You invaded Rwanda from Uganda and killed
millions of people. Then you shot down Habyarimana’s plane [at this point the
chair intervenes and ask me to as my question straight away otherwise he will
stop me and pass on the microphone to another person. I tell him to hold on
just a minute and I pursue my charge], by shooting down Habyarimana’s plane,
you kick-started the killing spree during which many Hutu and Tutsi lost their
lives. And you move to Congo, you invade that country, you raped, killed 5
millions Congolese and systematically looted Congo’s natural and mineral
resources.
“My question is: do you sleep easy at night after killing so many people? [the
audience laughed!] And when you no longer enjoy presidential immunity as well
as the support of Britain and American, you will have to be tried for crimes
against humanity Are you prepared for that?”
Kagame replied to me that my question deserved a simple answer.
“If there is one thing I enjoy, it is my sleep. Yes I sleep at ease at night
and because of me that sleep is now enjoyed by many in Rwanda. The speaker
compensated his biases for a lot of vigour but he must know that the history of
our region is not sacred. Rwanda and Congo share the same colonial history and
despite the arbitrary colonial borders that separates us, there are blood
relationships still intact on both sides of the border.
“Our recent history is dominated by the event of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda
and bad leaders. Congo’s problems date from colonial days and after because of
bad leaders, especially under Mobutu since the 1960s. Congo s a wealthy, rich
country, but since colonial days, independence and even up to this moment,
Congo has never developed and the people of Congo have never benefited from
that wealth. The problem of Congo is not Rwanda, the problem of Congo is not
Kagame. Congo is rich in natural resources, but despite this wealth, there are
no roads, no clinics, nothing! There is nothing! And the gentleman could have
helped the situation by being there and doing something about it, raising these
issues!
“The 1994 genocide is not blamed on Congo but after, the genocidists went there
and benefited from Mobutu’s support. The whole genocidist army and government
settled in refugee camps, benefiting from Mobutu, organising and preparing
themselves to go back to Rwanda. I became a refugee when I was three years old.
I was able to go back to Rwanda when we organised ourselves. My life is a
struggle. We associated with the people leading Congo today and they are there
today because of us. It is better Rwanda and Congo work together to address
development issues. If there were Congolese who understood these issues, we
would not have come to where we came.
“The FDLR are still in Congo. They are terrorising the Congolese citizens. Our
armed forces went to Congo and killed and displaced many of them. We and the
Congolese government estimate that there remain 8,000 FDLR in Congo. We have
tried to solve this problem in the last 14 years. The problem has subsided but
it can only be eliminated by the Kinshasa government and the UN Mission in
Congo, otherwise we will deal with it.”
Kagame said that in response to other questions put to him by other people in
the audience that he was ready to welcome all the Rwandan refugees back to
their country of origin (from Tanzania and Uganda especially) if they are not
responsible for the genocide in one way or the other and if they don’t harbour
that genocidist ideology, but they prefer to remain there because they have
more land there to farm.
“That is their choice. I am not responsible for making Rwanda small in the size
that it is today. There are parts of Rwanda that today belong to Congo and to
Uganda especially the Kisoro region where you can identify people by their way
of life as Rwandans”, said Kagame,in other words, there is a problem with
living space in Rwanda.
When I interjected that that is not true, Kagame looked at me and said: "He is
saying that is not true. What does he know. He was born only yesterday!"
Kagame hinted here at the Tutsi Hima Empire ideology and his “Need for a second
Berlin Conference rhetoric” but he added that Rwandans’way of life was more
attuned to the people of East Africa, that is why Rwanda is a member of the
East African Community and Rwanda has its own reasons why it wants to join the
Commonwealth.
“It is ourselves to make it work. We have to look at how this coming together
will serve us and how we will also bring our own contribution to it, which will
make it easier for our citizens to join the London School of Economics for
instance.”
On Zimbabwe, Kagame said in reply to a question:
“There are African institutions such as Nepad, the Peer Review, African Union
and son on, which encourage African leaders to do the right thing and remind
all of us of such a collective responsibility. So there’s forum where we talk
to each other frankly. Where we take collective and corrective measures. In the
case of Zimbabwe, efforts have been deployed by the SADC and the EU to address
the situation. President Thabo Mbeki has been designated by the SADC to
mediate. But change will have to come from within Zimbabwe itself. I know I
have not satisfied you (the question was asked by a young white Zimbabwean
woman) but for the time being we leave it like that (…)” Beware! THEY may use
Kagame to invade Zimbabwe like they used him to invade Congo. But Zimbabwe is
not a walk over and is prepared.
After the lecture, I stood outside the building and addressed some of the
people who made up the audience that Kagame had just addressed and to put the
record straight after Kagame’s so many lies.
I was surrounded by so many people and the police was called by the university
security officers at one point. I saw them but they did not talk to me because
I was not doing anything illegal.
I told my audience not to be fooled by Kagame, a terrorist that Britain and
America were protecting because he was doing their bidding at the expense of
the people of Congo. Despite Kagame’s criminal record, he can just easily walk
here and meet the Queen. At the same time Britain is roaring about Mugabe.
Kagame is worse than Mugabe And if Mugabe did not send troops to Congo when we
were invaded, we would not be talking about a country called Congo today.
I said what happened in Rwanda was a civil war and Kagame is cooperating with
the FDLR whom he releases from prisons in Rwanda and uses them in the mines in
Congo. The UN Mission in Congo recently repatriated an FDLR man who was
fighting with Nkunda. That tells it all.
Kagame said that there is nothing in Congo. I explained to my audience that
just when we wanted to rebuild our country under Laurent Kabila, Britain and
America fretted his determination to safeguard Congolese interests first and
used Tutsi troops from Rwanda and Uganda to clog our wheels through a barbaric
and unjust war.
Kagame claims that our leaders in Congo now were out there by him Well, we have
just had elections in Congo and during the AFDL, Laurent Kabila hd 47,000
Congolese men and there were 3,000 Rwandan and Ugandan officers masterminding
them. How could they liberate the big Congo from Mobutu’s dictatorship just
with 3,000 men? I said that I have set the record straight in my web site
www.congopanorama.info and a process to have Kagame tried for crimes against
humanity has already been launched and well under way in Spain.
I saw Kagame with his delegation leaving the LSE. I shouted "Kagame killer!
Kagame terroriste! Kagame Hitler!" They turned and looked at me, smiled and
went.
The Mulindwas Communication Group
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