Sunday, May 24, 2009

Rwanda: Economic Growth Sustained Through Free Labor

By Truthseeker
© SurViVorsNetworks.org
May 24, 2004

To My Fellow Truth Seekers:

I actually won't talk about RPF mega atrocities, RPF mega massacres and assassinations, disappearances and arbitrary executions, arbitrary arrests, and so on...

However, let me tell you some straight from the hip facts about the gap between common perceptions and the RPF government reporting about GNP/GDP, RPF government statistical data from national census adding to the RPF manipulation and fabrications about the Rwandan Genocide.

The most popularly followed inflation-adjusted economic statistic is the GDP, which reflects the growth in euro/dollar economic activity minus the growth in inflation. If inflation in Rwanda is understated, which it is, then the resulting real GDP will certainly be overstated. You've seen and noted that the common sense tells us that more meaningful trends in a country like Rwanda usually are seen in year-to-year change, if nothing is there, overstated and learnedly manipulated to meet the World Bank requirements, victims will certainly be and always be the Rwandan population. I will fully be discussing this issue next time.

By the way, here is a powerful revelation on the RPF manipulation that will give you the big picture you need to make your own conclusion about the RPF tyrannical regime. You may also come to understand why the world, the European Union, with RPF complicity and manipulation of economic data allows the RPF regime to get favors from the Breton Woods institutions: the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.

A very simple pattern of some of RPF manipulation techniques until previously had not given you ideas about current sufferings of the Rwandan people led by the RPF autocratic regime.

How many people in this world have walked away with RPF deceit and manipulation?
The answer: millions! These include many European Union, US and British citizens.

No sentence to mean what it sounds. Many of you still allow Paul Kagame and his pros to manipulate you. So, the darkest secret of General Paul Kagame was manipulating and still manipulates you.

We have lost many years owing to Kagame’s manipulation and fluttery. Because of the apparent success of such manipulations and lies, he still wins all those battles! But what I know is that “No cause is a lost cause, until there is a fool left to fight for it”.

Thanks
TS
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Overview on Rwandan economy
According to Business Environment Snapshots, Rwanda has made improvements in time for imports and exports as well as cost of exports, jumping up 12 places. However, despite these improvements, Rwanda still ranks worse than the regional and income group averages for all indicators, except for Control of Corruption indicator.

Reports from the Enterprise Surveys, attest that electricity, tax rates, and access to/cost of financing rank as the most significant constraints to firm investment. Rwanda is no longer the worst-ranked country globally in the Trading Across Borders category. They also conclude that despite these improvements, Rwanda still ranks relatively worse than its regional and income group averages.

Rwanda’s main sources of income
Since 1994, the main sources of income in Rwanda include: foreign aid for development, corruption and illicit payments by Rwandans and foreign companies operating in Rwanda to the RPF party, which in turn pays huge amounts of money to the RPF leadership and senior APR / RDF officers, the looting of mineral and agricultural resources of the Democratic Republic of Congo, forced labor from Hutu prisoners, and most importantly, the now-in-vogue commercialization of the Rwandan genocide.

A careful analysis of data from Doing Business and Enterprise Surveys on Rwanda’s macroeconomic indicators revealed that all of these data failed to clearly indicate what are specific imports and exports that tipped Rwanda up to 12th rank according to the World Bank.

Indeed, if the reported macroeconomic indicators ought to be true they should lead the Rwandan economy to new opportunities and the country would not have to continue to rely on worldwide commercialization of the Rwandan genocide and forced labor from Hutu prisoners as its main source of income.

Despite manipulation of Rwanda’s macroeconomic indicators by the RPF regime, it is important to acknowledge the shocking reality on the ground: increase in the percentage of malnourished adults and children in Rwanda’s rural areas and widespread poverty in the countryside while the RPF regime desperately runs away from its responsibility and puts the blame on current economic recession in highly industrialized countries.

Forced labor institutionalization in Rwanda
Besides other important sources of income mentioned above, I would like to focus my analysis on Rwanda’s forced labor official known as TIG works (a French acronym for Travaux d’Intérêts Généraux or Works for General Interests in English), which began in 2005 along with the Gacaca courts system.

This forced labor is of course linked to other sources of income mentioned above and was developed by Anglo-Saxon ideologues within secret research institutes that are actively involved in worldewide commercialization of the Rwandan genocide.

Rwanda's forced labor is fuelled by sporadic bloodsheds within Rwanda, wars in the DRC , and regular retaliatory massacres of innocent civilians following alleged assassinations of Tutsis survivors of the Rwandan genocide. Usually, these assassinations of Tutsis survivors of the Rwandan genocide are usually instigated or committed by the RPF and/or its Local Defense militia and are always followed by massive arrests within the Hutu population in surround ereas.

As a consequence, prisons in the area where these massacres occurred become overcrowded. This tactic is part of a long plan that scrupulously follows Kagame’s sinister plans aimed at slowly but surely exterminating the Hutu population, a plan known as "Tea Spoon Strategy" (from the infamous Kagame’s hate speech on April 7th, 2007, in Murambi, Rwanda).

