Thursday, May 31, 2012

Act now on Congo war criminals, UK Government was told


The wars and human tragedy engulfing the Congo is worsening by the day. Millions have been killed since 1996. Hundreds of thousands of women have been raped; and millions more will die long after the conflict is over from the ensuing HIV/Aids pandemic, triggered by campaigns of sexual atrocities against women – and still spreading today at an alarming speed (The human spur to action, 30 May). While there is enough blame to be shared by all parties to this conflict, Bosco Ntaganda, Sultani Makenga and Sylvestre Mudacumura bear primary responsibility for the recent spike in waves of violence and mass displacement.
We urge the UK government to impose targeted sanctions against senior members of the National Congress for the Defence of the People (CNDP) and the armed group M23.
We also urge the government to call on the international criminal court's chief prosecutor to expand the charges against Ntaganda to include recent massacres; to provide urgent diplomatic leadership and logistical support to the international criminal court, Monusco (UN stabilisation mission in DR Congo) and the Congolese government to arrest and send Ntaganda to the Hague; and to warn the government of Rwanda, as well as individuals and corporations known to have funded or armed Ntaganda, the CNDP or other militia gangs in the past, to halt immediately or face international isolation and sanctions.
Vava Tampa, John Hemming MP, David Amess MP, Adrian Sanders MP, Peter Bottomley MP, Mike Hancock MP, Lord Hylton, Lord Brennan, Lord Alton, Baroness Cox, Baroness Kinnock, Paul Rusesabagina, Rabbi Danny Rich, Peter Herbert, Rene C Mugenzi, Kanja Sessay

RWANDA: PAUL RUSESABAGINA TO INAUGURATE PEACE & LOVE FESTIVAL, SWEDEN


RWANDAN HUMAN RIGHTS LEADER TO INAUGURATE PEACE & LOVE
PAUL RUSESABAGINA TO KICK OFF PEACE & LOVE FESTIVAL

For Immediate Release  Contact: Kitty Kurth 
May 30, 2012   Phone: 312-617-7288 

Paul Rusesabagina is the man whose story is told in the film Hotel Rwanda (2004), which depicts the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, when nearly 1 million people were brutally slaughtered. He was reputed to have saved lives of more than 1200 Tutsis and Hutus, and still continues to fight for human rights. This summer he will inaugurate the Peace and Love Festival in Borlange, Sweden with an introductory talk on June 26. The Peace & Love Festival is in progress June 26 - 30, 2012. This year's theme is A New World. The genocide in Rwanda was one of the most brutal atrocities of humanity in modern times.
The West and the UN received massive criticism afterwards for not doing anything even though they saw clear signs of the escalation of violence in Rwanda, which eventually led to the killing of nearly 1 million Tutsis and moderate Hutus.
Paul Rusesabagina was hotel manager of the Hôtel des Mille Collines in the capital, Kigali. He took over after its European executives fled the country when the violence began to escalate. He saved both Hutus and Tutsis and through his diplomacy and contacts, all of the more than 1200 people who were living at the hotel survived.
“Sweden is the country that one of my heroes, Raoul Wallenberg, comes from. Although my intentions were never to become a new Wallenberg or Elie Wiesel, I am deeply honored and humbled to be compared with them. They set examples for each individual. I am an ordinary man who listened to my conscience and tried to do the right thing. Coming to Peace & Love in the year, which is also a centennial year for Wallenberg, feels like the right thing to do,” said Paul Rusesabagina.
“I think we can create peace on a personal level and I'm sure the organizers of the Peace & Love share that belief. I am honored to launch this year's festival and try to help to lead the way to a New World,”continued Rusesabagina.
Paul started the Hotel Rwanda Rusesabagina Foundation in 2005 to give a voice to victims of genocide and support peaceful actions in Rwanda and worldwide. Paul's autobiography An Ordinary Man appeared in 2006. Paul has won several international awards for his efforts.
Read more about Paul Rusesabagina: 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Rusesabagina

From the movie Hotel Rwanda (2004):
http://youtu.be/j2vMvyQeb1U

Newscast from Rwanda 1994:
http://youtu.be/ZWuB8ir4VeI




Kitty Kurth
President, Kurth Lampe
444 N. Wabash, #410
Chicago, IL  60611
Phone: (312) 464-0260 Fax: (312) 464-0262 Cell: (312) 617-7288 
alternate email: kittykurth@me.com

Rwanda/USA: Sang et honneur pour le docteur Paul Kagame



Par Mélanie Mendelewitsch
Backchich-Sature Justice


Mercredi, 30/05/2012

Le président rwandais est devenu docteur honoris causa d'une université américaine le même jour que l'ancien PDG de la Citybank...qui l'a bien aidé à financer ses guerres au Congo.


Samedi 12 mai 2012, Sanford Weill et son épouse Joan, ont été faits « Docteurs Honoris Causa » de l’université de Sonoma dans le Comté du même nom en Californie. 

