Sunday, January 27, 2013

FDU-Inkingi: Imyaka itatu i Rwanda duharanira Demokrasi, Leta y’igitugu itwimira



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Barwanashyaka namwe nshuti za FDU Inkingi,

Bagenzi bacu muhagarariye amashyaka yanyu,
Banyarwanda, Banyarwandakazi,
Nshuti z’u Rwanda n’Abanyarwanda

Mw’izina rya FDU Inkingi, mbashimiye kuba mwaje muri benshi kwifatikanya natwe muri uru rugendo rwo kwibuka imyaka 3 ishyaka ryacu riri mu Rwanda rihakorera politiki. Nibyo koko, kuri 16 Mutarama niho Prezidante wacu, Madamu Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza, yakojeje ibirenge bye i Rwanda ku kibuga k’indege Grégoire Kayibanda i Kanombe.

Uko turi hano, n’ubutegetsi bw’i Rwanda bwabipingaga, ntawe utemera ko ukujya mu Rwanda kwa FDU Inkingi ibimburiwe n’Umukuru wayo, Madamu Victoire Ingabire, byahinduye ku buryo budasubirwaho imikorere n’imirorere ya politiki mu Rwanda. Amashyaka yari hanze yari amaze gusa nacika intege, asubira muri disikuru zimwe, izi za rusange zidafite icyo zihagazeho gikoreka zivanye mu buyoborere bw’igihugu bwa buri munsi, mu mibibereho n’ibibazo by’inzitane by’abaturage bya buri munsi. Mbese ibi by’idiski y’indirimbo ishira ukwongera ukayitangira.

1.      Dushimire Madamu Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza

Ni umwanya w’umwihariko wo gushimira Ingabire yo gutsinda twironkeye, wiyemeje kwigomwa, agasiga urugo rwe, akazi ke, n’ibindi, nkuko twebwe twabisigayemo, akemera akitanga akajya mu menyo ya Rubamba, ngo avane abanyarwanda ku ngoyi y’ubutegetsi bw’igitugu. Yagize ubutwari burenze tutagize, ahari ubanza ari abagore bashobora kugira bonyine ubutwari nk’ubwo, dukwiye kubumushimira. Yagiye azi neza ko ashobora gufungwa, ko ashobora no kuhasiga ubuzima bwe, ariko aragenda, ati biramutse bigenze uko muzakomereza aho nzaba ngejeje. Yaravuze ati « tuzababera intwari , muzatubere abagabo ». Victoire Ingabire, aho uri mu buroko i Rwanda, siwo mwanya wawe, uwawe ni uwo ku ntebe nkuru y’Ubuyobozi bw’igihugu n’abanyarwanda. Turakuzirikana buri kanya aho  uri mu buvumo bwa gereza ya Kigali, tuzakomeza kugukubita ingabo mu bitugu kugeza igihe ufunguriwe, kugira ngo urangize inshingano wiyemeje, twaguhaye nk’ishyaka.

Mumbabarire ariko gato nshimire n’abarwanashyaka bagenzi bacu bari mu Rwanda, ku mwihariko abagize komite nyobozi y’agateganyo ya FDU Inkingi, ubwitange batwerereka buri munsi aho bahanganye amaso ku yandi n’ingoma y’igitugu kandi bakanamenya uko Prezidante wacu yiriwe kandi yaraye.  Nagira ngo mbashimire namwe barwanashyaka, nshuti, abaterankunga b’ingeri zose. Ibi tugezeho, dukesha ahanini n’ukujya kwa Prezidante wacu, ntibyari gushoboka iyo mutagumya kumushyigikira, ngo mujye aho adashobora kugera mu mahanga hirya no hino, ku maradiyo, ngo mwigomwe mubone uburyo bwo guherekeza ibikorwa bya politiki bya FDU Inkingi.

2.      FDU Inkingi yambuye Prezida Kagame ikamba ry’ubuziranenge yiyambitse

Nari maze kuvuga  ko kuva FDU Inkingi ifatiye icyemezo cyo kujya mu Rwanda gukorerayo politiki ibintu byahindutse. Bwabaye ubwambere, umuntu avugiye mu ruhame ati : Bwana Prezida Kagame ufite uruhare rukomeye mu bwicanyi bwabaye mu banyarwanda, turasaba ko abo wamariye kw’icumu nabo bagira uburenganzira n’amahirwe bwo kwibukwa n’ababo n’igihugu, turasaba ko ababavukije ubuzima, bari mu ngabo utegeka cyangwa muri Leta uyobora, baryozwa ibyo byaha ndengakamere bakoze. Unarebye ugashishoza, ugufungwa kwa Madamu Victoire Ingabire ni aho gushingiye. Yambuye Prezida Kagame ikamba ry’ubuziranenge yari yariyambitse abeshya ngo yahagaritse itsembabwoko.

Yahagaritse Jenoside ryari ko yafashe ubutegetsi abapfa barapfuye, abarokotse benshi ko ali bagenzi babo b’abahutu babakijije ? Ni hehe, nka za za Byumba yari yarigaruriye kuva muri Gashyantare 1993, hashize umwaka, cyangwa se za Kibungo ya ruguru yafashe agishoza intambara, ni he mu kwezi kwa kane, kwa gatanu, kwa gatandatu, yazibye icyuho, agaca icyanzu ngo abatutsi bahigwaga bukare bahahungire ? Umuntu yica Prezida Habyarimana Yuvenali bali bamaze gusinya amasezerano y’amahoro, ahubwo agashoza intambara n’abaje gutabara akabiyama, agahindukire ngo yahagaritse Jenoside ? Anazi ibyo yakuze nyuma muri Kongo ? Yahagaritse intambara yari yashoje, yego. Yafashe ubutegetsi, yego. Ibindi azabeshye abahindi, twe atureke. Numvise ko na bo bafite ambasade ko batakibeshyeka. Kumwibutsa ko hari abanyarwanda benshi yishe bimugarura mu murongo wa ba ruharwa bakoze ibyaha ndengakamere by’itsembatsemba,  kugeza ubu yari yashoboye kwegeka ku bandi.

Ubutegetsi bw’u Rwanda bwari bwarashoboye amahanga buyabwira ko ari ubuyobozi ntangarugero rwa demokrasi. Kuvaho FDU Inkingi igereye mu Rwanda ikaka uburenganzira bwo gukora nk’ishyaka ryemewe, dore hashize imyaka 3 ntabwo tubona, nta wundi munyamahanga bazongera kubeshya ngo bwemera amashyaka menshi n’itangazamakuru ryigenga, nta n’ishyaka na rimwe ritavuga rumwe n’ubutegetsi ryemewe kandi n’ibinyamakuru bitari « ndiyo bwana » byarasenywe. Akarusho ahubwo ni uko babirayemo bamwe bakabica, twibuke André Kagwa Rwisereka wari VisiPrezida wa Green Party, cyangwa Jean-Léonard Rugambage w’ikinyamakuru Umuvugizi. Abandi barabigera ariko barabahusha nka Jenerali Kayumba Nyamwasa. Abandi barafunga nka Deo Mushayidi, Prezida wa PDP Imanzi, Ntaganda Bernard, Prezida wa PS Imberakuri, Agnés Nkusi Uwimana na Saidati Mukakibibi b’ikinyamakuru Umurabyo. Turacyafite bagenzi bacu 8, bakomoka Rutsiro, bafungiye i Gitarama, hafi ya Stade ya demokrasi.

