Rwanda: Explaining Article 5 of FDU-Inkingi’s Constitutive Charter
Article
5 of FDU-Inkingi’s Constitutive Charter stipulates that: «Adherence to FDU-Inkingi is subject to
prior acceptance of the following principles: Acceptance of the use of all legal means to fight against the
military dictatorship in our country; Recognition and unequivocal condemnation
of the Rwandan genocide committed by the two warring sides since
1990, Rejection of ethnicity, regionalism, tribalism and other forms of
bigotry and rejection of impunity».
By
invoking article 5 of FDU-Inkingi Constitutive Charter as one of the irrefutable evidences that FDU-Inkingi promotes the double genocide theory,
the Rwandan prosecution charged Ms.
Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza, FDU-Inkingi’s Chair who is in Kigali maximum
security prison since October 2010, with THE CRIME OF MINIMIZING THE GENOCIDE
COMMITTED AGAINST THE TUTSIS IN RWANDA IN 1994.
Below,
please find some excerpts of THE PROSECUTOR’S CONCLUSIONS IN RESPONSE TO THE
APPEAL OF THE DEFENDANTS during THE TRIAL OF VICTOIRE INGABIRE UMUHOZA et al.
IN SUPREME COURT.
Ms. Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza claims
that the FDU-Inkingi Constitutive Charter does not specify that there have
been two genocides in Rwanda
Ms.
Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza said that the judges failed to acknowledge that the
charter is a document written with no details.
Ms.
Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza claims that what is written in that charter is a
summary and anyone who wants more information about the Charter should request that
information or listen to FDU-Inkingi leaders during their town hall meetings.
Ms.Victoire
Ingabire Umuhoza said that she can confirm that there was genocide against the
Tutsis in Rwanda
Ms.Victoire
Ingabire
Umuhoza provided the court with two
reports from United Nations about the killings of Hutus refugees. These two
reports which are available in sections 398 and 399 in the court files show
that there are evidences supporting the fact that there were killings of Hutus
refugees in DRC committed by AFDL with the support of Rwandan army, the
killings that can qualify as genocide. The UN reporters have specifically requested
the creation of an ad hoc tribunal to prosecute all of the culprits.
In conclusion, Ms.Victoire
Ingabire
Umuhoza said that the use of the words Rwandan genocide in FDU-Inkingi Constitutive Charter was due
to the language used in the Rwandan Constitution until 2008.
Hereafter, please find how the High
Court of Kigali
With regard to what is stressed in Article 5 in the
document entitled “Constitutitive Charter of FDU-Inkingi”, where it shows the requirements for anybody to register as an
FDU-Inkingi member, that he/she must adhere and express disapproval of the
genocide against the people of Rwanda committed by the two belligerents since
1990, the court finds out that such a language states that there were
two genocides in Rwanda because it mentions genocides committed by both sides
in conflict since 1990, meaning the government and the RPF sides. It is
clear that the two
belligerents could not agree to commit one single genocide, therefore
there were two genocides.
The court finds out that the language stating that
the genocide against the Hutus in RDC/Congo does not appear anywhere in this
article 5 of the Constitutional Charter of FDU-INKINGI. Instead, the Charter mentions two genocides as stated above without
detailing when they started and where they occurred as Ms Victoire Ingabire
Umuhoza tried to separate the two during the trial. In the court’s
assessment, it appears that the people who adopted the Charter were talking
about two genocides, one against the Tutsis, and the other one against
the Hutus starting in 1990.
HE WHO HAS EARS OUGHT TO LISTEN!
posted by Mamadou Kouyate @ 2:48 PM
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