Le même jour, c’était au tour d’un autre étudiant modèle, à savoir le président Rwandais Paul Kagamé, de recevoir son diplôme en « Lettres et Humanité » des mains du doyen de l’université William Penn qui fait la fierté de l’état US de l’Iowa.

Deux étudiants hors du commun, devenus Docteurs « Honoraires » le même jour à 2 500 kilomètres de distance, liés peut être à l’insu de leur plein gré, par un même destin.

Il faut bien le reconnaitre, l’un comme l’autre n’ont pas lésiné sur les moyens pour obtenir leur distinction académique…

Sandy, l’ancien Président Directeur Général de Citigroup, a commencé par verser 12 millions de dollars particulièrement appréciés par le conseil d’administration de la fac californienne. Ils vont notamment servir à terminer le Green Music Center de 1400 places qu’on a évidemment décidé de baptiser « Joan & Sandford Weill Symphony Hall ».

La reine des Subprimes

Les étudiants locaux dont les parents ont vu ces derniers mois leur maison saisie à la demande de la Citibank, l’une des reines des subprimes, ou qui peinent à rembourser leurs prêts-étudiant, se sont probablement abstenus d’assister à la cérémonie. Il paraît que ceux qui y étudient la finance ont  gardeé en travers de la gorge la bouée de sauvetage de 475 milliards de dollars –la plus élevée à ce jour - de fonds publics débloqués en urgence par les Etats Unis pour éviter à Citigroup de sombrer au top de la crise financière. Plus directement, personne n’a zappé que sous l’administration Clinton, Sandy a largement contribué à la mise en pièces de la loi Glass-Steagall, ouvrant grand la porte à la bancocratie triomphante dont nous continuons à payer le prix.  D’ailleurs, le Time Magazine ne s’y est pas trompé en le plaçant dans un tout autre palmarès, bien avant qu’il reçoive son titre honorifique, comme l’un des 25 responsables de la crise financière mondiale. La Classe.

Pour Paul Kagamé, l’actuel président Rwandais, c’est sans doute sa parfaite connaissance de la géographie du Rwanda, du Burundi et du Congo qui justifie sa distinction par l’université de l’Iowa.

D’ailleurs pour célébrer l’événement, le Haut Commissariat aux Réfugiés de l’ONU a publié le 16 mai, une photo saisissante accompagnée d’un commentaire selon lequel depuis le 27 avril, 8200 nouveaux congolais ont franchi la frontière orientale du Congo pour se réfugier dans les camps rwandais. Un mois plus tard, 30 000 autres malheureux reprenaient en chœur le fameux slogan : « En Mai, deviens Ougandais »…

Un doctorat  à 5,4 millions de morts

La thèse de Doctorat de Kagamé Paul, étudiant à l’université William Penn, a malheureusement été écrite en… 2001 par l’ONU ; son titre ? « Rapport du groupe d’experts sur l’exploitation illégale des ressources naturelles et d’autres formes de richesses de la République Démocratique du Congo ». 

Le remarquable travail de recherche, décrit notamment le rôle de la Citibank dans le transfert vers le Rwanda, du coltan, ce minerai stratégique dont 60 à 80% des réserves mondiales sont concentrées dans la région du Kivu, et le rapatriement d'une partie des profits vers le Congo afin d’y soutenir l’effort de guerre de l’étudiant Kagamé. 


Le 12 mai, pendant le discours du doyen, de nombreux étudiants qui assistaient à la petite fiesta étaient plongés dans les paragraphes 130 à 135 de la thèse en question : la partie consacrée aux instructions données à la Citibank à New York par une banque rwandaise, la BCDI, de payer les millions de dollars de factures des entreprises rwandaises qui approvisionnaient les milices locales pendant la deuxième guerre du Congo.

Un pré-jury, l’ONG « Comité International de Sauvetage » - IRC - fondé en 1933 sous l’inspiration d’Albert Einstein pour apporter son assistance aux réfugiés victimes de guerres et de catastrophes naturelles, s’est d’ailleurs penché dès janvier 2008 sur les circonstances à l’origine de la distinction universitaire de Paul Kagamé. Il a estimé que les conflits congolais avaient provoqué la mort de 5,4 millions de personnes entre 1998 et 2008. Majoritairement victimes de famines et d’épidémies multiples contractées dans les camps de réfugiés et au sein des populations déplacées…A la lumière de ces infos, on peut se légitimement se poser la question : le mot Honneur a-t-il encore un sens ?

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Wednesday, May 30, 2012

RWANDA: Amnesty denounces systematic use of torture

By Jean Mitari
Jambonews 

May 30th, 2012. 

Amnesty International submitted a report, May 2012, to the UN Committee against torture denouncing the use of torture and other ill treatment by Rwandan military intelligence (DMI) and other security personnel.