Aho FDU Inkingi igereye mu Rwanda, ubu ibibazo by’inzara, ubukene mu cyaro no mu nkengero y’umujyi wa Kigali birazwi. Twashoboye kubwira abantu ko hari abanyarwanda bongeye kurwara amavunja. Ibibazo by’uburezi n’amashuri kubona imfashanyo yo kuyigamo yahariwe bamwe, nakwita beneyo, ubuvuzi bwa Mutuwalite utavurwa nyabyo kandi utabona umuti muri Farumasiyo yazo. Ibyo birazwi. Ruswa yeze, mu cyaro ybita inkuyo, ntibikivugirwa mu matamatama. Programu zo gushahura abagabo twarazamaganye. Intambara ya Kongo bakunze kubeshya ngo ni iya banyekongo na FDRL, ubu byaragaragaye ya ahubwo yamariye abana b’u Rwanda muri Kongo, kuko nyine FDU Inkingi ishobora kuvuga ku mugaragaro iti abana bo mu ngo izi n’izi babatwaye kurwana. cyangwa ababyeyi babo batubwiye ko bahapfiriye.

3.      Nari umugabo ntihabwa intebe

Barwanashyaka ba FDU Inkingi,

Twoye gukomeza kwigamba no kwivuga ibigwi ku nkovu z’imidende. Nari umugabo kandi ntihabwa intebe. N’ubwo twabiharaniye mbere y’abandi, ubu byabaye umusaruro rusange, ntibikiri umwihariko wa FDU Inkingi, ni umusaruro rusange n’ayandi mashyaka avuga ko nawo ari uwayo. Kugira ngo tugume kw’isonga mu ntambara ya demokrasi n’ukwishyira ukizana, yo kutavutswa ubuzima bwawe uzira ubwoko bwawe cyangwa uko wavutse utagennye, y’ubutabera n’ubwiyunge burambye, yo kuzamura ubukungu bw’igihugu, yo kugira amahirwe amwe ukananirwa n’aho ubushobozi bwawe bugarukiye, tugomba gutema ishyamba, tugatera indi ntambwe, tugahanga kandi tugahangira abandi inzira yo kwubohora u Rwanda n’abanyarwanda. Burya umwana niwe wiha ingobyi.

Baca umugani kandi ngo : Nta joro riba rirerire ngo ribuze izuba kurasa. Kandi ngo : Nta rubuto rwaboze rutagwa. Abasoma ibihe babona ingoma ya Kagame iri mu marembera, hafi guhirima. Nanjye niko mbibona, iyo mbona amakosa ikomeje gukora : kuvunira agati mu ryinyo ikamarira mu buroko abatavuga rumwe nayo, kworeka igihugu mu ntambara ya Kongo, kutita kuri rubanda rwa giseseka ruba mu cyaro no mu ntandaro y’imijyi, kutunamura icumu ngo itange ihumure, kureba igitsure abamuhatse. Ntihazagire uwongera kuvuga ngo abanyamahanga ntibadufasha. Ahasigaye ni ahacu. Habuze uwasunika gato. Niko twiyemeje gukora.

4.      Inzira y‘ugutsinda

Inzira yo kwibohora iraka ibintu bibiri by’ingenzi. Icya mbere, guhuza imbaraga zacu n’andi mashyaka tugahashya uwo duhanganye. Icya kabiri, kwegera kurusha abaturage mu Rwanda cyangwa impunzi mu bihugu by’Afurika.

Kuri FDU Inkingi, guhuza imbaraga n’andi mashyaka ntibyagombye kutwaka imbaraga zihambaye. Twebwe ubwacu, ubu twibumbiye mw’ishyaka rimwe, bivuye ku bushake bwacu kuko mbere twari amashyaka atatu atandukanye. Tujya kwishyira hamwe ubwa mbere, ndibuka ko nta shyaka na rimwe, mu yari ariho icyo gihe tutahamagaye ngo aze dufatanye. Yemwe n’abari bafite igitekerezo cyo gushinga ishyaka batubwiye ngo dukomeze, bazaza nyuma bamaze kwirema, twarababwiye duti imiryango irafunguye, tubahaye ikaze, nimuhuguka, turacyabategereje. Ndibuka ko na mbere y’uko dufata icyemezo burundu cyo kujya gukorera politiki mu Rwanda, twiyegereje abantu bose b’inararibonye muri politiki, tubagisha inama. Muri abo, hari abahanze nyuma amashyaka yabo, ni uburenganzira bwabo. Urugero rwa vuba rwerekana ko dushaka ubufatanye, ni amasezerano twagiranye na RNC, ejo bundi twujuje imyaka 2 dukorera hamwe. Mu minsi iri imbere tuzayizihiza, twongere dutere indi ntambwe. Ntabwo rero kuri FDU Inkingi, ndumva nanavugira RNC, kwakira abandi baza batugana, ntibyagombye kutubera ikibazo.

FDU-Inkingi rero yashimishijwe no kwumva ko abashinze amashyaka nyuma bifuza ko dukorana. Dushyigikiye bidasubirwaho kwicara hamwe tukwumvikana k‘u Rwanda runogeye abanyarwanda, tugashaka ukwo tuvana abanyarwanda mu kangaratete bashyizwemo na Kagame n’agatsiko ke. N’abakiri ingwate za Kagame bakiri mu gihugu tubahaye ikaze, tuzafatanye gukosora ibyapfuye no gushaka inzira yo guca inzigo.

Kurushaho kwegera abaturage mu Rwanda cyangwa guhagurukira ikibazo cy‘impunzi mu bihugu by’Afurika nabyo birihutirwa. Abahejejwe mu mashyamba bagacirwa i Shyanga bakwiye kuva i buzimu bakaza i Buntu. Biri mu ngamba yo kwereka abaturage n’impunzi ko dushishikajwe no kwumva, no gukemura ibibazo byabo. Dukoresheje ubushobozi bwose, turashaka guhugura abaturage n’impunzi guhagurikira rimwe kwibohoza. Bityo, tugahumuriza abanyarwanda bamwe ubutegetsi bwadushumurije kandi nta mpamvu, bakabona ko dushishikajwe n’abanyarwanda bose, nta vangura. Kwegera abaturage mu gihugu cyangwa impunzi mu nkengero zacyo, twemeza ko bizaduha amaboko mashya, tukotsa igitutu ubutegetsi, tukabuhirika, tukamakaza demokrasi, tukazahura u Rwanda n‘abanyarwanda.

