[This is a déjà vu with regard to the RPF propagandist machinery. Anyone who dares to disagree with them is quickly labeled either as a genocide denier, and revisionist or simply as a genocidaire. Here is my friendly advice to them: Make no mistake! Such old and ignorant tactics once worked but won’t work anymore. This is our moment! It is time for all Rwandans to join their hands, deal with the reality on the ground, achieve common groud, and bet on a brighter future for all Rwandan children, current generation and many more to come. Evils and angels are equally found among Hutu and Tutsi as this is true for any race, tribe or ethnic group worldwide ==MK/HTPJ].
FDU’s Ingabire desecrates memory with Double Genocide theory
BY EDITORIAL
The Sunday Times
January 17, 2010
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Victoire Ingabire talking to the press on her arrival yesterday (Photo/ J.Mbanda).
Opposition politician, Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza, could not have started her homecoming on a more vicious note.
There are some who had thought that her arrival to compete for the highest office, in a country where women have assumed a leading role in governance, would be a welcome addition to national politics. Instead, she revealed a very disturbing side of her.
As soon as she left the airport, she made it straight to the Gisozi Genocide memorial site to pay homage to victims of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi, or so it seemed.
It must have been a shock to her to come to Kigali, after an absence of close to two decades, to see the huge changes.
Any well-intentioned person would easily notice that this country has not been sleeping in the last 15 years. The post-Genocide Rwanda amazes everyone; the reconstruction efforts, and especially the reconciliatory approach by the government has been acclaimed the world over.
But this is not what Ingabire sees. She sees desolation where there is none and slams Gacaca as unjust as if the thousands who took part in the Genocide are angels.
To add insult to injury, she stuns the Rwandan people by echoing every revisionist and Genocide deniers’ favourite line: espousing the Double Genocide Theory.
This is the first time, since 1994, that a Genocide denier has chosen to articulate this level of revisionism on the Rwandan soil.
She utters all this right where hundreds of thousands of innocent souls are laid to rest, victims of similar inflammatory statements. She could not have chosen a better moment and place to desecrate the memory of the victims.
Ingabire espouses Double Genocide Theory
BY EDMUND KAGIRE
The Sunday Times
January 17, 2010
Victoire Ingabire talking to the press on her arrival yesterday (Photo/ J.Mbanda).
KIGALI - After 16 years of self exile in Europe, Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza, the president of the United Democratic Forces (FDU-Inkingi), arrived in the country yesterday to register her party ahead of this year’s Presidential elections, according to her declarations.
Ingabire arrived aboard a Kenya Airways flight at around 15:00 from Amsterdam via Nairobi where she spent a night. She was accompanied by three other persons.
The heads of two controversial political parties; Bernard Ntaganda of PS-Imberakuri and Frank Habineza of the yet-be-registered Green Party of Rwanda, were on hand to receive her.
Speaking to the press shortly before heading straight to the Kigali Genocide Memorial Site at Gisozi, Ingabire said that she is here to relieve Rwandans ‘from fear, poverty and inefficient Gacaca’.
She claimed that “Rwandans live in fear” and that “there is need for all Rwandans to work together in their different parties and religious affiliations to fight the fear”.
In words that clearly suggested the “Double Genocide” theory, Ingabire who has expressed her intentions to contest for the Presidency, said that ‘the reconciliation road has a long way to go unless those who killed Hutus during the Genocide are brought to book.
“If you look at this memorial centre, it only shows one side of the Genocide committed against the Tutsi. There is another side of the Genocide committed against the Hutu because they are also hurting and asking themselves when their grievances will be settled.”
Despite stating that she was paying tribute to the over 250,000 people buried at Gisozi, her visit to the memorial site was seen by many as a mockery to those who died in the Genocide, an observation supported by her past utterances which reveal a deep sense of revisionism.
“These ‘double Genocide’ claims are the same that revisionists in Europe use to deny that Genocide was committed against the Tutsi. To utter those words, standing on the victims’ graves, is the worst insult against Genocide survivors,” Simon-Pierre Rwakana, who had come to visit the memorial site said.
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