Many Rwandans have come to realize that such a sinister plan constitutes a learnedly sophisticated genocide against the Hutu populations. This holocaust began with Rwanda’s invasion by the RPF in October 1990 and has been going on ever since.

That is how a repressive system in Rwanda has become a reliable source of income due to the exploitative nature of TIG works from Hutu prisoners with a continuous supply chain represented by the Gacaca courts system.

The mastermind of such a repressive system is Paul Kagame, the current RPF leader and Rwandan President. Kagame is not only believed to be the real mastermind behind the Rwandan genocide of 1994, but also to be the worse living war criminal since Hitler. Currently, Kagame is wanted by the French and Spanish justice systems for war crimes and crimes of genocide committed in Rwanda and in DRC.

Kagame and his RPF regime came up with a TIG works and the Gacaca courts system with an implicit mandate to continuously terrorize hundreds of thousands of Hutu prisoners across the country.

To divert the international public opinion about this insidious repressive nature of TIG works, a Hutu by the name of Evariste Bizimana from Jenda Sector and Nkuli Commune, in former Ruhengeri Prefecture (now part of the Northern Province) has been appointed as Executive Secretary of TIG National Committee.

In contrast to RPF claims to its international partners, TIG is a shameful institution aimed at targeting Hutus for slavery with the ultimate goal of implementing the apartheid like system which is obvious in Rwandan cities especially in Kigali-City where Tutsis are preferentially granted easy access to different services.

The complicity of the international community in current sufferings of the Rwandan people is overwhelming. This complicity is mostly reflected in the composition of Kagame’s Presidential Advisory Council (PAC), which is co-chaired by President Kagame and Joe Ritchie, founder of Fox River Financial Resources Inc. (USA) and CEO of Rwanda Development Board (RDB).

PAC was officially launched on September 26, 2007, by President Paul Kagame. It comprises a special team of Rwandans and foreingers whose mission is to advise the President on Rwanda’s strategic development choices and initiatives, using their considerable combined and wide-ranging knowledge, experience and contacts. More details about Kagame's PAC can be found here.

It includes the following distinguished personalities:
1-Scott Ford – President and CEO of Alltel
2-Sir Tom Hunter – Scottish entrepreneur, philanthropist, co-founder Clinton-Hunter Development Initiative
3-Dr. Donald Kaberuka – President of the African Development Bank Group, former Minister of Finance
4-Dr. Clet Niyikiza – GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) Vice President of Worldwide Research & Development
5-Kaia Miller - founder of Aslan Global, Inc.
6-Joe Ritchie - Rwanda’s Honorary Consul in Chicago, founder Fox River Financial Resources, Inc. and now CEO of Rwanda Development Board (RDB)
7-Micheal Roux - Rwanda’s Honorary Consul General in Australia, Chairman, Asian Markets, KPMG; Roux International Pty Ltd; RI Group;
8-Bishop John Rucyahana – Bishop of Shyira Diocese of Rwanda
9-Tribert Rujugiro – Rwandan Entrepreneur Board, President of Rwanda Investment and Export Promotion Agency
10-Dr. Eliane Ubalijoro – Assistant Professor at McGill University
11-Pastor Rick Warren - Religious leader, founder Saddleback Church
12-Prof. Michael Porter-Monitor Group cofounder
13-Tony Blair-Former British Prime Minister
14- Dale Dawson- Arkansas investment banker
15-James Musoni-Rwanda’s minister of Finance
16-Rosemary Museminari-Rwanda’s Foreign Affairs minister
17-Gatare Francis-New Personal Representative of President Kagame to the NEPAD Steering Committee
18-Himbara David-Private Secretary to President Kagame
19-Kanimba François-Governor, Rwanda National Bank
20-Michael Fairbank-Chairman Emeritus and founder of The OTF Group

Repressive laws continuously fuel massive arrests
In Rwanda, many Hutus are constantly accused of having committed genocide or simply of conveying the genocide ideology. Actually, no Hutu is exempt from such accusations mostly owing to several repressive legislations that have been implemented the Rwandan Parliament to the great delight of Kagame and his RPF regime.

Prompted by continuous rising numbers of prisoners, the idea of using these prisoners as a productive free workforce began with the creation of the Gacaca courts in 2005. In the same year, forced labor was also institutionalized with the creation of the Department of State, Work for General Interests (TIG). The Gacaca courts and TIG works are inter-dependent: the Gacaca courts constitute an important supply chain to TIG works.

Under current RPF regime, forced labor has become very common. It is well understood that Hutu prisoners (men, women, and children) provide much higher productivity when used as "tigistes" than when used in farms for cash crops such as tea and coffee plantations.

Hutu prisoners are usually used in many channels of communication, such as roads construction (as seen before in China), in building constructions at Nyarutarama subdivision (viewed as Rwanda’s Pretoria) and in construction of villas for RPF members under the umbrella of "home for needy people".

Some of European NGOs also contribute to this exploitive machinery by diverting European taxpayers' money into their own pockets. Some of these Hutu prisoners are also found among many residential homes of RPF members where they work for free at home in their farms, etc. There is no doubt that Rwandan Hutus are increasingly becoming the private property of the Rwandan Nazi repressive system. Paul Kagame and the RPF regime are poised to transform Rwanda into a massive system of terror.