5.      Harakabaho Isabukuru ya demokrasi y’imyaka 52

Nigeze kuvuga hejuru ko hari bagenzi bacu bafungiye i Gitarama, hafi ya Stade ya demokrasi. Sinarangiza rero ntabibukije ko ababyeyi bacu baharaniye demokrasi twibuka ku ncuro ya 52 kuva kuri 28 Mutarama 1961. Nubwo tutashoboye gukomeza kuyibumbatira mu mahoro, mu bumwe, nkuko Indirimbo yubahiriza igihugu yabidutongaga, kujya i Gitarama kuri 28 Mutarama 1961 kwimika demokrasi ni igikorwa cy’ingenzi ababyeyi bacu baharaniye biyushye akuya. Muribuka ko Madamu Victoire Ingabire, nyuma yo kujya ku Gisozi kwunamiraabazize itsembabwoko mu Rwanda, yagiye gutura indabo  kuri Stade ya Demokrasi, aricyo gikorwa cy’imena yakurikijeho. Tugomba kuzirikana ibyo bikorwa byombi, kugira ngo ejo nitubohora igihugu cyacu, kizarangwe no kurinda ubusugire bw’ubuzima bwa buri wese, demokrasi n’ukwishyira ukizana ku buryo burambye, tuzasigira abana bacu na bo bakabusigira ababo ku ruhererekane rudashira, bazashyikiriza ubuvivi n’ubuvivure, ndetse na Rubanda.
Murakarama.

Bruseli, kuwa 26 Mutarama 2013

Nkiko Nsengimana
Umuyobozi wa Komite Mpuzabikorwa wa FDU Inkingi

Izindi Nkuru bijyanye:

Urugendo rwo kwifatanya na Madame Ingabire iBuruseli (mu mafoto)

VIDEO: IMYIGARAGAMBYO YO GUSHYIGIKIRA INGABIREVICTOIRE

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Thursday, January 24, 2013

Igihugu cya Tanzaniya kiyemeje gutabara muri Congo nk'uko Ubufaransa bwatabaye muri Mali




Point de presse avec M. JAKAYA MRISHO KIKWETE... par elysee


Mu kiganiro yagiranye n’abanyamakuru kuri uyu wa mbere taliki ya 21 mutarama 2013, Paul Kagame yasubije ibibazo yabazwaga mu mvugo ituje ,izira ibitutsi,gusuzugura no kwikangata cyane ! Ku kibazo cyo kuzana indege za drones zo kugenzura umupaka w’u Rwanda na Congo Kagame yasubije ko ntabushobozi afite bwo kurwanya icyo gitekerezo ; nyamara mu ijambo yavuze asoza inama y’umushyikirano mu kuboza 2012 Kagame yabwiye abamutegaga amatwi ko we guhangana nta soni bimutera ! Abatera-nkunga b’u Rwanda barahiye ko batazongera kunyuza inkunga yabo (igihe izaba yafunguwe) mu ngengo y’imari y’u Rwanda, ko ahubwo bazajya bahita bayishyira mu mishinga yagenewe ; u Rwanda rwohereza mafaranga yo gutunga ingabo zo mu mutwe wa M23 none na Tanzaniya yakundaga kwigengesera mu bibazo by’akarere yiyemeje kohereza ingabo zo kurwanya M23, aho ubwitonzi bwa Kagame ntibwaba bufite ishingiro ? Abamusabira manda ya gatatu mujye mukubita n’ibipfukamiro hasi !  

Hamaze guterwa intambwe igaragara mugushyiraho umutwe w’ingabo mpuzamahanga ugomba gucunga umupaka w’u Rwanda na Congo no kugarura umutekano mu ntara ya Kivu yo mu burasirazuba bwa Congo. Igihugu cya Tanzaniya kiyemeje kohereza umutwe w’ingabo ugizwe n’abasilikare barenga600 bashinzwe kurinda umujyi wa Goma. Abayobozi bakuru b’ingabo bo mu bihugu by’amajyepfo y’Afurika bamaze iminsi mu nama yo mu muhezo yakorewe i Kinshasa mu rwego rwo kunoza gahunda yo kohereza umutwe w’ingabo mpuzamahanga zo kugarura umutekano muri Kivu ya ruguru.

Iyo nama yahuje abakuru b’ingabo za Tanzaniya, Zimbabwe, Afrika y’epfo, Malawi n’ibindi bihugu. Umugaba mukuru w’ingabo za Tanzaniya yagejeje kuri bagenzi be bari bateraniye muri iyo nama ubutumwa bw’uko Tanzaniya yiyemeje kohereza abasirikare 600 mu mujyi wa Goma mu minsi mike cyane. Abo basilikare ba Tanzania bazarinda umujyi wa Goma kandi bazaba bafite ibirindiro ku kibuga cy’indege cya Goma.

Uwo mutwe kandi w’ingabo za Tanzaniya uzaba ushinzwe kurinda ibikoresho bya gisilikare bizoherezwa n’ibihugu by’Afurika y’epfo na Angola nk’inkunga izaba itanzwe n’ibyo bihugu mu gufasha izo ngabo za Tanzaniya zizaba ziri i Goma kimwe n’izindi ngabo zo mu bindi bihugu zizaza gufatanya nazo. Harateganywa kandi ko ingabo za Tanzaniya zizaryamira amajanja ziteguye gusubiza inyuma uwo ariwe wese wabangamira umutekano mu gikorwa cyo kohereza ingabo mpuzamahanga i Goma dore ko biteganyijwe ko na  Zimbabwe izahita yohereza ingabo zayo i Goma kimwe n’Angola. Izo ngabo nizimara kugera i Goma zose igikorwa cyo kugaruza uturere turi mu maboko ya M23 no kurwanya indi mitwe yitwaje intwaro muri ako karere kizatangira.

Ingabo za Tanzaniya i Goma zateye ubwoba ibihugu bishyigikiye M23.

Kuva Tanzaniya yamara kwiyemeza kohereza ingabo i Goma, abayobozi b’i Kigali ubwoba bwabatashye ; Kagame akaba abona neza ko umugambi we wo gufata intara ya Kivu waburiyemo. Kuba Tanzaniya yemeye kohereza abasilikare 600 i Goma bafite inkunga y’ibikoresho bya gisilikare byo mu gihe tugezemo biratanga ikizere ko ikibazo kigiye gukemuka.

Icyemezo Tanzaniya yafashe cyo kohereza ingabo muri Kivu cyatunguye u Rwanda kuko rutizeraga ko ingabo mpuzamahanga zo kurwanya M23 bitazashoboka, bivugwa ko u Rwanda rwaracengeje abandi basilikare muri Congo bo kuburizamo igikorwa cyo kohereza ingabo mpuzamahanga muri Kivu. Mu minsi yashije James Kabarebe yatangarije ikinyamakuru cyo mu Bubiligi « le soir » ko umutwe w’ingabo mpuzamahanga wo kurwanya M23 n’indi mitwe muri Kivu ko ari baringa ko utazigera ubaho ; none Tanzaniya ishyize mu bikorwa itangizwa ry’ingabo mpuzamahanga i Goma nk’uko Ubufaransa bwatabaye Mali none ibihugu bindi bikaba bigiye byatangira kohereza ingabo zabo muri icyo gihugu. Igihugu cya Tanzaniya nicyo kizaba gishinzwe ubuyobozi bw’umutwe w’ingabo mpuzamahanga i Goma.