Amnesty International
Amnesty International
The organization documented 18 allegations of torture and other ill-treatments. It also   outlined cases involving enforced disappearance, unlawful detention, and lack of access to lawyers, family members and medical assistance in contravention to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CAT).
According to the report, civilians who are unjustly arrested and detained in military prisons, are then subjected to inhuman treatments in order to force them to provide false evidence against their neighbors, family members or acquaintances.
“The culture of torture has been normalized in Rwanda” explained Erwin van der Borght, the Amnesty International representative in Africa to the BBC.
Based on surveys conducted by the organization during the last two years in Rwanda and reports from the UN committee against torture, van der Borght confirmed that at least 18 people were abducted and detained in clandestine jails, which are housed in military barracks, where they undergo cruel treatments.
It is especially the infamous Directorate of Military Intelligence (DMI), known for its cruelty, which is in the focusof Amnesty International investigations. The agency is suspected to have installed several prisons which in appearance are normal prisons but in reality are used as laboratories of torture, especially in the military barracks of Kami and Mukamira.
Methods of torture that are practiced in these torture camps include punches and kicks to people that are often chained or suspended. Electrocution is cited as the preferred method of torture used by torturers from the DMI.
Amnesty International also mentioned other methods of torture such as suffocation by a bag over one’s head for several hours with arms and feet chained behind. Moreover,  victims of torture are isolated in unlit cells without any possibility of seeing a legal counsel  or a doctor.
Amnesty International said  it interviewed many people who have been released and attested to have collected sufficient evidence concerning the increase of torture in Rwanda and the diversification of methods of torture. The use of torture sharply increased in Rwanda  during the period leading to 2010 presidential elections. That period was followed by  a climate of terror due to repeated throwing of grenades in the country’s capital - Kigali.
The organization sent letters to Gen. James Kabarebe, Rwandan Minister of Defence and Tharcisse Karugarama , Minister of Justice on 29 March 2012 summarizing some of the findings and requesting an official response in order to reflect the Rwandan government’s perspective. But Rwandan authorities have not replied.
Amnesty International expressed concern over the use of torture that is increasing in Rwanda in complete violation of all principles of human rights and dignity.
Note:Article Translated from its original French version by A. Tuyishime.

Rwanda: Urukiko Mpuzamahanga Mpanabyaha (CPI/ICC) ntabwo ruzaburanisha Callixte Mbarushimana



Urukiko Mpuzamahanga Mpanabyaha (CPI/ICC) ntabwo ruzaburanisha Callixte Mbarushimana callixte_mbarushimana_rwandan_fdlr_rebel_leader
Callixte Mbarushimana
By Marc Matabaro
Rwiza News
Tariki ya 30 Gicurasi 2012

Amakuru ava i La Haye mu Buhorandi, mu rukiko mpuzamahanga mpanabyaha (CPI/ICC) aravuga ko kuri uyu wa gatatu tariki ya 30 Gicurasi 2012, urwo rukiko rwemeje mu bujurire icyemezo cyo kutazaburanisha Bwana Callixte Mbarushimana, wari Umunyamabanga Mukuru wa FDLR, ukekwaho ibyaha byibasiye inyokomuntu n’ibyaha by’intambara mu burasirazuba bwa Congo.
Urukiko Mpuzamahanga Mpanamabyaha rwari rwasanze mu Kuboza 2011 ko ibimenyetso by’ubushinjacyaha bitari bihagije ngo bijyanwe mu rubanza. Ariko ubushinjacyaha bwarajuriye nyuma y’iminsi 3.
Mu kibazo cya Callixte Mbarushimana, nibwo abacamanza bari bategetse ku nshuro ya mbere ko umuntu uregwa n’urwo rukiko arekurwa kuva urukiko rwashingwa mu 2003.
Callixte Mbarushimana yakekwagaho ibyaha byibasiye inyokomuntu n’ibyaha by’intambara byakorewe muri Congo mu 2009. Yarekuwe n’urwo rukiko ku ya 23 Ukuboza 2011, nyuma y’aho urukiko rw’ibanze rufashe icyemezo cyo kutamuburanisha.
Ibyaha byashinjwaga Callixte Mbarushimana ngo byaba bishingiye ku matangazo n’ibindi bikorwa byo gutangaza amakuru bivugira FDLR yari abereye umunyamabanga mukuru yakoraga ari i Paris mu Bufaransa.
Callixte Mbarushimana w’imyaka 48 yari yafatiwe mu Bufaransa tariki ya 11 Ukwakira 2010 aho atuye kuva mu 2002 we n’umugore we n’abana be babiri.
Ariko Callixte Mbarushimana akirekurwa n’urukiko Mpuzamahaga Mpanabyaha, ubucamanza bwo mu Bufaransa nabwo bwasabye ko akurikiranirwa hafi (contrôle judiciaire) mu gihe hagikorwa iperereza ku byaha akekwaho bijyanye na Genocide yo mu Rwanda.
Tubibutse kandi ko Callixte Mbarushimana ashakishwa n’ubucamanza bw’u Rwanda akekwaho uruhare muri Genocide yo mu 1994.
Ababikurikiranira hafi bemeza ko iri kurikiranwa rya Callixte Mbarushimana rishingiye cyane kuri politiki kurusha ku butabera akaba ari nayo mpamvu nta n’ibimenyetso byatuma habaho urubanza byabonetse.
Tubibutse ko abandi bayobozi ba FDLR bafungiye mu Budage aho bakurikiranweho ibyaha bijya kumera nk’ibya Callixte Mbarushimana. Abo ni Ignace Murwanashyaka na Straton Musoni.

