Open letter to David Malingha Doya and Michael Kavanagh of the Bloomberg

By Aimable Mugara
August 6, 2010

Dear David Malingha Doya and Michael Kavanagh,

This is in response to your Bloomberg article titled "Rwanda's Economic Expansion May Propel Kagame to Second President Term" (http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-08-05/rwanda-s-economic-expansion-may-propel-kagame-to-second-presidential-term.html). As a Rwandan I was so disappointed by such deceiving title. When a president denies all the real opposition candidates (Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza, Frank Habineza, Bernard Ntaganda) from having their parties on the ballot, you can only imagine what kind of support that person has. When you are so unpopular and get too scared to even put your real opponents' names on the ballot because you know that it would take unbelievable amounts of rigging to steal the opposition votes, then you know that such person cannot win based on any "achievements". They can only win based on stealing the election.

Since October 1990, General Kagame's forces have massacred millions of unarmed civilians in Rwanda and neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo. This guy is a mass murderer who turned Rwanda and Congo into bloodbaths just so he could gain power. I know that most Rwandans have had enough of his escape from justice and cannot wait to remove him from power so that courts around the world (especially in Spain where the courts have already determined that Kagame's forces butchered 9 Spanish citizens because they were witnesses to Kagame's forces massacring civilians) can issue international arrest warrants for the war crimes and crimes against humanity that Kagame has committed.

Kagame has already stolen this election now that he has already jailed and killed journalists, opposition leaders, and lawyers and prevented opposition parties from taking part in the election. But mark my words, we Rwandans will not stand by while this mass murderer spends another 7 years in power. The millions of innocent civilians that Kagame's forces have killed will not be forgotten. One way or another, we Rwandans will get rid of this criminal and put him in the hands of international justice where he belongs. We will not wait another 7 years after this mass murderer has clearly stolen the election in public view.

Aimable Mugara