Mu kiganiro yagiranye n’abanyamakuru i Kigali, Kagame Paul yavuye ku izima maze avuga ko amahanga afite uburenganzira bwo kuzana indege za Drones muri Congo mu rwego rwo kugenzura umupaka w’u Rwanda na Congo ; yabivuze mu mvugo igaragaza ko atishimiye icyo gikorwa kuko yavuze ko ntabushobozi afite bwo kukibuza, bityo amahanga akaba agomba gukora ibyo ashaka byose muri Congo n’ubwo yaba atabyemera !
Kuri iyi vidéo hasi aha mushobora kureba uko indege za drones z'abafaransa zikora:

 
Hagati aho i Masisi havutse undi mutwe wa M26!

Imitwe irwanira muburasirazuba bwa Congo igizwe n’abahutu yishyize hamwe kugira ngo ishobore kurengera abaturage baho iri bicwa na M23. Iyo mitwe yishyize hamwe ni Nyatura, Pareco na Maï Maï maze yose hamwe yiyita M26! Iyo mitwe ikaba ivuga ko iryo zina yarihisemo kuko yashoboye kugirana amasezerano y’ubufatanye kuri 26/10/2012! Iyo mitwe irashinjwa kwinjiza abana mu gisilikare ariko yo irabihakana! Biragaragara ko niba amahanga adatabaye vuba muri Congo hashobora kuvuga ubushyamirane bw’amoko Hutu-Tutsi; ibyo bikaba byerekana ko gutabara kwa Tanzaniya ari igikorwa kihutirwa cyane kandi k’ingirakamaro !

Source: Veritas Info

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FDU-Inkingi irifuriza Abanyarwanda umwaka mushya muhire w'i 2013


Kigali, Ku wa 31 Ukuboza  2012.

UMWAKA MUSHYA MUHIRE  WA 2013 : UMWAKA WO GUSHIKAMA TUGAHARANIRA UBURENGANZIRA BWACU.


Banyarwanda, banyarwandakazi, barwanashyaka ba FDU-INKINGI ,
namwe nshuti z’uRwanda,

Komite nyobozi y'agateganyo ya FDU-INKINGI iyobowe na Madame Victoire Ingabire ishimishijwe no kubifuriza umwaka mushya muhire wa 2013. Ishyaka rirazirikana  kandi rinashima by’umwihariko mwe mwese mwariteye inkunga uko mushoboye mu gufata mu mugongo imfungwa za politiki ndetse n'abandi bose bitangiye uru rugamba rwa demokarasi, iyubahirizwa ry’uburenganzira bwa muntu, n’ubutegetsi bugendera ku mategeko mu Rwanda.

Uyu mwaka dutangiye wongeye gusanga ku nshuro ya gatatu umuyobozi wacu Madame Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza ari muri gereza nkuru ya  Kigali azira  igikorwa cye cy’ubutwari n’ibitekerezo bye bya politiki bigamije  guha ubwisanzure abanyarwanda. Intsinzi yacu iri mu kugumya gufatana munda, kwitanga ndetse no gukomeza gushyigikira ibikorwa bitandukanye by’ishyaka.

By’umwihariko ishyaka FDU-INKINGI rirashimira  abarwanashyaka b’imbere mu gihugu kuba baritabiriye ibikorwa byo gusura Umuyobozi Victoire  Ingabire buri wagatanu, kwitabira imanza, gusura izindi mfumgwa za politiki, kugaragaza ibyifuzo by’ishyaka ku miryango mpuzamahanga itandukanye.

Turashima abarwanshyaka bari hirya no hino ku isi  ku bw’ibikorwa by’ubuvugizi, byo gushyigikira ishyaka bakomeje gukora. Turashimira byimazeyo abarwanashyaka 8 bafungiye muri gereza ya Muhanga bazira ubutwari bwo kuganira kubitagenda mugihugu ubwo bahuraga n’umunyamabanga mukuru w'agateganyo  w’ishyaka. Turanashimira n’abandi batari mu ishyaka FDU – INKINGI baba abo mu gihugu imbere baba n’abari hanze yacyo bakomeje gukora iyo bwabaga ngo akarengane abanyarwanda bakorerwa n’ubutegetsi karanduke burundu.

Uyu mwaka urangiye kandi waranzwe n’ikibatsi cya benshi mu barwanashyaka mu kwereka ubutegetsi bw’igitugu bwa FPR ko abanyarwanda hari ibyo barambiwe ko ndetse binatuma batagomba gukomeza kurebera no guhera ku ngoyi y'ubwoba maze benshi biyemeza  guhaguruka mu mahoro bereka ubutegetsi ko hari ibyo bugomba guhindura byanze bikunze n’ubwo ubwo buyobozi bwa FPR bukomeje kuvunira ibiti mu matwi ahubwo bukerekana ko budatezuka mu guhiga, gufunga no kubuza amahwemo uwo ariwe wese unenga imikorere mibi yabwo bwifashishije inzego zitwa ko zishinzwe umutekano ariko zitabasha kwitandukanya no kuba ibikoresho by’ishyaka FPR aho gukorera inyungu z’abanyarwanda bose.

Turazirikana kandi n'abana b'Abanyarwanda bakomeje gushorwa mu ntambara mu gihugu cy'abaturanyi cya Kongo nk’uko bitangazwa na raporo y’impuguke za Loni.

Twifatanije kandi n'abakomeje guhatirwa bose gutanga ku ngufu amafaranga mu kigega cy'agaciro ndetse n’indi misanzu itagira ingano abanyarwanda bakwa umunsi ku wundi mu gihe ubu bugarijwe n’inzara n’ubukene.

Muri uku gusoza umwaka wa 2012 no gutangira uwa 2013 ishyaka rirazirikana ubutwari bwa benshi bagiye bahutazwa n’izo nzego zose za FPR ariko bakerekana ko batazatezuka kubungabunga ubusugire bw’urumuri rwa demokarasi bacaniwe n’umuyobozi wabo umwaka ushize utangira ubwo bamusuraga aho afungiye ari nabwo yabasabaga  kutazatuma ruzima.

Uyu mwanya kandi turazirikana n’abandi banyapolitiki bafungiye ibya politiki  barimo ba Nyakubahwa Bernard NTAGANDA, Deogratias MUSHAYIDI , na Dr. Theoneste NIYITEGEKA. Turazirikana kandi n’abandi bahutazwa n’ubutegetsi bw’igitugu bwa FPR banamburwa uburenganzira bwabo haba mu Rwanda no hanze.

By’umwihariko, ishyaka rirashima uburyo ku wa 21 Ukuboza 2012  abarwanashyaka benshi bagiye kuri gereza kwifuriza umuyobozi mukuru w’ishyaka Noheri nziza n’umwaka mushya muhire wa 2013 n’ubwo  batemerewe kwinjira no kubonana na we bakoze ikimenyetso gifite agaciro gakomeye. Abo hanze y’igihugu namwe intashyo zanyu  zatugezeho kandi zikomeje kuduha imbaraga. By’umwihariko umuyobozi w’ishyaka arabashimira ko mukomeje kumuzirikana aho ari  mu gihome.