Congo probes alleged Rwandan support for rebel

By Jonny Hogg
Reuters
May 29, 2012 

GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) - A uthorities in Democratic Republic of Congo are investigating allegations that neighbouring Rwanda is recruiting and training fighters in support of a new armed movement in its troubled eastern borderlands, a government spokesman said on Monday.
The British Broadcasting Corporation, citing a confidential United Nations document, reported earlier on Monday that among the defectors from the newly formed militia were at least 11 Rwandan nationals who claimed to have been recruited in Rwanda.
Rwandan Foreign Minister Louise Mushikiwabo dismissed the allegations as "categorically false and dangerous".
Lambert Mende, Congo's communications minister, told Reuters that his government had received similar information from fighters captured by the army.
"All those who have been arrested after the last fighting are telling the same story," he said, adding that an inquiry was under way and Congo government itself was not accusing Rwanda of supporting the rebels.
"Rwanda is denying it, and we don't have any reason to doubt what they're saying at this time," he said.
The two Great Lakes neighbours have a troubled history. Kigali in the past has accused Kinshasa of harbouring Rwandan Hutu fighters who fled across the border after carrying out a 1994 genocide in which some 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus were killed.
Rwanda in turn has backed a succession of rebellions in eastern Congo over more than a decade of violence that has claimed the lives of over 5 million people.
In 2008, U.N. investigators accused Rwanda of arming the National Congress for the Defence of the People (CNDP), led by renegade Congolese Tutsi General Laurent Nkunda.
However, a 2009 peace deal that saw Nkunda arrested by Rwanda and his troops integrated into the army appeared to usher in a new era of cooperation between the erstwhile enemies.
"Rwanda's national interest is served by containing conflict and building deeper bonds of peace with our neighbours," Mushikiwabo said on Monday.
Meanwhile, Hiroute Guebre-Selassie, who heads the office of Congo's peacekeeping mission, MONUSCO, in Goma, confirmed the contents of the leaked report in an interview that aired on the BBC on Monday.
"They say they were recruited in a village called Mundede, that they were given training in weapon handling, and that they were sent to DRC to join the M23," she said.
The fighting in recent weeks has forced some 100,000 people to flee their homes according to the United Nations, including thousands into neighbouring Rwanda and Uganda.

Rwanda: Point de vue sur la lettre de Madame Victoire Ingabire au Président Paul Kagame

Par Un Militant des FDU-Inkingi
Kigali, 30 Mai 2012.

C’est une lettre personnelle adressée à la personne qui décidé de son emprisonnement. Elle a évité de s’expliquer  à travers les media et a préféré une information directe. Le Président Kagame ne pourra pas prétendre un jour qu’il n’était pas informé du sens du combat politique ou des déclarations de Madame Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza.

La lettre est écrite dans un langage très poli, respectueux et sans animosité. C’est bien un signe de maturité politique et de respect des autres et surtout  ceux qui ont des points de vue différents. Cette qualité contraste avec les propos du Président Kagame envers elle (elle a été qualifiée de hourrigan…)

La lettre explique très bien le sens de son combat et cherche à lever toute équivoque, interprétations et la prise de ses propos en dehors de leur contexte. Le Président Kagame ne  pourra pas dire un jour qu’il ne savait pas ce qu’elle voulait dire.

 La lettre montre combien Madame Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza est soucieuse de la promotion de la réconciliation et de l’inclusion. Elle ne veut pas blesser, elle veut guérir et c’est le sens de ses excuses quand on lit toute la lettre. Elle est prête pour le rassemblement de tous les Rwandais et n’hésite pas à s’excuser auprès des gens qui auraient mal compris le sens de son combat ou de ses déclarations. C’est de l’humilité politique qui l’honore et c’est une preuve d’un leadership dont les rwandais ont particulièrement besoin pour le moment.

Cette lettre est un complément de ses déclarations qu’elle est convaincue que son procès est politique et qu’elle ne peut trouver justice que par la voie politique. Cette lettre explique encore mieux la récente décision de Madame Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza de ne plus se présenter devant le tribunal car elle a complètement perdu confiance dans les tribunaux rwandais qui obéissent aux injonctions politiques.

C’est bien un procès politique et la décision appartient au Président Kagame. La lettre a son sens.

Je suis fier de ma Présidente.

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Monday, May 28, 2012

Rwanda: Umwe mu bari bafungiwe gushinja Ingabire yararekuwe!