Rehabilitation camps (Ingando) such as the one in Mutobo, are increasingly taking forms of Nazi’s concentration camps. An apartheid-like system is also slowly taking place in Rwanda. Impoverished Hutus usually walk barefoot. When they have to go to town, they are forced to rent a pair of sandals (because they cannot afford to buy one) at the entrance to the cities. The same is also true prior entering any municipal buildings.

Prisoners are paid for their forced labor journey with a minimum meal, just enough to keep them alive. These per diem food rations can be adjusted upwards or downwards depending on the attitude of the prisoner.

Food rations are determined according to the amount of work provided within the established standards. Hunger has become not only a powerful tool to destroy Hutu prisoners who refuse to wear the genocide uniform, but also a powerful tool of manipulation.

Due to untenable conditions within Rwandan prisons, it is not surprising to see daily eruption of violence following multiple accusations among prisoners, accusations that are mostly instigated by prison guards, police officers or spying agents.

Continuous violence within Rwandan prisons is meant to break the already fragile harmony between some prisoners who do not want to die from hunger and those who strongly believe in the presumption of innocence until proven otherwise.

With a recent drastic measure aimed at preventing families of prisoners from sending food to their relatives in prisons, the RPF regime has found another way to fully exploit Hutu prisoners: their daily meal depends on what they can offer in term of daily labor.

Daily meal is reduced for the prisoners who do not meet the established standards for forced labor. Occasionally, crooks may extort some food from their fellow inmates, a situation that usually increases tensions already exacerbated by the untenable conditions in these prisons.

No wonder that prisoners from Lilima Detention Center are increasingly confessing to have taken part in genocide. Indeed, many prisoners prefer to confess for crimes they never committed so that they can be freed from prisons and finish their sentence on forced labor as “tigistes”.

No wonder that hundreds of thousands of Hutus are being constantly recycled in these prisons, with continuous in and out, depending on the request of Gacaca courts which constitute the supply chain for Rwanda’s forced labor market.

Prison guards are vested with full authoritative power over the use of force and over food distribution within Rwandan prisons. Any revolts or any claims are repressed by blood shed, which simply means that any claim for any rights is de facto doomed to total failure. Some prisoners happen to be arbitrarily freed then killed shortly after their release from prison. Many other prisoners are regularly killed in prisons by police officers and prison guards using Kalachnikov.

Although all of the above information is available to the public, the passivity of the international community is shocking. Rwandan Hutus from all over the world must stand up and break this wall of silence. It is imperative that the world knows what a Hutu life is like in Rwanda. The Hutu life has no meaning. Rwandan Hutus struggle along on a daily basis while the RPF regime continues to claim that all Rwandans are equal and that there is no Hutus nor Tutsis in Rwanda.

If these RPF claims were true why then now the Rwandan constitution has been amended so that it can refer to the Rwandan genocide of 1994 as a "genocide committed on Tutsis" instead of a genocide against Tutsis and moderate Hutus as it is indeed universally accepted?

In their marketing agenda of the Rwandan genocide, the RPF regime and its western allies continue to spread lie propagandas aimed at demonizing Hutus as genocidaires and that Hutu children convey genocide ideology. These false accusations are meant to continuously provide the RPF regime with free workforce from Hutus.

Even Hutu survivors of numerous RPF atrocities in Rwanda and DRC are not safe in their exile. They remain susceptible to RPF false accusations of involvement in Rwandan genocide of 1994. In western countries, these false accusations are often used by RPF sympathizers to reboot Hutu refugee applications for asylum.

Paul Kagame and his RPF regime continue to commercialize the Rwandan genocide and to excel in media distortion and manipulation in order to divert the public opinion on their own responsibilities in the Rwandan genocide.

One may also wonder what would then be the legacy of displaying Rwandan skulls in numerous genocide memorials scattered throughout Rwanda. It is important to recall that these are skulls that have been chopped off from their bodies by RPF soldiers. Some of them have been gathered from different Rwandan localities and transported to different genocide memorial sites.

Most of these skulls these skulls are from our parents, children, brothers and sisters and our fellow Hutus victims of the RPF in Rwanda between 1990 and 2000. Indeed, theses throughout the country, most of the Tutsis victims of the Interahamwe militia during the Rwandan genocide of 1994 have been buried with dignity these past 15 years.

In some occasions, bodies have been exhumed and officially reburied as Tutsis when in reality they were Hutus massacred by RPF in different localities of Kigali-City such as in Gisozi. In coming weeks, similar scenarios will soon take place in Uganda.

Is it possible that one day brave men and women from all over the world will get together to prove the veracity of the above information using DNA technology? This is the only way that might surely help Rwandans (Hutus and Tutsis without any exceptions) to identify their loved ones who perished in Rwanda since 1990.

Such a tremendous work is realistic, feasible and reliable. It has been done in Bosnia and can be done in Rwanda if we fight for it. Unfortunately, for some unspecified reasons, there is still little, if any, political willingness to do so from many western powers. The fight is therefore fare from over but it ought to be won. We shall never give up.

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