Kugeza ubu Ishyaka ryacu FDU – INKINGI ntiriremerwa n'amategeko yashyizweho n'ingoma ya FPR Inkotanyi. Nyamara Itegeko – Nshinga ry’igihugu cyacu ryemera amashyaka menshi. Abarwanashyaka bacu iyo bahuye biganirira barafatwa bagafungwa. Ingingo ya 36 y’Itegeko – Nshinga ry’igihugu cyacu ibitangira uburenganzira. Izi ngero nke zigaragaza ikibazo gikomeye dufite mu gihugu cyacu aho ubuyobozi bwashyizeho amategeko yo kugaragariza amahanga ko dufite igihugu kigendera ku mategeko, nyamara FDU – INKINGI turi abahamya b’uko mu Rwanda hari ubutegetsi bw’igitugu butubahiriza n’amategeko bwishyiriyeho. Tuzakomeza kuba abahamya b’ako karengane kari mu gihugu ari nako dukomeza guhuza imbaraga hirya no hino, ari imbere mu gihugu cyangwa hanze yacyo kugira ngo tugeze ubwisanzure na demokarasi mu gihugu cyacu, kuko nibyo mizi y’iterambere rirambye n’ubwiyunge nyakuri bw’Abanyarwanda. Tuzi neza twese ko nta wundi ufite igisubizo cy’ibibazo byacu usibye twe ubwacu.



Nimushikame, dukenyere dukomeze, duharanire mu mahoro uburenganzira bwacu.
Umwaka mushya muhire kuri mwese.  Imana ikomeze kutubera urumuri.



FDU-INKINGI
Visi-Prezida w'agateganyo
Boniface  Twagirimana.

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Les FDU-INKINGI souhaitent au peuple rwandais une bonne et heureuse année 2013


Kigali, le 31 Décembre 2012.

MEILLEURS VOUEX DU NOUVEL AN 2013 : UNE ANNEE DETERMINANTE DANS LA LUTTE POUR NOS DROITS. 

Rwandaises, Rwandais, membres des FDU-INKINGI, Amis du Rwanda,

Le Comité Exécutif Provisoire des FDU-INKINGI, dirigé par  la Présidente du parti, Madame Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza, est heureux de vous souhaiter une bonne et heureuse année 2013. Le parti tient à remercier tout particulièrement tous ceux qui ont apporté leur soutien aux prisonniers politiques et tous ceux qui se sont engagés dans la lutte pour la Démocratie, les libertés politiques et la mise en place d'un Etat de droit au Rwanda.

La nouvelle année 2013 est la troisième que notre Présidente, Madame Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza, entame dans la prison centrale de Kigali à cause de ses opinions politiques qui ne visent qu'à redonner au peuple rwandais leurs droits fondamentaux. Le Comité Exécutif Provisoire est ainsi convaincu que la victoire du peuple rwandais continuera à manifester sa solidarité, sa détermination et son soutien sans faille à toutes les activités du Parti.

Les FDU-INKINGI remercient tout particulièrement ses membres de l'intérieur du pays pour les visites qu'ils rendent régulièrement, tous les vendredi, à la Présidente du parti, Madame Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza, ainsi qu'aux autres détenus politiques. Nous leur remercions également pour leur présence aux différentes séances de son procès et pour leur contribution à faire comprendre les doléances du parti à la Communauté internationale. Nous ne pouvons passer sous silencela détention de  nos 8 membres dans la prison de Muhanga, coupables du seul et simple fait d'avoir osé participer à une réunion présidée par le Secrétaire Général provisoire du parti et dont l'objet était le débat sur les principaux obstacles à l'instauration d'un Etat de droit au Rwanda. 

Nos remerciements s'adressent également à nos membres se trouvant un peu partout dans le monde qui ne cessent d'être nos portes-parole et qui apportent leur soutien aux diverses activités du parti. Notre pensée va aussi à tous les fervents défenseurs des droits de l'Homme,  de la Paix et de la Démocratie, qui apportent leur contribution pour que cessent, une fois pour toutes, les exactions de toutes sortes que subit le peuple rwandais de la part de ses dirigeants.

L'année 2012 a été marquée par la détermination d'une bonne partie des membres du parti décidés à montrer au pouvoir dictatorial du FPR que les Rwandais sont fatigués de l'oppression, et qu'ils n'ont plus peur. C'est pourquoi ils ont décidé de défier le pouvoir pacifiquement, en lui montrant  tout ce qui doit absolument changer, même si le gouvernement du FPR continue à faire sourde oreille à toute revendication et, au contraire, à montrer son obstination à pourchasser, à emprisonner, à terroriser, et à réprimer  sévèrement toute personne susceptible de critiquer  ou de mettre en cause son système injuste et inique. 

Notre solidarité va aussi à tous ces Rwandais qui continuent à être envoyés et qui tombent  sur le champs de bataille en RDC comme l’a révélé incessamment le Rapport des Experts des Nations Unies.

Nous partageons les peines, les frustrations et l’indignation de ceux qui sont toujours harcelés et contraints de se priver de leurs maigres ressources pour verser des cotisations au Fond dit Agaciro et à d'autres multiples cotisations alors qu'ils sont victimes de la faim et de la pauvreté!

En clôturant l'année 2012 pour commencer 2013, le parti tient à coeur les braves personnes qui, tout en étant  victimes du régime de terreur du FPR,  ont persévéré dans la lutte courageuse pour le démocratie à l'instar de notre leader, Madame Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza, qui les a invitées, lors de l''une de leurs visites à son lieu d'incarcération au début de l'année 2012, à garder allumer le flambeau de la Démocratie.

En ce début du Nouvel An 2013, nous pensons à tous les autres prisonniers politiques, Messieurs Bernard NTAGANDA, Déogratias MUSHAYIDI, Dr Théoneste NIYITEGEKA, et à toutes les victimes du pouvoir dictatorial du FPR tant à l'intérieur qu'à l'extérieur du Rwanda. 

D'une manière particulière, le parti tient à remercier les nombreux membres du parti qui se sont rendus, à la prison centrale de Kigali  le 21/12/2012 pour souhaiter Joyeux Noël et bonne et heureuse année 2013  à la Présidente du parti FDU-INKINGI . Même si l'autorisation d'entrer à l'intérieur de la prison et de s'entretenir avec la Présidente leur a été refusée, ce geste constitue un acte courageux et méritoire. Les gestes d'encouragement venant de l'extérieur sont hautement très appréciés par nous tous, en particulier la Présidente, qui se réjouit de votre ferme soutien au fin fond de son lieu de détention.

Jusqu'à présent, notre parti FDU-INKINGI n'est pas encore enregistré, pourtant la Constitution de notre pays prône le multipartisme. De même, quand nos membres se réunissent , ils sont arrêtés, alors que l'article 36 de la Constitution autorise ce genre de rassemblement. Ces deux exemples  montrer à suffisance l'absence d'un Etat de droit au Rwanda et prouvent  que les lois mises en place ne sont que de la poudre aux yeux pour donner à l'opinion internationale l'apparence d'un Etat de droit. A plusieurs reprises, les FDU-INKINGI ont montré que le Rwanda est dirigé d'une main de fer par un pouvoir dictatorial qui ne respecte même pas ses propres lois. Nous continuerons à être les témoins de cette injustice qui prévaut dans notre pays,  à fédérer et à canaliser l'énergie de lutte, venant tant de l'intérieur que de l'extérieur, pour qu'un jour règnent les libertés publiques et la Démocratie dans notre pays le Rwanda. Nous ne cesserons de répéter que l'Etat de droit est le seul garant du développement durable et de la Réconciliation nationale.