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Inkuru y'Umwanditsi wa 
Rwandaliberation
Tariki ya 25 Gicurasi 2012


Ikinamico riragwira ariko iryo FPR ikina umuntu yakwibaza icyo rivuze akakiyoberwa. Impamvu mvuze ibi ni uko taliki 10 mata 2012 ubushinjacyaha bwazanye mu rukiko rukuru rwa Kigali uwitwa Nsabimana Phocas kugirango ashinje Madame Victoire Ingabire ko yamuhaye amafaranga yo gukoresha mu bikorwa by’iterabwoba ariko bisa n’aho uyu mugabo bitamworoheye kubahiriza neza ibyifuzo by’ubucamanza kuko we yavuze ko Ingabire yamuhaye amafaranga yo gutegura kumwakira igihe yari ageze mu Rwanda avuye mu buhungiro aho yari aje gutangiza ibikorwa by’ishyaka rya FDU-Inkingi mu Rwanda. Uyu Nsabimana Phocas ngo akaba yari ashinzwe gutegura ibikorwa byo kumwakira no kumushakira icumbi.
Tumaze kumva inkuru y’ifungurwa ry’uyu mugabo wari ufungiye muri gereza nkuru ya Kigali twashatse kumenya inkuru irambuye ku ifungwa rye ndetse n’uburyo yarekuwe maze twegera bamwe mu basanzwe bamuzi badutangariza ko uyu mugabo yafashwe mu mezi akurikira ifungwa rya Ingabire ariko ngo afatwa aregwa ibijyanye n’amafaranga ya banki y’abaturage kuko ariyo yakoreraga mu gihe Ingabire yatahaga mu Rwanda. Icyo gihe yafungiwe muri gereza ya Gitarama aza kuburana aratsinda ariko mu kurekurwa ngo yisanze na none muri panda gari imwerekeza muri gereza nkuru ya Kigali. Ntabwo twashoboye kubona amatariki ibi byabereyeho ariko ngo haba ari mu mpera za 2011.
Uyu mugabo ngo yagejejwe muri gereza ya Kigali atanyujijwe mu bugenzacyaha no mu bushinjacyaha nk’uko bisanzwe bigenda mu buryo bwemewe n’amategeko ndetse ngo n’abo bari bafungiye hamwe ntibigeze bamenya impamvu yari afunzwe ariko ngo byarahwihwiswaga ko afungiye kuzashinja Ingabire. Mu gitondo cyo ku wa mbere taliki 10 mata 2012 nibwo yagejejwe mu rubanza rwa Ingabire ariko ngo mu by’ukuri abakurikiye ubwo buhamya bibajije icyo ubushinjacyaha bwakuye mu byo yavuze uretse ikimwaro birabayobera. Nyuma y’uko mission y’uyu mugabo irangiye, ubu ngo arabarizwa iwe ariko ntitwashoboye kumenya aho atuye ngo tumubaze impamvu y’iryo fungwa n’ifungurwa ridasobanutse. Biragaragara rero ko leta ya Kagame ikora ibintu buhubutsi ku buryo ikora n’amafuti agaragarira buri wese. None se umuntu yafungwa ate adafite urupapuro rw’ubugenzacyaha rumufata n’urumufunga, akamara amezi n’amezi muri gereza nkuru ataranyujijwe mu bushinjacyaha ngo bumufunge by’agateganyo hanyuma akaza gufungurwa nta rubanza rubayeho?
Ngiyo imikorere ya gitekinisiye y’inzego z’ubucamanza za Kagame ariko birababaje kuba abantu bitesha agaciro bigeze hariya kandi ntibakarenganye imiryango mpuzamahanga irengera ikiremwa muntu kuko nibo baba bakorana ubwenge buke ku buryo butihishira.

UN: Rwanda 'supporting DR Congo mutineers'


By BBC News reporter
May 28, 2012




An internal UN report accuses Rwanda of complicity in supplying weapons and soldiers to the rebels in DR Congo.


An internal UN report seen by the BBC cited defecting soldiers, who said they had been trained in Rwanda under the pretext of joining the army, before being sent over the border to fight.

The conflict broke out in April after a mutiny by some Congolese army officers.

Rwanda's foreign minister told the BBC the UN report is "categorical lies".

"The UN mission in DR Congo is lying; they have not verified anything; they are repeating claims and rumours that we, the Rwandan government, have heard over the last many weeks," Foreign Minister Louise Mushikiwabo told the BBC's Network Africa programme.

"What would Rwanda gain in creating instability around its own borders? It does not make sense," Ms Mushikiwabo said.

Rwanda 'prepared for mutiny'

The UN report says some of the mutiny's leaders are former rebel Tutsi officers who had been linked to Rwanda, whose government is dominated by ethnic Tutsis.

They were incorporated into the Congolese army in 2009 as part of a peace agreement.