Nous sommes conscients que personne d'autre n'est détenteur des solutions à  nos problèmes. C’est pourquoi nous devons nous lever comme un seul homme, nous battre fermement et  pacifiquement pour nos droits!

Bonne et heureuse année 2013 à  tous! Que le Seigneur continue à être notre seul guide!

Pour les FDU-INKINGI
Vice-Président Intérimaire
Boniface  Twagirimana.

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Howard French Is Right On Rwanda's Paul Kagame

By Nkunda Rwanda
Cry For Freedom In Rwanda
January 13, 2013


Our ancestors were wise to note that "the truth crosses the fire without burning." The truth is slowly but surely catching up with Kagame who has built his political legitimacy on pure lies. His record is sinister as this latest gem by the Howard French, a Columbia professor and an-ex journalist with the New York Times shows. The piece has an equally befitting title: The Case Against Rwanda's President Paul Kagame.

I will quote a few of the indicative phrases but I urge you to read the piece for a more contextual understanding. You will not be disappointed.

"Leading observers say the reevaluation of Kagame and his legacy is long overdue. Filip Reyntjens, a Belgian scholar whom many consider the world’s foremost expert on Rwanda, describes Kagame as “probably the worst war criminal in office today.”

"In an interview, Reyntjens told me that Kagame’s crimes rank with those perpetrated by former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein or Sudanese leader Omar al-Bashir, who is wanted by the International Criminal Court on charges of genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity."

"Theogene Rudasingwa, a Tutsi who was appointed Rwanda’s ambassador to Washington after serving as an officer in Kagame’s army, puts it bluntly: “If you differ strongly with Kagame and make your views known from the inside, you will be made to pay the price, and very often that price is your life.”

"Kagame tightly controls the country and its citizens through the Tutsi-
dominated Army and the Rwandan Patriotic Front, the country’s dominant political party. Throughout Rwanda—in every town and tiny village—the RPF is present, not unlike the Stasi in East Germany during the Cold War. While a town may have a Hutu mayor, under Kagame’s system government officeholders have little authority compared with the RPF representatives who work in parallel to them and often pull rank."

 “The RPF saturates every aspect of life in Rwanda,” said Susan Thomson, a longtime Rwanda expert at Colgate University. “They know everything: if you’ve been drinking, if you’ve had an affair, if you’ve paid your taxes.” Everything is reported on, Thomson says, and there is no appeal."

"Pointing to the origins of the war and its bloody aftermath, Scott Straus, a political scientist at the University of Wisconsin, said: “An honest analysis ... would show that the reasons for what happened were much more complicated than the idea that the Hutus hate the Tutsis and want to wipe them out.”

"For one thing, there is abundant evidence that Kagame’s forces in the early days carried out targeted executions of the Hutu elite, followed later by much larger extermination campaigns that killed tens of thousands of people."

"A year after the genocide had ended, blood was still being spilled, recalls Timothy Longman, then the country director for Human Rights Watch. “People would take me around and say, ‘There’s mass grave right over here,’ and you would ask, ‘From when?’ And they would say, ‘Just from a few weeks ago—not from the genocide,’” says Longman, who now directs the African Studies Center at Boston University."

"Furthermore, the report estimated that the RPA killed between 15,000 and 30,000 people in just four of its survey areas in the summer of 1994. Years later a key member of Gersony’s team told me that the real number of Hutus killed during this period was likely much higher, but that a low estimate had been published because of fears of a political backlash within the U.N. so soon after its failure to stop the larger-scale killing of Tutsis. “What we found was a well-organized military-style operation, with military command and control, and these were military-campaign-style mass murders,” the team member told me."

"(In one notorious incident in April 1995, the RPA attacked an internally displaced people’s camp in Kibeho using automatic weapons, grenades, and mortars. A team of Australian medics listed more than 4,000 dead when the RPA forced them to stop counting. France’s leading researcher on the region, Gérard Prunier, estimates that at least 20,000 more people from the camp “disappeared” after the massacre.)"

"The case of Victoire Ingabire, a politician from the opposition, was instructive. When she returned to Rwanda that year, having lived 16 years in exile, to prepare a run for president, her first stop was at the official genocide memorial. “We are here honoring at this memorial the Tutsi victims of the genocide. There are also Hutu who were victims of crimes against humanity and war crimes, not remembered or honored here,” she said in a prepared statement. “Hutu are also suffering. They are wondering when their time will come to remember their people. In order for us to get to that desirable reconciliation, we must be fair and compassionate towards every Rwandan’s suffering.”


"Ingabire was promptly arrested and accused of “genocide ideology.” During her trial, President Kagame publicly declared that she was guilty."

 "As early as 1997, the U.N. estimated that Rwandan forces had caused the deaths of 200,000 Hutus in Congo; Prunier, the French expert, has since estimated that the toll is closer to 300,000. According to the U.N. report, these deaths could not be attributed to the hazards of war or to collateral damage. “The majority of the victims were children, women, elderly people and the sick, who were often undernourished and posed no threat to the attacking forces.” The report concluded that the systematic and widespread attacks, “if proven before a competent court, could be characterized as crimes of genocide.”

"Two years ago, Kagame delivered a lecture in London on “The Challenges of Nation-Building in Africa: The Case of Rwanda.” When confronted with a U.N. report that was then making headlines with the suggestion that his forces had committed genocide in Congo, he dismissed such allegations as “baseless” and “absurd.” Clearly he was keener to talk about economic indicators and repeat the oft-told success story of his country."

"But even that is a truth with modification. Social inequality in Rwanda is high and rising, experts say. Despite an average annual growth rate of about 5 percent since 2005, poverty is soaring in the countryside, where few Western journalists report without official escort."


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Wednesday, January 23, 2013

RDC : Memo to President Obama on the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)


Fredrick Wangabo MweneNgaboFredrick Wangabo Mwenengabo
339 York St, E3B 3P5 Unit B8
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Canada
Email:wangabof@yahoo.fr

 January 14th, 2014
His Excellency Barak Husein Obama 
President of the United States of America 
The White House 
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW 
Washington, DC 20500

Re : Memo to President Obama on the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)