The area has suffered years of fighting since 1994, when more than a million ethnic Hutus fled across the border into DR Congo following the Rwandan genocide, in which some 800,000 people, mostly Tutsis, were slaughtered.

Rwanda has twice invaded its much larger neighbour, saying it was trying to take action against Hutu rebels based in DR Congo.

Tens of thousands have fled the recent violence in the eastern DR Congo.

The BBC's Gabriel Gatehouse, in the eastern Congolese city of Goma, says the UN spoke to 11 defectors there.

They had deserted their posts in the mountainous jungle area on the border between the DR Congo and Rwanda.

The UN report says the deserters were Rwandan nationals, recruited in Rwanda under the pretext of joining the Rwandan military.

They were given weapons and training, and then sent into DR Congo.

Some of the men were recruited as early as February 2012, the report says.

This is a potentially significant detail, our correspondent says, as if the claim is true, it would suggest Rwanda was preparing for conflict before the mutiny by rebellious officers began in April.

One of the deserters, the report says, is a minor.

Earlier, there was fresh fighting between government forces and the army mutineers.

A spokesman for the mutineers, Vianney Kazarama, told AFP that the Congolese army was attacking one of their strongholds in North Kivu province with heavy weapons.

The mutineers say they belong to the March 23rd Movement which originated from the Tutsi-dominated CNDP rebels.

They agreed to be integrated into the Congolese army under a 2009 peace accord, which included Rwanda, but recently started to defect en masse, complaining of bad treatment.

Bosco "Terminator" Ntaganda, a Congolese rebel who once fought with Rwanda's army and is wanted by the ICC for alleged war crimes, is accused of masterminding the mutiny after pressure increased for him to be arrested. He denies the claim.

Before the 2009 peace deal, the CNDP militia threatened to invade Goma, leading some 250,000 people to flee.

People in and around the town of Goma blame these troops for persistent unrest - including looting and rape - since the formal end of DR Congo's war in 2003.

DR Congo Seeks Democracy



Troublesome neighbours

Rwanda map
  • April-June 1994: Genocide of Tutsis in Rwanda
  • June 1994: Paul Kagame's Tutsi rebels take power in Rwanda, Hutus flee into Zaire (DR Congo)
  • Rwanda's army enters eastern Zaire to pursue Hutu fighters
  • 1997: Laurent Kabila's AFDL, backed by Rwanda, takes power in Kinshasa
  • 1998: Rwanda accuses Kabila of not acting against Hutu rebels and tries to topple him, sparking five years of conflict
  • 2003: War officially ends but Hutu and Tutsi militias continue to clash in eastern DR Congo
  • 2008: Tutsi-led CNDP rebels march on North Kivu capital, Goma - 250,000 people flee
  • 2009: Rwanda and DR Congo agree peace dealand CNDP integrated into Congolese army
  • 2012: Mutiny led by former CNDP leader Bosco "Terminator" Ntaganda


A thank you note from Theogene Rudasingwa


Thank you, my friends for your concern. I do...By Theogene Rudasingwa
May 28, 2012

Thank you, my friends for your concern. I do appreciate.

Here is a lesson we learn from this episode: truth is both a POWERFUL and DANGEROUS weapon. It is dangerous because it is disruptive. Once we speak truth to power-as in 1959, 1973, 1990 and now in 2012-our society is gripped with fear and change. It is also dangerous because it often has unintended consequences. It is powerful because in face of truth, empires and tyrannies have finally crumbled as a stack of cards.

My lesson from the temporary presence on a list of the accused in the Iowa case against Kagame is that truth is also a liberator. It sets us free. That in itself is powerful. The families of the victims of the crime stood in for me, and said, "Theogene is a witness, not a criminal." Yet, we were formerly enemies. My former friend, Paul Kagame is the accused and I bear witness against him. Such is the irony of life.

This could only happen when we begin to embrace truth and invest in a "trust account" among us Rwandans. Truth is a multiplier that increases trust among us. With trust, together we can imagine and build a better future for all of us-Hutu, Tutsi and Twa: one united nation, of free men and women, democratic, peaceful and prosperous. That is what our children and grandchildren expect from us. Nothing less.

This is what RNC and the peaceful revolution we are involved in is all about. Previous revolutions have produced winners and losers, but at the end we have all become losers. We are trying to convince Kagame and a small group of people under him to make a choice. They can abandon the fruitless and dangerous course of resisting peaceful change. Together, we could become the most free and the most forgiving nation in history. Alternatively, Kagame et al might choose to continue to resist peaceful change, and rely on brutal force, deception and lies like all dictators before him. This path leads to unnecessary and preventable violence and bloodshed. Even on this violent path he will inevitably emerge as the loser, and , like all dictators before him, he will be assigned a shameful seat on the dung heap of history.

Can we unleash maximum peaceful revolutionary energy to make all Rwandans winners?

YES, WE MUST, NOW!!