Your Excellency;
Please allow me to join Americans and all other lovers of democracy in the world in congratulating you on your successful re-election and second inauguration as the President of the United States of America. I am Fredrick Wangabo Mwenengabo, a Human Rights Activist, and Congolese by birth now living in exile in Canada. Since my arrival to Canada in 2009, I appreciate even more the democratic values of the Canadian society and other western democracies, with their respect of human rights. Some of these democratic values have been and continue to be part of my life and work for which I was offered humanitarian protection by the government of Canada. Between March and April 2012, I observed a 48 days hunger strike in Canada to protest the international conspiracy of silence over the genocide in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and to urge Canada and the Francophonie Nations to take a leadership role in addressing injustices in the DRC. Following the 2012 Francophonie Summit in Kinshasa, a series of resolutions on peace in Congo were adopted by 75 nations with recommendations to the United Nations Security Council for implementation. It is noteworthy that Rwanda was the only country that abstained during this debate that was crucial for peace in DRC and the great lakes region. I have since continued to follow up on the progress of these matters at the United Nations and with your administration, in course of which in early November 2012, I have spoken two times to your assistants at the White House and five times to your representatives at the United Nations while many human rights workers have also struggled to bring to your attention the numerous crimes and injustices against humanity being committed in Eastern DRC.
Mr. President as you no doubt proceed with the business of governing America and mindful of securing your legacy in history, I wish to also bring directly to your attention the plight of the DRC, a nation of about 70 million men, women and children. The DRC has been embroiled in a never ending cycle of wars over the last two decades with killings with impunity, war crimes on very grand scales by multiple perpetrators, genocide perpetrated against defenceless civilian populations, mass rapes as a weapon of war, abduction of children and forced use as child soldiers, foreign invasions and a continuous campaign to destabilize and control its resources by belligerent neighbours. 
These atrocities continue and even now are worsened by the recent mutiny and fighting by M23. They have contributed to the death of over 6 million people making the DRC’s war the deadliest conflict in the world since the second world war and at least equal in scale to the holocaust. A study published by the International Rescue Committee (IRC) in January 2008 said that 5.4 million people had died from 1998 to 2007 in Congo, with 45,000 more victims being added to the death toll every month. These atrocities have sadly been allowed to continue with very little political will on the part of the United States and the International Community to engage in a concerted effort to bring peace to the region. This is in spite of the largest contingent of United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO) being stationed in DRC with an annual budget of $1.4 billion in the year 2012-2013 alone. This force has instead been passive bystanders without the will to enforce the peace they have been mandated to keep. The DRC’s situation has been further compounded by the United States of America's position which has been to blindly support Rwanda and Uganda who have been behind most of these efforts at destabilising the DRC in a bid to control its resources.
Events in DRC bear a strong parallel with the Nazi holocaust which was allowed to grow unchecked while most of Europe appeased Hitler and failed to heed the atrocities he was unleashing on the Jews and the world at large. Hitler was hailed as a strong leader instead and his economic reforms in Germany were being focused on. Today the situation in DRC closely resembles the holocaust in the scale of systematic killings and extermination of civilian populations while Kagame’s excuse for involvement is being passed off as a legitimate quest to safeguard his country’s security. His expansionist plans towards the DRC are not recognised for what they are instead western leaders line up as cheer leaders and make excuses for atrocities he is unleashing in the DRC.
Mr. President, resolving the problems in the DRC requires understanding the background of its problems and appreciating the opportunities. Throughout the last two decades, the war from 1998 to date known as the last Congo war is the worst humanitarian disaster and genocide since World War II-claiming the lives of more than 6 million innocent black children, women and men while unspeakable gross crimes continue to be committed against civilians. These have included crimes against humanity, war crimes, torture, sexual violence, recruitment and use of children in fighting associated with the armed forces and armed groups, as well as enforced disappearances and killings.
A United Nations report named the Eastern DRC the rape capital of the world concluding that an average of 48 women and girl child are raped every hour in the Eastern DRC and those are only statistics for the reported cases. A study, in the American Journal of Public Health, found that more than 400,000 females aged 15-49 were raped over a 12-month period in 2006 and 2007 alone. In early may 2012, one hospital in Goma known as Heal Africa, alone reported 5,000 rape cases of women and children. The Harvard Humanitarian Initiative has confirmed that even these outrageously high figures still represent a conservative estimate of the true prevalence of sexual violence because of chronic underreporting due to stigma, shame, perceived impunity, and exclusion of younger and older age groups as well as men. Such crimes continue to take place, most notably in the east and northeast even under the gaze of the United Nations and countries like the United States. 
While this continues the impunity of perpetrators and a denial of justice for the victims remains pervasive, and millions of families are and continue to be broken as a result of the direct impacts of this unjust traumatic war.
The United Nations report famously known as the "UN Mapping Report,” described human rights violations in the DRC from 1993 through 2003. Finally published by the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in 2010, after long delays, the report specifically charges Rwandan troops with engaging in mass killings termed as crimes against humanity and genocide. Similarly the most recent report by a UN Group of Experts belatedly released in 2012 concludes that M23, the "Congolese rebel" group that captured Goma in November 2012, is in reality "a Rwandan creation," entrenched with over 4,000 Rwandan soldiers that take their orders from President Paul Kagame’s top army commanders with the role of Rwandan Minister of Defence James Kabarebe and that of General Emmanuel Ruvusha very well documented. All the above has been carried out in obvious breach of every principle of International Law, and human decency, and in full view of the inadequately-led, inadequately-sized, ineffective, incompetent, overvalued, expensive and overpaid United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO) with at least indirect logistical support from the United States of America and their allies.
Consequent to these reports, Stephen Rapp, the head of the United States of America war crimes office had warned Rwanda's leaders, including Paul Kagame, that they could face prosecution at the International Criminal Court for arming groups responsible for crimes against humanity in the DRC. It is for similar actions that the former Liberian president, Charles Taylor, was jailed for 50 years by the International Criminal Court in May 2012 (McGreal 2012) for supporting crimes in his neighbouring country of Sierra Leone
Paul Kagame of Rwanda and Yoweri Museveni of Uganda have continued to use the war against Hutu 'genocidists' as a pretext for occupying mining concessions and systematically exploiting them. This pretext of attacking Hutu ‘genociders’ in DRC have always been known as wrong and fabricated by Rwanda, Uganda and it is surprising why or how the United States of America has continued to be convinced by this argument even in the face of obvious facts to the contrary. An example of this was demonstrated in 2001 when fighting broke out between the two invading armies of Rwanda and Uganda in the oriental province of Kisangani, DRC in a dispute over the sharing of large mines of the Congolese diamond, gold and coltan minerals. The genocide in Congo has been very profitable for Uganda and Rwanda, who have plundered the Eastern Congo's mineral resources for sale to multinational corporations, most of them based in the United States and Europe.
Paul Kagame and his allies have always explained the war in DRC as an ethnic war and as a result the International Community has been encouraging insincere talks such as the current peace talks in Kampala,. Peace talks like these are strategies that have benefited Kagame and allies and have helped them maintain and sustain this war for more than two decades now. These strategies by empowering rebels and assimilating them into government as part of ensuring peace process are undermining peace in the region and denigrating the victims in DRC. 
They legitimise armed conflict as a way of resolving differences and maintain the cycle of war in the region. One of the most serious threats to global peace is terrorism and for any reason, it is unjustified and its perpetrators must be brought to justice and not accommodated in bogus peace agreements.
Mr. President, the long term role of the United States of America in the wars in Congo, its guilt over the Rwandan genocide in 1994, mineral extraction and use of conflict minerals, on-going genocide in the DRC and the choice of silence over justice by the United States and the International Community are pertinent issues all very well documented and researched. I am aware the former democratic United States president Bill Clinton is regarded as a personal adviser to Paul Kagame and I believe the United States guilt over their inaction in the 1994 genocide fuelled United States sympathy toward Rwanda. I feel this sympathy and guilt is one of the reasons why the United States has decided to look the other way while a genocide of an equal if not higher magnitude to the Holocaust unfolds in DRC. I strongly believe this position is morally reprehensible and unjustifiable and must be challenged and stopped by all right thinking people who love truth and justice. I cannot understand how perpetuating violence and genocide in DRC will assuage the pain or guilt of genocide committed in Rwanda from 20 years earlier.
I believe it was in part response to your concerns about events in DRC that led you as a Senator and member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, to sponsor the most comprehensive piece of United States of America legislation on the DRC. The DRC Relief, Security and Democracy Promotion Act of 2006 which highlights United States policy objectives towards the DRC with a particular emphasis on promoting improved governance, neutralizing armed groups, and ensuring responsible and transparent management of natural resources while assisting the DRC government as it seeks to meet the basic needs of its citizens. These laudable objectives have however been undermined by your administration as president which has adopted contradictory positions.
According to a report by United Nations investigators in 2011, Mr. Kase Lawal your appointed trade adviser was implicated in an illegal transaction in Congolese gold with Bosco Ntaganda, a war criminal indicted by the International Criminal Court over crimes against humanity committed in DRC and the commanding officer of M23. This demonstrates the extent to which some of your officials actively collude with perpetrators behind the atrocities in the DRC and raises serious questions of the neutrality of your appointed officials towards the peace process in Congo.
Mr. President, the United States have also played a key role in suppressing information on Rwanda and Uganda’s role in the ongoing genocide in DRC. The United States ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice has sought to protect Rwanda and Uganda by several means at her disposal including, delaying publication of a United Nations Group of Experts report, and at the same time suppressing efforts within the State Department to sanction Uganda and Rwanda for their crimes against humanity being committed in Eastern DRC. In November 2012, Rice blocked the UN Security Council from explicitly demanding that Rwanda immediately cease providing support to M23 criminal movement who vowed to march all the way to Kinshasa, the Congolese capital. 
It is very clear to all Congolese people that atrocities in DRC are encouraged by western powers, and in particular the United States and the United Kingdom, who are arming, training and equipping the Rwandan and Ugandan militaries while both countries continue to receive more than half their budgets in Western aid. Your ambassador at the UN Susan Rice has argued against directly naming Rwanda and Uganda stating that it would be an obstruction to peace. Instead she has chosen to remain silent and complicit in the atrocities and in Rwanda’s plans to annex and balkanise the Eastern DRC as her appeasement to the regional strongmen and United States allies Paul Kagame and Yuweri Museveni. Furthermore while other western democracies have substantially cut aid to Rwanda in response to their involvement in the ongoing genocide your administration only to cut a mere $200,000 as a gesture.
Mr. President, the United States position on the DRC has reached an unbearable and untenable extent, dangerous to global peace and security. If the United States maintains this position it will incite a terrible genocide in the great lakes region of Africa, and likely encourage jihadist reactions by the Congolese people who continue to feel powerlessness. I fear that ultimately these injustices will prove a fertile ground for terrorists who will thrive in the absence of government and use the region as a safe haven. Eastern DRC may also become attractive to terrorist groups wishing to control mining and distribution of minerals as a source of financing to maintain terrorist activities around the globe. The ultimate worst case scenario will be where terrorists may gain access to uranium from illegal mines in DRC as an ingredient for a dirty bomb which is not entirely farfetched in the current climate of instability and lack of security in the country.
Mr. President, your failure to hold to account those responsible for the violations in the DRC has a harmful impact of additionally entrenching a culture of impunity; it fosters cycles of violence and violations; it undermines any efforts to create a culture of peace and respect for a democratic rule of law.
These crises are symptoms of unresolved regional and local conflicts, a failure to achieve structural reform within the security sector, poor governance and non-existent rule of law. They arise from the inability to address the sources of financing for armed groups, end impunity and extend state authority.
In spite of Joseph Kabila being in power for the last 12 years, DRC still has a very weak government run by a weakened and corrupt leadership with no legitimacy or credibility. Kabila’s continued stay in power further sets the stage for even more corruption, more atrocities from various divisive forces creating more instability in the country and in the region at large at even more human and material cost to the United States and to the United Nations. Therefore there is an argument to be made for DRC to have a strong central government and leadership which will have attendant positive ripple effects since it will provide a capable leadership, security for the people of DRC within its borders, economic prosperity for the country and the region and with ultimately less resources being dedicated by the United States through the United Nations towards propping up the Government of DRC.
Mr. President, I do applaud your phone call made to Paul Kagame in mid-December 2012 warning him about his crimes against humanity and his inconsistent deceitful messages of peace for the great lakes region; 6
I also wish to acknowledge with gratitude your support for the United Nations sanctions against the M23 and FDLR movements adopted December 31st 2012. However in the face of the daunting challenges of continued genocide in Eastern DRC and covert attempts at balkanising a sovereign state, these steps are rather belated and are only limited attempts towards true peace in Eastern DRC and the region at large.
The United States as a major player with all the resources, influence and good will at its disposal is in a vantage position to drive a renewed sincere process establishing hope, peace and justice with rule of law for the people of DRC.
As a strategy towards your administration pursuing and meeting these objectives, I humbly recommend the following:
- End impunity by calling on the MONUSCO to support the arrest of Bosco Ntaganda already indicted by ICC for war crimes against humanity;
- Call for Rwanda to hand over and transfer Laurent Nkundabatware to the International Criminal Court for trial;
- Demand an ICC indictment against Paul Kagame for his crimes against humanity committed in Congo;
- Support imposition of comprehensive sanctions on top-level Rwandan and Ugandan officials named in the United Nations Expert and Mapping Reports while withholding all military aid to both countries;
- Demand a cessation of all unlawful cross-border support to armed groups operating in the DRC;
- Cessation of the militarization and support of strongmen in the region that date to the Clinton administration;
- Support the establishment of a new responsible and credible Congolese government that will secure its people and its boundaries and rebuild its institutions;
- Demand the UN Security Council to develop and implement a comprehensive strategy, with a strong political component, to address pervasive insecurity and the threat of illegal armed groups in eastern Congo;
- Demand the United Nations Security Council to revisit and allow the MONUSCO mandate to be able to reinforce peace.
- I and millions of other Congolese citizens look up to you and other comity of nations to help uphold our God given rights to a just equal and free country within which we can live and prosper. We have been let down and abandoned to a sordid fate to date and I feel it is a moral obligation that will serve as your lasting legacy to the DRC and its people, the region at large and global peace.
It will ultimately be in United States’ own best medium and long term strategic interests both geopolitically and economically to lead rather than obstruct the rest of the world in redressing an injustice and setting a country with such vast potential on the path to a free democratic and just society. 7
I genuinely look forward to a favourable response from your government and a renewed commitment by your administration towards a true and lasting peace in the DRC. I equally commit to working with your administration in any positive capacity to achieve these goals.
In the meantime I plan to continue advocating for a true and just Congolese agenda which will help bring more attention to the plight of my country and its people.
In the absence of a genuine United States policy change towards peace in DRC, I will continue to pursue all peaceful avenues of protest at American institutions including the American Embassy in Canada until America chooses to support a more humane and morally appropriate policy towards true lasting peace in Congo.

Yours sincerely,
Fredrick Wangabo Mwenengabo
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