RWANDA: PADIRI NAHIMANA THOMAS YERUYE


Inkuru ya Valois Bizimana
Democracy Human Rights
Tariki ya 28 Gicurasi 2012

Mu minsi ishize nanyujije kuri uru rubuga inyandiko nise "Abanyabwenge b'Inzozi", aho nibazaga nti ese Padiri Nahimana Thomas n'abandi bayoboke b'ishyaka INZOZI rya Twagiramungu Faustin, bakorera opposition cyangwa bafite undi undi (FPR na Kagame) bakorera?

Nari nagerageje gukora analyse kuri hypotheses zombi zagiraga ziti:
1) Bari muri opposition mu bwenge buke;
2) Ntibari muri opposition ahubwo barayicengeye.

Iyo nza kuba nihanganyeho iminsi ibiri gusa (iyo nyandiko nayitangaje ku wa gatatu), simba naririwe mfusha umwanya wanjye ubusa kuko  ku wa gatanu ku mugoroba nibwo Padiri Nahimana Thomas yatweruriye icyamugenzaga!

Mu gisubizo yahaga uwitwa Marc Matabaro aho Matabaro yabazaga ati "Aho tuzi uwo turwana nawe cyangwa icyo  turwanira?",  ku rubuga rwe bwite Leprophete , Padiri Nahimana Thomas mu nyandiko yise "Marc Matabaro: Kuki uyu musore yigeretseho umusaraba wo kuba UMUMOTSI w’Inzira Isesa amaraso y’Abanyarwanda" nibwo yavuze AKARIMURORI, abizi neza kandi abishaka (njye nkaba narabibonye comme une fuite d'information organisee)   mu magambo akurikira:

"Wahera he wemeza ko Paul Kagame wo mu 2012 ATIFUZA amahoro mu gihugu ayoboye imyaka irenga 18? Yenda uburyo bwo kugera kuri ayo mahoro Abanyarwanda bose basonzeye nibwo bukwiye kuganirwaho.  Ndahamya ko Kagame aramutse agize amahirwe yo kubona abantu bafite gahunda nzima yo kubaka igihugu, bakamwizeza gutanga umuganda wabo mu gufasha Abanyarwanda gukemura ibibazo by’ubukene, umwiryane n' akarengane; bakagaragaza ko bashobora gufasha mu kubonera umuti ikibazo cy’ubutabera mpuzamahanga gihangayikishije Abanyarwanda batari bake (na Kagame ubwe arimo)….. yabuzwa n’iki kuganira nabo ? Ariko se abo banyapolitiki bazima kandi b'intwari bari he ? Kagame ni we uzafata iyambere ajye kubahiga iyo bihishe mu myobo ?" 

Ngira ngo namwe murabona ko Padiri Nahimana Thomas noneho yemeye kubandwa habona; ntawe uzongera kugira icyo amubaza kirebana  n'iyo ngingo yo kurwanya ubutegetsi bw'igitugu bwa Kagame!! En fait, ukuri kuri kujya ahabona ku buryo bwihuse kandi kugaragaza ikintu kimwe:

MISSION YA TWAGIRAMUNGU N'ABAYOBOKE BE NI UGUSENYA OPPOSITION BARANGIZA BAGATAHA BAKAGORORERWA IMYANYA.


AMARENGA NA GIHAMYA  NI  BYINSHI ARIKO IBY'INGENZI NI IBI:

1) Twagiramungu yafindafinze ishyaka bubi na bwangu ari uko yumvise RNC-itangiye kugira ama succes kandi iri hafi guhura n'andi mashyaka ngo bakorane. Byaramutunguye cyane ku buryo atabonye n'igihe cyo guha iryo shyaka  izina ryiyubashye, apfa kuryita NDAROTA cyangwa INZOZI (Dreams DRI)!

2) Urubuga rwa leprophete.fr na Padiri Nahimana aribyo ndangururamajwi za Twagiramungu, nabo bigaragaje muri iyo minsi. Padiri Nahimana Thomas, nako Zelote Mahoro, si ukunenga FPR na Kagame yiva inyuma, ntiyita ku bwoba na mba.  Tuti dore umugabo, dore umunyabwenge akaba n'umuhanuzi!! Mu nyota  y'ukuri na democratie twumva ko dushubijwe, tuti dore umu Leader tukaba abantu! Ntitukamenye ko gahunda ari iyo kuturangaza kwanza, kutwangisha l'opposition bigakurikiraho, agatemeri kakaba kuduhamagarira kuyoboka Kagame!!

Kugera mu ntangiro z'uyu mwaka, ijuru ryari rikiri ryeru. Ariko, uko ukwezi kwagiye gushira ukundi kugataha, courbe y'ubukana bwa Padiri Nahimana Thomas mu kunenga FPR yagiye imanuka kurusha les actions des banques Grecques!!! Sinshidikanya ko guhera ubu tugiye kugerwaho n'urwunge rw'ibisingizo bya Kagame byanditswe na Padiri!!
Hagati aho ariko ubwo, indi courbe yo gusebya, kwandagaza no gutoteza abayobozi ba opposition nyayo; yo niko yazamukaga nk'icyogajuru gihagurutse ku butaka, na n'ubu!!!

3) Ariya magambo Padiri Nahimana Thomas yivugiye ubwe, ngira ngo ni clairs bihagije, nta bindi bisobanuro bigomba kugira ngo umuntu yumve icyamugenzaga! Ndibaza ko na Tito Kayijamahe (umuyoboke w'ishyaka INZOZI),  umenyereye kugoragoza no guhomerera iyonkeje, ataribubone ukundi abitwumvisha!
Muri make, Kagame ni umunyamahoro wabuze uwamufasha ngo arusheho guteza igihugu imbere!!
Gusa, aha Padiri Nahimana Thomas yigwishije amagwandi yanga kuvuga ko Twagiramungu ariyo ntwari yonyine abona yaganira na Kagame bagafatanya kubaka igihugu.

Akandi kantu kansekeje, ni uriya mwaka wa 2012!! Ni wo mwaka w'ifatizo se bagenzi bange? Kuki ayo mahoro Kagame atayifuje muri 2000? Why not 2005? Kuki se ahubwo atategereza akayifuza muri 2020? Cyangwa iriya myaka 18 ni ntarengwa? A moins que baba barabivuganye; ce qui est tres probable; si non Padiri Nahimana Thomas yari kuba agaciye  yiha gufora (deviner)!!! Ubundi, un homme normal reflechit tandis que un idiot devine!!

4) Abantu babangamiye ubutegetsi bubi bwa Kagame na FPR ye, baherutse kwakwa passeports nyarwanda bari bafite. Liste y'abo bantu mwese mwarayibonye. Twagiramungu Faustin na Padiri Nahimana Thomas bo muri " OPPOSITION IRI HAFI  GUKORESHA REVOLUTION MU RWANDA", si impunzi;  bagendera kuri passeports z'u Rwanda ariko bo ntibazatswe. Rukokoma we aherutse no kubona inshya kuko iyo yakoresheje muri 2003 yari yararangije igihe.  Na Evode Uwizeyimana umujyanama w' Ishyaka INZOZI,  aherutse kurikocora ati “abo batazatse ni uko ntacyo  babangamiyeho ubutegetsi cyangwa bakaba bafite uburyo bakorana nabwo”!!

5) Kuba opposition ikwiye gutaha igakorera imbere mu gihugu, kabone n'iyo nta na gito cyaba cyarahindutse ku mikorere ya Kagame na FPR, ni ingingo yagarutwseho inshuro nyinshi na Padiri Nahimana Thomas, no mu ijwi rya Zelote Mahoro muri ya mabanga 77. Ubu bwari uburyo bwo kudutegura hakiri kare ngo nibataha twoye kuzabyibazaho.
Zelote Mahoro yibutsaga iyo ngingo, bugacya Twagiramungu atangaza (par hasard!!!) ko ari hafi gutaha, kujya gukorera politique mu gihugu!!!
Ku wa mbere w'igishize Padiri Nahimana Thomas yanamenyesheje abasomyi be ko ubu ari tayari gutaha, nkaba nkeka ko abivuze ari uko abona  asa n'urangije  inshingano ze.

6) NDAHAYO Eugene (Manyinya), ishumi rikomeye rya Twagiramungu, aherutse gutangaza ko ubu ari we President wa FDU-Inkingi! Uko guhirika Madame INGABIRE Victoire kuri uwo mwanya kwapanzwe mu nama yabaye mu kwa kabiri 2012 biba ibanga, none bitangajwe ejo bundi le 23/05/2012.  Kubera iki? Kubera ko ari hafi gutahana na Twagiramungu, bagerayo akandikisha ishyaka  FDU-Inkingi igice cye, icya INGABIRE kikaburiramo!!!  Ubwo nyine Twagiramungu azandikisha irye, amashyaka abe abaye abiri, akore impuzamashyaka ya "opposition" izagirana imishyikirano na Kagame UKO YABYIPANGIYE UBWE, ni uko Film ibe irizinze!!!  Gusa, sinkeka ko  gukina politique a la Nayinzira bisaba kubanza guhunga!!! Ngo akumiro ni ubushita amavunja arahandurwa!!

Cyokora, kuba aba bashomwana batwiyeretse ubu,  ni rwa rukungu rupfundura mbere y'amasaka, bikaba ari byiza rwose! Naho kuba bazataha i Kigali guhabwa imyanya, ni rwa rumamfu ruzaba ruvuye mu ngano, bikaba ntako bisa!

Opposition nyayo rero, iramenye ntizabure ibyara ngo yarogewe!!

Gusa, twizere ko  nibagerayo bazavugisha ukuri aka wa mukecuru ati: "Ya hene urayirya idahenuye mugabo nkunda, aho kubyara amavuta amata yabyaye amaziri!"

Murakagusha imvura mwabibye,  muvushe izuba mwanitse!